Baber’s monograph contains ten cross-referenced writings on different aspects of international law. Issues covered include different types of legal instruments in international law settings and the past, present and future of international law.
This book takes a post-modern approach to Intellectual Capital (IC), exploring it as ‘images’ rather than ‘rules’. Offering different perspectives from academics and practitioners, it analyzes IC in education, business, and the public sector and its impact on a company’s value.
Jungmeister provides an accessible model on reflexivity for all its applications during the research process, filling the gap in the limited number of reflexivity books. He includes a number of graphics, tables, samples and checklists to make the concept easy to grasp and apply.
Shimamoto illustrates that Henry A. Wallace’s idea of international atomic controls with Soviet partnership could prevent a postwar nuclear proliferation. She details how Wallace’s failed concept of postwar world order led to his own alienation and ousting from Truman’s cabinet.
New Cinema in Turkey
Ottone focuses on Turkish cinema that has seen the emergence and consolidation of a strong internationally-recognised authorship. He assesses the last twenty years of the “New Turkish Auteur Cinema” by comparing the so-called “3rd generation” to a 4th generation of directors.
Displacing the Anxieties of Our World
Discussing fictive spaces of literature, film, and video-gaming, this compilation bridges the imagined space between 17th-century utopia and 21st-century dystopia. It argues that the space of imagination offers a virtual battleground—and the possibility of triumph.
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.
This book investigates language contact and the language-culture relationship, as well as stylistic and syntactic perspectives on the English language. It also looks at 20th-century literature and theoretical approaches in cultural studies.
Artists and Migration 1400-1850
This collection thematically analyses the migrant artist’s experience in Europe and its colonies from the early modern period to the Industrial Revolution. It studies the influence of the transient artist, both on their adoptive country and their own oeuvre and native culture.
George Bellows Revisited
The artwork of one of the most important 20th-century American painters and printmakers, George Bellows, is studied in this essay collection. Innovative research is offered that probes his oeuvre from multiple viewpoints, challenging widely-held perceptions of Bellows.
Kurban addresses the treaties, crises and other issues that seem to be turning points in Russian-Turkish relations, reflecting on Russian and Turkish archival documents and resources. She analyses Russian-Turkish relations from the First World War up to the present time.
Ireland and Dysfunction
At the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, this compilation explores how dysfunction is tackled in Irish studies. It also investigates how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in understanding the construction process of an Irish identity today.
Gupta studies the Kashmiri practitioner Abhinavagupta’s two commentaries, Locana on Dhvanyāloka and Abhinavabhāratī on Nātyaśāstra. In particular, she discusses Abhinavagupta’s views on Lollata, Saankuka and Bhattanayaka, with each view followed by relevant criticism.
Alshdaifat argues that nation states throughout the world, particularly in Asia and Europe, have, since ancient times, been vulnerable to invasion by other nation states. He contends that the fight against terrorism is long and complex, but the end is known in advance.
Caraivan examines issues central to the South African writer’s works, including annihilating racial oppression and the racism-led psychological alienation. She also focuses on literary topics specific to Gordimer’s post-Apartheid writings.
Imagined Utopias in the Built Environment
Novakov surveys visionary architecture and urban planning from the 18th century onwards. She starts with the design of social space in Georgian-era pleasure gardens and ends with a study of modern Utopian groups that use early literary references as a focus for their societies.
This work studies issues of company governance and management, in the context of the MER Model of Integral Management and Governance. It considers the fundamental aspirations for the enterprise’s existence and, thus, its quantitative, as well as qualitative, changes.
Libera Fama
This collection examines aspects of fame and glory, rumour and reputation, in the work of Lucretius, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, Manilius, Juvenal and Prudentius. It offers insights into the poets’ personal quest for acclaim and their awareness of the qualities of the phenomenon.
This collection challenges our negative and incorrect definitions of psychoanalysis by focusing on psychoanalysis as a movement for social justice. It highlights psychoanalysis’ social justice origins, illustrating how it improves our understanding of modern social problems.
World English(es) and the Multilingual Turn
Bonomo considers the social value of communication as the basis of multilingualism and of the evolution of language systems. Her data show English as being in the middle of the double “listening” of cultural mediation and the imperfect “magnifying” glass of translation.
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