This entry-level textbook prepares college students for advanced science courses by bridging the gap from high school chemistry. It emphasizes the history of the discipline to create a storyline, showing how modern chemical vocabulary makes sense only in the light of history.
This volume on the evolving nature of peacebuilding addresses timely questions: How are methods selected? Is violence acceptable? Contributions evaluate the effectiveness of historical and current peacebuilding efforts, offering cutting edge work in peace and conflict studies.
This book challenges the ontological unity of music, philosophy, and mathematics, then explores music as social history—probing ideological style debates and the cultural memory of post-Stalinism in the 1950s and 60s.
The Last Forty Years of Italian Popular Culture
This volume offers an insight into recent Italian pop culture. Essays on topics from literature and music to comics and politics reveal a country where mass participation in cultural events accompanies reflection on national identity. An engaging and indispensable read.
A vital collection on intercultural practices in European health and education. Featuring cutting-edge research with diverse clients, it examines diversity, sources of tension, and paths to resilience and wellbeing.
This volume examines anguish in late 19th–early 20th century art, literature, and philosophy. It reveals the tension between anguish and art, showing how historical events and new inquiries generated an anguish that proved uniquely fertile for artists.
This book presents an original theory for searching for space objects when only crude orbital information is known. It uses a special principle to construct efficient search plans that prevent the object’s loss and ensure an economical use of resources.
Searching for the Limits of Human Physical Performance
What limits how fast we can run or how long we can row, cycle, or swim without tiring? Exercise fatigue is a common feeling, but its cause remains a mystery. This book examines the historical quest to understand it through the researchers who led the search for answers.
This first-of-its-kind textbook from the Schroth Best Practice Academy offers an overview of the evidence-based Schroth method. A guide for practitioners, it focuses on current non-surgical treatments for spinal deformities to improve patient outcomes and quality of life.
Teaching Psychology around the World
A handbook for psychology professors aiming to internationalize and diversify their curricula. This work provides practical tips, innovative teaching ideas, and global perspectives on psychology education from distinguished authors representing every major region of the world.
Time for Architecture
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.
This first book on Naomi Alderman’s work highlights her transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The analysis focuses on relevant topics including gender and sexual orientation, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and feminist posthuman dystopias.
Pāli, the Language
This book argues that the medium in which the Buddha spoke is as important as the message. Unlike formal Sanskrit, Pāli is an oral, musical language of the people. It reveals how its sonic content carries and enhances the Buddha’s practical philosophy for ending suffering.
The Multi(Inter)cultural School in Inclusive Societies
As schools become more culturally diverse, language and cultural challenges arise. This collection of essays explores multicultural education, analyzing new research and data to suggest revised educational methods that ensure high-quality education and training for all children.
While many believe Earth is 10,000 years old, science confirms it is 4.56 billion. This book examines the perceived conflict between religion and science, arguing that nature and scripture derive from a single source. Their harmony is essential for the progress of humanity.
Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change 3
This volume traces the complex history of the English language from its beginnings to the present day. Using diverse theoretical standpoints, it addresses changes in fields from semantics to syntax, and will be of interest to scholars and students of historical linguistics.
Contrastive Phraseology
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive, modern analysis of phrasemes for researchers, teachers, translators, and lexicographers. A contrastive approach outlines divergences between languages, from major ones to less-investigated ones like Ukrainian, Georgian, and Thai.
In an over-sexualised culture, sexuality education is a sensitive and important issue. This book dispels the myth that sexuality is a taboo in Islam, exploring the subject within the matrix of Islamic beliefs and its moral grid of rights, obligations, justice, and equity.
This volume contains a selection of the best papers on renewable energies and power quality. It presents state-of-the-art research from leading authorities drawn from across the globe, with contributions from 300 authors from 60 different countries.
This book shows the objective beauty of science, from the micro- and macrocosm to the fundamental constants of the universe. It examines the human organism as a system and explores ways to transition from a state of “illness” to a state of “health”.
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