Education and Hegemony
This book examines the globalization of education in India and its impact on social structures like caste, class, and gender. It argues this process creates a market-driven system that hierarchizes knowledge, marginalizing critical reasoning.
Applied Social Sciences
This volume provides original essays on philosophy and theology, exploring aesthetics, ethics, postmodernism, and the role of religion in society. Accessible to specialists and a wider public, it offers new ideas for professionals in the socio-humanistic field.
Berkeley’s Lasting Legacy
Known for his denial of matter, George Berkeley was a far more wide-ranging thinker. This collection by international experts reveals his contributions to metaphysics, science, and economics, showing him as he was: a courageous philosophical innovator.
This book compiles articles on Spanish grammar, integrating up-to-date research with current theoretical syntax and semantics. It is for linguists, researchers, and students interested in Spanish, Romance languages, and generative grammar.
Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron
NACAL is an academic nexus where students rub shoulders with titans of the field. This volume contains sixteen contributions from these scholars, covering a broad cross-section of topics in Afroasiatic linguistics.
In a world of unprecedented crises, a shift in thinking is needed. Diverse scholars explore what the Anthropology of Consciousness can contribute, reframing it as an “anthropology of conscience.”
Alfred North Whitehead on Learning and Education
This book explores Alfred North Whitehead’s educational ideas, based on his process philosophy. It presents an alternative framework for learning and shows how these ideas can be applied to different sub-domains, offering a promising alternative to traditional education.
From Critique to Action
This book applies ethical thinking to business, management and computing. Based on the practical experience of researchers and practitioners, it is written in an accessible way with a strong, cross-disciplinary and intercultural flavour.
This unique interdisciplinary volume explores the convergence of linguistics, biology, and computation. Using bio-inspired models to approach formal and natural languages, it offers specialists new ideas, tools, and formalisms to advance their work.
Quantum Theatre
Quantum Theatre uses quantum mechanics to construct a framework for examining performance. This pioneering analysis reveals hidden aspects of the theatrical event, providing a coherent alternative to postmodernism as a theoretical framework for performance.
Our world became engineered, yet remains human. Through the philosophy of engineering, this book explores debates on the future of humankind in an era of robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, in an attempt to redefine our engineered future.
Language in Action
This volume presents a critical analysis of the relationship between language and action, building on the Vygotskian and Leontievian legacy. It sheds light on human activity and the role language has in mediating what we think, do, and learn.
Thy Truth Then Be Thy Dowry
This collection of essays offers new insights into inheritance in American women’s writing. Contributors examine women’s problematic relationship to their legacy, revealing strategies of resistance and empowerment used to cope with the burden or lack of inheritance.
This wide-ranging collection breaks new ground in feminist film theory, offering close analyses of films from Hitchcock to 21st-century horror. Praised as a “splendid contribution,” it lends readers ‘new eyes’. “Should be required reading for students and scholars.”
The Edges of Trauma
A collection of essays on visual art and literature that explores the cultural construction of trauma. Scholars offer new perspectives on historical traumas and canonical texts, examining how the non-experience of trauma finds its way into artistic representation.
Cartographies of Nature
This volume expands the links between nature conservation and border studies, showing how nature conservation produces borders. By exploring species’ borders and those created by conservation areas, it enriches our conceptualisation of borders.
This pioneering volume introduces recent research into less-studied Iranian languages like Kurdish, Balochi, and Pamir. Covering theoretical, descriptive, and applied linguistics, it is a valuable contribution to our understanding of a complex language family.
Managing Institutions
This book explores the strategies minban schools use to navigate China’s fragmented institutional environment. It reveals how different types of schools adopt tactics from isolation to capitalization, showing how they thrive under substantial state control.
This book addresses the main issues within Islamic banking. It analyzes the experiences of Islamic banks worldwide, providing an objective assessment of their successes and failures while discussing the challenges and future of interest-free banking.
Practices of Ethics
For social sciences researchers confronted with ethical dilemmas, this book provides examples of ethical reflection. It deals with complex ethical questions that arise during fieldwork which find no clear guidance from professional codes, showing a new empirical approach.
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