In a time of stagnating markets, resolving economic crises requires new solutions. This volume shows how stability is related to clustering, exploring the formation of modern economic clusters, their advantages and negative aspects, and the contradictions of the phenomenon.
Technology profoundly influences our social fabric. This book explores its impact across business, commerce, and lifestyle, examining both advantages and drawbacks. It guides readers through cutting-edge topics like blockchain, the Internet of Things, AI, and machine learning.
The papers in this collection consider how nation building is a multi-dimensional process, addressing various components, including perspectives of the country in question. It deals with these inter-linked aspects, and the development of these structures and institutions.
Romance
This book proposes a fascinating journey into the history and geography of the popular and controversial romance genre. From its origins to its latest developments, from print to film and Facebook, explore its many shapes from North America to India.
Romanesque Art and Craftsmanship in Central Europe, 900-1300
This book reviews the embellishing cloister arts of the Romanesque period, discussing work in textiles, ivory, wood, metals, and manuscripts. Illustrations stress common themes, placing these objects of art in their historical and spiritual contexts.
In the 1970s, Romanian tourism was blooming. This book analyzes the evolution of its tourism and hotel industry since 1990. Has Romanian tourism returned to its golden age? Has it built a country brand to differentiate itself from competing nations?
Persistently ignored or demonised by 19th-century British travellers, Romanians were viewed as a decadent “Oriental Other.” This volume explores these representations in ten travelogues, analysing them through the lens of British expansionism and Victorian racial discourse.
This book presents Romania’s globally unknown oral culture and traditional musical instruments. It highlights their evolution and spread, with unique photographs of disappearing cultural events. The book will be of interest to both specialists and non-specialists.
Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats
This book connects the poetry of Blake, Shelley, and Keats to the Hermetic tradition and our planetary crisis. It challenges human-centered views to affirm the value of the non-human world and the heightened consciousness found within their exalted works.
Romantic Ireland
Romantic Ireland: From Tone to Gonne takes Irish Studies in new directions. Bringing together international scholars, it explores the tumultuous nineteenth century through a cross-cultural comparison with Scotland, enhancing our awareness of colonialism and nationalism.
Romanticism and Parenting
How do parents encode and decode our world? Romantic writers explored what it meant to “parent” in the domestic and political sphere. This collection reveals how the Romantic period has come to profoundly influence our own current constructions of the politics of parenting.
Romanticism Gendered
This study examines the letters of the great male Romantics—Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Scott, Shelley, and Wordsworth—to discover their views on women writers. Their correspondence reveals a long list of now-marginalized female authors, offering a new gendered perspective.
Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime, 2nd Edition
This book builds a Neo-Romantic rhetorical theory for our time. It traces Romanticism’s roots through key writers and artists, linking their love of nature to the current environmental crisis and empowering those seeking to save the environment.
Romualdo Marenco
In Manzotti’s spectacular allegorical ballet Excelsior, the rise of human civilization is an embittered struggle between Light and Darkness. As inventions triumph, Marenco’s exhilarating music celebrates an apotheosis of light, progress, and peace.
This volume examines past and contemporary Maghrebean texts to explore what it means to be Maghrebean. Scholars focus on the importance of poetics in (re)making roots and (re)tracing routes, mapping the history, art, and literature of the Maghreb region.
Explore European poetry from Sappho to Isou. Each of these thirty-three verse translations is paired with the original poem and an illuminating essay revealing the translator’s art and process.
A master of the commercial society in which he lived, Rossini built his own brand and a significant fortune. This book analyzes how the composer achieved his wealth and how his operas reflect topics such as money, commercial transactions, advertising, and passion.
Round Heads
The Central Sahara is the world’s greatest “museum” of rock art, but its thousands of prehistoric images have been described and classified, not interpreted. Using interdisciplinary studies, this book proposes new ways to research the art and the societies that created it.
In King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare explores political survival at court. This book offers a new perspective on monarchy by distinguishing authority from power, arguing that persuasion is essential to reinforcing royal rule and establishing the monarch.
Royalists, Radicals, and les Misérables
In 1832, a royalist uprising, a cholera epidemic, and the June Revolution immortalized in Les Misérables rocked France. This collection is the first to examine these pivotal events together, revealing an overlooked year in the transition to a republic.
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