All Books

“When Business Harms Human Rights” narrates the experiences of different individuals and communities from around the world, examining the impact that business activities has had on their lives. The volume is situated within the multidisciplinary subject area of business and human rights.

In a time of turmoil in international economic law, experts from 10 countries suggest ideas for a new and progressive trade and investment regime in ‘World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined’ that would help sustain growth, facilitate development and ensure that gains are shared and losses compensated.

What does a five-hundred-year-old political and military strategist have to do with the world of startups?

Through a graphic-novel format as innovative as its content, The Art of Startups shows how the principles Machiavelli outlined in The Prince and The Art of War can be applied to the modern business world. Four accessible chapters explore how Machiavellian tactics can help small startups to compete with large companies, maximize innovation with limited resources, negotiate effectively – and lead with impact.

“Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman” examines six centuries of conduct manuals and other instructive writing, analyzing the history of gendered expectations that have been debated in print from the fourteenth century and continue to influence our present thinking about women’s roles and abilities.

‘Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives’ summarizes and compares the sociological works of three contemporary authors insofar as they deal with the themes of modernity and its alternatives. These alternatives are either deemed to be possible or actually experienced, whether historically or in the present.

‘Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s ‘AbhijñānaŚākuntalam’’ aims to read Kālidāsa’s masterpiece through poetic and philosophical resonances as evidenced in the metre, rhythm and symbolism carefully embedded in the narrative and dramatic text.

The internationalisation of post-1992 universities is seen as an unmitigated success. ‘Internationalisation of Post-1992 UK Universities’ looks closely at the drivers towards internationalisation and questions the cost to the organisation and the effect overseas.

Evgeny Boratynsky and the Russian Golden Age is the first metrical and rhymed translation of nearly all the lyrics by Evgeny Boratynsky (1800–1844), one of the greatest poets of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. A long introduction and a detailed commentary, which includes multiple poems by Pushkin and many of Boratynsky's contemporaries, provide a unique background for appreciating the poet’s achievements.

Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America provides a collection of rigorous empirical studies that contributes to a better understanding of the role and impact of old and new information technologies on Latin American economic development through the use of randomized and quasi-experimental methods.

“Paradoxes of Populism” discusses the fantasies, promises and contradictions of populism as also its backgrounds and causes. While demonstrating the many varieties of populism, the book explains its rising popularity and steers the reader through the many myths and misconceptions surrounding it.

‘The Status of Religion and the Public Benefit in Charity Law’ is an apologetic for maintaining the presumption of public benefit for the charitable category ‘advancement of religion’ in democratic countries within the English common law tradition.

Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility addresses and discusses the challenges of community and identity in the evolving transnational migrant and ethnographic landscapes of the region in the era of social media.