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Wittgenstein and AI (Volume I): Mind and Language. This is the first of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on mind and language.

An adaptation in narrative verse of a children’s fantasy tale, ‘The Rose-Coloured Wish’ (1923) by Florence Bone (1875–1971), ‘Wish’ is a timeless story that weaves adventure, humour and vivid characterisation into a subtle moral tale.

‘William Morris and the Uses of Violence, 1856–1890’ offers a new and challenging reading of William Morris’s work, focusing on his representations of violence and arguing that the idea of regenerative battle is central to his literary and political vision.

William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blake’s wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early illuminated works, and reveals the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing. 

This is the first study of wildlife filmmaking in Southern Africa with particular emphasis on the relationship between trends there and elsewhere. 

These essays explain why financial crisis breaks out, its social, economic and cultural consequences, and the limitations of policy in the face of economic stagnation induced by financial inflation.

The book, Why the Frankfurt School Today? Estrangement from Nature in the Age of Digital Capitalism, serves as an introduction to key thinkers of the Frankfurt School as they relate to issues around our estrangement from nature and digital media. The works of Adorno, Marcuse and Benjamin will be assessed in their possible usefulness to the challenges of 21st Century M edia and its empowering and controlling effects.

The book illustrates the development of the financial crisis and traces its cultural origins in mainstream economics. The Keynesian theory of uncertainty and Minsky's concept of financial fragility provide an alternative interpretation of past events and future policy developments.

An engaging and enigmatic historical review of the way in which some countries have become economic successes, leaving others in their wake.

“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.

This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and Medieval literary cultures, and beyond. 

The first English translation and analysis of a 1793 text by Karl von Dalberg (1744–1817) in defence of enlightened absolutism against Kantian criticisms.