Shortly after William Shakespeare’s famous words, “all the world’s a stage,” were uttered in the opening performance of As You Like It in the new Globe theater, the Red Dragon set sail to found...
Government data suggests that at least 8663 thousand people (possibly triple that number) have been killed by police and other groups in the Philippines during President Duterte’s so-called “war...
This book examines a wide variety of psychological perspectives on peace and presents a new conceptualization of peace by focusing on its underlying components. A force lives perpetually and persists...
Debate concerning anachronism has long vexed historical interpretation. Forms of anachronism are often declared the greatest failure, almost a moral sin, that a historian can commit. Yet, many have spoken...
This book focuses on the shaping of the lifting surfaces to give an aircraft the desired performance. Skills in shaping for performance can be built by hands-on experience in real aerodynamic design...
Many governments claim that the way out of the COVID-19 pandemic is through vaccines. But this can only be partly true because of two inherently complicated and confounding factors: (i) the endless ingenuity...
Perhaps surprisingly, the COVID-19 crisis had a broadly positive short-term impact on housing and homelessness problems and on tenant security. The urgent need from a public health perspective to get...
What if fines could be adjusted not only to the severity of the offense, but also to the income of the offender? What if the rich pay a higher fine than the poor for the same offense? This is not just...
In 1829, Ohio’s state legislators made an announcement that reverberated through African American communities across the nation. Responding to white discomfort over the state’s growing free Black...
Wordsworth and Keats in a painting by Haydon.
Why isn’t the biblical literature taught alongside other philosophies? By any objective criteria, it measures up to the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. In Biblical Philosophy: A Hebraic...
As an applied linguist interested in science communication, an important specialised domain of language in society today, I have developed high perceptiveness of the richness and the power of the...