Tumuli and megaliths across Eurasia are rich in mystery. This collection unites 74 authors from 16 countries, offering diverse perspectives. Accessible and illustrated, it’s for anyone in history, archaeology, or heritage, or interested in past cultures and ancient architecture.
Global Financial Frontiers
Dive into international finance with this concise guide. From its historical foundations to the US-China trade war, explore key concepts, emerging trends, and the impact of politics, culture, and climate change. An invaluable resource for students and practitioners.
Sociological, Psychological and Physiological Aspects of Aging
What is successful aging? A physician with five decades of experience confronts the psychological, financial, and ethical realities of later life. This vital guide explores everything from ageism to longevity, defining success as active participation in society.
The Enigma of Amleth
This book examines adaptations of the Amleth legend, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Bhardwaj’s Haider. Using adaptation theory, it sheds new light on their interpretations, transformations, and cultural significance.
As the return on marketing often fails to justify the cost, this book introduces cost-effective strategies to achieve benefits with minimal resources. It explores human, product, and technological perspectives, like AI, to enhance employee performance and customer loyalty.
What does it mean for education to be ‘advanced’? In depth, focus, or application? Honors education has long reflected on what ‘advanced’ higher education might entail. Here, contributors consider the significant interests in the present and future of advanced learning.
Strategies for Student Success in Higher Education
This book brings together leading-edge research and practical insights on the first-year experience in higher education. Written by experts, it integrates multidisciplinary approaches and case studies for professors and administrators to address the needs of first-year students.
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.
Did the Gold Standard era exploit the working class? Did orthodox macroeconomic policies lead to Nazism? Was Ceausescu wrong to repay all external debt?
“A Moral History of Monetary and Fiscal Policies” by Valentin Lazea tackles these provocative questions and many more.
This book explores therapies for treating aggression in people with a psychiatric disorder, but one obstacle appears insurmountable: is psychopathy an untreatable disease? It reviews studies on these interventions before refocusing on the heart of the interpersonal relationship.
This book proposes an innovative approach to contact linguistics and bilingualism. Focusing on the bilingual mind, it examines phenomena like codeswitching and second language acquisition to reveal the universal principles governing how languages in contact influence each other.
A psychiatrist’s experiences in the Vietnam War inspired a lifelong commitment to refugee care. This book chronicles his psychiatric clinic, sharing profound stories of loss and trauma from his patients and revealing their remarkable paths to healing.
Post-Truth
In an era of misinformation, this anthology offers a vital resource. Scholars spanning communication, politics, technology, and more explore the challenges of our post-truth age, providing a cornerstone for dialogue and action in confronting this complex phenomenon.
Computer use creates health risks, from muscular tension and poor diet to mental stress and Zoom fatigue. This book offers practical measures for employees and employers, with recommendations on diet, physical activity, and healthier online meetings.
This book journeys through the hidden dangers of foodborne illness, exploring the science behind contamination. Drawing on real-life case studies, it serves as a practical guide to safeguarding your health and the food you eat every day.
Informed by Indigenous researchers and daily walks, this volume links scientific findings on deep time evolution to embodied interactions with rocks, trees, and weather. It explores ancient Gondwana, the first songbirds, and brings hope to young people facing climate change.
This book offers a bold, innovative approach to literary interpretation: the neurohermeneutics of suspicion. It illuminates the intricate bond between literature and the mind, encouraging readers to adopt a suspicious stance to unearth complex, multilayered meanings.
This book highlights the immense contribution of traditional medicine to the discovery of modern drugs. It inspires experts to explore traditional flora and younger investigators to find novel molecules, making it invaluable to scientists, researchers, and students alike.
Analogies and Models in Science and Theology
This book uses Hesse’s Network Model of Theory to debunk scientism and argue for the indispensability of socio-cultural and theological values in the search for objective knowledge. It shows how both science and theology rely on interpretation, models, and metaphor.
Language and State
This book argues that language shapes human society. By enabling media for mass communication, language allows us to form large societies, nations, and states. These states are then governed through linguistic mechanisms like constitutions, elections, and representation.
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