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Csr and sustainability
CSR and Sustainability promotes the need for social responsibility and sustainability and highlights their link with the big issues of society. It shows how science and positive thinking by humankind can prevent oft-vouched disasters due to human rights violation, global warming, growing income i...
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The violent person at work
In The Violent Person @ Work, Laurence Barton, the world’s leading threat assessor, outlines how to prevent, manage, and mitigate persons who may pose a threat to an organization’s people and other assets. theviolentperson.com
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The responsibility of reason in leadership, management, and life long learning
This book is both a standalone and/or sequel to The Value of Voice in Shared Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Management and Leadership Skills That Affect Small Business Survival: A Resource Guide for Small Businesses Everywhere. These three books can work together to support the sales ...
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The transformation of capacity in international development
"The Transformation of Capacity in International Development” exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID’s work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approa...
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'the tempest' in context
How did the court audience of 1611 respond to this unusual play? Situating ‘The Tempest’ in its time, this guide explains the Christian ethics, contemporary political scene, literary atmosphere and requirements of tragi-comedy that inform the background of this magical and mysterious play.
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Consumerism and prestige
This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of taste by examining how the material aspects of literary texts, such as the cover, binding, typography, and paper stock, reflect or even determine their cultural status.
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The cold war in the 1950s
The book describes the domestic and external conditions that shaped the interaction between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1950s.
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Soccer and racism
This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazil’s history from the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power – the so-called First Republic.
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British women missionaries in bengal, 1793–1861
‘British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861’ looks at the role and contributions of the early British women missionaries in Bengal, in eastern India, between 1793 and 1861. It traces the role of and challenges faced by women missionaries from Hannah Marshman to Hannah Mullens in the context ...
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Living with poverty and dependence in england
This book addresses the effects of poverty on multiple interdependencies in kinship, neighbourly and friendship relations. It explores how interpersonal relationships are made, unmade, recuperated or ended by people who are living with poverty in one of England’s most deprived neighbourhoods.
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A city divided: race, fear and the law in police confrontations
When a high school honors student emerges from a police confrontation outside his home bruised and beaten, and facing serious criminal charges, an American city erupts in protests. A long quest for justice begins. "A City Divided" uncovers what happened and examines if race, fear and police condu...
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Subjectivism and interpretative methodology in theory and practice
“Subjectivism and Interpretative Methodology in Theory and Practice” uses the subjectivist approach originated in Max Weber’s interpretation method, Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology, and Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s sociology of knowledge to understand economic and social phenomena.
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Gulf gothic
Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas.
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The anthem handbook of screen theory
‘The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory’ offers readers a unique survey of the new horizons of film and media theory, focusing on the applicability of screen theories and updating the field for new social, cultural and geopolitical contexts.
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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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Globalization, the human condition and sustainable development in the twenty-first century
This book, based on a 175-nation study, investigates the relevance of dependency theory to the success of eight different dimensions of development, and argues that the pro-globalist policies of the European Commission are the greatest threat to Europe’s future developmental performance.
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The spanish frustration
Old troubles persist in modern Spain, including huge public debts, extensive corruption, widespread unlawfulness, oligarchical politics, territorial splits, and permanent protests and riots. The origins of these problems are remote: the ruinous Spanish Empire made a weak state, which built an inc...
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The metahistory of western knowledge in the modern era
The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era –from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose articulated problems of a time and the inquiry methods to address them develop in a coordinated mann...
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From reversal of fortune to economic resurgence
This book examines Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and most populous country, and five selected Asian countries in comparative development and sectoral perspectives. It employs quantitative and qualitative methods, including case studies and statistical/econometric methods, to analyze factors t...
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Bakhtin and his others
‘Bakhtin and his Others’ offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin’s ideas on (inter)subjectivity and temporality, research into his theoretical backgrounds, and case studies where these insights are employed in literary analysis.
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International mathematical olympiad volume 3
A fantastic compilation of mathematical puzzles, this fully updated three-volume series will challenge and engage serious mathematicians and enthusiasts alike.
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The life and work of ante dabro, australian-croatian sculptor
Ante Dabro believes that the ability to see what other people don’t see is a real gift. He says, ‘It’s like a star wheeling round the earth, fertilising the imagination as it goes.’ This book explores the different ways he has liberated an essence of humanity by releasing the soul of a human form...
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The rise of little big norway
“The Rise of Little Big Norway” chronicles Norway’s unheralded rise from Nordic peripherality to the global example and Arctic frontliner of today. Scholars and non-specialist readers alike will appreciate its wide-ranging subject matter, astute analysis and wealth of comparative insight, written...
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Fundamentals of planning cities for healthy living
The proposed book illustrates the decline of community planning for healthy living and outlines measures that can be reintroduced to foster active lifestyles.
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Melodrama, masculinity and international art cinema
This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.
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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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Chinese tv in the netflix era
This book aims to provide an account of Chinese television, particularly online drama series, or webisodes, with an awareness of the existence and competition of Netflix.
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Locating australian literary memory
‘Locating Australian Literary Memory’ explores sites which are explicitly connected with eleven Australian authors through material forms of commemoration such as houses, graves, statues and assorted artefacts. While acknowledging the value of literary memorials and the voluntary labour that enab...
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Sub-saharan african immigrants’ stories of resilience and courage
This book seeks to produce a more specific description of Sub-Saharan African immigration in the US by recording our reflections, experiences, and strategies of coping, as well as those of the participants.
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A 'short treatise' on the wealth and poverty of nations (1613)
‘A ‘Short Treatise’ on the Wealth and Poverty of Nations’ presents, for the first time, an English translation of Antonio Serra’s ‘Breve Trattato’ (1613), one of the most famous tracts in the history of political economy.
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South american perspectives on cultural diversity
This book delves into the evolution of cultural diversity policies in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. It highlights the struggles of marginalized groups for equality and explores how these policies challenge the monocultural narratives imposed by nation-states over the last 15 years.
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The anthem companion to georg simmel
'The Anthem Companion to Georg Simmel' brings together new interpretations of the work of this sociologist and philosopher.
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Tokyo seven roses
Seven beautiful women – the Seven Roses – take a stand against an unheard-of threat to the integrity of Japanese culture in post-WWII Japan.
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Basics of nonlinearities in mathematical sciences
This book is primarily an attempt to familiarize the reader with nonlinear systems, in particular qualitative characteristics in a variety of systems amenable to mathematization. Differential equations form the bulk of the book, while the basics of nonlinearities are presented through theorems an...
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Crimes of states and powerful elites
A collection of case studies investigating the crimes of the powerful, the social harms caused and the perpetuation of inequalities through lack of prosecution.
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The city as fulcrum of global sustainability
This book finds short- and long-term solutions to twenty-first century global woes by looking to the city as the fulcrum for introducing sustainability around the world.
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The cultural construction of monstrous children
This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dange...
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Microtravel
This volume explores and historicizes the phenomenon of ‘microtravel’, a term coined to designate slower journeys within a limited radius which allow, and sometimes necessitate, new forms of experiencing the world. The chapters study travelogues that recalibrate the scale of journeying, with trav...
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Imagined mobility
This book critically examines the history and current issues on the migration of Indian students to Australia.
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Organising neoliberalism
This collection of essays explores the impact of neoliberalism within different organisational domains from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.
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Unsettled accounts
Gissing's work reveals an unhappy accommodation with money's underwriting of human existence and culture, and how daily life in all its forms – moral, intellectual, familial and erotic – is transcended or made irrelevant by its commodification.
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Responsible citizens
‘Responsible Citizens’ reveals how rising emphasis on the individual has gone hand in hand with an increase in subtle authoritarianism – particularly within public services – such that a kind of ‘governance through responsibility’ is today being enforced upon the population.
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Latin american foreign policies in the new world order
At a time of growing US-China tensions, and of Latin America’s deepest crisis in a century, Active Non-Alignment option embodies a novel way out of this predicament.
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Sophisticated interdependence in climate policy
With the US as the world’s most prominent climate change outlaw, “Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy” offers a unique combination of state-level analysis, international comparison and domestic policy prescription, pointing the way to a productive federal–state partnership for climate...
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Is brazil afraid of the world?
Have you ever thought Brazil was a country afraid of becoming more international? Written by a Brazilian expert in foreign affairs, this book describes Brazilian position in the international scenario and presents an authentic and provocative point of view on the Brazilian international relations
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Poetry of the civil rights movements in australia and the united states, 1960s–1980s
The book not only demonstrates the commonalities and differences in the literary and political strategies of Australian Aboriginal poets, namely Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958– ), and African American Black Arts poets Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez (1943– ), but also exam...
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The gothic literature and history of new england
The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the origin, nature and future of the Gothic mode in New England’s history and literature, from the Puritans to the present, showing how the legacy of religious intolerance, racism and misogyny haunts fiction, film and popular culture.
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Postcolonial urban studies
Drawing on ideas from postcolonial theory and literary and cultural studies, in particular the work of Martinican poet and thinker Édouard Glissant, Garth Myers develops a new framework for re-imagining global urban studies.
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Clothing goes to war
Across the globe, raw materials and workers were shifted to war work and manufacturing for civilians almost ended. Governments mandated rationing programmes in many countries to regulate the limited supply. 75 years later the slow fashion movement is motivating new reductions in clothing consumpt...
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The woman who was the desert dream
A middle-aged hack joins Kate in the Sahara for the world’s toughest foot-race, The Marathon des Sables. Pain, heat and the biggest blisters on the planet – it’s the perfect recipe for falling in love.
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