This book examines the importance of politeness in pragmatic expression and communication, making a significant contribution…

Part of a series which looks at contemporary criticism on neglected literary and cultural areas, this book examines the…

• Čeština

Finnish Women Making Religion puts forth the complex intersections that Lutheranism, the most important religious tradition…

This book briefly surveys the evolution of the Western concept of development, recognizing the wider dimensions of human and…

How did globalization come to dominate our lives? What have been, are, and most likely will be globalization's potential…

Literary Translation: Redrawing the Boundaries is a collection of articles that gathers together current work in literary…

Positing that democratization requires a clearly defined counter-culture, based on the political economy of social, economic…

Re-examining the long-held belief that the Sixties in Britain were dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest', the authors in…

In this book, Dimitra Hartas explores parenting and its influence on children's learning and wellbeing while examining the…

In this collection, leading international scholars examine riots and protest in a range of countries and contexts, exploring…

This book serves as analysis of the aesthetics of materiality in the multifaceted work of Antonin Artaud, one of…

This volume explores the role of women in business in nineteenth-century Northern French textile centers. This book…

This books explores the phenomenon of irregular migration, notably the organization and role of migrant smuggling networks…

A topical, up-to-date and highly authoritative survey of the highly controversial debate around reform of the European…

This compelling book explores how Egyptian bloggers used citizen journalism and cyberactivism to chip away at the state's…

This book traces the development of British answers to the problem of childhood cancer. The establishment of the NHS and…

This book provides an engaging account of the moral lives of young black South Africans once the struggle against apartheid…

Despite considerable progress on political and economic convergence over the last decade, financial structures of individual…

This book explores Australia's role as a US client state and the subsequent consequences for Australian democracy. Examining…

This book examines US foreign policy toward the so-called 'rogue states' and the products of the Hollywood film industry in…

Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy…

This book provides institutional information and uses analytical tools to explains why governments should intervene in…

Bringing together multiple sources of data and combining existing theories across language teacher cognition, teacher…

The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies from across the USA, Europe and…

Combining theory, case studies and speculative fiction, a range of contributors, from leading UK academics to pioneering…

Drawing on cross-national European data from the European Social Survey as well as Swedish national survey data and…

The contributors to this text discuss the cases for and against the reprocessing of spent reactor fuel elements to remove…

Including relevant case studies and interviews with practitioners, Augmented Education explores the nature of learning where…

This book engages in that debate, exploring the implications of shifting to greener, cleaner energy sources. This book…

Democracy in Southeast Asia seems to be in crisis. The contributors to this volume argue that this is a crisis of democratic…

In order to better understand processes of European integration, this book offers a new perspective that compares past…

This interdisciplinary monograph applies the theory of games of strategy (or game theory) to an important subset of American…

What did the cosmetic practices of middle-class women in the nineteenth century have in common with the repair of men's…

In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden , Mikkelsen reinvigorates…

Although current debates in epistemology and philosophy of mind show a renewed interest in perceptual illusions, there is no…

These studies of Argentina, Nicaragua and Cuba, alongside comparative discussions of socialism, women's movements and…

This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for…

This book explores and analyzes how the Arab Spring has affected the political and economic relationships between the West,…

This book traces the shifting meanings of security and geopolitics in Central European states that acceded into the EU or…

Is ventriloquism just for dummies? What is at stake in neo-Victorian fiction's desire to 'talk back' to the nineteenth…

Contemporary critical theory has customarily been dominated by French and German thought. However, a new wave of Italian…

The contributors to this volume reference a shared, longitudinal corpus of spontaneous conversation elicited in natural…

The central theme of this book is the relationship between the regulation of energy production and environmental regulation.…

Choreographic Dwellings: Practising Place offers new readings of the kinaesthetic experiences of site-specific and nomadic…

• Čeština

We are understandably reluctant to "rank" moral atrocities. What is worse, genocide or terrorism? In this book, Thomas W.…

This book argues that, given the existence of a discrete Malay archipelago security complex, it is a fallacy for the United…

American Education in Popular Media explores how popular media has represented schooling in the United States over the…

This book applies econometric techniques to test the relationship between efficiency and risk within the banking industry in…