When rapid immigration challenged the Irish police, a pioneering solution was born: specialist Garda Ethnic Liaison Officers dedicated to building relations with new minorities. This book details that initiative, offering vital lessons for police and policymakers worldwide.
Simón Bolívar. Fidel Castro. Hugo Chávez. Dictators or liberators? This book challenges the loaded term “dictatorship,” re-examining Latin American independence movements and exposing the politics behind a word often used as a weapon.
Race and Agency in Thomas Sowell
This book exposes the ideological dogmatism behind Thomas Sowell’s attacks on Black culture and calls to end preferential policies, revealing them as a direct threat to the ideal of an ethnically integrated society.
Positive Education and Work
Based on positive psychological research covering the whole lifespan, this volume critically discusses positive education and work and their connection to life-long flourishing. It will appeal to educators, researchers, and anyone interested in the foundations of well-being.
Legacies of Trade and Empire
This book challenges established histories of slavery and indentured labour under European empires, focusing on the Indian Ocean. To break the silence on legacies of empire, authors explore decolonisation, agency, and the assertion of identities, musical practices, and cuisines.
News over Five Millennia
Concentrating on the past 200 years, this book studies messengers and newsmen, focusing on news agency journalists. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, linguists, media professionals and “news addicts”.
Intersectionality and decolonisation are prominent themes in contemporary British crime fiction. This book examines representations of race, class, sexuality, and gender, arguing that the genre is a site where urgent social questions are debated and representation is explored.
This volume explores approaches to monitoring sustainable tourism at seaside destinations, focusing on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. It presents a systematic process of gathering data to assess and manage development. Essential for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.
Sex, Gender, and Engineering
This timely book examines sexual harassment in engineering in the context of #MeToo. It provides a window into the experiences of individuals, presents effective strategies for practitioners to reduce harassment, and outlines where future research is needed.
This collection on Homo Kybernetes frames the technosphere as an aesthetic problem. It reflects on cybernetic thinking as a condition for digital aesthetics and explores the transition of human existence through transhumanism and the posthuman condition.
Little Magazines in West Bengal
Despite immense passion for the Bānlā little magazine, academic books in English are very rare. This book fills that scarcity. Drawing on three decades of intimate experience as an author, editor, and organizer, the text is not a dry research work but an enjoyable read.
Systematised Logic from Aristotle to Aquinas, Hegel and Beyond
This book identifies absolute idealism as “the true realism,” a truth expressible only in apparent contradiction. It tackles the elusive theme of divine grace in human destiny and considers faith’s credentials as our link to the infinite, likening it to absolute knowledge.
The Scientific Revolution decentered humanity, but modern physics reveals the observer’s central role in actualizing reality. This book explores a return of science to natural philosophy, offering a new pathway to understanding our place in the Universe.
Pashto Phonology
This book analyzes the relationship between syllable structure and word order. Using data from Pashto (an SOV language), it challenges a long-standing typological universal by comparing it with English (SVO) within the Optimality Theoretic framework.
Popular Music and Australian Culture
This volume explores popular music and culture, challenging assumptions about how we experience modernity. The essays raise larger questions about our status as consumers and participants in historical change, and examine the relationship between sound, media, and community.
The Wandering Jew began as an anti-Jewish stereotype. This work shifts the focus to the Jewish Other, exploring how Jewish writers and thinkers have subverted and reinvented the figure to confront modern issues of uprootedness, migration, and human rights.
Indian Diaspora
Borders give rise to division, the suffering of homelessness, and the loss of culture. This book ties together the stories of uprooted migrants, refugees, and exiles—including writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai—who use their writing to highlight migration concerns.
This book explores the colonial history of Cyprus through technology. Examining infrastructural projects like the island’s railway, harbours, and electrification, it reveals how the British Empire used technological development to reproduce and prolong its rule.
The Napa Valley Wine Industry
This book tells the story of how Napa became a pre-eminent site for iconic wines in a short space of time. After early struggles, a 1960s re-emergence fostered a collective commitment to quality, building a brand that would be identified as amongst the best in the world.
As cannabis policies relax, what are the risks for youth? This book summarizes scientific evidence on the impact of cannabis on development from infancy to young adulthood, evaluating the consequences for physical, social, and mental health.
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