These essays explore “identity and dialogue” from perspectives like art, politics, and gender. Within diverse cultural contexts, they question the relational element at work in identity formation, disclosing how it is conditioned by self and otherness.
Ecology’s role is increasingly vital in our dynamic world. This book explores critical environmental topics from climate change and water scarcity to mountain ecosystems, proving fruitful for students and researchers from diverse disciplines.
Tawhidi Epistemology and its Applications
This book presents the best papers from the first Management Theory Conference. Featuring the world’s top researchers, it showcases the latest theoretical developments, an award-winning paper, and a fascinating debate on the future of management theory.
Effectiveness of School Leadership and Management Development in Cameroon
A groundbreaking look at school leadership development. The first of its kind, this book blends practical theory with robust frameworks and actionable recommendations, making it an essential guide for academics and practitioners.
The European Culture for Human Rights
This pioneering analysis frames happiness as a human right, linking our quality of life to collective responsibility. It offers a pragmatic vision for improving our inner and outer worlds in a complex, modern society.
Youth are the last to be hired in an expansion and the first to be let go in a recession. Ensuring today’s youth do not become a “lost generation” is an urgent matter. This book deals with these challenges, to make sure that youth is not wasted on the young.
Challenges to Urban Democratic Governance in Zimbabwe
This book investigates urban democratic governance in Zimbabwe, focusing on the Minister’s power to appoint special interest councillors. It finds a high level of partisanship in appointments, which often rewards those who lost elections but belong to the Minister’s party.
Game-Based Learning
This book is an invitation to delve into Game-Based Learning, an effective tool to teach and train in the 21st century. These chapters illustrate the advancements, challenges, and opportunities in the field, with practical guidelines and suggestions.
Weaving Words
Weaving Words questions the impact of 21st-century education on creativity in writing. Combining critical perspectives with creative works, it demonstrates the power of writing to disrupt and transform personal and professional understandings.
Reading the Fantastic Imagination
This volume investigates the fantastic imagination and its hybrid nature as a postmodern form. Continuing a project on popular genres, this collection of studies confronts the paradox of trendy ‘lowbrow’ fiction being studied by canonical scholars.
This book invites the reader on a fascinating journey across three centuries of Europe, using death as a guide. Authors from varying backgrounds—historians, sociologists, doctors, and more—explore the complex phenomena of death and dying across the continent.
This work traces how Oxford and Cambridge colleges, founded for celibate men, clung to a monastic way of life into the nineteenth century. It explores the struggle of courageous individuals who finally overturned the statutes in 1882, allowing Fellows to marry.
Great Power Politics in Cyprus
This volume approaches foreign interventions in Cyprus from two angles: a case-by-case historical analysis and the implementation of systemic models. It also deals with domestic perceptions and their impact on the politics and public rhetoric of the Cyprus problem.
The Empty Too
This controversial study argues that for Beckett, pure language is reality. While the world we perceive cannot be proved to exist, language survives to become the real. Beckett’s art is his philosophy, a thinking that surpasses the major philosophers.
In times of great change, this collection of articles examines the need to redefine values. Authors approach the challenge of reconstructing histories, moralities, and social relationships from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
The New Criticism
This volume traces the history and theories of the New Criticism school. It assesses the New Critics’ lasting influence, examining how their work has been contextualized, criticized, and valorized by subsequent theorists and educators.
From an Existential Vacuum to a Tragic Optimism
This book uses Victor Frankl’s logotherapy to analyze the search for meaning in modern literature. It explores our age’s “existential vacuum”—a sense of meaninglessness—and discovers a “tragic optimism” and a longing for God in poetry, novels, and fantasy.
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