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

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…

This stimulating and comprehensive study of Will Self's work spans his entire career and offers insightful readings of all…

A study of distinct forms of mass violence, the narratives each kind demands, and the collective identities constructed from…

Examining Malory's political language, this study offers a revisionary view of Arthur's kingship in the Morte Darthur and…

This collection argues that although constitutionalism has traditionally been the primary mechanism for facilitating the…

By investigating women lifewriters' complex quest to distinguish themselves both within and from institutions and…

Just the Facts Ma'am is the only book written from an economics perspective that addresses one of the most remarkable cases…

Even if constrained in their international choices, recipient countries of global health programmes hold the capacity to…

This book focuses on US-UK relations with Jordan for the entire period of King Hussein's reign, explaining Hussein's…

While the fact that both countries possess nuclear weapons may prevent a full-blown conventional or nuclear war, the…

This work explores matrophobia - the fear not of one s mother or of motherhood but of becoming one s mother - in past and…

A close description of Amal El'Sana-Alh'jooj's experiences as a Palestinian Bedouin female activist, this book explores…

This collection is the first to examine the life experiences of young adult immigrants in Europe, as transmitted by the…

This book includes work on sadomasochism from across the social sciences including discussions of the history and culture of…

Exploring the transition of celebrities into institutional-electoral politics, the book argues that many insights developed…

This collection reflects on the significance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks for the transatlantic alliance. Offering an…

In Social Capability and Long-Term Economic Growth, an impressive panel of economists come together to develop a theory of…

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Human capital theory, developing children as future workers, shapes thinking about early childhood education policy around…

The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and…

The authors of this book argue that the "Scandinavian Model" could be a starting point for a more relevant theory of…

This book examines the nature of representation in democracy, focusing specifically on the factors shaping constituent…

In the first part of this book, Adam Max Cohen embraces the many meanings of wonder in order to challenge the generic…

This bold new reading of Orwell's work focuses upon his representation of communities and the myths that shape them. It…

This book highlights models for promoting interdisciplinary thinking and an appreciation for interdisciplinary understanding…

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Intense globalization, rapidly changing workplaces and family patterns have renewed the international interest in quality of…

What are the grounds for and limits to obedience to the state? This book offers a fresh analysis of the debate concerning…

This is the first sustained comparative examination of the importance of media attention on the provision of economic…

As a collection of alternative views on societies, methodologies, policies and assessment of the current elements of the…

Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult…

This edited volume explores development in the so-called 'fragile', 'failed' and 'pariah' states. It examines the literature…

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This volume provides theoretical treatments of remittance on how its development potential is translated into reality. The…

This lively study provides an account of the 'fall and rise' of the English nation within the British discipline of English…

An exploration of the representations of the women's movement, its members, and their goals between 1968 and 2008 in the…

Using Michel Foucault's idea of governmentality, this book reinterprets various cases of revolt and popular uprisings in…

This book investigates how women's power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of…

This volume examines the political engagement of religious associations in the post-socialist countries of Central and…

At a time of significant change in the precarious world of female individualization, this collection explores such phenomena…

The focus is placed on the period of emergence of insurgency (roughly, the 1970s and early 1980s), a period too often…

An engaging explanation and unique analysis of the increased involvement of the private sector in one of the world's most…

The book argues that the concept of self-defense in Islamic and International law is compatible. Al-Qaeda's declaration of…

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions…

This book is a collection of articles all contributing to the theme of changes in innovation and innovation processes, and…

This is the first in-depth analysis of the transition from the RUC to the PSNI seen through the eyes of key figures, inside…

This book analyses security cooperation in the domain of inter-regionalism, addressing the emergence of the African Union as…

Telling the stories behind television's approaches to race relations, multiculturalism and immigration in the 'Golden Age'…