This work highlights the Haitian Lakou, a form of libertarian communism. To free people from the exploitation and climate change of neoliberal capitalism, it must be vertically integrated at the nation-state level.
Ethics in Child Health
How do you approach the tough ethical dilemmas in child health? This concise, practical case-based workbook helps healthcare professionals and students critically think about ethical problems through interactive case studies and thought-provoking discussions.
This book explores the surprisingly diverse musical landscape of Invercargill, a city at the bottom of Aotearoa/New Zealand. It illustrates the importance of music in local communities, enriching social connectedness, local identity, and the lives interwoven through them.
This book explores the unique medical heritage of Portugal’s National Palace of Mafra, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It presents innovative studies on its collection of medical texts and items, covering topics from Paracelsan alchemy to the lives of 18th-century physicians.
This book shows the objective beauty of science, from the micro- and macrocosm to the fundamental constants of the universe. It examines the human organism as a system and explores ways to transition from a state of “illness” to a state of “health”.
This volume contains a selection of the best papers on renewable energies and power quality. It presents state-of-the-art research from leading authorities drawn from across the globe, with contributions from 300 authors from 60 different countries.
In an over-sexualised culture, sexuality education is a sensitive and important issue. This book dispels the myth that sexuality is a taboo in Islam, exploring the subject within the matrix of Islamic beliefs and its moral grid of rights, obligations, justice, and equity.
Contrastive Phraseology
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive, modern analysis of phrasemes for researchers, teachers, translators, and lexicographers. A contrastive approach outlines divergences between languages, from major ones to less-investigated ones like Ukrainian, Georgian, and Thai.
Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change 3
This volume traces the complex history of the English language from its beginnings to the present day. Using diverse theoretical standpoints, it addresses changes in fields from semantics to syntax, and will be of interest to scholars and students of historical linguistics.
While many believe Earth is 10,000 years old, science confirms it is 4.56 billion. This book examines the perceived conflict between religion and science, arguing that nature and scripture derive from a single source. Their harmony is essential for the progress of humanity.
The Multi(Inter)cultural School in Inclusive Societies
As schools become more culturally diverse, language and cultural challenges arise. This collection of essays explores multicultural education, analyzing new research and data to suggest revised educational methods that ensure high-quality education and training for all children.
Pāli, the Language
This book argues that the medium in which the Buddha spoke is as important as the message. Unlike formal Sanskrit, Pāli is an oral, musical language of the people. It reveals how its sonic content carries and enhances the Buddha’s practical philosophy for ending suffering.
This first book on Naomi Alderman’s work highlights her transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The analysis focuses on relevant topics including gender and sexual orientation, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and feminist posthuman dystopias.
Time for Architecture
Through the lens of time, this book offers a new perspective on modern architecture. It challenges our understanding of modernity, sustainability, and tradition with original theories on longevity, conservation, and collective memory.
Teaching Psychology around the World
A handbook for psychology professors aiming to internationalize and diversify their curricula. This work provides practical tips, innovative teaching ideas, and global perspectives on psychology education from distinguished authors representing every major region of the world.
This first-of-its-kind textbook from the Schroth Best Practice Academy offers an overview of the evidence-based Schroth method. A guide for practitioners, it focuses on current non-surgical treatments for spinal deformities to improve patient outcomes and quality of life.
Searching for the Limits of Human Physical Performance
What limits how fast we can run or how long we can row, cycle, or swim without tiring? Exercise fatigue is a common feeling, but its cause remains a mystery. This book examines the historical quest to understand it through the researchers who led the search for answers.
This book presents an original theory for searching for space objects when only crude orbital information is known. It uses a special principle to construct efficient search plans that prevent the object’s loss and ensure an economical use of resources.
This volume examines anguish in late 19th–early 20th century art, literature, and philosophy. It reveals the tension between anguish and art, showing how historical events and new inquiries generated an anguish that proved uniquely fertile for artists.
A vital collection on intercultural practices in European health and education. Featuring cutting-edge research with diverse clients, it examines diversity, sources of tension, and paths to resilience and wellbeing.
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