The earliest complete morality play in English, The Castle of Perseverance depicts the culture of medieval East Anglia, a…

This book interrogates the current reputation of Psychology, both as an industry and as part of the academy. It disputes…

The progressive raising of the school-leaving age has had momentous repercussions for our understanding of childhood and…

This book aims to explore the social and cultural issues within the economic changes that have given rise to service work.…

Using innovative empirical data, this book presents a unique approach to looking at moments, exploring the deeper meanings…

Combining case studies with normative theory, this book analyzes the democratic credentials of transnational actors…

How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world…

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Drawing on case-studies from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, International Migration and Sending Countries…

This book aims to further the understanding of migration processes and policies in a European context with a particular…

Flamboyant, cultured and refined, aristocracy is often seen as a national treasure. This is a book about the political,…

Exchange programs are often considered to create goodwill for host countries among foreign citizens - yet is this the case?…

The book explains the Putin era's ambivalent approach to Asia and finds lessons from earlier approaches worthy of further…

This book highlights the limitations of the process of democratisation in a country which lacked a previous democratic…

The question of whether or not George Eliot was what would now be called a feminist is a contentious one. This book argues,…

While studies on drug misuse to date have examined drug use in the context of sporting performance, addiction, and body…

According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighbourhoods social…

This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental…

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This is the first book to collect academic studies examining issues related to the potential internationalization of the…

Drawing on the Latin American political economy, this book brings to the fore empirical questions on different patterns of…

Comparing the experience of East Asia and Latin America since the mid-1970s, Elson identifies the key internal factors…

Seriality and Texts for Young People is a collection of thirteen scholarly essays about series and serial texts directed to…

An in-depth account of EU policies in the area of public service broadcasting, focusing mainly on the application of the…

This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British…

This anthology examines the effects of economic orthodoxy on the French left. They have adapted to economic orthodoxy and to…

Beginning with the sibling model of Anna Barbauld and John Aikin, and concluding with the intergenerational model presented…

How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time?…

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Based on a flagship research project for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Immigration and Inclusion programme, this book…

Through the use of a historical-institutional perspective and with particular reference to the Czech Republic, Hungary,…

The first book in English to offer an extended comparative analysis of Heidegger and Deleuze. Those familiar with…

This book demonstrates how oral history can provide a valuable way of understanding locality, which is important in light of…

Eighteenth-century drama is often dismissed as homogenous, aesthetically uninteresting, or politically complacent. This book…

Uses research and real world case materials to examine how market performance can be sustained, even during a period of…

This book examines how many women active in revolutionary movements develop feminist identities and how this identity…

This book provides a critical analysis of the liberal ideas of the decline of the state through a historical comparison. The…

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'The book's radical message "save livelihoods not just lives" should be on the desk of every policy-maker concerned with…

Using primary source information, including interviews with the key decision-makers, this is an examination of the process…

In this volume practitioners and theorists from East and West assess the results of four years of transformation in Eastern…

This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space…

Eliot: The Poet as Christian, this gracefully executed new book brings to a triumphant conclusion the unique effort to…

Using a cognitive approach to literature, this book uncovers representations of self-consciousness in selected modern…

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Monique Taylor analyses the policy rationale and institutional underpinnings of China's state-led or neomercantilist oil…

Sustainable Development in Malaysia and Indonesia examines a range of topics pertaining to sustainable development in the…

This book is a study of contemporary Radio 4 output, covering the entire broadcast day. Reading Radio 4, by contrast,…

Faced with falling social cohesion governments have sought to revitalise society by trying to reconstruct local communities,…

Over the past three decades, professions across the European Union have faced significant and radical challenges. This book…

This book uncovers a historical dependency on smelting activities that has trapped inhabitants of La Oroya, Peru, in a…

This book holds classical liberalism responsible for an American concept of beauty that centers upon women, wilderness, and…

Work and well-being is one of the fastest growing areas of concern to business, public sector and government. This book…