Launched in 2017, China's Green Belt and Road Initiative (GBRI) sought to align overseas development with the global climate... Læs mere
States use rural-to-urban resettlement to fuel development, yet this formal process consistently generates its... Læs mere
This Element examines the forms of Arabic used by Christians in the early Islamic period in theological treatises and Arabic Bible... Læs mere
Since Wittgenstein's death in 1951, Some take his philosophy to have a conservative or reactionary bent; others take it to have a relativistic leaning; yet others associate it... Læs mere
As historians of science have noted, one strategy common to the natural and the social sciences is the use of analogy. Formulating hypotheses about an unknown system... Læs mere
This Element describes research from the past few decades of how children use both cognitive tools and socio-cultural experience to understand supernatural concepts and will argue that future work needs to examine the complexity and diversity of religious cognition.
This Element uses the theoretical framework of ecologically rational heuristic... Læs mere
This Element launches a broadside against the visual-centric approach that has dominated philosophical and scientific discourse about the senses. It centers on... Læs mere
By collating examples of Perceptual Dialectology (PD) research, this book demonstrates the wide range of social phenomena that it can investigate.... Læs mere
The relationship between farming and the emergence cities is a key question in the archaeology of western Asia and Europe. In this study, Amy Bogaard explores how the earliest villages and cities were sustained through evolving agricultural strategies.
This book is for readers interested in how major corporations shape society when business decisions affect speech, safety, climate, and... Læs mere
This book uses a richly contextualized comparative and genealogical method to illustrate how... Læs mere