This book offers a bold, innovative approach to literary interpretation: the neurohermeneutics of suspicion. It illuminates the intricate bond between literature and the mind, encouraging readers to adopt a suspicious stance to unearth complex, multilayered meanings.
This book highlights the immense contribution of traditional medicine to the discovery of modern drugs. It inspires experts to explore traditional flora and younger investigators to find novel molecules, making it invaluable to scientists, researchers, and students alike.
Analogies and Models in Science and Theology
This book uses Hesse’s Network Model of Theory to debunk scientism and argue for the indispensability of socio-cultural and theological values in the search for objective knowledge. It shows how both science and theology rely on interpretation, models, and metaphor.
Language and State
This book argues that language shapes human society. By enabling media for mass communication, language allows us to form large societies, nations, and states. These states are then governed through linguistic mechanisms like constitutions, elections, and representation.
This book unveils the dimensions of work-life balance for female academics in Bangladesh. Key findings suggest that factors from both family and work have a mostly negative effect, limiting their job satisfaction and career growth by disrupting work-home harmony.
This book delves into the relationship between economic growth and tourism in China’s diverse regions. Emphasizing China’s unique experiences, it offers practical insights and valuable lessons applicable to policymakers, economists, and tourism professionals worldwide.
This original, international work offers new perspectives on leisure studies. For the first time in English, it presents interdisciplinary dialogues from countries like Brazil and Portugal that depart from traditional viewpoints to consider leisure as a political practice.
Public Debts and National Sovereignty from the 12th to the 21st Century
Following a series of crises, the world economy is burdened by high debt and the dramatic costs of fighting climate change. What can we learn from history? Global solidarity is necessary to share the costs, and large multinationals and the wealthy must take on a fair share.
Second-Generation Romantic Poets’ Paradoxical Approach to Women
This book examines the works of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, revealing their inconsistent attitudes towards women. Caught between their liberal views and the patriarchal norms of their age, their writing both reinforces and challenges traditional gender roles.
In the postmodern ironic music of composer Bojidar Spassov, old and new times, and cultural traditions emerge like carnival masks. This book is the first monograph on this paradoxical multicultural artist and the first attempt to shed light on the contemporary music of Bulgaria.
Liberal democracy has enriched lives, but it is under threat from totalitarian regimes and ideological extremes. This book argues that its defence against rising authoritarianism is the great moral imperative of our time, combining legal analysis, history, and philosophy.
Sex-Based Harassment in the World of Work
This book explores the evolving jurisprudence on workplace sexual harassment. It examines the judiciary’s approach to complex issues: the ambit of ‘workplace’, handling vague or anonymous complaints, ensuring balance in inquiries, and the interplay with criminal proceedings.
The Philosophy of Yoga in Contemporary American Fiction
This book unveils the mystical motifs and yoga philosophies interwoven into the narrative structures of fictions by Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, and Kurt Vonnegut, opening new vistas on the interface between Eastern philosophy and Western literature.
This essential resource offers an international perspective on the interplay between education and migration. Featuring contributions from academics, it delves into integration, entrepreneurship, and mediation, offering invaluable insights for researchers and policymakers alike.
This book summarizes 75 years of developments in blood banking, from post-WWII to the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the evolving science, medical practice, and policy debates through a unique social lens that distinguishes this work from other writings.
History shows that civilizations collapse when they fail to adapt to change. Today, new technology threatens to destroy our own world. This book analyzes its social disadvantages—from fake news to its earliest victims—and asks what must be done to adapt and use it for the good.
This study examines how 20th-century absurdist theatre reveals humanity’s angst by confronting the subconscious self with the socio-moral façade. It highlights the dramatic revolution of the mid-20th century through the plays of Beckett, Pinter, Ionesco, and others.
Managerial Capitalism, Ethics, Secrets and the Business School
Tracing centuries of managerial development, this book is an exposé on management failures and academic greed. With daring insight, it reveals how we reached our current position and, more importantly, how we can progress toward a more ethical, sustainable future.
Pilgrimage in the Twenty-First Century
This inquiry showcases the rich diversity of religious and secular pilgrimage. Scholars explore travel for transformation, revealing why it is one of tourism’s fastest growing segments and how this age-old phenomenon is central to what it means to be human.
Monsters have always been border crossers, their transnational nature reflecting our era of global crisis. This book explores the cultural flow of monstrosity, examining its socio-political ramifications in a world framed by the Covid pandemic and our shared vulnerability.