Publications
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Reading the Qur'an in the Twenty-First Century
(2014)
Reading the Qur’an in the Twenty-First Century considers the development of Qur’anic interpretation and highlights modern debates around new approaches to interpretation. It explores how Muslims from various theological, ...
Drylands Facing Change
(2023)
This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia/Inner ...
Freedom and Adaptive Preferences OPEN ACCESS Creative Commons, CC BY-NC-ND Book Freedom and Adaptive Preferences
(2024)
Traditional welfare economics works with the assumption of the fully rational economic agent (homo economicus) whose preferences are fixed: that is, they are not influenced by their economic environment. To the contrary, ...
The Biopolitics of Dementia
(2024)
This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia’s growing public profile and corresponding research economy.
The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome ...
Children’s English in Singapore
(2020)
Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology, this book investigates children’s acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual Singapore, one of the traditional Kachruvian ...
Order and Security in Southeast Asia
(2006)
Michael Leifer, who died in 2001, was one of the leading scholars of Southeast Asian international relations. He was hugely influential through his extensive writings and his contacts with people in government and business ...
Reconfiguration of Business Models and Ecosystems
(2023)
Decoupling of business models and ecosystems is the disconnection of certain characteristic activities originally planned and completed in coincidence. It could bring in an immense adverse shock in the functioning of ...
Chapter 13 One Health Education, Training, and Capacity Building
(2025)
While many terms relate to One Health, the idea remains the same: to think outside a chosen area of specialty and work collaboratively as part of a team to improve health status around the world. This involves the collective ...
Chapter 17 Greek inscriptions and documentary texts and the Graeco-Roman historical tradition
(2021)
This chapters explores how three philological traditions Graeco-Roman, South Asian and Chinese have been and can be used to contribute to our understanding of Central Asia in the Hellenistic period. It outlines the current ...
The Seven Virtues of Highly Compassionate People
(2024)
What are the practical implications of truly caring about yourself and others, of approaching each day with an open mind, an open heart, and a desire to reduce the suffering of all living beings? Can we learn compassion ...