This book challenges the foundations of US and UK trademark systems, arguing for the “co-authorship” of trademarks by the public and owners. It shows how current laws threaten freedom of expression and proposes a new model to foster a just culture.
Corporate criminal liability is laced with contradictions. This book shows how these may be avoided with an adequate mechanism of imputation, proposing how to aggregate the acts and intents of agents to hold corporations liable for their crimes.
This book shows that after a brief increase, Pakistan’s Total Factor Productivity declined continuously. Nationalization and IMF borrowing led to deindustrialization, a massive increase in poverty never witnessed before, and accentuating imbalances in income and wealth.
This collection studies the landscapes of traditional institutions that exist in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya, India. It blends oral tradition with historical records and secondary literature sources, examining the power and function interplay between authorities.
This monograph draws on structural issues underlying the on-going dispute between China and Japan concerning the Diaoyu/Diaoyutai Islands, along with the concomitant, multifaceted challenges that need to be investigated, in order to provide insights into Sino-Japanese relations.
Revolutionary Essays on Life, Earth, and Politics
Science is our only guide to the Crisis of the Anthropocene. This wakeup call explores climate change, biodiversity collapse, and the political failures behind them. Data shows the US is not an advanced democracy, and threats like Trumpism put freedom itself at stake.
This study explores the work of feminist authors who responded to the Italian Risorgimento (1799-1861). Through novels, poetry, and political analyses, women from Mary Shelley to Cristina Belgiojoso championed democracy, civic justice, and gender equality.
Revolutionary Leaves
Hailed as the most exciting author in contemporary American literature, Mark Z. Danielewski’s fiction is explored in Revolutionary Leaves. This collection of essays discusses his major works, House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, from a variety of perspectives.
This volume on the evolving nature of peacebuilding addresses timely questions: How are methods selected? Is violence acceptable? Contributions evaluate the effectiveness of historical and current peacebuilding efforts, offering cutting edge work in peace and conflict studies.
Revolutions
This work makes new contributions not only to the study of particular revolutions, but to developing a philosophy of revolution itself. Inspired by Eric Voegelin and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, the tension between their philosophies adds to its unique richness.
Revolving Around India(s)
This book offers a transnational and gender perspective on contemporary India, exploring tradition, diaspora, and political activism. It analyses cultural texts to reveal discourses of equality, fear, and racism, stimulating studies on India’s future.
Rewiring Human Spirituality
This book introduces pneumaplasticity: a way to rewire human spirituality. By identifying and transforming fear, we can move beyond rigid beliefs and use that energy for spiritual growth, embracing our full potential and affirming our common humanity.
Why are contemporary playwrights obsessed with rewriting Shakespeare? Across the world, new writers have questioned the political and cultural stakes of repeating his classics. This collection asks: do modern rewritings supplant Shakespeare, or does his survival depend on them?
Rewriting Wrongs
The palimpsest, a reused artifact bearing traces of its past, is a fertile metaphor for crime fiction. This collection of essays explores its various manifestations in French crime fiction, where detective discovery often involves rewriting criminal or historical events.
Rewriting/Reprising
These essays explore the poetics of rewriting—from homage to dissidence—revealing how second-degree literature and art can challenge and remake our cultural heritage.
Rewriting/Reprising in Literature
This book offers a fresh outlook on rewriting-reprising. Taking a text’s origin as untraceable, it reconsiders trauma in relation to creative repetition. The act of reprising is a creation ex nihilo: the repetitive stitching of what is constantly ripped up.
While ancient objects from Northern Europe are usually seen as historical documents, many should be regarded as works of fine art. This book encourages readers to appreciate Bronze Age and early Medieval artefacts as they do works by well-known contemporary artists.
Rhetoric and Politics
This volume offers systematic, theoretically grounded insights into the flow of persuasion that constitutes politics today. Combining various disciplines, the case studies provide an empirically rich account of politics as a persuasive achievement.
Rhetoric in 2Maccabees
2Maccabees describes the threat of Hellenisation, yet its authors ironically used Greek rhetoric to combat Greek influence. This book presents the latest post-2012 findings from nine prominent scholars, offering essential theological insights for serious Biblical scholars.
The history of rhetoric has continued to exist in a binary of West and Rest, silencing many voices within the West itself. This book expands the conversation by examining the traditions that lost the cultural competition and have been shrouded in shadow.
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