This book shows how market dominance depends on firm choices and the non-price signals they send to consumers. It presents new market power indices to measure a firm’s influence and considers practical policies for regulating apps and misuse of information in cyberspace.
Law, Literature and Political Philosophy in the Spanish Golden Age
This analysis of 16th and 17th century Spain discusses the Catholic reason of state, anti-Machiavellianism, and royal power from the view of Golden Age authors. Literature, law, and political philosophy combine to offer an unusual portrait of power in a time of deep change.
Language Teaching and Language Use in Non-Native Settings
From Cameroon to Turkey, this volume illuminates the gap between teaching norms and real-life language use. It underscores the limitations of current methods and provides well-matched answers to classroom problems for teachers, researchers, and educational policy makers.
This book advances an evidence-based, unifying view of sarcoidosis that accounts for its baffling features. It challenges prevailing premises on its nature, causation, and treatment by positing plausible mechanisms and sketching 20 fundamental questions for future investigation.
Christian–Muslim Dialogue
This book provides an intimate glimpse into the beliefs, attitudes and experiences of Australian Christians and Muslims towards each other. It highlights the factors that inhibit and/or motivate interfaith engagement, drawing on diverse fields like social psychology and history.
This book presents research-based material on designing radiometers for high-performance optical measurements. It is a reference for students, scientists, and engineers to learn, design, build, and use new generation radiometers, covering design issues and applications.
Transforming Education in India
This book provides deep insights into Indian education. It examines education at all levels, exploring recent challenges and government initiatives to improve teaching and learning. A good source of knowledge for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators.
This book considers the history of stardom through its connections to three media. The first phase, shaped by cinema, created contemporary stardom. The second, linked to television, made the star more intimate, while the third sees outsiders achieve visibility through the web.
Granting Our Students an Engaging Learning Experience Online
A practical guide for language teachers to successfully develop and deliver online courses. This book offers strategies to engage students, foster collaborative learning, and improve the online experience, sharing the author’s most successful personal techniques.
Revisiting European Security
The EU faces multiple crises, challenging its rule-based order. Can it still act as a normative international power? This volume re-examines the EU’s influence and values, focusing on its migration policies and its role in neighboring regions, Africa, and China.
This book investigates truth in Anne Sexton’s poetry. The author argues that Sexton’s heightened transparency and detailed accounts of her private stories establish a close relationship with the reader, demonstrating a unique inscription of truth in her work.
Based on real science, this book offers a new methodology for assessing coaching’s effects on managers’ personalities. It shows how they can respond to the challenges they face in a more effective and professional way.
This book reveals how masked activists in Saudi Arabia use social media to challenge a patriarchal society. It connects their hidden online identities to influential newspaper columns, investigating the true extent and consequences of a Saudi woman’s freedom of expression.
This chronological survey of Ancient Greece’s major writers explores genres from epic and drama to philosophy. It also features essays on Greek culture, including mythology, theater, government, and science. The book serves as a launchpad for our enduring Hellenic heritage.
Career Agility
In our complex and uncertain world, working lives are rapidly changing. This book offers career strategies and a practical toolkit of exercises to prepare you for the future, helping you understand your values and strengths to advance or reboot your career.
Beyond Capitalism
The digital revolution isn’t just updating capitalism—it’s forging a new system. As profound as the industrial revolution, this transformation is born from the convergence of global crises. This book reveals the world that comes next.
Education today needs a re-thinking. This book presents EUFICCS, an innovative, full-immersion approach to language and culture teaching. This holistic path empowers students with the intercultural and democratic competences necessary to function as future global citizens.
The Balance of Power and State Policies
Using leaked US diplomatic cables, this book provides an inside look at the dynamics between China and its neighbours. It challenges West-dominant narratives to show how East Asia, the 21st century’s most important region, has defied alarmist predictions of instability.
Luxury and American Consumer Culture
This book analyzes the role of luxury in American consumer culture, with case studies on how it affects our choices of automobiles, homes, and hotels. Adopting a global perspective, it also features analyses of luxury in China, Germany, Russia, and other countries.
This book provides a fresh look at the evolution of mobility management for next generation networks. It goes beyond traditional, centralized approaches, offering insights into practical ways of distributing mobility management for operators and end-users.