Ensuring Sustainable Development Goals do not Become Rhetoric
Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals has stalled, with only 12% of targets on track. To ensure the SDGs are not reduced to mere rhetoric, a new strategy is needed. This book argues for a shift to a common household database, with real examples of progress.
Philosophy and Mental Health in the Age of Nihilism
This book explores the interconnections of nihilism, anxiety, and authenticity in East Asian and Western philosophies, religions, and psychotherapies. An innovative, cross-cultural study, it re-examines Buddhist and Daoist concepts to argue for an authentic no-self.
This book is a study of political philosophy arguing that language gives origin to the state. By extending the distance of communication, humans form large communities, leading to the state’s formation. Language is also the key to realizing freedom, equality, peace, and justice.
This book explores how intercommunal conflicts in Ile-Ife and Modakeke turned youths into both security assets and liabilities. Understanding militarised youths with limited opportunities provides a sound basis for policy to solve security problems in Nigeria and elsewhere.
This research-based guide explores customer-driven innovation for today’s markets. It examines AI in marketing, data analytics, and consumer behavior, offering evidence-based strategies and case studies to navigate emerging trends and leverage market complexities.
Online Pre-Evangelization
In an age of religious indifference, many efforts at evangelization fail without “pre-evangelization”—patiently tilling the soil to build the trust and openness for the Gospel to take root. This book takes a positive approach to leveraging new media for this essential work.
This groundbreaking work presents literature by early 20th-century Japanese female authors. It features their first publication in English—the author’s own translations—alongside insightful commentary on key translation issues. Suitable for postgraduate or advanced self-study.
Why are Nigerian theatre students taught directing using theories from long-dead Westerners, while their own living masters are ignored? This book fills that gap, with essays and interviews from 30 Nigerian directors, allowing a new generation to stand on the shoulders of giants.
This anthology explores how laws shape and oppress mothers—and how they resist. Bringing together diverse voices, it shines a light on the experiences of racialized, LGBTQ+, Indigenous, and criminalized mothers, challenging how societies define and support motherhood.
Language, Context and Contextuality
This collection of papers by international scholars reflects the multidisciplinary concerns of Professor Herbert Igboanusi. Contributions cover sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and literature, with a major focus on the linguistic issues and realities in Nigeria.
Language, Culture and Business explores their essential intersection from an international perspective. It provides practical insights into topics like management, marketing, and intercultural communication, making it vital for educators, researchers, and business professionals.
Christian Inversion of Jewish Nationalist Monotheism
Jesus’s movement bridged the divide between Jew and Gentile. Unlike the traditional messianic expectation of a conqueror, he promoted a spiritual, apolitical union based on personal reform. His followers were a nation of priests, not warriors, for all humanity.
This book focuses on integrating Knowledge Management (KM) with Project Management (PM) for all project types. This integration improves organisational performance, delivering products better, faster, and cheaper by enhancing communication, decision making, and collaboration.
Twenty Years in Ukraine
For twenty years before the war, Ukraine was a land of turbulence. This compelling account is told through its five presidential terms, revealing a geopolitical chess game and the unyielding spirit of the Ukrainian people fighting for freedom, democracy, and a European future.
This book contextualizes the terror histories of post-9/11 literature from the USA, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka. It reads selected short stories, novels, and poems from a gendered perspective.
This monograph explores the material culture of the Early Bronze Age in Azerbaijan’s Mil-Karabakh region. It examines settlements and grave monuments, providing classifications and pictures of the artifacts discovered within them.
This book presents the financial performance of the shipping industry since 1896, tracking how fortunes were made and lost through market cycles. It examines the underlying causes that moved the market and evaluates when players got their speculative act right or badly wrong.
Franciscan Missions and the Chumash Uprising
In 1824, a brutal flogging sparked a Chumash rebellion against California’s Franciscan missions. This book explores the uprising’s true causes, from years of deteriorating conditions to the final bloody conflict at Mission La Purísima, where the rebels made their last stand.
Piero Manzoni’s Merda d’artista
A turning point in conceptual art, Manzoni’s “Merda d’artista” is provocative, scandalous, and misunderstood. This first scholarly study uses the latest research to uncover the iconic work’s hidden meanings and profound influence.
Delve into the archival history of early Indian cinema. This book examines the landmark Indo-European collaboration at Bombay Talkies through Gilles Deleuze’s compelling concepts of Movement-Image and Time-Image, exploring censorship, studios, and film journalism.