Explore contemporary law’s pivotal shifts and pressing challenges. Delve into landmark cases, human rights, environmental law, and the transformative impact of technology on jurisprudence. A compass for navigating our modern legal discourse, this is an indispensable resource.
Humour and Identity in Jewish American Fiction
This book explores the connection between humour and identity in contemporary Jewish American literature. It is a serious investigation into the strategic use of humour in identity formation, revealing the serious undertones in works that may first appear merely humorous.
Bashir Ahmad rescued Indo-Persian miniature painting from the cusp of extinction. This book details his apprenticeship with its last masters, his modernization of the art, and its evolution through his students, including Shahzia Sikander. With color illustrations.
Conservation of the Red Panda in the Eastern Himalayas
Explore the evolutionary history and conservation of red pandas in the Indian Himalayas. This book combines storytelling with scientific rigor to uncover the genetic saga of the red panda, their ever-changing world, and the urgency of conservation efforts.
This book explores the foundations of Islamic investment, covering various products, their market application, and regulation. Its theoretical and practical approach offers a balanced overview of Islamic financial markets, their ethics, and their Shari’ah foundations.
Nawãr (Savages)
The Syrian revolution was the most complicated of the Arab Spring. This book examines the intellectual and behavioral changes Syrian society experienced under the Assad totalitarian regime and how they reshaped society, influencing the revolution and its outcome.
Classical Phenomenology Applied to Gender Identity
Uncover the gendered human being through Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger. This book offers intellectual tools to grasp our existential reality and details the fierce intellectual clash between former colleagues Husserl and Heidegger.
This book focuses on the transformation of Turkish modernisation and democratisation. Contributors examine the dynamics behind the decline of democratic standards, the effects of the EU membership process, and the projection of domestic political struggles.
Rural Ireland in the Early Twentieth Century
This volume fills many gaps in Irish rural history, marking the ‘decade of commemorations’. It assesses the political aspirations of rural communities, changes in agricultural education, and the social and cultural positioning of Ireland pre and post revolution.
Drawing from experience and analysis of TED talks, Ran Fan presents a groundbreaking approach to turning presentations into career-launching showcases. This guide offers educators practical strategies to foster confident speakers ready to captivate any audience.
War-Khasi and War-Jaiñtia
This book explores the syntactic structures of Khasi through a comparative analysis of its War-Khasi and War-Jaiñtia varieties. It uncovers unique grammatical features, offering insights for linguists and anyone interested in the cultural diversity of Northeast India.
This book gives insight into critical issues and emerging perspectives in broadcasting. It offers in-depth analyses and solutions for broadcasting in Nigeria, especially in this era of digital dominance.
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.
This book exposes the hidden history of Central-Eastern Europe: a tiny minority dominating a vast majority through a culture of intolerance. It dismantles long-held myths, presenting a truth now irrefutably confirmed by modern genetic science.
Investing with Art
Beyond a financial asset, art is a source of immediate felicity. This book explores the ‘aesthetic yield’—the emotional pleasure of art—alongside its financial economics, from the challenges of forgery with AI to the difficulties of identifying returns and the world of NFTs.
The Ottoman World and the Western Economy
While the West developed a capitalist system that prioritized consumption, the Ottomans focused on balance and sustainability. This book compares the altruistic human with the self-interested homoeconomicus, and proposes a new understanding of ethics, economy, and civilization.
This book studies how hidden and malicious intent in business decisions led to collapses like the 2008 Great Recession. It proposes a conceptual AI-augmented model, based on a cancer analogy, to detect and correct these destructive decisions before they harm the economy.
This volume examines past and contemporary Maghrebean texts to explore what it means to be Maghrebean. Scholars focus on the importance of poetics in (re)making roots and (re)tracing routes, mapping the history, art, and literature of the Maghreb region.
The Progress of Philosophy
This book offers selections from seven philosophers, with commentary connecting their ideas to their social and scientific milieu—Plato to geometry, Hobbes to the English civil war, Peirce to Darwin. See how they organized their beliefs into a coherent picture of the world.
This survey of mediaeval texts tracks the power of the premodern mind, from Boethius to Chaucer and Dante. Exploring scorching lyric poetry, the darkness of Beowulf, and the travels of Marco Polo, it reveals the crucial role of mediaeval thought in making us who we are today.
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