Encountering Entrepreneurs
This monograph probes the daily life of businessmen in a particularly productive area of Northern Italy, Lombardy. It provides insights into their business and entrepreneurialism, offering a different approach to capitalism and reflections on human nature.
Rites of Spontaneity
Musicians in a pub play traditional Irish tunes. This is a “session”—not just a musical environment, but a complex social interaction. This book explores the session as a cultural phenomenon, tracing its journey from local arenas into the global marketplace.
This book expands universal design beyond physical spaces to focus on teaching and learning practice in higher education. Drawing on international expertise, it offers practical solutions for practitioners keen to enhance their practice and, as a consequence, student outcomes.
Greece Between East and West
This book examines Greece’s pivotal role between East and West, exploring the tension between “westernisation” and the enduring values of its eastern legacy. This is explored through culture, politics, music, historical cities, and more. With a Foreword by Roderick Beaton.
This innovative book combines two very special states of awareness—“mindfulness” and “flow”—into a new and unique state called “mindflow”. The practice of mindflow leads to a stress-free, healthy, fulfilling and effective life in today’s complex and challenging environment.
This volume explores dance’s role in modern Greek society, from ballet to contemporary genres. It uncovers factors affecting its development over the last century and asks why dance has yet to be established as an academic discipline, inspiring future artists to advocate for it.
Terrorism in Literature
This volume explores terrorism in literary works, celebrating literature as a subversive tool for change. With insights from scholars across the world and a foreword by acclaimed writer Tabish Khair on literature as a powerful tool for dissent and truth telling.
The Rise of the GCC States and Turkey
Once strategic partners, the GCC states and Turkey have become rivals for regional influence. Their relations are dynamic, shifting from agreement to conflict. This book studies their commonalities and differences and proposes ideas to make convergence possible again.
Journal evaluation and classification are critical for researchers, engineers, and students in Management Science in Engineering (MSE). This book identifies the main research categories of MSE, and evaluates and classifies each journal in the field.
This volume offers a comprehensive, multilingual approach to the practice of translation and interpretation, shaped by global markets and advanced technologies. It provides a practice-oriented perspective on cross-cultural communication and is an accessible pedagogical resource.
Teaching Business, Technical and Academic Writing Online and Onsite
A must-have handbook for undergraduate and graduate teachers. Drawing on three decades of experience, this guide offers best practices for instructing students in writing proposals, reports, and academic papers, with specific strategies for remote teaching in a post-COVID world.
Blended and Online Teaching in the Humanities
An excellent resource to any humanities faculty or teacher planning the transition to blended or online teaching, using recent research the author offers tested practices for the design and implementation of online courses to greatly enhance the quality of students’ learning.
Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Digital Age
In the Digital Age, suicide rates have soared and depression has become the world’s most debilitating disease. Living in a 24/7 miasma of media bombardment and mental exhaustion, it’s time for a reassessment of mental illness and the possibility of achieving wellness.
Assessing the Language of TV Political Interviews
This book presents a corpus-assisted investigation into the language of British and American TV political interviews. It analyzes interviewers’ and interviewees’ speech to unveil their linguistic strategies and the salient traits distinguishing UK and US styles.
Dementia Caregiving East and West
This book pulls together practical and adaptable communicative approaches to dementia care from global researchers. With contributions from fields like gerontology, linguistics, and nursing, it highlights communication as the most helpful non-pharmacological means of assistance.
The Painting of Stephen Cook
The first critical study of artist Stephen Cook, this monograph situates his work within post-war British figurative art. Featuring over 50 colour plates, most previously unpublished, it reveals an art of rigorous observation that uncovers a reality beyond the everyday.
Timeless Experience
Offering unique insights into a key figure in the development of Gestalt therapy, this volume comprises Laura Perls’s heretofore unpublished writing, including journal entries, letters, poems, translations, short stories, and drafts for lectures and publications.
Development Trends in Management Science and Engineering
This book categorizes the areas of Management Science and Engineering (MSE) research and provides a comprehensive evaluation of each journal. Compiled by leading academics and editors, it is an essential resource for scientists, researchers, practitioners, and students.
The Rise of Protestantism in Modern Korea
This book unpacks the extraordinary rise of Protestant Christianity as South Korea’s largest religion. In just 130 years, it eclipsed ancient traditions like Buddhism and Confucianism. A vital resource for students of religion, history, sociology, and culture.
Interpreting Literary Texts
This book explores how textual interpretation evolved from Classicism to Postmodernism. Using novels by authors like Jane Austen, Patrick White, and Margaret Atwood, it traces the shifts in literary movements and philosophical concepts of truth, reason, and the human mind.
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