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Optimization is a serious issue, touching many aspects of our life and activity. But it has not yet been completely absorbed in our culture. In this book the authors point out how relatively young ...

Reconciliation is an important agenda for postwar countries. It plays a major role in harmonizing bilateral and regional relations. Lin Ren compares reconciliations between the Sino-Japanese and th...

This book is a resource for understanding why Lightning continues to be a major health hazard, especially in the developing world, and equips researchers, governments, and public health advocates w...

Case Studies

Defending Christianity in our time became unpopular, "private", shy and... poor. Catholic fundamental theology - officially responsible for defending faith on behalf of the Catholic Church - is awa...

This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Under...

This book is avowedly written in what has been rather patronizingly called "the affable spirit of compromise or conciliation" between science and religion. Its key thesis is that these two enterpri...

As a direct result of an international conference organized in the year 2021, the volume tries to shed light on the way in which the translation activity contributed to the Romanian culture and lan...

While the deepening structural crisis of capitalism in the 21st century has led to a revival of interest in Marx all over the world, Marx's life-long comrade Frederick Engels has largely remained m...

This book provides a critical reassessment of the role of the public sector during the Golden Age in both advanced and emerging economies. Contributions focus on a major player in the setting of mi...

This book offers a re-evaluation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the prominent Italian Renaissance philosopher and prince of Concord. It argues that Pico is part of a history of attempted concord...

The British Trade Corporation, 1917-1926

The poet as graphic artist, the painter as author-- artists truly endowed with double talents are rare. Almost always one creative discipline retains the upper hand. Visual artist Rebecca Horn is f...

Re-imagining University Assessment in a Digital World

i-iv -- Contents -- Introduction -- Appearances and the Semiotics of Culture -- Suggestiveness or Interpretation: On the Vitality of Appearances -- From Maps to Cityscapes: Reactions to Modes of Sp...