Musical Aesthetics
This book adopts an experiential approach to musical aesthetics, valuing intuitive, subconscious responses over intellectual analysis. Drawing from science, philosophy, and the humanities, it explores our deep attraction to music, offering user-friendly insights for all readers.
This collection of articles draws attention to the needs of 21st-century learners who require more than textbook information. It represents an important contribution to research on learners and reading, reading acquisition, and information literacy.
Populism
This monograph opens up a channel of dialogue among political scientists, sociologists, philosophers and historians in order to launch a debate on the declination of the phenomenon of populism.
This book helps educators transform classrooms into inclusive, socially engaging environments. It explores innovative pedagogical designs to lower learner anxiety, increase participation, improve learning experiences, and develop intercultural competence across disciplines.
As the British Empire defined itself against alleged Celtic backwardness, Irish nationalism surged. This book investigates how 19th-century racist and nationalist discourses shaped Irish identity, exploring travelogues that cast the island as both a utopia and a dystopia.
Taringana considers the growth of the coffee sector in colonial Zimbabwe within the broader context of agrarian capitalism in settler economies. He unpacks the central philosophy of statecraft based on the desire to develop Southern Rhodesia as a permanent white settler colony.
Participation, Culture and Democracy
The underlying question of this compendium focuses on the very core of our democratic culture. It investigates how one can actively take part in its political, legal, educational, informational, social, cultural and economic mechanisms.
Empedocles of Acragas
Empedocles of Acragas is known as a philosopher, healer, excellent orator, miracle-maker, and engineer. Scholars, students and specialists will find in this book an analysis of his revolutionary writings, and confirmation that he was a multi-faceted and important thinker.
Corporate Fraud in Japan
Why did risk management systems at world-famous Japanese companies fail? This book investigates eight incidents of corporate fraud, based on third-party reports, to explore common problems in corporate governance and internal control that let these companies down.
Politics within Parentheses
Gabor mediates between various culturally determined profiles of the discipline of Communication Studies. While directing attention to landmark American texts in intercultural communication, she also signals the potential to make reading a relational praxis.
This book explores Wilde’s ideas on the relation of Art to Life, examining The Importance of Being Earnest to discover whether its elegant artificiality aligns with his theories on beauty. It also considers the consequence of his assault on Victorian values.
This book theorises the evolution of English in post-colonial India and the rise of Indian English. It explores the debate: Is this distinct variety a standardized form suitable for teaching, or only for informal use? Through a survey, this book examines its acceptability.
This book covers the composition, production, testing methods, and application of modern cellulose fibre cement boards (FCB). It explores fabrication, testing procedures, and practical applications illustrated with examples. Valuable for researchers, architects, and engineers.
Urban Monstrosities
The contributors here show how artists and writers across the past two hundred years figure the monster as a barometer of changing urban patterns. Here, monstrosity becomes the herald of embryonic social forms and marginalized populations in portrayals of cities across media.
The Body in Autobiography and Autobiographical Novels
In an analysis of four books by authors with different sexual orientations, Lerro considers the complex relationships between body and mind, discussing the efforts of individuals from various backgrounds to define or to reject the “normal” and to put something else in its place.
Caring and Power in Female Leadership
Can philosophical understandings of power and care illuminate roadblocks that disrupt the potential of women in leadership? Borgerson considers leadership challenges by drawing upon debates that pulse through the history of philosophy and into present-day social concerns.
Bridges between Cultures
Centred on the metaphor of bridges and knots, the essays here discuss the dialogic and dialectical relationships between distant and socially dissimilar cultures. They address possible juxtapositions and intersections of spatial and temporal dimensions between lands and cultures.
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.
This collection of philosophical essays synthesizes Western culture and science with insights from Zen practice. It discusses provocative topics from The Lord of the Rings to artificial intelligence and consciousness. A stimulating tour that will challenge how you look at things.
This volume is a rigorous update of the state of the art in the investigation of Old and Middle English. Written by some of the best known experts in this field, it addresses various issues, such as etymology, manuscript sources, and medieval literary traditions, among others.
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