What is open-mindedness and how does it square with personal commitments? This issue is particularly acute when it comes to religious belief, where it can sound like doubt. This collection of essays explores this virtue and its role in the philosophy of religion.
Currencies and Cultures
A symbiotic relationship exists between a currency and its culture and society. Currencies and Cultures offers insights into how cultural institutions can strengthen citizens’ values and beliefs and enhance the process of trade and exchange for the betterment of their people.
Variation is a universal phenomenon permeating language, culture, and worldviews. This book analyses variations in folklore and language—from myths and motifs to dancing and singing—as signifiers of culture, exploring issues of creativity, intertextuality, and transmediality.
English Learning Maximisation System
In response to student complaints of “not learning anything,” this book presents a new philosophy: the English Learning Maximisation System (ELMS). This theory helps teachers boost learning by engaging students cognitively and behaviourally from a student’s perspective.
The Book of Angels
Explore our deep fascination with angels. This illustrated book examines their depiction in art, scripture, and mystical writings across world religions. Discover the visual clues, artistic conventions, and celestial hierarchies that define these vibrant and energised beings.
Disability in Spanish-speaking and U.S. Chicano Contexts
Covering the period from the seventeenth century to the contemporary era, diverse geographic areas, and multiple artistic genres, this eclectic collection of academic essays, creative writing, and mixed media photo-images focuses on myriad representations of disability.
Preventing Radicalisation and Terrorism in Europe
This book compares the counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation policies of Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It offers a critical assessment of their strengths and weaknesses, identifying evolutionary lines and proposing a series of recommendations.
Piety in a Niqab
Women’s lives in black may seem primitive and subordinated. However, as this book shows, the women themselves tell a different story. They build their identities on the Qur’an and sunnah, achieving peace, happiness in this world, and salvation in the afterlife.
Israel from the Outside and Inside
Exploring Israel’s relations with its friends and foes, in the present and the past, by looking into news media outlets and their effect, this study will appeal to those interested in the fascinating sociological forces that influence the regional geopolitics of the Middle East.
Developments in Management Science in Engineering 2017
This book identifies the main research categories of Management Science in Engineering (MSE), and evaluates and classifies each MSE journal. It is ideal for scientists, researchers, practitioners, engineers, and graduate students in various engineering fields.
Exploring business ethics through history, philosophy, and biology, this book addresses today’s key concerns, from wealth inequality to sustainability. It is an invitation to make the world a better place by engaging in ethical thought.
Social network analysis is a methodological tool used to investigate collections of individuals and their shared relationships. The book provides an overview of the tool’s growing body of research in sport, and details practical guidance for its application.
This collection of essays addresses the absence of African voices in global bioethics. It explores issues from medical research and traditional medicine to reproductive health, showing how universal bioethics can be firmly anchored in local, continental realities.
Vanishing Voices
This first study bringing together Hopkins, Eliot, and Thomas explores silence in their poetry. Situated at the crossroads of poetics, philosophy, and theology, it shows how the poets sought a new language to talk about the Ineffable God and one’s experience of the divine.
Science, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Language Change
This Festschrift honours the work of David Banks. The volume includes papers in the three main fields in which he has published: scientific writing, language change and systemic functional linguistics.
Memory, Place and Autobiography
In autobiographical film, the filmmaker—as maker and subject—acts as a cultural guide. This book explores how memory is evoked through hybrid strategies like fictional enactment, and charts the history of British independent filmmaking from the 1970s to the age of new media.
This book examines the complex relationship between learning, education, and community. Using Slovenian studies with global relevance, it offers a unique perspective shaped by the historical European experience of attempting collective unity in former Yugoslavia.
Psychology for a Better World
This anthology from World without Anger (WWA) promotes peace. Peer-reviewed papers from an international conference reflect diverse, multidisciplinary perspectives on anger management, emotional intelligence, and cultural harmony.
This first comprehensive volume explores the concept of the ‘home front’ in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Crossing borders between history, social sciences, and religious studies, it investigates the impact of war on the social and religious spheres of civilian communities.
In 1854, Franz von Suppé wrote music for a play that accompanies the action like a film score. While the music works today, the 19th-century German script does not. This book details the challenge of adapting the text for a modern audience while keeping Suppé’s score intact.