An Exploration of Educational Trends (V2)
This textbook of articles and essays encourages and assists educational professionals in cultural awareness, diversity, and international studies. It can be used as a main textbook or supplemental reading for educators, administrators, and students from diverse disciplines.
The Prophets and the Goddess
Psilopoulos discusses how W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound and Robert Graves had access to the forbidden knowledge of the Goddess. These four poets experienced a confrontation with their unconscious and let the grace of the Goddess touch their heart strings.
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.
Performance Analysis
This collection of essays explores the connections between music theory, interpretation, and performance. It delves into performance studies—focusing on gesture, bodily movement, and emotion—and addresses artistic practices in the 21st century.
Teilhard’s Proposition for Peace
Teilhard de Chardin sowed the seeds of peace throughout his writings. This book distills the essence of his case for peace, navigating the complexity of his thought and inviting the reader to confidently “see” the basic unity which underlies all that is.
Indian Agriculture
Population explosions have always pushed India into deep-rooted socio-economic bottlenecks. Nookathoti highlights the causes of and solutions to the prevalence of hunger at the grassroots level, analysing the supply-side background behind the accomplishment of food security.
The Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook 2015 analyses contemporary world events with special attention to values. It explores the year’s economic, political and cultural tensions—from austerity to migration—through the core notions of space, time and value.
Chen extensively scrutinises visible and under-the-table power struggles with regards to aspects of communities, connections, cultures, and communication related to Chinese language teaching in US higher education in the past two decades.
Diversity in Australia’s Music
This volume showcases the rich diversity of music in Australia from colonial times to the present. Starting with an overview of developments during the past 50 years, the contributions discuss both Western and non-western genres and the history of music-making in the country.
The Literary Reagan
This collection of authentic quotations reveals the inner Ronald Reagan. Based on his own writings and letters—not a speechwriter’s—it gathers over 1,500 quotes on everything from the Cold War and the power of government to personal humor, toasts, and even wine.
This anthology studies the subject of islands, their essence and identity, their isolation and their relationships in the Ancient world. It researches Greek and Roman concepts of insularity, and their consequences for the political, economic and social life of the Empire.
The Philosophical Roots of the Ecological Crisis
The roots of the ecological crisis are traced to the thought of René Descartes, father of modern philosophy. His worldview established a dangerous legacy: a human-centered, mechanistic conception of nature and a sharp dualism between humanity and the physical world.
The orphan has turned out to be an extraordinarily versatile literary figure. By juxtaposing diverse fictional representations of orphans, this volume sheds light on the development of cultural concepts such as childhood, family, parental legacy, individualism, and charity.
O’Connor investigates the first time that Ireland, with an autonomous legislative parliament, met with large inward migration in the modern era. She explains the history of Ireland’s policy and public opinion toward inward migration and the treatment of migration today.
The English Reformation Revisited
Salvato puts forward a comparative study of two Church Communities, specifically the Anglican Communion and the Universal Catholic Church. He investigates what caused the Church in England to break away from the Catholic Church, and focuses on the influence of English law.
This collection of articles utilises thematic orientations, methodological approaches and data materials to give an insight into the opportunities and challenges that exist for education in society, in relation to the growing cultural and linguistic complexity prevalent today.
Electronics and Microprocessing for Research
This accompanying textbook for a beginners’ course in microprocessing explains introductory electronics, programming, microprocessing, and data collection techniques to allow students to start designing and building their own instruments for research projects.
This collection of essays explores educational issues from various disciplines, including Business Economics, Linguistics, Education, and History. Topics range from urban theory and bilingualism to Socratic teaching techniques. Essential for educators, researchers, and students.
This publication is composed of several articles that explore complexity in its most varied aspects. The solution of contemporary problems, whatever they may be, requires a multifaceted vision, far beyond the reductionist perspective.
The Future of Post-Human History
Are those who cannot remember the past condemned to repeat it, or is history written by the victor? This book rejects these opposing views, offering a new theory to understand history in the context of universality and relativity.