Humanity’s planetary superdominance, a product of transgenerational learning, has caused an ecological crisis. We now face an evolutionary choice about the purpose of education: should we double down on humanism, deconstruct the system, or adopt a holistic biological wisdom?
Democracy Education in Schools
This introductory book for teachers and researchers deals with democracy education. It presents a theoretical dimension for primary education, a framework plan to foster democratic attitudes in students, and practical activity examples for classroom implementation.
An expert shares 25 more facts learned from a quarter-century in criminal justice. Covering policing, courts, corrections, and race, each point is backed by research. Though scholarly, the book is written for the layperson in a timely, engaging, “tell it like it is” style.
Breaking the Cycle of Women’s Paid Domestic Work in Brazil
This book portrays the life stories of Brazilian domestic workers and their daughters, who are the first in their families to get a higher education. It explores their social mobility through the mother-daughter bond that transforms trauma into empowerment.
Photography and Modern Icons
At the turn of the 20th century, six cultural icons used photography to build their media image. Exalting the cult of personality and mass communication, they used the photographic portrait to become celebrities and found fashion styles that are still of reference today.
This book analyzes bias and conflicts of interest in papers exaggerating the dangers of low-dose radiation. It argues antinuclear sentiment has been exploited to strangle nuclear energy, boosting fossil fuel prices and serving the interests of fossil fuel vendors.
100 Years of Conference Interpreting
Born at Versailles in 1919, conference interpreters made modern diplomacy possible. This volume celebrates one century of this exceptional profession, exploring its milestones and future post-pandemic through a candid discussion with practitioners, researchers, and trainers.
Home Front in the American Heartland
This collection explores World War One’s impact on the American Heartland, a region often overlooked in wartime histories. It uncovers the complexities of the home front experience, from conscription and propaganda to patriotism, class tensions, and gender roles.
Police records from 18th-century Paris reveal the lives of thousands of men who desired men. This is the first book to explore all the archives, examining patterns in their lives and in the surveillance and punishment of same-sex relations across the century.
While Derrida is often portrayed as a critic of logocentrism, this book’s central premise is that he implicitly affirmed its necessity. It explores this affirmation of logocentrism as a stable foundation for meaning that can be revised to create new possibilities.
Epigenetic Functional Nutrition
This book contains the latest research on how bioactive compounds in functional foods fight chronic diseases. It highlights the benefits of an anti-inflammatory diet and its epigenetic effects in preventing and managing mental disorders and inflammation-based cancers.
English Writings from Northeast India
This volume explores English writings from Northeast India, analysing issues of ethnicity, identity, migration, and insurgency born from ongoing conflicts. These are voices from the periphery answering the mainstream and re-examining their own history.
For residents and interventional pain medicine fellows, writing procedure notes can be difficult. This book makes it easier to quickly write notes and helps you prepare for a procedure by reading the notes and visualizing how it is done.
Selahattin Ülkümen, a Turkish diplomat, is the only Muslim designated “Righteous among the Nations” for saving 42 Jews from the Nazis at his own risk. The remarkable story of this hero is an important but little-known aspect of Holocaust history. This book fills that void.
For metrologists, this book provides deep knowledge on how to specify, calibrate, and measure with ultrasonic flow meters to meet legal requirements in custody transfer and fiscal applications for water, oil, and natural gas.
This book explores the nonlinear features of natural phenomena through mathematical models. It focuses on practical methods to investigate these problems, presenting approaches applicable to a wide class of nonlinear equations and guiding even uninitiated readers.
Using ordinary language and facts of experience, Bishop Butler’s philosophy is a guidebook to happiness. This book presents his work as a bridge joining ancient wisdom with modern experience, offering ways to live without the error and distraction that lead to misery.
Thinking about Thinking
How do we acquire knowledge, and how do we know it is true? This book surveys the methods, from common sense and intuition to the scientific method, statistics, and artificial intelligence. Written for a lay audience, it is an approachable guide to the field of epistemology.
England’s Response to Hitler in the 1930s
This book analyses the political tactics of the ‘Cliveden Set’, aristocrats in 1930s Britain. Scapegoated for the Appeasement Policy, they used their influence to encourage a foreign policy that supported Hitler’s rearmament and the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
This book analyzes why sustainable development goals are unmet. It shows how global economic institutions are biased against developing countries, enabling stronger economies to dominate weaker ones and perpetuating international inequalities.