Recent years have seen a great debate and much progress in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Headway has been made in the development of the CSR agenda and dissemination of management models. This title offers a re-reading of fundamental issues for business management such as the stakeholder relationship, and meaning of success in business.
Focuses on the ideas of W.B. Yeats and explores his thinking on a wide range of fundamental subjects. In this book, the author considers Yeats' adherence to various anti-empirical belief systems and the transformation of his view of sex as largely a romantic concern to his later more 'earthy' perspective.
Touching on a host of central themes in author's writing - emigration, race, performance, poverty, travel, nationality and globalization, this volume covers each of the author's publications and includes a substantial interview with the author. It is suitable for scholars of the Irish novel.
Tells about the ethics of leadership. This book examines central theories of leadership and their ethical content, from charismatic leadership to transformational and servant leadership. It argues that ethical leadership is best understood in the context of virtues practised in plural communities, focusing on an ethics of responsibility.
Cities are both real and imaginary places whose identity is dependent on their distinctive heritage: a network of historically transmitted cultural resources. In this title, the essays explore the complex and multi-layered identities of European cities.
(Re)Collecting the Past
In the twenty-first century it is now possible to detect a new sacred 'turn' in thought and writing. For some writers, this post-secular identity plays itself out in both a recuperation of religious traditions (Catholicism, Puritanism, Judaism). This title presents a collection of essays that considers return of religious in literary studies.
Constructions of Conflict
George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis gave Modern Greek language a substantial corpus of translations from poets working in French, Italian, Russian, English and Ancient Greek. This title offers study of translation that is shown to be a powerful tool for study of Modern Greek literature and its relation to other literatures and movements of time.
Contests and Contexts
Modern scholarship often defines Roman women in terms of their difference from men, seeing them as 'other'. This work analyzes both well-known, and overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal. It sheds a new light on contemporary views of women and their abilities.
Features the integration into English of the five nominal suffixes -ment, -ance, -ation, -age and -al, which entered Middle English via borrowings from French, and which now form abstract nouns by attaching themselves to various base categories, as in cord/cordage or adjust/adjustment.
Despite the considerable amount of scholarship on Mann's work, his tetralogy - composed prior to and during his exile from Nazi Germany - has received less attention and has not been examined from perspective of relationship of visuality to narrative. This book examines the ways the novel's protagonists frame their environment through knowledge.
Focuses on Salut les copains (Hi Buddies/Mates) (1962-76), which achieved a circulation of a million copies within its first year, at its peak sold around twice as many magazines as its nearest competitors, and has become synonymous with the development of youth culture in 1960s France.
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