In this fascinating study, Boden considers the changing social and cultural significance of the wedding in Britain. The book…

This book situates John Clare's long, prolific but often badly neglected literary life within the wider cultural histories…

War and Social Welfare: Reconstruction after Conflict addresses the issues of rebuilding social assistance and pension…

This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story…

Drawing on case studies of budget groups in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia this book is the first comprehensive…

Language policies impact language choice, language prestige, and language spread. Rising regional integration, both formal…

This book explores how the European Commission faced the challenge of enlargement. Based on extensive interviews, the work…

The essays in this collection work toward a larger goal of separating 'globalization' from strictly economic considerations.…

An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life-writing in…

The author demonstrates the significant role that some of the Edwardian philosophers played in the formation of Russell's…

Focusing on how policy makers make decisions in foreign policy, this book examines how beliefs are causal mechanisms which…

Individuals have little incentive to vote, acquire political information or contribute campaign funds, because their vote…

This volume highlights the impact of global trends on defense reform and civil-military relations, including phenomena such…

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The question of how to move beyond contentious pasts exercises societies across the globe. Focusing on Northern Ireland,…

This book explores the ways that institutions play a role - or fail to - in Japanese and American approaches to regional…

Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and…

In this study of the Comparative Political Economy of East and South Asia, the author adopts an interdisciplinary…

In the last few years there has been a big expansion in the range of applications of mentoring in business and in the scope…

Leading authors within organization studies and also from broader social science disciplines present the state of the art in…

Introduces you to a valuable set of tools enabling you to build influence, promote your interests and get buy-in to your…

This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet…

Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram argue for the benefits of social reproduction as a lens through which to understand…

Taking a new look at two controversial topics, American anti-Communism and the Cold War, this book reveals the little known…

How have power and agency been revealed in educational issues involving minorities? More specifically: how have politicians,…

This book examines how sole parents are constituted within university contexts, through social discourse and social policies.…

A ground-breaking collection by thirteen distinguished international scholars; this volume presents fresh perspectives on…

This book offers a critical analysis of the effect of usage of locative social media on the perceptions and phenomenal…

This book examines contemporary relations between ethnic majority and ethnic minority women's movements in Norway, Spain and…

This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary…

Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Wessendorf explores life in a super-diverse urban neighbourhood. The book…

Reform and Responsibility in the Remaking of the Swedish National Pension System is a detailed study through Sweden's…

More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift's writing remains striking and relevant. In this engaging study, Atkins…

In this systematic and mutual interrogation of radical democratic theory and Internet practice, contributors examine a range…

This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a…

This study on New World-utopian politics in The Tempest traces paradigm shifts in literary criticism over the past six…

This important contribution to the study of the problem of order, which figures prominently in today's globalization debate,…

The nature of global governance is changing, as are the standards by which we judge its legitimacy. We are witnessing a…

Drawing on key concepts in sociology and management, this history describes a remarkable institute that has elevated medical…

This study addresses the management of victims and victim policy under the Coalition government, in light of an increasing…

China's combination of authoritarian rule and a market-oriented economy has proven simultaneously appealing and a source of…

Across much of the world there is now a standard secondary school curriculum based on a traditional array of subjects. This…

From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture.…

For the education system to remain responsive to the needs and demands of its multiple stakeholders it must embrace the…

This book explores the experiences of young people as they move through the Irish secondary educational system. With…

The World Bank and the IMF dominate policy-making in Africa today. This book considers the consistency between their…

In the French Republic political leadership is normally provided by the presidency, albeit from a very narrow constitutional…