What explains civil society participation in policy making in Latin American democracies? Risley comparatively analyzes…

This book offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period. Using readings of such major figures…

Featuring interviews, conversations and observations from a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorean musicians and their…

This book explores what it means to be a twin and to what extent twins can shape or 'escape' their identities as twins. It…

In this fascinating study, Boden considers the changing social and cultural significance of the wedding in Britain. The book…

This volume examines the gap between agreements and actual peace. It offers different explanations for the successes and…

Based on the experiences of Chinese reforms, the book criticises the transition theories of the 'big-bang' and privatisation…

War and Social Welfare: Reconstruction after Conflict addresses the issues of rebuilding social assistance and pension…

This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story…

Drawing on case studies of budget groups in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia this book is the first comprehensive…

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Language policies impact language choice, language prestige, and language spread. Rising regional integration, both formal…

Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Tanure…

This is an exploration and analysis of Aquinas's contribution to the philosophy of religion. It examines Aquinas's contexts,…

This book explores how the European Commission faced the challenge of enlargement. Based on extensive interviews, the work…

The essays in this collection work toward a larger goal of separating 'globalization' from strictly economic considerations.…

An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life-writing in…

This book is a sociological study of Muslim youth culture in two global cities in the Asia Pacific: Singapore and Sydney.…

One of the major features of the social landscape of the new states of Eastern Europe and the former USSR is migration,…

The author demonstrates the significant role that some of the Edwardian philosophers played in the formation of Russell's…

Focusing on how policy makers make decisions in foreign policy, this book examines how beliefs are causal mechanisms which…

Individuals have little incentive to vote, acquire political information or contribute campaign funds, because their vote…

This volume highlights the impact of global trends on defense reform and civil-military relations, including phenomena such…

The medieval Republic of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) was a prosperous small open economy, rivalling bigger competitors. This…

Investigating the leading drama genres of different television eras in both Britain and the US, this book traces the…

Tracking the ways in which journalism and memory mutually support, undermine, repair and challenge each other, this…

When Parliament met and the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended, he used show trials, decided by votes along party lines and…

Gendering the World Bank provides an unusual, wide-ranging and accessible account of the constitution and effects of…

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The question of how to move beyond contentious pasts exercises societies across the globe. Focusing on Northern Ireland,…

Challenging the standard views that individual leaders either have all the power or little room to move in the making of…

This book explores the ways that institutions play a role - or fail to - in Japanese and American approaches to regional…

Theory of Mind and Science Fiction shows how theory of mind provides an exciting 'new' way to think about science fiction…

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Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended…

Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and…

In this study of the Comparative Political Economy of East and South Asia, the author adopts an interdisciplinary…

The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with…

This work uncovers the real history of modern youth, providing an explanation of its predicament that goes beyond the…

Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics of global non-governmental public action. Covering…

In the last few years there has been a big expansion in the range of applications of mentoring in business and in the scope…

Leading authors within organization studies and also from broader social science disciplines present the state of the art in…

The papers in this volume were presented at a conference on "The EMS, Ten Years Later" at the University of Bergamo, Italy,…

Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two…

This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet…

The analysis that follows reveals that Japan and Russia have come to acquire genuinely striking contrasting features:…

This interdisciplinary examination of present-day identities and histories of the former Yugoslavia explores relationships…

Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram argue for the benefits of social reproduction as a lens through which to understand…

Taking a new look at two controversial topics, American anti-Communism and the Cold War, this book reveals the little known…

Contributors offer ideas, applications, and resources for helping leaders and educators tackle the challenges of building…