The importance of overcoming the urgent issues concerning the sustainability of our planet cannot be overstated. The contributions gathered here highlight these pivotal global issues and their potential long-term resolutions from a number of interrelated perspectives.
The Historical Origin of the African Economic Crisis
This book answers major questions on African development related to international trade and finance. It explores the economic interaction between Africa and the West (in the past) and China today, considering the continent’s future development in light of its experiences.
Literature’s Contributions to Scientific Knowledge
Interdisciplinary scholarship holds the promise of the unification of all knowledge. Through its wide-ranging analysis, this volume demonstrates, ¬in a careful and original manner, how literary fiction has contributed to the scientific understanding of human nature.
Empedocles of Acragas
Empedocles of Acragas is known as a philosopher, healer, excellent orator, miracle-maker, and engineer. Scholars, students and specialists will find in this book an analysis of his revolutionary writings, and confirmation that he was a multi-faceted and important thinker.
The Failure of Augustus
Though he had a proud and clear aim, in the end, Augustus was defeated by his own persistence. Using contemporaneous sources and Augustus’ own words, Judge’s study explores this downfall. It also argues for the primacy of original sources in historical interpretation.
This text evaluates the promises, myths, and critiques of sustainable consumption from a wide range of perspectives, covering individual consumptive choices and the carbon footprint of cities, as well as resource sharing and environmental entrepreneurism.
Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century
This book will revolutionise the history of Indigenous involvement in Australian football and cricket in the second half of the nineteenth century. Exploring the emergence and the suppression of their sporting talent, it shows how their successors did not come from ‘nowhere’.
Popular Music, Ethnicity and Politics in the Kenya of the 1990s
Okatch Biggy was the single most dominant benga artiste of the 1990s. Mboya analyzes Biggy’s songs as works of art, identifying the aesthetic and rhetorical conventions that are deployed in the songs, and exploring the central messages of the music, and their significance.
Currencies and Cultures
A symbiotic relationship exists between a currency and its culture and society. Currencies and Cultures offers insights into how cultural institutions can strengthen citizens’ values and beliefs and enhance the process of trade and exchange for the betterment of their people.
This publication explores phenomenological structural sociology, specifically the use of phenomenological structuralism in an effort to resolve the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences within structurationist sociological theory.
This book introduces Arabic heritage from the post-Abbasid era to the nineteenth century, a period often labelled one of decadence. Exploring topics from Arab history and science to literature and political movements, it is a valuable resource for students and researchers.
Mapping Leopardi
Explore the private laboratory of Giacomo Leopardi, Italy’s great poet and materialist thinker. This collection of essays investigates his Zibaldone, revealing early reflections against anthropocentrism and questioning humanity’s purpose in the world.
A Scholiast’s Quill
The Latin American poet, essayist, and literary theorist Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959) wrote about every important topic and intellectual current that defined his beleaguered times. The original readings of his work contained here reassess his legacy from a 21st century perspective.
It is vital that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) captures more value from its industries’ global value chains. This study offers a basis upon which governments and regional organizations may adopt beneficial and effective international trade policies to achieve such an aim.
Obumselu on African Literature
Ben Obumselu’s (1930 – 2017) highly celebrated work on African literature is here brought together in a single volume for the first time. The originality of his insights, his analytic rigour, and the power and grace of his expression render this compendium compelling.
Colin Wilson (1931-2013) was a celebrated English philosopher and polymath. The papers here explore a variety of Wilson-related topics, ranging from Existentialism to the Occult; from Robert Musil to classical music; and from Transpersonal Psychology to Transcendental Evolution.
There are some figures in modern history who stand out not just for their amoral conduct but their cruelty. Sangster explores the life of the notorious Beria, Stalin’s henchman, offering historical context, biographical detail and philosophical analysis in the process.
The term “Intermarium” has a long historical tradition and was commonly used to define the area between the Baltic and Black Seas. Its connotations, historical usage, aspects, and its potential, are discussed here from geopolitical, economic and cultural perspectives.
Many female Victorian-era heroines find themselves expressing a form of loneliness directly connected to their lack of agency in the social structures that define their lives. This publication investigates how this theme appears across a number of nineteenth-century novels.
Demons on the Couch
Belief in possession has ancient roots. This book traces its global history and explores how mental health professionals can help a person who believes they are possessed. Featuring interviews with exorcists, this is a fascinating study for believers and sceptics alike.
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