Based on interviews with three generations of three families, this book clarifies why the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976) had a uniquely traumatic impact on those affected, and shows the forms this trauma has taken in the lives of their s...Loe edasi...
Reframes Cabot and Columbus within centuries of Atlantic trade and exploration. What did John Cabot and Christopher Columbus truly achieve—and what did they inherit? In this compelling reassessment, Lydia Towns traces their voyage...Loe edasi...
This edited volume brings together scholars from diverse theoretical traditions to present and discuss their perspective on theory-building in psychology. Amid ongoing discussions about a potential (theory) crisis in the discipline, this collectio...Loe edasi...
A Finaeon Guide Powered by GFDThis book provides a history of currencies for each currency-issuing country or territory on Earth. Sections offer details about coins and banknotes, along with brief histories to help contextu...Loe edasi...
This is the most up-to-date collection of essays in English on the trajectory of Taiwan and its modernist art movement currently available. Situated in a unique geopolitical and historical juncture, Taiwan provides a sole paradigm in Asia that crit...Loe edasi...
The present volume inspects the interaction of Romanias religious actors with the Roma communities. Contrary to the main historical research undertook up to the present moment, the sections of this book highlight the interplay between discourses and......Loe edasi...
In this study, Johannes Nagel examines a series of far-reaching Army and Navy reforms in the USA between 1865 and 1905 in a global context, with a particular focus on the societal effects of the First Globalization. Although security and ......Loe edasi...
This collection of studies is devoted to the social role of language in the history of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. The authors examine the specificity of East Central Europe, an area that was a ......Loe edasi...
This volume explores how Kant’s philosophy can help us to advance debates in several different areas of contemporary philosophy. It presents further explorations into the significance of Kant’s philosophy for metaphysics, epistemology, metaphiloso...Loe edasi...
Gödels incompleteness theorems of 1931 challenged the foundations of mathematics yet many mathematicians still adhere to rigid, Platonic notions. This book opens the door to a different perspective: mathematics as a creative, open system...Loe edasi...
This edited collection explores the concept of metamorphosis across art history, image theory, literary studies, and philosophy. By examining the shifting meanings of metamorphosis in nature, the arts, and technology, this book reveals the traces an...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the Netherlands and the pivotal role of Dutch Railways, the book traces early experiments that anticipated what we now call Transit-Oriented Development. The narrative culminates in the OV-fiets, a landmark innovation that reveals how...Loe edasi...
The Godefroy Family of Scholars, 1580–1880 gives an inside look at the workings of a scholarly dynasty: the roles played by wives, its training methods for children, their habits of correspondence, and the struggles that broke out when the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197833131)
The Bible tells its story about leaders and leadership in terms of three socio-political axes: by domain (familial and public); by gender (male and female); and by position (socio-political heads such as warriors and kings versus intermediaries such...Loe edasi...
This volume explores contemporary artistic practices developed in material culture museums to reimagine historic collections. It begins by examining the influence of conceptual art within art museums and the transformative impact it has had on mus...Loe edasi...
This book challenges the assumption that architecture is a human-centered endeavor and calls for a fundamental shift in how we engage with the built environment. By examining how speciesist assumptions rooted in human exceptionalism shape architec...Loe edasi...
Religion, History and Identity Construction covers the historiographical shift from universalistic monogenist narratives to chauvinistic polygenist narratives in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Religion, History a...Loe edasi...
This volume presents emerging scholarly perspectives on transcultural entanglements from the fields of Intercultural Theology, Religious Studies, and related disciplines. The anthology offers novel insights for the young discipline of Intercultural...Loe edasi...
Goethe and Psychology: A Pluralistic Outlook explores the deep and often overlooked connections between Johann Wolfgang von Goethes philosophical worldview and contemporary psychology. It argues that Goethes holistic natural philosophyparticularly h...Loe edasi...
This edited volume demonstrates how African philosophy can offer new ways to understand transhumanism and moral enhancement, which involve improving humans moral, emotional, and cognitive capacities, genes, and physical abilities through scientific...Loe edasi...
Refugee Literature and the Politics of Displacement: Beyond Borders develops a sustained interdisciplinary dialogue between contemporary refugee literature, human rights discourse, immigration policy, and international refugee law. Bringing...Loe edasi...
This second volume of the book A History of Chinese Art and Design systematically analyzes the development of design art from the Song, Liao, Jin, and Western Xia Dynasties to the 20th century, focusing on the design history of various traditional a...Loe edasi...
On a bleak November morning in 1929, the body of a woman was discovered on a hillside on Iona in the Inner Hebrides. It soon became a gothic mystery. The woman was Norah Fornario, who called herself Netta or used her magical name of Mac Tyler. She h...Loe edasi...
Critique and Immanence tells a critical and philosophical history of the succession of generations of Frankfurtian Critical Theory and presents a systematic Adorno-inspired argument concerning the concept of immanent critique. Rather than asking wha...Loe edasi...
Der zweite Band der New Benjamin Studies untersucht verschiedene Figuren der Relation in Walter Benjamins Denken. Diese erscheinen nicht als abgeschlossene, statische Einheiten, sondern in Konstellationen mit historischen, materiellen und ......Loe edasi...
This volume critiques and challenges the use and promotion of the disease model in psychiatry, arguing that its misconceived approach prevents the preferred disablement model from becoming the default method to understand mental health conditions,...Loe edasi...
This handbook provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the current state of research in Celtic Language Studies, covering both existing and emerging scholarship and debate in the field, as well as containing new, cutting-edge research and...Loe edasi...
This book theorises how social work, as a theoretical and practical discipline, could be brought into a critical dialogue with the concept of democracy. The issue is particularly acute since anti-democratic forces are now democratically elected in s...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the origins and evolution of the U.S. Numbered Highway System. In 1926, a nationwide automobile highway network was created for the United States. For the first time, a set of numbered roads would span the country, ensuring that...Loe edasi...
The book presents a political-scientific overview of Albanian-Chinese relations. It is an attempt to understand and explain the motives behind the close alliance between China and Albania and the role this alliance played in their domestic relations...Loe edasi...
This monograph examines Chosn Dynastys Zun Zhou Si Ming (Revering the Zhou and Longing for the Ming) during the period of 16371800, after Chosn entered tributary relations with the Qing. It shows how the royal family, Confucian scholars, and Ming-l...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the historical evolution of Bangzi opera, also known as Clapper opera, now collectively referred to as Hebei Bangzi. This form of Chinese opera enjoyed significant popularity primarily in Beijing and Tianjin during the four deca...Loe edasi...
This Handbook summarizes in everyday language the ethical, regulatory, and policy implications that arise from the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Designed to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical professionals, it focuses on where...Loe edasi...
This book aims to present case studies on planetary transformations and re-definitions, specifically in the sectors of cultural heritage destruction, conservation, and dissemination through media arts intended for cultural tourism services and enj...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789819813285)
This book is an accessible introduction to philosophical logics phenomenological approach, elucidating its principles and demonstrating its utility in uncovering the origins and development of logic. The analytical approach to philosophical logic w...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chinese Buddhist rituals and their pivotal role in shaping both Chinese Buddhism and broader Chinese culture. Translated from the revised and enlarged Chinese edition of Zhongguo hanchuan fojiao liyi b...Loe edasi...
This volume gathers different disciplinary, methodological and thematic perspectives on architecture understood as a cultural, critical and design practice. Through an articulated dialogue between history and contemporaneity, theory and practice, de...Loe edasi...
Artificial Intelligence has entered religious contexts. This edited volume focuses on AI as it is developed for religious settings and increasingly embedded in concrete religious practices. It offers an interdisciplinary and interreligious perspecti...Loe edasi...
This book, based on extensive first-hand research conducted between 2020 and 2024, places Russian antiquity in the center of analysis, and addresses memory-making in the regions. The author seeks to examine how public history is managed in Old Russi...Loe edasi...
This book gathers original contributions from philosophers working at the intersection of logic, epistemology, and philosophy of science. The chapters explore a wide range of perspectives on the boundary between logic and science, focusing on the im...Loe edasi...
This second edition improves upon the first by offering a more detailed treatment of key topics and by expanding the set of problems and exercises. In particular, four new features deserve mention. First, the book now includes a more thorough exposi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Choir Press, ISBN-13: 9781789636222)
From Nazi Berlin to postwar Britain, Werner and Lotte Ackerman rebuilt shattered lives through handmade chocolates, creating a beloved royal-warranted British brand...Loe edasi...
From Nazi Berlin to postwar Britain, Werner and Lotte Ackerman rebuilt shattered lives through handmade chocolates, creating a beloved royal-warranted British brand...Loe edasi...
This book offers an innovative perspective on cultural heritage, blending theory, practice, and management through a comprehensive, interdisciplinary lens. It proposes a systemic approach to understanding heritage as a dynamic and evolving entity, e...Loe edasi...
Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment in Self-Government revisits the most pressing question of the republics past and present: Can a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality sustain itself through crisis? Leveraging an interdi...Loe edasi...
Based on an extensive body of Russian and German sources, this book reconstructs the fate of the approximately 1.5 million soldiers and officers of the Russian army held in German prisoner of war camps during the First World War. Moving beyond insti...Loe edasi...
This book examines the forgotten proposal to make Constantinople the headquarters of the League of Nations after the First World War, in order to rethink the origins of modern international order. By tracing the debate between liberal internationali...Loe edasi...
This book examines the enduring appeal of Odysseus in artistic representation from antiquity to the present. The volume aims to provide a sense of how this character changes from ancient Greek myth through modern poetry, and how this capacity for ch...Loe edasi...
This pioneering anthology maps the emerging field of philosophical approaches to business consulting through a rich collection of real-world case studies. Drawing on the work of international contributors who are both philosophers and experienced bu...Loe edasi...
This book examines the development of social policy in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan through the framework of bureaucratic regimes. It traces the institutional continuity from the colonial Indian Civil Service to its post-colonial successors - the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The Catholic University of America Press, ISBN-13: 9780813241180)
This book will fill a gap in the current resources available to students of the Confessions in Latin. The scope, method, and intended readership will align not only in college Latin classrooms, but also by high school students who have completed the...Loe edasi...
Reading Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle presents a new reading of this foundational text, based on the hypothesis that the work was written in two phases. Reading Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle pres...Loe edasi...
This book provides a critical evaluation of existing tax rules through a gendered and human rights-oriented lens. This book provides a critical evaluation of existing tax rules through a gendered and human rights-oriented lens....Loe edasi...
Reading Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle presents a new reading of this foundational text, based on the hypothesis that the work was written in two phases. Reading Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle pres...Loe edasi...
Australia is gaining a reputation as the proverbial canary in the coal mine of global environmental change. The driest inhabited continent on earth, Australia is now exposed to rising planetary temperatures and an increase in disastrous events suc...Loe edasi...
Sari: The Adeodatus Series on Catholic Education and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The Catholic University of America Press, ISBN-13: 9781949822601)
What exactly is a good student, and how do educators foster this individual? As Douglas LeBlanc argues, the good student is the individual whomore than being intelligentis morally virtuous in the realm of study. The classical and Christian traditi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Aug-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197827635)
The Shikshapatri (1826) is a scripture presented as a letter to devotees from Swaminarayan (1781-1830), the founder and principal deity of the eponymous Swaminarayan tradition. Designated by millions as a revelatory scripture down to the bel...Loe edasi...
During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and enslaved valet Robert Hemmings spent several months at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The editors and contributors to Declaration House reflect on the history o...Loe edasi...
Emphasizing the emergence of new institutional realities from the encounter between colonizers and colonized people, this book highlights the capacity of indigenous communities, as well as settlers themselves, to shape and transform laws and legal...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first comprehensive study of medieval and modern debates on the nature of touch its objects, limits, and operations from the mid thirteenth century to the early twentieth century. Spanning the period from the rise of Aristotel...Loe edasi...
Wooden barrels have facilitated the past 2000 years of commerce. During the height of their demand from the 1400s to the late 1900s, wine, whiskey, and beer led to a long list of commodities that were made, aged, transported, and stored in barr...Loe edasi...
This study of Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of King Henry VIII, offers readers a more nuanced retelling of her queenship, which has often been dismissed as unimportant due to its brevity. Re-evaluating many of the misconceptions surroundi...Loe edasi...
