The Fashion Industry and Eating Disorders
Slimness is often seen as a fundamental requirement in the fashion industry. This text investigates the excessive ideal of slimness and its dangers for industry representatives. Ensuring the health of the models, it argues, must be a fundamental aspect of the industry.
This book tackles legal analogical reasoning, critiquing traditional approaches. It advances a new account, drawing from psychology, that makes analogy’s unique properties understandable and reveals the scientific basis for the almost mystical faith in its power.
Art in Rome
This volume covers Rome’s major artistic and architectural masterpieces from antiquity to the present. Organized topographically by area and chronologically by period, it is an engaging and informative guide for students, scholars, and erudite travelers.
Humanity at the Heart of Practice
Healthcare is humans caring for other humans. This book on ethical decision-making uses humanity as its organizing structure, exploring values and theoretical ethics to resolve complex dilemmas at the beginning and end of life, and in healthcare as a business.
This volume gathers international, bilingual contributions on Metaphor and Translation. It explores themes from theory to literature and culture, offering useful conclusions on how metaphor is translated. An essential read for scholars, students, and professional translators.
This book explores modern polymeric composites and their applications in information technologies, such as polarization holography, light electro-optical modulators, polarization sensitive gratings, and photovoltaic elements.
This revelatory work argues that the Italian people did more for music than any other. It proves that the first written music, the great musical forms like the opera and symphony, the primary instruments, and the very vocabulary of music are all Italian in origin.
Relating the achievements of women dental professionals in the 100 years since (some) women first achieved the right to vote in the UK, this volume profiles women working in all aspects of dentistry during the period, and celebrates those who are a credit to their profession.
The Impact of Development on the Environment and Human Rights
Priya charts the developmental policies followed in India since independence and their impact on the environment and human rights. He also presents a view of how sustainable development in the country may be attained by focusing on three contemporary case studies.
Traditional doctrine finds limitations in doxastic dialectics—the exchange of opinions. This book affirms doxa’s cognitive autonomy, arguing that it opens conditions for an alternative truth and is the exclusive procedure for establishing the fundaments of axiology.
Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers
Classic Russian fiction was crucial to Virginia Woolf’s vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy’s suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly ‘modern’ writer.
Colonising Te Whanganui ā Tara and Marketing Wellington, 1840-1849
In the 1840s, the New Zealand Company used powerful images to lure English settlers to Wellington, a land already home to Māori. This book explores how these visuals were complicit in transferring Māori land into English ownership, investigating processes of redress and hope.
Reflections on Persian Grammar Vol. II
This collection is a survey of the historical development of Persian grammar. The contributions from distinguished scholars display their deep knowledge of the Persian language, its literature, and history to illustrate its major structural properties and parametric variations.
This collection by world-class Nigerian legal academics provides critical analyses of Nigerian law, with international comparisons. Covering the gamut from land and commercial to human rights law, it is exceedingly useful to legal practitioners, academics, and students.
This book is for everyone interested in the prevention and treatment of addiction. It applies research on the causes and cures of drug addiction using the author’s unique personality theory, analyzing 12 addict case studies. A timely read for dealing with the opioid crisis.
Education from a Whiteheadian Point of View
In this insightful and pertinent collection, the basic aims of contemporary thinking in education are critically analysed through the lens of Alfred North Whitehead’s (1861-1947) process-relational philosophy of education, as set forth in The Aims of Education and elsewhere.
Describing the Unobserved and Other Essays
The seven essays gathered in this volume are all concerned with the “unspeakable sentences” of fictional narration, using Unspeakable Essays (1982) as a theoretical framework for further exploration into linguistics, philosophy and the analysis of narrative and the novel.
This volume explores 20th- and 21st-century Italian experimental works that challenge the literary canon. It proposes that literary experimentation can break with tradition, giving literature the same freedom as other arts and allowing it to intersect with those art forms.
Educational Bilingualism
This book makes the case for “educational bilingualism,” challenging the outdated monolingual tradition. It proves that in our era of global migration, English is a key to innovative knowledge when integrated with a learner’s own language and cultural self-identity.
This book tackles the effects of co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders on offenders transitioning from incarceration. Offering an inside look at a community reentry program, it uncovers how these disorders jeopardize the transition back into society.