The Concept of Motherhood in India
This book explores motherhood from ancient times to the present, analyzing how the ideal is manufactured by society through archetypes, religion, and media. It rereads the myths surrounding motherhood as social constructs and contrasts them with its lived reality.
This book focuses on consumer financing in China, introducing the financing situation, constraints, representative tools, and the Credit Reference System. It is an indispensable guide for financial companies and academic institutions wishing to make more sense of this topic.
The texts of India’s ancient materialist philosophy, Cārvāka/Lokāyata, were all lost after the twelfth century. Based on the most recent research, this book reconstructs the fundamental tenets of this system from available fragments and the works of its opponents.
This collection of current, forward-looking research tackles key issues in the interplay between cognition and language learning. Responding to the need for innovative work, this volume brings researchers together to open new debates. For students, teachers, and researchers.
This volume explores how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire from both a literary and sociocultural point of view. Illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices, these studies draw attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.
This book provides new short essays on Jefferson’s thoughts on political philosophy, religion, and morality. Crafted to both entertain and enlighten, these provocative and critical essays take the reader deep into Jefferson’s mind, highlighting his relevance today.
Islands of the Mind
Islands are both open communities and enclosed worlds, points of arrival and departure. This collection explores the psychology they shape, the literature they inspire, and the urgent ecological questions they pose in our increasingly globalised world.
This book explores various leadership styles and models, demonstrating their dynamic nature. It is an essential reference point for both academics and practitioners.
Ordinary Chondrites from North-East India
A spectroscopic study of meteorites from North-eastern India. This book uses Raman and infrared techniques to analyze silicate minerals in ordinary chondrites. For readers interested in planetary materials, it includes a list of Indian meteorites and a glossary of terms.
Jamesian Cultural Anxiety in the East and West
This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work through themes of cultural anxiety. Each chapter offers a new way of reading his work to generate insights, establish intercultural understandings, and define the Jamesian worldview as universal.
Seeking a Home for Poetry in a Nomadic World
This study explores the trespassing of linguistic borders through poets Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky. In their search for identity, these “nomadic” authors adopt English, confronting the fluid nature of language itself and forging new expressions for our future.
Neoliberalism, Oligarchy and Politics of the Event
This book shows that today’s oligarchic politics result from the fall of mass movements. The rule is reversed into a cybernetic market where transnational corporations control states, rendering sovereignty an illusion and threatening the very essence of society.
Swiftian Inspirations
This book analyzes the legacy of Swiftian satire from the Enlightenment to the age of post-truth and Brexit. It explores truth, madness, film adaptations of Gulliver’s Travels, and the politics of language to reveal Swift’s enduring relevance for today’s world.
This book offers insights into the latest research in applied linguistics and language acquisition. For scholars and practitioners, it presents empirical findings from researchers in over 10 countries, reporting on various languages and communities in multilingual contexts.
In today’s vague and flexible warfare environment, military leaders need to be more versatile, with rapid decision-making capacities. This study explores why high-level commanders must now behave more like diplomats, intellectuals, and academics than ever before.
A World Government in Action
This volume presents a significantly different interpretation of society and international relations. It highlights the route to release the world from its greatest problems, assure the survival of humankind, and germinate life quality and healthcare for all.
How did the allies of World War II become enemies? This volume unpacks the Cold War (1945-1991), arguing the conflict could have been avoided with pragmatism over ideology. As new rivalries replace old divides, we must be aware of our past to resolve the issues of today.
Russia’s leading historians explore the great paradox of 1914-1945: how the desperate desire for peace following World War I could ignite the rise of Hitler and a second, even more devastating, global conflict.
The Grenvillites and the British Press
Damned for the Stamp Act which sparked the American Revolution, George Grenville is remembered as one of Britain’s worst prime ministers. This study offers a reappraisal, investigating how he and his followers used the political press to defend a complex vision of empire.
Japan’s Military Power
Japan’s leading submariner, Hideki Nakamura, delivers a bestselling insider’s account of the problems facing the Self-Defense Forces. He reveals how legal, political, and operational restrictions dangerously undermine the SDF’s ability to fight and partner with other countries.