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This book investigates origins, meanings, uses and effects of student engagement in higher education, and addresses three core questions: (1) Why is student engagement so visible in higher education……続きを見る

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Jack Goldstone shows the important role of population changes, youth bulges, urbanization, elite divisions, and fiscal ……続きを見る

World Culture Pictorial®'s online journey took its very first step on Earth Day, 2008 (Vol.1-3: Apr-Oct'08). Cosmos is grand, comprehensive reading is twin to broad vision. Thus the journal collecti……続きを見る

Jonathan Sacks betoogt in 'Niet in Gods naam' tegen het misbruik van religie voor geweld en pleit voor liefde als tegengif, met nadruk op interreligieuze samenwerking. ‘Niet in Gods naam’ van Rabbi ……続きを見る

The turn of the Millennium demonstrated a fully-fledged revival and fusion of various left-wing social movements with differing agendas. Movements for women's, black, indigenous, LGTB and animal lib……続きを見る

Today Frederick Douglass is best known for his autobiographies; but while he was alive he was known as a fiery orator who was always in demand. Collected here are ten of Frederick Douglass' addresse……続きを見る

Timothy E. Wise presents the first book to focus specifically on the musical content of yodeling in our culture. He shows that yodeling serves an aesthetic function in musical texts. A series of chr……続きを見る

This book highlights historical explanations to and roots of present phenomena of violence, insecurity, and law enforcement in Central America. Violence and crime are among the most discussed topics……続きを見る

World Culture Pictorial®'s online journey took its very first step on Earth Day, 2008 (Vol.1-3: Apr-Oct'08). Cosmos is grand, comprehensive reading is twin to broad vision. Thus the journal collecti……続きを見る

The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century in ……続きを見る

A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy “A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction.”ーThe N……続きを見る

Vlaanderen telt meer dan 300 gemeenten. De Vlaamse regering levert inspanningen om de macht van de provincies te verleggen naar Vlaanderen en de gemeenten. Daarbij wil Vlaanderen ook het aantal geme……続きを見る

Started by Italian brothers from North Denver, the high-profile Smaldone crime syndicate began in the bootlegging days of the 1920s and flourished into the 1980s. Connected to notorious crime figure……続きを見る

Claiming 1.5 million lives in 2015, tuberculosis is the world’s most deadly infectious disease. Because of the population it overwhelmingly affects, however, pharmaceutical companies are unintereste……続きを見る

The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental pu……続きを見る

How are the pleasures of making things work turned into processes of domination? Are there links between gender and military institutions? Does eroticism have something to do with engineering? In th……続きを見る

While there is plenty of historical, sociological, and polemical literature on neoconservatism, there is relatively little that treats it philosophically. Misguided Guardians illustrates neoconserva……続きを見る

Fourteen scholars who work on campus or in the theater address this issue of what it means to play offstage. With their individual definition of what “offstage” could mean, the results were, predict……続きを見る

Ich bin meines Glückes Schmied. Ich habe es mir selbst erarbeitet. Ich habe ein Recht darauf. Es steht mir zu. Wofür soll ich dankbar sein? Viele Menschen haben in den letzten Jahren schmerzlich bem……続きを見る

Am 19.1.1997 erlebte die Ö3-Sendung "Frühstück bei mir" einen Raketenstart mit dem frisch gekürten Bundeskanzler Viktor Klima als erstemGast. Seither wurde die Radio-Interviewreihe, bei der rund ein……続きを見る

Dirk Lüddecke, Professor für Politische Theorie, fragt in seinem Beitrag in Kursbuch 174 nach der Rolle der FDP in einer immer freieren Gesellschaft – und warum es so schwer ist, liberal zu sein. De……続きを見る

Alfred Hackensberger über die Frage, was Flüchtlinge dazu bringt, ihr ganzes Leben - oftmals mit Arbeit, Familie und Haus - zurückzulassen. Es sind Träume und Visionen von einem besseren Leben: Sie ……続きを見る

In Search of Safety takes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women’s prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantages are at th……続きを見る

Death is a subject obscured by fear and denial. When we do think of dying, we are more often concerned with how to avoid the pain and suffering that may accompany our death than we are with really c……続きを見る

American Indian educator and political philosopher Jack Forbes's Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anti-civilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His……続きを見る

Coding and Documentation Compliance for the ICD and DSM provides professionals, professors, and students with a logical and practical way of understanding a difficult topic in healthcare for the cli……続きを見る

We all want to be happy, and there are plenty of people telling us how it can be achieved. The positive psychology movement, indeed, has established happiness as a scientific concept within everyone……続きを見る

A framework is concisely presented for the economic analysis of pollution problems and for evaluating proposed solutions. The substantial recent literature on environmental economics is reviewed and……続きを見る

Bill 6, the government of Alberta’s contentious farm workers’ safety legislation, sparked public debate as no other legislation has done in recent years. The Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch W……続きを見る

Attentats meurtriers, pilotes d'avion kamikazes, catastrophes écologiques, addictions technologiques, vacuité artistique et mise à mal spirituelle, le monde semble aller plus mal que jamais. Les aut……続きを見る