From Education to Life
This book argues that education is more than attending school or acquiring skills. Its greatest challenge and purpose come from life itself. Education is a lifelong process of preparing us to live a more fulfilled life. A beneficial and engaging read for all educators.
How to Get a Paper Published in Academic Journals
This book provides a step-by-step guide to the thinking, writing, and polishing of a paper. It pinpoints what journals look for and covers common mistakes in data analysis and writing and how to rectify them. For students and those new to publishing, this book is invaluable.
Nurses’ Extraordinary Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In their own words, nurses share the joys, sorrows, and grief of caring for dying COVID-19 patients. Often the only ones in the room, they went above and beyond their role, all while fearing they would bring the deadly virus home to their families.
This hands-on guide shows HR practitioners and researchers how to apply the Shannon diversity index to measure workplace diversity. With practical examples, it also illustrates how regression methods can assess the factors that influence age, ethnic, and gender diversity.
Chance or Providence
Originating from the 2013 conference of the Science and Religion Forum, this volume responds to a number of critical questions concerning the possibility of providence, and offers contributions from both scientists and theologians.
Private Instincts and Public Ideals
How do you choose a school? Most guides focus only on your child’s success. This collection of essays features parents who also consider the flourishing of others, equal opportunity, and diverse schools. Their stories will challenge and enrich your own parenting journey.
Artificial intelligence is the most disruptive technology today. This volume explores the problems of ethical AI and the prospects of human-like intelligence, with a broad spectrum of approaches from ethics, economics, defense studies, computer science, and philosophy.
This book explores the unique medical heritage of Portugal’s National Palace of Mafra, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It presents innovative studies on its collection of medical texts and items, covering topics from Paracelsan alchemy to the lives of 18th-century physicians.
Solar PV power is intermittent. This book provides an understanding of this variability and its impacts on power systems. It explores the sources of intermittency, from solar irradiation to dust, and the consequences for power system design and operation.
A History of Police Reform in England and Wales
This comprehensive history of police reform charts its evolution from the 18th century to today. The first study of its kind, it explores the key reforms that shaped the modern police service, revealing their enduring legacies and their underlying flaws.
This book explores strategic management with a focus on innovative business models and the new economy. It covers the principles of the sharing, circular, and networked economies for academics, students, and business practitioners seeking to transform their organisations.
Written by distinguished researchers, coaches, and athletes, this volume of innovative research informs sports theory and practice. It provides historical perspectives, contemporary analyses, and unique insights from case studies to help readers develop best practices.
Modern and Contemporary Taiwanese Philosophy
As mainland China rejected its philosophical heritage, Taiwanese thinkers did more than preserve it—they reinvented it. Engaging with Western thought, they forged complex new systems, creating a vital 20th-century legacy still largely unknown in the West.
Planar Trusses
This book contains 73 schemes of trusses, with solutions for many not widely published. It identifies trusses with hidden dangerous properties and provides compact formulas for engineers and theorists to supplement numerical calculations, especially for complex structures.
An Exploration of Prehistoric Ontologies in the Bering Strait Region
This book introduces the belief and symbolism in prehistoric Bering Strait art. It challenges traditional archaeology by reconsidering the relationship between materiality and spirituality, analyzing therianthropic motifs on ancient Inuit ivories to explore potential shamanism.
The Rose and Irish Identity
This collection of essays explores the exchange between Ireland and the Pacific Northwest using the rose—its petals and thorns—as a guide. Historians and writers examine overlooked aspects of colonialism, from biased courts and organized resistance to grief and poetry.
From the late 16th century until their expulsion in 1767, Jesuits played a pivotal role in Spanish America. Their missions stretched from northern Mexico to South America, leaving a rich historical and architectural heritage. This volume outlines their development and legacy.
Christian Forgery in Jewish Antiquities
Josephus’s history has long been considered extra-biblical proof of Jesus, James, and John the Baptist. Based on the latest research, this book sets out the final proof that, apart from the New Testament, there is no valid record of their historical existence.
Mind in Nature
This collection of essays by leading scholars bridges Neo-Platonism and Process Philosophy. It explores shared topics like creativity, temporality, and holism, concurring on an integral worldview where wholeness and complexity are prevalent in Nature, science, and metaphysics.
Art as “Night”
Art as “Night” proposes a type of dark, a-historical knowledge crossing painting from Velázquez to Richter and Kiefer. It argues for a non-discursive form of intellection embodied in the work of art—a pure visual and moral agency lost since the Baroque era.
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