Voices from Early China
The Chinese “Book of Odes” (1000-600 B.C.) is one of the world’s earliest literary works. This new translation cuts through centuries of obscurity to reveal the poems’ human charm, while also restoring the original speech-music, lost for millennia.
This chronological survey of Ancient Greece’s major writers explores genres from epic and drama to philosophy. It also features essays on Greek culture, including mythology, theater, government, and science. The book serves as a launchpad for our enduring Hellenic heritage.
The Golden Dawn of Italian Fashion
Once a famed fashion visionary of the 1920s-30s, Maria Monaci Gallenga was erased by Fascism. This book uncovers the story of the enigmatic artist—her Pre-Raphaelite influences, her entrepreneurial ambition, and her ultimate rediscovery by Fendi.
In one of the world’s least-visited nations, get to know the people, their families, and traditions. This book introduces North Korea through rarely seen photographs from the author’s travels, revealing Pyongyang’s skyscrapers, the Koryo Museum, and a royal eleven-course meal.
The Idea and Values of Europe
From Sophocles’ Antigone to the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, this book charts the 2500-year evolution of human rights. It explores the origins of European shared values and assesses their compatibility with a non-European culture and religion such as Islam.
This book discusses 300 years of change in Dutch corruption and public morality between 1648 and 1940. Through rich historical case studies, it tells the story of how ideas of “good” government evolved, placing them in a wider European context.
One-to-one support alone isn’t enough for leaders. This book presents the Leadership Inquiry Support (LIS) model, a practical approach integrating multiple support modalities through authentic collaboration. It offers strategies backed by research and real-world experience.
This book examines administrative bloat, a major contributor to rising college costs. It details the unsustainable growth of nonessential university personnel through case studies on student success initiatives, technology transfer offices, and distance learning.
Today’s profit-only management is obsolete, endangering the planet and disengaging employees. This book introduces 3D Management, a radical redesign that liberates organisations and replaces the bottom line with a model balancing profit, people, planet, and purpose.
This book explores how fiction from 1850-1930 shaped perceptions of women’s roles. From suffrage to sexual desire, these essays examine how literature tackled ‘The Woman Question’ through female characters who sought to defy social constraints in ways still relevant today.
This volume provides an overview of pedagogies and research methodologies that reflect the urgent need to develop intercultural competence in professions like law, medicine, and business. The book highlights approaches across disciplines, promoting collaborative efforts.
The legitimacy of the university in Africa is questioned due to its exclusionary and colonial legacy. This volume reimagines the decolonial African university as a site of multilingualism and cognitive justice, centering indigenous languages and knowledge systems.
Twelve original essays explore the afterlives of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers in biofiction and the biopic. Featuring case studies on Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this volume situates these genres in their cultural and ideological contexts.
Adopting a psychological perspective, this book explores gender beyond the binary. Its empirical research provides insight into gender roles and identities in education, domestic, and socio-political settings, detailing gender issues and challenges across cultures in Pakistan.
This book explores why resource-poor groups are excluded from the economic benefits of watershed development projects. It traces the factors denying them equal opportunities and discusses potential avenues for their meaningful inclusion in the governance of natural resources.
A Case for Radical Pragmatic Leaders and Personalised Learning Schools
Thousands of disadvantaged youth are leaving Australian schools due to public policy that works against inclusion. This book highlights the damage done and examines schools that succeed ‘against the grain’, presenting them as examples for refreshed policy and radical leadership.
This book investigates the acquisition of Tense and Agreement in Spanish and Catalan from a Minimalism Program perspective. It argues that children have these functional categories at a very early stage, covering subject-verb agreement, clitic pronouns, and subject position.
For ten years, researchers tracked a group of adults—their stresses, joys, and changing lives. This book summarizes the results of this unique study, documenting how experiences with relationships, work, and health shape us, offering fascinating insights for the midlife years.
Fighting Corruption in African Contexts
Leading African scholars examine how to mobilise citizens towards accountability and transparency. This book advocates that fighting corruption is everyone’s business, in order to strengthen Africa’s integrity, equity, and sustainable development.
This collection of essays highlights the most pressing research topics in infocommunication technologies, including next generation networks, innovative knowledge-based systems, and innovations in healthcare and eHealth.