This book uses a database of over 1,800 vessels to identify patterns in Paestan red-figure pottery. By analysing vessel shapes, popular scenes, and consumer preferences, it provides new insights into how ancient populations of South-West Italy commemorated the dead.
These thirteen short stories from great writers help us see the world in new, exciting ways. The book integrates literary competence, communicative competence, and critical thinking skills, equipping the reader to read, write, and communicate more effectively.
The edTPA Assessment for Special Education Pre-Service Teachers
This book assists the Special Education pre-service teacher in preparing a successful edTPA portfolio, a requirement for teacher certification in most states. It provides detailed guidance, best practices, and proven strategies for creating a high-quality portfolio.
With fossil fuels depleting, reliable and eco-friendly energy is essential. This book discusses renewable resources like wind and solar power, comparing them to non-renewable sources with data from case studies and exploring their advantages over conventional energy.
This volume assists educational professionals in disciplines from preschool to higher education, leadership, and multicultural studies. An excellent resource for university coursework, this text is of particular interest to educators, administrators, psychologists, and students.
This volume offers insights into warfare, diplomacy, and peacemaking on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. The essays emphasize both violent conflict and the brokering of allegiances, from Muslim warlords serving Christian rulers to merchants coping with pirates.
This book links sustainable development to preserving public goods, creating a corporate responsibility for their maintenance. Successful delivery depends on a positive relationship between the public and private sectors, and this book closes that gap with common methodologies.
Best known as the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson was also a novelist, painter, and cartoonist. This collection of essays by leading scholars discusses her children’s fiction alongside her adult writing and visual art, revealing an extraordinary artist.
Imaging diagnostics is an indispensable element of physiotherapy. This volume addresses the global lack of comprehensive studies on its use in the physiotherapy process, contributing to a more complete patient assessment and forming the basis for a new diagnostic standard.
Answering questions like “Will I ever use this?,” this book shows why learning is most effective through experience. It provides the tools needed to make better use of experiences to improve teaching and learning.
Straddling various genres, this collection offers an investigation of the conflicting relationship between identity and borders in the contemporary globalized world.
Ethical Infrastructure
Explore the unique and under-researched area of ethical infrastructures. This book analyzes their impact on the moral behaviour of managers, showing how to institutionalize ethics within organizations and stimulating a deeper understanding of this vital concept.
Perspectives on Ecocriticism
This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference “Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”. The chapters engage with topics such as the Anthropocene, sustainability, and civilizational critique, as well as dark ecology and animal studies.
This book introduces the biology and history of cocoa. It describes how cocoa can be grown in an environmentally sound way to increase production on existing farms, reduce incursion into forests, restore biodiversity, and improve the livelihoods of millions of farming families.
Genealogy and Social History
With millions of historical documents now digitally available, this volume presents historically contextualized family case studies as a lens to enrich the reader’s understanding of the past.
US Policy toward Chile in the 1970s
This book analyzes the bureaucratic politics of US foreign policy toward Chile during the 1970s. Based on original interviews with key officials and extensive archival research, it recreates internal debates in Washington and assesses the impact of US influence on Chile.
This book shows how Geographic Information Systems unveil territorial injustice: the disproportionately higher exposure of vulnerable communities to pollution. Using case studies from ten Latin American countries, it demonstrates how law and GIS can build fairer public policies.
The History of Experimental Psychology’s Subjects
The history of psychology often overlooks its subjects. This book explores the human side of iconic subjects who either defined an experiment or rebelled against it, from amnesiac H.M. and Little Albert to the defiant Subject #6 in Solomon Asch’s conformity experiments.
Regaining Classical Music’s Relevance
Why is classical music struggling in the West? John Borstlap explores its relevance in a troubled modern world, confronting questions of elitism and adaptation. This book reveals a surprising relationship between music and the mind, offering solutions to affirm the art form.
Death is the limit of life. This book argues that only by living within this limit can we be truly free, loving, and compassionate. It explores death as life’s paradox to test what it means to exist, overcoming the divide between philosophy and theology.
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