This book examines 21st-century education, focusing on how today’s challenges can become opportunities for renewal. It explores the role of education in modern society, highlights prospects for future schools, and presents practical examples for teachers and educators.
This book generates solutions to radicalism by reexamining human nature through biology and Spinoza’s philosophy. This unique combination creates a “Spinozist” vision, suggesting psycho-sociogenic solutions to mitigate violent radicalism, accessible to experts and non-experts.
How do we live when no one seems to be in charge? This history of Western culture charts the collapse of authority and our modern struggle to manage frustration and find fulfillment without falling into radical narcissism.
Using Poetry for Economic Analysis
This book is the first to amalgamate economics with poetry, novels, paintings, and movies. It presents the principles of economics in plain and lyrical English, analysing real-world issues for students, financial practitioners, and lay readers alike.
A History of Police Reform in England and Wales
This comprehensive history of police reform charts its evolution from the 18th century to today. The first study of its kind, it explores the key reforms that shaped the modern police service, revealing their enduring legacies and their underlying flaws.
Born Global Firms
This book takes a practical approach, sharing 50 real-life stories from entrepreneurs of born global firms across 33 countries. Featuring testimonials from those who view the world as their playground, it offers invaluable insights to inspire future global leaders.
This volume presents new explorations of Tudor literature. The papers cover the mid-Tudor period, from Skelton to the young Shakespeare, with topics ranging from philosophy and social commentary to lyric and tragedy.
Britain and the Muslim World
This collection of essays by leading scholars provides a comprehensive synthesis of historical relations between Britain and the Muslim World, from the early-modern period to the present, exploring how these past encounters shape our current situation.
New Hegelian Essays
These essays show how Hegel’s philosophy overcomes religious dualisms, inserting Christian doctrine into the metaphysical tradition. To read Hegel is to participate in a divine “service,” a spiritual participation to which this text invites the reader.
Human Rights and Diverse Societies
In a world of increasing diversity, how can universal human rights be practically realized? This book explores the tensions between group identities and individual freedoms, identifying new frameworks to empower marginalized groups in diverse societies.
Why do Koreans work some of the longest hours in the world? This book explores the reasons behind Korea’s demanding work culture and reveals the major impact lengthy working hours have on the ability of average Koreans to participate in leisure activities.
Navigating Multiculturalism
This provocative volume explores multiculturalism from various perspectives, addressing divisive questions about race, ethnicity, and identity. This collection challenges readers to examine their own perceptions and consider how to navigate change.
This volume investigates cultural representations of American minorities and women. Through analysis of film and literature, it explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class, and the complex relationship between the dominant and the marginalized.
Ebony Roots, Northern Soil
This powerful collection of critical essays explores the histories and cultural engagements of black Canadians. It challenges the myth of a racially benevolent Canada, dissecting institutional racism and defining a black Canadian identity distinct from American ideals.
This second volume introduces several elements into the University of Alabama’s narrative, like its hassle with the state government through 1877 and its strict admission of women students. Other topics explored include the history of unofficial student sports from the 1870s.
Doubt, Time and Violence in Philosophical and Cultural Thought
These essays confront the traumas of our postmodern world: loss of identity, media uniformity, violence, and climate change. Distinguished scholars explore these and other fascinating topics from Western and Chinese history to address our shared global concerns.
Connected Minds
This volume explores social cognition from psychological and collective viewpoints. It examines how the human mind processes social information, and how social interactions influence our cognition, shaping everything from stereotypes to entire societies.
This collection of essays explores women’s complex relationship with the gothic. From novels to hypertext fiction, it reveals the scope, intensity, and risks of this evolution, challenging our understanding of why women engage with the gothic.
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Place of Intercultural Exchanges
This study tackles T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land from the perspective of translation as intercultural contact. It centres on a comparative study of the poem and its Romanian translations to sketch the most comprehensive contextualisation of Eliot in Romanian culture.
Idioms of Ontology
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
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