Modern Messages from Green Gables on Loving, Living and Learning
Many know Anne of Green Gables, but few know its author, L.M. Montgomery—a feminist far ahead of her time. In this book, a revivified Anne and her husband Gilbert explore their creator’s life, revealing how her challenges and triumphs offer messages for our own lives today.
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.
Process-Philosophical Perspectives on Biology
Traditional reductionistic metaphysics fails to explain the complexity of life. This book explores process metaphysics to advance our understanding of biological concepts, ascribing subjective interiority and intrinsic value to all living beings, from microbes to animals.
As focus shifts from trade liberalization to simplifying procedures, this book discusses WTO provisions on trade facilitation. It covers the existing Goods Agreement, its relevance for developing countries, and the prospects for future agreements on services and investment.
Bodies, gender, and decolonial horizons are a new political front for justice. Uniting decolonial theory and trans* studies, this book asks what kind of politics can truly attack the hyper-flexible controls of the neoliberal current.
Intercultural Dialogue
This book offers a philosophical analysis of intercultural dialogue as an alternative to “culture wars.” Drawing on diverse philosophical traditions, it argues that solutions to world problems require a dialogical transformation of society for a cosmopolitan order of peace.
J.B. Murray and the Scripts and Spirit Forms of Africa
This book connects a Georgia sharecropper to a healer in Senegal, changing how we appreciate American folk arts. It traces both art and Islam through the African Diaspora, revealing why folk artists are vital carriers of knowledge and offering an insightful look at folk culture.
Extraterrestrials in the Catholic Imagination
Scientists, theologians, and sci-fi authors join forces to ask: what does alien life mean for Catholicism? Their answer is a radical welcome for extraterrestrials as fellow creatures of God, not a crisis of faith.
Cultural Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean
The history of the Mediterranean is rich with migration, colonisation, and trade. This collection highlights underrepresented cultural exchanges, with Cyprus as a central crossroads, linking the study of everyday life to macro-scale narratives based on trans-regional engagement.
The Age of Emperor Akihito
This book scrutinizes historical controversies regarding the past and future of Japan in the age of Emperor Akihito. Analyzing his public discourse and his role as a national symbol, it helps the reader understand contemporary Japanese society.
Developing Third-Generation Learning Organizations
To build the agile, knowledge-creating organization of the future, leaders must first undergo their own transformation. This book offers the theory and methodology needed to guide this process, outlining how developing people leads to enhanced profitability.
The form of money is changing. Are new digital currencies safe? Should the central bank issue its own? This nontechnical book answers these questions, exploring everything from blockchain and Bitcoin to the life-changing, phone-based money already used by millions.
To understand the concept of “the end of art”, this book analyses the intellectual trajectory of Arthur Danto. It connects his philosophy of art with his whole philosophical system, covering his achievements in philosophy of action, history, and art.
Revisiting Centres and Peripheries in Iberian Studies
This volume gathers fresh research from international scholars investigating the multiple tensions between the centre and periphery of the Iberian cultural system. Topics range from the situation in Catalonia to transoceanic postcolonial relations, history, memory, and fiction.
Classroom language tests are an everyday feature of teaching, yet they remain under-studied. This volume illuminates this area by featuring teachers’ own tests and commentary, identifying the expert reasoning behind them. An accessible resource for teachers.
Sam Coverly’s Journal with Historical Notes
Sam Coverly was an entrepreneur and adventurous traveler. His journal and correspondence provide eyewitness accounts of life in a rapidly expanding country at the threshold of industrialization and a transportation revolution, as he saw the nation’s landmass double.
The vision for global agriculture now extends beyond hunger to food security, climate change, and economic opportunity. This book examines past revolutions to forge a crucial roadmap for historians, policymakers, and leaders of tomorrow.
In provocative essays, scholars from Asia explore the dynamic relationship between animation and philosophy. Using thinkers like Deleuze and Guattari, they see animation not as a representation of an idea, but as a philosophical thinking-device in itself.
Teaching the Shoah
This collection of essays and creative pieces showcases new ways to teach the Nazi genocide. Featuring academic contributions, a play, and a short story, it addresses the overarching question: how can and should the Shoah be taught to share its most important lessons?
Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations
This collection provides a theoretical and methodological platform for studying social encounters in archaeology. A social encounter focuses on the confusion, tension, and social change that emerge when people and things interact, with often unpredictable effects.
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