The Metamorphoses of Philosophy III
A 3000-year journey into the Western mind. This book explores how ideas emerge from the interplay of philosophy, culture, and science. In a conversational style, it powerfully challenges scientific reductionism, appealing to historians and all deep thinkers.
Marketing and Humanity
This book expands consumer behavior to understand the real world. Written by leading scholars, it explores underserved populations and modern social issues—from diversity and privacy to loneliness and social change—through a holistic, human-centered perspective.
The Metamorphoses of Philosophy I
Charting 3000 years of Western thought, this book explores how philosophical ideas emerge from the interplay of culture, cognition, and values. This first volume traces philosophy’s origins to its peak in ancient Greece, with a compelling contrast to classical Chinese thought.
Word-Formation in Context
This fascinating book treats the use of words from a new perspective. Words emerge from an interaction between morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic components. The book draws from a vast spectrum of texts and provides a key to help readers check their answers.
Paisleyism and Civil Rights
This book examines Ian Paisley’s opposition to the Northern Ireland civil rights movement. It reveals how his ties to North American militant fundamentalists shaped his counter-demonstrations and helped create the atmosphere for sectarian strife and the “Troubles.”
Dante as Political Theorist
Originating from the First International Symposium of the Global Dante Project of New York held in 2015, the chapters here investigate Dante’s political treatise Monarchia, addressing diverse issues associated with this work from multiple, innovative methodological perspectives.
Teilhard’s Proposition for Peace
Teilhard de Chardin sowed the seeds of peace throughout his writings. This book distills the essence of his case for peace, navigating the complexity of his thought and inviting the reader to confidently “see” the basic unity which underlies all that is.
This book covers recent advances for quantitative researchers with practical examples from the social sciences. Each chapter, written by an expert, reveals ideas and methods common to fields such as tourism, politics, and sociology.
Political Correctness in the Era of Trump
This collection explores the intense debates surrounding “political correctness.” It argues that in the era of Trump, the term has been employed as an ideological scapegoat to delegitimize and roll back progress on gender and racial equality, human rights, and democracy.
Uncover the hidden life of words. This groundbreaking bifocal approach to lexicology maps the hierarchies of word formation and relationships with crystal-clear distinctions. An essential guide for language professionals and anyone curious about how our words are made.
The Legacy of Empire
The shadow of Napoleon’s empires haunted the nineteenth-century. In reaction, a unique Anglo-Italian style developed among ex-patriot writers and artists. Contrasting Napoleon’s legacy with an ideal state, their work championed national independence, feminism, and republicanism.
Mastering the Credit Processing Mechanism in Mauritius
Ramlall focuses on the credit processing mechanism used in Mauritius. It is widely known that Mauritius uses a bank-based financial system; however, many people are oblivious to the credit processing mechanism in operation. This book addresses such a lack of understanding.
Mediation across the Globe
This eye-opening book provides insights into what success looks like in a mediation practice. It will appeal to anyone interested in practical experiences in meditation across the globe, or wanting to discover how the most successful mediators operate.
What is the American Dream? This family history, spanning four centuries, finds an answer in the preserved, untold stories of the author’s Mormon ancestors. Their dream was a cautionary tale: a nightmare where coming to America was often not worth the sacrifice.
This book appraises André Brink, one of South Africa’s foremost novelists and an acclaimed commentator on apartheid. It highlights the writer’s responsibility to a society in siege, drawing on postcolonial theory to examine the ideological implications of his early novels.
This monograph offers a thorough discussion of the relevance of incorporating robotics into the 21st century classroom. It explores essential topics including outcome-based education, robotics technology, its use in education, and its theoretical underpinnings, among others.
Conflict Analysis and Transformation
This book is a concise guide on how to analyze and address conflict to transform relationships and work towards peace with justice. It details a systematic process and offers a framework to build cultures of peace, based on a critical analysis of hegemony and power.
Beyond the Frontier, Volume II
This compilation presents the latest research in first-year composition, including pedagogy, praxis, debate, and assessment. It will benefit anyone who studies or engages with first-year composition, including graduate students, instructors, and administrators.
This book introduces “AfroSymbiocity,” a paradigm for conflict resolution based on original African strategies. It provides the missing cultural pieces in the puzzle of conflict, using the historical example of King Moshoeshoe to demonstrate an approach with universal relevance.
While the destruction of archaeological sites in war often makes the headlines, lesser disputes about local heritage sites go unreported. This book focuses on conflicts between archaeological conservation and religious faiths which use archaeological heritage in their practices.