Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy,…

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The 2011 split of Sudan and the conflicts that have followed make it a case of ongoing significance for understanding…

Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that…

This book explores the uses and limits of Max Weber's work for thinking sociologically about capitalism today. The books…

Describes developments in healthcare systems over nearly four decades. Combining cross-sectional studies on healthcare…

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Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own…

The popular imagination of marriage migration has been influenced by stories of marriage of convenience, of forced marriage,…

As the role of the multinational enterprise (MNE) in the economic development of countries grows, a focus on how MNEs…

Since the 1970s the public commitment to social solidarity between citizens through comprehensive provision of welfare has…

NATO has many European and global partner countries. The political and military utility of all these partnerships is clear;…

Was Thomas Hardy clinically depressed or just syphilitic? Was Egdon Heath imbued with melancholic vapours? And does this…

Richard Titmuss, Professor at the London School of Economics, adviser to governments, prolific author, was instrumental in…

This book discusses climate change as a social issue, examining the incompatibility of capitalist development and Earth's…

This book offers an in-depth examination of party finance and political corruption in a variety of political contexts. Its…

Focusing on male-on-male rape, this book looks at the common myths surrounding this taboo issue, including the idea that…

On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays is a collection of essays, biographies, review articles and tributes, focusing on the…

If we are becoming increasingly disconnected from our local communities, are there implications for health, well being and…

This book explains how public opinion polls were used in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. This book explains…

This book presents key insights about the challenges and the approaches they applied. All companies are featured in 15…

This book adopts a unique approach to innovation by focussing on how teams may deliver innovations capable of transforming…

LĂ©on Gambetta is renowned as a founder of the French Third Republic. This unique study of his correspondence with his…

Explores the need for political science to pay more attention to complex interactions involving politically relevant groups.…

'How to combine the community, the market, and the state in the total economic system is probably the most important agenda…

Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value,…

This comparative, interdisciplinary book explores the responses of the women's movement to World War I in all of the major…

Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the…

In this book, Richard Amesbury brings recent developments in Anglo-American philosophy into engagement with dominant…

This book highlights a hitherto neglected element of leadership - personality. Based around candid in-depth interviews with…

In this new collection of essays, a range of established and emerging cultural critics re-evaluate Richard Hoggart's…

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State borders regulate cross-border mobility and determine peoples\' chances to travel, work, and study across the globe.…

This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and…

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Modernist Nowheres explores connections in the Anglo-American sphere between early literary modernist cultures, politics,…

How did consumer culture become synonymous with westernised societies? Iqani argues that it is the way it is promoted by…

Reading is both a social process and a social formation, as this book illustrates across centuries and cultural contexts.…

Communicating simple but powerful ideas with passion, this book guides individuals and organizations through the techniques…

Based on a case-study carried out in the southern city of Guangzhou in China, the book describes in compelling detail the…

Academic inbreeding - appointing one's own graduates for academic positions - is a controversial but surprisingly common…

This book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new…

This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of…

Through a close-reading of the work of five prominent American postmodernist writers, this book re-evaluates the role of the…

John Clare, Politics and Poetry challenges the traditional portrait of \'poor John Clare\', the helpless victim of personal…

This book concerns itself with dress in the novels of Samuel Richardson, and how attire confirms, contributes to, or…

Investigates the transformation of German labour market policy, showing that Germany has departed from the…

Exploring research into mobile phone use as props to subjective identity, Norman Taylor employs concepts from Michelle…

While much has been written about South African education, now, for the first time, gathered in one collection are glimpses…

Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on…

In an environment in which brands have come under attack they argue that brands can be factors of progress if they are…

In this original study, Keith Crome argues for the importance of Lyotard's analyzes of sophistry. In the second section, the…