Contemporary Issues in International Relations
Recent global crises have changed international relations, highlighting the discipline’s shortcomings and the need for a new study. This book provides an objective assessment of ongoing problems, making it a valuable resource for students, academics, and researchers.
This timely book on economic security confronts challenges like inflation and recession. It explores multifaceted perspectives on sustainability, labour, economic diplomacy, and global development, serving as a useful guide for learners, researchers, and practitioners worldwide.
Indian Environmental Impact Assessment Practice
This book critically examines the components of Indian EIA practice and highlights the learnings. Using a case study method, it will benefit academics and researchers, and will also be handy to environment ministries, EIA professionals, and project proponents.
Greek Lyric Poetry and Its Influence
Composed 25 centuries ago, Greek lyric poems sing of everyday life, presenting a living portrait of the ancient Greeks. This multidisciplinary volume offers literary analyses, studies the poems’ reflection in Greek art, and explores their connection to music and modern cinema.
This book investigates language justice at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, where language was a tool of conflict. It reviews the tribunal’s language laws and services to ask whether linguistic justice was truly delivered to all parties.
Pathology of Head and Neck Tumors
From the author’s twenty-four-year tenure as a head and neck pathologist, this book analyzes diverse tumors. It covers pathologic findings and clinical features with high-quality photos and statistics, highlighting epidemiological disparities between Eastern and Western nations.
This book offers a fresh look into the “languages of postcolonial modernity” in Africa. It investigates how African languages and literatures—in novels, film, poetry, and music—have embodied and mediated modernity while documenting the legacies of colonialism.
This volume explores entrepreneurship education and development in Southern Africa. Using case studies, it discusses how higher education institutions can empower youth with entrepreneurial skills to improve the economy and drive innovation.
This book examines how technology shapes cultural change, from the emergence of capitalism to the age of AI. It analyses the shift to a consumer society, how we use goods for identity creation, and the questions new technologies raise for the future of work and culture.
Transforming Our World
Our world is more advanced than ever, yet it is on a self-destructive path. War and the erosion of our natural and human capital threaten our very future. This book charts a new course, revealing the essential changes in our paradigms and mindset required for survival.
Jesus, Paul and Matthew, Volume One
This book argues that kingdom ethics is the core message of Jesus. While often contrasted, Jesus, Paul, and Matthew articulated a common transformative ethos—originating in Stoic philosophy—that crossed boundaries of patriarchy, class, and bigotry in the Graeco-Roman world.
To truly understand climate change, we must first understand ourselves. This guide explores the crisis through a multi-faceted lens—social, psychological, and cultural—revealing the core beliefs and ideologies that shape our response.
The Sociology of Longevity
For the first time, this book analyzes how socioecological factors influence our probability of becoming a centenarian. It presents global evidence on the factors affecting life expectancy and contributes applicable knowledge on how to become a healthy centenarian.
War has been a dominant theme in Australian history, but there is an alternative story. In every conflict, war resisters and conscientious objectors stood firm. They endured violence and prison, branded as cowards, yet showed it took a special type of courage to resist war.
Voices of Sanskrit Poets
Is Vālmīki’s Sīta a feminist archetype? Is infidelity a virtue? This book offers a fresh perspective on Sanskrit literature for the modern reader, juxtaposing the heroism of Achilles and Rāma and exploring the power of love through Cordelia and Śakuntala.
Cinema and Intermediality (Second, Enlarged Edition)
This ground-breaking book explores the relationship between cinema and other arts. Through case studies of films by auteurs like Hitchcock, Antonioni, Godard, and Varda, it clarifies key ideas of intermediality and offers insightful analyses. Revised and enlarged edition.
Indian Medicinal Plants of North-East Himalayas
Discover the rich biodiversity and traditional healing practices of Northeast India, a hotspot home to half the country’s plant species. Focusing on Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, this book details medicinal flora and indigenous knowledge to preserve the region’s vital heritage.
This book explores the ecology of Mediterranean evergreen oaks, vital for biodiversity. It details Quercus calliprinos’s role in combating climate change and the forest management needed to conserve crucial species like Quercus ilex and Quercus suber.
Amidst global transformations, the criminal law of post-Soviet states has a new function: ensuring security. This book reveals how the boundaries of law are expanding, the concept of “crime” is shifting, and the emphasis is moving from punishment to new criminal-legal measures.
Discover Target Value Delivery: a method for setting budgets based on a building’s functional requirements before design begins. This practical guide for owners, designers, and contractors provides the tools to steer the budget and deliver the project vision with available funds.