When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption…

This study seeks to explain the impact of historical narratives on the inclusiveness and pluralism of citizenship models.…

What does it mean to talk about everyday racism, and why should we do so? Racism and Everyday Life brings together the…

This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and…

Returning to questions about ideology and subjectivity, Flisfeder argues that Slavoj Žižek's theory of film aims to…

This book examines current policy discussions around the migration-development nexus and subjects them to rigorous…

As the international community struggles with major issues such as deforestation, it is increasingly turning to sustainable…

Beyond the Spanish State is a well researched and accessibly written study of EU policy-making in Spain.…

By comparing the importance of representative democracy to the EU as enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty with the political…

This is an original study of the sociological imagination in regard to visual culture. It explores the reflexive dimensions…

The study of lynching in US history has become a well-developed area of scholarship. However, scholars have rarely included…

The book uses the long-standing theatre metaphor to bring political spectators out into the open, finding that they can be…

Richard J. Bernstein, who has played a leading role in "the pragmatist turn" in contemporary philosophy, replies to twelve…

As higher education is disrupted by technology and takes place less and less on campus, what does meaningful community…

This book explores Levinas' phenomenology of ethical motivation. In this book, the author locates this ethics in embodiment,…

Often seen as a mirroring the contemporary movement of American history itself, Scott Fitzgerald's literary life was a…

Self-esteem is a concept which everybody experiences but there is conceptual confusion between self-feelings and…

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With Asia as its backdrop, this book investigates the role played by the World Bank Group (WBG) in conceptualising and…

This book compares the Communist parties of India and South Africa in their pursuits of socialist democracy. Williams looks…

This book challenges the view of the relationship between Kant's and Sartre's practical philosophies arguing that Kant was…

Drawing on work in social psychology, narrative ethics, and feminist philosophy, the author presents a new account which…

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International Relations and the Origins of the Pacific War takes the unique approach of examining the history of the…

This book considers neopopulism as a central issue to understand patterns of women's citizenship construction in many…

Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows…

This book offers a compelling account of how America's combat soldiers experienced Europe during World War II.…

The essays in this volume explore the new power struggles created in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong through information…

This resounding defence of the principles of free expression revisits the Satanic Verses uproar of 1989, as well as…

The mass media, press and television have always been central in the formation of corporate identity and the promotion of…

In this book, university teachers provide case studies illustrating methods employed to prepare citizens for meaningful…

Based on extensive analysis of surveys from recent decades, this book provides a detailed study of the attitudes of…

With only one learner, it is possible for the teacher to give serious attention to principles of second language acquisition…

This book introduces a constructivist approach to the study of terrorism and shows how language in the media affects our…

This book is about forms of media that have reflected or increased consciousness of - a sense of place or a regional…

Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of…

Companies operating in post-crisis Asia find themselves confronted by obstacles that hinder development and progress. By…

This book explores the gradual evolution of Adult literacy policy from the 1970s using philosophical, sociological and…

This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on…

This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from…

Domestic violence in adolescent romantic relationships is an increasingly important and only recently acknowledged social…

Combining a fresh, previously unexplored view of the subject with a detailed overview of the past and ongoing philosophical…

Enacting Globalization consists of a rich set of papers with a variety of disciplinary perspectives, focusing on…

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How can fair cooperation and a stable peace be reached in the international realm? Peace, Justice and International Order…

This lively and provocative study offers a radical reappraisal of a century of Shakespearean theatre. Topics addressed…

While recent Labour and coalition governments have insisted that many unemployed people prefer state benefits to a job, and…

This book explores continuity and change in British multiculturalism. It offers an original perspective on British…

Dance has proliferated in movies, television, Internet, and retail spaces while the spiritual power of dance has also been…

There is a complex relationship between performance, youth, and the shifting material circumstances (social, cultural,…

This book analyses gaming magazines published in Britain in the 1980s to provide the first serious history of the bedroom…