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The Virgin Mary across Cultures: Devotion among Costa Rican Catholic and Finnish Orthodox Women
by Elina VuolaThis book examines women’s relationship to the Virgin Mary in two different cultural and religious contexts, and compares how these relationships have been analyzed and explained on a theological and a sociological level. The figure of the Virgin Mary is a divisive one in our modern culture. To some... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Gender and Orthodox Christianity: Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice (Routledge Studies in Religion)
by Elina Vuola • Helena KupariThe Orthodox Christian tradition has all too often been sidelined in conversations around contemporary religion. Despite being distinct from Protestantism and Catholicism in both theology and practice, it remains an underused setting for academic inquiry into current lived religious practice. This c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Urban Open Spaces
There is enormous interest in urban design and the regeneration of our urban areas, but current thinking often concentrates on the built form, forgetting the important role that open spaces play. Urban Open Spaces brings together extensive research and practical experience to prove the opportunities... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers
For fans of Humans of New York and PostSecret, a collection of raw, urgent, and heartfelt stories, shared anonymously.What would you confess if you knew it would never get back to your spouse, your colleagues, or your family? What story would you tell about your life if a stranger was willing to lis... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Technologies for Development
The book presents case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America addressing global development issues in the fields of health, energy, ICT and urbanism in an interdisciplinary way. The book illustrates key issues at the interface of technology, human, social, and economic development. Bringing t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Way to Reduce Poverty?
Whilst scientific research can be crucial in guiding innovation and development throughout the world, it can be too detached from real world applications, particularly in developing and emerging countries. Technologies for Sustainable Development brings together the best 20 papers from the 2012 Conf... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Technologies and Innovations for Development
Technological innovation - combined with scientific research - has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies. At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Learning about Learning: Resources for Supporting Effective Learning
This practical A4 pack contains activities and ideas for teachers and students to learn more about learning. Learning about Learningis a practical way of teaching important and neglected theories of learning.The idea is that if teachers and students learn about what learning is and how it happens th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
The Semantic Web: ESWC 2012 Satellite Events
by Emanuele Della Valle • Elena Simperl • Barry Norton • Dunja Mladenic • Irini Fundulaki • Alexandre Passant • Raphaël TroncyThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the satellite events of the 9th International Conference on the Semantic Web, ESWC 2012, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in May 2012. This volume contains 49 full papers and 13 short papers describing the posters and demonstrations... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Caregiving Across Cultures: Working With Dementing Illness And Ethnically Diverse Populations
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Corpus Linguistics for English for Academic Purposes (Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides)
This book shows how corpus analyses can enhance students’, practitioners’ and researchers’ knowledge of academic language. The book provides a reader-friendly discussion of the key concepts, practices and research applications of corpus linguistics which are relevant to the EAP community. The volum... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
The Routledge Research Companion to Digital Medieval Literature
Working across literature, history, theory and practice, this volume offers insight into the specific digital tools and interfaces, as well as the modalities, theories and forms, central to some of the most exciting new research and critical, scholarly and artistic production in medieval and pre-mod... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Microbial Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals
by Maria G. Tuohy • Vijai Kumar Gupta • Helen Treichel • Volha Olga Shapaval • Luiz Antonio de OliveiraShowcases the recent advances in microbial functional food applications across food science, microbiology, biotechnology, and chemical engineering Microbial technology plays a key role in the improvement of biotechnology, cosmeceuticals, and biopharmaceutical applications. It has turned into a subje... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Comparative Essays on the Poetry and Prose of John Donne and George Herbert: Combined Lights
by Greg Miller • Kimberly Johnson • Helen Wilcox • Kirsten Stirling • Kate Narveson • Angela Balla • Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise • Robert W. Reeder • Danielle A. Hilaire • Christopher T. HodgkinsThis book brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collection of its kind to draw close connections between these two distinguished early modern thinkers and poets who are justly couples because of the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
by Eliyana R. Adler • Dalia Ofer • Sarah Wobick-Segev • Laura Hobson Faure • Natalia Aleksiun • Viktoria Banyai • Robin Judd • Anja Reuss • Helena Sadílková • Joachim Schlör • Michal Unger • Katerina Capková • Volha BartashDiaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions embedded within families. Even after the war, sole survivors often described their losses and rebuilt their lives ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Thérèse of Lisieux
Saint Thérèse's life testifies that holiness doesn't require unusual deeds or huge sacrifices. Rather, the little "yeses" of everyday life, when done with a trusting heart eager to please God, are a sure path toward holiness. In her daily surrender to all that Providence placed before her, Thérèse o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Highlights of Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems
by Paulo Novais • Javier Bajo • Pawel Pawlewski • Vicente Julián • Kasper Hallenborg • Fernando Lopes • Zita Vale • Ana Paula Rocha • Philippe Mathieu • Elena Del Val • Nestor D. Duque Méndez • Johan HolmgrenThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the nine workshops co-located with the 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2017. The 41 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected fr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Advances in Visual Computing: 11th International Symposium, ISVC 2015, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 14-16, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9475)
by Tim Mcgraw • George Bebis • Richard Boyle • Bahram Parvin • Darko Koracin • Ioannis Pavlidis • Rogerio Feris • Mark Elendt • Regis Kopper • Eric Ragan • Zhao Ye • Gunther WeberThe two volume set LNCS 9474 and LNCS 9475 constitutesthe refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on VisualComputing, ISVC 2015, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in December 2015. The 115 revised full papers and 35 poster paperspresented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Preaching with Their Lives: Dominicans on Mission in the United States after 1850
by Kathleen Sprows Cummings • Cynthia Taylor • Margaret M. McGuinness • Arlene Bachanov • Elizabeth Michael Boyle O.P. • James T. Carroll • Heath Carter • Diane Kennedy O.P. • Donna Maria Moses O.P. • Cecilia Murray O.P. • Christopher J. Renz O.P. • Ellen Skerrett • Janet Welsh O.P.This volume tells the little-known story of the Dominican Family—priests, sisters, brothers, contemplative nuns, and lay people—and integrates it into the history of the United States. Starting after the Civil War, the book takes a thematic approach through twelve essays examining Dominican contribu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Biotechnology of Fruit and Nut Crops
by Maria Luisa Badenes • Patrick Brown • Nicolas Roux • Araceli Barceló-Muñoz • Vicente Vicente • Óscar Martínez • Eddo Rugini • Luciana Baldoni • Alain Rival • Magda-Viola Hanke • Henryk Flachowsky • Julie Graham • Luis A. Cañas • Dennis J. Gray • Stephen Adkins • J. R. Botella • Leandro Pena • Ossama Kodad • Pedro Martínez-Gómez • Abhaya Dandekar • Sadanand A. Dhekney • Yuval Cohen • Kate Evans • Nuria Alburquerque • Pedro M. Barros • A. T. Basford • Muhammad Ajmal Bashir • Diego Silva Batista • Julianne Biddle • Manuel Blasco • Lorenzo Burgos • John E. Carlson • Elisabeth Carmona • David Chagné • Rekha Chaudhury • Elisabeth Chevreau • V. E. Chhatre • Yelda Özden Çiftçi • C. Claflin • Elena Corredoira • Valerio Cristofori • Niccolò Cultrera • Maurecilne Lemes da Silva • Leo D’Souza • Ofere Francis Emeriewen • M. Faize • Fábio Gelape Faleiro • Ana Paula Farinha • Yolanda Ferradás • Antonio Figueira • Maureen M.M. Fitch • M. Foale • Svetlana Y. Folimonova • María Victoria González • Isabel María González-Padilla • Smitha Hegde • Professor Jose Ignacio Hormaza • Uma Jaiswal • Nikki Jennings • Hülya Akdemir Koç • Nerea Larrañaga • Chuck Leslie • Z. J. Li • Amanda De Lopes • Carlos López-Encina • Rodolfo López-Gómez • Jorge Lora • Zheng-Rong Luo • S. K. Malik • Roberto Mariotti • Antonio J. Matas • José Mercado • Scott Merkle • Sara Montanari • Gloria Moore • Soraya Mousavi • Isabel Narváez • María Del Naval • Q. T. Nguyen • Shashikiran Nivas • M. Margarida Oliveira • Ahmet Onay • Guillermo Padilla • Elena Palomo-Ríos • Andreas Peil • Rosa M. Pérez-Clemente • Cesar Petri • Paula M. Pijut • Marcos Vinícius Pinheiro • Clara Pliego • Fernando Pliego-Alfaro • Simon H.T. Raharjo • Manoj K Rai • Manuel Rey • Gabino Ríos • Diego Ismael Rocha • M. B. Rosenberg • M. Rouard • D. Ruiz • J. Sardos • Danielle Camargo Scotton • Cristian Silvestri • Michael K Smith • Guo-Qing Song • Veysel Süzerer • Alicia Talavera • Ryutaro Tao • Takuya Tetsumura • Engin Tilkat • Pablo Ric Varas • Wagner Vendrame • Francisco Javier Viéitez • Hazel Wetzstein • Roxana Yockteng • Qing-Lin ZhangThis book covers the biotechnology of all the major perennial fruit and nut species. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2005, there has been significant progress in cell culture, genomics and genetic transformation for many of these species. This book covers these biotechnolo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Visitor Experience Design (Cabi Series In Tourism Management Research Ser.)
by Pierre Benckendorff • Wei Liu • Xiang Li • Ying Wang • Júlio Mendes • Ana Claudia Campos • I-Ling Chen • Peiyi Ding • Rouven Doran • Afiya Holder • Shan Jiang • Svein Larsen • Dung Le • Kuan-Huei Lee • Shanshi Li • Brent Moyle • Liubov Skavronskaya • Beverley Sparks • Patricia Valle • Gabby Walters • Katharina Wolff • Laurie Wu • Lihua GaoMost discussion of visitor experiences uses a behavioural or managerial approach where the way the visitor thinks is ignored - it's a black box. Visitor Experience Design is the first book of its kind to examine best practice in creating and delivering exciting and memorable travel and visitation e... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Improving Animal Welfare: A Practical Approach
by Jeffrey Rushen • Jennifer Woods • Anne Marie Anne Marie • David Main • Kevin Stafford • Bernard Rollin • Camie Heleski • Janice Swanson • Jan Shearer • Helen Whay • Tina Widowski • Derek Donkin • Amy McLean • Kurt Vogel • Lily N. Edwards-Callaway • Madonna Benjamin • Courtney Lynd Daigle • Wendy K Fulwider • Hubert J. Karreman • David J Mellor • Siobhan Mullan • Steven Yik • Upinder Kaur • Richard M. Voyles • Shawn DonkinCompletely revised, updated and with four new chapters on sustainability, new technologies, precision agriculture and the future of animal welfare, the third edition of this highly successful textbook: · Is edited by an outstanding world expert on animal welfare. · Emphasizes th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Keywords for Comics Studies (Keywords)
by Andrew Hoberek • Shelley Streeby • Jared Gardner • Scott Bukatman • Darieck Scott • Nicholas Sammond • Mimi Thi Nguyen • Cathy Schlund-Vials • Frederick Luis Aldama • Bart Beaty • Rebecca Wanzo • Blair Davis • Tahneer Oksman • Michael Chaney • Jonathan W. Gray • Benjamin Woo • Ian Gordon • Stacey Robinson • Frank Bramlett • Adam L. Kern • Yetta Howard • Brannon Costello • Charles Hatfield • José Alaniz • Gregory Steirer • Aaron Kashtan • Deborah Elizabeth Whaley • Alexandro Segade • Amy Kiste Nyberg • André Carrington • Anthony Michael D’Agostino • Barbara Postema • Benjamin Saunders • Carol L. Tilley • Christopher Pizzino • Christopher Spaide • Cáel M. Keegan • Ellen Kirkpatrick • Enrique García • Ian Blechschmidt • Isabel Millán • Jessica Quick Stark • Joo Ok Kim • Joshua Abraham Kopin • Justin Hall • Leah Misemer • Margaret Galvan • Matt Silady • Michael Mark Cohen • Nicholas Yanes • Osvaldo Oyola • Phil Jimenez • Sara Biggs Chaney • Sean Guynes • Susan KirtleyIntroduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studiesAcross more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essay... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021