This new edition offers fascinating insights into one of the most celebrated love affairs of the Middle Ages. A new chapter…

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In this book, the authors explore the controversial Iranian nuclear programme through the conceptual lens of nuclear…

This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a…

This is the most complete and compelling account of idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture to date. Engaging with the…

Rightness as Fairness provides a uniquely fruitful method of 'principled fair negotiation' for resolving applied moral and…

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This book sheds new light on the life and work of Janusz Korczak, the twentieth century humanist moral educator and…

Using the work of W.Bion and D.Winnicott, this book offers a psychoanalytic study of Beckett's aesthetics of absence.…

Inspired by the work of the radical literary scholar, the late Sally Ledger, this volume provides a commentary on the…

This book documents and investigates the stories we have told and continue to tell about technology-now the dominant feature…

This book focuses on linguistic practices of identity construction in a popular culture media context, the Eurovision Song…

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This book is the only comprehensive study in a European language that analyzes how Sufi treatises, Qur'anic commentary,…

Using interview data collected from 165 women of three different cohorts in urban China during the 2000-2008 period, this…

This volume explores how international organizations became involved in the making of global development policy, and looks…

Seeking clarity about the conflict in Ukraine and responding to the urgent need to analyze Europe's energy prospects outside…

This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society,…

This book unearths Carter's deconstruction of the male-dominated discipline of Western thought. By re-examining Carter's…

British women were deeply invested in foreign policy between the wars. This study casts new light on the turn to…

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In addition, the intertwinement of social witchcraft with narratives of supernatural experiences, closely associated with…

The book also crucially introduces a new, holistic approach to designing human-technology interaction. The book is suitable…

This landmark book offers a comprehensive analysis of how development approaches have evolved since World War II, examining…

This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present.…

Drawing from theories of digital citizenship and posthuman theory, Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First Century Young Adult…

Despite growing concern about intergenerational tension and even possible conflict, the book finds evidence of a significant…

This book illustrates the unnaturalness of modern science and technology by tracing their cognitive, evolutionary, and…

Aims to increase awareness about the specific circumstances of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) diversity.…

This volume is complemented by the sister volume Dangerous Language - Esperanto under Hitler and Stalin which offers a…

Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding…

Introduces the reader to Whitehead's complex and often misunderstood metaphysics by showing that it deals with questions…

In this book, the author provides a comprehensive overview of the intense and sustained work on the relationship between…

This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben…

This book brings together a body of new research which looks both backwards and forwards to consider how far the London 2012…

Combining transcultural and comparative approaches, the essays collected here exemplify the emerging field of German-Asian…

Over the last decade the implementation of the Bologna Process, an ambitious reform of European higher education systems,…

Combining insights from leading academic research and experienced managers, this book provides a systematic framework to…

This book builds a compelling picture of injustices inside immigration detention centers, within the context of the rise of…

This book applies the psychopathy concept toward the understanding of crime.…

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This book explores the personal experiences of professionals who are a part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing…

Cultural idealism in various forms has become enormously influential as a framework for Black studies. In turn, Ferguson…

This book analyzes the discourse generated by pundits, politicians, and artists to examine how poverty and the income gap is…

This is the first sustained study of Samuel Beckett and testimony. It offers new readings of the problem of unspeakability…

Is science typically for White men? Is science for 'people like us'? This book explores the science career aspirations of…

Why have some nations acquired nuclear weapons while others have refrained from doing so? Most research related to this…

This book traces the aesthetic of wonder from the romantic period through contemporary philosophy and literature, arguing…

This book examines manufactured waste and remaindered humans in literary critiques of capitalism by twentieth-century…

In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down.…

This book investigates how policy, family background, social class, gender and ethnicity influence young people's post-16…

This book examines and critiques the fact that Chile's claims to economic exceptionalism have been embodied, often quite…

This title contains six autobiographical works that Yeats published in the mid 1930s. Together, they provide a fascinating…