General studies books

2334 books were found.

Teaching Life Skills in the Liberal Arts and Sciences: Preparing Students for Success Beyond the Classroom

Teaching Life Skills in the Liberal Arts and Sciences:...

Author: Angela C. Bauer
ISBN: 9781032807171
Format: Paperback
$73.99

This book is a practical guide for faculty and academic leaders who wish to meet this need by intentionally teaching...  Read More >>

Teaching Life Skills in the Liberal Arts and Sciences: Preparing Students for Success Beyond the Classroom

Teaching Life Skills in the Liberal Arts and Sciences:...

Author: Angela C. Bauer
ISBN: 9781032811918
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book is a practical guide for faculty and academic leaders who wish to meet this need by intentionally teaching...  Read More >>

The College of Justice: Government and Governance in Renaissance Scotland

The College of Justice: Government and Governance in...

Author: Andrew R. C. Simpson (Chair of Scottish Legal History, University of Aberdeen)
ISBN: 9781399550222
Format: Hardback
$276.00

Studies the rationales for the institution of Scotland's supreme civil court in the Renaissance.  Read More >>

European University Legacies: Problematic Heritage and Contemporary Practice

European University Legacies: Problematic Heritage and...

Author: Peter Bille Larsen ,  Prof Markéta Křížová
ISBN: 9781399550918
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Explores problematic university heritage in Europe interrogating both historical legacies and contemporary practice....  Read More >>

Leprosy in the Mediterranean Medical Literature: The Kitāb al-Malakī and Related Texts

Leprosy in the Mediterranean Medical Literature: The...

Author: Anna Gili
ISBN: 9783111330877
Format: Hardback
$298.29

Recent studies have underlined the importance of consulting different sources to trace global histories of diseases....  Read More >>

Sigmund Freud's Figural Psychoanalysis: Michelangelo's Moses and the Collection of Idols

Sigmund Freud's Figural Psychoanalysis: Michelangelo's...

Author: Horst Bredekamp
ISBN: 9783689242442
Format: Paperback
$65.00

Sigmund Freuds Untersuchung des Moses von Michelangelo sowie seine Sammlung antiker Kleinskulpturen bieten Elemente...  Read More >>

Between Cure and Control: Doctors, Convicts and Slaves in Tuscan and Papal Galleys (16th-18th Centuries)

Between Cure and Control: Doctors, Convicts and Slaves...

Author: Benedetta Chizzolini
ISBN: 9783111652894
Format: Paperback
$87.09

This study aims to reflect on the meaning of ""medical vigilance"", its theorization, its practical implications,...  Read More >>

Handbook of Poetic Forms

Handbook of Poetic Forms

Author: Jessica Bundschuh ,  Irmtraud Huber
ISBN: 9783111296258
Format: Hardback
$739.20

This handbook offers historically informed approaches to a wide variety of poetic forms. A particular emphasis lies...  Read More >>

The Unterlinden Sisterbook: A Study and Edition of Elisabeth Kempf’s Final Revision, circa 1470

The Unterlinden Sisterbook: A Study and Edition of Elisabeth...

Author: Sarah Glenn DeMaris
ISBN: 9783111704722
Format: Hardback
$348.45

Three related texts about the spiritual lives of early Dominican sisters at Colmar’s Unterlinden convent – the Vitae...  Read More >>

Philosophies of the Afterlife in the Early Italian Renaissance: Fifteenth-Century Sources on the Immortality of the Soul

Philosophies of the Afterlife in the Early Italian Renaissance:...

Author: Assistant Professor Joanna Papiernik (University of Lodz, Poland) ,  Marco Sgarbi (CA)
ISBN: 9781350345829
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The immortality of the soul is one of the oldest tropes in the history of philosophy and one that gained significant...  Read More >>

Poder de la Diversidad Generacional, El

Poder de la Diversidad Generacional, El

Author: Ana Matarranz Carpizo ,  Enrique Arce Saez
ISBN: 9788410221642
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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Ripley’s Believe It or Not! 2026

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! 2026

Author: Ripley
ISBN: 9781529961027
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The ultimate Christmas bestseller of amazing facts, extraordinary stories, and eye-opening pictures is back! Every...  Read More >>

Provincial Metropolis: Intellectuals and the Hinterland in Colonial India

Provincial Metropolis: Intellectuals and the Hinterland...

Author: David Boyk (Northwestern University)
ISBN: 9781009510837
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book examines the city of Patna, in the north Indian region of Bihar, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...  Read More >>

Novelty in Metaphors: A Semiotic Approach to the Creativity of Mind and Emotions

Novelty in Metaphors: A Semiotic Approach to the Creativity...

Author: Ramona Ileana Pistol
ISBN: 9783111567129
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book discusses novelty at the intersection of new metaphors, reasoning, emotions, and imagination. It explores...  Read More >>

Beyond Posthumanism: The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities

Beyond Posthumanism: The German Humanist Tradition and...

Author: Alexander Mathäs
ISBN: 9781836950745
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Against the background of debates about a revival of humanist values, this volume seeks to recast the question of...  Read More >>

The Promise of Sharī'a: Studies in Honor of Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl

The Promise of Sharī'a: Studies in Honor of Professor...

Author: Rami Koujah ,  Josef Linnhoff
ISBN: 9783111329949
Format: Hardback
$89.34

This volume comprises a series of essays honoring Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl, the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor...  Read More >>

The Coloniality of Language in Digital Humour

The Coloniality of Language in Digital Humour

Author: Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera
ISBN: 9783111634883
Format: Hardback
$319.41

Uncover the impact of the coloniality of language on digital humour. This book addresses the coloniality of language...  Read More >>

Digital Games and the Category of Auteur: An Intersectional Approach

Digital Games and the Category of Auteur: An Intersectional...

Author: Filip Jankowski
ISBN: 9788323354765
Format: Paperback
$77.63

This book discusses how digital games and auteur theory can benefit underrepresented groups through discussions...  Read More >>

Revisiting Reflexivity: Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond

Revisiting Reflexivity: Liveable Worlds in Research...

Author: Sarah R. Davies (University of Vienna) ,  Andrea Schikowitz (University of Vienna)
ISBN: 9781529244878
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book explores the concept of reflexivity in science...  Read More >>

The Scholarship of Creative Writing Practice: Beyond Craft, Pedagogy, and the Academy

The Scholarship of Creative Writing Practice: Beyond...

Author: Dr Marshall Moore (Lecturer, Falmouth University, UK) ,  Dr Sam Meekings (Lecturer, Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar)
ISBN: 9781350291034
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Explores imaginatively and creatively the nature of creative writing practice by reflecting on its diverse definitions...  Read More >>

Knowledge, Reading and Culture: Studies in Information Practice

Knowledge, Reading and Culture: Studies in Information...

Author: Matthew James Kelly
ISBN: 9783111346304
Format: Hardback
$374.85

Knowledge, Reading and Culture: Studies in Information Practice is an interdisciplinary inquiry focusing on four...  Read More >>

Freedom and Perfection: German Political Thought from Leibniz to Marx

Freedom and Perfection: German Political Thought from...

Author: Douglas Moggach (University of Ottawa and University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781009590433
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This historical study examines perfectionism and its political implications in the German lands between 1650–1850....  Read More >>

Information-Oriented Logic: Implications of Natural-Language Sentences and All Logical Paradoxes Solved

Information-Oriented Logic: Implications of Natural-Language...

Author: Zbigniew Płotnicki
ISBN: 9783111440460
Format: Paperback
$250.77

This book presents a new concept of logic, called ""information-oriented logic"". Traditionally, logic uses declarative...  Read More >>

Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare: An Ecosemiotic Analysis of Interspecies Translation

Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare: An Ecosemiotic...

Author: Xany Jansen van Vuuren
ISBN: 9783111008899
Format: Hardback
$359.01

By considering concepts such as ecosemiotics, biosemiotics, agency and the materiality of translation, this book...  Read More >>

Convergence and Divergence in the Eastern Circum-Baltic Area: Volume 1: The Northern Part - A Synthetic View, especially on Finnic, and Case Studies

Convergence and Divergence in the Eastern Circum-Baltic...

Author: Björn Wiemer ,  Peter Arkadiev
ISBN: 9783111165165
Format: Hardback
$739.20

The book summarizes research on the structural convergence and divergence of languages in the eastern part of the...  Read More >>

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