Intentional Parenting
This book offers a multi-cultural, global perspective on parenting. It combines cultural wisdom with the latest scientific research to guide you in raising a healthy child through every stage, from connecting with an infant to communicating with an adolescent.
This monograph on tort law in Ukraine analyzes current legislation and develops a new classification of torts. The author argues for introducing a system of extraordinary torts and examines the mechanism of compensation for damage in private international law.
This volume on interdisciplinary life sciences is for researchers across various scientific fields and anyone interested in the topic. It integrates disciplines to solve complex problems and is lavishly illustrated with flow charts, diagrams, and tables for easy learning.
Does evolution make faith superfluous? While evolution makes sense of all life, doesn’t this demolish the claim that God created the universe? This book explores a God who embraces that universe with love, not interference, and a faith that calls us to urgently needed restraint.
Psychology and Culture
This book uniquely explores clinical psychology and psychoanalysis from a cross-cultural perspective. It covers topics from personality disorders and suicide to cultural emotions and dream interpretation, offering vital insights for psychologists and culture enthusiasts alike.
This book challenges conventional views of infection, arguing that epidemics are irrevocably linked to culture, class, and power. Experts from diverse fields present a collaborative approach to find solutions that may determine whether people live or die.
This introductory textbook for undergraduates presents the physical background, mathematical modeling, and dynamical analysis of linear vibrations in discrete and continuous systems, offering analytical solutions and key engineering applications.
Informed by Indigenous researchers and daily walks, this volume links scientific findings on deep time evolution to embodied interactions with rocks, trees, and weather. It explores ancient Gondwana, the first songbirds, and brings hope to young people facing climate change.
This book chronicles America’s “Golden Age” from a Baby Boomer’s perspective to provide a balanced view of that time. It then explores the “Age of AI,” where Generative AI poses an existential threat to our prosperity and democracy, but also the potential for a new Golden Age.
This book argues that all rationality is social and explains the far-ranging consequences. It highlights the need for methodological reforms and for changing social scientific theories in economics, sociology, and psychology.
Jewish Humor
Explore the evolution of Jewish humor from the Bible to today. Tracing its development across Eastern Europe, the US, and Israel, this book reveals how historical experience, survival, and wisdom created a truly unusual sense of humor.
This account of African Ubuntu philosophy questions the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It challenges the logic of linear growth that centres the individual, and instead proposes “Life is mutual aid”—a logic of sharing, affirming that one’s humanity is tied to others.
In 18th-century Britain, castrato singers challenged cultural and sexual norms. This book investigates fears that their sensual Italian music could feminize men and weaken the nation, while also examining the castrati’s contributions as cultural leaders.
Australia’s Naval Alliances
Australia has long relied on powerful allies for naval defence. Once assured of the Royal Navy’s protection, everything changed in 1941 when that promise was not honoured. Australia then formed an alliance with the United States. But alliances can be fragile.
Science and Biotechnology in Africa
This volume provides a selection of papers from the conference “Translational Science and Biotechnology Advances in Africa.” Encompassing fields from biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences to agriculture, it reflects the tangible advancement of science in Africa.
This book overcomes the traditional dichotomy between knowledge and values. Drawing on European critical rationalism from Kant to Husserl, it illustrates a new conception of knowledge, showing its value and limits for scholars and anyone interested in a new image of science.
Crossing Class Boundaries
How do social climbers navigate two worlds while remaining true to themselves? Lenette Schuijt draws from her own life, interviews, and research to explore the journey of transclass individuals, illustrating that class is still very much alive in our society.
The transition period is the most critical phase in a dairy cow’s productive cycle. This book offers a comprehensive description of the metabolic and physiological processes a cow experiences, detailing how to manage this period efficiently through nutrition and cow comfort.
Young People in Times of Crises
This book interrogates the situation of youth amidst intersecting global crises. It acknowledges deep polarizations affecting their resilience, but finds hope in the actions of young people amplifying change for a better world.
This volume examines bilingualism and multilingualism, covering second, third, and heritage language acquisition. Through critical analysis, it investigates new approaches to language learning and teaching, offering frameworks for understanding multilingualism.