Offering a critique of contemporary wedding discourse, this book marries together analyses of media texts and their…

This book explores the way older women are represented in society. Through close readings of novels by major 20th century…

This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in…

A stimulating and thought-provoking collection that challenges some of the emerging conventional wisdom about contemporary…

Supplies extensive material making it possible for the reader to understand how Thomas Jefferson's mind spanned the vast…

A reflection on the specific context of neoliberal capitalism and it's impact on education. The chapters establish the…

A rare academic study on what John Rawls, Peter Singer and Derek Parfit acknowledge as the finest book in ethics - The…

What links the interviews with Saddam Hussein and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on British and American TV, the chase of journalists…

As one of South Asia's oldest democracies Sri Lanka is a critical case to examine the limits of a liberal peace,…

The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture uses the notion of am?ra - the Egyptian concept of…

Finally the book explore how both younger and older consumers perceive the representation of older people in advertising as…

Thinking about Religion examines cutting-edge breakthroughs from across the sciences concluding that religion persists…

In 1899 Marcel Proust read a translation of Ruskin's The Lamp of Memory in a Belgian magazine. In between lay a period of…

Based on a reconstruction of earlier liberal conceptions of liberty (the political theories of John Locke & J.S. Mill), this…

This book proposes new tools and models to price options, assess market volatility, and investigate the market efficiency…

This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global…

Expansion and privatization have created new concerns over the quality of education throughout the Asia/Pacific region. This…

Corporations in conflict zones and their provision of security are particularly relevant for understanding whether private…

This book examines the possibility of reconciliation between liberalism and Shiite Islam. By examining two key liberal…

A political and analytical biography, this book examines Yizhak Rabin's longtime leadership of the military and his…

The book comprises thirteen papers on environmental issues, with particular reference to future developments (for example,…

While some poets engage their literary forebears to exorcise anxiety and others use Hell to sharpen their cultural critique,…

Dealing with the efforts of modernists to effect increasingly fraught identifications with an image of the hard, impersonal…

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A compilation of essays which examine the response of the new Right to health policy issues. While economic circumstances…

The book gives an in-depth analysis of the international concerns of European Social Democrats during the postwar period.…

Web-based school collaboration has attracted the sustained attention of educators, policy-makers, and governmental bodies…

As the referendum becomes a more regular component of decision making, it leaves few, if any, institutions, processes and…

This book analyses the foreign policy of the United States towards Cambodia by examining the belief system of the key…

In The Man Problem, Ross Honeywill posits that the potential for evil in all men is the social, political, and economic…

Ironically, the "developmental state" that has historically driven Asia's rapid economic transformation is now threatened by…

This book focuses on the problem of ethnic conflict in Africa and seeks to explain its root causes. The main thesis of the…

This collection presents a varied picture of the state of democracy in Asia, revealing unique findings from a project…

This book proposes a critical analysis of the new corporate responsibilities in a globalizing world. Rather than focusing on…

This book explores how technological change is influencing the dynamics of relations between mainland China and Taiwan.…

In this volume, experts on East Asia focus on each of the past five decades to explain the weak predictive power of…

British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 brings together for the first time a wide range of print and manuscript sources to…

This book seeks to explain how politics actually operates in the Japanese Diet using the author's bilayer theory or dual…

Combining a range of content with self-reflexive examination by scholars and practitioners, this edited volume interrogates…

Provides a provocative examination of the interplay between political culture and educational policy. The goal is to provide…

This book delves into the Theories of Nationalism, the contours of supranational activity within global politics,…

As well as reviewing traditional models, this book proposes an alternative model for estimating the cost of risk capital.…

Rules and Dispositions in Language Use explains how correct language use is governed by both rules and general human…

From which evaluative base should we develop policies designed to promote wellbeing among different cultural groups in…

Providing the most up-to-date tools and techniques for pricing interest rate and credit products for the new financial…

Through ten research projects, this book explores the topic of educational learning and development in order to examine…

A social tragedy is a collective representation of injustice. Baker demonstrates how social tragedies facilitate moral…

It is often argued that the enhanced consultation of civil society contributes to the democratization of European and global…

Analyzing women labeled as terrorists in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gender and the Political…