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The nostalgia for origins
This book examines a possible source for the origin of religion, using the theory of evolution and findings from cognitive science. It adds a theory of power to suggest the agency of early Homo sapiens.
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Radical realism, autofictional narratives and the reinvention of the novel
This monograph treats modes of fictionality in contemporary auto/biography, memoir and autofiction. Adopting a case study approach, it demonstrates the extent to which contexts of production and reception are important in framing generic expectations with respect to the representation of lived ex...
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Ireland’s great famine, britain’s great failure
This book provides readers with a unique, in-depth understanding of the background to the Irish Famine and a detailed account of the crisis as it unfolded, as well as the immediate and long-term results of the catastrophe. In addition to ecological and agriculture factors, this work reveals how c...
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Blue peace, black wars
Civilization is a Ponzi scheme... that we cannot stop, even as we face increasingly scarce resources, environmental degradation, market bubbles, and an Artificial Intelligence that grows energy-hungrier every day. The complex history of the Middle East shows how we got here, and how we can turn t...
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The abcs of cold war history
A short, but highly relevant, history of the Cold War, 1919–1994, and its significance today. The 75-year Cold War pitted the Anglo-American world against the Soviet Bloc, with China, the ultimate prize.
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Spirituality for the independent thinker
Spirituality for the Independent Thinker is a companion and guide for individualists who resist being told what to think about religion.
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Ai and ada
This volume first explores the potential of machine translation of literature; goes on to explore possibilities for artificial literary creation; and finishes by assessing recent spectacular progress in generative artificial intelligence (AI) – throughout, with reference to Vladimir Nabokov’s hyp...
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Academia, chernobyl, expeditions and the greeks
The memoir Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and The Greeks: A Research Psychologist on the Move recounts memorable experiences over the course of the author’s career as an academic psychologist engaged in research on stress and coping in extreme environments. The focus of the book is on the autho...
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Classical edinburgh
This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland with a focus on Edinburgh.
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The ai leader
Artificial intelligence and robotics have defined and redefined work environments worldwide. Using interviews. stories, news events, and research, the book highlights the new realities of business and leadership in the world of AI and provides meaningful insights to help executives lead in the co...
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Two thousand thoughts
A collection of quotable thoughts on various subjects.
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Jazz theory – contemporary improvisation, transcription and composition
This course offers advanced work in composition, analysis, arranging and current theoretical ideas and processes relevant to improvisors and composers.
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The development of an art history in the uae
Work by artists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), interviews and first-hand accounts form the core of this book about the development of the country’s art history. Learning about artists and seeing how their practices fit into global art historical discourses can help viewers gain insight into...
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Renu recipes
In preparing this cookbook, I have received wonderful encouragement and support from many quarters. I thank my sons—Fauji, Teji, and Inu—and their wives for helping me decide on the specific dishes to include. The infectious enthusiasm of my grandchildren for my cooking has propelled me onward, t...
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Life in reverse
The story of African-American jazz musician Westray’s life journey – striving for knowledge, opportunity, acceptance and understanding.
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Narrative medicine in education, practice, and interventions
This anthology is the first of its kind which integrates chapters on legitimizing narrative medicine in education, practice and research, on analyzing types of patient narratives and on studying interventions applying vulnerable or shared reading, creative writing, or Socratic dialogue as a means...
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The graft
The Graft provides insight into a long-forgotten kidney transplant that helped spark the modern age of organ transplantation.
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Aging with a plan
This book is a concise, comprehensive resource for readers facing the prospects of their own aging and of caring for elderly relatives―an often overwhelming task for which life rarely prepares us. It covers legal, financial, social, medical, and other aging challenges, offering abundant practical...
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The development of a theory of social structure and personality
Melvin Kohn, a pioneer in the cross-national, comparative and collaborative study of social structure and personality, examines his sociological research spanning a six-decade career to articulate a theory of social structure and personality.
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Start me up and keep me growing
This easy-to-read book tells how the Rolling Stones started out 60 years ago as a venture to confess the blues, unprepared for planetary success. It shows how they managed, adapted, innovated and grew, and how they succeeded in dealing with the interpersonal dynamics inherent in any form of human...
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Ron desantis
This book is a biography of Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Governor who dared oppose Donald Trump and who inspires other Republican governors. The authors propose a non-partisan biography of the ambitious new Republican strongman.
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Hidden heroes
Hidden Heroes is a collection of short stories from the 1980s to present that unveil the lives of ordinary North Koreans. Through themes of identity, community, and power, it reveals a complex society, offering readers a nuanced understanding beyond prevailing stereotypes.
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Dante and the night journey
A psychological approach to Dante, based on the Jungian concept of the night journey.
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Entrepreneurial living
“Entrepreneurial Living” is a hands-on guide to becoming an entrepreneur. Suitable for all readers, it is fun to read with beautiful illustrations.
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Top 10 vaccine objections
This work of narrative non-fiction deals with common questions and doubts people have about vaccines, using very accessible, conversational, non-technical language.
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Love in the age of autism
Gayle DeLong was a well-known activist in the autism community, the ‘Warrior Mom’ of two autistic daughters. This book is a record (based largely on her diaries) of her happy marriage to Jonathan Rose, and a document of all the pains and joys that autism families experience.
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Quandaries of belonging
Quandaries of Belonging is both a personal meditation on the author’s relationship with Aotearoa New Zealand and a critical exploration of coexistence in a postcolonial society.
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The end of the world and the last god
The End of the World and the Last God is a philosophical work that poses a disturbing existential question: what if mankind is definitively bored with Earth? And if so, what will happen if we fail to find a way out of our planet?
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How to find work in the 21st century
A practical guide to finding meaningful employment in today’s workplace.
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Power of sage
The book constructs a new model for attaining power, challenging the traditional Machiavellian approach to construct power.
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The financial history of cambridge university
Robert Neild traces how Cambridge – having since 1945 received money, public and private, that carried it to the top of the world rankings of universities – is suffering at the hand of cuts in government funding and a tide of political intervention.
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Becoming a doctor
Becoming a Doctor is an intimate account of one person’s transformation from naïve student to professorial physician. Packed with unforgettable anecdotes and surprising insights, the book is far more than a memoir of medical education. Chapter by chapter, it exposes the challenging issues that do...
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Contemporary black urban music
This course will examine Contemporary Black Urban Music and its historical development by tracing the evolution of soul and funk music into rap and hip-hop.
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The insider's secrets to getting your school leadership job
The Insider’s Secrets to Finding Your School Leadership Job: This practical 125-page self-help professional guide coaches school and district leadership candidates step-by-step through the hiring process for their dream jobs in public education.
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Becoming an environmental psychologist
This book explores the interdisciplinary pathways that environmental psychologists have taken to become educators, researchers, and consultants in this highly applied and growing field. Individuals with backgrounds in architecture, urban planning, and geography, as well as in the health sciences ...
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Value of failure
There is a clear economic and social rationale in providing a second chance to failed entrepreneurs and deriving positive experiences from negative situations. Value of Failure is a comprehensive attempt at understanding the various aspects of the phenomenon of business failure.
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The lonely quest of unilever's ceo paul polman
The Great Battle or The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO Paul Polman describes the origins of Unilever and the role former CEO Paul Polman (2009-2019) played in Unilever’s quest for acting responsibly in a world that is being threatened by climate change, lack of biodiversity, pollution and growing...
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Slum city africa
Slum City Africa: “A Very Bad Place With Good Teachings” uses a combination of personal experience and stories passed down to Warren Elofson’s co-author Jonah Weyessa to textualize the realities of living in Nairobi’s poverty-stricken region, Kibera, one of the world’s dirtiest and most dangerous...
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The key to music’s genetics
Christian Lehmann brings his experience as a musicologist, singer and academic to this fascinating journey through the origins of music and its role in human development, culture and society.
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Good trouble
Good Trouble is the story of the strong connection between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland – specifically, the influence of the Montgomery to Selma march on the 1969 Belfast to Derry march through oral history.
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The labyrinth of sustainability
‘The Labyrinth of Sustainability’ explores the growth of corporate sustainability in Latin America, offering actionable insights to business leaders, policymakers, NGOs, academics and journalists through 12 case studies that examine the challenges and opportunities facing companies across the reg...
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The crossroads of crime writing
This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. The chapters within utilize theories of cultural m...
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Queer and religious alliances in family law politics and beyond
Family law is a site of social conflict and the erasure of non-traditional families. This book explores how conservative religious and progressive queer groups can cooperatively work together to expand family law’s recognition beyond the traditional state-sponsored family. This book also looks to...
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South asian media cultures
'South Asian Media Cultures' examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.
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Sentimental songs, melodrama and filmic narrative in bollywood’s golden age (1951–1963)
The way in which the spectator responds to the song and how narrative, lyrics, music, mise-en-scènes, all come together to accentuate sentimentality and melodrama in the Golden Age of Bollywood cinema (1951–1963) is the book’s key thematic concern.
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Molière on stage
‘Molière on Stage’ takes the reader onstage, backstage and into the audience of Molière’s plays, and analyzes the performance of his works in both his own time and ours.
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Aboriginal art and australian society
This unique study tracks the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has mediated Indigenous/non-indigenous relations in Australia. It illuminates the utopian and dystopian currents of thought that have arisen in relation to the art, and the contradictory social and political aspirations to which it ha...
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Victorian ladies in the ottoman empire
Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to modern-day Turkey, Egypt, and Cyprus) during the reign of Queen Victoria, this volume analyzes the multi-faceted, often ambivalent and conflicting ways their encounters with Ot...
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Techno-economic paradigms
‘Techno-Economic Paradigms’ presents a series of essays discussing one of the most interesting and talked-about socio-economic theories of our times: techno-economic paradigm shifts.
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Mapping the nation
Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, ‘Mapping the Nation’ offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 1870–1920.
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How to get into medical school in australia
‘How to Get into Medical School in Australia’ is the definitive guide on how to succeed in your application to medical school – and how to excel once there.
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Yeats and revisionism
The books collects Daniel T. O’Hara’s half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last...
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Music technology panic narratives beyond piracy
When people develop technologies to distribute music, record labels act like it will destroy music. This book shows these narratives are about reconfiguring power.
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The hidden form of capital
'The Hidden Form of Capital' presents evidence from several parts of the changing world about how the realm of the spirit affects the economy.
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The inherence of human dignity
The second of two volumes on dignity, Law and Religious Liberty focuses on the connection between human dignity and positive law, oriented around the central question, “What role should dignity play in the development of legislation and the adjudication of disputes involving religious freedom?”
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National systems of innovation
‘National Systems of Innovation’ presents a new perspective on the dynamics of the national and the global economy.
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Early buddhism as philosophy of existence
This book makes the connection between early Buddhism and nature. Early Buddhism was a system of thinking which applied the universal laws of nature to human beings. It was a comprehensive worldview. But after the first 400 to 500 years, it was mostly lost.
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Indigenous knowledge systems, entrepreneurship and sustainable development in africa
The book engages the need to embrace Indigenous knowledge-based entrepreneurship as a path towards achieving sustainable development in Africa. It advances a decolonization of knowledge systems that have undergirded entrepreneurship in Africa to pave ways for Indigenous knowledge systems.
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Alternative modernities in french travel writing
Examining the aesthetics and politics at stake in urban travel writing as spatial practice, this book explores French travellers’ representations of London and New York from 1851 to the 1980s.
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Extending hinge epistemology
The essays in this volume present new voices and challenges within hinge epistemology. They explore new applications and directions of hinge epistemology, particularly as it relates to the philosophy of mind, society, ethics, and the history of ideas.
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Anarchy and art
Why do we obey? How have poets and writers responded to this question? This book investigates the relationship between Euro-American literature and the history of the anarchist movement and culture, from the late-18th to the first half of the 20th century. Adopting a comparative perspective, it e...
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Bread, politics and political economy in the reign of louis xv
A new edition of Kaplan’s landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on comprehensive archival, Kaplan’s classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution ...
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Sustainability is the new advantage
"Sustainability Is the New Advantage" is a practical blueprint for leaders who want to start, develop, and grow sustainable organizations. The book provides stories and practical examples of how to assess challenges, create demonstrations projects, and scale the capabilities needed for sustainabl...
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Horror and the horror film
‘Horror and the Horror Film’ is a vivid, compelling, insightful and well-written study of the horror film and its subgenres from 1896 to the present, concentrating on the nature of horror in reality and on film.
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Psychoanalytic mythologies
‘Psychoanalytic Mythologies’ presents a collection of essays on the theme of what it is to be a human subject in a culture permeated by psychoanalytic imagery.
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The impactassets handbook for investors
A critical handbook for those interested and engaged in investing capital to generate financial returns with social and environmental impacts, “The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors” offers a review of total portfolio management strategy and practice for investing capital and understanding its ...
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Stephen wall, trollope and character and other essays on victorian literature
‘Stephen Wall, “Trollope and Character” (1988) and Other Essays on Victorian Literature’ is a collection of critical essays by the eminent literary critic Stephen Wall, including his exceptional writings on Anthony Trollope, as well as brilliant studies of Charles Dickens and other major Victoria...
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Australia as the antipodal utopia
Australia has a fascinating history of visions. As the antipode to Europe, Australia provided a radically different and uniquely fertile ground for envisioning places, spaces and societies. ‘The Antipodal Utopia’ evaluates this complex intellectual history by mapping out how Western visions of Au...
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Modern european tragedy
The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century – one of the most violent periods of human history – that the tragic form significantly developed. ‘...
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Nationalizing the body
‘Nationalizing the Body’ examines the different meanings of ‘modern medicine’ that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around ‘modernity’.
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Why europe was first
An engaging and enigmatic historical review of the way in which some countries have become economic successes, leaving others in their wake.
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The persistent poverty of african americans in the united states
This book sheds light on American politics and power that has disadvantaged African Americans through the implementation of public policies, causing them to remain poor and underprivileged in the United States.
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Japan's open future
Where does Japan fit in a rapidly changing world, and how should it relate to the United States and China? Three foreign commentators make a provocative and persuasive argument that the time has come for Japan to help build a stronger Asian community, and to become an engaged and conscientious gl...
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Discourse on applied sociology: volume 1
This engaging and wide-ranging two-volume study urges a balance between theoretical and practical sociology.
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Studies on the carvaka/lokayata
This volume is the first attempt at a scientific study of the Carvaka/Lokayata, the materialist system of philosophy that flourished in ancient India between the eighth and the twelfth century CE.
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Russian language studies in north america
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of Russian language research in Canada and Russia, with a focus on elements of structure, as well as on language dynamics and change.
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Studies in the kasikavrtti. the section on pratyaharas
This volume contains a critical edition, English translation and essays on the initial section of the Kasikavrtti (7th c. CE), the oldest complete commentary on the Astadhyayi of Panini.
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The learning economy and the economics of hope
‘The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope’ offers original insights in processes of innovation and learning and draws implications for economic theory and public policy. The book introduces the reader to important concepts such as innovation systems and the learning economy. It throws new l...
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The films of adoor gopalakrishnan
The first comprehensive study of the feature films of India’s most distinguished contemporary filmmaker. This work offers a compelling analysis of the director’s treatment of guilt, redemption and hope within their socio-historical contexts.
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Outlaw heroes in myth and history
This book provides an overview and analysis of the global tradition of the outlaw hero. The mythology and history of the outlaw hero is traced from the Roman Empire to the present, showing how both real and mythic figures have influenced social, political, economic and cultural outcomes in many t...
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The anthem companion to pierre bourdieu
'The Anthem Companion to Pierre Bourdieu' provides an introduction to the French sociologist’s thought and an evaluation of the international significance of his work from a range of national perspectives.
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Colonialism and transnational psychiatry
This book provides an in-depth case study of a psychiatric institution within the context of colonial rule during the early twentieth century. It focuses on patient statistics, medical treatments and diagnoses, and considers the ‘indigenisation’ or ‘Indianisation’ of the colonial medical services...
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