Learning Approaches
This book critically describes the major learning theories, from behaviorism to constructivism. It explores key research and its practical implications for the classroom, making it a valuable resource for teachers, educators, students, and researchers.
With soaring tuition and student debt, how did higher education get into this situation? This book explores how colleges became reliant on new revenue streams, asks who should be paying, and identifies key outcomes for the future of the academy.
Things Said For, Against, and About Beauty
A corrosive energy gnaws at Western culture. This book looks to 2500 years of history, showing the power of beauty to shape and enrich our civilization. It asks if today’s crises are rooted in the repression of beauty, and dares to suggest that “Beauty can save the world.”
This book analyzes the psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, presenting targeted interventions and a Resilience Model for professionals and caregivers. It offers practical strategies to address stress, foster well-being, and prepare for future pandemics.
Civil Disobedience in Contemporary Turkey
This book examines civil disobedience in Turkey, from the Saturday Mothers’ silent protests to environmental sit-ins. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, it explores the power of peaceful resistance, linking local struggles to the philosophies of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Contextual Confluence
This book explores the radical mutuality of media, literature, and culture. Through Black feminist ethics, postcolonial female visibility, and ecological reimaginings, it reveals literature as a living archive of resistance, reinvention, and reconciliation.
In an era of chaos and uncertainty generated by disinformation, social networks and artificial intelligence enhance post-truth. This book analyzes the evolution of the media system, how AI changes the communicative paradigm, and how it can be challenged by human intelligence.
This book charts Britain’s transition from the ancient to the medieval world by examining the changing concept of Nature. It explores this shift among both prominent thinkers and regular people, whose lives are interpreted through translated and examined Anglo-Saxon poetry.
Understanding Creativity
An artist and research scientist investigates how artists use their eyes and how brains mediate skill and creativity. He explores the science/art debate, the meaning of ‘insight’ and ‘inspiration’, and how these ideas relate to the realms of art, science and everyday life.
Constructed Environment for Tourism
This book explores sustainable tourism in Northeast India, an emerging destination at risk of overexploitation. It introduces the constructed environment: a forward-looking framework for investment and development that redefines sites as “perfect destinations” for all.
Nigerian Foreign Policy and Its Role in Africa’s Peacekeeping Landscape
This book critically examines Nigeria’s role as a dominant force in African diplomacy and its leadership in peacekeeping missions. It explores how Nigeria navigates conflict resolution and interrogates the political, economic, and strategic motivations behind its foreign policy.
Iconic movies offer insight into our culture, revealing what we value, fear, or hope to become. Does the rise of superheroes suggest Americans feel powerless? What does it mean that movies have gotten darker? Without data, it’s just speculation. This book uses data analytics.
A working manual for design and process engineers, this book offers analytical solutions and process optimization for impurity diffusion in silicon, gallium arsenide, and other semiconductor materials used in the fabrication of microelectronics devices and microsystems.
The Patrimony of the Religious Orders in Spanish American Colonial Cities
This book documents the historical and architectural patrimony of religious orders in Spanish American cities. It provides a visual record, historical information, and details on current use for specialists and a general audience.
Ocean Diffraction
This book maps Indigenous awareness onto Western science to address today’s environmental and equality issues. A way forward is provided in Ngaru Whenua Ocean Diffraction, a decolonised framework uniting the Māori wave pattern for navigation with the science of diffraction.
Bridging Theory and Practice in Translation Pedagogy
For translator trainers, this book presents the eDOcation approach, connecting theory with practice. It treats translation as discovery, where understanding emerges through doing, enhancing linguistic competence, confidence, and creative initiative.
Shifting Mindsets for Sustainable Development in Africa
Africa’s development crisis is not rooted in resources or policy, but in mindset. This book introduces the Ubuntu-Maat Mindset Model, a pioneering African framework for collective responsibility, and offers a roadmap to unlock the continent’s true potential from within.
Urban and Rural Life in Roman Sardinia
This work presents the history of ancient Sardinia not as a peripheral, poor island, but as a vast, populous, and fertile province deeply inserted in the Roman world. It demonstrates how Roman legacies profoundly influence the plural identity of today’s Sardinia.
American Diplomacy During the Gwangju Uprising
This study explores a failure of the Carter administration during South Korea’s 1980 Gwangju Uprising. As hundreds of citizens were murdered by the military, the US failed to intervene, instead pursuing trade deals and creating an unresolved diplomatic failure.
Collaboration, Exchange and Transformation in Literary and Cultural Practices
This collection of essays focuses on the transformational potential of intercultural conversations. Through respectful dialogue, we can resist narrow conceptions of history and identity, and instead forge new, exciting and transcendent modes of being.
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