Global Mindset
“Think globally, act locally” is harder than it sounds. This work explores how a global mindset allows organizations to become more effective. It shows how members can grow professionally and personally from a global mindset—even if they never step foot on a plane.
The Internationalization of High-Tech Firms
This book presents updated knowledge on the internationalization patterns of high-tech firms, with particular insights into their innovations and research and development. It highlights the internationalization path of firms operating in high-tech sectors.
This volume explores the relation between contemporary Turkish film, television, and religion. It concentrates on how religion shapes the politics of new cinema, from the representation of Muslim women to subsequent changes in narratives and characters.
Khan presents a critical analysis of anti-dumping laws enforced by the World Trade Organisation. Anti-dumping laws are the most debatable provisions of the WTO, which, though legally permitted, have a significant distorting effect on trade.
A Literary Journey to Rome
How many people know the hidden Rome: the Vatican’s secret archives, the true fate of Pasolini? Taking the reader on a journey, we meet passionate people in love with the city and learn the special in everyday life, drawing a lively picture of the vibrant Eternal City.
In this monograph, two historians investigate some of the most important events in American history which have shaped the American experience and impacted the drive for democracy and freedom.
The Creative Advantages of Schizophrenia
Is there a link between madness and genius? This book explores the age-old assumption that schizophrenia is tied to creative illumination. But is the association veracious? Using new empirical findings, it explains how creative potential can be channelled.
Aphorisms of Masquism
Grimes presents the monumental work of Swami R. Vaidyanathan (1913-1990), who was a research student at Cambridge under Lord Rutherford from 1934 to 1938, detailing his complete and unique philosophy, which aimed at reducing human suffering and promoting world welfare.
A hazy cloud of facts and fiction surrounds paedophilia and its relation to Child Sexual Abuse. This book analyzes their depiction in contemporary British and American drama, illustrating the ambiguity of the topic and asking difficult questions.
Dombrovan provides an introduction to some basic concepts of linguistic synergetics, viewed here as a new research approach to language studies. She considers human language as an open, dynamic, non-linear, and self-organising system, and sheds new light on language development.
Atheism, Morality, and the Kingdom of God
This treatise argues that moral virtue is independent of God. It shows that Jesus’ Parables, stripped of their theological overlay, reveal an account of real-time, secular flourishing—a good life incompatible with faith and achievable only here and now.
Story by Story
A psychiatrist and a philosopher listen to stories of illness, discovering that to understand an illness is to establish the right relation between what is being suffered and who is suffering. This approach resists medical prejudice by focusing on the person, not the condition.
Potential Development Using Thinking Tools
This book cracks teaching myths that make learners knowledge duplicators instead of creators. Thinking tools move the focus from mastering content to critical thinking, turning learners into thinking engineers who take ownership of what they discover, create, and solve.
Koço investigates the repertory of traditional urban song and music of the Korçë area and the “distinctive” song associated with Korçë city, Albania. He also introduces the Korçare urban song and urban lyric song, introduced during the Ottoman domination of the Balkans.
Human Resource Management at the Crossroads
This book contains studies on the challenges of Human Resource Management. It analyzes how technology impacts the future of work, employee well-being, the management of careers and diversity, employee commitment, and other key topics facing HRM managers today.
As Africa embraces the global knowledge economy, how are its libraries and archives adapting? This volume explores the digital-age challenges and opportunities, offering an essential reference for information practitioners, researchers, and students.
Peña-Acuña delves into the work of Steven Spielberg, considering the audiovisual and documentary material in his filmography and the biographical and sociological parameters that influence his cinematographic work and his values.
An exhaustive guide to translating tenses between Arabic and English. Using hundreds of examples, this volume presents a text-oriented model for translating verb forms, making it a useful reference for translators, linguistics researchers, teachers, and students.
Modern medicine in England today is chiefly the product of the scientific developments of the nineteenth century. This title focuses on the history of medicine in Lancaster and a community of practice amongst a few medical professionals who shaped its medical landscape.
A Study of the Parallels between Visual Art and Music
Standard surveys of art imply a continuity between Rembrandt and Koons, between Caravaggio and Hirst.
They are all wrong. There is no such continuity. This book explains why these claims are false, and how we arrived at this point of great confusion about the arts.
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