Systemics helps us navigate our increasingly complex world. This book provides an easy-to-read introduction to this new science for students and professionals, covering everything from basic concepts and systems thinking to modeling and organizational transformation.
Politics, Poetics, Affect
This book re-visions the life and work of Peruvian poet César Vallejo. Ten essays are grouped into sections on Politics, Poetics and Affect, exploring his rivalry with Neruda, the role of the human body in his work, and his lasting influence.
Safety Management for the City Gas Industry
City gas provides great convenience but also poses dangers. This book discusses safety issues from a management perspective, sorting out important Chinese laws and summarising practices and experiences to benefit professionals across the globe.
via media philosophy
This book records the first formal philosophical conversations between Wesleyan and Roman Catholic voices. Inspired by Pope John Paul II’s call for dialogue, it builds bridges between the two communities, seeking a via media to a holy relationship unto truth.
This book explores the p53 protein’s role in malignant hematologic diseases, impacting clinical management. It focuses on Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia’s progression to Richter Syndrome, where mutations lead to low survival and non-response to chemotherapy.
The Lost Gospel
Religion was a key factor for US Blacks integrating into 19th-century Canada. Protestant churches were crucial in their transition to freedom, fostering education, developing Black leadership, and guiding assimilation into their new host society.
New technologies and emerging human roles have become key resources in language learning. This book offers research from different authors assessing the potential of these resources for an optimum learning experience.
CoMa 2013
This book offers a wide variety of subjects on preserving image collections. It covers theoretical questions of value, collection management, scientific research, and digitization, providing a base for anyone dealing with photographs to ensure their long-term preservation.
Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education
This book investigates language maintenance among second-generation Albanian and Egyptian migrant pupils in Athens. It explores how ethnolinguistic vitality, family attitudes, and the Greek school system influence whether children remain bilingual.
Concerning Peace
Is utopian peace a failed ideal, or an omnipresent reality? This collection of essays investigates these questions through concrete examples from metaphysics, politics, history, and culture. For anyone who refuses to accept the world as it is.
Languaging Diversity Volume 2
This collection explores the relationship between language and identity from various perspectives. The chapters deal with such issues as professional, cultural, ethnic and social identities and national stereotypes in language practice and discourse.
Christ Among Them
This essay newly interprets the rise of the individual in Italy, 1180-1300. As the idea of a tangible Christ as neighbor became consistent, worship became a form of individualism, a Christian praxis that shaped the later Renaissance and Reformation.
Mutual (In)Comprehensions
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.
Hegel
This revisionist reading of Hegel’s essay, Faith and Knowledge, argues his critique of predecessors was no misreading. As a philosophical latecomer, Hegel appropriated the thought of his precursors with an eye toward overcoming them.
In a time of stagnating markets, resolving economic crises requires new solutions. This volume shows how stability is related to clustering, exploring the formation of modern economic clusters, their advantages and negative aspects, and the contradictions of the phenomenon.
This book studies how conflicts, changes, and ideologies appear in Hispanic discourse. It analyzes how ideological shifts of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries are reflected in the language, literature, and culture of Spain and Latin America.
American English(es)
American English is plural, shaped by diverse ethnic groups. Using multiple points of view, this book tackles key language debates: minority vs hegemonic varieties, the Spanish vs English controversy, and the increasing exposure of slang in public contexts.
At heart, this is a tale of humanity’s poignant relationship with nature. Told in illustrated vignettes, it explores the role of plants in love, murder, and the rise and fall of empires, selecting moments from history and science that amaze, shock, or move us to disbelief.
South Asian Migration
This volume provides insights into international migration, diaspora engagement, and remittances in South Asia. It analyses the implications for development, focusing on “Remittance-Induced Development” and “Diaspora-Induced Development.”
Goethe’s Faust I
This book tracks the creative process of Heinz-Uwe Haus’s adaptation of Goethe’s Faust and his question of how Goethe’s Faust is relevant today. It unites comments from stage and costume designers as they bring their own understanding of the audience to bear on the play.