Assetization
Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism
This edited volume examines the concept of "assetization" - how things are turned into assets that can be owned, traded, and capitalized on for profit in today's technoscientific capitalist system.
Formal Axiology and Its Critics
This book brings together writings that critically look at and try to move forward the formal theory of value that Robert S. Hartman spent his career researching and publishing about. Hartman’s axiology (study of value and worth) was groundbreaking in how it used logic and math like set theory and relationships to [...]
Global Fintech
Financial Innovation in the Connected World
The book analyzes foundational innovations and their prompting of transitions in banking, payments and services. Contributors assess regulatory frameworks and policies, providing perspectives from academia, industry and government. Case studies evaluate recommendations for assessing mergers and standards.
Indian Islamic Architecture
Forms and Typologies, Sites and Monuments
This book offers a nice overview of the Islamic architecture found across India. It brings together several articles written over the years by John Burton-Page, a well-known British scholar. His writings focus on the main architectural styles and important buildings constructed during Muslim rule in India starting in the 1200s. Recommended for: Beginner-to-intermediate [...]
Materialising the Roman Empire
Materializing the Roman Empire is a book that looks at using archaeology to understand the Roman Empire better. It’s edited and has different authors explore how stuff and objects – material culture – shaped how the Empire worked as it got bigger and eventually fell apart. There are three main sections: First [...]
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global Contexts
The book challenges traditional notions of knowledge flowing mainly from centers to peripheries during the early modern and modern periods. It examines cultural and intellectual exchanges between places as uneven and multi-directional rather than following a simple center-periphery hierarchy.
Social learning towards a sustainable world
Principles, perspectives, and praxis
This book looks at the idea of social learning and how it can help move things toward more sustainable development globally. It’s got 27 different chapters from people in all kinds of fields that are trying to deal with sustainability issues. The main focus is on social learning as something people from [...]