• Rok vydání 2024

\nWhy has the office of Prime Minister endured longer than any other democratic political office? Sir Anthony Seldon,…

This Element explores the changing landscape of eBook businesses and cultures in China in the past two decades and examines…

\nCompanies design their products, business models, and marketing strategies to stop us from repairing the devices we own.…

\nA fundamental reassessment of how Germany lost the First World War. Using diaries, letters and memoirs of key actors and…

This Element explains how ballot designs affect the behavior of voters, the performance of candidates, and the strategies of…

\nExamining the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this book explores the Spring not as a series of failed revolutions but as…

\nA comprehensive and timely account of Hong Kong\'s development from precolonial times to the present, City of the Edge…

\nThis authoritative and up-to-date single-volume history charts the history of Albania and its people, within their Balkan…

\nExamining the practice of \'political technology\', this book explores how Russia is no longer a democracy but an…

Many people interested in Japan have no background in economic theory of contracting; many people with that economic…

Why is it hard to solve the climate crisis, and what can we do? This book answers these questions, which are of interest to…

• Počet stran 268
• Rok vydání 2024

A very timely study of Russia's emergence as a global energy power from the Russian Revolution to the present day. It…

Situating Elizabeth Bishop's writing within a range of biographical, historical, literary and philosophical contexts,…

Based on years of unique access to Islamists, generals, and business elites, Harry Verhoeven tells the story of Africa's…

It is arguable that the most important event in the world economy in recent decades has been the rise of China. This Element…

This Element focuses on opera as a product that both challenged and was challenged in the Andes by other forms of performing…

\nThis book is of interest to all those who value and seek to understand the humanities. Beginning in the Italian…

Analyzing the previously unexplored religious views of the Nazi elite, Richard Steigmann-Gall argues against the consensus…

\nIn a new interpretation of the past, present and future of climate-related conflicts and threats, this volume explores the…

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\nIn this book Hormoz Farhat has unravelled the art of the dastgah by analysing their intervallic structure, melodic…

\nHow do the organizational structure and rules of political parties affect political engagement and its reproduction?…

In a challenging and authoritative analysis, Parvin Paidar considers how Iranian women have been affected, and their…

\nIn an innovative, comprehensive account of the Lausanne Conference, Hans-Lukas Kieser recounts how the Conference…

\nThis book offers a unique look at historical policymaking to explore how nineteenth-century fiction writers influenced the…

This Element shows how joining the European Union helped Ireland energize what had been a stagnant agricultural backwater.…

• Rok vydání 2016

This book will be used in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on East Asia, authoritarianism, contentious…

Citizen Cowboy examines Will Rogers, one of twentieth-century America's most beloved cultural figures, and how his life and…

This new edition of Italy: A Short History presents a clear and concise account of the principal developments in Italian…

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Serhii Plokhy tells the fascinating story of The History of the Rus', one of the most influential historical texts of the…

This is a book on public opinion told through the eyes of the pollster. It looks at public opinion as a concept and in…

In early modern Europe, print culture shaped and disseminated knowledge about Russia through visual means. Using case…

This scrupulously researched and entertaining study of women's education at Cambridge, first published by Gollancz in 1975,…

\nThis book focuses on exclusivist Indian nationalism, and identifies its distinction from inclusivist nationalism. It…

Designed as a contextual and critical resource for scholars and students, this volume\'s 42 essays examine novelist Henry…

\nMaps the politics and processes contributing to the distinct developmental trajectory of Tamil Nadu, southern India.…

\nLegal frameworks to \'reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation\' (REDD+) are analysed to focus on…

\nWhat has changed for the better or worse during fourteen years of Conservative government? Anthony Seldon and his team…

This Element argues that the territories and peoples associated with China have played vital roles in the emergence of…

\nThis timely book consists of letters addressed to two young radicals from both sides of the political spectrum who are…

\nThe Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac brings together 19 leading Kerouac scholars, who offer fresh perspectives on his…

• Počet stran 378
• Rok vydání 2022

Inequality and poverty in Africa is typically explained as a function of the lack of human capital, the lack of physical…

• Počet stran 200
• Rok vydání 2021

Urban researchers and development practitioners, would benefit from the book's narratives of the old poor in inner city…

A text for historians and historical geographers on a key moment in post-abolition labour history, focusing on the…

A global history of ideas linking capitalism, colonialism, labour and liberalism, the book will interest historians and…

• Počet stran 287
• Rok vydání 2013

The Dutch revolt against Spain in the sixteenth century and Britain's civil wars in the seventeenth were the first major…

\nDublin: A Writer\'s City can be imagined as a map of one of the world\'s great literary cities, taking the reader,…

Ireland has rarely been out of the news during the past thirty years. Whether as a war-zone in which Catholic nationalists…

\nThis book explores the powerful continuing influence of Spinoza\'s metaphysical thinking in late eighteenth- and early…