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Generation of Animals is one of Aristotle's most mature,
sophisticated, and carefully crafted scientific writings. His
overall goal is to provide a comprehensive and systematic account
of how animals reproduce, including a study of their reproductive
organs, what we would call fertilization, embryogenesis, and
organogenesis. In this book, international experts present thirteen
original essays providing a philosophically and historically
informed introduction to this important work. They shed light on
the unity and structure of the Generation of Animals, the main
theses that Aristotle defends in the work, and the method of
inquiry he adopts. They also open up new avenues of exploration of
this difficult and still largely unexplored work. The volume will
be essential for scholars and students of ancient philosophy as
well as of the history and philosophy of science.
This book enriches the discourse around Global Citizenship
Education in teacher education through the example of a teacher's
experience in a Canada-China Sister School reciprocal learning
landscape. Instead of positioning global citizenship teaching and
learning as a set of fixed goals to be attained by teachers alone,
this book approaches global citizenship teaching and learning as
unfinished lifework in progress and as situated curriculum problems
to be inquired together by university researchers, school teachers,
and students under the spirit of reciprocity and community. This
reimagination of narratives, theory, and action start from
collaborative and reciprocal learning partnerships among Chinese
and Canadian researchers and teachers in the practicality of
re-searching and re-enacting the purpose and meanings of
twenty-first century education in a Canada-China Sister School
setting.
This book discusses the pivotal role of African indigenous
knowledge systems (AIKS) in promoting, enhancing, and sustaining
livelihoods in Africa. The authors argue that AIKS are of central
importance in the development of sustainable livelihoods,
particularly in rural communities. In their analysis, they draw on
interdisciplinary research in the fields of agriculture, cultural
and indigenous studies, development studies, education, geography,
political science, and sociology. The objective is to make AIKS
more applicable to mainstream educational and development agendas
in Africa, a pressing issue in areas where Eurocentric scientific
practices are cost prohibitive. The Dynamic of African Indigenous
Knowledge Systems will be of interest to development professionals,
policy makers, academics, students, and anyone interested in the
field of AIKS and sustainable development in rural communities.
Caribbean Discourse in Inclusive Education is an edited book series
that aims to give voice to Caribbean scholars, practitioners, and
other professionals working in diverse classrooms. The book series
is intended to provide an ongoing forum for Caribbean researchers,
practitioners, and academics, including those of the Diaspora, to
critically examine issues that influence the education of children
within inclusive settings. The book series is visionary, timely,
authoritative and presents pioneering work in the area of inclusive
education in the Caribbean, as part of the broader South?South
dialogue. It is essential reading for students in undergraduate and
postgraduate programmes, scholars, teachers, researchers and policy
makers at the regional and international level. The first book in
this series entitled Historical and Contemporary Issues will trace
the history and examine the Caribbean's trajectory towards the
development of inclusive education in the 21st Century. The main
premise of the book is that inclusion remains an ideologically
sound goal, which remains elusive in the Caribbean. It will also
provide a wider platform to discuss other factors that influence
the development of inclusive education such as school climate,
culture and ethos, LGBT issues, teacher training and professional
development, pedagogy, pupil perspective, curriculum, policy and
legislation.
Contributions by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Marc DiPaolo, Emine
Akkulah Do?fan, Caroline Eades, Noelle Hedgcock, Tina Olsin Lent,
Rashmila Maiti, Jack Ryan, Larry T. Shillock, Richard Vela, and
Geoffrey Wilson In Next Generation Adaptation: Spectatorship and
Process, editor Allen H. Redmon brings together eleven essays from
a range of voices in adaptation studies. This anthology explores
the political and ethical contexts of specific adaptations and, by
extension, the act of adaptation itself. Grounded in questions of
gender, genre, and race, these investigations focus on the ways
attention to these categories renegotiates the rules of power,
privilege, and principle that shape the contexts that seemingly
produce and reproduce them. Contributors to the volume examine such
adaptations as Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, Jacques Tourneur's
Out of the Past, Taylor Sheridan's Sicario and Sicario: Day of the
Soldado, Jean-Jacques Annaud's Wolf Totem, Spike Lee's He's Got
Game, and Jim Jarmusch's Paterson. Each chapter considers the
expansive dialogue adaptations accelerate when they realize their
capacity to bring together two or more texts, two or more peoples,
two or more ideologies without allowing one expression to erase
another. Building on the growing trends in adaptation studies,
these essays explore the ways filmic texts experienced as
adaptations highlight ethical or political concerns and argue that
spectators are empowered to explore implications being raised by
the adaptations.
The phenomenon of women's entrepreneurship has gained significant
momentum across the globe. Written by leading scholars from a wide
range of countries, this book advances the understanding of women's
entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the contexts they operate
in. It is the fifth in the series of books produced in partnership
with the Diana International Research Network. In this book, expert
contributors explore female potential and how entrepreneurs make
decisions within a multi-layered gendered context. As a rare and
current overview of women's entrepreneurship, it presents evidence
of the positive impact that achieving equality in gendered
institutions would have, how to facilitate meso-institutions'
impact and how to foster entrepreneurship education and
entrepreneurial initiative at the individual level. A crucial
discussion of how women's entrepreneurship could benefit from a
more comprehensive concept of innovation or implementing
entrepreneurial policies focused on women is also included. With
its focus on advancing knowledge about gender issues within the
business realm, Women's Entrepreneurship in Global and Local
Contexts will be of interest to researchers, faculty and students
as well as policy-makers and practitioners. Contributors include:
R. Aidis, L. Alexandre, G. Armannsdottir, T. Bijedic, A.M. Bojica,
C. Brindley, S. Brink, C.G. Brush, S. Coleman, S. Cooper, L. De
Vita, M. del Mar Fuentes, C. Diaz-Garcia, K. Ettl, A. Ford, C.
Foster, E.J. Gatewood, G. Gunay, B.R. Hernandez-Sanchez, E.B.
Kahraman, S. Kriwoluzky, J.V. Leon, M. Mari, D. Nziku, C. Pich, S.
Poggesi, A. Robb, M. Ruiz-Arroyo, J.C. Sanchez-Garcia, M. Tillmar,
D. Uygur, F. Welter, D. Wheatley
In 1974, the Brazilian sports official Joao Havelange was elected
FIFA's president in a two-round election, defeating the incumbent
Stanley Rous. The story told by Havelange himself describes a
private odyssey in which the protagonist crisscrosses two thirds of
the world canvassing for votes and challenging the institutional
status quo. For many scholars, Havelange's triumph changed FIFA's
(International Federation of Football Association) identity,
gradually turning it into a global and immensely wealthy
institution. Conversely, the election can be analyzed as a
historical event. It can be thought of as a political window by
means of which the international dynamic of a specific moment in
the Cold War can be perceived. In this regard, this book seeks to
understand which actors were involved in the election, how the
networks were shaped, and which political agents were directly
engaged in the campaign.
This book offers an in-depth analysis as to how and why women have
been widely associated with madness since ancient times. The first
part of the book comprises a historical survey of various
perceptions of madness across the centuries, while the second part
of the book covers a wide selection of literary works by American
and English writers who dealt with this subject in their works. In
this part of the book, the authors examine selected works of
literature from a feminist perspective by also drawing on the works
of influential theorists of feminist criticism. The authors further
show how these writers, who have been influenced by various
philosophers and theoreticians, critically examine women's madness
in their fiction.
Poached, scrambled, boiled, whipped into a cocktail, transformed
into a painting medium, tossed at an enemy's house. As the most
striking of paradoxes, the egg exists in happy suspension between
humble household ingredient and ever-powerful source of life. One
of the most enduring symbols throughout antiquity, eggs were used
by the Romans to dispel evil spirits, modeled as priceless
artifacts for the Russian nobility, and were woven into Egyptian
mythology. In the debut volume of TASCHEN's series with
cult-favorite The Gourmand journal, we celebrate the link between
food and culture in a visual and literary exploration of the
powerhouse kitchen staple. A collection of original essays and
archetype recipes, from the perfect poach to artful desserts,
celebrates the diversity of culinary traditions around the world.
The Gourmand's Egg. A Collection of Stories and Recipes is
illustrated with exclusive commissions by acclaimed still life
photographers-equal parts sumptuous, absurd, lurid, mouthwatering,
and undeniably The Gourmand. Rounding out the volume are works from
art history's titans, including Salvador Dali, Jean-Michel
Basquiat, Frida Kahlo, David Hockney, and Man Ray alongside texts
from chef, food writer, and critic Ruth Reichl and writer and
editor Jennifer Higgie, and more. "In cooking - as in almost
every-thing else," Reichl said. "It all starts with an egg."
This book investigates the interplay between media, politics,
religion, and culture in shaping Arabs' quest for more stable and
democratic governance models in the aftermath of the "Arab Spring"
uprisings. It focuses on online mediated public debates,
specifically user comments on online Arab news sites, and their
potential to re-engage citizens in politics. Contributors
systematically explore and critique these online communities and
spaces in the context of the Arab uprisings, with case studies,
largely centered on Egypt, covering micro-bloggers, Islamic
discourse online, Libyan nationalism on Facebook, and a
computational assessment of online engagement, among other topics.
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