Culture and Technology Integration in Higher Education
This book investigates technology implementation from a cultural perspective. Through an ethnographic study, it examines how culture impacts teachers’ technology adoption at personal, collegial, and institutional levels, upsetting top-down efforts to change.
Shakespeare Meets the Indian Epics
This book examines the day-to-day themes in the epics The Ramayanam and The Maha Bharatham and in Shakespeare’s plays. It reveals that writers 6,000 miles and centuries apart have much in common, showing how people, whatever their background, tackle life in similar ways.
Aquifer characterisation is essential for groundwater modelling, but traditional methods are time-consuming and expensive. This volume explores how geophysical techniques overcome these limitations, providing high-resolution subsurface data through detailed case studies.
The Musical World of Alan Hovhaness
This book explores the work of American-Armenian composer Alan Hovhaness in the context of East-West cultural interactions. It analyzes Armenian, Indian, Japanese, and Korean musical traditions in his works, evaluating his complex identity and the phenomenon of “Armenian-ness”.
A refreshing new look at the Book of Psalms, this analysis of its postmodern poetry reveals its enduring relevance as a source of sustenance, comfort, and a practical handbook for life.
How do young Arab scholars interact with English literature? This book shows why courageous voices from the past, like Swift’s, must remain alive in a wasteland of globalization. Anarchist, champion of the oppressed, Swift’s ghost is needed to wake us to the truth.
Precarity in Culture
By inviting scholars from different disciplines to apply multiple critical lenses, this volume explores the different facets of our precarious world, providing insights into the challenges of our possible futures.
This book explores the relationship between food sovereignty and land grabbing. Through multidisciplinary case studies from around the world, it sheds light on the rush for land, extractivism, and the subsequent popular and indigenous resistance by local communities.
News over Five Millennia
Concentrating on the past 200 years, this book studies messengers and newsmen, focusing on news agency journalists. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, linguists, media professionals and “news addicts”.
This book presents classical management theory integrated with modern innovations like agile management, AI, and neuroscience. It covers key issues in sports management—from finance and quality to conflict and corruption—and includes new case studies from the field.
Beyond defining moments like the Bay of Pigs, this book reveals lesser-known events: Che’s adventures, Castro’s possible link to JFK’s assassination, and Cuba’s silent wars. Utilizing sources previously available only in Spanish, it corrects the record on the Cuban Revolution.
This book makes sense of the political, cultural, and social change in North Africa since the Arab Spring. It argues that the region needs a new political paradigm—one that eschews a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach for solutions reflecting the cultural realities of its societies.
This book celebrates the unsung heroes of Indian cinema and their unacknowledged contribution to nation building. This collection of essays examines the role played by cinema in narrating, inspiring, and challenging our comprehension of India as a nation.
The first book to apply Bourdieu’s theory to management and innovation. It links his concepts to a practical toolkit of methods, showing researchers and students how to model organisational systems and perform business ethnographies from a Bourdieusian perspective.
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.
The Impact of the British Oboist Léon Goossens
This study reassesses Léon Goossens’ contribution to British oboe playing. It explores his pivotal role as a catalyst for new compositions that created a library of British oboe music, addressing a void in the repertoire and ultimately restoring the instrument’s status.
A New Perspective on Sexual Orientation
Common perspectives on sexual orientation are inaccurate. This book establishes criteria for a robust theory, evaluates major perspectives, and proposes the first novel theory in decades: a four-component approach that explains many fascinating sexual orientation occurrences.
Process-Philosophical Perspectives on Biology
Traditional reductionistic metaphysics fails to explain the complexity of life. This book explores process metaphysics to advance our understanding of biological concepts, ascribing subjective interiority and intrinsic value to all living beings, from microbes to animals.
Performance Trends in Postliberation Zimbabwe
This collection theorises the dynamic ways Zimbabwean and African artists perform. It examines an interactive movement that fuses performer and spectator, while challenging the dominant Anglocentrism in critical performance pedagogies.
Facilitating Parents’ Agency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
This book shares the incisive narratives of parents of a struggling child in adolescent mental health services. Though often under-consulted, their experiences provide clinicians with effective ways to engage them as a valued resource for the child’s recovery.