Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese…

The book investigates the substance of the European Union's (EU) democracy promotion policy. It focuses on elections, civil…

In addressing the politics of the international regulation of public procurement, this book fills a major gap in the…

Federal and state funding agencies have invested billions of dollars into secondary STEM (Science, Technology, Education,…

In a major new theory of criminal behavior, Mark Colvin argues that chronic criminals emerge from a developmental process…

This collection of essays looks at the impact on women of the political changes which have taken place in East-Central…

The Bologna Process has significantly shaped recent higher education policies across Europe but the impact of the social…

Based on ethnographic research within the extreme metal community, Unger offers a thought-provoking look at how symbols of…

This book examines the role governments play in managing policy challenges such as religion, romance, gender relations,…

This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of…

This book is concerned with home affairs or social policy in the British system - in particular in education, health,…

An analysis of think-tanks in Britain and Germany and their role in the re-making of the British Labour party and Germany's…

Media Literacy and Semiotics provides helpful tools to help readers think critically about the meaning of the media images…

This book argues for a modern version of liberal arts education, exploring first principles within the divine comedy of…

With contributions from experts on democracy promotion, this volume examines civil society development and external civil…

This comprehensive study of the rise of multinational corporations from emerging economies explores the basis of their…

The last 15 years has seen an explosion of studies that use cognitive science to understand theatre, whilst at the same time…

Explains how the study of poetry, by providing experiences similar to those produced by poetry therapy, can help students…

Sharing a commitment to the theory of communication to Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action , Grant here issues a range…

This book provides a comparative analysis of how two radical left parties achieved government participation and their…

This edited collection examines the role that language has played in forming modern European nations. With language an…

The contributors to Internationalising the University: the Chinese Context offer an in-depth understanding of the rapidly…

Freedom in the Anthropocene illuminates the Anthropocene from the perspective of critical theory. The authors contextualize…

Leading scholars investigate media policies in Europe, inquiring into the regulatory practices, policy tools and…

The rapid increase in adoption of modern 'connective' technologies like the mobile phone has reshaped the social landscape…

What has been the impact on social cohesion of contemporary cities in Europe, of the rise of new social risks and of the…

This collection examines the intersection of historical recollection, strategies of representation, and reading practices in…

A collection of essays pioneering new concepts in cross-cultural psychology based on the work of Philip E.Vernon, a pioneer…

This book examines the interdisciplinary foundations of pragmatismfrom a literary perspective, tracing the characters and…

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A long-term evaluation and analysis of the UK's involvement in Sierra Leone before and after the conflict which ended in…

This book explores the role of masculinity in shaping citizenship in the western world. Can the universal ideal of…

An exploration of the role of language attitudes and ideologies in predicting the survival prospects of a minority language.…

Molloy depicts a relationship between Canada and the US based on envy, rivalry, and misunderstanding. Drawing on a range of…

Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the extent to which, how, and how fast the infrastructure needs of…

The author examines new development strategies in the context of globalisation and the crisis of the Washington Consensus.…

The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil examines the interrelationships among peasant mobilization, agrarian reform and…

To 'rematerialize' in the sense of Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English…

A Critical Pedagogy for Native American Education Policy is an application of critical pedagogical theory to historical and…

This book examines connections between personal, relational and material matters in everyday life in the context of broader…

This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation. In-depth case studies of grammatical patterns…

Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentially unruly nature of metaphorical utterances in…

Examines the borderline between traditional economic theory and the particular problems of developing countries. The ethics…

Focusing on the methodological principles which underlie sociologists' study of social reality, this text offers…

Through a comparative case study analysis of the United Kingdom and Germany, with references to the United States, this…

Academic freedom has been a principle that undergirds the university since 1915. Spanning a wide array of disciplinary…

This volume highlights women's work sustaining local economies and environments, particularly in response to the current…

This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a "plague" results in discrimination against certain…

From a screenwriting perspective, Batty explores the idea that the protagonist's journey is comprised of two individual yet…