Critical Perspectives on Hollywood Science Fiction
This book investigates how science fiction films like Avatar, District 9, and Elysium critically interrogate neoliberalism, connecting this ideology to the rise of populist politics, growing income inequality, and racist attitudes.
Interpreting Suicide
This critical contribution to suicidology analyzes suicides as ‘Texts’. Drawing on theorists like Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault, it explores the deaths of immortalised characters, forgotten writers, and the culturally devoiced by using literary and cultural theories.
Lipid Oxidation Products
This book describes the neglected processes of photooxidation and autoxidation in phototrophs. It details their mechanisms, focusing on oxidation products as tracers, and discusses how temperature and solar irradiance affect them, impacting the ultimate fate of organic matter.
This collection explores global issues in business, from wellbeing at work and marketing innovations to sustainability in the food industry. The volume analyzes the organizational behavior of ISIS and offers insights into secrecy by analyzing scenes from John Grisham’s The Firm.
Analysing Health Discourse in Digital Environments
How is the digital world changing our conversations about health? This collection analyzes online interactions to reveal the subtle yet profound shifts reshaping health communication today.
Repeating Words, Retelling Stories
In literature, repetition does more than re-enforce a concept; it creates new meaning. This book explores examples from Homer, Virgil, and Ovid, and draws on neuro-cognitive science to show why repetition is an unavoidable staple of any text.
Political Views and Ideas
From a Socialist perspective, this collection of essays analyzes the crisis of our times. It examines the problems of Capitalist politics—from economic and social turmoil to the environmental crisis—and outlines a solid argument for a better politics today: Democratic Socialism.
This book explores the ontological foundation of signs, a semiotic perspective that opens the way to culture. It extends the reader’s understanding by moving beyond classical definitions of the “sign” and will appeal to anyone concerned with understanding human nature.
Civilization at Risk
A devastating human rights war has unfolded, an injustice of Holocaust dimensions. With 30 million people in slavery, this 21st Century scourge cannot be combated by indifference. This book is an immediate call to arms to fight the evil of Human Trafficking.
This book explores the relationship between learner variables and English attainment in a CLIL setting. Based on empirical research, it addresses unresolved issues, dispels myths, and offers recommendations for researchers, educators, and CLIL teachers.
This book shows how formal, non-formal, and informal education shape bilingual minds. It examines how societies influence language education, covering foreign language schooling, native bilingualism, and societal stances towards bilingualism.
This book offers ideas for developing creative and critical thinking, strategic writing, and effective interpersonal skills. It presents strategies to foster cultural diversity and collaboration, cultivating the transformation of a student into a 21st century leader.
This book traces the Black American community’s transition to an intersectional model, revealing how capitalism now uses the images of its youth, athletes, and women to assimilate Black people into the neoliberal global order.
One-to-one support alone isn’t enough for leaders. This book presents the Leadership Inquiry Support (LIS) model, a practical approach integrating multiple support modalities through authentic collaboration. It offers strategies backed by research and real-world experience.
Thirty-Six Short Essays on the Probing Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Authored by a foremost authority on Jefferson, this book offers 36 short essays on his thoughts. Meant to be read as Jefferson himself read before sleep—one at a time, “whereupon to ruminate”—these fresh, provocative essays are to be savored.
Placing the Origins of the Buddha
For two centuries, the Buddha’s origin story has been accepted as fact. But is it built on a flawed foundation? This book exposes the stunning inconsistencies in the evidence, demanding a radical rethinking of early Buddhism’s true beginnings.
The Notes and Queries Folklore Column, 1849-1947
For the first time, a consolidated index to England’s folklore heritage from the periodical Notes and Queries (1849-1947). This book provides ready access to a neglected corpus of material, with over 12,000 references to folklore, proverbs, nursery rhymes, songs, and dialects.
Health disparities in American Indians are severe and underappreciated. Edited by experts, including a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, this volume identifies the causes and solutions to this overlooked problem, with relevance for Indigenous People’s health around the world.
What is a smart city? This book describes the phenomenon through sociological lenses, exploring its challenges, limits, and potentialities. It provides a holistic definition to guide readers who want to analyse the smart city and explore its future developments.
Workers and Politics
A study of working-class politics and British labour history. It explores the history of the British Left, Socialism, Communism, the ideas of Karl Marx, and the development of Socialism as the ideology of the working class.