After identifying the typical features of the museum press release, new media more recently adopted by museums, such as web…

This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods. It…

The book shows how teachers struggled to liberate their country's education system from the legacy of dictatorship,…

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A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a…

This book provides a disturbing account of the reality of child abuse. Based on data from 152 countries, Einar Helander…

This book identifies chances and barriers women face in their transition to adulthood in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria.…

Examines black voters' relationship to the political process and to the first black president in a prematurely post-racial…

This book describes and analyzes migration of individuals from San Cosme Mazatecochco in central Mexico to a new United…

This study analyses the shift in the relationship between large and smaller firms from confrontation and conflict, to…

Drawing on cultural anthropology and cultural studies, this book sheds new light on the everyday politics of heritage and…

Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence…

This book on the different aspects of international economic policy covers financial crises, reserve accumulation, capital…

This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder to argue that medical understandings…

Migration expert Bastian Vollmer explores the contentious issue of irregular migration in the highly-charged contexts of…

Analyzes the differences in the approach to Soviet trade between the US and Germany since 1917. It provides an historical…

An exploration of the ways that multiple inequalities are being addressed in Europe. Using country-based and region-specific…

Price on the topics of psychical research and survival of death, collected from a wide variety of sources unavailable to…

Nabokov gained international fame with Lolita, a highly erotic and morally disturbing novel. Through its comprehensive study…

This study combines an account of Blair, Chirac, Schröder and their attitudes towards European integration. It analyzes…

Pairing cultural analysis in urban contexts with interdisciplinary approaches to political culture, this book argues that…

This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and…

Informal Justice in Divided Societies examines the ways in which paramilitary and vigilante activity are linked with…

This book explores 'wicked entrepreneurship', or the proliferation of evil that harms our economic and social transactions,…

The authors discussed in this book, including James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and…

What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and…

China's exponential rise and America's relative decline have led to a transition of power in contemporary Asia. The US pivot…

Illuminates the interplay between regional concerns and the international context, which together define the hierarchy of…

Evaluating the ways in which we construe consumer choice, this book examines the psychology, methods and realities of the…

From the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, the essays in this volume break new ground and…

This book contributes to understanding of the contemporary relationship between Muslims and the Western societies in which…

This collection offers a comprehensive account of the relation between diaspora and media cultures. It analyses the politics…

While urban films often reinforce spatial stereotypes, they can also produce a resistant reading that helps transgress…

An examination of the philosophical issues surrounding prudential value: what it is for something to be good for a person;…

A refreshing insight into a previously neglected area of popular British cinema - the holiday film - including historical…

Inspired by a conference held at Northeastern University on the topic of Women, War, and Violence, editors Robin M.…

This books explains, on the basis of archival evidence and a simple economic model, why and how the gold standard collapsed…

Social Work and Animals represents a pioneering contribution to the literature of social work ethics and moral philosophy.…

McDowell and Braniff explore the relationship between commemoration and conflict in societies which have engaged in peace…

Carter illuminates and validates the vital role of visioning in social education. The book features peace in social…

This book examines how international aid donors and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) can assist countries in the…

Undertaking a thorough and timely investigation of the relationship between television and cinema in Britain since 1990,…

Contemporary cultural studies have marginalized "agency," namely the power of people to shape social life. Here, Stephen…

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The end of the Cold War has seen an international proliferation of parliamentary bodies of all types and at all levels. How…

This collection of essays uncovers a wide array of medieval writings on cosmopolitan ethics and politics, writings generally…

A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical…

Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Youngkin shows the oftentimes limited but pervasive…

This book ranges from refugee camps in Palestine to halting sites of the Irish Travellers and elsewhere in search of a new…

The current state of knowledge of African American language is examined from a broad, multidisciplinary perspective that…