A Business Health Service
If businesses function like living organisms, can they benefit from a professional healthcare service? This book explores the need for such a service and evaluates whether business advisors can meet the professional standards of medical care.
Jordan’s Proverbs as a Window into Arab Popular Culture
Discover Arab popular culture through 400 annotated Jordanian proverbs. Covering daily life and universal morals, this book provides a deeper understanding of Jordanian/Arab mentality, encouraging intercultural communication and helping remove socially-biased stereotypes.
This book is a contextual analysis of the Romanian rural architectural landscape in the communist and post-communist eras. It examines the legal framework for constructing private houses under the Ceausescu dictatorship and the social actions that transform a house into a home.
Why do public sector digital projects fail while private companies like Amazon flourish? This book draws on eight years of developing technology for health and social care to reveal what separates success from failure, and why our public services remain rooted in the past.
Railway Discourse
Adami considers the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of methods and frameworks.
Teaching Students to Become Digital Content Curators
Today’s students are faced with a virtual tsunami of digital information, which means it is necessary to arm them with the skills of digital content curation. To avoid misinformation, this text outlines a process for examining, evaluating and synthesising digital content.
This latest issue of the International Journal of Business Anthropology contains seven articles, including a special section of four papers from Japan, in addition to an editorial commentary providing an introduction to the field of business anthropology in Japan.
This book explicates the effect of increasing land transactions on social mobility in rural India. It argues that villages near cities are no longer simple communities, but are more complex and mobile as a result of urban expansion, contextualizing this within the state’s laws.
Pharmaceuticals in the European Union
Through a reasoned description ranging from regulatory developments to the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU), this book presents the first complete and up-to-date analysis of the EU’s regulation of medicines and speculates on its next moves.
Alexander uses Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to examine several works by British writers from the Restoration to the Romantic era, providing a constructive perspective for thinking about literary depictions of the self-in-crisis.
Einstein’s Quantum Error
What is it to be rational? This book argues that rational principles are not absolutes, but are empirically justified. It shows how principles like causality reflect our brain’s evolved structure, which parallels the physical world, and confronts modern attacks on science.
From Monophysitism to Nestorianism
This book argues that early orthodoxy was not a linear progression. Instead, the church navigated the narrow strait between Nestorianism and Monophysitism by continually changing sides in the Ecumenical Councils, ultimately outwitting both heresies to forge its own path.
Brazilians Abroad
This book explores Brazil’s experience with emigrant voting. It investigates what external voting rights represent to the Brazilian emigrant community and how emigrants engage politically with their country of origin, based on original data from Brazilians abroad.
Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek
This book analyzes Zorba the Greek, the modern classic by one of Greece’s greatest writers, Nikos Kazantzakis. It reads the acclaimed novel from five critical perspectives: formalist, existentialist, feminist, ecocritical, and intercultural. Useful for scholars and readers.
This volume combines the fields of intellectual studies, religion, literature, and visual culture to explore the complexities of conceptual paradigms that represent various manifestations of the idea of light.
Nayebpour re-evaluates George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss with the help of terminologies borrowed from cognitive narratology in order to shed new light on the significance of one-track minds in this narrative.
Narcissism and Sexuality
This book explores the narcissistic wound, differentiating it from a severe disorder by focusing on one common expression—sexuality. Using a Jungian approach, it reveals the analytic process through an in-depth client case study illuminated by 54 dream interpretations.
This book deals with emotional intelligence in teacher trainees, showing how it affects their aspiration and self-concept. It demonstrates how teachers should observe and manage students’ emotions to adopt specific strategies for effective learning.
The Spaces That Never Were in Early Modern Art
This book explores liminal spaces: worlds on the blurred boundary between reality and imagination. Not found on maps, they are confined in gardens and collections, transforming a mere image into a political manifesto or a dream of absolute power.
Skaris comprehensively explores the ways in which women were portrayed as striving for self-fulfilment through emotional, mental, and creative endeavours that have not always been fully appreciated as ‘work’ in critical accounts of nineteenth-and-twentieth-century fiction.
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