A guide to persuasion for people who want to change minds without manipulation or coercion.

Most of us have given up on persuasion. We say our problems are too pressing, people are too polarized, and success is too dubious-and it's true! After all, when was the last time you heard someone actually change their mind? To improve our persuasive powers, self-help books often ask us to stoop to dishonest, manipulative tricks that rarely achieve lasting results. But perhaps there is a way to persuade people that is neither hopelessly misguided nor morally suspect.

In Just Hear Me Out, philosopher Colin Marshall describes a persuasive method that is both effective and ethical. Rather than share a flurry of tips for how to win friends and influence people, Marshall invites us to take up persuasion as fundamentally civil work, good both for our conscience and our communities. Real-world persuaders such as Jane Addams, Daryl Davis, and Fred Rogers show us an ethical route, he argues, to changing hearts through patience, respect, and compassion.

Accessible, practical, and buoyed by hope, Just Hear Me Out offers a powerful method for all who want to persuade others but aren't interested in winning at any cost. When it works, people don't just change their minds; they discover anew how to value our common humanity.

The ultimate guide to the thinkers and ideas that have shaped the United States, featuring essential primary sources introduced by leading scholars

The Princeton History of American Political Thought showcases the defining voices and debates in U.S. political history, spanning from the 1600s to the present. Each set of primary sources is accompanied by a short, accessible essay by a leading scholar, situating the writings in a broader American conversation about what the nation is, has been, and could be. Without shying away from the disagreements that have shaped the nation, the book shows how these controversies have played out within a broadly consistent set of questions, commitments, and concerns. The result captures the diversity, depth, and power of the American political tradition.

An essential reference, The Princeton History of American Political Thought is not just for scholars and students but for anyone who seeks to understand the United States: its past, its present, and its future possibilities.

• Features short primary sources that range from the 1600s to the present
• Includes accessible introductions and essays about each set of sources, written by leading experts
• Showcases the wide variety of perspectives that characterize the American political tradition

An innovative study reveals striking similarities in the ways three disparate cultural traditions conceived of what we owe those from across our borders.

Theorists of justice set out to solve a difficult puzzle: What ideas, if any, could guide us to live together in harmony? While some enumerate universal values, critics argue that these very principles are ineluctably contingent and culturally specific-that human societies affirm vastly different tenets across intellectual traditions.

In this bold, ambitious book, Hansong Li offers an alternative approach to world justice. He argues that while different cultures do conceive of justice in different ways, many also share important relational norms-ideas about how they might relate to and reason with other polities. To demonstrate as much, Li identifies parallel patterns of interpolitical arguments in ancient Greek, Indian, and classical Chinese traditions. Eschewing claims to universalism, he argues that the comparative study of these intellectual heritages can help transfigure us-versus-them logics. Thinkers in these traditions saw communities as guests and hosts, committed to love and justice, in pursuit of ethics and expediency. Then too, these thinkers all were concerned with stability and subversion, constraint and consonance, beauty and violence. Most significantly, Li traces among the three traditions an aspiration to define justice in the broadest possible terms: not as something worked out merely in courts but as a value of global and cosmic consequence.

A work of rigorous philological scholarship and dazzling philosophical range, Common Justice points toward a new avenue for global political thought and comparative political theory. More than tracing how justice has been elaborated in different contexts, it demonstrates how-while using culturally and linguistically distinct concepts-diverse peoples have long been thinking in startlingly compatible ways, enabling the possibility of global justice.

A provocative look at America's compulsion to consume and our obsession's surprising-and strange-origins.

In a capitalist society, people sell their labor to purchase staples like food, shelter, and anxiety medication. That's the equation of everyday economic life that we've always been told is true. Except, is it really that simple anymore? No matter how unmaterialistic you may think you are, odds are that deep within is a drive to consume because it feels good: books you won't read, clothes you won't like and might wear even less, a replacement phone whose novelty runs out as quickly as its upgrade hits the market. But what drives this impulse?

In Growth Machines, Mark Joseph Stelzner shows how today's consumers are now programmed by a US economy intent on infinite growth to work for goods they've been convinced they need and conditioned to want. Stelzner establishes the gaps between economic thinking and economic reality, arguing that consumption is no longer just a reflection of needs, but rather, it reflects a need for transaction-in many cases, a treat we seek out because it feels good. We work not only to be able to consume the essentials for living, but also to consume for consumption's sake. Yet such consumption doesn't make us happier. Stelzner traces this strange nature of consumption to an environmental source: an economy that demands growth. To keep its economy pumping, the US must keep Americans consuming. This makes Stelzner's book an uncomfortable reflection on how we internalize our economy. To be an American is to consume; to consume is what makes America.

The economy remains a rationalising tool for explaining the condition of the artist, both for professional and for experts, even when this implies a form of dissociation between the artist and the economist. Focusing on the relationship between art and the market removes entire sections of the social imagination and aesthetic sides linked to art. This two-volume ethnographic work provides answers to what appears to be a mysterious phenomenon, young people's vocation for art, by focusing on real-life situations and testimonials in a critical perspective.

This first volume explores young artists' lives and young people's artistic aspirations through their own eyes, exploring the education and career trajectories of artists in a variety of creative fields. The influence of entrepreneurship and the types of 'entrepreneurial life' that are now expected of artistic careers are described and interpreted. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of the arts economy, work and employment and entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Innovation Intelligence: Strategy, Technology, and Culture exemplifies the purpose of the Research in Management Consulting (RMC) series. At a time when innovation is a strategic imperative, this volume explores how organizations actually mobilize expertise, methods, and relationships to navigate complex change; in the process, it demonstrates the many factors that shape innovation capabilities and outcomes.

Collectively, the chapters are anchored in the knowledge that innovation is a driver of technological and economic growth. Innovation is not seen as a one-off event but an evolving socio-technical process that depends on how human capital, organizational routines, and external expertise are orchestrated over time. It is less about generating ideas and more about creating the conditions in which new ideas can survive contact with reality. Management consultants play a role in shifting the question from "What should we innovate?" to "How do we build an organization that continually renews itself?"

This framing from volume editor Dr. Georgios Afxentiou aligns with the RMC series and its longstanding emphasis on consulting as both a field of practice and an arena for rigorous scholarly inquiry. In this way, Innovation Intelligence: Strategy, Technology, and Culture reinforces the series' commitment to examining how consulting contributes to organizational learning and renewal.

Although Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) has advanced considerably since the late 1980s, scholarly focus has tended to cluster around talent management, performance, and compensation. Yet employee benefits-despite accounting for nearly a third of total labor costs-have remained surprisingly peripheral in strategic conversations.

A New Perspective on Employee Benefits addresses this long standing gap. Drawing on foundational SHRM and compensation strategy research, this book brings together emerging scholarship that reframes employee benefits as a powerful, underutilized driver of organizational effectiveness. Across its chapters, contributors explore new theoretical perspectives, present empirical insights, and examine practical implications that position benefits as a central component of strategic HR decision making.

This collection offers essential reading for scholars, doctoral students, and HR practitioners seeking to deepen their understanding of how benefits can be leveraged to create sustainable competitive advantage. Rather than viewing benefits as static or purely administrative costs, the book invites readers to reconsider their strategic potential within the broader HRM landscape.

An estimated 20% of humanity are neurodivergent. Their brains develop and function differently from those of the broader population.

In recent years, awareness of neurodiversity has grown. At the same time, organizations are facing questions that challenge traditional understandings of collaboration at work.

This book provides a foundation for anyone seeking basic knowledge or a new perspective on neurodivergence. Decision-makers, leaders, HR professionals, and consultants will find fresh insights to help their organizations gain a genuine competitive advantage in the labor market. In addition to theoretical background information, it includes both practical, research-based tips and solution-oriented approaches, addressing topics along the entire talent and employee journey.

The book also covers areas such as collaboration, communication and inclusive language, diversity and inclusion (DEIB), disruptive thinking, as well as leadership and self management for neurodivergent leaders and employees. Likewise, those who are neurodivergent themselves and looking for ways to collaborate without compromising their well being will find inspiration for their own professional practice.

This book shows how churches can discover and strengthen their distinctive identity-enabling them to present themselves as a strong brand both internally and externally. Instead of focusing on superficial advertising, it highlights what truly defines churches and how they can live and communicate these values credibly.

Combining insights from brand sociology with real-life examples, including a detailed case study from the Diocese of Feldkirch/Vorarlberg (Austria), the book offers practical guidance for authentic and collaborative church leadership. It is aimed at those who want not only to manage their church in challenging times, but to actively shape its development-preserving what is valuable while addressing necessary change.

This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of philosophical psychology utilising insights from the study of literature.

It traverses disciplinary boundaries in two directions: some chapters proceed from the theoretical foundations of philosophical psychology and then reach into literary works, whilst others start from literary works, then reach into philosophy. Every chapter asks what literature can deliver to philosophy just as much as the reverse direction.

This volume aims to enrich and further elucidate many of the concepts central to philosophical psychology and is essential reading for all scholars, researchers and advanced students in the philosophy of mind and in the philosophy of literature.

The book presents different perspectives and methodological approaches related to the development of gender equality plans and gender budgeting ranging from empirical legal studies to doctrinal contributions, national or field specific case studies to historical and comparative assessments, domestic as well as international perspectives, conceptual as well as practical considerations.

This book offers a clear and insightful guide to the evolving role of AI in modern marketing. Synthesizing extensive research with high-level executive interviews, the author reveals how AI excels at personalization, automation, and data-driven optimization, yet remains constrained by its lack of emotion, intuition, and genuine understanding. Through compelling narrative examples, the text illustrates the transformative potential of AI alongside its ethical and strategic pitfalls, including the amplification of bias and the erosion of brand authenticity. Ultimately, the author argues that AI is not a replacement for human marketers but a catalyst that demands human creativity, empathy, and ethical judgment. This book provides leaders, practitioners, and scholars with a vital framework for harnessing AI responsibly to enhance performance while safeguarding core human values.

This book centres on the transformation that the European Union has undergone in framing its reaction to the Russian aggression towards Ukraine, and analyses the effects that that reaction is having across a number of its policies.

Key EU policy domains examined include the formulation of sanctions packages under the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and their implementation and enforcement, but also migration, enlargement and defence policy.

The volume presents a legal analysis of the innovations introduced in various policy fields and their profound implications on EU external action writ large, including a discussion of ensuing case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the impact of the EU practice on restrictive measures on Public International Law.

The book provides an updated examination of the latest developments regarding the EU's reaction to the Russo-Ukrainian war and their legal and political implications. It will be of interest to scholars of European Law, European studies, International Relations and Political Science, in addition to foreign policy practitioners and legal professionals.

Sara Poli is full Professor of EU law in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pisa in Italy.

Madalina Moraru is an Associate Professor of EU Law in the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna in Italy.

Luca Paladini is an Associate Professor of EU Law in the Department of Humanities of the University for Foreigners of Siena in Italy.

Clara Portela is a Professor of Political Science in the Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science of the University of Valencia Faculty of Law in Spain.

University research represents a $2 trillion untapped goldmine that most executives are missing. Generative AI is revolutionizing this landscape-leading universities report 40-60% efficiency gains in technology scouting and evaluation through AI integration. This book guides leaders, managers, and practitioners on how they can leverage AI-powered scouting and strategic university alliances to access breakthrough technologies. It synthesizes decades of pioneering research and practical experience in technology transfer and provides a data-driven blueprint for executives that combines analytical rigor with proven methodologies for successful university-industry collaborations. The authors provide actionable strategies for identifying, evaluating, and commercializing breakthrough academic discoveries that can redefine the industries and secure companies' competitive future. From leveraging AI-powered scouting to navigating complex IP landscapes and capitalizing on global talent pipelines, this book equips managers, leaders and executives with insights to transform academic potential into quantifiable market value.

This book presents cutting-edge research and practical insights from the Smart Service Summit 2025, exploring how smart services, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms enable sustainable value creation across industries. As service-driven business models become increasingly relevant, modular and data-driven service systems are transforming sectors such as manufacturing, logistics, mobility, smart cities, and finance.

Contributions address topics including AI-enabled maintenance, digital twins, circular economy strategies, urban digital transformation, resilient supply chains, and ESG reporting. Special attention is given to the ethical implications of AI, the governance of digital ecosystems, and compliance with emerging regulatory frameworks such as the EU AI Act.

With a focus on co-creation, adaptability, and future-readiness, this volume connects academic rigor with real-world application. It offers actionable knowledge for researchers, professionals, and policymakers working at the intersection of digital innovation, service design, and sustainability.

A playful and irreverent argument for-and practical guide to-writing in a rich and extraordinary style

When it comes to literary style, the commonplace wisdom of composition classrooms, newsrooms, and editorial offices has long been that less is more. Students are taught that the best prose is that which eschews ornamentation and rhetorical flourish. But what if sometimes more is more? In Praise of Purple Prose playfully and cheekily contests a century worth of convention that rejects the baroque and byzantine as "purple prose," making the case that fun and joy in language can be as important as concision and comprehension. Part style guide and part manifesto, the book rewrites the rules on writing.

Ed Simon encourages writers to embrace the extraordinary, to call upon the classical rhetorical devices, and to relish in the richness of description and the erudition of allusion. He demonstrates that serpentine syntax, eccentric diction, and idiosyncratic punctuation, when used judiciously, can express the complexity of experience, bring out the pleasures of language, and help readers develop a unique voice in a world where AI threatens to make everyone sound alike. To illustrate its arguments, the book features examples of extraordinary prose from dozens of writers, including John Donne, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Marilynne Robison, and Zadie Smith.

Playful and provocative, In Praise of Purple Prose will leave readers with a new appreciation for fancy prose and inspire writers to draw on all of the liveliest and most powerful resources of English in their work.

This book presents advances in the research of various entities in management in tourism. Indeed, one of the sectors hardest hit by the pandemic was tourism, likewise one of the post-pandemic effects is the rapid recovery of the sector, but more importantly is the great innovation that has occurred in marketing strategies for tourism and applying management strategies not only to be more profitable but to have the best customer satisfaction. Featuring selected papers that presented at the 2025 International Conference on Management, Tourism, and Technologies (ICMTT) held in San Carlos, Costa Rica, this book features empirical studies and case analyses on sustainable tourism development. This book is valuable to scholars, academics, and students that seek to innovate, gain insight and establish a knowledge base in management in tourism.