Surrounded by Water
This work investigates the physical and human geography of Sardinia, the second largest Mediterranean island, with its complex and varied features. Each chapter offers an analysis of a specific facet of the island, complemented with insights gained from in-depth research.
Rethinking Social Issues in Education for the 21st Century
Key social issues and controversies in education are revisited in this volume. The text shows how common interests and collaboration help us understand social issues, the evaluation of governmental responses, and the promotion of ideas about the way forward into the 21st century.
Providing research from scholars from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, this collection of essays explores how the theological sector of education, drawing upon its scriptural heritage, can come to grips with the digital age.
Food Security and Food Production
India’s food security depends on its ecological foundation, which is threatened by competition for water and land. This book addresses the critical institutional challenges and offers insights into the changes needed to ensure food security for the nation.
Lovasz deals primarily with absentology, an ontological and social-scientific epistemological mode, dedicated to the analysis of absence. His monograph is drawn by manifestations of absence and deals with three terms, ‘the shadow economy’, ‘corruption’ and ‘pollution’.
Mothers at the Margins
This collection speaks with the voices of mothers who feel alienated, stigmatised, or silenced for not fitting the expected norms of motherhood. It challenges narrow ideas of maternal identity, revealing structures of oppression and strategies of resistance and love.
Corruption in Ukraine
Bazaluk expands the understanding of Ukraine as a limitrophe state, as a frontier between two world cultures, the East and the West. He explains the relationship between the totally corrupt Ukrainian political system and the geographic location of the country.
Telling Tales
This volume explores how stories in Spanish fiction and film shape the nation’s identity. Examining the impact of events like the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship, it reveals the close bond between real-world events and fictional stories.
Downscaling Culture
As globalisation makes fixed ideas of culture obsolete, this volume updates intercultural communication theory and practice. It utilises a theory of scales to ‘downscale culture’, showing how it might—or might not—be relevant in any given interaction.
The Buddhist Voyage beyond Death
This book explores the central teachings of Buddha, of the Mahayana and of the Vajrayana. It focuses on memory, time and space, matter and energy and provides an answer to those grappling with their life difficulties.
Eiss explores how Eliot and Michelangelo struggle with the highest meanings of life in their artistic work and express what Rudolph Otto designates the mysterium tremendum. He reveals how Elliott struggled with his Christianity and turned to Michelangelo’s similar endeavour.
This publication brings together original scientific studies on current economic and developmental issues in the Balkan region, analysing the area from a variety of perspectives, including tourism, regional trade, European integration policies, and import-export policies.
Marginal Urbanisms
This collection reflects on urban development strategies that have been implemented recently in Latin American cities. It argues that infrastructural insertions need to be considered as the baseline for urban development, not as its main goal.
Edmund Burke, the Imperatives of Empire and the American Revolution
Edmund Burke advocated for America’s rights yet fiercely criticized the French Revolution. This volume presents his writings on the American Crisis, exploring the core paradox: Was this defender of colonial liberty a friend or a foe of revolution?
Constructing Legal Discourses and Social Practices
This title looks descriptively and interpretatively at the various existing forms of legal discourse and how these are framed and organised by social practices within distinctive sites of legal communication.
The seventeen chapters brought together here provide a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Bilingualism held in 2015, and offer insights into code-switching, the linguistic landscape, language policy, and bilingual education, among other topics.
Virtual Teacher
Today’s educational system is failing. This book bridges cognitive science, neurobiology, and AI to offer a solution. It shows how to build intelligent tutoring systems that place students in an active role, as opposed to the passive one they have today.
Complex Assemblages, Complex Social Structures
This monograph examines the rural settlements of Late Iron Age and Early Roman Britain through the lens of Cultural Theory in order to provide a picture of a more nuanced and diverse human landscape.
Essays on Moses from Buenos Aires
Deriving from a meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, this collection is concerned with Moses, helping to understand traditions concerning him. It provides information on the development of learned opinions on the biblical character.
Using extensive unpublished archival material, Bosco principally examines the first eighteen months of the Federal Union, during which time it was able to raise itself to the attention of the general public, and the political class, as the heir of the League of Nations.
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