Illicit Sex within the Justice System
This book exposes sexual immorality in the justice system. Researching scandals across the USA, it argues that when officials engage in misconduct, they forfeit their authority, leading to systemic breakdown and a dwindling power to enforce morality laws.
International Marketing
With an emphasis on developing countries, this text explains international marketing theory and practice within a constantly-changing and increasingly-complex global environment. It describes global environmental forces and basic marketing strategies for international marketing.
McParland probes the relationship of modernist authors with the thought of their time. He considers how such writers participated in the intellectual spirit of their time and with the thought of philosophers like Henri Bergson, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Fatherhood in Contemporary Discourse
This text offers various perspectives on contemporary fatherhood: from analyses of literature and popular culture to issues tackled by psychology and social sciences. It provides detailed insight into current research on both real-life and fictional realizations of fatherhood.
Mediation across the Globe
This eye-opening book provides insights into what success looks like in a mediation practice. It will appeal to anyone interested in practical experiences in meditation across the globe, or wanting to discover how the most successful mediators operate.
Literary Nuances
This series of critical pieces is variously structured, with conventional essays, extended meditations, and short analytic notes appealing to differing tastes and offering meticulous close readings of a huge range of authors, from Akhmatova to Yeats.
Covering a vast range of sex case law, this exhaustive volume will be of particular use in legal research, learning, and argument at any stage of advocacy, politicization, activism, prosecution, defense, and education.
Museums and Written Communication
This volume gathers together 30 museum experts to lift the lid on museum print and texts. Contributions were originally presented at the UNESCO World Book Capital of 2012, a timely and far-sighted conference held in Armenia.
This publication addresses important issues such as the role of music in shaping identities, how music and social order are intertwined and why music is so relevant in human interaction. The last part explores issues related to the social application of musical research.
Inertia of History
This book predicts international changes between 2013-2023. It forecasts China’s rise as a superpower, creating a bipolar world in strategic rivalry with the US. This shift will move the world’s center to East Asia, see the UK withdraw from the EU, and Russia deteriorate.
Based on 13 years of empirical study, this unique book covers the application of satellite remote sensing in disaster management, with a focus on human factors. It provides an overview of the technology and its uses for practitioners and researchers in the field.
Semiconductor silicon is the basic material of modern electronics. Its properties are determined by defects in its crystal structure, but a complete description of these defects has been a mystery—until now. This book solves it using classical and probabilistic approaches.
A Healthy Life on a Healthy Planet
We think pollution only affects the environment, but disease rates are rising. This book explains how our health depends on the environment, demystifying how pollutants from carbon fuels and pesticides affect us and what we can do about it.
This is the first overview of the anthropology of art in China for the English-speaking world. As the country experiences rapid social change, leading Chinese scholars present exciting case studies and distinctive theories on visual art, dance, and music.
This ground-breaking work, featuring contributions from W.E.B. Du Bois’s great-grandson, Arthur McFarlane III, among others, is the first devoted exclusively to Du Bois’s rhetoric and motives, and serves as a blueprint for today’s continuing struggle for a post-racial society.
Millais exposes the myths that surround Le Corbusier, detailing the endless failures of his proposals and his projects and arguing that his influence on architecture was disastrous, as traditional buildings were destroyed and replaced by featureless boxes of varying sizes.
The Admiralty Sessions, 1536-1834
Between 1536 and 1834, England’s Admiralty Sessions tried serious maritime crimes like piracy and murder. This book documents the unique court’s history, its immense challenges, and its battle to enforce the law thousands of miles from shore.
Death is the limit of life. This book argues that only by living within this limit can we be truly free, loving, and compassionate. It explores death as life’s paradox to test what it means to exist, overcoming the divide between philosophy and theology.
The Global Geopolitics of Energy, 2014-2018
The 50 commentaries on geopolitical energy subjects in this volume reflect on the politics emanating from the post-2014 decline in world oil and gas prices and the attendant massive increase in supply on by the discovery and development of unconventional sources of energy.
Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel
This title discusses how, in the Victorian era, space and empire were shaped around the notion of boundaries, by travel narratives and from a variety of methodological and critical perspectives. It assesses a broad range of canonical and lesser-studied Victorian travel texts.
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