While Thomas Merton wrote extensively on racial justice, few books are devoted to summarizing and applying his ideas to current racial tensions. This book reviews his most important writings on race and uses Merton as a model for easing present-day tensions.
Through in-depth interviews with luminaries in public health, this book explores the effective leadership skills required to navigate modern healthcare crises. Conversations highlight shared challenges, effective communication, and making difficult decisions for the greater good.
Kokborok Literature from Tripura
This study delves into the folktales and literature of the Borok tribe, revealing their struggle for cultural identity. Writers draw on myths and folklore to challenge mainstream stereotypes and reclaim a heritage shaped by cultural domination and conflict.
The Art of Allusion in Chinese Poetry
This book explores the rhetorical function of allusion in Li Shangyin’s poems, formulating an English taxonomy for the practice in Chinese poetry. It challenges conventional gendered allegory, revealing how Li’s manipulation of history produces metaphorical and ambiguous effects.
Understanding Digital Labour Platforms
Dive into the future of work as digital platforms reshape the global labour market. This essential guide examines the gig economy through economic, social, and legal perspectives, offering invaluable insights for navigating the new employment landscape.
This practical book provides comprehensive coverage of key terms in language syllabus design and materials development. It offers clear, concise definitions, serving as an essential source for curriculum researchers, language educators, and students of applied linguistics.
Black British Women’s Writing in the 1970s and Beyond
This collection of essays examines Black British women writers published from the 1970s to the 2000s. Connected to the UK through migration yet attached to their cultural origins, their work explores a crucial question: how were they able to conceptualise ‘home’ in their fiction?
Using autobiographies from transgender and intersex lives, this book challenges static notions of gender. It reveals how identity is shaped by the material world, offering a nuanced analysis of gender as a fluid, evolving experience for anyone seeking a deeper understanding.
An Alternative Medical Perspective on Ancient History
Based on Sumerian tablets and ancient DNA, this book reveals the world’s first pandemic. Historians have many theories for the demise of the Sumer and Indus Valley civilisations, but none ever proposed an infectious disease. This book rewrites ancient history.
This book is devoted to the development of the knowledge society in Kazakhstan. It examines the creation of an “intellectual nation” as a way of modernizing society, where a creative person becomes the main source of development through quality education.
Can democracy become a new form of despotism? This book reveals the totalitarian seeds hidden within liberal society, born from our constant struggle between the universal desire for freedom and the craving for absolute security.
This guide explains quantitative research in health sciences. It covers the entire process: formulating a research question, defining variables, choosing a study design, data collection, and statistical analysis. Acquire the skills to develop a complete health research project.
The Impact of the British Oboist Léon Goossens
This study reassesses Léon Goossens’ contribution to British oboe playing. It explores his pivotal role as a catalyst for new compositions that created a library of British oboe music, addressing a void in the repertoire and ultimately restoring the instrument’s status.
This volume examines how trauma alters women’s identities, from individual experiences to national political abuses. The book shows that language has a transformative power for healing, as women use autobiography and memoir to free themselves and reinvent the form.
This collection of essays explores crisis in contemporary British fiction. Examining authors like Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes, this volume investigates crisis as a challenge to power structures, highlighting the urgent social and ethical concerns in their work.
This book explores conventional breeding and modern molecular techniques to enhance yield, quality, and resilience in major cereals. It bridges foundational principles with cutting-edge innovations, providing an essential resource for researchers, practitioners, and students.
Iran, Turkey and the Levant
The endless wars in the Levant have allowed Iran and Turkey to shift toward militarized nationalism and reshape their authoritarian rule. This book offers new perspectives on the resilience of authoritarianism, highlighting its connection to the region’s protracted conflicts.
How Adaptations Awaken the Literary Canon
This book illuminates how reimagining narratives creates empowerment. It explores adaptations—from classic literature to fairy tales—that retell and awaken the literary canon, interrogating conventions and revealing the unique power of reframing stories.
Populists claim the EU threatens national identity. This book argues these identities can coexist. It suggests the EU should oppose xenophobic nationalism while protecting national cultures from their true threat: globalization, not European integration.
This book is a critical assessment of philosophy’s history and practice, written for any educated reader. It distils complex philosophical arguments and explains key issues to individuals outside academia, unencumbered by typical academic paraphernalia.
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