General studies and General knowledge

Contesting the putative "e;even-handedness"e; of many introductory social science texts, this innovative book presents strong and provocative arguments on contemporary social issues that will stimulate readers to think critically.

Le débat autour du mythe en tant que concept opposé à la pensée scientifique actuelle est au cœur de ce livre.

Witchcraftunravels the myth fromthe mystery, the facts from the legends, in thisbewitching introduction to witchcraft's lesser-known history.

Developed by expert author Jo Lally, this engaging resource encourages learners to develop and apply critical thinking and research skills in a global context, supporting achievement in AS & A Level assessment, and the transition to further education.

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood has been home to a multicultural mosaic of immigrant communities: Jewish, Portuguese, Chinese, South Asian, Caribbean, and many others.

The Banff–Bow Valley in western Alberta is the heart of spiritual and economic life for the Nakoda peoples.

Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine's preeminent authors and cultural commentators.

Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Quebec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Quebecois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices?

This volume combines ten papers on various aspects of aging in Canada (which together have been published in a special issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies) with several of the most important and interesting relevant essays from other sources.

In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets.

Beyond Interdisciplinarity examines the broadening meaning of core concept across academic disciplines and other forms of knowledge.

The book focuses on the debate about myth as a counter-concept to contemporary scientific thinking.

The past twenty years have seen major changes in the ways that television formats and programming are developed and replicated internationally for different markets - with locally focused repackagings of hit reality shows leading the way.

Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine's preeminent authors and cultural commentators.

A fortuitous urban miracle, Tommy Thompson Park is an oasis of "e;accidental wilderness"e; on Toronto's lakeshore.

The life cycle of companies and enterprises, at present, is short-lived due to rapid social and technological changes.

Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Quebec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Quebecois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices?

On March 11, 2004, Islamist terrorists carried out a massive bombing on Madrid's largely working-class commuter trains, leaving 191 people dead and more than 1,500 others wounded.

Civility in national and international politics is under siege.

New laboratory buildings are currently being planned all around the world.

Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a "e;technique"e; and a "e;science"e; that aims to understand the nature of meaning.

Am Beispiel des studium generale erschließt der Sammelband die Transformation der Universität als Ort der Wissensproduktion und öffentlichen Bildungseinrichtung.

In this third edition of Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, John Bratton and David Denham build on the classical triumvirate-Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber-by extending the conversation to include early female theorists such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as the writings of W.

An interdisciplinary approach to the theme of risk, from cutting edge scholars and understandable to all.

L'Union Africaine et certaines organisations comme le NEPAD ont élaboré des politiques pour le développement de l'Afrique jusqu'à ce jour.

Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is the last or furthest end of knowledge ?

A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world.

Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence.

The immortality of the soul is one of the oldest tropes in the history of philosophy and one that gained significant momentum in 16th-century Europe.

Bildung – eine Anleitung: Ihr Wegweiser zur Welt des Wissens und der WeisheitWie wird man ein gebildeter Mensch?

Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is the last or furthest end of knowledge ?

Wie fit ist dein Teenager - oder dein Schüler -, um außerhalb von ›Hotel Mama‹ und Schule zu überleben?

Ziel dieses Buches: Sie erhalten einen kompakten Überblick und ohne langweilige Erzählungen welche Arten von Wärmepumpen es gibt und wie sie funktionieren, dazu gibt es diverse Details.

The past twenty years have seen major changes in the ways that television formats and programming are developed and replicated internationally for different markets - with locally focused repackagings of hit reality shows leading the way.

Where do Canadian content requirements come from?

This book makes available Ronald Knox's hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil's Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture course on Virgil in 1912.

A fortuitous urban miracle, Tommy Thompson Park is an oasis of "e;accidental wilderness"e; on Toronto's lakeshore.

A new perspective on Kierkegaard and his importance for historical and contemporary debates on self, ethics and religion.

In Anbetracht des Themas des Buches, "Die Zukunft der internationalen Beziehungen im Bereich der Digitalisierung und Vernetzung im Nahen Osten im Jahr 2025", kann der virtuelle Raum, der durch die neuen digitalen Technologien geschaffen wird, als Teil der sozialen Realitäten des neuen Zeitalters, des Raumes und der Beseitigung des Ortes gesehen werden und verwandelt die natürliche Ordnung der Vergangenheit vollständig.

On March 11, 2004, Islamist terrorists carried out a massive bombing on Madrid's largely working-class commuter trains, leaving 191 people dead and more than 1,500 others wounded.