The book provides a succinct and issue-centered introduction to the Western philosophy of science, bringing eight focal issues in the field to the fore and augments each topic by incorporating Chinese perspectives.
This book examines the rapidly evolving dynamics between global communication and geopolitics. It bridges the existing gap in scholarship and highlight the growing importance of digital communication in legitimizing and promoting geopolitical and economic goals of leading powers.
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Attempts to construct and support the theoretical and empirical underpinnings for a fresh approach to children and childhood are intensifying. Nonetheless,... Læs mere
This version of the "Canso d'Antioca" contains a textual history, explanatory notes, maps, and explorations of the place of the "Canso" in vernacular literature and the epic tradition of the First Crusade.
In this original and revealing work, Jeremiah B. McCall challenges the generally accepted view of the Roman cavalry and explores the fundamental connections between war and society in republican Rome, c.300-100 BC.
The international development community invests billions of dollars to improve organisational capacity. Written by practitioners, this publication is designed to make capacity development more professional and increasingly effective in achieving development goals.
Vivid and absorbing, Chewing Gum is at once an American cultural history and an emblematic cautionary tale about the how the resources that fuel modern pleasures often come from scenes of violence, chaos, and oppression.
Leading clinicians and researchers in the field of cognitive therapy for psychosis illustrate their individual approaches to the understanding of the difficulties faced by people with psychosis.
Crime involving cars – whether involving offences by drivers or theft of and from cars – represents a substantial proportion of offences committed, and occupies an enormous amount of police time.
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