This book offers a comprehensive guide to the works of Seneca the Younger (4 BCE-65 CE), the foremost rhetorician, tragedian, and philosopher of his time who had a major role in the politics and culture of the age of Emperor Nero.

It provides readers with the historical, philosophical, and literary background to appreciate Seneca's works, and advances representative critical readings of his treatises and tragedies. Chapters highlight his life, political theory, Stoicism, and dramaturgy, as well as contemporary and later reception of his works, and suggest further readings for those interested in pursuing these topics in greater depth.

Seneca: The Basics is suitable for students and scholars of classics, philosophy, and ancient history, as well as general readers interested in learning more about Seneca and his thought.

How can European public law effectively address the profound rights challenges posed by AI systems?

This groundbreaking book delves into this pressing question by critically analysing the limitations of current regulatory frameworks, including the Artificial Intelligence Act, the General Data Protection Regulation, and European human rights law. Drawing on leading judgments from the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union, the book explores real-world case studies of AI systems employed by public authorities, highlighting their impact on fundamental rights.

Arguing that the EU's risk-based regulation approach falls short in protecting fundamental and human rights, the author introduces a compelling alternative: a rights-based inter-legal approach grounded in the theory of inter-legality. This innovative framework emphasises the 'publicness' and 'inter-systemic' nature of AI, advocating for a lifecycle perspective - from design to deployment and beyond.

Rich with legal insights and practical methodology, this book presents a three-step adjudication model to integrate the inter-legal approach into European legal practice, paving the way for a more robust protection of fundamental principles, rules and rights in the AI era. Essential reading for scholars, policymakers and practitioners, this work redefines how Europe can lead the charge in responsible AI regulation.

Everything seems to be in 'a state of crisis' these days: democracy and the economy, the arts and humanities, how we deal with others and nature and the human condition itself. Things have become so critical that the word 'crisis' no longer suffices-we now speak of 'polycrisis' and 'metacrisis,' signalling both our predicament's severity and our inability to address it properly.

This interdisciplinary volume proposes a more nuanced framing of our current situation through complementary standpoints and disciplinary angles. Political theorists, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, and scholars of religion, film, and literature examine crisis from their unique perspectives. The essays range from Western humanism's crisis and philosophical treatments of crisis to representations in contemporary cinema and literature, exploring how crises manifest in localised contexts like Kuwait and Nigeria alongside global phenomena such as the water crisis.

The collection will be of great interest to academics, researchers, and advanced students of philosophy, political theory, sociology, cultural studies, crisis studies, critical theory, and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding contemporary political thought and modern predicaments. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

This book explores how medieval Florentines, grappling with the rising inequality and political instability of rapid urbanization and economic growth, addressed the challenge of questioning the goals of public power and public institutions such as criminal courts.

Through archival records, it reveals how the ideological claims and practices of criminal justice worked their way into rural communities, and what difference they made for men and women navigating daily life. While the popolo - the coalition of merchants, professionals, and artisans that challenged an older military elite's hold on power - ultimately succumbed to oligarchy and dynastic rule, the documents produced by its hallmark criminal tribunal can be used to reconstruct how rural people instrumentalized criminal justice to defend themselves and to hurt their enemies.

This volume will appeal to medievalists, literature scholars, human geographers, and social scientists interested in political culture, rural studies, and premodern practices of government.

This book is a comparative study of state-based film censorship laws and practices in the Asia-Pacific region.

It provides crucial historical context for each of the common law traditions in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia - all former British colonies - and compares it to the tradition of civil law and the lese majeste law in Thailand. The book sets out to analyse the approach to film censorship of four Asian-Pacific countries. It does so largely from a doctrinal perspective, reviewing each country's legal history and impact on the local film industry. Chapters detail censorship practices in each jurisdiction, key opinions and issues within individual states, and conclude with options for judicial review and insights relevant to the Malaysian film industry. The book also contains interviews with prominent film practitioners and censorship authorities. Their range of opinions contextualises the doctrinal research and demonstrates the effects of film censorship on artistic vibrancy and commercial viability of the film industries.

With its comparative approach to exploring how censorship and state regulation impact local film industries, this book will interest scholars of film studies, Asian studies and media law.

Drawing on 25 years of research, consultancy, and teaching experience in the fast-moving consumer goods sector, Primal Marketing reveals the hard-wired motives driving customer behaviour and the secrets of leveraging these to craft higher-impact marketing strategies.

While markets, technologies, and media channels have transformed rapidly, the human mind that buys, chooses, and connects has remained fundamentally the same. By introducing an evolutionary approach to marketing, the book argues that effective marketing works not by manipulating desire but by aligning brands with deep, enduring human needs. Structured around ten major product categories - including food, fashion, health, home, play, technology, transport, and finance - the book shows how everyday consumption reflects primal drives related to survival, belonging, status, attraction, care, and learning. These insights are organised through the PRIMAL framework, a practical strategic tool designed to help marketers diagnose what truly motivates their audiences and translate insight into clear positioning, storytelling, and brand decisions.

Written primarily for marketing practitioners, brand leaders, and strategists, and supported by examples suitable for students and educators, the book bridges theory and application. Readers will gain a powerful lens for understanding consumer behaviour, sharpening brand strategy, and future-proofing marketing decisions by grounding innovation in timeless human psychology.

This text examines the ongoing convergence of marketing and media across industries and formats and offers an authoritative analysis of branded content and forms of media- marketing integration.

Drawing on the findings of the three- year Branded Content Governance Project, this book outlines the expansion of mediamarketing ecologies , from marketers, agencies, and media to include platforms, creators, and advertising technology (adtech). It charts the rapid take- up of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools, the role of platforms, and the expansion of actor- types across the creator economy. The authors define and analyse key concepts including polycentric governance, governance- in- practice, and ethics, and map 'problems' and 'mitigations' concerning branded content practices and governance.

Providing an authoritative taxonomy for branded content advertising forms and formats, this book provides a guide for students as well as useful reading for researchers and advanced scholars of advertising and marketing communications.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Sustainable development calls for a balance to be struck between the promotion of trade and environmental protection. This book investigates how to strike such a balance in practice by assessing the relationship between WTO Agreements and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

The book provides a systematic exploration of how the general international rules on conflict of norms apply to the relationship between the two WTO Agreements and the Protocol, and the extent to which this specific relationship might influence how treaty conflicts should be dealt with generally in international law. Based on both doctrinal and original empirical evidence, this book goes beyond the principle of systemic integration in treaty interpretation which is generally relied upon as a conflict avoidance technique at the international adjudicative level. It further discerns a number of principles that underlie systemic integration, including the principles of mutual supportiveness, good faith, cooperation, and harmonization. These principles could be applied to potentially avoid treaty conflicts and are capable of driving reconciliation at not only the international judicial, but also the international institutional and domestic levels.

This book will be a valuable resource for scholars and policymakers in the fields of international economic law, international environmental law, and public international law.

Quantum Computing for Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Integrating Artificial Intelligence for Eco-Efficient Operations and Strategic Optimization is a relevant, contemporary, and futuristic contribution that discusses, explores, and highlights how emerging paradigms of computation, namely quantum computing, are significantly influencing sustainable supply chain design, planning, and practices. With the growing need to reduce environmentally adverse impacts while remaining efficient, this book fills a crucial divide between quantum computing, intelligence, and sustainable supply chain practices.

The volume looks at how quantum algorithms, quantum-AI hybrid models, and optimization tools can help solve supply chain problems like demand forecasting, inventory management, logistics routing, managing risks, and carbon footprints. The book showcases innovative methods for achieving excellence in business operations through sustainable means by incorporating ecoefficiency ratios with intelligent decision support tools.

To be specific, this book is intended for research scholars, industry experts, policymakers, and graduate students and aims to provide theoretical concepts, toolkits, and case studies related to quantum intelligence applications in creating greener, smarter, and more resilient supply chains. The book will act as a valuable reference material for those interested in leveraging disruption technologies to achieve sustainable operations globally.

This volume is a study of previously unexplored theoretical convergences between John Dewey's social pragmatism and the sociology of knowledge.

It demonstrates how these convergences, combined with the social psychology of G. H. Mead and Kenneth Burke, create a framework for the construction of a new and more comprehensive approach to the social analysis of knowledge, the social theory of thought. Dunn indicates in what respects Dewey's philosophy and this theory represent forms of social critique that reorient sociology in a critical direction. He offers an original interpretation of Dewey's pragmatism and the significance of his work for social theory, sociology, and the sociological analysis of knowledge. The work introduces readers to a new approach to social critique that highlights Dewey's emphasis on the connection between theory and practice and the close relationships among inquiry, agency, and democracy.

With carefully organized chapters and accessible language relatively free of jargon, this book will be of value to scholars and students in social theory, sociology, social psychology, and philosophy who are interested in pragmatism and the contributions of Dewey, Mead, and Burke to the social sciences.

This book examines the origins, deployment, and legacy of Order 1305, a measure introduced in 1940 to make it a criminal offence to take part in a strike.

Surprisingly, the prohibition on the right to strike was retained by the Attlee administration after the Second World War, and was transformed to become a weapon of government during the Cold War to deal with what were wrongly claimed by ministers to be Communist-inspired strikes engineered for subversive purposes.

In a deep analysis of Order 1305, the authors provide a reassessment of the role of the State in industrial relations. Challenging much contemporary learning in labour law, the book is informed by a very detailed engagement with Cabinet and ministerial papers, which highlight the contradictions on the part of government in simultaneously promoting and containing trade union power. These sources also highlight the extent to which trade unions both relied on and were co-opted by the State.

The main focus of the book, however, is the role of Order 1305 in the control of trade union activists, with the continuing presence of the criminal law and allegations of communist inspired strikes ensuring an important role for MI5 and Special Branch in post-war industrial relations. Material unearthed at the National Archives demonstrates unequivocally not only that trade unions were deeply penetrated, but also that trade union activists were the subject of extensive surveillance, as the authors fully reveal.

Inspired by the work of distinguished criminal justice scholars, this volume explores the methodological commitments and distinctive research agenda of criminal jurisprudence.

It comprises nine essays on jurisprudential themes written over a period of twenty years. Presented here for the first time as a coherent body of work, the volume highlights recurrent themes in the disciplinary constitution of criminal jurisprudence.

Criminal jurisprudence combines theorising about criminal law with intimate engagement with its institutional fabric and primary juridical sources. It overlaps with the theoretical ambitions of philosophical approaches to criminal law and justice, but equally encapsulates the traditional research programmes of doctrinal legal scholarship. Criminal jurisprudence takes domestic law seriously, but is cosmopolitan in its outlook and topical inclusivity, as befits the condition of modern legality.

The essays in this book traverse criminal law theory, substantive criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence law, comparative criminal process, international criminal justice, criminology and legal pedagogy. In addition to their legal-doctrinal content, they draw on moral and political philosophy, penal theory, epistemology, history, sociology, international relations, jurisprudence and comparative legal studies.

Philosophers reflect on the significance of fear both in the history of Eastern and Western Philosophy and at the intersections of contemporary philosophy and other disciplines.
The collection, edited by Ami Harbin, is divided into two parts. Part I begins with reflections on the centrality of fear in Confucian ethical-political thought and in the ancient Greek philosophy of Aristotle, before turning to the reflections on fear in medieval and twentieth-century philosophy. Part II presents contemporary philosophical work that expands the variety of approaches to fear, building connections with work in cognitive science, neuroscience, psychiatry, developmental psychology, and U. S. history.
Fear as an emotion-though always present in the history of philosophy, and one of the key points of contact between philosophy and other empirically-informed disciplines-has received surprisingly little concerted attention within philosophy. This is the first collection from contemporary philosophers with the express goal of reflecting on fear in the history of philosophy and collecting perspectives on fear from philosophers engaged in interdisciplinary research.

Resituating Kant's work within the Western modern historical tradition provides insight into the originality of his views against the background of pervasive intellectual discussions in the 18th century.

Catalina Gonzalez embeds essential aspects of Kant's epistemology, metaphysics, morals, and aesthetics into philosophical debates and discussions that, although central to modernity, have not been sufficiently explored by Kantian scholarship. These contexts include disputes between skeptics and anti-skeptics, debates over deism and natural theology, controversies about animal minds, discussions on the foundations of morality, and aesthetic conversations regarding the sublime.

The book's historical perspective is further supplied by a set of methodological reflections drawn from the heterogeneous field of studies of "intellectual history." It intertwines insights from the Cambridge School of Political Thought or the German Begriffsfgeschichte, and from a wide variety of historians of philosophy, with the analysis of Kant's texts and Kantian scholarship to provide a novel and rigorous account of the historical formation of specific aspects of Kant's thought.

This book describes tacit knowledge, what it is, how it used and its role in our current data driven world. It argues that fuzzy, hard-to describe information is greater and more, important than just hard facts.

What is tacit knowledge? It is what we might consider knowledge that is unable to be fully communicated: knowledge that we understand implicitly, but it is a bit hard to explain. For example, it is the kind of knowledge one needs to ride a bicycle, but that cannot be described precisely on paper in the way one might be able to explain how to cook a dish. Tacit knowledge is the least understood type of information and one of the most difficult to communicate. Yet there is more tacit knowledge in our lives than the specific facts one can find in a book, on the Internet or in the simple form of a fact. This book is designed to introduce the reader to the concept of tacit knowledge and how to recognize and use it.

This book offers definitions of tacit knowledge and compares the topic to explicit knowledge, then describes how the former is used today. The author argues that both types are used today and explains how one can use both types of knowledge in their lives.

Topics include:
? The role of tacit knowledge in business and government
? The wide use of Knowledge Management techniques in tacit knowledge and the newly emerging set of ideas quietly spreading in the workplace called Critical Systems Thinking
? How one can understand and apply tacit knowledge
? How AI can apply tacit knowledge

This book is an essential primer to understanding tacit knowledge and learning how to use it to your advantage.