These excerpts from the writings of Sir Karl Popper are an outstanding introduction to one of the most controversial of living philosophers, known especially for his devastating criticisms of Pl...
The present work aims to propose a reflection on the use of television series, as an intervention strategy, in the teaching of Philosophy in High School. Although the issue of teaching Philosophy i...
Both prophets and prophetesses shared God's divine will with the people of Israel, yet the voices of these women were often forgotten due to later prohibitions against women teaching in public. ...
This book applies a psycholinguistic perspective to instructed second language acquisition, bridging the gap between research and teaching practices. It re-envisions the explicit and implicit le...
Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Kathryn Strong Hansen, Elizabeth Ho, Esther L. Jones...
Raising the Dead and Returning Life: Emergency Medicine of the Qing Dynasty is essentially a first aid manual based on the practices of the common people of Southern China during the mid-nineteenth...
Over six hundred years before John Milton's Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary ...
Within key texts of Romantic-era aesthetics, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and other writers and theorists pointed to the poet, naturalist, and physician Erasmus Darwin as exempli...
In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evol...
A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about "strategic" bombing were formed and implemented. It argues that ideas about bombing...
This book offers a unique overview of the development of rhetorical criticism both in North America and internationally through the work of pioneering New Testament scholar Thomas H. Olbricht. N...
Almond places Otto's theory of religion within the context of his life (1869-1937), looking closely at the significant influences on Otto's thought, among them thinkers as different as Kant and the...
The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Native people in the region was obvious but not well documented by Europeans, who did not venture into the int...
This is New Colour Coded Edition. The systematic and intelligent colour coding and the added new material makes this book easy to use and effective in results. It is a revised, revamped, improved a...
The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers offers a new translation of the Greek alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. For the...
Seeking Stillness or The Sound of Wings pays tribute to Lambert Zuidervaart, one of the most productive Reformational philosophers of the present generation, by picking up the central concerns of h...
Helen Hardacre, a leading scholar of religious life in modern Japan, examines the Japanese state's involvement in and manipulation of shinto from the Meiji Restoration to the present. Nowhere el...
Skimpy Coverage explores Sports Illustrated's treatment of female athletes since the iconic magazine's founding in 1954. The first book-length study of its kind, this accessible ac...