The Paradoxical India
This collection of essays captures the vast dimensions of Indian cultural and literary traditions. Explore myths, tribal literature, and philosophies to understand India’s rich, multicultural society through its ancient landscape, contradictions, and contemporary advancements.
This collection examines how literary narratives shape, challenge, and redefine culture in India. Moving beyond Western frameworks, it explores themes of identity and power, from colonial legacies to Bollywood, arguing that literature not only reflects but reshapes society.
Circulating Knowledge and Elites
Intelligent bots promise salvation while paradigms clash online. With trust in experts collapsing, new leaders emerge. Are their intelligent designs an improvement on the evolution guessed by blind watchmakers?
This multidisciplinary book deconstructs misinformation and power structures to comprehend human interactions. It challenges dominant narratives by explaining the interplay between language and power, humor and laughter, media and culture, and literature and cinema.
This book is a hands-on guide for human resources practitioners and researchers on how to assess the validity and reliability of standardized diversity scores. It provides practical examples using correlation and factor analyses to illustrate the assessment process.
COVID-19, Racism and Politicization
This book explores the global media and government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining countries from the USA to Asia, it addresses the media’s role in both countering and spreading misinformation, politicizing the crisis, and fueling racism and conspiracy theories.
This book describes the morphology and syntax of the verb phrase (VP) in Embosi. It provides a syntagmatic analysis of the Embosi VP in keeping with argument structure, tackling the dichotomy between verb types and examining syntactic processes and thematic roles.
Narrative Criminology
This guide on narrative criminology shows how academia and entertainment can blend. For true crime creators and criminology students, it is an insider’s guide to crafting compelling, responsible narratives that educate and entertain without lowering academic standards.
The untold story of the contentious wartime relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle. Despite mutual dislike, they manipulated each other to defeat Hitler. Their four years of distrust and animosity played a critical role in the Allies’ path to victory.
The Antisocial Mind
Antisocial behavior is a result of biology, not a choice. This book argues that since the brain produces behavior unconsciously, antisocial individuals are not accountable. They should be treated, not punished, and prisons converted into rehabilitation centers.
100 Years of the American Dream
This collection offers examinations of the American Dream across a diverse range of works. Each chapter’s innovative insights transcend literary critique to touch upon issues of economics, education, gender, immigration, psychology, race, and religion.
Music in Human Experience
Challenging Thoreau’s Romanticism and Reimagining Nature
In Walden, Thoreau presented nature as a path to spiritual clarity. But is his vision too romanticized? This book reevaluates Thoreau’s ideals, challenging his romanticism and reimagining humanity’s relationship with nature in an era of ecological and societal upheaval.
The History of Fair City Athletic Football Club
In the 19th century Scottish football boom, many clubs rose but few survived. This is the story of one such club, Fair City Athletic, which blossomed in Perth to become the city’s predominant team, but missed by a whisker making it onto the major stage when seemingly well-set.
Art and the Technosphere
This book investigates contemporary art’s new status. From caves to digital simulations, art no longer just represents ideas—it constructs worlds. The question is no longer “what” art is, but how we determine the difference between the aesthetic object and artificial life.
Literature and the Japanese War of Aggression against China
This book defines “Invasion Literature,” revealing the pivotal role of Japanese writing in the war against China. It traces the genre’s origins, key authors, and post-war legacy, giving vital attention to powerful but long-neglected literary works.
Four Plays about Disability
Four plays unearth hidden histories of disability. Revisit the Whitechapel murders, uncover Nazi genocide, and witness a Victorian prostitute’s survival in what Joyce Carol Oates calls “the triumph of twisted.”
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.
Forensic Psychiatry
This book provides an update on forensic psychiatry, incorporating changes from the ICD-11. It covers criminal and civil topics, addressing controversial issues like chemical castration. It is for psychiatrists, psychologists, and legal practitioners.
Becoming Scientific
Why do some people avidly engage with science while others hate it? This book explores the ‘science identities’ of diverse people through their life stories, providing strategies for educators and parents to foster and support a lifelong journey with science.
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