A History of Public Administration in the United States
This book examines the emergence of American public administration. As a history of American bureaucracy, it focuses on pivotal events, highlighting major controversies including the field’s anti-democratic origins, Congressional hostility, and early limits on the role of women.
National Archetypes and Labour Subordination
National archetypes represent the outstanding traits of their citizens and serve as role models. This study explores how they are formed and their effect on the behaviour of workers and employers, analyzing five European countries and comparing them to non-European archetypes.
This groundbreaking book merges ancient wisdom and modern medicine, equipping professionals with validated scientific research. Delve into prevalent conditions, from low back pain to infertility, and bridge the gap between traditional Chinese medicine and Western approaches.
This book records the international support for Japan during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. When the disaster struck, 27 satellites from 14 countries collaborated to observe the area, proving that international space-based response can effectively support relief efforts.
This book examines Nigeria’s reform of personal property security law. While the new unitary system is acclaimed for enhancing credit access for small businesses, this text highlights the enactment’s drawbacks, offering lessons for stakeholders within and outside Nigeria.
This collection of essays explores crisis in contemporary British fiction. Examining authors like Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes, this volume investigates crisis as a challenge to power structures, highlighting the urgent social and ethical concerns in their work.
Nils Astrup’s 1889 Trek Translated
In 1889, at a critical historical juncture, Nils Astrup journeyed through Zululand and Swaziland as empires vied for control. His diary, now in its first English translation, offers a unique eyewitness account of colonialism’s impact on a region in dramatic flux.
This is the definitive biography in English of Horacio Quiroga, the Latin-American Poe. Based on twenty years of work and newly discovered documents, it humanizes the writer and spotlights the marginalized women in his life, revealing a complex, contradictory man.
This collection synthesizes recent scholarship on medieval lordship. Exploring seigneurial systems from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, it emphasizes both institutional and informal forms of power. It offers a framework for newcomers and an in-depth tool for long-term scholars.
A fresh perspective on Gerard Manley Hopkins. This book argues that his artistic vision, not his faith, was the foremost concern in his poetry. It explores how themes of anxiety and transience shaped his voice, revealing his belief that they enhance rather than hinder creativity.
Kyrgyzstan and the Legacies of Collectivisation
Soviet rule in Kyrgyzstan was enabled by collectivisation and forcible population displacement. These strategies of colonisation reconfigured the population but were met with resistance. The book explores these changes and how independent Kyrgyzstan struggles with their legacy.
Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus
This book delves into Iran’s political, economic, and strategic relations with the southern Caucasus after the 1979 revolution. It examines Iran’s foreign policy, the legal framework of the Caspian Sea, and the strategic implications of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
Variation in Linguistics
Language is rule-based, yet constantly varies. Understanding this variation helps us understand the forces that shape language itself. This book presents interdisciplinary research that sheds empirical light on the variables behind systematic variation in language.
Karen Blixen’s Existentialism
This book investigates the writings of Karen Blixen from an existentialist angle. Blixen subtly integrates the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre, making them accessible while offering her own ideas on existentialism’s fundamental problem: how to become who you are.
By reframing the cosmos through entropy and creativity, this book offers a solution to the Fermi paradox, a correction of the Drake equation, and a new definition of singularity, revealing a unique chain of being—from elementary information to all possible worlds.
This research collection focuses on language study trends following the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores topics from teacher motivation and technology to student speaking anxiety, perfectionism, cultural influences, and linguistic analysis in English Language Teaching.
The most comprehensive review of deaf characters in literature available. Examining 300 years of examples in novels, comics, and film, this work identifies key trends through the lens of deaf education, the use of sign language, and the rise of deaf identity and communities.
Ovid’s Heroides gives voice to mythical heroines in letters to their absent lovers. This groundbreaking volume offers the first-ever databank of medieval readings and modern conjectures, an essential resource for understanding how the poems’ texts were established.
Ovid’s Heroides are fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This unique volume presents a comprehensive collection of all medieval and renaissance manuscript readings for poems 9-15, vital for understanding how the established text was created.
P. Ovidius Naso, The Heroides
Ovid’s Heroides is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume presents a radically new text and translation of the collection, separating the original core from later accretions. The translation is designed to aid interpretation.