Countering claims of decadence, this book argues that turn-of-the-century art was energized by a search for meaningful form grounded in psychology. It connects key thinkers to modernists like T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, redefining literary genre through this new lens.
Post-Millennial Perceptions and Post-Pandemic Realities
Even in dystopia, mundane life becomes life-giving. This book attests to human resilience, where the darkest images yield the sweetness of hope. A frontier document on Covid-19, its stellar contributors explore art, medicine, economics, and history with tenacity and awe.
Revolutionary Essays on Life, Earth, and Politics
Science is our only guide to the Crisis of the Anthropocene. This wakeup call explores climate change, biodiversity collapse, and the political failures behind them. Data shows the US is not an advanced democracy, and threats like Trumpism put freedom itself at stake.
The cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece provide a crucial context for understanding the Bible. Beliefs and practices from literary works like the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and Homer’s epics deepen our understanding of the Biblical Books.
This book is your guide to the political language of the Middle East. It is a tool for translators and interpreters to master the language, combining an academic overview of translating and interpreting with six key themes related to politics.
This book covers the consequences of death for patients and families, including grief and health. It offers a health promotion perspective on palliative care for patients, families, and care workers, stressing the importance of fulfilling patient wishes.
Genetically Modified Organisms
The rejection of GMOs is fueled by a misdirected struggle that fosters public fear. This book explains this contemporary taboo and calls for the well-regulated use of all biotechnological innovations, ending a stalemate which stymies public research and its benefits.
With widespread insecurity in Nigeria, this volume brings together military professionals and civilian scholars to explore critical thinking for national security. It fosters debate to answer an age-old question: Whither Nigeria’s national security and strategy?
England’s Response to Hitler in the 1930s
This book analyses the political tactics of the ‘Cliveden Set’, aristocrats in 1930s Britain. Scapegoated for the Appeasement Policy, they used their influence to encourage a foreign policy that supported Hitler’s rearmament and the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of ethics and morality, setting out what the field is about, what its demands are, and the rationale for its injunctions. Without being contentious, it provides a comprehensive account of what the contentions are about.
This volume of original essays explores the meaning of water in creative narratives by African Americans. Across literature, film, and music, these writers embody provocative, innovative, and refreshing ways to contemplate water in Black American artistic expressivity.
Based on real science, this book offers a new methodology for assessing coaching’s effects on managers’ personalities. It shows how they can respond to the challenges they face in a more effective and professional way.
From a quarter century of experience, a criminologist explores twenty-five facts about crime, policing, courts, and the death penalty. Written for the layperson with a “tell it like it is” approach, this scholarly book is funny, interesting, timely, and engaging.
Developing Third-Generation Learning Organizations
To build the agile, knowledge-creating organization of the future, leaders must first undergo their own transformation. This book offers the theory and methodology needed to guide this process, outlining how developing people leads to enhanced profitability.
The Politics of Nuclear Power in Finland
A Finnish nuclear deal with Russia’s Rosatom reveals the invisible bonds of trust that hold a community together. An eye-opening look into the cultural roots and hidden forces that drive high-stakes political decision-making.
An explosive insider account from 25 years at the Israeli Government Press Office. Discover the untold story of how journalists manipulated coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, creating a false narrative. A vital wake-up call for a free press.
This anthology presents three hundred Chinese cut verses, each with an English translation. The poems revolve around the poet’s life at Beijing Geely University, his vacations, and his experiences during the fight against the coronavirus.
This book argues that the rule of law does not stand alone; ethics and integrity are the lifeblood of all legal and governance systems. It explores how to overcome deficiencies in our legal systems and demonstrates how this approach can lead to more effective governance.
The definitive musical biography of Mikis Theodorakis, the revolutionary composer who became a Greek icon of resistance. Born from the author’s personal friendship with the composer and written with his blessing, this is the authoritative account of a true popular hero.
This book is a collection of biographies of forgotten leaders in the temperance movement. Recovering the lives and works of these reformers enhances our understanding of the movement and is for anyone interested in the lost history of social movements.