Advancing Africa’s Sustainable Development
This book provides papers from a conference on advancing science, technology, and innovation in Africa. Though from various countries, the contributors all share a common interest in furthering science research, education, and disease surveillance.
Images in Words
This compendium of William Mallinson’s poetry and prose is a vehicle to demonstrate that only history—in its purest form, the past—exists. It briefly evaluates the circumstances that led to each poem and story but avoids analysis, stressing the importance of emotion in reading.
Rural Writing
This anthology revisits rural areas and their representations in contemporary writing, in both popular and high culture, in order to draw a global landscape of current rural areas and new regionalities.
Based on the voices of 4,000 young people from 88 countries, this book reveals the values of Generations Y and Z. As the largest, best-educated, and most connected generation ever, today’s youth are creating a more democratic world and changing our future.
William Orpen, an Outsider in France
As an official war artist in WWI, William Orpen created a unique textual and visual record of life on the Western Front. This study examines the singular and provocative work of the non-combatant artist who determined to fight the “War to End all Wars” with his pens and brushes.
This definitive guide to the Korean National Standards presents a four-level curriculum for high schools and colleges, complete with assessment guidelines adapted from the ACTFL’s renowned 5Cs framework.
An Introduction to Hanfei’s Political Philosophy
In this first book to make the philosophy of Hanfei available at an introductory level, Schneider introduces key concepts and arguments in his legalist philosophy and contextualizes his thinking within Chinese history and in a comparative approach.
Reflections on Society and Academia
Herbst addresses a wide spectrum of concerns within the social sciences, as well as higher education and design and planning issues. His work allows for an easy and holistic assessment of publications that cover various themes and were written during the past two decades.
This volume illustrates the diversity of approaches in linguistics, led by two main chapters from scholars Hans Basbøll and Stig Eliasson. Other contributions explore topics from metaphor, syntax, and language learning to the interface between language and logic.
Proving Jesus’ Authority in Mark and John
Greenberg’s innovative study of the Fourth Gospel introduces important new perspectives on synoptic problems and challenges many theories about the nature of the Gospel of John’s sources and composition practices.
Philosophy in Ancient Rome
Vergeer describes the philosophy of ancient Rome in an original, convincing and, at the same time, captivating manner, showing that it is both a continuation of Greek philosophy and a substantially different way of thinking.
This anthology defines the dynamics and policies of prejudice in the historical passage between the modern and contemporary age, and includes interesting chapters on anti-Semitism, the ethnic conflicts of the twentieth century, the Balkans, and gender bias, among other subjects.
Three Long Poems in Athens
Poetic narratives travel through Athens, cutting into the city’s past and opening up its microcosm. This book features the first English translation of three Modern Greek poems, active political texts offering a unique itinerary through the city from the 1980s to the 2010s.
Voices of Identities
The contributions here represent the proceedings of the Annual Congress of the Austrian Society for Musicology in 2014, and open multiple perspectives on the identity-relevant implications of every kind of vocal music from the last days of the Habsburg Empire to the present day.
This comprehensive, core text covers all areas of marketing. It is written in a straightforward style, and is intended for diploma and degree level students who are studying the subject for the first time.
Following Forms, Following Functions
The contributions here are devoted to the analysis of the relationship between form and function, two concepts that have played, and continue to play, an important role in several disciplines, from philosophical reflection to theoretical biology.
From Theory to Mysticism
Georgallides focuses on the main constituent of the Bild theory of sentences in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: the term ‘object’. He highlights why the exact meaning of this concept is left unclear, and what difficulties result from this lack of clarity in the Tractatus.
Essays on Byron in Honour of Dr Peter Cochran
Byron wrote that he was “born for opposition“. This collection takes Byron at his word and considers ways in which he challenged received opinion in his lifetime. It also challenges commonplace attitudes in criticism of the writer today.
This book challenges modern psychology’s view that we are victims of circumstance. It argues that by denying human freedom and personal responsibility, we risk undermining our civilisation, and offers a ‘purposive psychology’ to help individuals gain mastery of themselves.
Sabater addresses the compelling demand for quantitative training in plant biology, including comparisons of the rate of processes, the size of structures and interactions among different processes, approached at different levels from molecules to the environment.
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