Tawhidi Epistemology and its Applications
Business Process Reengineering
Master Business Process Reengineering. This practical guide provides expert strategies and the unique Sturdy BPR Matrix to implement real-world change and achieve your business objectives.
Pageants and Processions
Before beauty contests, pageants were spectacles of social, religious, and political power. This anthology reveals the global history of pageantry across centuries and cultures, exploring its purpose as a powerful civic tool.
This interdisciplinary collection explores how the past is retold and rewritten. Scholars analyze history’s representation in fiction, media, and political discourse, from postcolonial and feminist perspectives to unorthodox visions in speculative fiction.
Shadowlines
Globalization is transforming life for women in Asia. New opportunities for work and migration can be empowering, but also enslaving. How do women experience these changes? This volume places their testimony at the center.
This multifaceted study explores the vocal iso(n) repertory in the multipart singing of the Southwest Balkans and in Byzantine chanting. Moving beyond national bias, it argues this tradition is bound to the region, not a single ethnic group.
A Journey through the Content and Language Integrated Learning Landscape
As interest in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) grows, researchers and teachers need new studies to understand its potential and implementation. This volume covers learning, teaching, and training, providing insight into the latest research in the CLIL field.
Popular culture surrounds us. This collection offers a diverse selection of scholarship examining contemporary television, film, video games, internet fandom, gender, and identity, exploring the many cultural modes that shape our everyday lives.
Those Distant Shores
“Distant shores” represent the human yearning for fulfillment that makes us restless. This story follows the life-journeys of three Filipino friends and a young Spaniard whose very different paths intersect, exploring our fundamental restlessness and desire for transcendence.
Amid Ireland’s self-destruction, a radical new future for these isles is proposed. This book argues for a Celtic confederation, uniting Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England to replace a broken order with a beautiful new possibility of true belonging.
Popular Media and Communication
This collection of essays explores media and communication across four key areas: the public sphere, professional identity, industry policy, and political communication. It reveals how forces like capital and technology structure communication and produce public meaning.
Nanoclusters in amorphous materials cast new light on modern science and technology. However, few publications have focused on their electronic properties. This book presents a detailed study, from basic characteristics to technical aspects like new single electron transistors.
The modern world’s continuous use of energy suspended the natural alternation between light and dark, warmth and cold. In The Culture of Energy, historians, social scientists and architects examine this energy culture, from lighting to nuclear power.
Nation vs. People
Provoked by the tragedy of Bosnia, this book tackles the global challenge of reconciling 200 states with 8000 ethnic groups. Are nation-states the only answer? The author insists on new notions of nation and people, defining them as societal phenomena.
The borders between leisure and work are becoming more and more blurred. Such border-crossing is the leitmotif of this book, which has a multidisciplinary scope for scholars and students interested in leisure’s effects on social cohesion.
This book explores craniofacial anatomical variations in rare facial clefts using advanced imaging. It provides in-depth knowledge to establish personalized therapeutic practices and improve patient rehabilitation in highly complex cases.
Living Like Nomads
Living Like Nomads illuminates the unknown history of Milanese anarchists in the two decades before fascism. It tells the fascinating stories of their lifestyles, political campaigns, and ideological debates. They were the first to resist the violence of Mussolini’s black shirts.
Merchants, Barons, Sellers and Suits
This collection of essays investigates the changing image of the businessman throughout literature in America and Europe. From pop culture icons to Willy Loman, the essays are arranged in a timeline, allowing the image to evolve with each chapter.
Sights Unseen
Many British films never make it to the screen. This book uses archival resources to reconstruct the stories behind these thwarted productions, providing an illuminating insight into the factors which have undermined the stability of the film industry in Britain.
Disasters, Culture, Politics
This volume explores contemporary crises—from epidemics to social catastrophes—in China and Bulgaria. Using ecological anthropology and a cross-cultural approach, it investigates the full life-cycle of disasters and our strategies for coping and relief.
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