How did Colin Rowe become one of the 20th century’s most influential architecture teachers? This book uncovers his provocative methods—irony, paradox, and subversion—by drawing on his private notes, sketches, and talks to reveal the mischief behind the master.
A chance discovery revealed a unique 1504 globe, hand-engraved on an ostrich egg and linked to Leonardo da Vinci. It shows secret knowledge, riddles, and is the first to name countries like Brazil. This book details 500 years of mystery, scholarship, and forensic testing.
The Disclosure and Assurance of Corporate Social Responsibility
These essays examine new trends in sustainability performance and reporting. They provide theory and evidence on voluntary disclosure and external assurance, making this book a key resource for companies, managers, shareholders, and all related stakeholders.
Untold Stories of Black Leadership in Higher Education
Black leaders from within academia share candid stories of their journey to becoming skilled leaders. Their narratives provide meaningful insight into leadership at the college level and offer a guide for handling conflict and change.
This book explores how simple optical systems can create fascinating quantum states, including Schrödinger’s cat-type states of light. Using abundant graphics over formulas, it makes modern quantum optics accessible to scientists, teachers, and students of physics.
This book challenges conventional views of infection, arguing that epidemics are irrevocably linked to culture, class, and power. Experts from diverse fields present a collaborative approach to find solutions that may determine whether people live or die.
The Floating Towns of Tomorrow
As climate change and population growth challenge our world, floating cities offer a solution. This book proposes viable urban planning and architectural solutions for coastal cities, starting with a pilot project in Singapore. For all who wish to rethink our cities.
Reflecting on Presence in Nursing
Presence is essential in nursing: connecting with another person for healing. This book explores its importance through personal accounts from research and practice, allowing readers to reflect on finding meaning, joy, and delivering care in a truly relational way.
The Future of Project Management
This book gives decision-makers, project workers, and students insight into the modern challenges of project management, from digitization to AI. It argues that modern project management is based on people, their values, and the intelligent use of emerging technologies.
Pharmaceuticals in the European Union
Through a reasoned description ranging from regulatory developments to the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU), this book presents the first complete and up-to-date analysis of the EU’s regulation of medicines and speculates on its next moves.
This book applies new feminist and gender methodologies to biblical texts. It continues pioneering discussions while introducing new theories to challenge accepted interpretations and ideologies that reinforce patriarchal domination and injustice.
Mixed Metaphors
This collection of essays reveals the lasting influence of the Danse Macabre, a European motif where Death summons us all—rich or poor. Mixing dance and violence, it inspired artists and dramatists like Shakespeare, and shaped culture from the Middle Ages to today.
Tale, Performance, and Culture in EFL Storytelling with Young Learners
This book explores the link between storytelling, language learning, culture, and emotions in the young EFL classroom. Discover how oral retellings of picture books can foster intercultural understanding and enhance foreign language teaching for all young children.
Canadian Readings of Jewish History
This book explains how history, language, and power perpetuate the oppression of marginalised identities. It shines a spotlight on elitist knowledge, propelling the reader to re-interpret discourse, challenge their own beliefs, and recreate taken-for-granted “universal truths.”
The Assessment and Treatment of Older Adults
The world of aging has changed. This book presents a new model for psychosocial care, grounded in research and focused on real-life needs. It offers professionals a complete guide to assessment and treatment, providing empirically supported interventions for today’s older adults.
Democrats into Nazis
How did middle-class Germans support extreme nationalism? This study of a Bavarian town after WWI shows how devastating crises discredited democracy and handed the initiative to the radical Right, as inhabitants came to see events as part of a broader “European Civil War.”
Between the Two
This book is a reflexive exploration into collaborative writing as a method of inquiry. At its heart are sequences of exchanged writings that form an experimental, transgressive inquiry into subjectivity, drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.
Shameless Sociology
Showtime’s Shameless has been praised for humanizing the working-class and critiqued for promoting stereotypes. This book offers a critical eye toward topics like inequality and gentrification, illustrating how the series both confronts and reinforces harmful tropes.
Welfare, Deservingness and the Logic of Poverty
Who deserves to get what? This book explores social deservingness from ancient Greece to the present day, focusing on poor relief and social welfare. It examines how ancient logics of poverty continue to inform our modern notions of who deserves help today.
Fundamentals of Neuroscience and the Law
What can neuroscience tell us about legal concepts like intent? This groundbreaking volume explores the intersection of neuroscience and law, from voluntary movement to scientific evidence in the courtroom. A primer for all those interested in neurolaw.
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