To prepare students for the 21st century, we must change the way we teach them to think. This book instils a love of critical thinking in students and teachers, covering its history, methods in language teaching, and providing reading and writing activities.
This book examines the reception of visual arts across cultures and times. It focuses on the migration of images: how they travel from one medium to another, and how they migrate from an artefact into the human body, a process explored through various disciplines.
Intra-articular Corticosteroid Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis
An essential guide to corticosteroid therapy for knee osteoarthritis. This resource demystifies treatment, exploring effectiveness, factors that predict response, and clinical management strategies based on the latest research. Enhance your treatment methods and patient care.
This book offers a view of the science behind crime scene investigations, demonstrating the connection between forensic science and physics. It details the basic physics needed to understand crime scene findings and will appeal to students and any reader interested in forensics.
This book explores the relationship between humanity and nature in classic eco-science fiction. It challenges the idea that human-centeredness is the sole cause of environmental catastrophe, examining the factors that lead to disaster and the solutions the novels may offer.
Faith in Higher Education
This book examines the church-founded model of higher education as a promising solution to current challenges, especially in developing countries. Case studies reveal this model emphasises student wellbeing over profit and delivers relevant courses over easily marketed subjects.
This book presents insights into manganese oxides, materials with important technological applications in magnetic refrigeration and sensors. With elegant and didactic mathematical proofs, it will interest both researchers and the general reader interested in the subject.
Iconicity in Language
This book covers all aspects of linguistic iconicity—the similarity between a sign’s form and meaning—in spoken and signed languages. It contains 678 entries and over 8,500 examples from 400 languages, for scholars and students of linguistics, typology, and semiotics.
Patient-Based Medicine
This book addresses the chasm between conventional medicine’s focus on symptoms and what truly benefits the patient. It reveals how this approach can be dangerous and introduces effective alternative approaches which can lead to betterment or even complete remission.
Musical vernaculars are an eclectic and everchanging object of study. This book defends urbanized folk music, challenging the traditional view that only rural songs are authentic, and examines unexpected interconnections between Russian and Jewish music.
No other book links epidemiological concepts to leadership. This book identifies leadership determinants and matches research-based antidotes to them. Using over 60 case studies and leadership style assessments, you will learn to improve your leadership and the workplace climate.
This book explores the p53 protein’s role in malignant hematologic diseases, impacting clinical management. It focuses on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia’s progression to Richter Syndrome, where mutations lead to low survival and non-response to chemotherapy.
Curating Organizational Memory
Our most trusted organizations are burdened by an accumulation of knowledge. As this book shows, by incorporating forgetting into their strategies for change, they can evolve. Forgetting is an unexpected theory of organizing that can challenge ossified institutional practices.
This book explores the mechanics of smart nanocomposite sandwich plates, covering theories of buckling, vibration and dynamic instability. It presents models for material properties and derives governing equations using the energy method and Hamilton’s principle.
So fiercely anti-clerical it was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books, this 15th-century Italian collection is a landmark of short fiction. Its tales of murder, incest, and ingenious adultery are by turns grim, comic, tragic, and erotic.
Traditional Sports and Games in the Contemporary World
A captivating journey from Denmark to the Basque Country and Scotland exploring traditional sports. This book reveals why these games are valuable, necessary, and fit the needs of our times, offering inspirational ideas for how to use them in practice.
Climate Crisis and Creation Care
Our constant consumption of resources has had a negative impact on the world—affecting everything from the weather to the social fabric of our society. This book explores how we arrived at such an unstable world and offers sustainable solutions to a global crisis.
Performing Memories
Why is the contemporary world haunted by memory? This collection of essays explores the cultural and artistic tensions in representing the past. Scholars analyze how memory is elaborated, contested, and shared through literature, film, technology, and myth.
The complex security environment requires military leaders to adapt more rapidly than ever. This book is an analytic study of military leadership—a valuable reference for academics, students, and armed forces members. This second edition features two new chapters and updates.
This volume brings together language research from theorists and practitioners. Drawing on authentic data, the articles analyze language structure and the construction of text and identity in teaching, writing, and translation. A valuable resource for students and specialists.