This book provides a comprehensive overview of ethics and morality, setting out what the field is about, what its demands are, and the rationale for its injunctions. Without being contentious, it provides a comprehensive account of what the contentions are about.
England’s Response to Hitler in the 1930s
This book analyses the political tactics of the ‘Cliveden Set’, aristocrats in 1930s Britain. Scapegoated for the Appeasement Policy, they used their influence to encourage a foreign policy that supported Hitler’s rearmament and the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
With widespread insecurity in Nigeria, this volume brings together military professionals and civilian scholars to explore critical thinking for national security. It fosters debate to answer an age-old question: Whither Nigeria’s national security and strategy?
Genetically Modified Organisms
The rejection of GMOs is fueled by a misdirected struggle that fosters public fear. This book explains this contemporary taboo and calls for the well-regulated use of all biotechnological innovations, ending a stalemate which stymies public research and its benefits.
This book covers the consequences of death for patients and families, including grief and health. It offers a health promotion perspective on palliative care for patients, families, and care workers, stressing the importance of fulfilling patient wishes.
This book is your guide to the political language of the Middle East. It is a tool for translators and interpreters to master the language, combining an academic overview of translating and interpreting with six key themes related to politics.
The cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece provide a crucial context for understanding the Bible. Beliefs and practices from literary works like the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and Homer’s epics deepen our understanding of the Biblical Books.
Revolutionary Essays on Life, Earth, and Politics
Science is our only guide to the Crisis of the Anthropocene. This wakeup call explores climate change, biodiversity collapse, and the political failures behind them. Data shows the US is not an advanced democracy, and threats like Trumpism put freedom itself at stake.
Post-Millennial Perceptions and Post-Pandemic Realities
Even in dystopia, mundane life becomes life-giving. This book attests to human resilience, where the darkest images yield the sweetness of hope. A frontier document on Covid-19, its stellar contributors explore art, medicine, economics, and history with tenacity and awe.
Countering claims of decadence, this book argues that turn-of-the-century art was energized by a search for meaningful form grounded in psychology. It connects key thinkers to modernists like T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, redefining literary genre through this new lens.
This book discusses the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on both high-level politics and people’s inner worlds. Through diverse religious, historical, social, and legal analyses, it offers broad perspectives and questions the future of international security.
This book offers a new cultural perspective on Slovak immigration, going beyond economic analysis. It compares British and Slovak understandings of class, religion, and ethnicity to reveal how these factors shape the integration of children within UK education.
Financial mathematics is the base for corporate finance, financial management, and investment. This textbook provides knowledge necessary for every financier, economist, and financial analyst. It is for students and specialists who want to master quantitative methods in finance.
Daydreams reveal a protagonist’s hopes, fears, and desires. But what do they truly mean for Hollywood cinema? This study investigates fantasy scenes to uncover the key functions daydreams serve from cinematic, thematic, psychological, and ideological perspectives.
Explore how communities use alternative planning to oppose government interventions. This book is the first systematic overview of activist planning, compiling 164 global cases with a comprehensive classification scheme for researchers and students.
This book offers VET teachers a set of practical, tested tools to develop students’ transversal competences. The units cover teamwork, communication, and conflict resolution, providing In-TRAY type activities with downloadable elements for direct use in the classroom.
Global challenges like pandemics and climate change present an opportunity to reset our economies for a more resilient and sustainable future. Amid financial uncertainty, prudent management and planning for the unthinkable are essential. This book highlights these strategists.
Teaching and Learning English in Japanese Classrooms
English instructors in Japan share practical solutions to classroom challenges. Chapters explore educational technology, learner autonomy, feedback, and new teaching approaches. An accessible guide to practitioner research for language teachers and trainers worldwide.
This book explores the philosophical foundations of justice, arguing our modern views on equality and class struggle fail those in need. A renewed Jewish perspective is offered, proposing poverty alleviation based on a generalized responsibility to help vulnerable neighbors.
Development-induced displacement is a major human rights concern. This book provides a critical analysis of the environmental, social, and economic impacts of development projects and calls for a serious deliberation on the human rights issues involved.
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