Lemus explores resistance to the change from US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). He argues IFRS should act as a singular accounting language, promoting a better economic position in the world financial market.
Engaged Learners and Digital Citizens
Garner encourages teaching faculty to adopt a proactive stance to technology through engaging digital tools that promote skill acquisition. He delineates a model for digital learning, providing examples of digital tools and their possible applications for teaching and learning.
Play allows the fulfilment of dreams, yet also teaches subjugation to social norms. Traditional play preserves culture across generations, while contemporary forms integrate communities. Play invalidates social divisions and imparts meaning to our reality.
Keyboard Warriors
Geddes explores the kind of Islamophobic identity that is produced by supporters of the far-right English Defence League within networking sites, and discusses on how this identity is constructed around insecurities that are central to the lives of this population.
Envisioning Sustainabilities
The essays within consider the relationship between the social sciences and sustainability studies. They present a range of commentaries to interrogate the evolution of ‘sustainability imaginaries’, arguing for the value of the social sciences in considering sustainability.
Studies by young researchers explore art’s response to social decline, transformation, and rebirth. The book entails diverse perceptions of art and society, from antiquity to modernity, architecture to moving pictures, and the USA to Yugoslavia.
The Neo Abu Sayyaf
East follows the rise of criminality in the greater Mindanao region regarding the participation of major players in the suppression of the Moros—indigenous Muslims. He contemplates, among other things, why a murderous group such as the Abu Sayyaf has so much local support.
Stories of Peace Volume II
The chapters within this collection highlight the importance of creating and sustaining peace, proposing that peace can be created and sustained through people’s actions. They present stories to inspire the reader to work for peace.
The papers in this collection consider how nation building is a multi-dimensional process, addressing various components, including perspectives of the country in question. It deals with these inter-linked aspects, and the development of these structures and institutions.
On Time
Originally presented at a colloquium, the papers in this publication deal with a number of key presentations of time in the history of philosophy. They attend to the problems and questions of temporality as they appear in works of the Western philosophical tradition.
Indian Ocean Futures
Rapid change in the Indian Ocean demands a revaluation of how communities, sustainability and security are constituted. This book examines the heritage, sustainability and security of the region to engage with the complex relations shaping its future.
Languaging Diversity Volume 2
This collection explores the relationship between language and identity from various perspectives. The chapters deal with such issues as professional, cultural, ethnic and social identities and national stereotypes in language practice and discourse.
Looking Back at the Jazz Age
Resulting from the Jazz Age’s prominence in recent popular culture, this title not only deepens the reader’s knowledge of this iconic period, but also provides a better understanding of its persistent presence “in our time.”
The History of U.S. Information Control in Post-War Germany
Warkentin summarises the activities and methods of the American military’s Information Control Division. He also offers his perspective on how the US occupation of Germany in 1945 utilised psychologists, sociologists and others to vet candidates for media licenses in Germany.
We Need to Talk about Family
As the dream of upward mobility dissipates, the family ‘haven’ is unravelling. This collection explores the hypercompetitive neoliberal family, which seeks to maximize its children’s futures amid the anxiety of being left behind.
Oancea analyses sociolinguistic features of adolescent speech that occur in natural, spontaneous, everyday speech, suggesting that variation is a characteristic of natural language, and that fully understanding language requires grasping the nature and function of variation.
Personal and National Destinies in Independent India
This is a study of fiction that re-writes the grand Indian narrative from a subaltern point of view. It pays tribute to the heroism of ordinary Indians, analyzing how distinguished novelists advocate for an inclusive, humane India, attempting to keep the soul of the nation alive.
The papers in this collection deal with the quest for real and virtual realities of vision and other senses, and realities that are either constructed or imagined. They investigate semiotics, a discipline dealing with signs, focusing on the question of whether it actually exists.
Lovasz deals primarily with absentology, an ontological and social-scientific epistemological mode, dedicated to the analysis of absence. His monograph is drawn by manifestations of absence and deals with three terms, ‘the shadow economy’, ‘corruption’ and ‘pollution’.
This collection leans on the fact that, even in the Cold War era, television could become a cross-border matter. It combines transnational perspectives on convergence zones, observations, collaborations, circulations and interdependencies between Eastern and Western television.
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