Examines critically the history and assumptions behind the divisive question of allied contributions to the common defence.…

The objective of this book is to present an integrated set of original papers from leading authorities in the field related…

Relations across the Taiwan Strait were unstable for decades before May 2008. Nevertheless, the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA)…

Presents the case for an exciting new research program in the social sciences based on the theory of recognition developed…

The security dangers of the 1990s and beyond are different and more complex than those of the Cold War, and strategic…

In this collection of essays, a number of critics offer commentary on the crime fiction genre, exploring the kinds of…

The State of Developmental Education is the first book to provide a thorough, comparative picture of how developmental…

Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and…

Nationalism was ubiquitous in nineteenth-century Europe. Yet, we know little about what the nation meant to ordinary people.…

The Things We Do and Why We Do Them argues against the common assumption that there is one thing called 'action' which all…

Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it…

What exactly is torture? Should we torture suspected terrorists if they have information about future violent acts? Defining…

Police interviewing is a critical part of the justice process, and more attention is now being paid to training in interview…

This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment…

This book explores which kind of competitive moves and countermoves have been taken by mobile phone vendors like Nokia,…

This book argues that many of the mid-twentieth century's significant novelists were united by a desire to return the…

Using Karl Polanyi's analysis of the separation of politics and the economy, the book argues that the market economy is not…

This book offers a brief but comprehensive overview of the history of sociology in Sweden from the prewar period to the…

What are the principal drivers of recent higher education reforms? This study investigates whether the soft governance…

Made by the U.S.A., The International System is a historical account, embedded in a set of theoretical constructs, of the…

Using approaches from sociology, media and religious studies, David Herbert compares recent public controversies involving…

International Relations and the Philosophy of History examines the concept of civilization in relation to international…

Problem gambling is a perennial issue frequently reported in the media. This book is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource…

Shuger's study of Measure to Measure offers a sweeping reinterpretation of English political thought in the aftermath of the…

This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays - Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear…

Looking at literary discourse, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this collection offers…

The eleven interconnected essays of this book penetrate the dense historical knots binding terror, power and the aesthetic…

This book is about how the three most important countries in South America have responded to the challenges of globalization…

Postwar employment standards are being undermined and 'non-standard' employment is becoming more common. While scholars have…

Black Women in Management identifies some of the differences and/or similarities that exist between these women's career…

This book discusses how masculinity is represented by women poets and gay poets - but, most of all, how it is represented by…

The global Islamic resurgence of the last two decades has spawned parallel intellectual efforts to articulate an alternative…

New Labour was outwardly hostile to trade unions and their concerns. Yet the Blair government worked closely with the TUC on…

This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These…

This work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for…

This book provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in Europe and examines the impact of…

The authors discuss the impact of foreign aid and tackle the question of why assessing the impact of aid is so difficult.…

An examination of the ways in which the artists and writers of the 1940s developed and extended approaches from earlier…

A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically…

Over the last decade a number of prison theatre programs have developed to rehabilitate inmates by having them perform…

Szefel investigates the use of poetry in addressing political reform at the turn of the twentieth century. It charts the…

Working at the intersection of medical, theological, cultural, and literary studies, this book offers an innovative approach…

This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of 'tensions' related to care for children and the elderly. It…

By highlighting the scope and limitations of local NGO agencies, this book presents a unique perspective of the relationship…

• Čeština

The issue of defining and redefining enmity has been at the heart of constitutional justice since South Korea's change of…

Does evolution inform the ancient debate regarding the roles that reason and instinct play in how we decide what to do?…

This landmark collection brings leading scholars in the field of political communication to debate one of the most important…

Through case studies, theoretical research and interviews with leading players in science and governance, this book…