A work co-written with my daughter and extending her paper. Kim and Gates (2015) investigated the role of power transition theory in the rise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and explored...
Madame de Beaumont and Angela Carter each take an age-old story reminiscent of Cupid and Psyche (Apuleius) and change it into a relative story of their time. In Beauty and the Beast (Villeneuve...
The wolverine is portrayed as a “vicious marauder to be feared more than valued or admired” (Shaw and Ford, 115). They are seen as ill-tempered, and will violently lash out to protect their young....
The status of a work as a classic differs from the position as a canonical text (da Silva and Vieira). In part, whether a work is canonical, or even if it’s read or used as a textbook, depends on...
Edgeworth set Castle Rackrent in a period where the Irish were under English rule. Unfortunately, most English people failed to understand the underlying tensions within Irish politics during the...
The concept of transformation and dehumanisation (Kafka) is analogous to the concept of civilisation as “auto-intoxication” (Huxley). Huxley defines the role of pleasure to mean something more...
Clark’s analysis of Thomas Paine contains more “myth busters” than a biography.[1] Clark’s tome, titled Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution, seeks...
Introduction The promise of systems based on the Internet of things (IoT) and industrial Internet of things (IIoT) for the supply chain industry is large and growing. Such technologies promise to...
In Finding Bernie Madoff, Stephen Dimmock and William Gerkin (2009) demonstrated that methodologies based on the detailed statistical analysis of financial filings might be utilised in the...
In an essay on developing a framework for ethical leadership, Lawton and Páez (2015, p. 639) note that the need for ethical leadership has increased in recent years. In their analysis, the...