Theo: 457 books

Culture as Embodiment utilizes recent insights in psychology, cognitive, and affective science to reveal the cultural patterning of behavior in group-related practices. Applies the best of the behavioural sciences to contemporary issues of behavioural cross-fertilization in global exchange Presents...

New Perspectives in International Development focuses on the latest thinking in the field, moving the debate into areas such as the connection between security, conflict, and development, managing energy crises, the impact of environmental and climate change, and the role that technology can play...

Hand to hand fighting with flaming bombs. Demonstrations have literally set the capital on fire. At the end of the day there are dozens of wounded and four fatalities. That night, one more body is found in the city, thrown in a dirty alley. A young woman with no documentation. She has been terribly...

Does the state still frame debates about new technology? Can policy-makers ensure the benefits of health developments through genomics while still satisfying the expectations of society and the economic imperatives? In this critique of the new governance agenda for research and innovation in life...

Clarke Simmons is an office manager for a major New York news agency. By day he sits in a cramped basement office organizing paper products and toner cartridges, but there is more to this mild-mannered employee than what people see at work. Clarke believes he is an alien sent to earth to save mankind....

Available in English for the first time, Encouragement Makes Good Things Happen is a translation of the bestselling German book Mut Tut Gut. It describes a courageous and encouraging style of living and focuses on the belief that human encouragement is the most important natural ingredient for the...

Facilitating of learning in higher education can be transformed through the use of Whole Brain® learning. Whole Brain® Learning in Higher Education argues that facilitating learning in Higher Education should undergo transformation in order to develop the full academic potential of all stakeholders...

A cutting edge look at the experience of worker representation in the employment relations of workplace health and safety. Examining the extent to which existing arrangements deliver results, this book reflects on whether the effectiveness of worker representation is eroded or enhanced by current regulatory and organizational constructs.

On New Year Eve 2013, Pittsburgh Cobras co-coaches Annie Vaughn and Karen Gettinger were just two girls sitting in a reconstructed bar at Pittsburgh's South Side reflecting on the 2013 season of the American Little Ladies Basketball League. The ALLBL, a professional basketball league for 12-year-old...

In the dark days of the middle ages the inquisitors reign of terror spread fear, blood, and death across Europe. Simultaneously a deadly plague decimated the population. In the midst of this dark and terrible time one man discovers his true love. Inquisitor Quint violates his oath to secretly wed...

This book takes bold steps in forming much-needed philosophical foundations for restorative justice through deconstructing and reconstructing various models of thinking. It challenges current debates through the consideration and integration of various disciplines such as law, criminology, philosophy...

What is “normal sexual behavior” in a child? Childhood sexuality is an often neglected field in sex research. There is very little literature about what one might call “normal child sexual behavior.” The existing literature on child sexuality gives the impression that the only way in...

On October 13, 1903, Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill Dinneen recorded the first final out of the World Series by striking out Honus Wagner of the Pittsburgh Pirates in game eight of the first World Series in front of over 7,400 people at Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds in Boston. By getting the final...

“You have to see what’s through and under and over and behind things. You have to pay real attention…” Tom, an aging music executive, retiree and sailor meets Clare, a young, beautiful and somewhat mysterious woman on the quays of a Sicilian port. The two strangers share an unpredictable voyage...