These essays explore how conversational exchanges in Early Modern England informed cultural productions. Conversation functioned as a method for creation and interpretation, a metamorphic force that did not simply reproduce, but transformed with each interaction.
Conversations in Philosophy
This collection of thoughtful and challenging essays offers a careful examination of knowledge and freedom. It interrogates the social dimensions of knowledge, the relationship between knowledge and truth, and the nature of personal and social liberty.
Conversations in Philosophy
These essays demonstrate philosophy’s relevance to fundamental human problems. Crossing disciplinary and regional boundaries from Africa to America, they explore pressing issues like development, conflict, and apathy, reflecting the vitality of philosophical discourse.
Leading scholars of practical rationality and human action—including Alfred Mele, Michael Bratman, and Joshua Knobe—discuss central questions on agency, deliberation, and akrasia. The outcome is of great interest to philosophers, economists, and psychologists.
Conversations with Indian Cartoonists
Picking up the pen is like playing with fire in political cartooning. Cartoonists draw the line to shake us out of apathy. In the tradition of Shankar and R. K. Laxman, this volume presents conversations with India’s leading cartoonists, taking us into their recondite art.
Conversion in English
This book proposes that conversion in English is a semantic process driven by conceptual mappings. It questions previous interpretations that mistake the effect of conversion for its cause and helps settle long-standing debates on its directionality and productivity.
Conflict-based strategy is obsolete. This is the essential guide to cooperative strategy for modern leaders. In a world where the choice is stark—”cooperate, or die”—this book provides the playbook for a successful future.
Coordination and Subordination
Recent studies challenge the traditional boundaries between coordination and subordination. This collection of papers delves into these challenges, using data from different languages to develop innovative perspectives and advance thought-provoking ideas.
Corpora in Applied Linguistics
Comprising contributions from a corpus linguistics conference, this volume explores the opportunities that corpora offer for answering questions in different domains of applied linguistics. It also studies the possible limitations and challenges of corpus-based research.
Climate change, over-indebtedness, and demographic aging put pressure on future generations. This book explores how corporate and financial social responsibility can leverage intergenerational harmony and ensure a sustainable future for humankind.
Corporate Citizenship
As globalization deepens, it is necessary to ensure business activities make a positive contribution to communities. This book underlines the big-picture thinking on the roles business can play in fostering a moral, equitable and ecologically sustainable world.
Corporate Fraud in Japan
Why did risk management systems at world-famous Japanese companies fail? This book investigates eight incidents of corporate fraud, based on third-party reports, to explore common problems in corporate governance and internal control that let these companies down.
Corporate Governance and Board Performance
In Pacific Island Countries, board appointments are often based on politics and ethnicity, not merit. This book uses empirical evidence from the region to show how these factors influence board structure and ultimately damage their ability to perform.
Corporate Governance and Compliance with IFRSs
This is the first book to examine how corporate governance improves compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) in MENA stock exchanges. It identifies obstacles and suggests actions to globalize these emerging markets.
Corporate Social Innovation
This book explores Corporate Social Innovation as key to reshaping capitalism. By balancing profitability with purpose, companies can address social and environmental challenges, rebuild trust, and create shared value—providing a roadmap to redefine the purpose of business.
This book explores Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), highlighting its concepts, business principles, and practices with a special emphasis on India. It exhibits cases of successful businesses where CSR has enabled them to achieve sustainable targets.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Shell in Ireland
An exposé of Shell in Ireland, this book reveals how weak regulation and political influence can turn corporate social responsibility into a tool for exploiting communities and the environment.
Corporations Have Almost as Many Constitutional Rights as Individuals
This book explains how, over 225 years, US Supreme Court decisions have enshrined corporations with constitutional rights, transforming them from individual freedoms to corporate entitlements used to evade government regulations.
A practical guide for academics and practitioners on using corpora in advanced foreign language teaching. Through a detailed case study, this book illustrates how to integrate analysis tools into university education, revealing both potential and pitfalls.
This pioneering work explores the intersection of Islamic and international criminal law. It argues for creating an Islamic international criminal court to prevent impunity for atrocities committed in the name of Islam, examining its jurisdiction, procedures, and sanctions.
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