Paradigm War
This book explores 19th-century Europe’s piano pedagogy, a “paradigm war” between mechanism and holism. It shows how Robert Schumann’s revolutionary music and ideas resolved this conflict, creating a foundation for artistic piano pedagogy for our time.
Tally offers an inspiring perspective on representations of a new kind of female character who first appeared on US TV in the mid-2000s, the anti-heroine. She studies several TV women and shows, like Homeland, Weeds and Scandal, to show the dominance of the anti-heroine on US TV.
This book explores representation, transmission and circulation of memory, and how personal and collective memory shapes meanings, values, attitudes and identities. Its focus is on memory as malleable patterns and strategies that highlight the unity of memory and its diversity.
This book highlights the immense contribution of traditional medicine to the discovery of modern drugs. It inspires experts to explore traditional flora and younger investigators to find novel molecules, making it invaluable to scientists, researchers, and students alike.
The Christian Slaves of Depok
In 1714, Dutch official Cornelis Chastelein freed his slaves, bequeathing them his estate to create a Christian community. But this dream unraveled. Caught between worlds, they were excluded by the Dutch and labeled “black Hollanders” by Indonesians. A tale of survival.
A comprehensive guide to vitamins, related minerals, and their role in disease. Learn the fundamentals, from absorption to toxicity, and discover their mechanism of action in conditions like autoimmune diseases and aging. An essential guide for health professionals and students.
This distinctive dictionary of Persian grammar features entries with a thorough linguistic analysis and literary usage. A valuable three-tiered compilation, it meets the needs of both instructors and students of Persian language and linguistics.
Computational Modeling by Case Study
Mathematical models power the modern world, but they are all uncertain. This book provides techniques to quantify uncertainty, allowing you to predict and design with confidence. Learn through case studies and reproducible examples in Python adapted for your own problems.
Contemporary Practices in Bio-art
This book explores Dendro-art, a new subdivision of Bio-art focused on the human-plant relationship and recreating vanished species. The author, an artist with academic training, offers a unique perspective, examining the works of bio-artists from both the inside and out.
Explorations of Traditional Chinese Medicine
The first book to use modern scientific principles to explore Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It reveals how quantum mechanics can explain the integration of body, mind, and consciousness, and how TCM can work with Western medicine to shape the future of human health.
Combining philosophy, science, and literature, Toliver examines lingering misconceptions of world history as a continuing source of international tension, showing beliefs incompatible with natural history continue to intensify nationalism and support terrorist movements.
The essays here investigate the reasons why India has fared better than other emerging market economies, and discuss whether other countries can take inspiration from this model and rebuild their own countries based on their national resources and cultural heritage.
Shadows of Being
This book studies shadows as symbolic forms, connecting their meaning in philosophy and art with their role in modern science. It considers topics from Ancient Greece to contemporary virtual reality and the internet as our parallel “shadow world.”
Thomas brings together the oral histories of those who have lived in the Mexican State of Sonora and the corresponding territory in the US, using these voices to paint the revolution in economics, culture, and drug trade that the area has witnessed in gripping, personal terms.
Understanding Meaning and World
Chakraborty explores the internalism/externalism debate inherent in ontology and semantics from the viewpoint of phenomenology. His approach is distinctive in the sense that it formulates a reconciliation between both sides by inventing an internalistic-externalism view.
Community Practices in India
This ground-breaking collaboration by Indian practitioners and academics presents indigenous knowledge in community organizing. Through case studies of social justice for marginalized communities, it captures locally relevant approaches and engages readers in critical reflection.
The Christian Message as Vision and Mission
In our digital age, does the Christian message of love, hope and redemption still have relevance? The message is a way of life with a vision for humanity. This book provides philosophical considerations to establish points of encounter for believers and their critics.
This collection discusses key field-based studies in cultural anthropology and places them in dialogue with related studies in social history, linguistics and philosophy, among others. It engages a critical dialogue with past and present directions in cultural-historical studies.
Culture-blind Shakespeare
This collection of essays offers a plethora of responses to Shakespeare by both Western and Eastern critics, indicating that the Bard crosses all nationalities and deserves to be defined as a global writer.
Images and Human Rights
This collection covers issues of creation, distribution, and control of images, questioning its impact on human rights and its ethical implications. It explains how human rights issues take advantage of visual methodologies and how the visual publically communicates these.