Pedagogies of Difference and Desire in Professional Learning
This book explores what we can learn from images shared among professional communities on social media. It traces how professional learning unfolds online and considers how we can use these images as pedagogical resources, opening up windows into professional life for students.
This book collects Daniel Asia’s writings on classical music, universities, Judaism, politics, and American culture. Written in clear, elegant prose with a wry sense of humor, this is a fine introduction to high culture, with an emphasis on classical music and its composers.
This book helps students and practitioners understand marketing and design. It provides an overview of experiential marketing, innovation, branding, and human-centred design, while considering future avenues for creativity in the field.
Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature
Literary experts and novelists explore the relationships between Greek and Irish writing. Through fiction, self-reflective essays, and discussions, this volume considers two literatures at the edges of Europe. Selected works are presented in both Greek and English.
Power Politics in Africa
This collection examines power politics in Africa, focusing on the strategies of regional powers like Nigeria and South Africa. It contrasts the struggle for hegemony with pan-African solidarity, contributing a vital African perspective to a largely Eurocentric field.
A Jesuit missionary, musician, and builder of Shanghai’s famed bamboo organs. François Ravary’s unpublished letters reveal the crises of the Catholic mission in nineteenth-century China and his creation of the nation’s first brass band and school orchestra.
Borders and Borderlands
This book addresses how borders—between states, languages, and cultures—inhibit people and ideas. It explores identity through translation and gender transition, featuring firsthand accounts of the refugee crisis and historical and current “Poetry of Exile.”
The Confucian Revival in Taiwan
Xu Fuguan is a central representative of Modern Confucianism. This book focuses on his fundamental contributions to philosophy, particularly his reinterpretations of Confucian and Daoist aesthetics. It highlights the link between ethics and aesthetics in his innovative theories.
Literary Misogyny and Praise of Women in the Middle Ages
This book examines two major traditions in medieval literature: the praise of women and misogyny. It explores misogyny from the Church Fathers to secular authors and discusses the major literary works that praised women as a response to their misogynist counterparts.
Errors in English Pronunciation among Arabic Speakers
This book analyzes Arabs’ errors in English pronunciation, covering consonants, vowels, and word stress. It explains the reasons behind these errors, which stem from applying Arabic rules to English, and presents teaching suggestions for surmounting them.
Uncovering the hidden history of Shi’ism in North Africa and al-Andalus, this book offers the first English translations of Morisco traditions. It reveals their original works, study of diverse Shi’ite sources, and a vibrant faith that rewrites the region’s history.
Musical Waves
This volume comprises a wide range of cutting-edge analytical approaches for numerous musical styles. It includes studies inspired by Schoenberg, transformational theory, narrative, form, and—notably—several approaches to popular music.
This book explores the molecular mechanism of phototherapy, studying its effects on blood oxygenation, metabolism, coagulation, and glucose. It considers the laws of blood photomodification and methods for controlling individual patient susceptibility to irradiation.
The Cultural and Historical Heritage of Colonialism
Decades after independence, why do many African nations still mimic the West at their own culture’s expense? This book presents a bold challenge: to build a humane society by grounding it in local experience and synthesizing the best of indigenous and foreign values.
The Beginning Teacher’s K-6 Classroom
This book focuses on the purpose, theory, and practice of teaching. It explores learning theories, unlocking creativity, and the practical “nuts and bolts” of classroom management. An extremely helpful guide for beginning elementary teachers and teacher candidates.
This book investigates the global response to teaching languages online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It shares teachers’ first-hand narratives on the challenges and opportunities they faced, presenting practical solutions and good practices from around the world.
When Energy is Released from Atoms
The Manhattan Project was the largest, most costly, and influential scientific project in history—a work of collective knowledge from a human race on the edge of obliteration. This book shares stories of its central characters, technical standards, and profound historical legacy.
This book presents a new theory of capitalism where disequilibrium and “imperfect competition” are the functional norm. It shows that equilibrium is a functional anomaly that causes crises, and details the principles of crisis-proof policies and behavior.
This volume examines the decolonization of communication studies. It shows that the discipline underwent a rapid paradigm shift after scholars were called upon to rethink the field in the face of a crisis.
This scholarly edition of Lincoln Steffens’ muck-raking classic dissects Gilded Age corruption in America’s cities. With new analysis and historical context, it reveals the timeless moral and social-political phenomenon of corruption and the nature of reform.
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