Rethinking Development in South Asia
This book challenges conventional development in South Asia, revealing how it can be a destructive force. It argues for a new practice of development centered on people’s freedom, choice, and participation, proposing alternative means for achieving greater well-being.
Managing a Tour Operating Business
Explore the global tour operations business and how technology influences new business models. With case studies from Europe, Africa, and the USA, this text addresses challenges in developing countries and offers a business model for future sustainability.
Lessons from Political Leadership in Africa
Leadership is the blueprint to transform Africa into a global powerhouse. This book calls for a new generation of bold, passionate, inspiring leaders to fight corruption, make a difference, and change the future towards a bigger, better, and brighter tomorrow!
This book systematizes the knowledge of the solar wind acceleration region—the space weather “kitchen.” Its factual basis combines unique scientific data from the Mars and Venera missions, gathered via challenging observations near the Sun, with original modeling approaches.
To gain a competitive advantage, enterprises must motivate their employees. This collection scrutinises how motivation, leadership, and corporate values impact human resource management, and how organisational identity plays a key role in driving corporate success.
This book details the unique 20th-century alliance between small Albania and giant China. Based on specific interests, this relationship unfolded from initial optimism to sworn animosity, cracking when China established a new affinity with the USA.
A core guide for educators seeking to build a constructive reading environment. This book offers proven models, theories, and techniques to effectively design, introduce, and assess powerful reading tasks, enhancing your teaching abilities.
This book explores the ontological foundation of signs, a semiotic perspective that opens the way to culture. It extends the reader’s understanding by moving beyond classical definitions of the “sign” and will appeal to anyone concerned with understanding human nature.
Spanning 50 years, these essays investigate the role of intellectuals in China’s dramatic changes. They explore the tension between utopian dreams and the quest for human rights, offering a unique perspective that challenges both official Chinese and Western narratives.
Re-Activating Critical Thinking in the Midst of Necropolitical Realities
Is a pluriversal generation of scholars forming a radical structure to confront the necropolitical and necrocapitalist governmentality emerging worldwide? The articles in this volume transcend geographical boundaries to develop strategies for radical change.
A must-read for owning or leasing real estate in the US. This guide covers the step-by-step buying process, answers common questions, and includes material on leasing. Learn the language of the business with a summary of important terms, a glossary, and review questions.
This collection explores creativity and the arts as vital to social movements and change. Leading academics and practitioners investigate how creative activism is deployed, taught, and critically analysed, defining the key parameters of this emerging field.
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
What are the implications for human society of a sophisticated extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) operating on Earth? This book explores this question from a multidisciplinary perspective. Any contact with ETI will be a paradigm changer, and we must prepare for this transition.
Strategic Decisions in Directed Networks
Do theoretical models account for the decisions of network users? Drawing on two decades of research in transportation science and behavioral economics, this book uses laboratory experiments to test the validity of these models and finds that, with some qualifications, they do.
This book explores the philosophy of care, arguing for its primacy in human life. It analyzes care of the self through “spiritual practices”—techniques like achieving inner silence and writing—that shape our way of being and form an ethics of the self.
Postcolonial African women have often been represented as weak, subaltern, and speechless. This book shows how Ngugi and Adichie’s novels break from these clichés, depicting the African woman in a versatile and powerful way.
Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine
This study examines the creation, dramaturgy, and musical style of L’Africaine, the final opera by Meyerbeer and Scribe. It covers its astonishing reception and revival, featuring a collection of iconography and its interpretation by the greatest singers of opera’s Golden Age.
This book prepares teachers in Southern Africa to effectively teach exceptional children. It provides a new framework for inclusive education, calling for a partnership between universities and schools to improve educational equity and reform teacher education.
This book portrays all rational actions as social. It elucidates the significance of this perspective for psychology, political philosophy, and better living, challenging the damaging consequences of psychology’s assumption that rationality is strictly individualist.
Theatres of Rebellion in Nicaragua
To understand Nicaragua today, we must look at its theatrical performances of power and resistance. This book examines the nation’s history, from the colonial period to the Sandinista Revolution, to reveal the critical connection between revolt and cultural performance.