All Books

Urban Crisis, Urban Hope is an urgent, informed, and passionate critique at the crisis that has been allowed to develop in our cities, and a wide-ranging agenda for change to challenge all political and government institutions.

Urban Landscape Priorities, Opportunities and Prospect focuses on current planning and design priorities and opportunities for the enhancement of future urban landscape contexts. Current priorities include walkability, access, urban greening and climate mitigation. These and other priorities are viewed as challenges for cities and towns, but also as potential opportunities for future urban landscape contexts.

'US consular representation in Britain since 1790' is a history of US consular activities in the UK, which began in 1790 and continue to the present with consulates general in Edinburgh and Belfast. It also contains many previously unpublished illustrations.

The book collects material from local critics, newspapers and interviews to present V. S. Naipaul in new light as a “true blue” Trinidadian writer. The book foregrounds Naipaul’s deep connections not only with the land of his birth but with its literary and historical heritage and its peoples. 

The Value Creation Ratings 2025 (VCr2025) proof-of-concept focuses on The Sustainable Value Creation of Firms and is an exploratory prototype that assesses 1,000 listed firms from the world’s leading stock markets in terms of how their business models create or transfer value.

There is a clear economic and social rationale in providing a second chance to failed entrepreneurs and deriving positive experiences from negative situations. Value of Failure is a comprehensive attempt at understanding the various aspects of the phenomenon of business failure.

This book records the history of how collaboration between Catholic and Protestant churches contributed to social changes in Hong Kong, a former British colony, immediately after the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council during the turbulent period of the Cold War from 1966 to 1980.

‘Veblen’s America’ examines the astonishing political rise of Donald Trump through the portal of Thorstein Veblen’s theory of barbaric legacies in American development.

The book provides a series of innovative studies of the treatment of major issues by philosophers ranging from classical antiquity to the present day.

This ground-breaking study of sympathetic readings in Victorian fiction breathes new life into contemporary literary criticism.

Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to modern-day Turkey, Egypt, and Cyprus) during the reign of Queen Victoria, this volume analyzes the multi-faceted, often ambivalent and conflicting ways their encounters with Otherness articulated itself to the masses.

A captivating look at the origins of our own tabloid culture in the salacious and titillating media of the Victorian era.