Voices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Their stories will strike home...
In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century.
Have you ever thought Brazil was a country afraid of becoming more international? Written by a Brazilian expert in foreign affairs, this book describes Brazilian position in the international sc...
A vicious spiral of political polarisation, failing government, loss of public faith, and conspiracy-mongers undermining US elections, are pushing the country toward...
The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting...
In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, Judith Curry shows how we can break the gridlock surrounding the climate debate. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are...
Learning to Fly: How to Manage Your Career in a Turbulent and Changing World offers a practical framework with which to chart one's own path towards the future. The book will give clari...
This book examines Australian parental leave provisions and compares them with their counterpart provisions in Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. Following comparison...
This book is a concise, comprehensive resource for readers facing the prospects of their own aging and of caring for elderly relatives?an often overwhelming task for which life rarely prepares u...
Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid reveals that thinkers have pondered the nature of common sense and its relationship to science and scientific thinking for a very long time. It demon...
'Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them?' takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studi...
"Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance" examines expert committees established to provide science advice to multilateral environmental agreements. By focusing on how these instituti...
This book focuses on Yellowstone: the park, the larger ecosystem, and even more so, the "idea" of Yellowstone. In presenting a case for a new conservation paradigm for the Greater Yellowstone Ec...
Peter Hacker's Insight and Illusion is a thoroughly comprehensive examination of the evolution of Wittgenstein's thought from the Tractatus to his later 'mature' phase. This is...
After a long and hard day at work, which had taken him to Larnaca, Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading lawyer recently appointed to the Cypriot government's Advisory Council, arrived at his Nico...
This book is unique in its dedicated tackling of the subject of death in the work of Jean Baudrillard. Through new readings of his work, juxtaposed with philosophical (Schopenhauer, Kant) and ar...
"Textuality, Culture and Scripture," a study of the necessary and close relations between the three concepts, puts forward three main arguments. The first is that Western modernity retained the ...
During the last 150 years, we have stressed the oceans, warmed the planet and overextended almost every natural resource. To create real change will require a generation of leaders and businesse...
"The Transformation of 'Capacity' in International Development" examines the transformation of capacity as a concept within the global development agenda through an analysis of USAID projects an...
For the 2019 IVR World Congress of Philosophy of Law meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, Drs. Barry W. Bussey and Angus Menuge organized a special workshop on the inherence of human dignity, featur...