Beyond the final score

The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seou...

Beyond the flannel board

Improve young children’s language, social-emotional, and number sense development with effective, developmentally appropriate teaching strategies in story retelling

Beyond the formalist-realist divide

According to conventional wisdom in American legal culture, the 1870s to 1920s was the age of legal formalism, when judges believed that the law was autonomous and logically ordered, and that they mechanically deduced right answers in cases. In the 1920s and 1930s, the story continues, the legal ...

Beyond the game

Beyond the green zone

The critically acclaimed account of life in Iraq under US occupation with a new afterword.

Beyond the handshake

Arabs and Israelis have battled one another in political and military arenas, seemingly continuously, for some fifty years. The 1991 Madrid Peace Conference sought to change this pattern, launching bilateral and multilateral tracks in the Arab-Israeli peace process. As a result, a broad group of ...

Beyond the invisible hand

Why economics needs to focus on fairness and not just efficiencyOne of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand. This...

Beyond the ivory tower

The gap between academics and practitioners in international relations has widened in recent years, according to the authors of this book. Many international relations scholars no longer try to reach beyond the ivory tower and many policymakers disdain international relations scholarship as arcan...

Beyond the lens of conservation

Truly dual-sited study giving equal weight to a society in the global North and the global South. Comparison of perceptions of non-experts both in the North and the South (as opposed to Northern experts vis-à-vis non-experts in the South as is usually the case). Focus on imaginations...

Beyond the lines

In this wonderfully illustrated book, Joshua Brown shows that the wood engravings in the illustrated newspapers of Gilded Age America were more than a quaint predecessor to our own sophisticated media. As he tells the history and traces the influence of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, with ...

Beyond the metrics

This interdisciplinary book explores how fitness technology affects self-image, anxiety, and social identity, connecting sports science, psychology, and digital culture.

Beyond the metropolis

In Beyond the Metropolis, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute “the city” took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide rangi...

Beyond the mind

Beyond the Mind: Cultural Dynamics of the Psyche explores Jaan Valsiner’s intellectual journey through travels, keynote lectures, and evolving ideas. Featuring unpublished and rejected works, it offers a step-by-step look at his theories and models, revealing the development of his thought over d...

Beyond the mirror

Susanne von Falkenhausen reveals the concepts of seeing as scholarly act that underwrite competing approaches to visuality and society. In close readings of key texts spanning from the early twentieth century to the present, she crosses between American, German, and British versions of art histor...

Beyond the multiplex

Since the mid-eighties, more audiences have been watching Hollywood movies at home than at movie theaters, yet little is known about just how viewers experience film outside of the multiplex. This is the first full-length study of how contemporary entertainment technologies and media—from cable t...

Beyond the narrow life

Beyond the Narrow Life: A Guide to Psychedelic Integration and Existential Exploration presents a framework for understanding and experiencing psychedelic-assisted therapy including foundational therapeutic approaches, the psychospiritual aspects of the psychedelic journey, and integration of the...

Beyond the nation-state

Examines the effects of education in creating global citizens who share a world culture. This title also examines the role of education in diffusing such attitudes and models, as global citizens confront national institutions.

Beyond the neon lights

How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals—revolution, war, and again revolution—that shook their lives? Even after decades ...

Beyond the notes

Beyond the Notes: Teaching and Learning Music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities critically explores the historical, cultural, and pedagogical dimensions of music education at HBCUs.

Beyond the original

The contributors to this book delve into the playful and performative nature of translations that embrace ambiguity, confusion, and even failure.

Beyond the pandemic?

This book contains an Open Access chapter Beyond the Pandemic? is integral to the exploration of the sectoral consequences of the Internet for business managers, policymakers and researchers engaged in planning and study for the digital economy future and planning for future pandemics.

Beyond the pass

As analysis of the revenue available to Qing garrisons in Xinjiang reveals, imperial control over the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries depended upon sizeable yearly subsidies from China. In an effort to satisfy criticism of their expansion into Xinjiang and make the territory pay...

Beyond the pink tide

How can we create a model of politics that reaches beyond the nation-state, and beyond settler-colonialism, authoritarianism, and neoliberalism? In Beyond the Pink Tide, Macarena Gómez-Barris explores the alternatives of recent sonic, artistic, activist, visual, and embodied cultural production. ...

Beyond the postcolony

An in-depth exploration of Achille Mbembe’s philosophy and his call for justice in a planetary age.

Beyond the rice fields

The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo’s magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation’s past as it confronted Christianity and modernity, through the twin narratives of a slave and his master’s daughter.Fara and her father’s slave, ...

Beyond the second sophistic

The “Second Sophistic” traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book propose...

Beyond the secular west

Nine major scholars of philosophy, religion, law, ethics, history, anthropology, and politics consider the fate of Western secularism in modern global societies. Extending Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, this anthology explores the transformation of Western secularism beyond Europe, and the colle...

Beyond the silk road

A global history of economic exchange across ancient AfroeurasiaBeyond the Silk Road presents a new economic history of ancient empires from East Asia to the Mediterranean and North Africa during a period of intense empire building, transformation, and interaction. Leaving behind the obsolete ide...

Beyond the soundtrack

This groundbreaking collection by the most distinguished musicologists and film scholars in their fields gives long overdue recognition to music as equal to the image in shaping the experience of film. Refuting the familiar idea that music serves as an unnoticed prop for narrative, these essays d...

Beyond the spanish tragedy

Brilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Erne shows how Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding how the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries was formed

Beyond the stadium

There are two popular and competing viewpoints on sports. Many consider them a mere distraction from important social and political problems. Others champion sports as a powerful force for good: teaching character, promoting peace, and encouraging racial and gender equality. Andrew Bertoli shows ...

Beyond the steppe frontier

A comprehensive history of the Sino-Russian border, one of the longest and most important land borders in the worldThe Sino-Russian border, once the world’s longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires. Beyond the Steppe Frontier rectifies this by ex...

Beyond the vanguard

For a thousand days in the early 1970s, Chileans experienced revolution not as a dream but as daily life. Alongside Salvador Allende’s attempt to democratically bring about a socialist regime, new understandings of the meaning of revolutionary change emerged. In her groundbreaking book Beyond the...

Beyond the wall

Beyond the Wall sheds light on some of the enigmas of Jerusalem’s more recent past, telling the tale of its growth from a provincial town somewhere in the Turkish Empire into a modern city. The book also includes two chapters on Arab Jerusalem and a preface by Teddy Kollek, who served as the city...

Beyond the water’s edge

Paul R. Pillar examines how and why partisanship has undermined U.S. foreign policy, especially over the past three decades.

Beyond training ain't performance fieldbook

An essential companion manual to Training Ain't Performance, the Beyond Training Ain't Performance Fieldbook is an HPI theory implementation guide. The included CD-ROM features worksheets, assessments, tools, and practical advice that will propel your organization toward the performance approach.

Beyond tula

Combining burlesque absurdism and lofty references to classical literature with a tongue-in-cheek plot about an industrializing rural proletariat, Beyond Tula--subtitled “a Soviet pastoral”—actually appeared in the official Soviet press in 1931. This novel offers an uproarious romp through the ea...

Beyond uncertainty

Now in paperback: Heisenberg's life reconsidered for the twenty-first century by the world's leading English-language authority.

Beyond vibe coding

Bi-scriptual

Analyzing the theoretical backgrounds and presenting various possibilites of creating designs incorporating different writing systems as multilingualism is becoming increasingly important.

Bias interrupted

A cutting-edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion.Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest conversation about "privilege." That's not enough. To ...

Bible and poetry in late antique mesopotamia

Ephrem the Syrian was one of the founding voices in Syriac literature. While he wrote in a variety of genres, the bulk of his work took the form of madrashe, a Syriac genre of musical poetry or hymns. In Bible and Poetry in Late Antique Mesopotamia, Jeffrey Wickes offers a thoroughly contextualiz...

Bible nation

How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a “Bible nation”Like many evangelical Christians, the Green family of Oklahoma City believes that America was founded on a “biblical worldview as a Christian nation.” But the Greens are far from...