Dialectics in Social Thought examines the work of thinkers who used dialectics in their attempts to understand the world.…

Building on the philosophies of the social sciences and of religion, the book is concerned with the interplay between the…

Friends play a crucial role in international students' lives. This book explores the characteristics of the friendship…

This book reveals how 'double-voicing' is an inherent and routine part of spoken interactions within institutional contexts.…

Resulting from an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy, political science and International Relations about Europe…

Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia,this collection presentsempirical studies of print, recorded music, movies,…

It is the first study which comprehensively, systematically and critically examines the role and usefulness of the concept…

Contributors to this volume discuss different types of emergencies and conflicts and how challenging these multilingual…

The book examines the validity of Hedley Bull's distinction between system and society and argues that the distinction is…

This collection brings together pedagogical memoirs on significant topics regarding teaching race in college, including…

This book challenges the widely held assumption that a nuclear-armed Iran would provoke a proliferation cascade in the…

Much concern has been expressed about the scandal of physical and sexual abuse by care workers of children living in…

This book reinterprets the EU using classical and early modern republican political theory. Bypassing the nation-state, it…

The author narrates the end of the European crisis from the June 2012 European Council summit through the bailout of Cyprus.…

In this book, the author undertakes a postcolonial analysis of identities the Chinese state uses to confront world politics…

By rethinking contemporary debates regarding the politics of aesthetic forms, Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction…

Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as…

This collection attends to western women's struggles within Roman Catholicism by examining how women throughout the…

Global politics is a crowded stage of players competing for power and authority. Who is in charge of what? How do they stay…

This historical biography examines Sarah Raymond Fitzwilliam's abolitionist roots growing up on a stop of the Underground…

By looking at the three most recent economic crises, the S&L crisis, the dot-com bubble, and the recent subprime mortgage…

From bandage to the bioreactor, this book looks at five different device technologies from inception to healthcare practice,…

This book analyses the role of local content (LC) policy in the economic development of five resource-rich countries:…

While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial…

Tannam focuses on the role of bureaucracies when dealing with conflict in two international organisations, the European…

Continuing the inequality and development debate originally ushered in by Kuznets, this book extends to the possible…

Thinking of marginals as competing in the context of other organizations allows the reader the opportunity to explore new…

The authors uncover the roots of the eurozone crisis, focusing on how this can be solved against the backdrop of a very deep…

This book provides an overview of what has happened to NATO from the closing stages of the Cold War to the new era of…

This book contextualizes 21st century representations of disappearance, torture, and detention within a historical framework…

In this new explanationist account of epistemic justification, Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the…

Science fairs, clubs, and talent searches are familiar fixtures in American education, yet little is known about why they…

Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism.…

Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an…

This book is a critical biography of Grant Allen, (1848-1899), the first for a century, based on all the surviving primary…

A timely and critical investigation into the way media operates in a so-called global age, presenting new empirical data on…

This book examines Japanese wartime zoo policy during World War II, analyzing the reasons why the Home Ministry destroyed…

A freshly provocative look at the nexus linking EU security, trans-Turkey energy supply routes to Europe and Turkey's EU…

Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics puts forward a timely analysis of contemporary feminism. Critically engaging with…

Pragmatist philosopher William James has long been deemed a dubious guide to ethical reasoning. This book overturns such…

An analysis and assessment of Nietzsche's metapsychology. Nietzsche is neither a dualist nor a physical reductionist about…

This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and of melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each…

This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they…

Offering new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores…

Provides a study of the opportunities and dangers of Chile's transition from Pinochet's authoritarian, neo-liberalism in the…

Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race,…

A crisis makes you rethink your life. The recent economic crisis is no exception. All of us are now thinking how the world…

This book discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of…