Co-creating Actionable Science
This collection of essays provides insights into the challenges of collaborative, solutions-oriented research for sustainability. Probing how actionable science emerges in the global North and South, it offers valuable, empirically-based guidance for scholars and educators.
This collection of essays addresses pivotal problems about our planet’s environment and ecology. It highlights the inter-relation of science, philosophy, ethics, and religion, concluding with an ethical analysis of the overlapping challenges that require urgent attention.
The Lochsa Elk Herd
This volume records the history of an elk population that occupies boreal and coniferous forests. After major fires created millions of acres of new habitat, the herd expanded to levels unlikely to be reached again. Elk must be recognized as products of forest disturbance.
Language Assessment Literacy
This book addresses the prominent field of language assessment literacy (LAL). Bringing together 14 chapters by leading researchers, it presents high-quality studies that fill a long-standing theoretical and empirical gap for language research, teaching, and learning.
The Competitive Challenge of Emerging Markets
The rise of emerging economies like China and India has created a disruptive competitive challenge. This book examines their distinctive characteristics, the challenges of doing business, and the threat of emerging market multinationals as they aspire to surpass their rivals.
Botswana Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development
This book explores cultural heritage and sustainable tourism from an African perspective, using Botswana as a case study. It reconciles the demand to commodify heritage with the quest for its preservation, confronting the hard questions about its business, value, and future.
Humans are natural philosophizers. This book introduces a novel theory that we function at our best when confidence, motivation, familiarity, and expectation are at their peak. This provides a new key for understanding the universal economics of human behaviour.
This book collects essays on Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy, pointing to its relevance for our time. The essays highlight a range of issues to which process philosophy speaks, including aesthetics, the notion of life, political science, and neuroscience.
Aldo Capitini on Opposition and Liberation
Imprisoned as an anti-fascist, philosopher Aldo Capitini developed a civil rights movement between that of Martin Luther King and Gandhi. He championed nonviolence and social change from the bottom-up, proving that “today’s utopia can be tomorrow’s reality”.
Financial Accounting
For students, entrepreneurs & managers, this book explains financial accounting using a practical approach. It covers recording transactions with VAT, accounting controls like bank reconciliation, and final accounts for enterprises like sole traders, partnerships & companies.
Jesus, Paul and Matthew, Volume Two
This book argues against the scholarly trend that contrasts Jesus, Paul, and Matthew. It reveals their shared vision: Jesus replaced a ‘politics of holiness’ with a ‘politics of compassion,’ forming a fictive family of God’s children based on our potential to absorb the divine.
A New History of Tudor England
This book challenges the idea that Tudor England is a bygone era. It reveals how its educational and labor systems mirrored one another, marginalizing students, teachers, and workers. These legacies persist in the 21st century, calling for activism, resistance, and reform.
This collection of essays examines the contemporary crisis facing human rights. Bringing together academics and practitioners, it links austerity and the rise of the far-right to a crucial question: are human rights rights at all?
An Analysis of the Role of Cycling in Sustainable Urban Mobility
This book analyses why cycling is returning to cities to solve the crisis of the car-centric model. It argues that it is not possible to solve this crisis without giving a central role to the bicycle as a key part of any sustainable urban mobility project.
Populist Hearsay of 1939-45
Histories of WWII are often biased to justify a home nation. Britain claimed it “won the war” single-handedly; other countries have their own self-centered versions. This book confronts these nationalistic views and challenges accepted versions of traditional national histories.
A randomized vaccine trial in Senegal compared two high-titer measles vaccines with a standard one. Though initially promising, the high-titer vaccines were not safe, inducing an excess mortality. This book discusses the scientific, ethical, and political issues of the findings.
Industrial Labour and the Environment
This volume brings the history of the environment together with that of work, bridging a cultural divide. It explores how human work impacts ecosystems, from the fractures between workers and communities to the redevelopment of industrial areas.
Rituals in Interreligious Dialogue
Rituals are the treasure of religious memory, connecting us to the past and community. But what happens to rituals when different religions meet? This book takes them seriously, exploring the rich traditions of Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Christianity to find new possibilities.
This volume argues that key aspects of Old English poetry continued into Middle English romances like King Horn and Athelston. It reveals the surprising afterlife of Old English culture, uncovering unexpected links between Saracens, Vikings, and the Anglo-Saxon past.
Pediatric Cardiology
This book presents a unique historical perspective on pediatric cardiology, charting 50 years of evolution in the field. It describes the development of new knowledge and patient care, focusing on advances made in the management of congenital heart defects.
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