This volume on Munda linguistics makes a major contribution after a long gap in research. Combining diverse scholarship, it is an essential reference for scholars interested in Munda languages, typological studies, and the cultural and linguistic dynamics of South Asia.
Modern Raman Microscopy
This book presents confocal Raman microscopy, a powerful technique to noninvasively characterize complex samples with sub-micron resolution. It highlights the key aspects of this technique for practical application, appealing to researchers, engineers, and novice users.
Hybridity in Contemporary Commercial Organizations
Commercial organizations adopt multiple templates, creating hybridity. While this offers a competitive advantage, it also presents tensions and contradictions with negative consequences for employee trust. This book explores individual-level responses to this multiplicity.
Philosophical Imagination
This book shows how ancient philosophers used thought experiments to convey theories and promote scientific knowledge. By analyzing historical examples like Plato’s Ring of Gyges, it provides new insights into how philosophical hypotheses helped promote scientific discovery.
The Making of Geography as a Secondary School Subject
This is the first history of geography as a senior school subject in Western Australia (1917-1997). Based on primary sources, this book contributes to international research on curriculum history and offers a model for future studies for other subjects and regions.
This book propounds a different conception of producing ideas, introducing semiotic reality—signs and sign systems. It shows how the interplay of three realities (the material world, signs, and the human mind) gives rise to new notions like metathinking.
A Reading of Virgil’s Aeneid Book 2
For students and the general reader, this book offers a detailed literary analysis of Virgil’s Aeneid 2, one of the most famous parts of the poem. It enhances critical appreciation and enjoyment, making the epic come alive with exercises and topics to extend engagement.
Case Studies in Child Psychiatry
This book presents case studies from a therapist’s lifelong career, showing how seriously ill young people and their families shaped their practice. It focuses on suicidal young people and the therapeutic process that led to their successful recovery.
This ground-breaking work explains the power of literary fiction. It expands the field of pragmatics to give due to the three fictional actors—author, character and reader—by bringing together Anglo-American pragmatics and European philosophy.
Quantifying the Sustainability of Public Debt
High public debt can be hazardous, culminating in a crisis that permeates all sectors of the economy. This book provides a practical and straightforward framework for public debt sustainability analysis, underpinned by a real-world application of the model.
Literature, Theory and the History of Ideas
How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.
This book explores patterns in Jewish history, diagnosing a national neurosis as the cause for four previous fiascos. It explains what must be done in the twenty-first century to prevent past tragedies from recurring and secure the future of the Jewish nation.
The Quality of Life
Spanning 40 years, these essays explore the political dimensions of cultural life. They include seminal papers that pioneered the concept of Cultural Democracy and close readings of novels and plays that explore how all forms of self-expression have a political message.
Venezuela in the Gordian Knot
Once Latin America’s wealthiest country, with the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela is a failed state. How did this happen and how can it get out? This book diagnoses the 40 years of populism that allowed Hugo Chavez to rise and resulted in the nation’s impoverishment.
The Napa Valley Wine Industry
This book tells the story of how Napa became a pre-eminent site for iconic wines in a short space of time. After early struggles, a 1960s re-emergence fostered a collective commitment to quality, building a brand that would be identified as amongst the best in the world.
Entrepreneurship and Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 unleashes new business models and insights for decision-making. This book explores how entrepreneurs can balance exploration and exploitation in i4.0, using technologies like AI and Big Data to make intelligent decisions and create value with unmatched efficiency.
Half a century after his death, is E. M. Forster still relevant? Some find his novels old-fashioned; others, inspiring. This book explores Forster’s legacy, offering new interpretations of his work and his place within British and world culture.
The rise of China will profoundly change the world. China excels at the peaceful creation of wealth, and the answers to its success lie not in “communism” but in Chinese civilization. This book explains why China is winning and will continue to do so unless we wake up.
Regulating Freedom of Religion
International human rights declarations empowered religious communities, making them powerful social and political actors. This book investigates the rulings that shaped these rights, exploring the paradox of religion’s power in a secular, globalizing world.
This book examines literary and cultural representations of old age in Africa. Using ageism as its central theme, it explores the ambiguity associated with the elderly, who are often highly venerated for their wisdom but also stereotyped because of their advanced age.