Civilization at Risk
A devastating human rights war has unfolded, an injustice of Holocaust dimensions. With 30 million people in slavery, this 21st Century scourge cannot be combated by indifference. This book is an immediate call to arms to fight the evil of Human Trafficking.
This book explores the ontological foundation of signs, a semiotic perspective that opens the way to culture. It extends the reader’s understanding by moving beyond classical definitions of the “sign” and will appeal to anyone concerned with understanding human nature.
Political Views and Ideas
From a Socialist perspective, this collection of essays analyzes the crisis of our times. It examines the problems of Capitalist politics—from economic and social turmoil to the environmental crisis—and outlines a solid argument for a better politics today: Democratic Socialism.
Repeating Words, Retelling Stories
In literature, repetition does more than re-enforce a concept; it creates new meaning. This book explores examples from Homer, Virgil, and Ovid, and draws on neuro-cognitive science to show why repetition is an unavoidable staple of any text.
Analysing Health Discourse in Digital Environments
How is the digital world changing our conversations about health? This collection analyzes online interactions to reveal the subtle yet profound shifts reshaping health communication today.
This collection explores global issues in business, from wellbeing at work and marketing innovations to sustainability in the food industry. The volume analyzes the organizational behavior of ISIS and offers insights into secrecy by analyzing scenes from John Grisham’s The Firm.
Critical Perspectives on Hollywood Science Fiction
This book investigates how science fiction films like Avatar, District 9, and Elysium critically interrogate neoliberalism, connecting this ideology to the rise of populist politics, growing income inequality, and racist attitudes.
Theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich believed that to fully live, one must do so on the boundary. This book applies his work to pedagogy, demonstrating how a “Tillichian” approach can diminish students’ existential anxieties and prepare them to live in the modern world.
In essays, reviews, and interviews, an acclaimed film critic lays out a Christian approach to film. He shows how blockbusters, documentaries, and indies can speak to Christians and how Christian voices can enrich conversations around their meaning and relevance.
This book explores proper names: what they are, why we need them, and how they work. It focuses on the use of names in our thoughts and in communication, as tools we use to single out objects of discourse and convey information about them.
This book offers a biopolitical analysis of the Harry Potter series. Applying the theories of Foucault, Hardt, and Negri, it reveals how the fantasy world both perpetuates power inequalities and provides a dissident perspective on power relations.
Experiential Marketing in an Age of Hyper-Connectivity
This rigorous, informative resource is a playbook for every scholar, student, and practitioner of experiential marketing. Learn the state of customer experience, how to expand a customer base, and use cutting-edge sensory marketing to create hedonic experiences.
Development and Decay of Public Administration in Bangladesh
This book analyzes the development and decay of public administration in Bangladesh, revealing how the British “steel frame” of bureaucracy provides its basis. Though post-colonial governments tried to form their own bureaucracy, they failed to retain its prestige and glory.
The edTPA Assessment for Special Education Pre-Service Teachers
This book assists the Special Education pre-service teacher in preparing a successful edTPA portfolio, a requirement for teacher certification in most states. It provides detailed guidance, best practices, and proven strategies for creating a high-quality portfolio.
This collection re-examines the work and life of Arthur Conan Doyle from multiple perspectives. It considers overlooked aspects of his oeuvre, offering fresh perspectives on his fiction and his relationship to contemporary writers and movements.
Twelve original essays explore the afterlives of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers in biofiction and the biopic. Featuring case studies on Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this volume situates these genres in their cultural and ideological contexts.
Master English phrasal verbs. This comprehensive resource provides a list of verbs with easy definitions, usage examples, and exercises. It’s an essential tool for non-native speakers seeking to achieve native-like fluency and master an unpredictable part of the language.
Integrated Marketing Communication
A valuable resource for students, academics, and practitioners of integrated marketing communication (IMC). It details the principles and practices of IMC before presenting a step-by-step process for preparing and executing a plan for any given brand.
This book interrogates how stigma ‘others’ individuals and groups. Focusing on mental health, disability, and transgender politics, it reveals the progressive and regressive aspects of campaigns to challenge stigma, and warns how they can threaten our political freedom.
The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes
Shakespeare’s mythopoetic figures are not transcendental but are batteries of condensed cultural meaning. This book finds in these archetypes the explanation for why his work responds through time to perspectives as different as psychological, feminist, and postcolonial.
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