Martin Buber and Eastern Wisdom Teachings
This book is a conversation between Martin Buber’s philosophy of Dialogue and wisdom from the East—particularly Zen Buddhism, Sufism, and Hinduism. It argues that God is the between of I and Thou, exploring the universal principle of relationship across spiritual traditions.
Now more than ever, we must reconsider what borders and frontiers mean. This collection analyzes their representation in literature, philosophy, and cinema, drawing on global examples to find what unites us in our shared humanity, rather than what divides us.
Spoken political and journalistic texts are a rich data source, but their unique features pose significant challenges for processing and translation. This volume proposes strategies for their analysis by humans and by Natural Language Processing applications.
Blockchain is a decentralized technology with a major impact on cybersecurity, supply chain management, and finance. This book provides a broad picture of the concepts, techniques, applications, and research directions in this emerging technology.
This volume underlines a scientific, data-based approach to language teaching. The contributions gathered here offer versatile perspectives from the disciplinary categories of linguistics, methodology of teaching English, and cultural and literary studies.
Death Down Under
This insightful collection of essays challenges the assumption that death is hidden or done badly. It documents the varied and creative multi-cultural ways we respond to one of life’s most challenging aspects, offering new ways to understand our contemporary death practices.
Trade Union Powers
Following Portugal’s austerity crisis (2011-2015), how did trade unions resist devastating impacts like wage cuts and unemployment? This book explores case studies in the metal, telecom, and transport sectors to reveal how some unions reinvented themselves while others imploded.
Aesthetics of Presence
This book re-centers aesthetics on the spectator, replacing the long-dominant artwork as the exclusive focus. It develops an ‘Aesthetics of Presence’ by exploring perceiving, playing, placing, and performing as its theoretical cornerstones.
Islam in Contemporary Literature
This volume presents authors from an Islamic background who search for a voice for individual rights. This study discusses an ongoing Reformation in Islam, focusing on the role of women, sexuality, the “clash of civilizations,” free speech, assimilation, and pluralism.
Representing the Contemporary North American Family
Central to this book is the idea that the family still plays a pivotal role in North America. Gathering approaches from sociology, politics, media, and literature, these contributions show the centrality of the family as a social, political, legal, and fictional construct.
Mapping the Postcolonial Domestic in the Works of Vargas Llosa and Mukundan
A pioneering analysis of postcolonialism through the lens of the domestic. This study challenges the limits of Western theory, forging new methods to understand the ‘inner’ realm of colonial experience and its overlooked histories.
The Competitive Challenge of Emerging Markets
The rise of emerging economies like China and India has created a disruptive competitive challenge. This book examines their distinctive characteristics, the challenges of doing business, and the threat of emerging market multinationals as they aspire to surpass their rivals.
This book explores the complexity of physical and social systems, covering science policy, networks, and education. It argues that academies uniting top scholars are the best advocates for managing ideas to benefit society, and describes their vital current tasks.
J.B. Murray and the Scripts and Spirit Forms of Africa
This book connects a Georgia sharecropper to a healer in Senegal, changing how we appreciate American folk arts. It traces both art and Islam through the African Diaspora, revealing why folk artists are vital carriers of knowledge and offering an insightful look at folk culture.
The Posthuman Imagination
What does it mean to be human in the Anthropocene? This volume explores posthumanism’s response to this crisis through accessible essays. Featuring an interview with philosopher Francesca Ferrando, it explicates the subject through various literary and filmic texts.
This volume explores the confluences between post-modernism and post-colonialism. It examines their shared challenge to Eurocentric master narratives, sheds light on the East-West relation, and questions Western modes of representation in literary and cultural works.
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.
A narrative and photographic journey of the 18 hotels and apartments where James Joyce lived in 1920s-30s Paris. Arriving to finish Ulysses, he stayed for 20 years. This guide provides new insights into his life, based on the changing locations of his residences.
The understanding of security has changed since the end of the Cold War. This has impacted intelligence, as states have needed to improve their security policies with new tactics. This volume investigates this new state of play in the international arena.
A vital guide for higher education administrators and international students. It blends empirical findings, personal experiences, and cultural insights to enhance global learning and cross-cultural understanding.
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