Humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Throughout history, it…

This book employs the image of "shrapnel," bits of scattered metal that can hit purposeful targets or unwitting bystanders,…

This book examines a wide range of works written by and about child survivors and victims of the Holocaust. Throughout, the…

This book draws on original material and approaches from the developing fields of the history of emotions and childhood…

At Home in the Institution examines space and material culture in asylums, lodging houses and schools in Victorian and…

Stops on the way will include critical geopolitics, religious geopolitics, popular geopolitics, feminist geopolitics, and,…

The future of higher education is in question as universities struggle to remain relevant to the present and future needs of…

In this book, the authors share stories of creative, community based collaborations to illustrate how educators can use the…

This book explores some of the major forces and changes in higher education across the world between 1945 and 2015. There…

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Agon Hamza offers an in-depth analysis of the main thesis of Louis Althusser's philosophical enterprise alongside a clear,…

The authors present a framework that will allow systemic analysis of this dynamic environment and support further discussion…

This book provides an appreciative, sociological engagement with accounts of the embodied practice of self-injury. It shows…

This study has been revised to include new finds about the composition dates of several Mozart works. A new bibliography and…

This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor intermediation services can help…

This book uses the case studies of Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chávez in order to introduce the…

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This second edition explores how money 'works' in the modern economy and synthesises the key principles of Modern Money…

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Provides insights into a lively field of international human rights politics - the protection of children and their rights -…

The first book to systematically discuss the skills and literacies needed to use digital media, particularly the Internet,…

Challenging notions of what constitutes 'normal' and 'pathological' bodies, this ambitious, agenda-setting study…

Development in an Era of Capital Control investigates Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a 21st century buzz word.…

This book draws together research on posthumanism and studies of kinship to elaborate an account of western human kinship…

This book highlights the developmental changes in aggression and violence during adolescence from a uniquely psychological…

This book is a comparative study of educational policies over the past two decades in Latin America. The book assesses the…

This volume brings together a fascinating selection of studies exploring the soft power tools used by heirs to the throne in…

Based on archival research on three continents, this book addresses the interpenetration of two closely related movements:…

This book provides a radical rethinking of the prominent Indian thinker Rabindranath Tagore, exploring how his philosophy of…

Citizens in our deeply, angrily divided world desperately need peaceful and productive ways of relating to each other.…

This book increases the awareness of youth political agency and how it relates to adults, governments, communities, and…

This is a comparative study of prisoners' human rights in England, Wales and the Netherlands. In this context, the study…

This book explores the political integration of Muslims and Islam across contemporary democracies. It sheds new light on the…

This book analyses parental anxieties about their children's healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider…

At the heart of this book is one of the most ancient and profound question philosophers, spiritual seekers, and curious…

This book is about how Chinese men make sense of and practise fatherhood within the context of changing gender conventions…

This work examines the impoverished image of life presupposed by the legacy of transcendent and representational thinking…

This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across…

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This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the mainstream…

This book presents an analysis of the current Lebanese media system. From a theoretical angle, it discusses the extent to…

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the correlates and consequences of residential relocation. Drawing on…

This intriguing book applies Critical Discourse Analysis to a range of South Asian women's lifestyle magazines, exposing the…

This book explores the ways in which emotions were conceptualised and practised in Christian mission contexts from the…

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of the ways in which British women's golden age crime narratives…

Comprehensive in coverage this textbook, written by academics from leading institutions, discusses current developments and…

The book explains why and how Wittgenstein adapted the Tractatus in phenomenological and grammatical terms to meet…

This book confronts the issues young people face growing up in the confusion and anxiety of today's highly global society.…

This book reassesses Hardy's fiction in the light of his prolonged engagement with the folklore and traditions of rural…

This book reconstructs the intellectual and social context of several influential proponents of European unity before and…

This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history, operation, and growth of film festivals as a…