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This book proposes a radically new interpretation of the Divine Comedy's encyclopedism by focusing on Dante's work in light of the medieval imago mundi tradition. By bringing attention to Latin Platonism and twelfth-century authors, the work provides compelling new readings and provocative insights into key figures (e.g. Ulysses).

The humanities can contribute to an understanding of a fundamental aspect of human life: work. This cross-disciplinary volume explores how German literature has grappled with understanding work in times of disruptive change brought about by industrialization, rapid technological advances, and globalization.

How can we best use mobile technology to promote learning? How can we personalise our assessment of learning remotely? This book explores these questions and more, considering strategies for using mobile devices for more personalised teaching

This book examines the space of meeting between two religions that open up when there are honest attempts at interreligious learning. Taking Abhishiktananda and Bede Griffiths as examplars and the meeting between Advaita Vedanta and Christianity, the nature of the theological movements within are identified and the resultant hybridities assessed.

This new and expanded edition of William Kingston's Interrogating Irish Policies looks at the Irish political system with an emphasis on innovation and history.

This book provides a solid basis for interreligious pedagogy and didactics. Authentic interreligious cooperation begins by promoting intra- and inter-religious self-confidence and understanding. Approaches and attitudes are examined, including contingency sensibility to support the planning, management and evaluation of educational processes.

This reader explores the cross-disciplinary and transatlantic nature of the notion of culture, tracing how it emerged in the lively Anglo-American debate from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on the legacies of anthropology, the collection includes key primary and secondary texts useful for teaching and learning.

Data Rights Law 1.0 proposes a new concept -«data person». It defines «data rights» as rights derived from the «data person» and «data rights system» as the order based on «data rights». «Data rights law» is the formed out of the «data rights system». The book constructs a framework of «data rights-data rights system-data rights law».

This long overdue anthology captures the soul of MacIntyre's dramatic canon - its ethereal qualities, its extraordinary diversity, its emphasis on the poetic and on performance - in an extensive range of visual, journalistic and scholarly contributions from writers and theatre practitioners.

This edited volume investigates the role of digital communication in relation to linguistic diversity and language education in today's digitally networked world. The collection explores diverse digital venues in which language has different roles and functions, including education, politics, technology, media, and popular culture.

An original work, drawn from archival sources from across the Iberian peninsula. It examines the history of a dynamic and enterprising group of Irish women who migrated to Spain at the end of the fifteenth century, and throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in three distinct waves of migration.

This edited collection of essays brings together discussions on the role,representation and perception of women from the early 1900s to the present day.

How do we remember? And how can we do commemoration better? These questions are movingly explored by leading writers, artists, musicians, religious leaders, military veterans and scholars, illuminating a subject that is sensitive and sobering but which also speaks to our common humanity.

Pastoral Theology is taught in secondary schools through the Christian Religious Studies (CRS) syllabus. The primary focus of this book is to present the theological content in the curriculum of CRS. It presents the actual content designed by educationists using the Nigerian model. It proposes an African Theology of Education.

This book is a response to the important directive spirit of President Xi Jinping's message to the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2019 to "grasp the opportunities in the development of digitization, networks, and intelligence, and handle well the challenges of legal, security, and government governance in Big Data development."

Data Rights Law 1.0 proposes a new concept -'data person'. It defines 'data rights' as rights derived from the 'data person' and 'data rights system' as the order based on 'data rights'. 'Data rights law' is the formed out of the 'data rights system'. The book constructs a framework of 'data rights-data rights system-data rights law'.

This book explores the impact of neoliberal managerialism, framed by the language of bullshit, on higher education in Australia.

Comment allier inspiration, tradition, culture et invention, d'un cote, et grain de jouissance, Reel, rature et manuscrit, de l'autre. C'est ce que l'auteur met en pratique, utilisant les theories litteraire et psychanalytique a travers les manuscrits de Marcel Proust et d'Henry Bauchau.

Sebastiano Vassalli (1941-2015) engaged in an ambitious project to narrate Italy, the nation, its people and its pathologies. For Vassalli, chimeras are the myths that have repeatedly ensnared the nation, resulting in the social and political dysfunctions he denounces. This book represents the first study of Vassalli's works as a whole.

Cosmos and Camus explores the intersection of science fiction film with Albert Camus' philosophy of the absurd. Analyses of the films Contact, Arrival, A.I. and Her show that imaginative collisions with nonhumans help to illuminate the nature of the absurd in the human condition.

This book offers a model for social justice documentary and transmedia arts activism called third digital documentary. Drawing on the author's own transmedia project on indigenous and minority language endangerment and revival, the author explores the potential of this critical art practice.

Terence FitzSimons is an Honorary Research Fellow at Federation University Australia and an honorary historian with Sovereign Hill Museums Association, an affiliated institute of the university. His research interests are centred on Victorian social history.

When Europe fell prey to totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century, the Slovene artist Tone Kralj expressed resistance through his paintings in Catholic churches on the Slovene-Italian ethnic border, which show Hitler and Mussolini as villainous Biblical characters. This highly illustrated volume traces the anti-fascist messages in his work.

There remains an unexplored aspect of Goethe's career: his surprisingly significant role in 19th century melodrama. This score, the first edition of Eberwein's setting of Goethe's melodrama, Proserpina, offers an unprecedented examination of Goethe's text and overturns the accepted image of the artist as unmusical.

This is a book of considerable historical importance, offering an authoritative account of Liszt's teaching methods as imparted by two of his former students. It contains much valuable information unavailable elsewhere: none of the reminiscences of Liszt published by his students discuss technical matters or interpretation in comparable detail.