E-merging for E-Government
Explore e-Government with leading experts in this essential collection. Featuring previously unreleased articles, it merges key perspectives on citizen-centric policy, governance, and ICT.
This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on social hybridity in contemporary novels. It explores the challenge of center and periphery, examining the dynamics of power, marginality, and space to shed new light on the contemporary novel as a whole.
This prophetic, race-focused work is for Christians seeking to live out their faith today. Racism, the elephant in the room, now sits at the altar of our churches. This book argues we are at a critical time for action and gives educational and theological suggestions.
A Science-Theology Rapprochement
Beyond the “warfare” of science and theology. This book confronts the New Atheist challenge, using the insights of Peirce, Lonergan, and Pannenberg to turn conflict into collaboration and show how Christian creation embraces an evolutionary universe.
Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison’s poetry uses Sufism to heal the trauma of the Middle Passage. This book examines how she applies Sufi ideals to a Caribbean context, showing how its message resonates with Jamaican-based religions and creates a new literary canon.
Violence and Politics
In this volume, a new generation of researchers demonstrate the interaction between politics and violence in the context of Greek and European history. In terms of focus, the articles here extend over a time span stretching from the Greek classical period to the twentieth century
This text brings together papers, on different hidden and implicit aspects of language and the ways of disclosing and explicating them. Language is interpreted in different ways here, as a cognitive ability, a specific semiotic structure interwoven with culture, and a discourse.
Botanical Speculations
This conference proceedings brings together researchers, artists, art historians, and activists to collaboratively map the uncharted territories of new forms of botanical knowledge, and to capitalize on contemporary art’s ability to productively unhinge scientific theories.
World Cities, City Worlds
When living and working in cities, we need to make sense of them in order to get by. We must delve below their surface to understand how we can best engage with them. Solesbury argues that three tropes can help us here: namely, metaphors, icons and perspectives.
The Story Cookbook
The Story Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of over 80 story-based activities. This easy-to-follow guide provides a treasure trove of techniques to apply and adapt. It is a must-read for consultants, educators, and leaders using storytelling for positive change.
The Flaneur in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Vila-Cabanes explores a great array of texts, making an essential contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the prehistory and history of the British flaneur from the early eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a special focus on the nineteenth century.
Africana Methodology
This volume critically examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an Afrocentric perspective. It provides readers with a compilation of essays that evaluate the Africana experience from a methodological perspective.
To make philosophy relevant, the author argues philosophers must go beyond their specializations to clarify how things hang together. This book has a novel emphasis on public morality, understanding it from an evolutionary perspective to raise moral standards.
The essays here investigate the reasons why India has fared better than other emerging market economies, and discuss whether other countries can take inspiration from this model and rebuild their own countries based on their national resources and cultural heritage.
This volume studies the dynamics of conflict and cooperation in Eurasia, examining regional security, energy, and trade. It analyzes the outcomes of post-Soviet transformation and the strategies of individual states, providing an understanding of the challenges the region faces.
Khan presents a critical analysis of anti-dumping laws enforced by the World Trade Organisation. Anti-dumping laws are the most debatable provisions of the WTO, which, though legally permitted, have a significant distorting effect on trade.
This academic study analyzes suspense in Stephen King’s novels The Shining and Carrie and their film adaptations. It compares techniques for achieving suspense in literature versus cinema and provides a model that can be used for analyzing other literary or cinematic works.
Connecting Contemporary African-Asian Peacemaking and Nonviolence
This book brings together accomplished and emerging scholars to draw strategic lines of connection between diverse peoples in Africa and Asia, the two most populous continents. Each essay here reviews recent attempts at peace-building in these regions.
These essays explore the importance of water imagery in the work of George Sand. Discover the complex symbolism of water—encompassing life and death, fluid kinship, and artistic creativity—in her novels, short stories, plays, and even her paintings.
Models of European Civil Society
This volume explores European models of civil society, past and present. Civil society is crucial for a well-functioning state, creating an active community able to control its leaders. With social media, the tools for self-organisation are more powerful than ever.
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