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In History and Education, from the Munster Blackwater to the Indian Ocean
An Autoethnography
This book illuminates 70 years of educational development in Ireland and internationally. The author traces his journey from an early life in rural Ireland to academic work in Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Asia, linking his experiences to major historical events.
This book illuminates 70 years of educational development in Ireland and internationally. The author traces his journey from an early life in rural Ireland to academic work in Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Asia, linking his experiences to major historical events.
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Shameless Sociology
Critical Perspectives on a Popular Television Series
Showtime's Shameless has been praised for humanizing the working-class and critiqued for promoting stereotypes. This book offers a critical eye toward topics like inequality and gentrification, illustrating how the series both confronts and reinforces harmful tropes.
Showtime’s Shameless has been praised for humanizing the working-class and critiqued for promoting stereotypes. This book offers a critical eye toward topics like inequality and gentrification, illustrating how the series both confronts and reinforces harmful tropes.
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Three German Women
Personal Histories from the Twentieth Century
The lives of three intellectual women—a mathematician, a journalist, and an art historian—serve as mirrors to the tumultuous 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of women whose achievements were overlooked amid the trauma of Nazism.
The lives of three intellectual women—a mathematician, a journalist, and an art historian—serve as mirrors to the tumultuous 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of women whose achievements were overlooked amid the trauma of Nazism.
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Reflections on Poetry and the World
Walking along the Hudson
This collection brings together 40 years of essays by philosopher Emily Grosholz. She brings poetry into relation with ethics, politics, science, and imagination, admiring all the more the distinct wisdom of poetry. These essays show how poetry deepens our understanding of life.
This collection brings together 40 years of essays by philosopher Emily Grosholz. She brings poetry into relation with ethics, politics, science, and imagination, admiring all the more the distinct wisdom of poetry. These essays show how poetry deepens our understanding of life.
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Time for Architecture
On Modernity, Memory and Time in Architecture and Urban Design
Through the lens of time, this book offers a new perspective on modern architecture. It challenges our understanding of modernity, sustainability, and tradition with original theories on longevity, conservation, and collective memory.
Through the lens of time, this book offers a new perspective on modern architecture. It challenges our understanding of modernity, sustainability, and tradition with original theories on longevity, conservation, and collective memory.
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From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium
Kings, Symbols, and Cities
This book combines the history of religions with Byzantine studies to analyze kings, symbols, and cities. It demonstrates how the ancient pagan ruler cult was gradually replaced by the ruler becoming subordinate to Christ, the ‘Master of All’ (Pantokrator).
This book combines the history of religions with Byzantine studies to analyze kings, symbols, and cities. It demonstrates how the ancient pagan ruler cult was gradually replaced by the ruler becoming subordinate to Christ, the ‘Master of All’ (Pantokrator).
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Awakening through Literature and Film
Into the Dancing Light
This book, using Zen Buddhism and postmodern ethics, guides you beyond the conventional thematic approach. Learn to catch nondual, spiritual feelings while appreciating a given work, ultimately turning the act of reading or watching into a quest for spiritual enlightenment.
This book, using Zen Buddhism and postmodern ethics, guides you beyond the conventional thematic approach. Learn to catch nondual, spiritual feelings while appreciating a given work, ultimately turning the act of reading or watching into a quest for spiritual enlightenment.
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Aesthetics of Presence
Philosophical and Practical Reconsiderations
This book re-centers aesthetics on the spectator, replacing the long-dominant artwork as the exclusive focus. It develops an 'Aesthetics of Presence' by exploring perceiving, playing, placing, and performing as its theoretical cornerstones.
This book re-centers aesthetics on the spectator, replacing the long-dominant artwork as the exclusive focus. It develops an ‘Aesthetics of Presence’ by exploring perceiving, playing, placing, and performing as its theoretical cornerstones.
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This volume investigates how literary texts reflect a Catholic philosophy of life. It demonstrates how literature, by capturing the imagination, evokes human experience related to a Catholic understanding of life.
This volume investigates how literary texts reflect a Catholic philosophy of life. It demonstrates how literature, by capturing the imagination, evokes human experience related to a Catholic understanding of life.
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Agile Strategies for the 21st Century
The Need for Speed
To succeed in a dynamic world, leaders must build agile organizations. This book provides a practical framework to accelerate innovation and adaptability by shaping a winning culture. Learn to diagnose and fix the unseen root problems that disrupt the flow of critical knowledge.
To succeed in a dynamic world, leaders must build agile organizations. This book provides a practical framework to accelerate innovation and adaptability by shaping a winning culture. Learn to diagnose and fix the unseen root problems that disrupt the flow of critical knowledge.
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Development Engineering
Empowering the Poor through Sustainable Technology-based Solutions
This research-backed guide shows innovators how to develop technological interventions for low-resource settings. Learn to create sustainable solutions that meet a real need, are affordable, and fit the cultural context to avoid common failures and achieve widespread use.
This research-backed guide shows innovators how to develop technological interventions for low-resource settings. Learn to create sustainable solutions that meet a real need, are affordable, and fit the cultural context to avoid common failures and achieve widespread use.
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This book interrogates how stigma ‘others’ individuals and groups. Focusing on mental health, disability, and transgender politics, it reveals the progressive and regressive aspects of campaigns to challenge stigma, and warns how they can threaten our political freedom.
This book interrogates how stigma ‘others’ individuals and groups. Focusing on mental health, disability, and transgender politics, it reveals the progressive and regressive aspects of campaigns to challenge stigma, and warns how they can threaten our political freedom.
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Living Well with Cancer
A Solution-Focused Approach
This book uses solution-focused thinking to show how life with cancer may be lived well. Written in a chatty but powerfully effective style, it is for people who have cancer, their families, and friends, as well as the health professionals who seek to help them.
This book uses solution-focused thinking to show how life with cancer may be lived well. Written in a chatty but powerfully effective style, it is for people who have cancer, their families, and friends, as well as the health professionals who seek to help them.
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In an era of climate change and fake news, our future hangs in the balance. We can’t fall for easy answers. This book uses emerging insights from various fields to build evidence-based and wise solutions, challenging the flawed mental models that hold us back.
In an era of climate change and fake news, our future hangs in the balance. We can’t fall for easy answers. This book uses emerging insights from various fields to build evidence-based and wise solutions, challenging the flawed mental models that hold us back.
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This book uses Bhutan's Gross National Happiness to question the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. It contrasts the logic of linear growth with the Buddhist approach of "Respect all Sentient Beings"—a model centered on community, compassion, and inner peace for all life.
This book uses Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness to question the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. It contrasts the logic of linear growth with the Buddhist approach of “Respect all Sentient Beings”—a model centered on community, compassion, and inner peace for all life.
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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.
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.
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The Napa Valley Wine Industry
The Organization of Excellence
This book tells the story of how Napa became a pre-eminent site for iconic wines in a short space of time. After early struggles, a 1960s re-emergence fostered a collective commitment to quality, building a brand that would be identified as amongst the best in the world.
This book tells the story of how Napa became a pre-eminent site for iconic wines in a short space of time. After early struggles, a 1960s re-emergence fostered a collective commitment to quality, building a brand that would be identified as amongst the best in the world.
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Pakistan after Trump
Great Power Responsibility in a Multi-Polar World
This book questions the dominant narrative of Pakistan as a "safe haven" for terrorists. It shows how great powers—the US, China, India, and others—directly caused the militant ecosystem in Pakistan, a country whose people have borne the brunt of terrorist violence.
This book questions the dominant narrative of Pakistan as a “safe haven” for terrorists. It shows how great powers—the US, China, India, and others—directly caused the militant ecosystem in Pakistan, a country whose people have borne the brunt of terrorist violence.
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Astrobiology for a General Reader
A Questions and Answers Approach
This book explores astrobiology in a unique ‘Questions and Answers’ format. With over 250 questions answered in a conversation-like style, it is a comprehensive guide for general readers and students eager to delve into this fascinating field.
This book explores astrobiology in a unique ‘Questions and Answers’ format. With over 250 questions answered in a conversation-like style, it is a comprehensive guide for general readers and students eager to delve into this fascinating field.
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Creation, Sin and Reconciliation
Reading Primordial and Patriarchal Narrative in the Book of Genesis
Through a close reading of chapters 1–11, 32–33 and 37–50, Letellier investigates the unique position of the Book of Genesis in its provision of the foundational stories of Creation and the emergence of mankind, paying particular attention to the language and style of the text.
Through a close reading of chapters 1–11, 32–33 and 37–50, Letellier investigates the unique position of the Book of Genesis in its provision of the foundational stories of Creation and the emergence of mankind, paying particular attention to the language and style of the text.
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