This book provides a profound analysis of creating business entities in Russia. It gives readers an understanding of Russian civil and corporate law, covering the legal system, business organizations, foreign investment, and corporate governance.
Writing New Worlds
This book analyses the different ways in which travel literature constituted a fundamental pillar in the production of knowledge in the modern era, showing how authors, scholars and artists between the 15th and 17th centuries responded to the challenges of modernity.
The Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Transitions, Volume Two
This text debates how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in various countries. It considers how governments’ remembrance policies made a new citizen, changed a political culture and justified a vision of society promoted by new elites
Observing Napoleon’s march from Elba to his defeat at Waterloo was Byron’s friend J.C. Hobhouse. This book presents an essay on Byron and Napoleon, Byron’s poems, and Hobhouse’s letters and mostly unpublished diary from the thick of things in Paris.
The Dan Brown Craze
Zhang and Zhu investigate why the work of Dan Brown has attained such global appeal, from a Chinese perspective, and provide a detailed exploration of his plots, characterisation, themes, and techniques.
This book explores new developments in science and technology education. It examines the impact of updated pedagogical practices, elaborates on future challenges, and points to new research directions, bridging the gap between research and practice.
Form and Process in Music, 1300-2014
Drawing together papers delivered at the 2014 meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, this volume explores a wide range of musical cultures, and reflects a strong emphasis on understanding the forms and processes of music through analysis.
Sons of Crispin
This study affords a rare insight into the “secret” associational life of Scottish shoemakers. It investigates the Royal St Crispin Society (1817–1909), which devised and practised unique rituals based on shoemaking legends and traditions.
Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development
Representing presentations given at the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, the chapters here discuss issues related to second language acquisition, teaching and teacher education in a variety of contexts from around the world.
The Whirlwind of Passion
This collection of essays by distinguished scholars provides fresh insight into Shakespearean studies. It explores the Bard’s oeuvre through critical, performance, and comparative analyses, emphasizing the playwright’s relevance today.
In a world of deepening conflict, what is solidarity today? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the concept from philosophical, social, political, and artistic perspectives, exploring its relation to memory and inspiring readers to help victims of exclusion.
Re-Entering Old Spaces
Using “old spaces” as a metaphorical tool, this book reintroduces established topics with new approaches. Contributors explore how spaces—physical, symbolic, and aesthetic—are created and recreated through writing, reflecting both their “visitors” and their “hosts.”
Ireland and Dysfunction
At the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, this compilation explores how dysfunction is tackled in Irish studies. It also investigates how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in understanding the construction process of an Irish identity today.
Studies by young researchers explore art’s response to social decline, transformation, and rebirth. The book entails diverse perceptions of art and society, from antiquity to modernity, architecture to moving pictures, and the USA to Yugoslavia.
The Outback Within
Byrne explores the evolving national mythology of the Australian outback, discussing why narratives of outback journeys are so often suffused with the aura of death. He argues for a more conscious engagement with the process of symbolic death and rebirth in this environment.
Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey
By delving into Kurdish documentary films as products of complex societal, political, and historical processes, the articles here highlight the intersections of media production, film text, and audience reception.
A Pacifist’s Life and Death
Using written and oral sources, Gkotzaridis’s study weaves a narrative of the life and death of Grigorios Lambrakis, Greece’s most committed defender of democracy and peace of the post-Civil War period, highlighting political divisions and obstacles to peace in Cold War Greece.
PIERIDES IV
This volume examines Terence as both an interpreter of literary traditions and a subject of critical reception. It explores his experimental comedies, focusing on the meaning of his work in relation to his predecessors, contemporaries, and posterity.
New Approaches to the Temple of Zeus at Olympia
This volume explores the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the largest in mainland Greece. International experts from many fields offer new perspectives on its architecture, sculptural decoration, and the cult of Zeus, bridging classical studies with new digital technologies.
The Archaeology of Anatolia
This volume brings together the latest reports on archaeological projects from every region of Anatolia. Scholars present their most recent data, providing results years ahead of final publication and ensuring a timely presentation of their fieldwork and research.
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