The Lucifer Syndrome
This book adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to narcissism and its connection to evil. It argues that narcissism was the first sin of Lucifer and humanity, exploring the psychology of malignant narcissism and its role in the Lucifer Syndrome through a range of examples.
Public Finance in India
This book examines the management of India’s public revenue, expenditure, and debt. It analyzes fiscal performance and the impact of public finance policies on economic growth, income distribution, and stability, offering vital insights for policymakers, economists, and students.
Statements of Truth
This book proposes to make explicit the information that enables us to assert a declarative sentence. Those interested in the philosophy of language will find a fresh and unorthodox perspective on meaning and a non-metaphysical approach to various semantic issues and puzzles.
Best Practices in a Child-Friendly Justice System and Child Rights
This multidisciplinary book is dedicated to child rights protection across criminal, civil, and administrative law. It addresses key issues like juvenile justice, the rights of child victims, and restorative justice. Intended for lawyers, social workers, and psychologists.
Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient
Håland’s two-volume book represents a cross-period product of fieldwork conducted in contemporary Greece in combination with ancient sources. It investigates the importance of cults connected with the Greek female sphere and its relation to the official male-dominated ideology.
Literature in Exile
This conference proceedings provides the first in-depth analysis of the different angles of the problem of emigrant writing. It deals with such problems as the fate of writers opposing different political regimes and the place of such fiction within national literatures.
Becoming Jewish
A worldwide fascination with Judaism has led millions to convert. In this volume, leading scholars explain this global movement towards identification with the Jewish people, from Germany and Poland to China and Nigeria.
Hindustani Traces in Malay Ghazal
This monograph investigates the Malay ghazal, in its various shapes and with its different meanings, in order to study the musical traces of Hindustani culture. It describes the development of the ghazal, from its early forms to its modern transformation into local art.
Kurban addresses the treaties, crises and other issues that seem to be turning points in Russian-Turkish relations, reflecting on Russian and Turkish archival documents and resources. She analyses Russian-Turkish relations from the First World War up to the present time.
Regime Changes in 20th Century Europe
This book traces the commonalities of processes of regime change, regardless of their ideological colour. From the last stages of World War I to the present Crimean crisis, the case studies here offer timeless insights for understanding ideological and military conflicts.
This volume inquires into the mysteries of the psyche of the Symbolist Movement through essays on works of art, literature and music created as part or extension of the Symbolist Movement.
A Far Light
DiNapoli presents the complete Old English text of Beowulf, in short sections followed by verse translations and extensive commentaries, making this extraordinary literary achievement accessible to interested modern readers who are not familiar with the language it uses.
Mapping out the Rushdie Republic
This collection differs from existing studies on the work of Salman Rushdie by dint of its seriousness of intent and profundity of content. Every major writing of the writer is paid due attention as separate articles are devoted to every aspect of his literary persona.
Giffin explores how Patrick White and his post-war contemporaries all commented on the consequences of God’s death. He shows how they worked with a shared pattern of tropes to search for the light and dark aspects of western consciousness and the civilization it has produced.
The Land of Fertility II
This volume presents a detailed analysis of cities in the Fertile Crescent, the region where human civilisation began. It covers their formation, development, the urbanisation process, and urban ideology from the beginning of the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest.
Examples of social practice in the Central European region from the 19th century to the 1950s are presented here. The volume responds to the current economic and social crisis, including the welfare state crisis, which raises the need to seek solutions from the past and present.
The Root Causes of Terrorism
This publication discusses a range of themes related to terrorism, such as religious violence in scriptural monotheism, interpretations of religious texts, militancy and sacrifice, and religious terrorism.
Resulting from a teacher education conference, this collection will stimulate dialogue among such groups as teacher educators, researchers, students, teachers and NGOs. Its papers are written by European teacher educators, presenting their experiences and ideas.
TOTalitarian ARTs
This collection represents a tool to broaden our geographical, institutional, and historical understanding of the term totalitarianism. It opens new spaces for debate on the connection between the visual arts and mass-culture in totalitarian societies.
Challenges in Global Learning
This volume offers a wide range of approaches for framing and addressing global education issues. It is constructed around four research themes which reflect current strategic research priorities in Australian education, forming a framework for evaluating educational changes.
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