Encountering Entrepreneurs
This monograph probes the daily life of businessmen in a particularly productive area of Northern Italy, Lombardy. It provides insights into their business and entrepreneurialism, offering a different approach to capitalism and reflections on human nature.
By studying various myths, folk tales, examples in cinema, commentary from modern individuals, reports from traditional shamans, and neuroscience, Kline discerns the features and characteristics of the “Otherworld” and argues for its existence in the physical world.
This study highlights the attitudes of the residents of Mytilene, Lesvos, regarding the recent massive migration flow towards Europe and how it has affected the island. It will act as a useful tool for better policy implementation and is of great contemporary relevance.
This collection offers examples of excellence, innovation and ingenuity as they occur in honours colleges and programs throughout the USA, discussing what we can do to contribute to human knowledge, to empower creativity and to make positive futures through education.
Managing Enterprise Resource Planning Adoption and Business Processes
Recent decades have witnessed many avoidable ERP failures and malpractices concerning its adoption. The author presents an adoption methodology, called the Full Lifecycle ERP Adoption Reference (FLEAR) model, which will prevent the reoccurrence of such downfalls.
Inspired by a pantheist worldview, this text advocates an alternative globalization based not on the economy and politics, but on humanity’s transcendence to a collective consciousness, presenting a counter-trend against nationalism, religious extremism, xenophobia, and racism.
A Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Analysis of English and Slovene Onomastic Phraseological Units
Of particular interest to scholars of Slavonic languages, this title provides cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research into an understudied segment of phraseology by utilising two databases composed from monolingual English and Slovene phraseological dictionaries.
This collection of philosophical essays analyses the Italian artist Ugo Nespolo’s poetics from different theoretical perspectives, focused in particular on his artworks and films.
This book is concerned with the outcomes of the doctoral research programme of the Maryvale Institute (UK) and its contribution to new knowledge in the area of Catholic studies, a wide field including history, literature, philosophy, spirituality, and theology.
A well-updated and comprehensive second edition, this handbook covers the philosophy, evolution, methodology and teaching of gestalt therapy, and exists as a valuable resource of contemporary research for both trainee therapists and advanced practitioners of the discipline.
Applied Logotherapy
This monograph is a seminal contribution to applied and clinical logotherapy and existential analysis which draws on Dr Viktor Frankl’s Viennese School of philosophical psychology, from therapeutic techniques, to the mass neurotic triad of aggression, addiction, and depression.
This book tackles legal analogical reasoning, critiquing traditional approaches. It advances a new account, drawing from psychology, that makes analogy’s unique properties understandable and reveals the scientific basis for the almost mystical faith in its power.
Managerial Dilemmas in Developing Countries
Since organizations and industries are the catalysts for sustainable development, managing them along with resource protection dilemmas is critical for developing countries. The contributions here relate to development, management, consumer behaviour, finance, and tourism.
The Gender of Debt
Male hunting and female gathering were the two forces of production during 99% of the life of mankind on Earth. This book demonstrates, from a historical and an economic point of view, how the female contribution has been so important to the success of our species.
Poetics of Indigenismo in Zapatista Discourse
Analysing the writings of Subcomandante Marcos and their relationship to multiple literary genres, this work shows that ,while Marcos employs the iconography of Che Guevara and Zapata et al., he also embodies the aspiration ‘to change the world without taking power’.
The vision for global agriculture now extends beyond hunger to food security, climate change, and economic opportunity. This book examines past revolutions to forge a crucial roadmap for historians, policymakers, and leaders of tomorrow.
Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture
Cameroon’s complex postcolonial legacy has burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture which has inhibited its national identity. The present volume reflects on this issue and serves to renegotiate its identity beyond the mega-frames of Empire.
Toward New Philosophical Explorations of the Epistemic Desire to Know
This collection explores curiosity from many philosophical perspectives of relevance to various fields and disciplines. It offers unique engagements with what motivates us to ask questions and how this motivation operates from an ethical, cultural and political point of view.
Education from a Whiteheadian Point of View
In this insightful and pertinent collection, the basic aims of contemporary thinking in education are critically analysed through the lens of Alfred North Whitehead’s (1861-1947) process-relational philosophy of education, as set forth in The Aims of Education and elsewhere.
Piety in a Niqab
Women’s lives in black may seem primitive and subordinated. However, as this book shows, the women themselves tell a different story. They build their identities on the Qur’an and sunnah, achieving peace, happiness in this world, and salvation in the afterlife.