With so much preventable suffering in the world, what does it mean to live ethically today? This collection explores our obligations to humans and other animals, the search for a meaningful life, and the relevance and vitality of ethics today.
Plato and Democracy Today
This monograph deploys an innovative narrative device to mount an exercise in (popular) political philosophy. It presents Plato as “the Reith Lecturer”, bringing up to date his critique of democracy which he began more than two thousand years ago in The Republic.
Old Masters in New Interpretations
This volume presents a variety of new interpretations of a selection of well-known works of verbal and visual culture. It describes how the two spheres of literature and broadly understood art interfuse, affect, re-shape, and complement each other.
This book explores how L2 learners of Japanese acquire nominal modifying constructions. Special attention is drawn to why learners insert a non-target-like *no*, a phenomenon also seen in L1 acquisition, as Fujino puts forth an account on phonological grounds.
Modern medicine in England today is chiefly the product of the scientific developments of the nineteenth century. This title focuses on the history of medicine in Lancaster and a community of practice amongst a few medical professionals who shaped its medical landscape.
The Free Movement of Capital and Financial Services
This book investigates the compliance of financial services legislation in Estonia, Poland, and other EU states with the free movement of capital. It offers recommendations and draws implications for the financial services sector.
Journey through 6,000 years of Northwest Syria’s linguistic evolution. This book analyzes key languages from Eblaite and Amorite to Aramaic and Arabic, diving deep into their various dialects. A valuable resource for linguists, historians, and Semitic studies enthusiasts.
Biography of a Blunder
Edara proposes a radical departure from the predominant understanding of Marx’s base and superstructure thesis, arguing that the common substitution of Marx’s restricted version with the extended thesis is a blunder and the result of tortuous theoretical developments.
This work observes vignettes of Montenegro in Anglo-American creative writing and films from the late 18th century until 2016. It follows these vignettes chronologically to point out how their rhetoric dangerously builds a caricature of Montenegro.
For God and Country
This study on England’s 1944 Education Act examines how politicians and educationalists promoted Christian-civic humanism as the primary educational philosophy in order to shape an education system that promoted a national identity based on ideals of tradition and progress.
Privileged Mobilities
Marking an important contribution to the growing school of critical studies of tourism, this title raises questions regarding privileged mobiles from the standpoint of class, gender, ethnicity and citizenship.
Analyzing Public Policies in Latin America
This book presents research on public policies in Latin America from a cognitive perspective. It asks what paradigms have shaped these policies, how they have changed over time, and who the new actors and coalitions influencing agendas are today.
Human survival depends on nature, a relationship defined by culture. This book argues that environmental conservation is a matter of moral ethics, and must accommodate the traditional knowledge of indigenous cultures to restore the bond between humans and nature.
This book interlinks gender, alterity, and education, with a focus on refugee education. It uniquely examines gender and alterity through both theoretical debate and empirical research, and explores the potential of Distance Education to combat inequality and discrimination.
A Sociolinguistic Insight into the Italian Community in the UK
This study of three generations of Italians in Bedford reveals their complex language dynamics. It uncovers why the youngest generation uses a mixed pronunciation: a conscious attempt not to accommodate to British culture, but to distance themselves from it.
This phonetic investigation of the vowel system of Civili, an indigenous language of Gabon, analyzes articulation and perception. It contributes to establishing a credible orthography, with findings significant for linguistics and human language technologies.
Faith of Our Fathers
This volume of essays explores popular culture and belief in England, Ireland and Wales from the Reformation onwards. Linked by the nexus between religion and popular culture, these interdisciplinary contributions reveal the remarkable resilience of popular traditions.
Investment Portfolio Selection Using Goal Programming
This book provides practitioners with a superior scientific framework for investment decision-making. Using Goal Programming, it offers a realistic approach to portfolio selection that finds feasible solutions for complex, real-world problems.
What is Steampunk? It is a juxtaposition of science fiction, fantasy, and Victorian alternate history, drawing on the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. This publication is the culmination of presentations from the first academic conference on the genre.
This book adopts a fresh approach to conflict in Caribbean societies of the late 20th and 21st centuries. It brings new perspectives to the analysis of recent fiction and art by writers and artists from both the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean.