On the Signification of Colours

by Fulvio Pellegrino Morato

by Roy Osborne

This volume presents the first full English translation from the Italian of Morato's Del significato de' colori (1535), together with a biography, commentary, footnotes and original Italian text. Morato's book on colour and dress in relation to ancient Greek and Roman literature was the most influential book on colour published in the 1500s.

The Dubai International Conference in Higher ...

Succeeding in the Pursuit of Quality

by Tessa Dunseath (Conference Organizing Chair, Michigan State ...

The Dubai International Conference in Higher Education is a conference where educators, academic managers, students, and researchers from around the world come together to discuss the challenges facing education now and in the future.

As global youth unemployment steadily rises, there are even more demands on higher education institutions across the ...

African Journal of Reproductive Health

Vol.17, No.2, June 2013

by Friday Okonofua (editor)

African Journal of Reproductive Health (AJRH) is a multidisciplinary and international Journal published quarterly (March, June, September, and December) by the Women's Health and Action Research Centre (a Non-governmental Organization with headquarters in Nigeria). The publication of the journal started in 1997. As of December 2012, 51 editions have been ...

The Twilight of the Scientific Age

by Martín López Corredoira

This book gives a challenging point of view about science and its history/philosophy/sociology. Science is in decline. After centuries of great achievements, the exhaustion of new forms and fatigue have reached our culture in all of its manifestations including the pure sciences. Our society is saturated with knowledge which does not offer people any sense ...

The Psychogeography of Urban Architecture

by David Prescott-Steed

This praxis-based book explores how an improvisational, creative and embodied practice such as the dérive works to defamiliarise our experience of the late modern built environment, fostering new insight into routinised cultural behaviours.

In addition to detailing the key contexts of modernity, this book includes case studies on the ...

The Mechanical Pencil

Concepts in Distance Education

by Luke Strongman

The purpose of this book is to define and explain concepts in distance learning academia. The intended audience are students, faculty, staff and managers at tertiary education organizations. The ten chapters elucidate factors, concepts and trends which increasingly effect the academic environment of distance learning, such as: ...

Current Trends in Language and Culture ...

Selected Proceedings of the 20th Southeast Conference on ...

by Yves-Antoine Clemmen, Margit Grieb, & Will Lehman (editors)

This volume includes selected papers from the 20th Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures and Film, held on March 2-3, 2012 at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. It represents a cross section of current approaches to questions of violence and trauma; identity subjectivity and the national; race and gender; and teaching in foreign ...

Proceedings of First International ...

ICETME-2013

by Himanshu B. Soni (organizer)

The first International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering (ICETME-2013) was held from 4-5 January, 2013. The main objective of this conference was to provide a common platform to academicians, research scholars, and students from India and abroad to share their ideas and research experiences in various aspects of Mechnical Engineering. ...