The impact of globalization on the world's developing economies is not conclusive: studies show conflicting conclusions to…

This volume of twelve essays aims to comprehensively represent the abundance and variety of both Heaney's writing and…

This book presents an integral, cross-cultural reflection on the social reality of children's rights and citizenship, giving…

Dutch Sailmaker and sailor Jan Struys' (c.1629-c.1694) account of his various overseas travels became a bestseller after its…

They consider the role of ethical commitment in the philosophical analysis of contemporary political issues, and engage with…

Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during…

Robert Weatherley argues that Chinese perceptions of democracy and human rights have been heavily influenced by the pressing…

Explores the differences and similarities between two groups: lifelong activists who have been engaged in campaigns and…

This collection of essays attempts to address the disparate historical and critical ways religion informs the literature and…

This text comprises a selection of papers that provide state-of-the-art insights into research focusing on dimensions of…

Rose Elizabeth Cleveland was the First Lady of the United States when she assisted her brother, Grover Cleveland. She was…

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This book provides a detailed linguistic analysis of the nationalist discourses of the German Second Reich, which most…

The author scrutinizes the claim of policy-makers and experts that legal recognition of local water rights would reduce…

This book explores the social and political significance of contemporary recognition contests in areas such as disability,…

Recent years have seen constant reports on the failures of governance and the crisis of democracy. By examining cases like…

A unique, comparative survey of community-based research within a higher education context, featuring some of the top…

Tackles the criticism that the European Community is an unbalanced arrangement, where the path to closer integration may…

This book offers a careful and measured response to Noam Chomsky's criticism against deconstructive theories of language.…

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Original essays by distinguished philosophers from different fields of philosophy are brought together in this book.…

This book contextualizes how having a doula, or labor-support woman, present during childbirth results in lower rates of…

This study looks at the economic changes accompanying the 1974 social revolution in Ethiopia. It analyses the attempt to…

The book has three objectives: to expose students to the ways different US presidents handled major foreign policy making…

Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of…

This volume brings together a breadth of new research on how service-learning - combining community-based experiential…

Fear and terror have come to drive world politics, and the people who do the driving have shaped and used them to carry out…

Exposing how memory is constructed and mediated in different societies, this collection explores particular contexts to…

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This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields - the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the…

Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but…

This is a cutting edge book that not only maps and criticizes venture philanthropy but also offers a new and different way…

Twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took office, this timely text interrogates the extent to which the…

The central objective of this edited volume is to help unlock a set of intriguing puzzles relating to changing power…

Based on an analysis of the changing practice of sovereignty in Brazil, India and South Africa, this book argues that soft…

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This book tells the story of how Shari'ati developed a language of political Islam, speaking in an idiom intelligible to the…

This book examines the British government's negotiation of the Treaty on European Union which took place between December…

EU internal security concerns such as migration, police and judicial cooperation are today part of EU foreign policy. This…

This book draws on a range of sources, including tales of castaways, fictional narratives, and interviews with teachers in…

This study gives insights into the process of "imagining history" and argues the case for a humanistic approach. It shows…

What are the political and aesthetic dimensions of video art, documentary, and global cinema in contemporary image culture?…

This innovative book presents for the first time detailed histories of the impact of the Great War on British cinema in the…

Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Hölderlin, Verlaine, George, Mörike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the…

The argument offered in this book is that new technology, as opposed to traditional media such as television, radio, and…

Using a case study based approach, Weissmann analyses the post-Cold War East Asian security setting to demonstrate why there…

This volume addresses different issues related to green innovation procurement as well as exploring the challenges involved…

The conventional wisdom that political and economic actors in colonial countries are passive and reactive is undermined by…

Baker-Fletcher explores the Bible as a uniquely authoritative text within the context of Black church worship and service to…

This book uses the concept of political conflict to examine the effects of globalization on tobacco control policies.…

In Constructing Twenty-First Century Socialism: The Role of Radical Education, Motta and Cole explore the role of the…

This book investigates key issues facing leaders in increasingly complex decision-making environments as a result of…