This volume explores Socratic rationalism, the major alternatives to it within political philosophy, and the potential impact of its return in contemporary times. It takes a multifaceted approach with contributions from scholars in the fields of philosophy and political science.
The first dictionary on education and assessment for translator and interpreter training. It offers in-depth knowledge, defining key terms on how to train and assess performance. A valuable resource for researchers, educators, practitioners, and students.
For the first time in English, this volume presents three decades of research on Bol’shoy Yakor’ I, a key Late Pleistocene site in Eastern Siberia. Through detailed study of lithic production and hunting, it reveals the seasonal cycles of prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
Opéra-Comique
Opéra-comique, a French genre not always comic in nature—the most famous example, Bizet’s Carmen, is a tragedy—reflected the cultural life of France. This sourcebook details its forgotten composers and operas, providing a way into a changing age.
African Intellectuals and the State of the Continent
This festschrift honors distinguished scholar and Pan-Africanist Sulayman S. Nyang. His contributions to African affairs transcend academia, with a career as a diplomat and consultant to the UN, while publishing copiously on issues affecting Africans and the Diaspora.
Global Discourse in Fractured Times
This engaging, thought-provoking, and informative international volume addresses contemporary issues in communication and media. It is an essential resource for researchers, media professionals, and students in communication, cultural studies, and related subjects.
Representing papers delivered at the EURAU2014 Istanbul “Composite Cities” Conference, this text addresses the importance of research on the complexity of today’s cities, while also shedding light on new models of urbanism discussed together with new decision-making actors.
This book applies Hegel’s Absolute Idealism to Christian orthodox confession, showing his system is grounded in the Trinity and Incarnation. Tracing philosophy from Aristotle to Hegel, it addresses revelation, creation, sacraments, and ecumenism, revealing philosophy as worship.
This volume illustrates the diversity of approaches in linguistics, led by two main chapters from scholars Hans Basbøll and Stig Eliasson. Other contributions explore topics from metaphor, syntax, and language learning to the interface between language and logic.
This definitive guide to the Korean National Standards presents a four-level curriculum for high schools and colleges, complete with assessment guidelines adapted from the ACTFL’s renowned 5Cs framework.
New Trends in Foreign Language Teaching
Language teaching approaches, methods and procedures are constantly undergoing reassessment. This publication discusses the latest developments in the field and emerging patterns in the foreign language classroom.
This compendium offers updated accounts of Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe, and explores most of the dominant themes in contemporary Pentecostalism, including leadership, competition, gender, youth and prosperity.
The Process of Politicization
While envisioning a completely depoliticised society requires a big leap of imagination, there can still be doubts as to the degree to which modern societies may be politicised in different dimensions. This book addresses this issue using several examples from modern history.
Rethinking Social Capital
The essays here offer reflections and case studies from all over the world. They step out of well-known paths of discourse and discuss the phenomenon of social capital in manifold ways and from new perspectives, with a particular focus on its practical application.
With contributions from Bulgaria, Croatia, Indonesia, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, and the USA, this text provides significant theoretical and empirical studies of various aspects of hospitality and tourism from the perspectives of both tradition and innovation
Human Rights and Citizenship Education
This volume examines different conceptualizations of human rights, citizenship and interculturalism, as well as their inter-relationships in various national contexts. It also explores the theoretical and practical bases on which teaching of these concepts should be grounded.
The muon is vital to particle, nuclear, and atomic physics, and a key component of the Standard Model. Muonic processes provide crucial information on the weak interaction. This book explores the various aspects of muon physics, highlighting the most recent experiments conducted.
This book presents research on optical filters for communication systems. These devices are designed and optimized to accurately filter channels from multiplexed optical signals through wavelength tenability, produced via thermo-optic, electro-optic, and strain effects.
These articles offer invaluable insights into the results of different interactions between “Romans” and Others. They cover a huge geographical area, from Britain, across Europe to the Near East, and provide information on the Roman Empire as seen through the eyes of foreigners.
Chronology and Evolution within the Mesolithic of North-West Europe
These proceedings focus on the contribution of carbon-14 dates to Mesolithic research in North-West Europe. 40 papers cover themes like lithic industries, settlement patterns, burial practices, human impact on the environment, and neolithisation.