This first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that…

Drawing on research from a variety of disciplines, this edited collection challenges conventional understandings of gendered…

This is the first scholarly study devoted to Shakespeare's girl characters and conceptions of girlhood. It charts the…

Offers new insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on a wide range of international picture books for…

In the past generation, Brazil has risen to become the seventh largest economy and fourth largest democracy in the world.…

Here, Björklund shows that Swedish literary discourses on lesbianism provocatively contrast with a widely accepted view that…

One of the solutions proposed by the European Union to remedy the effects of the 2008 economic crisis is to increase female…

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This book documents what happens when people encounter public officials. It draws on multi-national Barometer surveys asking…

An indepth look at the origins and development of the current financial crisis, from an economist and Washington insider.…

This book explores the relationship between youth labour market marginality and political participation, focusing on the…

This book examines how young people understand and live politics, using innovative research methods. It treats age, class,…

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What do we mean when we talk about 'queer teachers'? The authors here grapple with what it means to be sexually or gender…

Does philosophical critique have a future? What are its possibilities, limits and presuppositions? This collection by…

A study of the actors and institutions that shaped decision-making on privatization in the Russian oil industry between 1992…

A political science perspective on higher education reform in Central and Eastern Europe. Examines the impact of historical…

This book demonstrates principles of Ancestor Veneration Avatars (AVAs), by running avatars based on eleven deceased members…

Herder, Fichte, Mazzini, Mill, Renan, Hitler and Stalin together debate their ideas in a platonic symposium, using the words…

The constant flow of people, ideas, and commodities across the Atlantic propelled the development of a public sphere.…

In Designing US Economic Policy , W. Robert Brazelton analyzes the development of US economic policy in the aftermath of the…

This book offers a liberatory conception of individual freedom that uniquely responds to the problems of social oppression…

This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds to the body-at-war, examining the effects of violent…

The challenges faced by the public sector are many and varied. Civil services at the forefront of tackling pressing problems…

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The Greater War is an international history of the First World War. Comprising of thirteen chapters this collection of…

Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists - from Berlin to Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim - have developed a…

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book examines the intersection of race and ethnic relations and the life course.…

Focusing on the Science of Logic , this wide-ranging and innovative reading exposes the force as well as the limit of…

From putative 'success stories' such as Ghana and Rwanda to failed efforts in Zimbabwe and other countries, this volume…

James Crossland's work traces the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross' struggle to bring humanitarianism…

The Irish Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies and Power interprets a wide variety of the most…

Towards a Future European Peace Order? Their perspectives are based on analyses of the underlying political, historical,…

A volume of essays by a number of economists to honour Nurul Islam, an Asian economist who made important contributions as…

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In this book, Po-Yi Hung uses tea production as a lens to investigate the tension between nature and society under the…

Interrogates and extends Friedrich Kratochwil's pathbreaking work on knowledge, normative phenomena, and political practice…

Manufacturing in the UK has an image problem. Although this image problem is more fiction than fact, it nonetheless has an…

This book brings together critical perspectives on some of the recent claims associated with the obesity crisis. It develops…

This collection shifts the focus from collective memory to individual memory, by incorporating new performative approaches…

This essay collection builds on the latest research on the topic of theatre audiences in early modern England. In broad…

This book explores reforms to young adults' schooling that mobilise capital friendly learning-and-earning (l'earning) webs.…

Originally published in Italian in 1983, the book elaborates and interprets Wicksell's monetary theories, contrasting them…

Reverence is a forgotten virtue in teaching and learning. When taken in a broader spiritual sense, it is often associated…

In this book Wayne Hope analyzes the double relation between time and global capitalism. In order to do this, he…

and from the Arthurian juvenile fiction sequences and series to the films and television shows featuring Arthurian…

This book explores agency, reconciliation and minority return within the context of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.…

In this edited collection, the authors grapple with both the strengths and challenges that HBCUs face as the nation's…

A collection of essays based on the theories of Sidney Weintraub, economic theorist and policy-maker. They all touch on the…

This collection is the result of a five-year-long collaboration of sociologists in Sweden, Spain and the United States.…

In the coming presidential primaries, no state is as important in setting the stage - or affecting the odds - as New…

This is a study that examines United Nations' efforts against terrorism in the 1970s and how West Germany came to influence…