Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings
What is the role of performance in faith practices? This collection of essays explores the complex nexus between faith and performance. Diverse scholars examine how language shapes belief, identity is negotiated, and material settings are transfigured to create sacred spaces.
Four Plays about Disability
Four plays unearth hidden histories of disability. Revisit the Whitechapel murders, uncover Nazi genocide, and witness a Victorian prostitute’s survival in what Joyce Carol Oates calls “the triumph of twisted.”
Re-Shaping Education for Citizenship
This book explores school processes in Hong Kong, where education must now manage diversity. It investigates how a liberal and democratic national identity, distinct from that of mainland China, develops under the “one country two systems” policy.
Responsible Business Professionals
This collection explores responsible business in the context of India’s growing global trade. It delves into creating responsible business ecosystems, developing leadership, and managing cross-cultural communication to enhance the human accountability of business.
Shifting the Geography of Reason
In a world offering few options, this courageous celebration of thinking asserts the value of intelligence and the urgent need to build new intellectual homes.
This book explores how immigrants in Caribbean Colombia shaped the city of Barranquilla. It examines customs and cultural beliefs reflected in the region’s housing, art, and culture, aiming to reconcile diverse groups and create bonds of shared responsibility.
This book bridges academic scholarship with activism to examine Irish society from the viewpoint of those fighting attacks on workers’ rights. Diverse scholars and activists provide a Marxist analysis, showing that the class struggle continues unabated.
Radial Journalism
This book introduces Radial Journalism, an empirical method that moves journalists from chroniclers to active experimenters. By mapping an environment’s positive momentum, it creates innovative solutions to complex crises, allowing anything to become a medium for the message.
This volume explores words, the building blocks of language, from multifaceted perspectives. Bringing together linguistics, neuroscience, and psycholinguistics, it tackles key questions on how to define, measure, and teach vocabulary.
Fitness Philanthropy
This book explores the boom in fitness fundraising, where sports-based charity events unite corporate marketing, medical research, and social causes. It examines the motivations of participants, donors, and sponsors, offering a new analysis of sport, health, and civic engagement.
Dark Tales of Illness, Medicine, and Madness
A strange and mordant journey through the world of illness, doctors and patients. A forensic psychiatrist exposes the extremes of human nature in the dangerous relationships between them, revealing medical quacks, murders, and other crimes in the world of medicine.
This book presents classical management theory integrated with modern innovations like agile management, AI, and neuroscience. It covers key issues in sports management—from finance and quality to conflict and corruption—and includes new case studies from the field.
Bringing Back the Child
This book investigates three older Romanian orphans who experienced extreme deprivation and were effectively without language. It presents a study of their remarkable linguistic progress, which defies the predictions of the Critical Period Hypothesis.
Bombay Novels
Walk the streets of Mumbai through the eyes of literary wanderers. Analyzing four novels, this book reveals how the act of flânerie uncovers hidden histories and exposes power relations, offering a transgressive, alternative vision of the city and its people.
Mobile Identities
Through international case studies, this volume uses border studies, postcolonial discourse, and globalization theory to explore identity. It argues that identities are mobile and in flux, challenging stereotypes and revealing ethnicity as a complex category.
Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats
This book connects the poetry of Blake, Shelley, and Keats to the Hermetic tradition and our planetary crisis. It challenges human-centered views to affirm the value of the non-human world and the heightened consciousness found within their exalted works.
Are we alone? Journey into the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), from its origins to the Drake equation. Explore AI-driven searches, first contact scenarios, and radical theories connecting the hunt for alien life with parallel universes.
Perspectives of Five Kuwaiti Women in Leadership Roles
In intimate conversations, five remarkable Kuwaiti women leaders—including one of the first female MPs, an art advocate, and an oil industry leader—share their thoughts on gender equality, the women’s rights movement, and the role of religion in their country’s future.
Space, Life, Science and Stories
Surges of public interest in life from the cosmos often leave people confused and exploited. This book explores the causes of these surges, the stories they generate, and the relevant science, allowing you to become aware of the facts and judge them for yourself.
The Progress of Philosophy
This book offers selections from seven philosophers, with commentary connecting their ideas to their social and scientific milieu—Plato to geometry, Hobbes to the English civil war, Peirce to Darwin. See how they organized their beliefs into a coherent picture of the world.
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