Money, Payment Systems and the European Union
This anthology probes money as a means of payment and a reserve of value within the European Union framework, with attention paid to community-based currencies. It describes how the EU, considered a unique economic and political partnership, has not clearly defined money.
Reconceptualising Material Culture in the Tricontinent
This is the first volume to engage with material culture in the Tricontinent of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It interrogates how objects trace an alternate history, subverting Eurocentric formulations to arrive at a uniquely Tricontinental model of material culture studies.
This book systematizes the knowledge of the solar wind acceleration region—the space weather “kitchen.” Its factual basis combines unique scientific data from the Mars and Venera missions, gathered via challenging observations near the Sun, with original modeling approaches.
Stratified Nature in Women’s Writing
This book presents a diverse collection of essays about women writers and nature. Ranging across time periods and the globe, it approaches the nature-focused work of women-identifying writers through several conceptual frameworks.
Therapeutic Journalism
This book shows how emotional literacy and clinical psychology can create a therapeutic form of journalism. It presents a new model to analyze information through an emotional lens, empowering students to inform with empathy and see a shattered world with a fresh pair of eyes.
This book focuses on applying Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) methodology within English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classes. CLIL combines language learning with professional subjects, building bridges between higher education and the professional world.
Imagination is the source of creativity. This collection of essays from authors around the world offers new, practical ideas for infusing classrooms with imaginative activities. Explore theories of creativity and their application to curriculum and social issues.
The Palestinian Constitutional Court
This book argues the Palestinian Constitutional Court has failed to uphold the Basic Law against authoritarian actions. It offers a case study on how courts in authoritarian regimes obstruct rights and is the first authoritative English-language study of the Court’s judgments.
Parables and Riddles in Ancient and Modern Teaching
This book explores the difference between parables and riddles. Biblical parables transmit useful life-messages, while Greek riddles are largely unintelligible, leaving one helpless. What do these forms reveal about ancient views of wisdom?
Explore structural and ornamental diatonic harmony in the Common Practice Period. This guide explains the crucial difference between them, providing novel insights into the interplay of harmony and melody. Includes ample musical examples and exercises to develop your skills.
Healing with Art and Soul
This collection of essays offers perspectives on using expressive arts for physical and emotional healing. Learn how to engage the inner self to allow the natural healing processes of the body and soul to flourish. A guide for your healing practice.
From Colonialism to the Contemporary
This selection of essays highlights key shifts in ideology found in world children’s literature. It traces the transformative and intertextual nature of these texts, revealing that this genre is subject to the same ideologies as other literature.
L2 Figurative Language Teaching
Figurative language frustrates L2 users. Given that it is key to communicative competence, this volume brings together theory and teaching applications, shedding light on the comprehension and production of figurative language in a foreign language context.
Insights into Ethical Theory and Practice
Ethical issues are important, but expert accounts are often inaccessible. This volume bridges that gap, presenting innovative essays in a way that is accessible to experts and non-experts alike, giving readers confidence and enthusiasm for this diverse and lively subject.
This book explores cellular and tissue-engineered medical products (CTMPs) as an alternative to organ transplantation. It presents a first-of-its-kind analysis of materials for regenerating liver, pancreas, and cartilage, with an abundance of specific examples for specialists.
The Personalist Social Contract
How can we survive with a broken humanity? Our urgent existential threats demonstrate how dangerously divided we are. This book proposes the Personalist Social Contract (PSC) as a common moral language to bring together our sciences and societies for shared survival.
This book interrogates the lived experience of gender across three generations. It penetrates the surface of change to uncover the invisible layers that transmit gender, challenging patriarchal dynamics and arguing for a power focused on developing our full human potential.
The Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin America
This book explores the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Latin America, highlighting its challenges and possibilities. It analyzes solidarity alternatives in the capital market and the emergencies that occur in order to humanize the capitalist system.
The Cinemas of Italian Migration
Three forms of migration—internal, emigration, and immigration—have shaped Italy’s politics and film history. This volume explores these narratives in works from post-WWII classics to contemporary films by both Italian and international directors.
Discourses and Practices of Othering
This book investigates how ‘others’ are manufactured and anchored in collective memory. Through analysis of film, news, and social media, it sheds light on the institutional, political, and social forces that form and transform the discourses and practices of othering.
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