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This book considers John Dewey¿s philosophy of democratic education and his theory of public sphere from the perspective of the reconstruction and redefinition of the dominant liberalist movement. Focusing on Dewey¿s theory of aesthetic education as an origin of the construction of public sphere, chapters explore his art education practices and involvement in the Barnes Foundation of Philadelphia, clarifying the process of school reform based ...

Programa de educación pediátrica prehospitalaria (PEPP), tercera edición representa una fuente completa de información médica prehospitalaria para la atención de urgencias de los lactantes y los niños. El PEPP se diseñó para proporcionar a los profesionales prehospitalarios la educación, las habilidades y la confianza que requieren para tratar de manera eficaz a los pacientes pediátricos. Desarrollado por la American Academy of Pediatrics, PEP...

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of marriage in archipelagic Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. It examines the way trends in the formation and dissolution of marriages are related to changes in the economy and society in the region.

This book explores how governments and business in Asia and the Pacific can apply the key insight that one of the reasons economies grow is because of human-capital formation ¿ the quality and diversity of the labour force are augmented ¿ not just because the labour force grows in size. It includes chapters on conceptual and measurement issues, country experiences in meeting the imperatives of demographic transition and investment in education...

Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India.

The South Asian security complex refers to security interdependencies between the states in the region, and also includes the effect that powerful external actors, such as China, the US and Russia, and geopolitical interests have on regional dynamics. This book focuses on the national securities of a number of South Asian countries in order to discuss a range of issues related to South Asian security.

This book examines three recent Chinese documentary television series which present the officially sanctioned view of the rise of the modern West, the reasons for the end of the Soviet Union, and the legitimisation of the present-day Chinese government via a specific reading of modern Chinese history to argue for a `Chinese rise¿ in the future. It discusses how history is presented on screen, explores the function of visual history for memory ...

It is hardly noteworthy in contemporary discourse when the phrase, "We'll just have to agree to disagree" actually means, "We plan never to speak to each other again." For members of Episcopal and other Anglican churches, however, the Anglican tradition's identity as a via media demands forthright engagement with difficult topics by Christians committed to remaining in prayerful relationship with each other. In the spring of 2013, Duke Divinit...

Moral destitution and collapse, a lack of respect for human dignity and worth, and deficits in proper moral functioning at all levels of the world community, often discounted or masked by transparent excuses and vacuous rationalizations, are all viewed as principal causes of the social, societal and ecological crises with which we are confronted today. Developmental psychology is charged with the specific task of illuminating the growth and ev...

There is a long tradition, in the history and philosophy of science, of studying Kant¿s philosophy of mathematics, but recently philosophers have begun to examine the way in which Kant¿s reflections on mathematics play a role in his philosophy more generally, and in its development. The contributions to this book explore this idea that Kant¿s transcendental philosophy is strongly influenced by the importance and special status of mathematics. ...

Public Service Media in Europe examines the early establishment of public service media as the main media in many countries before charting its transformation and evolution in recent years.

Describes how to systematically implement various characteristic mode (CM) theories into designs of practical antenna systems This book examines both theoretical developments of characteristic modes (CMs) and practical developments of CM-based methodologies for a variety of critical antenna designs.

This book shows how the movement to define and popularise Japanese martial arts in the late Meiji period brought Japanese bodies, Japanese nationalisms, and the Japanese state into sustained contact and dynamic engagement with one another. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, Denis Gainty shows how the metaphor of a national body and the cultural and historical meanings of martial arts were celebrated and appropriated by modern Japanese a...

For centuries, criminologists have looked for scientific ways to study, understand, and ultimately prevent crime. In this volume, a unique offense, poaching, is explored in various contexts to determine what opportunity structures favor this crime and how situational crime prevention may reduce its prevalence. While the theoretical grounding of this volume is drawn from criminology, it is written for a broad audience of academics, practitioner...

This book investigates the decision-making process, rationale and determining factors which underlie strategic shifts from armed to nonviolent strategies of resistance within self-determination, revolutionary or pro-democracy movements.

This title will explore Chinäs strategic interests in the South China Sea, with a specific emphasis on power projection and resource security. Chinäs regional actions and reactions are reshaping the power dynamics in East and South-East Asia, while economic and geopolitical futures depend on the variegated outcomes of these complex relationships with neighbours and the West. An introductory section will be complemented by four case studies (Ja...

This book is one of the first to address Chinäs role and influence in the Security Council. It develops a picture of a state struggling to find a way between the need to protect its stakes in a number of `rogue regimes¿, on one hand, and its image as a responsible rising power on the world stage, on the other. Negotiating this careful balancing act has mixed implications, and means that whilst China can be a useful ally in collective security,...

Acclaimed photographer Richard Phibbs turns his unique eye for beauty westward. The West, his second book, is an extremely personal view of the beauty and authenticity of the place and its lingering hold on our national consciousness. Once more Phibbs collaborates with Alfredo Paredes, Executive Vice President, Ralph Lauren, his partner in his first monograph, Chasing Beauty. Phibbs's love of the West came naturally. He was born in Calgary, Al...

This book deals with two major issues: how Indonesian NGOs survived under Suharto's authoritarian rule, and how NGOs contributed to the promotion of democracy in the post-Suharto era.

This is the first book in English to examine the tangled web of relationships linking newspaper owners, editors and reporters, with leading politicians and power-holders.