This collection presents a political sociology of crisis in Europe. Focusing on state and society transformations in the…

This innovative and ground-breaking study explores the complex relationship between linguistic theory and literature during…

This collection of essaysexplores how Progressivism was the historical catalyst for reforms across the social and political…

In an exchange of letters, they consider a range of emotional dispositions with reference to contemporary figures including…

This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures. Most essays draw on empirical…

This book contributes in multiple dimensions to the educational literature through an articulation of T.J. and Anita…

Presenting the first English-language collection of essays on Jorge SemprĂşn, this volume explores the life and work of the…

Five presidents (Eisenhower, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and Obama) have been elected to and served a second term. Seemingly free…

This study examines conflicts arising from the dual processes of Europeanization and post-socialist transformations, from…

This book comprehensively analyzes the impact of continuing European integration on industrial relations institutions and…

Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in…

By interweaving Hegelian dialectic and the middle voice, this book develops a holistic account of life, nature, and the…

This book discusses key issues in global and regional social policy, exploring Bob Deacon's pioneering approach to…

This book aims to decipher the complex web of structural, institutional and cultural contradictions which shape the…

The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for…

This book examines the role played by one important external stakeholder, Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited-life…

This book finds Heidegger's Aristotle interpretation integral to his idea of leading metaphysics back to its own…

In this book Paddy McQueen examines the role that 'recognition' plays in our struggles to construct an identity and to make…

The first volume in a series of collected writings by Paul Davidson, this book covers such areas as money, finance, Keynes,…

This book examines humanitarian interventions in the post-Cold War era in the context of the development of global…

Based on studies conducted in the UK and USA, this book investigates the experiences of suppliers and consumers of…

A story about science, technology, and people, The Future of Pricing provides an inside look at how airlines price tickets…

Based on the empirical analysis of the effectiveness of four provincial centres for the diffusion of the Clean Development…

This book explores the varied ways in which modernist and postcolonial innovations in fiction are motivated by crises and…

The author develops an original interpretation of foreign aid by analysing it as a particular domain of international…

Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the 20th century at least in sociology, political…

The book applies a model of municipal policing to compare a number of police systems in the European Union suggesting that…

The first critical survey of an unjustly neglected body of literature: the autobiographies and memoirs of writers of Irish…

This book is about the ways that traditional cultural practices either change or persist in the face of social and economic…

This volume stands as a demonstration of resistance to 'the known' (i.e. the tyranny of the expected) through individual and…

This book brings together for the first time a large collection of essays (including three new ones) of a leading writer on…

This book explores the multiple portrayals of the actor and theatre manager Colley Cibber, king of the dunces, professional…

An exploration of Turkey's future role and impact on European energy security, looking at the connection between…

Presenting International Studies as a wide, plural and inherently interdisciplinary field of research, this book shows its…

Japan is imagined routinely in American discourse as a supernatural entity. Gothic tales from these two cultures have been…

Salsa is both an American and transnational phenomenon, however women in salsa have been neglected. To explore how female…

A collection of essays which develop Professor Nell's economic theory of transformational growth. The author's previous…

This book challenges the received scholarship on the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. The author applies…

Being Shaken is a multifaceted meditation by leading philosophers from Europe and North America on ways in which events…

This project examines the concept of fraud loss measurement by critiquing existing measurement methodologies, and argues for…

This study investigates the extent to which personal welfare state experiences affect general political orientations and…

An exploration of how the EU is influenced by multilateral institutions. There has recently been a dramatic increase in…

Authenticity in our globalized world is a paradox. This collection examines how authenticity relates to cultural products,…

Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans clef , providing insight into restrictions governing the…

A political and managerial brief on Chinese global power, this new book puts into a modern context the Chinese opportunities…

Using Kenneth Burke's concept of dramatism as a way of exploring multiple motivations in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire…

This book studies the circulation of social knowledge by focusing on the reception of Niklas Luhmann's systems theory in…

Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines…