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Explores debates around learner-centred education (or child-centred education) as a strategy for developing teachers¿ classroom practice and asks whether a `Western¿ construct is appropriate for application in all societies and classrooms.

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The price of betrayal is more than thirty pieces of silver.Two days after Jesus Christ's crucifixion, Judas Iscariot receives an anonymous note stating, I know what you did. Wrapped with it is an eye, complete with trailing optic nerve, and a splintered tooth - trophies ripped from two recently butchered friends. Someone, it seems, knows what Judas did on that fateful night following the Last Supper. And that someone is intent on exacting a bl...

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Elder abuse has been increasingly recognised over the past ten years in many countries and progress in working with the problem has been rapid. This volume provides a much-needed international overview of the topic

Provides the first detailed analysis of the way in which extended nuclear deterrence operates in contemporary Asia. O¿Neil uses a theoretical and historical framework to analyse the contemporary and future dynamics of extended nuclear deterrence in Asia and challenges many of the existing orthodox perspectives on the topic.

This text analyses the potential socio-economic and environmental impacts of the Initiative for Regional Infrastructure Integration in South America (IIRSA), a continent-wide programme.

This text is the result of the collective effort of some of the foremost experts and scholars of Chinese law, Asian law, and Chinese economics and carefully examines the relationship between law and China's economic development.

Mary Leng defends a philosophical account of the nature of mathematics which views it as a kind of fiction (albeit an extremely useful fiction). On this view, the claims of our ordinary mathematical theories are more closely analogous to utterances made in the context of storytelling than to utterances whose aim is to assert literal truths.

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In this edited collection a distinguished set of contributors present a broad overview of psychological research on self-esteem. Each chapter is written by leading experts in the field, and surveys current research on a particular issue concerning self-esteem. Together, the chapters provide a comprehensive overview of one of the most popular topics in psychology. Each chapter presents an in-depth review of particular issues concerning self-est...

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The book explores a range of philosophical and practical issues related to contemporary anti-doping policy including: the proportionality of the response to the problem of doping, the ethical dilemmas facing medical staff, the extent of intrusion into the private lives of athletes, the problem of measuring the extent of doping, and the significance of European Union decisions for anti-doping policy.This book was published as a special issue of...

Wry, warm, and sprinkled with Yiddish humour, this is the novel Woody Allen might have written - had he grown up in Sweden during the Intifada

Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan and Zoo, popularly known as Rani Bagh, opened to the public in 1862, then known as Victoria Gardens. Spread over 53 acres, it is a home to an astonishing 853 plant species and provides a thriving habitat for a variety of birds, insects, and small mammals. This book celebrates 150 years of the botanical garden's existence.

This book comprehensively analyses the challenges posed by the limited pool of ecological resources in the quest of attaining economic development, and the possible solutions. It conceptually and theoretically discusses the linkages between biosphere, economic, and human systems.

Bill Brewer presents a bold new answer to a fundamental question of philosophy: what is the nature of our perceptual relation with objects in the world? His account of perceptual experience captures the fact that physical objects are both the very things that are subjectively presented in perception, and also entirely independent of experience.

This celebrated work in Malayalam literature maps V.T. Bhattathiripad's transformation from a young boy schooled in his ancestral calling of priesthood to a radical writer and activist. Autobiographical in nature, the focus remains on the society as a whole and on the Namboodiri community in particular. The volume also includes an in-depth interview with the author and rare photographs related to the author's life and times.

Gary Gutting tells the story of the remarkable flourishing of philosophy in France in the last four decades of the 20th century. He examines what it was to 'do philosophy', what this achieved, and how it differs from the Anglophone tradition. His key theme is that French philosophy in this period was mostly concerned with thinking the impossible.

This text provides students with an introduction to international human resource management. The authors assume no background knowledge of HRM and blend academic theories with numerous practical examples. Case studies from a wide range of geographical regions and cultures are employed, East as well as West.