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‘Aging within Transnational Families’ focuses on the often overlooked role of older people as active agents within transnational families.

A comparative study of the famines of Ireland (1845–51) and Ukraine (1932–33), and how historical experiences of famine were translated into narratives that supported political claims for independent national statehood.

‘Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values’ offers a critical intervention into the effects of colonialism in Australia, which continue to inform and dominate its public culture and institutions. Through an analysis of three significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate how the public sphere continues to derive its values from the British Enlightenment.

The book deals with extraordinary insights about negotiation for start-up entrepreneurs and introduces several strategies and tactics to improve negotiation skills in an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Authors unbox several complex and conflicting scenarios and attempt to build an entrepreneurial mindset to crack great deals with smart application of negotiation strategies and tactics.

Subaltern Narratives in Fiji Hindi Literature is the first serious study of fiction written in Fiji Hindi. The book makes a case for a subaltern voice speaking and argues that subaltern writing constitutes the silent underside of world literature whose canon it silently challenges and subverts.

This book, titled Bollywood’s Corporeal Turn: Aesthetic Response and Diasporic Memory, prizes Bollywood cinema out of its local and national context and brings a phenomenological critical awareness of it as cinema qua cinema.

This is the first republication of Rheta Child Dorr’s book Inside the Russian Revolution (Macmillan, 1917) that depicts the overthrow of the tsar as a positive, democratic move with hope of a Russia following the American path to constitutional democracy.

‘Anthem Critical Thinking and Writing Skills: An Introductory Guide’ is an excellent companion text for high school and college English writing classes that focus on critical thinking and persuasive writing. Concepts are presented in a clear, easy-to-understand format, and practice exercises are included.

By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative to the cruelty of Spanish conquest.

Private Equity’ explores the deal making and investment strategies of private equity investors with an analytical framework that focuses on value-add.

It examines the secular/religious tensions in Turkish society, through the eyes of two different women.

Death of a Prototype’s plot focuses on the artistic endeavours of a group of Muscovite intellectuals and unfolds against a backdrop of serious and jocular conversations, distorted-mirror parodies and riddles. The male protagonists— predominantly writers and visual artists—expend their creative energies in fashioning an authentic portrait of Adele, the ever-metamorphosing “prototype” of the title. However, they are themselves forever changing and morphing into other characters. Likewise, the stories they tell—and the pictures they paint—are never the same.