Explore the Symbolist movement’s profound, interdisciplinary impact on 20th-century culture. These essays trace its evolution across Europe, highlighting the foundational role of French art and literature.
This easy-to-follow guide offers a state-of-the-art approach to optimization methods for academics and industrial engineers. It provides a comprehensive study with directly implementable Matlab code, suited to readers even without a programming background.
Purgatory between Kentucky and Canada
In the purgatory between Kentucky and Canada, ordinary African Americans in Ohio fought to create a space of peace. These histories reveal how individuals in the 19th and 20th centuries used social networks to secure education, voting rights, and liberty.
This book analyses assisted death through biopolitics, considering the inescapable legacy of the Holocaust and Nazi eugenics. It searches for a form of resistance that does not exclude marginalized groups, moving the discussion on assisted death in new directions.
The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess
Essays trace the multiplicity of Asian goddesses as symbols of wisdom, power, transformation, and creation. This volume draws from Indian, Nepali, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese traditions, a scope seldom found in other works.
Language Planning and Policy
This volume offers cross-cultural perspectives on language planning and policy in diverse African and Middle Eastern contexts, including the diaspora in Brazil. It inspects the intersection between language policy and its social, political, and educational functions.
Experimental Geographical Ecology
This book on experimental landscape ecology provides statistical models to understand landscape systems. It presents methods for making ecological forecasts, assessing forest sustainability, and estimating carbon cycle regulation according to modern climate change scenarios.
Orthodox Mysticism and Asceticism
This volume explores the cultural, social and ethical dimensions of St Gregory Palamas’ works, relating his mystical theology to contemporary debates in philosophy, politics, and art. Topics include church-state relations and hesychast influences on Byzantine iconography.
This introductory text helps physiotherapists integrate research evidence into their practice. It bridges the gap for those lost in the language of research, offering a platform to develop an understanding of critical appraisal and gain confidence.
Ethics is not just ‘being good’, but living a ‘good life’. This book highlights that being good is a matter of acting good—of performing certain roles and duties. It explores this relationship between ethics and performance from natality to fatality.
This book explores the spirit of Mesoamerican civilization from pre-history to the 20th century, interpreting its architectural legacy—from symbolic public plazas to the eloquent mural paintings that served as a powerful medium for cultural interaction.
This volume presents research merging classical measurement theory with modern data science. Discover novel methods for superior measurement design, robust data evaluation, and efficient instrumentation implementations.
Psychotherapy of the Future
Transpersonal psychotherapy is a heroic journey beyond appearances to free yourself from your personal history and drink from the source of being. It is a path of awareness, acceptance, and self-knowledge. Through 15 questions, this book explores this approach in a thorough way.
How can we build a better society? This book applies insights from philosophy, religion, and social science to offer practical reforms for our core institutions, from government to the economy. A call to action for every big-picture thinker.
Regulating Freedom of Religion
International human rights declarations empowered religious communities, making them powerful social and political actors. This book investigates the rulings that shaped these rights, exploring the paradox of religion’s power in a secular, globalizing world.
Book Illustration in the Long Eighteenth Century
Book illustration has entered mainstream scholarship. This collection is the first step in reconfiguring the visual periphery of eighteenth-century texts, offering a multifaceted approach to a society immersed in visual culture and communication.
Leading international scholars examine the uneasy relationship between the Muslim world and the West in the context of the ‘war on terror’. This volume deals with Islamism, militancy, and the vicious cycle of mutual insecurity through theory and case studies.
Latin American Marxisms in Context
In Latin America, governments and popular mobilizations have challenged neoliberalism, sparking a revival of Marxist perspectives. This book provides an insight into the rich diversity of Latin American Marxism, appealing to all interested in the region’s radicalism.
The Contribution of Cornelio Fabro to Fundamental Theology
Explore faith’s metaphysical and existential roots through the dynamic Thomism of Cornelio Fabro. This dialogue with Kierkegaard and modern thought affirms the human being’s essential openness to the Absolute.
Why Slavery Endures
Slavery, seemingly abolished in the nineteenth century, was never eradicated. With an estimated 21 to 46 million slaves today, its legacy endures. These essays critically examine the historical roots of slavery, the issue of reparations, and contemporary human trafficking.
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