This volume revisits the concepts of reality and realism with regard to their relation to religion and the religious real, presenting ten essays that offer methodologically diverse and intellectually challenging analyses.
Constructing Legal Discourses and Social Practices
This title looks descriptively and interpretatively at the various existing forms of legal discourse and how these are framed and organised by social practices within distinctive sites of legal communication.
Edmund Burke, the Imperatives of Empire and the American Revolution
Edmund Burke advocated for America’s rights yet fiercely criticized the French Revolution. This volume presents his writings on the American Crisis, exploring the core paradox: Was this defender of colonial liberty a friend or a foe of revolution?
International Conference on Political Economy of Water
Access to water is a fundamental human right affecting quality of life and dignity. The social work profession must address the challenges of water scarcity. This book examines the issue and develops viable social work intervention strategies based on successful models.
Measuring the Evolution Controversy
Why do so many people reject evolution? The authors postulate the “incompatibility hypothesis”: a fundamental conflict between scientific rationalism and supernatural belief. They test this by examining how education and religiosity impact evolution’s acceptance.
Managing Globalization
This essential reference provides scientific evidence and direction to businesses competing in the contemporary environment. It presents research on globalization, strategic management, and innovation that transcends classical theory for practical implementation.
The Dan Brown Craze
Zhang and Zhu investigate why the work of Dan Brown has attained such global appeal, from a Chinese perspective, and provide a detailed exploration of his plots, characterisation, themes, and techniques.
The Social Economy
The Internet of Things creates immense challenges in digital systems. This book tackles the exponential complexity of Boolean problems, presenting powerful new solutions using GPUs, exploring security applications, and discussing the scientific basis of future quantum computers.
The Representations of Elderly People in the Scenes of Jesus’ Childhood in Tuscan Paintings, 14th-16th Centuries
Adopting an innovative approach, this book leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. It reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in Tuscany.
Establishing a Culture of Intercultural Education
This edited volume brings together experienced educators and researchers who focus on problematic aspects of intercultural education, as well as crucial issues related to different regional contexts.
Restoring the Balance
Morrow presents a penetrating reflection upon the reality of Islam in the modern world, addressing a myriad of pressing issues that impact Muslims in the East, West, North, and South, topics that are both difficult and troubling.
Our Sacred Dimension
This monograph represents an important contribution to the anthropological, philosophical and psychological consideration of mankind in our era, exploring the role of the Sacred in our lives today.
Competition Policy and Resource Utilization
This book examines how competition law can promote efficient resource allocation in resource-dependent developing economies. It offers insights into problems like the ‘resource curse,’ corruption, and abusive business practices, and their implications for competition.
The Importance of Place
How do we value historic urban landscape in order to intervene within it as designers? This is the central question of this volume, and is tackled by its 16 essays investigating different facets of value as bases of building and design practices on a range of spatial scales.
Julian Among the Books
This book explores the European background of Julian of Norwich’s manuscripts, arguing for ‘Holy Conversations’ where readers participate in her visions. It discusses her Benedictine context, links to other mystics, and preservation by exiled nuns who treasured her text.
In a time of stagnating markets, resolving economic crises requires new solutions. This volume shows how stability is related to clustering, exploring the formation of modern economic clusters, their advantages and negative aspects, and the contradictions of the phenomenon.
Doris Lessing
Majoul investigates various facets of Doris Lessing’s writing, viewing her as a historiographer and a transnational mediator between the East and the West. She also establishes an analogy between Lessing’s texts and various other works, including Salman Rushdie’s Shame.
Kermer links Cognitive Grammar explanations to the area of second-language learning, providing both theoretical and practical perspectives on the process of teaching and learning about English language structures.
The Age of Asian Migration
These publications revisit different forms and histories of migration in Asia and the varied diasporas formed by Asian migrants, and provide both updated data on Asian migration and suggest new ways of looking at global migration overall.
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