In his Meditations, Descartes sought the first principles of human knowledge, rejecting the senses for intuition and meditation. This book explains his reasoning and provides textual support, while a final critical chapter shows the failures of his approach.
What matters in personal survival? If there is no permanent self, should we be altruistic?
Seven selected papers explore the self from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, drawing from analytic, historical, and non-Western traditions to argue their points.
This volume explores the history, art, and culture of Florence through three unique festivities where sacred and secular values intertwine. Discover how these traditions continue to shape the city’s character, revealed through both famous and lesser-known works of art.
Baltic Postcolonial Narratives
This book explores postcolonialism’s difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.
Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures
These 12 case studies by experts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature offer new insights into the intellectual universe of the Middle East. Spanning genres from classical poetry and epics to travelogues and novels, this book creates a new comparative framework.
Teaching Peace as a Matter of Justice
This book explores peace as a matter of justice. It argues that a just peace requires citizens capable of moral reasoning and judgment. It offers a framework to develop these capacities, empowering us to resist injustice and realize peace on all levels of society.
This book provides a practical approach to the use of medicinal plants to increase immunity and treat various diseases, including high-risk ones such as cancer. It is a requisite reference for students and professionals of medicinal chemistry courses.
This book explores a critical, often overlooked feature of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poetry: his puzzling method of narration. It argues that a proper understanding of his poems is impossible without analyzing this unique approach, shaped by his New England and Puritan roots.
Civilization at Risk
The evil of sex trafficking will not stop, but it can be discouraged and abated. As this book, Civilization at Risk: Seeds of War, shows, lives can be spared. All of the author’s proceeds go directly to Blazing Hope Ranch to support the rehabilitation of female victims.
Reflections on Ecotextuality from India
In response to the current ecological crisis, this collection of critical essays engages with the intricate relationship between literature and ecology. The volume unravels the premises and assumptions that sustain the modern world view and contemporary knowledge systems.
Alexandria’s Library attracted scholars whose study of its scrolls led to outstanding contributions in science, literature, and philosophy. This book recalls the city’s rise and the incredible series of wars and intrigues that brought about its inexorable decline.
Pseudoscience and Hypermedicalization
This book provides a critical analysis of burnout. Citing the inconsistencies and dangers of a general diagnosis with 140 symptoms and the absence of a negative diagnosis, it argues that burnout represents the widest medicalization of human life that we know of.
This book details the reinvention of librarians and archivists as memory makers for the digital age. Learn the methods to turn a flood of data into valued information, combining the art of curation with the science of recordkeeping to assume control in the Digital Memory Age.
This collection shows how war functions as a subject, theme, and backdrop in travel writing, enabling readers to rethink both categories. From cookbooks to military magazines, these chapters reveal how war’s reach extends far beyond the battlefield.
The Teaching and Learning Challenges of 21st-Century Higher Education
This book explores pedagogy in higher education, drawing on expertise from professionals in the UK, China, and Malaysia. It tackles challenges from the Covid-19 pandemic and provides practical insights for practitioners to enhance their teaching and improve student outcomes.
This book presents research on Costs of Quality (CoQ) management in China. Based on case studies from Chinese enterprises, it shows professionals and executives how to adopt strategic CoQ management to enhance product quality and improve business performance.
Appraisal of Water Resources for Effective and Sustainable Management
This book assesses the chemical health of the Volta Lake ecosystem, using pollution indicators to inform sustainable management. It offers an integrated approach to protect the ecosystem, safeguard quality of life, and preserve the lake for future generations.
Post-Dictatorship Argentinian Cinema as a Renarration of Collective Memory
This book reflects on Argentinean cinema’s role in constructing social memory. In the post-dictatorship decade, as institutions fostered forgetting the trauma of military repression, non-hegemonic cinema (1985-1996) became a symbolic mediation for a negotiated, poetic truth.
Enhancing Organizational Leadership Practice
This book helps organizational leaders balance three core responsibilities: organizational, stakeholder, and ethical. Using Western and Chinese concepts and practical examples, it reframes human resources as a capital investment, enhancing leadership effectiveness.
Engaging Beneficiaries for Development Participation
While we know why development participation is needed, the when and how of its practical application remain unresearched. This book fills that knowledge gap, examining beneficiary engagement to maximize program effectiveness, with insights and evidence from Bangladesh.
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