Humanities & social sciences Books

""Latin Without Tears: Or One Word A Day"" is a language learning book written by Favell Lee Mortimer and published in 1877. The book is designed to teach Latin in a simple and easy-to-understand way, with one new word introduced each day. The author...

Symbols of Christendom is a textbook written by John Radford Thomson in 1867. The book is an elementary and introductory guide to the symbols used in Christianity. It provides a comprehensive overview of the various symbols and their meanings, including...

Praelectiones Encyclopaedicae In Physicam Experimentalem Et Historiam Naturalem est liber auctore Bernhard Grant anno 1770 editus. In hoc libro, auctor disputationem de physicis experimentis et historia naturali tractat. Praelectiones Encyclopaedicae In...

Lives Of Illustrious Greeks: For Schools And Families is a book published in 1849 by the Religious Tract Society. It is a collection of biographies of famous Greeks throughout history, written for educational purposes. The book includes the lives of...

The Meno of Plato is a philosophical dialogue between Socrates and Meno, a wealthy young man who is seeking knowledge about the nature of virtue. The dialogue explores the concept of knowledge and whether it can be taught, as well as the nature of virtue...

Lehrbuch Der Geschichte Der Neueren Philosophie (1907) is a comprehensive textbook on the history of modern philosophy written by Harald Hoffding. The book covers the period from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century, exploring the development...

The teaching of sex and relationships is now statutory but many secondary schools and teachers are struggling with this essential topic. Can we really talk about sexual pleasure? How do we make our teaching LGBTQ+ inclusive? How do we engage boys with...

This Handbook explores what makes social work uniquely African, shaping, informing, and influencing a new culturally relevant era of social work. The topics covered are relevant to a global audience engaged in social justice work across social work,...

Nanetti outlines a methodology for deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance historical research.Historical events are the treasure of human experiences, the heritage that societies have used to remain resilient and express their...

This volume is a comprehensive study of George Wilson, a leading advocate for evangelical science and for the role of biology in technology - it examines his work to develop a unitary vision of Victorian science and technology by drawing upon religion,...

Every year, thousands of prisoners get released from jails and prisons into halfway houses, with a large percentage of them being sent back to lockup for violating rules or procedures. Halfway houses are an extremely important component to successful...

""Easy Graduated Latin Passages: For Practice In Unseen Translation"" is a book written by George Lovett Bennett and originally published in 1883. The book is designed to help students of Latin improve their translation skills by providing a series of...

""Dorothea Beale: Principal Of The Cheltenham Ladies������� College, 1858-1906"" is a biography written by Elizabeth Helen Shillito in 1920. The book chronicles the life and achievements of Dorothea Beale, who served as the principal of Cheltenham...

Conversations On The Parables Of The New Testament: For The Use Of Children is a book written by Edward George Stanley in 1849. The book is designed to help children understand the parables of the New Testament. The parables are stories that Jesus told...

""Freehand and Perspective Drawing: A Manual of the Principles of Artistic Perception and the Art of Correct Graphic Delineation"" is a comprehensive guidebook on the techniques and principles of drawing. Written by Herbert Edward Everett, a well-known...

This beautiful children's verse book is about kindness - what it is, how to express it, and the positive impact that it can have on individuals and around the world. Written as a three-stanza poem, About Kindness employs rhythms, rhymes, and repetition...

The Great Pause is a children's picture book that honours the magnitude of the pandemic experience and its shared impact. With the book's themes of perseverance, patience, gratitude, mindfulness, and compassion, it reflects on the human experience of...

The Second Edition of Becoming a Teacher of Writing in Elementary Classrooms is an interactive learning experience focusing on all aspects of becoming-writer and teacher of writing in the Writing Studio.

This volume provides translations of texts on the Mamluk Sultan Qalawun (1279-90) and his son al-Malik al-Ashraf (1290-93), which cover the end of the Crusader interlude in the Syrian Levant. Translated from the original Arabic, these chronicles detail...

This book explores the recent trend toward the transformation of religious symbols and practices into culture in Western democracies. Analyses of three legal cases involving religion in the public sphere are used to illuminate this trend: a municipal...

Following the First World War and in actions that challenged Britain's reputation as a liberal democracy, various government departments implemented policies of mass repatriation from Britain of populations of colonial and friendly migrants and refugees...

The book explores the intellectual history of Bulgaria between the 1960s and the 1980s at the intersections of the country's social and political history. Based on case studies, the research delves into three areas: the control and pressure mechanisms...

The East Asian War of 1592 to 1598 was the only extended war before modern times to involve Japan, Korea, and China. It devastated huge swathes of Korea and led to large population movements across borders. This book draws on surviving letters and...

From the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was a great deal of turmoil, tension and violence in what became Malaysia as a result of the 1963 Federation; upheavals included the Malayan Emergency of...

This book is a translation of La Nazione del Risorgimento, one of the most important and influential works on modern Italian history published in recent years. It analyses the aspects of the ideas of nationhood and patriotism that impassioned and...

Hellenistic philosophy concerns the thought of the Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics, the most influential philosophical groups in the era between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) and the defeat of the last Greek stronghold in the ancient world...

The Prison House of Alienation is an exploration of the humanist theme of alienation that Marx theorized in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. It relates this theme of alienation with the themes of haunting in the Manifesto of the...

Latin American countries have for a long time been importers of public policies and institutions from the Global North.　The colonial legacy and resulting patterns of international relations during the 20th century favoured a course of adoption and...

The Power of the Gaze, a textbook on visual literacy, entices the reader to seek significant structures in everyday visual reality, which are called visual orders. Visual orders can be found in representations, visible surroundings, or in nonverbal...

Inspiring book for children who regularly feel worried or anxious. Sam worries about lots of things - big things, small things, in-between things. Sam learns that these feelings are normal and that he is brave enough to express what's going on inside of...

This book engages contemporary debates about the notion of secularism outside of the field of education in order to consider how secularism shapes the formation of progressive sexuality education. Focusing on the US, Canada, Ireland, Aotearoa-New Zealand...

Published in 1968: The author not only pioneered modern-style village surveys in both England and India, but also modern style urban surveys and studies in India. There he broke new ground in his remarkable first-hand researches on agricultural labour,...

SHE LOVES ME . . . SHE LOVES ME NOT helps children cope with parental depression. The narrative emphasizes common questions children tend to ask along with recommendations for answering them fully and directly. Due to their wild imagination and...

Real Estate 100 continues its real estate series for the next generation. This time around, the focus shifts to income property. Anthony Lee, real estate professional and seasoned investor partners with Lisa Puerto, Super Agent℠ to share savvy tips and...

The Adventures of Archaeological Doug is a book series about a 13 year old boy named Douglas and his eight year old sister, Sandy. Both of their parents are archaeology professors and, on occasion, are allowed to bring their children on business trips to...

This visionary and thoroughly accessible book examines how digital environments and virtual reality have altered the ways historians think and communicate ideas and how the new language of visualization transforms our understanding of the past. Drawing...

This book is intended for teachers of dance improvisation. The authors share their method for using the history of music and visual arts to provide a wider context for the art of dance, and to explore themes that may be incorporated into dance...

Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond looks anew at the lives, effects and possibilities of things. Starting from the perspectives of things themselves, it outlines a particular, displacement approach to the museum, anthropology and material...

Corpus Linguistics for ELT provides a practical guide to undertaking ELT-related corpus research. Aimed at researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of ELT and TESOL, and English language teachers, this volume:covers corpus research...

This revised and updated edition of Teaching Classroom Drama and Theatre will be an essential text for anyone teaching drama in the modern classroom. It presents a model teachers can use to draw together different methodologies of drama and theatre...

In Play and Creativity in Art Teaching, esteemed art educator George Szekely draws on his two classic volumes, Encouraging Creativity in Art Lessons and From Play to Art, to create a new book for new times. The central premise is that art teachers are...

Dyslexia cuts across class, age and intelligence. All schools will have pupils with dyslexia and teachers of children of all ages need to be aware of the teaching methods and approaches which are most effective with these children. This fully revised and...

Cuban culture has long been available to English speakers via translation. This study examines the complex ways in which English renderings of Cuban texts from various domains-poetry, science fiction, political and military writing, music, film-have...

Sigmund Freud's 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality is a founding text of psychoanalysis and yet it remains to a large extent an "unknown" text. In this book Freud's 1905 theory of sexuality is reconstructed in its historical context, its...

This book defines the processes used for delivering a range of food items to the city of Rome and its hinterland from the first century AD using modern supply chain modelling techniques. The subject matter delves into the wider supply of goods, such as...

The Young People's Song Book is a collection of over 200 songs compiled by Charles Edward Whiting and published in 1892. The book is intended for children and young adults, and includes a variety of songs from religious hymns to patriotic tunes. The...