Russia-Eurasia Relations
Across the world, there are regions caught between identity and power. This book analyses the great powers’ challenges in Eurasia within the framework of strategic interests, conflict, and cooperation.
Entrepreneurship and Employment in the Caribbean Community
This book examines the labour market in hydrocarbon-rich CARICOM states. It reviews successful entrepreneurship case studies and provides policy recommendations to address employment problems, offering lessons for policymakers in mineral-rich countries.
A Comparison of Effort Estimation Techniques on Software Projects
This book compares industry approaches to software effort estimation, from traditional function points to agile story points. Using real-life case studies, learn to apply each technique immediately and answer the question all managers dread: “How is your project going?”
This book explores Sherpa culture, a distinct lifestyle preserved despite outside influence from tourism and modernisation. As the Sherpa language is oral, outside accounts often suffer from mistranslations. Written by a Sherpa, this unique work overcomes these barriers.
This book provides a new translation and readable commentary on Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians. It interprets the letter in its historical context, clarifying Paul’s defense of his ministry and his arguments on marriage, spiritual gifts, love, and the resurrection.
This book highlights friccohesity chemistry: the cohesive and adhesive forces in nanoformulations. It shows how this chemistry overcomes the quantum energy barrier to homogenize, encapsulate, and create kinetically balanced nanoemulsions.
This collection of scholarly studies focuses on urban life and culture in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Vilnius in the 17th-18th centuries. It covers craft guilds, inns, music, plague outbreaks, and burial customs, contributing to the history of Eastern Europe.
The Determination of a Lifespan
Human lifespan differs by as much as 30 years across the world due to factors like meals, disease, and genes. This book clarifies these factors and suggests how to live longer. It also surveys animals and plants living for 10,000 years or longer.
This book argues that successful alternative farming in Ireland is built not on market logic, but on mutual recognition. It confronts the state-supported push to ‘scale up’, demonstrating how community-based ‘scaling out’ is the fundamental driver of success.
Building a Culturally Relevant Workforce in Indonesia
Leading practitioners challenge existing thinking on engagement in Indonesia and the ASEAN region. This book provides valuable insights and practical examples of how to build trust, respectfully engage with local institutions, and co-design programs for a lasting impact.
The Paris Peace Conference set the stage for WWII, yet many European historical perspectives remain inaccessible in English, marginalizing the voices most affected by its fallout. This book remedies this, providing access to the latest research based on primary sources.
History can teach leaders to solve complex environmental problems. Through case studies of forest management in Australia and the USA, this book reveals how non-linear thinking leads to success. While historical contexts change, the principles for tackling them do not.
Bodies, gender, and decolonial horizons are a new political front for justice. Uniting decolonial theory and trans* studies, this book asks what kind of politics can truly attack the hyper-flexible controls of the neoliberal current.
This study of medieval poetry explores the interaction between Muslim and Jewish culture in Andalusia. It sheds light on the figure of the “Other”—the Jew in Islam—through the authentic voice of poets, offering a perspective beyond the histories written about the period.
Language Learning in the Digital Age
How do learners perceive the use of YouTube for English learning? This book reports on a case study of university students in Hong Kong, examining their perceptions and practices. The findings shed light on student needs, offering insights for improved language teaching.
Female Subjectivity in African-American Women’s Poetry
This book constructs Black female subjectivity through the poetry of African-American women. It delves into issues like racism, motherhood, and the struggle for identity, illuminating Black female aesthetics, the liberation of self, and the politics of survival.
Historical Trends in Georgian Traditional and Sacred Music
This review of Georgian ethnomusicology is a tribute to Anzor Erkomaishvili, a pivotal figure in traditional music. Amid the growing popularity of Georgian choral singing, this volume is essential for both ethnomusicologists and enthusiasts.
Written by distinguished researchers, coaches, and athletes, this volume of innovative research informs sports theory and practice. It provides historical perspectives, contemporary analyses, and unique insights from case studies to help readers develop best practices.
Pentecostals and the Doctrine of the Trinity
If Jesus died on the cross to atone for our sins, did one part of the divine die to appease another? And if Jesus taught believers to forgive, why did God not simply forgive humans? This book challenges the reader to rethink their conception of God and the Trinity.
A Holistic Analysis of Law, Connecting Theory and Practice
A holistic analysis of law, with roots in ancient Greece and Rome, may lead to broader justice. This book explores this approach through its theory, history, and practice in international law, then applies it to modern issues like artificial intelligence and climate change.
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