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The Bottom Worker in East Asia: Composition and Transformation under Neoliberal Globalization proposes a concept of bottom workers for examining contemporary workers in East Asia suffering from downward pressure under neoliberal globalization, and analyzing their labor, residence, lifeworld, and intersection.

Journalism a 'Peacekeeping Agent' at the Time of Conflict offers a critical analysis media's role on peace-making and conflict-resolution.

"With temperature exhibiting a growing trend and posing threats to future generations, the Paris Agreement set a cap level of no more than 2ÀC for the temperature increase, emphasizing the need for cross-national participation to combat climate change. At the European level, the European Commission pledged to make Europe achieve carbon neutrality by mid-century. However, to deliver on its commitment, extensive financial support and engagement from both private and public-sector players were acknowledged as requisites. Therefore, through their funding mechanism, banks assumed a leading role in financing the transition to a green economy. However, a new challenge of systemic nature - i.e. ESG risks - emerged, gaining regulatory attention and subsequently triggering numerous regulatory reforms. Therefore, this study explores the current European regulatory environment addressing sustainability, aiming to identify whether such regulatory frameworks can be considered a strategic opportunity, or contrastingly, a strategic burden for credit institutions"--

With the looming water scarcity on earth, what better challenge than word and image studies to provide new understanding to this fluid element, and to address its philosophical, mythographic, semiotic, artistic stakes? Avec la pénurie d'eau qui menace la planète, quel meilleur défi que les études texte et image pour apporter une nouvelle compréhension à cet élément fluide, et aborder ses enjeux philosophiques, mythographiques, sémiotiques et artistiques ?

This is the first book to explore the role of quotation in modern Jewish thought. It shows how quotation is the binding tissue that links language and thought, modernity and tradition, religion and secularism as a way of being in the world.

This book provides a rediscovery of one of the most influential philosophical and religious works of Late Antiquity.

Stranger Cities explores the nature of Australia's distinctive urban civilization with its portal ontology, axial metaphysics, ambidextrous style of thinking, architectonic spirit, and happy phlegmatic outlook. This classic ethos is offset by various choleric and melancholic strands of Australian romanticism.

This collective study focuses on a unique undated anonymous primary source on ornamental geometry featuring geometrical constructions and textual instructions in Persian. The chapters interpreting this fascinating medieval source are followed by a facsimile, transcription, English translation, and supplementary drawings.

The Future of Teacher Education: Innovations across Pedagogies, Technologies and Societies explores future trends in primary, secondary, and post-secondary teacher education. It considers teacher educators, pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, scholars and policy-makers as innovators in the field of teacher education.

The Future of Teacher Education: Innovations across Pedagogies, Technologies and Societies explores future trends in primary, secondary, and post-secondary teacher education. It considers teacher educators, pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, scholars and policy-makers as innovators in the field of teacher education.

The Ends of Utopian Thinking in Critical Theory is the first book devoted to utopia as a subject matter of politics. Dedicated to a better future, the book delineates how utopian thinking became defeated and explains why it needs to be salvaged.

The monograph is a new and comprehensive reference resource tracing the centuries-long evolution of Latin philosophical vocabulary from the translation of Greek. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, it examines formative Latin authors who created not only a new philosophical language, but entirely new ways of thinking.

How did modernism rethink the relation between the human and the non-human? The present volume tackles this question from an innovative transnational perspective, focusing on canonical authors as well as lesser-studied modernists from a broad range of geographical contexts.

Nature is a key theme of philosophical concerns today. This book examines Merleau-Ponty's investigations on nature and provides a timely guide to his remarkable approach to scientific advances and their implications for our understanding of nature.

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the history of one of the most fascinating forms of communication between gods and humans in Chinese culture: spirit-writing. It showcases the many ways in which this practice shaped Chinese religion, literature and society during the last millennium.

Protestant Periodicals in Transition: From the Twentieth Century to the Digital Age demarcates the field of religious periodical studies through case studies exploring the role of Protestant magazines regarding community, mission and politics, and innovation, from print to digital.

Arguments are proffered in defence of an African philosophy of higher education which is constituted by intellectual activism. Contributors to this volume offer responses to why human freedom, cosmopolitanism, and caring with others (ubuntu) can be rhythmically enacted commensurate with claims of intellectual activism.

This book provides a new approach to lexical borrowing by combining a socio-linguistic and a cognitive perspective to account for loanword processes and their linguistic effects, using the impact of French, Spanish, German and Yiddish on English as case studies.

Arguments are proffered in defence of an African philosophy of higher education which is constituted by intellectual activism. Contributors to this volume offer responses to why human freedom, cosmopolitanism, and caring with others (ubuntu) can be rhythmically enacted commensurate with claims of intellectual activism.

The book explores how global maritime trade shaped and influenced the economies, societies, and politics of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia and how colonial efforts to expand their participation in the global economy formed the roots of the American Revolution.

Storied Island presents the rich and diverse world of texts composed on the island of Java, Indonesia. It analyses Javanese texts not studied to date, reassess texts studied by earlier generations of scholars, and broadly rethinks and remaps major dimensions of Javanese literature, inviting comparison with literary cultures from across the globe.

Rafal Quirini-Poplawski offers here the first panorama of the artistic phenomena of the Genoese outposts around the Black Sea. He argues that artistic production was less "Genoese" than previously thought, but nevertheless extraordinarily rich and colorful, clearly demonstrating intercultural exchange.

This book elucidates how Three Kingdoms, a Chinese historical novel, has played a major role in shaping the Korean national self-image by examining how its text has been altered, manipulated, and transformed by the ideological preferences of the Korean readers from the Chŏson era to the present day.

This volume celebrates Prof. Margaret M. Mitchell of the University of Chicago with incisive studies on the Apostle Paul, early Christian literary culture, and ancient interpretive practices and perspectives written by a prestigious group of scholars

This volume explores approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. It highlights connections between vernacularity and materiality from distinct perspectives: real and imagined readers, mobility of texts and images, and intermediality.

Today, heritage is booming, and nowhere more so than in the Asia-Pacific, where it is disputed through local, national, and global contests over memories and historical narratives. This volume analyzes the resultant borders of memory at sites across the region.

Utilising a variety of contemporary commercial, diplomatic and judiciary sources, Grimshaw traces and analyses how England and Sweden forged the most pivotal commercial relationship of the seventeenth century.

This is the first book to explore the rich festival culture of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France as a tool for diplomacy.