Philosophy

This book offers a fresh perspective on how science and religion are connected, and how prayer aligns with the laws of nature.

This book takes a novel approach by highlighting comparative and long-term historical perspectives on experimental practice.

This book considers how art actually works, how the various art forms connect with the world of ordinary human experience.

This book focuses primarily on evolutionary processes (rather than evolutionary history).

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This book gathers essays that introduce the ideological advances in the philosophy of engineering and technology in contemporary China.

This book examines the nuanced and situated experiences of self-study researchers.

This book investigates the internationalization of Chinese culture in recent decades and the global dimensions of Chinese culture from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives.

This book presents a new theoretical framework for the study of hypnosis based on an innovative epistemological approach called De-sign.

This volume is designed to impart the fundamental concepts in experimental pharmacology, research methodology and biostatistics.

This volume contains high quality articles, originally published in Chinese in the Chinese Journal Jiuzhou Xuelin [Chinese Cultural Quarterly] and new articles written on special invitation by established scholars in the field.

This book features original papers from 25th International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music (FRSM 2020), jointly organized by National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India, during 8-9 October 2020.

This book addresses the issue of cognitive semantics' aspects that cannot be represented by traditional digital and logical means.

This book represents an ambitious effort to bring leading Yijing scholars together to examine the globalisation and localisation of the 'Book of Changes' from cross-cultural and comparative perspectives.

This book examines the nuanced and situated experiences of self-study researchers.

This book re-conceptualizes teaching through an engagement with Jean-Paul Sartre's early existentialist thought.

This book deals with the intricate issue of approaching atheism-methodologically as well as conceptually-from the perspective of cultural pluralism.

This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the realm of public health to critically analyze the major global issues of COVID-19 that undermine public interest.

Diagnosis of death by neurological criteria (DNC) is a construct which has been part of the British medico-legal landscape for nearly half a century.

This book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora.

This volume is designed to impart the fundamental concepts in experimental pharmacology, research methodology and biostatistics.

This book's overarching premise is that discussion and critique in the discourses of architecture and urbanism have their primary focus on engagements with form, particularly in the sense of the question as to what planning and architecture signify with respect to the forms they take, and how their meanings or content (what is "e;contained"e;) is considered in relation to form-as-container.

This book illustrates the design, development, and evaluation of personalized intelligent tutoring systems that emulate human cognitive intelligence by incorporating artificial intelligence.

This book presents a new approach to computational musicology in which music becomes a computational entity based on human cognition, allowing us to calculate music like numbers.

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Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection presents the first general theory that links poetry in environmental thought to poetry as an environment.

This book combines the fundamentals of industrial organization theories based on microeconomic foundations, applied econometrics and environmental and natural resource economics in undertaking a comprehensive review of reforms of the power sector and its impact on industrial and socio-economic performance.

This book leaves the template of the inertia of natural human society and traditional ideological thinking, to illustrate the mechanism of the generation of the Sociality Brain and to explore the construction path of the human-computer symbiosis order.

This book focuses on piano teachers and the many pains they encounter in their careers.

In one of the only works drawing on interviews with both Uyghurs and Han in Xinjiang, China, and postcolonial perspectives on ethnicity, nation, and race, this book explores how forms of banal racism underpin ideas of self and other, assimilation and modernisation, in this restive region.

This book aims to "e;digital economics"e; as an inter-discipline research area, by integrating economics, philosophy of technology, computer science and sociology.

This book presents an essential contribution to approaches in the studies of film, literature, performance, translation, and other art forms within the Chinese cultural tradition, examining East-West cultural exchange and providing related intertextual dialogue.

This book brings together an impressive group of scholars to critically engage with a wide-ranging and broad perspective on the historical and contemporary phenomenon of Zen.

This book states that the political systems of China, Vietnam, Cuba and other socialist countries are showing distinct maturity and ability to deal effectively with challenges - the most recent being the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This book mainly studies the methodologies of structural design and construction for highway engineering, which are applicable to the overall control and the precise operation of engineering structures.

This book offers a new standpoint to understanding tolerance to human diversity by approaching it from the perspectives of cognitive, developmental and prosocial psychology.

This book investigates the internationalization of Chinese culture in recent decades and the global dimensions of Chinese culture from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives.

This book features original papers from 25th International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music (FRSM 2020), jointly organized by National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India, during 8-9 October 2020.

This book highlights the unique need for philosophy among engineers, which stems from issues regarding their knowledge (epistemology), role or being (ontology) and influence (ethics).

This book gathers essays that introduce the ideological advances in the philosophy of engineering and technology in contemporary China.

This book offers an easy-to-read, yet comprehensive introduction to practical issues in doctor-patient relationships in a typical low- and middle-income country setting in India, examining in detail the reasons for erosion of trust and providing guidance on potential research areas in the field.

As the first academic monograph that a Chinese scholar discusses the histories of thoughts and ideas related to the development of digital economics, this book aims to make research from the perspective of the history of ideas and discuss the ideas influencing the development of digital economics and the evolution of related theories and thoughts with the methodology of interdisciplinary research.

This book offers a new standpoint to understanding tolerance to human diversity by approaching it from the perspectives of cognitive, developmental and prosocial psychology.

This book addresses the metaphysics of Armstrongian states of affairs, i.

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The book deals with philosophical issues concerning the understanding of the literary text and its distinctive nature, meaning, and relevance to life.

Dedicated to educators who are not philosophy specialists, this book offers an overview of the connections between Wittgenstein's later philosophy and his own training and practice as an educator.

This book moves away from the frameworks that have traditionally guided ethical decision-making in the Western clinical setting, towards an inclusive, non-coercive and, reflective dialogic approach to moral decision-making.