Koço investigates the repertory of traditional urban song and music of the Korçë area and the “distinctive” song associated with Korçë city, Albania. He also introduces the Korçare urban song and urban lyric song, introduced during the Ottoman domination of the Balkans.
Atheism, Morality, and the Kingdom of God
This treatise argues that moral virtue is independent of God. It shows that Jesus’ Parables, stripped of their theological overlay, reveal an account of real-time, secular flourishing—a good life incompatible with faith and achievable only here and now.
Dombrovan provides an introduction to some basic concepts of linguistic synergetics, viewed here as a new research approach to language studies. She considers human language as an open, dynamic, non-linear, and self-organising system, and sheds new light on language development.
A hazy cloud of facts and fiction surrounds paedophilia and its relation to Child Sexual Abuse. This book analyzes their depiction in contemporary British and American drama, illustrating the ambiguity of the topic and asking difficult questions.
Aphorisms of Masquism
Grimes presents the monumental work of Swami R. Vaidyanathan (1913-1990), who was a research student at Cambridge under Lord Rutherford from 1934 to 1938, detailing his complete and unique philosophy, which aimed at reducing human suffering and promoting world welfare.
In this monograph, two historians investigate some of the most important events in American history which have shaped the American experience and impacted the drive for democracy and freedom.
A Literary Journey to Rome
How many people know the hidden Rome: the Vatican’s secret archives, the true fate of Pasolini? Taking the reader on a journey, we meet passionate people in love with the city and learn the special in everyday life, drawing a lively picture of the vibrant Eternal City.
Khan presents a critical analysis of anti-dumping laws enforced by the World Trade Organisation. Anti-dumping laws are the most debatable provisions of the WTO, which, though legally permitted, have a significant distorting effect on trade.
This volume explores the relation between contemporary Turkish film, television, and religion. It concentrates on how religion shapes the politics of new cinema, from the representation of Muslim women to subsequent changes in narratives and characters.
Global Mindset
“Think globally, act locally” is harder than it sounds. This work explores how a global mindset allows organizations to become more effective. It shows how members can grow professionally and personally from a global mindset—even if they never step foot on a plane.
Skaris comprehensively explores the ways in which women were portrayed as striving for self-fulfilment through emotional, mental, and creative endeavours that have not always been fully appreciated as ‘work’ in critical accounts of nineteenth-and-twentieth-century fiction.
Nayebpour re-evaluates George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss with the help of terminologies borrowed from cognitive narratology in order to shed new light on the significance of one-track minds in this narrative.
This volume combines the fields of intellectual studies, religion, literature, and visual culture to explore the complexities of conceptual paradigms that represent various manifestations of the idea of light.
Brazilians Abroad
This book explores Brazil’s experience with emigrant voting. It investigates what external voting rights represent to the Brazilian emigrant community and how emigrants engage politically with their country of origin, based on original data from Brazilians abroad.
From Monophysitism to Nestorianism
This book argues that early orthodoxy was not a linear progression. Instead, the church navigated the narrow strait between Nestorianism and Monophysitism by continually changing sides in the Ecumenical Councils, ultimately outwitting both heresies to forge its own path.
Einstein’s Quantum Error
What is it to be rational? This book argues that rational principles are not absolutes, but are empirically justified. It shows how principles like causality reflect our brain’s evolved structure, which parallels the physical world, and confronts modern attacks on science.
This book explicates the effect of increasing land transactions on social mobility in rural India. It argues that villages near cities are no longer simple communities, but are more complex and mobile as a result of urban expansion, contextualizing this within the state’s laws.
This latest issue of the International Journal of Business Anthropology contains seven articles, including a special section of four papers from Japan, in addition to an editorial commentary providing an introduction to the field of business anthropology in Japan.
Railway Discourse
Adami considers the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of methods and frameworks.
Why do public sector digital projects fail while private companies like Amazon flourish? This book draws on eight years of developing technology for health and social care to reveal what separates success from failure, and why our public services remain rooted in the past.