The Internationalization of High-Tech Firms
This book presents updated knowledge on the internationalization patterns of high-tech firms, with particular insights into their innovations and research and development. It highlights the internationalization path of firms operating in high-tech sectors.
This book proposes a new explanation for early modern philosophy. It suggests the concept of relation, grounded in causal influence, can illuminate developments concerning causality, sense perception, and substance, showing it is closer to Aristotle than supposed.
This book investigates what songwriters read before they start singing. It explores the complex intertextual connections between popular songs and literary works, showing how lyrics adapt material from sources like poems, novels, plays, films, the Bible, and Shakespeare.
Rzyman focuses on how to deal with Terry Pratchett’s Discworld intertexts: how to track them down, analyse their role, predict translation obstacles, and suggest translation solutions. He also considers the translation of intertextual fragments in the Polish version, Świat Dysku.
The Intertwining of Culture and Music
Salamone examines various kinds of love and the way music reflects them. His text is about romantic love, ethnic pride and love, love and the media, and various other loves we have, especially love for popular culture.
What does it mean to “come home”? Spiritual teachers share their intimate and startling stories of consciousness exploration. Through their psycho-spiritual challenges, readers will gain insights for their own journey, realizing there are many paths to being wholly oneself.
The Introduction of Coronary Care Units (1960-1985)
Did Coronary Care Units (CCUs) substantially lower deaths from myocardial infarction? Was the research justifying the enormous investment scientifically sound? This book explores these questions, considering medics like CCU-defender Bernard Lown and critic Ivan Illich.
The Invention of Illusions
International scholars examine Paul Auster’s recent work, viewing him as an inventor of illusions. Not as deceitful gimmickry, but as an imaginative testing of possibilities and the establishment of real bonds between people through storytelling.
To challenge Europe’s dominant aesthetics, 18th-century Britain forged a new ‘Northern’ identity. This book explores the roots of British Romanticism in a celebrated past of Celtic heroes, King Arthur, and the fantasy world of myth.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is an ambitious global infrastructure program. Using a unique project database, this book provides a complete picture of the BRI’s benefits, risks, and implications, exploring its debt problems and future redesign.
History books frequently refer to similarities between the Italian region of Piedmont and the United Kingdom, but neglect the people who contribute to it. Though providing a brief history of this relationship, this work instead focuses on examining it on an individual level.
The Ionian Islands
The Ionian Islands: an East-West crossroads ruled by Venice and Britain. This book explores their rich history, archaeology, and culture, from Homer’s Bronze Age to today, with a special focus on the British Protectorate (1815-1864).
The Irish Celebrating
This collection of essays explores the dual aspects of celebrating in Ireland—‘the festive’ and ‘the tragic’. Insightful essays examine how feasts, literature, and commemorations have shaped Ireland’s past, present, and national identity.
This book explores Muslim cemeteries in Dagestan during the Qajar century. Through multilingual tombstone inscriptions, it reveals the influence of Iran, historical migrations, and Shiite theology following the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in Karbala.
The Islamic Interfaith Initiative
The rediscovery of the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad launched an interfaith movement against extremism. This chronicle of the Covenants Initiative details its impact, from challenging ISIS to influencing the 2018 acquittal of Asia Bibi by Pakistan’s Supreme Court.
This ground-breaking volume shows how leading Islamists use Islamic legal theory to create a liberal theory compatible with secularism. This rests not on a break with heritage, but on rediscovering it by shifting focus from what God said to what He intended.
This book illuminates the Islamic World journal’s propaganda from 1893 to 1907. It highlights the journal’s utility in defending Sultan Abdul Hamid II’s policies and sheds light on the political views of the first Grand Sheikh of the British Isles, Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam.
The Isle of Man TT Races
This book uses the Isle of Man TT Races to examine the deep links between sport and society. It charts the event’s history and its role in shaping Manx politics, economy, and identity. Where else can a racer take in so much history at 200 mph?
The Israeli Defence Forces’ Representation in Israeli Cinema
This title looks at whether Israeli art and film now place a focus on soldiers not as fighters, but as victims, and discusses the relationship between King David as an adult and the State of Israel half a century after its establishment.
The Israeli Druze Community in Transition
Through in-depth interviews with two generations of Israeli Druze, this unique book gives voice to a traditional people bound by a secret religion. How are they dealing with modernization? Can their very identity survive the meeting with the technological world?
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