Human Rights in Everyday Life in India
This work uses field-based examples from India to show how human rights discourse is a double-edged sword. While oppressors manipulate the rights paradigm to justify oppression, the oppressed leverage the same language to contest marginalization and assert their dignity.
This book equips students and practitioners with the analytical skills to represent a client in a civil federal tax dispute. Using the Code, Regulations, and case law, you will learn to identify and analyse procedural issues from a tax controversy’s inception through litigation.
Narrative Criminology
This guide on narrative criminology shows how academia and entertainment can blend. For true crime creators and criminology students, it is an insider’s guide to crafting compelling, responsible narratives that educate and entertain without lowering academic standards.
Communicating Medical Science in the Digital Age
The internet and social media have transformed medical science communication, making it more open and responsive. This book brings together academics and practitioners to critically discuss emerging trends and genres, and how they shape knowledge, expertise, and identity.
Spaces and Places in the Fantastic
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the spaces central to fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It explores how fantastic geographies—from digital worlds to bodies as spaces—shape identity, reflect social ideas, and challenge our perceptions of the real world.
Evolving Internal Organization Development
This guide to Internal Organization Development (OD) provides practical tools to drive meaningful change from within. Learn to foster a proactive, resilient culture, build an OD department, and navigate politics to cultivate a high-performance organization that supports growth.
Too much of piano playing is undermined by half-truths, causing an epidemic of injuries and artistic frustration. The antidote is a focus on the science of body and mind. Written by a pianist for pianists, this book uses biomechanics and neuroscience to transform all we do.
Booleying in Ireland
This book challenges the view of booleying as a post-medieval practice. Drawing on extensive research, it traces the origins of transhumance to the prehistoric period, providing a fresh perspective on its history and economic importance in Ireland and Achill.
A pioneering guide to e-Portfolio assessment for EFL educators. This book provides innovative frameworks to move beyond traditional exams, offering theoretical insights and practical guidance to foster transformative student learning in real-world classrooms.
This book penetrates the myths of Roman history, narrating its epic story from the founding of the Republic, through civil wars, to the rise of the Empire. One lesson is learned: Liberty is too valuable to be forsaken for the safety of “bread and circuses.”
The Treaty of Versailles and The Carthaginian Peace
This book reconsiders the Treaty of Versailles against Keynes’ verdict of a ‘Carthaginian peace’. This powerful myth is contrasted with the reality of the Conference: a hard-won compromise. It highlights the mythology of Germany’s ‘destruction’ by a ‘Diktat’ of Versailles.
Social Entrepreneurial Intent
What drives someone to tackle monumental problems? This book journeys into the heart of social entrepreneurship, uncovering the motivations that spark individuals to become agents of change and exploring how this knowledge can be used to make a lasting impact.
From Fin de Siècle to Semi-Centennial Drama of Europe
This book offers groundbreaking interpretations of timeless 19th and 20th-century drama. Using new critical methods like Cultural Memory and Vulnerability studies, it builds inroads to both obscure and notable texts, connecting the past to a vigilant future for researchers.
Transatlantic Modernism
This book explores transatlantic modernism’s interactions with philosophy, religion, and art. It considers how authors like Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, and Eliot engaged explorations of literary form, identity, and truth while searching for—or denying—belief.
Intercultural Communication in Post-Pandemic and Dystopian Times
This essay turns intercultural concepts inside out, pointing out their shortcomings and dissecting the real obstacles to communication: identitarianisms, tribal meanings, and exclusionary differences. It is a call for us to become culturally resilient and readjust our mirrors.
My Life as A Forensic Sociologist
A forensic sociologist involved in criminal trials, Dr. Erickson acts as an expert witness for the defence or prosecution. This is the real-life story of her involvement with violent crime, visiting scenes in the dead of night to uncover discoveries for her testimony.
India’s Elderly
This book by multidisciplinary experts proposes policies to manage our growing elderly population with care and compassion, and to tap into the benefits of this demographic. It explores gerontology, quality of life, functional independence, healthcare, and psycho-social issues.
This volume examines England’s pioneering computer efforts from the 1950s to the 1970s. Discover innovative concepts like time-sharing and multiprogramming, and learn how LEO I, the first business computer, arose not from a tech company or academia, but from a Tea Shoppe!
Identity, Politics, and Narratives of Belonging
This collection of essays explores Northeast India’s diverse heritage, from its literature and folklore to gender dynamics. It delves into identity, beliefs, and customs, revealing how they shape regional identities and the evolving cultural discourse of the region.
This study examines François-Adrien Boieldieu, composer of the masterpiece La Dame blanche. Collaborating with dramatist Eugène Scribe, he stimulated the flowering of the Romantic opéra-comique. Based on Sir Walter Scott, his work influenced composers across Europe, even Wagner.
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