Academic Press: 465 books
Public Diplomacy and Academic Mobility in Sweden
The Swedish Institute and Scholarship Programs for Foreign Academics, 1938–2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Academic exchange is one of the cornerstones of public diplomacy. Receiving foreign academics is one way of influencing foreign elites in an attempt to build goodwill and stable international networks. The result is that academic mobility and the internationalization of higher education and research...
Social Science in Context
Historical, Sociological, and Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
One of the very first books to explore the role of the social sciences in historical, sociological, and global perspectives, it does so by analyzing the practical making and discursive aspects of social scientific disciplines, including sociology, economics, psychology, business and administration...
Making Cultural History
New Perspectives on Western Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This volume contains 17 essays with fresh new approaches to cultural history from 17 authors that belong to different academic disciplines, including archaeology, art history, classical languages, ethnology, fashion studies, history, history of ideas, history of religion, literature studies, and media...
Schism
The Battle That Forged Freemasonry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This book examines the creation of the Antients Grand Lodge and traces the influence of Ireland and the London Irish, especially that of Laurence Dermott, the Antients’ Grand Secretary, in the development of freemasonry in the second half of the 18th century. It demonstrates the relative accessibility...
The Middle Eastern Founders of Religion
Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Zoroaster, and Baha'u'llah
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This book presents an academic introduction to the life and teachings of five Middle Eastern founders of religion –- five individuals whose systems of faith, thought, and action have won the allegiance of millions. All believed to have experienced a personal encounter with the divine - a “voice”...
A. E. Housman
A Single Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
A.E. Housman's poetry (especially A Shropshire Lad) remains well-known, widely read and often quoted. However, Housman did not view himself as a professional poet, always making quite clear that his 'proper job' was as a Professor of Latin. Housman's fame as a poet has often obscured the fact that...
by David Ohana
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Professor David Ohana teaches European history at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He was a visiting fellow at The Sorbonne, Harvard, and Berkeley as well as the first academic director of the Forum for Mediterranean Cultures at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His many books include:...
Deconstruction After All
Reflections and Conversations by Christopher Norris
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This collection of interviews, reflections, and creative criticism presents Christopher Norris’s vigorous polemics with Hayden White, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, Thomas Kuhn, Emmanuel Levinas, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Rorty, and Stanley Fish. Alongside Norris’s uncompromising...
Wicca
History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The past century has borne witness to a growing interest in the belief systems of ancient Europe. By far the largest and best known of these Paganisms has been Wicca, a new religious movement that can now count hundreds of thousands of adherents worldwide. Wicca was first presented as the survival...
by Jeff Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Parenting teenagers today is a tough challenge. It takes purpose, creativity, determination and patience - and some practical advice from people who know what they are talking about. Award winning specialist teacher, researcher, mentor and speaker, Dr Jeff Kemp, has spent 30 years helping parents...
Hype
Bestsellers and Literary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In the world of books and literature, "hype" is associated with bestsellerism—the books that sell the most, are read by vast numbers, and constantly talked about in media and staff rooms. Often, it is the success in itself that generates an interest because popularity begets popularity....
Blue Division
Spanish Blood in Russia, 1941–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This book, translated from the original Spanish, is the primary academic and historical study of the Blue Division—a Falangist initiative involving the dispatch of some 40,000 Spanish combatants (more than a half of whom paid with their lives, health, or liberty) to the Russian Front during the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
One of the most significant challenges facing the international community today is how to stabilize and rebuild societies emerging from civil wars, and this book, which includes both theoretical discussions and empirical applications, considers the various factors of peacebuilding. As it addresses...
Biotic Stress Management in Rice
Molecular Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book, Biotic Stress Management in Rice: Molecular Approaches, addresses biotic stress of rice and its management through molecular approaches. It focuses on the biotechnological aspects of rice with the aim of reducing the fungicide and insecticides and ultimately ensuring safety of rice as a...