Before Shakespeare, prefigurement and echo were not unknown. But the vast echoism—continuing forward and backward references—utilized in his tragedies was rare. Through metaphoric resonance, he revealed meanings lost without it. Who, even now, does this?
This book examines Western thought on technology through seven paradigm-shifting eras. It argues that we have failed to learn from the past, allowing technology to take control of our lives. But we can free ourselves by humanizing technology so that humans are in control.
Chinese Immigration in Latin America
This book explores the social and cultural relationship between Latin America and China, focusing on the challenges of Chinese immigration to countries like Costa Rica, Argentina, and Mexico.
This collection of essays explores the under-discussed role of higher education in the professionalization of adult educators. It examines how universities deliver skills, validate competences, and engage in the dialogue shaping the future of adult education policies.
This volume assembles John Glucker’s essays on Plato and Cicero for the first time. The articles deal with interpretations of their philosophical works and their influence on Western thought, and will be of interest to both scholars and laymen with a background in the classics.
Where does inspiration come from? Is it the end result of hard work, or is it serendipitous? Leading scientific and theological practitioners explore this question, seeking convergence between two areas of human discourse often believed to be opposed.
Reporting Conflicts, Humanitarian Crises and Peace Processes
This book analyses media coverage of humanitarian crises, conflicts, and peace processes in the Horn of Africa, focusing on Kenya, Sudan, and South Sudan. Using a new Four-Part Framework, it offers important recommendations applicable to similar situations in other locations.
Does evolution make faith superfluous? While evolution makes sense of all life, doesn’t this demolish the claim that God created the universe? This book explores a God who embraces that universe with love, not interference, and a faith that calls us to urgently needed restraint.
Reading Old English Riddles
The riddles of the Exeter Book are designed to intrigue, baffle, and entertain. Ranging from the learned to the vulgar, the devotional to the existential, they are a powerful part of the Old English poetic tradition. This book presents them in modern English verse translations.
From Ottoman to Turk
This work focuses on the factors that were responsible for the collapse and downfall of the Ottoman Empire. It explores how its society and politics led to the paradigm shift giving rise to the making of the Turkish Republic which emerged out of the empire’s ashes.
The crises of the Anthropocene pressure us to rethink education. This volume responds to these challenges, casting fresh light on contemporary research methodologies fit for the future, exploring post-qualitative inquiry, arts-based methods, and co-design with teachers.
The Napa Valley Wine Industry
This book tells the story of how Napa became a pre-eminent site for iconic wines in a short space of time. After early struggles, a 1960s re-emergence fostered a collective commitment to quality, building a brand that would be identified as amongst the best in the world.
We don’t see reality as it is. Instead, your brain uses experience to create a story—your private narrative. This book shows how this narrative enables humans to anticipate the future, engage in complex thought, and communicate, providing a new way of viewing human experience.
Bruce Springsteen’s America
Moving from jargon-free critical analysis to a fan’s passionate participatory research, this book places work and class at the centre of Bruce Springsteen’s oeuvre. It presents him as the bard of the downtrodden and is testament to the life-giving power of rock and roll.
Exploring gentrification in heterotopic post-industrial urban spaces, these studies illustrate, empirically, the extent to which advertising adsensory technologies have become integral to the gentrification of post-industrial urban spaces.
This book explores what it means to re-assert an African identity to counter neo-colonialism. Drawing on Pan-Africanism and the spirit of Ubuntu, it revisits the dream of an African rebirth to inspire youth to build a better life on the continent.
This book examines important issues in tort and free speech, including asset freezing orders, contributory negligence, robotic speech, disinformation, and social media platform censorship.
Health Disparities and the Ancestral Environment
Health disparities among people of African descent have deep evolutionary roots. This book reveals how genetic adaptations that once protected against deadly infections in Africa now increase susceptibility to chronic diseases in North America.
Searching for the Limits of Human Physical Performance
What limits how fast we can run or how long we can row, cycle, or swim without tiring? Exercise fatigue is a common feeling, but its cause remains a mystery. This book examines the historical quest to understand it through the researchers who led the search for answers.
The Quest
This volume describes the story of Troy and theories on whether it existed. It explores excavations from pathfinders like Schliemann to modern projects, and asks if an early attempt to find Troy was a clandestine mission to record local topography.
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