What is a smart city? This book describes the phenomenon through sociological lenses, exploring its challenges, limits, and potentialities. It provides a holistic definition to guide readers who want to analyse the smart city and explore its future developments.
Transpersonal Psychology and Science
Transpersonal psychology’s progress has been compromised by disagreement over its relation to science. This is the first book to bring together international experts to discuss this challenge, offering diverse perspectives and concrete recommendations for the field’s future.
This book offers better ways of teaching and learning Hindi as a foreign language. With customised teaching methods for learners and valuable information for researchers, it is a must-read for learners, researchers and teachers of Hindi as a foreign language.
Delving into the severe conflict over immigration in British Mandate Palestine (1922-1948), this book examines the clashing perspectives of the British, Jews, and Arabs, as Arab opposition escalated from strikes and demonstrations into open revolt.
This volume explores space, place, and hybridity in today’s multicultural societies. It considers how art, film, and literature can reinvigorate representations of modern nations and celebrate their dynamic communities without relegating minorities to the margin.
The understanding of security has changed since the end of the Cold War. This has impacted intelligence, as states have needed to improve their security policies with new tactics. This volume investigates this new state of play in the international arena.
Philosophy and mathematics have been in constant companionship since the days of Plato. This book examines 15 of their interactions, featuring thinkers from Aristotle and Leibniz to modern greats like Einstein and Gödel, in a sampling of the author’s investigations.
On the Path to Health, Wellbeing, and Fulfilment
This book investigates the scientific basis of what we think we know about healthy living. How much of the information presented as fact by the media is true? It provides a key to understanding how we can all improve our health to thrive in any phase of life.
Master physiology with targeted practice. This essential companion to your textbook organizes questions by concept and difficulty (basic, specialized, advanced), helping you pinpoint weaknesses, reinforce knowledge, and ace your exams.
Modern Technological Intervention Advancements for the Physically Challenged and Disabled Population
This book explores how technology can improve the quality of life for the disabled and elderly. Incorporating expertise from global professionals, it provides insights for researchers and students, highlighting key challenges for engineers, clinicians, and industry professionals.
Higher education is an important part of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This volume brings together research, teaching experiences, and reflections on actions taken in higher education institutes associated with these SDGs.
In fifteen expert essays, this volume delves into the foundations of lexicography and lexicology. Spanning historical manuscripts to digital corpus analysis, these studies offer new critical perspectives on the making and meaning of words across cultures and time.
This book explores the use of phraseological units (PUs) in discourse. It examines core and contextual uses, various modifications like puns and extended metaphors, and the serious challenge of their translation.
This toolbox eases the physiology exam-making process. It provides lists of concepts by topic for basic, advanced, or specialized areas. Grab questions “on demand” or create your own. Also includes bibliographies and teaching schedules to help you enjoy the joys of teaching.
This book provides a novel, strategic solution for China’s future, investigating the scientification of its words, language, and culture. This ‘scientific Chinese trinity’ will create a scientific China and facilitate the development of the digital economy.
Zeus, Jupiter, Jesus and the Catholic Church
Why get out of bed in the morning? This book finds an answer in Virgil’s Aeneid: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” It connects the Aeneid’s deceitful gods to the Bible’s Devil to reveal an offer of eternal happiness, freely given, not forced.
Analytic Reflections from Conflict Zones
Drawing on a life-journey through conflict zones, the author offers field-tested tools to transform conflict. Blending on-the-ground stories with accessible analysis, this is a cautionary tale for our polarized societies from an eyewitness to the dangerous patterns of discord.
Space and Place as Human Coordinates
Crossing the humanities and social sciences, this book explores how the core concepts of ‘space’ and ‘place’ shape our reality. Essays examine 20th and 21st-century cultural phenomena, offering new perspectives for scholars in cultural studies, media, communication, and beyond.
This volume explores cultural landscapes and architectural symbols through the notion of genius loci. Focused on Lithuanian historical contexts, these essays provide insights into the making and destruction of landscapes for architects, historians, and scholars globally.
Art Therapy Education
Artmaking is the basis of art therapy as a healing practice. This volume suggests an innovative research approach that examines different art therapy teaching and training practices, studying them as parts of one picture.
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