Exploring mysticism

Exploring rural enterprise

This text bridges gaps in the literature by offering an edited collection of contemporary research contributions that explore the complex nature of rural enterprise across a range of settings and geographical contexts. In particular, this book includes up to date policy contributions, as well as ...

Exploring self toward expanding teaching, teacher education and practitioner research

Against the backdrop of a pull toward external standards and accountability, this collection of chapters re-grounds us in the importance of bringing the 'self' to the foreground of the discourse of teaching, teacher education and practitioner research.

Exploring social work

Exploring various aspects of social work from an anthropological perspective, this original book uses an ‘outsider’ position to develop a reflexive dialogue with social workers from England and elsewhere in Europe. Bell, an anthropologist, worked alongside social work educators and social worker...

Exploring teacher educator knowledge

Exploring Teacher Educator Knowledge lays the foundation for teacher educators, promoting strategies and methodology to support and foster practical and theoretical knowledge.

Exploring the 3-d world

Help develop young children's spatial reasoning and math skills through play.

Exploring the culture of open innovation

Acclaimed entrepreneurship and innovation scholar Piero Formica, along with a strong and diverse cast of international contributors, explore the world of Open Innovation in this volume.

Exploring the fantastic

The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The c...

Exploring the future of russia's economy and markets

Based on the 2017 conference "'New Reality' and Russian Markets" held at Harvard University, this book brings together world-renowned thinkers to offer the latest empirical research on recent financial risks, institutional policies, and financial stability.

Exploring the invisible

How science changed the way artists understand realityExploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred years of scientific discoveries that inspired F...

Exploring the latest trends in management literature

Exploring the Latest Trends in Management Literature presents cutting edge literature reviews on the emerging concepts, theories, and research trends across management disciplines.

Exploring the poverty question

The author argues that the claim that South Asia has seen a large reduction in poverty over the last three decades is a spurious claim. Using nearly 50 years of data from India’s National Sample Survey, she shows that applying a constant nutrition standard over time, poverty had worsened consider...

Exploring the roles and practices of libraries in prisons

Exploring the Roles and Practices of Libraries in Prisons aims to strengthen and expand the small body of knowledge currently published regarding libraries in prisons, with each chapter addressing different aspects of the roles and practices of library services to prisons and prisoners.

Exploring the virtual world of learning across generations

The idea for this book came about as a result of the ICT Guides project, which was funded by the Erasmus+ programme . The project was carried out in 2015-2018 in Gothenburg (Sweden), Berlin (Germany), Madrid (Spain) and Sheffield (United Kingdom). The cities identified for the project all have a ...

Exploring the world of social policy

This bold new textbook represents a significant step forward in social policy teaching by combining comparative and global perspectives. Introducing readers to a wide spread of international challenges and issues, the book shows how insights into policy can be generated using a comparative and m...

Exploring trade union identities

The world of work has changed and so have trade unions with mergers, rebrandings and new unions being formed. The question is, how positioned are the unions to organize the unorganized? With more than three quarters of UK workers unrepresented and the growth of precarious employment and the gig ...

Exploring water with young children trainer's guide w/dvd

Expand the role science has traditionally played in the early childhood classroom with this inquiry-based curriculum

Explosive emotions

Understanding the source of our current political and social malaise through our emotional responses to itWe are in an explosive cultural moment. Whatever explanation for this is offered—inequalities, disaffection of political institutions, traumatic memory, woke culture, the rise of populism, th...

Exponential sums, hypergeometric sheaves, and monodromy groups

An examination of some of the remarkable connections between group theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry over finite fieldsExponential sums have been of great interest ever since Gauss, and their importance in analytic number theory goes back a century to Kloosterman. Grothendieck’s creation o...

Exporting american dreams

Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v. Board of Education, Marshall aided Kenya's constitutional neg...

Exporting caravaggio

Recounts the complex history of this understudied masterwork and its important, and influential, position in Caravaggio's oeuvre.

Exposed

In a new novel as inventive as her earlier works, award-winning author Cris Mazza combines a mystery with an evocative story about one woman's precarious attempt to distinguish between reality and perception. "An admirable achievement."--Philadelphia Inquirer "A fascinating, unsettling tale."--Bo...

Exposure

“Dunmore so cleverly interweaves each of the character's stories that as the tale unfolds it has the chilling ring of absolute authenticity. It’s gripping and page turning and all those things you expect in a Spy Drama—but always laced with her trademark humanity. I was totally caught up in the ...

Exposure

“I will be thinking about this book for a long time.” —Sally Hepworth, author of Darling GirlsThe shocking, unforgettable novel that Junot Díaz called “searingly brilliant,” now with an exclusive bonus chapter, enhanced discussion guide, and a conversation with the author, Ava Dellaira.GRIEF IS L...

Expressing creativity in preschool

Filled with practical strategies and engaging learning experiences around art, music and movement, and dramatic play for preschoolers.

Exquisite agony

An poignant new play about love and life beyond death from the Pulitzer Prize- winning playwright of Anna in the Tropics.

Extended heredity

There is much more to heredity than genesFor much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection. Yet, it's now clear that genes are not the only basis of heredity. I...

Extending the ground of public confidence

This book provides a resource for teaching civil liberties in K-12 social studies and teacher education. It covers issues like freedom of speech, privacy and voting rights, with historic and modern perspectives. Each chapter includes inquiry-based learning activities to help students develop crit...

External communication in social media during asymmetric conflicts

This book examines the strategies of external communication that conflict parties use during asymmetric conflicts. In a comprehensive case study of the conflict in Israel and Palestine, Bernd Hirschberger shows that the selection of strategies of external communication is shaped by the (asymmetri...

External democracy promotion and diversity among international agencies

This research considers the mixed results of international agencies in democracy promotion despite their attempt to shape a common policy emphasized in various international agreements. On the background of backlashes and the search for new answers it analyses how the UNDP and the EC promoted dem...

Exterranean

Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By opening up a rich archive of nonmodern texts and images from across Europe, this work offers a bracing riposte to several critical trends in ecological thought. By shifti...

Extinct monsters to deep time

Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.

Extinction

Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 percent of all living species died out—a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise 185 million years later. How this happened remains a mystery. But there are many competing the...

Extracting profit

A piercing historical explanation for poverty and inequality in African societies today, and social impact of resource-driven growth.

Extracting the future

Bolivia's troubled efforts to develop a commercial lithium industry.   Bolivia's lithium accounts for a significant percentage of the world's known reserve. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Mark Goodale traces the development of Bolivia's closely guarded lithium project through the per...

Extraction ecologies and the literature of the long exhaustion

How literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial miningThe 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with ...

Extraction to extinction

Tracing our environmental impact through time, David Howe demonstrates how humanity’s exploitation of Earth’s natural resources has pushed our planet to its limit and asks: What’s next for our depleted planet?Everything we use started life in the earth, as a rock or a mineral vein, a layer of an ...

Extractive imperialism in the americas

In this wide-ranging volume two leading scholars of the region critically examine the new extractive-imperialism bearing down on the Americas

Extractive industries, social licensing and corporate social responsibility

Saenz provides analytical tools to allow companies to improve their proposal to mitigate and compensate for their socio-environmental impacts and contribute to the development of the communities, as well as strategies used to improve the conditions of communities within and beyond their area of i...

Extractivisms

Nature and communities in the global south is being overwhelmed at a shocking rate. In many places this is due to ventures such as large-scale open-pit mining, oil extraction in tropical areas, and the spread of monocultures. These and other such forms of natural resource appropriation are usuall...

Extracurricular enterprise and entrepreneurship activity

Reviewing the growth and development of enterprise and entrepreneurship extracurricular activities within Higher Education Institutions globally, Extracurricular Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Activity considers the form these activities take – their benefits and impacts upon participants, insti...

Extraordinary bodies

Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel, liberatory ones.

Extraordinary conditions

With a fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Janis H. Jenkins explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression among people of diverse cultural orientations, revealing how mental illness engages fundamental human processes of self, desire, gender, identity, attachment, and interp...