World Cities, City Worlds
When living and working in cities, we need to make sense of them in order to get by. We must delve below their surface to understand how we can best engage with them. Solesbury argues that three tropes can help us here: namely, metaphors, icons and perspectives.
The Story Cookbook
The Story Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of over 80 story-based activities. This easy-to-follow guide provides a treasure trove of techniques to apply and adapt. It is a must-read for consultants, educators, and leaders using storytelling for positive change.
This text brings together papers, on different hidden and implicit aspects of language and the ways of disclosing and explicating them. Language is interpreted in different ways here, as a cognitive ability, a specific semiotic structure interwoven with culture, and a discourse.
This book explores uncommon diseases, explaining their symptoms, diagnosis, causes, and treatment. This volume represents important introductory material for medical, pharmacy, and all other health science students.
Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison’s poetry uses Sufism to heal the trauma of the Middle Passage. This book examines how she applies Sufi ideals to a Caribbean context, showing how its message resonates with Jamaican-based religions and creates a new literary canon.
A Science-Theology Rapprochement
Beyond the “warfare” of science and theology. This book confronts the New Atheist challenge, using the insights of Peirce, Lonergan, and Pannenberg to turn conflict into collaboration and show how Christian creation embraces an evolutionary universe.
Violence and Politics
In this volume, a new generation of researchers demonstrate the interaction between politics and violence in the context of Greek and European history. In terms of focus, the articles here extend over a time span stretching from the Greek classical period to the twentieth century
This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on social hybridity in contemporary novels. It explores the challenge of center and periphery, examining the dynamics of power, marginality, and space to shed new light on the contemporary novel as a whole.
This prophetic, race-focused work is for Christians seeking to live out their faith today. Racism, the elephant in the room, now sits at the altar of our churches. This book argues we are at a critical time for action and gives educational and theological suggestions.
Basic Biology for Born Engineers
While the laws of physics rely on calculus, this approach fails for biology. Living things are not continuous; they are discrete and amazingly exact. This book presents a novel view of biology as the science of ‘living mosaics’, made of discrete, yet interacting, ‘tiles’.
E-merging for E-Government
Explore e-Government with leading experts in this essential collection. Featuring previously unreleased articles, it merges key perspectives on citizen-centric policy, governance, and ICT.
Global Mindset
“Think globally, act locally” is harder than it sounds. This work explores how a global mindset allows organizations to become more effective. It shows how members can grow professionally and personally from a global mindset—even if they never step foot on a plane.
How can artists create with few resources? How can they be supported? This book explores these questions through the lived experiences of artists in São Paulo, Brazil. A testimonial narrative, it’s an inspiring guide for artists, culture managers, and intellectuals worldwide.
The Ethical Work of Literature in a Post-Humanist World
This title examines the contention that, in an era where the relevance of the literary novel is compromised, the novel remains an important means of exploring and interrogating societies and culture. It does this through readings of a selection of Don DeLillo’s later novels.
Humanistic Philosophizing
Philosophy is the project of seeking for answers to “the big questions” regarding the condition of man, the nature of Reality, and man’s place within its scheme of things. Against this background, Rescher considers some major areas of philosophical concern.
Western civilization endures three seminal, tragic father-son stories. This book explores a fourth, softer myth: that of Jacob and Joseph. In this alternative path, the son, chosen by his father, unites a tribe and furthers his father’s dreams, and neither is destroyed.
Medical Education in Western India
“Medical knowledge is not communicable to the natives.” Despite this 1832 declaration, Governor Sir Robert Grant, Dr Charles Morehead, and philanthropist Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy created a medical college in Bombay that went on to rival those in Europe and America.
Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Animal Suffering
This is the first Eastern Orthodox work on animal suffering and human salvation. Using Biblical teachings and contemporary science, it argues that animal suffering is against God’s Will and that indifference to it has negative consequences for human salvation.
A Study of Authorial Illustration
This book analyses the practice of authors illustrating their own works. Combining theoretical aspects with commentaries on specific illustrations, it provides academics and students with an enjoyable, scholarly introduction to this thriving field of research.
This anthology offers readers a greater appreciation of the thought-provoking, informative and compelling subject of the human senses and related sensuous trajectories. It will be of particular value to those interested in aesthetics and the arts.
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