Women in Higher Education in India
This collection explores the role of women in higher education in India, their emergence as a strong force for social change, and the implications on society. It also discusses technology’s impact, constraints, and the issues and challenges for women in the workplace.
Contemporary Customary Land Issues in Africa
Drawing from the Land Use and Rural Livelihoods in Africa Project, the contributions here examine current trends in customary land issues in Africa, focusing on the practice of converting customary land into leasehold tenure, particularly in Zambia.
Philosophical Semantics
This book offers an innovative systematic approach to meaning and reference, unifying insights from philosophers like Wittgenstein and Frege while exposing errors of formalists from Quine to Kripke. It shows how the cartography of philosophy of language can be redrawn.
Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age II
This volume addresses questions that are crucial to approaching art, visuality, and cultural policies from the perspective of global transformations and the rise of new social, political and cultural paradigms.
New Ritual Society
Consumerism has established itself as a dominant lifestyle, but the reasons for this are often unclear. This study revisits a large amount of research, arguing that consumerism is a powerful ritual “machine” that can make up for the modern lack of values with new symbols.
Imagology Profiles
This volume expands the field of imagology with new critical analyses, introducing concepts like “geo-imagology” and linking the field to post-colonialism. Essays focus on shifting national and peripheral identities, gender, mobile imagery, and well-established stereotypes.
With economics and finance now an interest for everyone, this book provides information on selected topics. It offers theoretical knowledge for academic studies across 22 chapters covering different subjects on the agenda for anyone interested in the field.
In dynamic ad-hoc networks, link failures lead to unreliable and inefficient data transmission. This work proposes LR-EE-AOMDV, a novel extension of the AOMDV routing protocol, to find multiple link-reliable, energy-efficient paths for robust data transmission.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Lawrence Agonistes
Using Bloom’s “anxiety of influence,” this book examines D. H. Lawrence’s agon with Shakespeare. It reveals how Lawrence critiques Hamlet’s self-sacrifice as a symptom of Western decline, championing instead a vital consciousness rooted in the power of the “Self Supreme.”
Einstein’s Quantum Error
What is it to be rational? This book argues that rational principles are not absolutes, but are empirically justified. It shows how principles like causality reflect our brain’s evolved structure, which parallels the physical world, and confronts modern attacks on science.
The Skill Approach in Education
This book is a guide to teaching essential skills for a changing world. It covers language, science, math, psycho-social, and visual arts skills, explaining how to prepare and implement activities to help students succeed in school and beyond.
The world’s first Northern Lights observatory is the focus of this account about everyday life and the epoch-making pioneering of geophysical research on Haldde Mountain in Finnmark, Norway. The book builds on private letters and memoirs about daily life and research.
Bridges between Cultures
Centred on the metaphor of bridges and knots, the essays here discuss the dialogic and dialectical relationships between distant and socially dissimilar cultures. They address possible juxtapositions and intersections of spatial and temporal dimensions between lands and cultures.
The future of Islamic finance depends on risk management. This book explores how Islamic Financial Institutions can implement effective risk mitigation techniques. It analyses strategies from banks worldwide, covering Basel III, enterprise risk management, and liquidity risk.
This second volume introduces several elements into the University of Alabama’s narrative, like its hassle with the state government through 1877 and its strict admission of women students. Other topics explored include the history of unofficial student sports from the 1870s.
The Nigerian Cocoa Industry and the International Economy in the 1930s
This monograph uses the Nigerian cocoa industry’s encounter with the world economy of the 1930s to knit together a gamut of themes ranging from the social formations of production to the forces of demand and supply, as well as the protest movements against monopoly capitalism.
Islamic Sisterhood
In a hostile post-9/11 America, why do young Muslim women choose to wear a headscarf? This book finds it’s not just devotion, but a way to cope with sexism, racism, and patriarchy from both their own ethnic community and the larger Western society.
Aberšek embarks on an ambitious journey of providing potential explanations of how to optimally meet the needs and requirements of our future society, shedding light on issues related to teaching and learning based on contemporary trends from the field of information technologies
Thinking in Constellations
This collection of provocative essays demonstrates how Walter Benjamin’s “constellation” method provides a new understanding of the Humanities. It challenges assumptions of linearity and progression, going beyond disciplinary boundaries.
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