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Science and Humanism in UNESCO's Approach to Globalization studies the influence of scientific humanism on the emergence and development of UNESCO's original approach to globalization. It also studies the role that UNESCO tried to play in the international system through the promotion of its...

This Handbook brings together major aspects of Japanese linguistics, presenting overviews, current concerns and future directions of each topic. The areas included are phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, language acquisition, sentence processing, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. This Handbook is for those who are familiar with the...

This edited collection focuses on the problem of social justice, or, more particularly, how the demand for social justice was articulated and implemented in ancient civilizations, including, from east to west, the Chinese, Indian, Iranian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Israelite, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman. These essays...

Cars are the scourge of civilization, responsible for everything from suburban sprawl and urban decay to environmental devastation and rampant climate change--not to mention our slavish dependence on foreign oil from dubious sources abroad. Add the astonishing price in human lives that we pay...

We live in an age of ever-deepening anxiety. Free of convictions, released from certainties, we appear untethered--and alone. The values that underpinned our sense of, and need for, collectivity have been reduced to their lowest common denominator: liberty means nothing more than exploiting our...

The Secret Mulroney Tapes is an outrageous and intimate portrait of a Canadian prime minister, as told in his own words. There has never been a political book like this, and there will almost certainly never be another. Peter C. Newman, the author of...

This book critically examines how the production and reception of performed poetry has changed in the wake of digitalization. The interdisciplinary chapters in this volume deal with fundamental questions confronting performed poetry in the digital age: How are concepts like liveness and performativity being...

Reframing Our Impact on HumanityAre you finding it difficult to positively engage with people who view the world differently than you do?Do you feel the heaviness of our societal and political divides?Have you seen evidence of the erosion of humanity?The important work of human...

A concise illustrated history of Deaf people in America, beginning with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet's transformative encounter with a young deaf girl named Alice. Driven by his passion for education and dismayed by the lack of schools for Deaf students in America, Gallaudet traveled to...

Pushing back against a system which feels designed to keep parents isolated and exhausted, Latched Mama founder, Melissa Wirt shows moms how to build a supportive "village" to bring joy and connection back to motherhood. Melissa Wirt thought she had everything--she'd built her own...

This revised professional development manual is for facilitators (paid and unpaid), those on the front line of community engagement and management. The title Growing and learning in rural communities, reflects the source of motivation for my search to discover ways to engage across divisions...

Explores how power and authority were justified in late medieval Europe, addressing arguments that people at the time found convincing.Author: Joseph CanningISBN-10: 110892719XISBN-13: 9781108927192Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/02/2023Pages: 215Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d

This comprehensive guide to horses and ferries is an essential resource for anyone who loves or works with these magnificent animals. Divided into two books, the first covers horse management, riding, and training techniques, while the second focuses on the care and treatment of...

This short pamphlet from an unknown author presents arguments for and against cremation, a controversial topic in the Victorian era. While cremation was becoming more common in Europe, many still found it morally objectionable and preferred traditional burial.This work has been selected by scholars...

The Story of the Gospels - Harmonized for meditation is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other...

The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and tourists alike. The Draw of the Alps interrogates the dynamics of this fascination. Though philosophical and aesthetic responses to Alpine space have shifted...

His admirers said he was a charismatic leader with a dazzling smile, a commoner following an ancient tradition of warrior service on behalf of an indigenous people who feared marginalisation at the hands of ungrateful immigrants. One tourist pleaded with him to stage a...

Africa: You Must Cast Off Your Colonialist Oppressors! What is the wealthiest continent in the world? Would it surprise you to learn that the answer is Africa? Every country in Africa has vast riches in the form of gems, gold, minerals, hydrocarbon resources, and...

This innovative book examines cross-cultural encounters before 1492, focusing in particular on the major cross-cultural influences that transformed Asia and Europe during this period: the ancient silk roads that linked China with the Roman Empire, the spread of the world religions, and the Mongol...

Ray Kiely examines the conservative anti-globalization that has manifested itself in recent years as a nostalgia for a former supposed age of economic and societal harmony and which has informed popular mantras of deregulation and economic nationalism.Author: Ray KielyISBN-10: 1788210964ISBN-13: 9781788210966Publisher: Agenda PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

What is a moral company? There are undoubtedly many ways to look at this question. One might want to look at it in terms of a company's mission statement and its commitment to social responsibility, reflected in its words and deeds.This book, however, takes...

Foreword.-1. Introduction. Section I: Foundations.-2 "Explanation," Philosophy and Theory in Health Inequalities Research: Towards a Critical Realist Approach.-3 Values and Social Epidemiologic Research.-4 Population-based Data and Community Empowerment.-5 Differences That Matter. Section II: Context.- 6 Place-based Stress and Chronic Disease: A Systems View of...

Neoliberal capitalism positions us all as consumers in a hypermarket where money talks. For the majority of people around the globe, this translates as precarity and immiseration. But how can we break from this dominant ideological framework?Expose, Oppose, Propose details how, since the mid...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Title: Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations (1749). Facsim. reproduction with an introduction by Theodore L. Huguelet.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

Common Sense is a political pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-1776. The book is a call to action for the American colonies to declare independence from Great Britain. Paine argues that it is common sense for the colonies to break away from a...

This book, first published in 1980, provides a summary of the major research findings of previous studies of the sociology of education in Sub-Saharan Africa within an original and stimulating general framework whilst also devoting space to their own research findings. The major themes...

These 17 essays covers all aspects of Bernard Stiegler's work, from poststructuralism, anthropology and psychoanalysis to his work on the politics of memory, 'libidinal economy', technoscience and aesthetics, keeping a focus on his key theory of technics throughout. Stiegler brings together key concepts from...

Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award! How has Hanna Segal influenced psychoanalysis today? Jean-Michel Quinodoz provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of Segal's life, her clinical and theoretical work, and her contribution to psychoanalysis over the past sixty years by combining actual biographical...

Preface. Acknowledgements. A to Z. Perfume. Appendix A: List of fragrances. Appendix B: Perfume recipes and formulas. Bibliography.Author: N. Groom, Nigel GroomISBN-10: 0412463202ISBN-13: 9780412463204Publisher: Chapman & HallLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/1992Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.53h x 6.39w x 0.88dReview Citation(s): School Library Journal 03/01/1993 pg. 241

The Swahili of East Africa have a long and distinctive history as a literate, Muslim, urban, and mercantile society. In this book a leading Africanist presents the first full-length anthropological account of the Swahili and offers an original analysis of their little-understood and unusual...

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1904, George Balanchine was the 20th century's towering figure of classical ballet. Coming to America in 1933, Balanchine founded the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet, where he hired the Danish-born Peter Martins as...

Upon the long-awaited death of his abusive, alcoholic father, a son (the author) is certain that the arduous journey of returning home to bury his daddy will bring him the closure he has longed for. At his father's funeral, though, he meets others whose...

Author: Bryan J. KatzISBN-10: 196068423XISBN-13: 9781960684233Publisher: Dr. Bryan Katz PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2024Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.76lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.93d

Author: Edgar MitchellISBN-10: 1683132696ISBN-13: 9781683132691Publisher: Pen-L PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2024Pages: 362Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: Lyle L. SimpsonISBN-13: 9798893568295Publisher: ArpressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2024Pages: 334Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d

Author: Lyle L. SimpsonISBN-13: 9798893568318Publisher: ArpressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2024Pages: 334Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d

Author: Prabhakar TimbleISBN-10: 935898371XISBN-13: 9789358983715Publisher: Qurate Books Private LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/11/2024Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d

Quoting Paul Joseph Goebbels, the German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only...

Like most people in America, I'm very opinionated. Unlike most people, I don't impose my two cents on every platform of social media. My written opinion is, instead, reserved for projects such as this. The National Times is a collection of essays written in...

Scholarship on Eastern Europe after 1989 often focuses narrowly on the socialist past as authoritarian, dictatorial, or totalitarian. This collection, by contrast, illuminates an additional dimension of post-socialist memory: it traces the survival of hopes and dreams born under socialism and the legacy of...

Humans are created to be social beings, living in communities that support each other. Somehow, we seem to have lost our focus on creating healthy communities. This book has been written to inspire readers to pay attention to the advantages of consciously building healthy...

A Brief Display of the Origin and History of Ordeals is a fascinating account of the various methods used throughout history to settle disputes between individuals and groups. From dueling to trial by combat, from courts of chivalry to the ordeal of boiling water,...

Reflect on the nature of citizenship and democracy with this insightful treatise by Ansaldo Cebà. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples, Cebà offers a compelling analysis of the rights, duties, and privileges of citizens in a republic, and provides valuable insights into how these...

A Treatise on Dental Jurisprudence - for dentists and lawyers is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

A collection of think pieces on a variety of topics: the environment, business, rights and responsibilities, social issues, ethics, education, sports, religion, and so on. An omnibus of the four Shit that Pisses Me Off volumes, * plus over a hundred additional pieces. *...