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This book explores the role of time in rational agency and practical reasoning. Agents are finite and often operate under severe time constraints. Action takes time and unfolds in time. While time is...

This is the first volume to examine and shed significant light on the issues, challenges and prospects presented by foreign direct investment (FDI) in tourism - a topic of increasing relevance in...

TOURISM AND THE SPECTRE OF UNLIMITED CHANGE : Living with Tourism in a Turkish Village RevisitedAuthor: HAZEL. TUCKERPublisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis GroupPublication Date: Feb 05, 2024Number...

Until recently, the historiography of Middle Eastern economic elites during the first globalization has ignored the significant role played by Muslim Tujjar (big merchant-entrepreneurs). Foreign...

This book examines many facets of transcultural poetics in the English translation of Chinese literature from twelve different expert contributors. Translating Chinese literature into English is a...

This collection seeks to expand the centers from which scholars theorize translation, building on themes in Rosemary Arrojo's pioneering work on transfiction and the influence of bordering...

This book contributes to our knowledge of desistance in a developing country. Offering an intercultural dialogue with mainstream explanations, Transitions Out of Crime analyses the transition from...

This volume brings together a group of analytical essays exploring traditional genres and styles of world music, capturing a vibrant and expanding field of research. These contributors, drawn from...

Two Dimensions of Meaning : Similarity and Contiguity in Metaphor and Metonymy, Language, Culture and EcologyAuthor: Andrew GoatlyPublisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis GroupPublication Date: Aug 26,...

Two-way Knowledge Transfer in Nineteenth Century China : The Scottish-missionary Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887)Author: Ian GowPublisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis GroupPublication Date: May...

This book explains the history and development of the military design movement, featuring case studies from key modern militaries. Written by a practitioner, the work shows how modern militaries...

This book provides a critical perspective on the digitalisation of universities and precarisation of academic labour. While research and teaching become more virtual and digital at universities,...

The Covid-19 pandemic, the surge of populism, the climate crisis, and many other destabilizing factors in our time, all point at the expectation of trustworthy knowledge and reliable organization...

This edited book explores diverse contestations and transformations of sovereignty around the world. Sovereignty plays a central role in modern political thought and practice, but it also remains...

Over the past few decades a number of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have disrupted societies throughout the world, including HIV, Ebola, H5N1 (or 'avian flu') and SARS, and of course the...

This book examines connections between the psycho-social difficulties and challenges faced by children and younger people in their online lives, the structure, character and motivations of the...

Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums is the first volume to offer comprehensive insights into visitor reactions to a wide range of museum exhibitions, memorials, and memory sites...

Voluntariness is a necessary condition of valid consent. But determining whether a person consented voluntarily can be difficult, especially when people are subjected to coercion or manipulation,...

Most European countries have experienced labour market reforms at varying times leading to extended working life and a postponement of retirement age. This book provides a gender perspective on the...

Drawing on more modern expressions of economic analysis, this book explores the interplay between wellbeing, nature and moral values in economics. The book will be of significant interest to readers...

What is Legal Education For? : Re-assessing the Purposes of Early Twenty-first Century Learning and Law SchoolsAuthor: Rachel Dunn, Paul Maharg, Victoria RoperPublisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis...

This book offers a compelling new interpretation of James' moral philosophy: an ethics of responsible self-fashioning." James' performative writing style articulates this conception by showing how...

This volume deals with philosophical, scientific, and ideological images of women during the French Enlightenment, examining their emergence in the reflections of the philosophes, in Catholic...

Women, Trauma, and Journeys towards Desistance provides an examination of women's desistance from crime from a gender-responsive, trauma-informed perspective. The book is based on the reflections of...

This book investigates the ways in which young people engage with and contribute to civil society, community development and local peacebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa. Youth engagement...

This book presents a description of the grammar of Zhoutun, an endangered Sinitic variety spoken by less than 1000 people in the Qinghai Province of northwest China. With vocabulary predominantly...