The Truly Infinite Universe
By bringing speculative philosophy into conversation with quantum cosmology, this book develops Hegel’s metaphysics and Hawking’s theory on the origins of spacetime, revealing the universe as a self-generating, self-organizing, self-enclosed whole.
This volume provides science and environmental educators with examples of learning that contribute to a more eco-socially just and sustainable world. This education moves beyond facts to develop learners’ values and capabilities to envision and work towards preferable futures.
Astrobiology and Humanism
This book reviews the frontiers of humanism as they interact with astrobiology. The existence of life raises deep questions meaningful to both, but disagreements in this dialogue are shown to be due to the delusion that the frontiers of science can be ignored.
Contrary to the belief that Judaism was oblivious to art, this book shows that a sophisticated visual language flourished in Byzantine-era synagogues. This probing language of introspection and scrutiny reveals a hidden culture that could rival the best of modern art movements.
This innovative book combines two very special states of awareness—“mindfulness” and “flow”—into a new and unique state called “mindflow”. The practice of mindflow leads to a stress-free, healthy, fulfilling and effective life in today’s complex and challenging environment.
An Environmental Ethic for the End of the World
Powell investigates Romans 8:19-22 and Paul’s Christological discourse as a source of ecological healing, arguing that Paul’s midrash provides deep insight into the biblical role of humans and their instrumentality in bringing both harm and healing to the world of nature.
This illustrated historical study investigates 1960s Greek advertising and its focus on female consumption. It reveals the key role of Greek women, not just as consumers, but as protagonists in shaping a new consumer model imported from the United States.
Communicating Specialized Knowledge
This book explores knowledge communication strategies for peers and lay audiences. Chapters examine dissemination in medicine, health, corporate communication, cultural heritage, and tourism, using corpus linguistics, genre studies, and multimodal analysis.
This volume explores how practitioners respond to current social realities with creative and innovative social work practice. It examines how they can contribute to policy development through their work on dementia, substance use, juvenile reintegration, and more.
Race Theory and Literature
This volume explores the unique interplay between literature and racial theories from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Spanning diverse genres and traditions, it features reflections on authors such as Kafka, Kleist, Voltaire, and Coleridge.
The influence of Ancient Greece on contemporary western civilization is irrefutable. The multivalent nature of such an influence is reflected in the wide-ranging essays of this volume, which cover such areas as economy, art, architecture, philosophy, medicine, and mythology.
Assessing the Language of TV Political Interviews
This book presents a corpus-assisted investigation into the language of British and American TV political interviews. It analyzes interviewers’ and interviewees’ speech to unveil their linguistic strategies and the salient traits distinguishing UK and US styles.
On the Ugly
This original collection offers fresh approaches to the concept of ugliness in aesthetics, art, and in contrast with the beautiful. Featuring new papers from diverse scholars, it collects the latest research, making it a key contribution to the growing interest in the field.
This book tackles modern methods in the modelling of extreme data, such as floods and hurricanes. It provides the latest statistical methods to predict these random phenomena and minimize damage, offering both an applied and theoretical orientation.
This collection of essays addresses the absence of African voices in global bioethics. It explores issues from medical research and traditional medicine to reproductive health, showing how universal bioethics can be firmly anchored in local, continental realities.
Written by global scholars and practitioners, this volume explores the changing landscape of 21st century business. Covering issues from consumer trends to management styles, it explains the theories behind the changes taking place in the global business environment.
Planar Trusses
This book contains 73 schemes of trusses, with solutions for many not widely published. It identifies trusses with hidden dangerous properties and provides compact formulas for engineers and theorists to supplement numerical calculations, especially for complex structures.
Rediscover a forgotten classic. Maxwell Gray’s bestselling 1886 novel, The Silence of Dean Maitland, combines evocative English landscape, in the mould of Thomas Hardy, with a gripping plot of crime and moral choice. This edition includes scholarly articles on its adaptations.
Is another world war inevitable? Yes, if we continue to think in “either/or” terms that lead to war or peace with no middle ground. This book reveals “both/and” thinking, a way to resolve paradox and find novel solutions beyond simple conflict.
Sustainable Tourism in Asia
This collection explores sustainable tourism in Asia, drawing on papers from international conferences. It shares empirical studies and cases, forming a rich reference work for tourism researchers, development leaders, policy-makers, and practitioners.
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