This is the first book to address the root causes of poor working conditions within global supply chains. From a unique survey of nearly 2,000 suppliers, it presents fresh evidence on how purchasing practices impact wages and identifies changes for more sustainable supply chains.
This book explores the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. It considers their principal characters, their motivations, and what their legacies mean to us today, revealing the enduring influence of Classical Greek drama on modern culture.
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.
This book explores W. B. Yeats’s mystical experience and how it is exemplified in his poetry. It covers his engagement with the occult, Celtic mysticism, and Rosicrucianism, and discusses his automatic writing experience with his wife and his apocalyptic vision.
Perspectives on Contemporary Musical Practices
This volume sheds light on the wide range of perspectives on musical activity today. It discusses the changing contexts of 20th-century compositions, offers in-depth musical analysis connected to performance, and considers technology’s influence on musical creation.
This work investigates the spectrum of new words connected with the Covid-19 pandemic, from neologisms to new meanings. It offers a multifaceted model of lexical innovation to explain recent developments in English vocabulary and the new terminology of these unprecedented times.
This book argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not just self-referential, but hetero-referential. Using Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton, it shows how texts create their own worlds while referring to an external reality, even if that reality is a human construct.
Can God’s existence be proven with logic? A thousand years ago, Anselm said yes, sparking a debate for the ages. This accessible book explores the arguments and their creators, inviting you to examine the evidence and render your own verdict.
The Rise and Fall of Baby Boomers
The baby boomer generation reshaped the world, but now younger generations blame them for damaging the nation and planet. This fact-based, objective history contextualizes this deep generational divide, a key theme in contemporary American culture.
Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis
This volume shows the impact of trauma on memory and identity, foregrounding the suffering of the marginalised to give them a voice. It shows how victims confront the past to (re)assert their shattered identity and challenge official history by rewriting the past.
This volume reflects a rich tradition of Kantian thought. Essays rethink Kant’s most controversial themes—freedom, morality, transcendental idealism, radical evil, and revolution—and indicate his importance for current philosophical debates.
Young Learners Online
A guide to teaching young language learners online. Bridging theory and practice, this book offers key concepts, examples, and tips for effective online teaching. It’s an essential resource for pre-service and in-service teachers, trainers, and curriculum developers.
This book offers a view of the science behind crime scene investigations, demonstrating the connection between forensic science and physics. It details the basic physics needed to understand crime scene findings and will appeal to students and any reader interested in forensics.
Helen Waddell’s classic novel tells the powerful love story of 12th-century teacher Peter Abelard and the learned Heloise. This annotated edition introduces the extensive literary and historical sources Waddell incorporated into the best-selling story of love and theology.
Literature, Parasitism, and Science
This book considers how parasitic worms molded the imaginations of Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Breaking the taboo surrounding parasitism, it reveals how classic literature owes much to the emerging science of parasitology.
Becoming an Academy School in the UK
This book tells the story of Manchester Academy, a major success of the City Academies policy. It explores how the original vision was realised in a challenging community and provides compelling proof that a learner’s identity does not have to be their destiny.
This volume explores the mental lexicon from a multitude of perspectives, covering meaning creation, language development, and contemporary discourse. A must-read for anyone interested in a broader overview of the field, it offers seminal approaches for future research.
This book provides a framework for recruiting and retaining long-term volunteers, especially in health programs. It details a screening process to improve cost-efficiency by considering the motivations of volunteers, offering a novel way of conceptualizing volunteering.
This book provides a framework for ethical reasoning, exploring how values shape our worldview and principles guide our practice. Placing humanity at its heart, it discusses applications within the beginning and end of life, science, education, and business.
To prepare students for the 21st century, we must change the way we teach them to think. This book instils a love of critical thinking in students and teachers, covering its history, methods in language teaching, and providing reading and writing activities.