This book analyzes Central Asian economies in transition, covering their economic and political challenges, integration into the global world, international trade, and the energy sector. It offers a comprehensive picture for academics, politicians, and business leaders.
Partnership for Development
This book examines how Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) can alleviate poverty in Bangladesh. Using case studies, it evaluates the performance and effects of novel PPP arrangements, identifying opportunities and constraints for their success.
This collection connects theatre and performance studies with public sphere theory. Essays from prominent scholars explore how performing in public shapes identity, class, and political agency across three centuries and in multiple global contexts.
Physiology of Organisations
Can we imagine organisations as human bodies? Organisational science today is fragmented. This book fills that gap by constructing a physiological theory of organising to treat organisations when they are ill and ensure they work at maximum efficiency.
Shifting Borders
More than a metaphor, creolisation is a powerful tool for understanding the dynamics of intercultural encounter and conflict. This book investigates creole patterns in literature, arts, and politics, addressing problems of citizenship and difficult cohabitations.
The Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria
This volume in honor of historian Ayodeji Olukoju ventures into uncharted terrain in Nigerian history. It presents groundbreaking scholarship on underresearched topics like sexuality, youth, and crime, offering historical explanations for Nigeria’s challenges.
This overview compares how languages express modality (possibility, necessity) covertly. Drawing on diverse languages, it shows that typical Indo-European patterns are not universal, yet reveals recurrent forms that allow for new generalizations.
Images of the Lisbon Treaty Debate in the British Press
This book analyses metaphors in the UK press discourse on the Lisbon Treaty. Using Critical Metaphor Analysis, it reveals how metaphors function in political debate, identifying stereotyped roles and exposing journalistic and political attitudes.
Relevance Theory
This volume covers topics central to pragmatic research: politeness, communication, metaphor, and humour. Alongside innovative theoretical proposals, it offers interesting analyses and discussions.
Life and Mind
This provocative book argues that life and mind elude purely materialistic explanations. It posits intelligence as a precondition for organic existence, a serious challenge to modern science, and culminates in a philosophical proof of the mind system.
Gendering Christian Ethics presents ethical reflections by a new generation of researchers. Versed in feminist theory and building on foundations laid by pioneers, contributors address the inner dynamics of the church and Christian engagement with the wider world.
The Churches and the Working Classes
As religious allegiance declined in the nineteenth century, churches struggled to attract the working classes. This book traces their efforts from 1870 to 1920 and the ambivalent public response, focusing on the industrial city of Leeds.
Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with Vulnerable Populations after the Cameras Have Gone
This volume focuses on the status of the elderly and disabled after disasters globally and the challenges of post-earthquake rebuilding in Haiti. This edited book consists of selected papers exploring experiences in Nigeria, Iran, Libya, and Haiti.
Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents
This study analyzes the treatment of money in American plays from the Great Depression to the 21st century. Money emerges as an ambivalent force: a malevolent abstraction robbing us of reality, and a powerful metaphor for the American ideal of “self-making.”
Narrative is the Essence of History
The historical novel was once admired, then disparaged by critics, though it always remained popular. Now, it is again receiving critical praise. What is the essence of historical fiction? Why is it such a resilient genre? What is its future?
Agrarian Crisis
Andhra Pradesh has the highest number of farmer suicides in India, with Warangal district being the worst affected. This book attempts to figure out the socio-economic reasons behind the agrarian crisis in that district and suggests remedies.
Scottish Devolution and Social Policy
This work examines the impact of devolution on Scottish social policy. Considering issues like class and equality, it judges whether the founding principles of the Scottish Parliament have successfully transferred from principles into actual policy.
Justice and Home Affairs
This study evaluates the conditions determining the EU’s success in changing the internal security of Turkey. Using case studies on organised crime, terrorism and drugs, it explores how the EU ensures alignment with its Justice and Home Affairs standards.
Dancing the Tao
This book takes an original approach to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work, linking her Taoist upbringing to moral development. It emphasizes her depiction of child abuse and its aftereffects, exploring how morality develops through self-awareness and voice.
Culture, Communion and Recovery
This study argues that the cultural influence of The Lord of the Rings provides a model for understanding the transformative relationship between religion and culture, and an unexplored pathway for inter-religious exchange.
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