The study of death has the capacity to bring together a range of policy areas. Yet death is often overlooked within policy…

A wide ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of media time and mediated temporalities. The chapters explore the diverse…

This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it…

Offering an confrontation of the uncritical choice of the 'nation-state' as a unit of analysis in postwar social science,…

This study suggests that it was the representation of anxiety, rather than trauma and memory, that emerged most forcefully…

Nationalism in Europe is often studied in historical, sociological and philosophical ways. Focusing on electoral support for…

This book, written by an accomplished group of activists, writers and academics, describes the development and use of the…

Knowing that we are finite, how can we live to the fullest? Philosopher George Santayana suggested 'spirituality' enables us…

Education is generally supposed to help learners to develop new capacities and to be able to apply them in work and life -…

Leading scholars in the field examine the role played by the English language in contemporary Japanese society. Their…

What similarities exist between the reasons for Labour losing office in 2010 and those behind why previous Labour…

Once torn by ideological conflicts and the dominance of command economies, Southern Africa is now moving towards economic…

This book explores how we define our social spaces in a world of globalization, cultural diversity, and media convergence.…

Child labor greatly contributed to the cultural and economic success of the British Victorian theatrical industry. This book…

How are emotions related to values? This book argues against a perceptual theory of emotions, which sees emotions as…

This innovative new work clarifies the misconceptions around body language while providing a scientific approach to…

Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have dramatized…

In this volume, the USA is treated as a system that has been stress-tested by four unique events: the War on Terror,…

Produkt Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation - Newman, J. a Giardina, M. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Palgrave…

The status of sport, and of its greatest protagonists, has never before flown so high. This project utilizes current…

Lewicki examines how current salient discourses of citizenship conceptualize democratic relations and frame the 'Muslim…

Hannah Arendt's approach to politics focuses on action and conduct, rather than institutions, constitutions, and states. In…

Changes in the global political order have combined with dominant trends in liberal political philosophy to spark increasing…

The National Assembly for Wales was established in 1999, granting the people of Wales a parliament for the first time in…

Drawing from a variety of historical sources, theory, and fictional and non-fictional production, this book addresses the…

This book examines the meanings and significance of the UK Gender Recognition Act within the context of broader social,…

This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the…

This text develops an original critical analysis of the origins and evolution of the euro and the current debt crisis that…

This book addresses the widespread use of digital personal media in daily life. With a sociological and historical…

This collection examines the dynamic experimentation of contemporary women writers from North America, Australia, and the…

This is the first book to consider the moral regulation of the female body through an analysis of the crime of infanticide.…

Produkt Global Activism in Food Politics - Mann, A. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Palgrave Macmillan.…

Any attempt to help us reason in more accurate ways faces a problem: While we acknowledge that others stand to benefit from…

This book employs an an intersectional feminist approach to highlight how research and teaching agendas are being skewed by…

Engaging Audiences asks what cognitive science can teach scholars of theatre studies about spectator response in the…

The 1994 Euro-elections may have marked a sea-change in British politics. This study is primarily about the short and…

The single exception is the Security Council, but the Council has increasingly concerned itself with human rights inside…

In this thorough, yet accessible, book, Robert Garner explores the character of animal protection policy making in Britain…

This book presents various national perspectives on the process of regionalization in order to get a more concrete…

But popular culture venerates leisure and travel as authentic escape routes from routine and monotony. A major scholarly…

Ethnicity, Gender and Social Change explores the social space occupied by both gender and ethnicity.…

Offers a vivid description of the ongoing transformation of the web into something that is widely recognized and that will…

This collection of essays brings together exciting, fresh work by young scholars working on vital aspects of modern Irish…

The Transatlantic Relationship , written by a group of experts drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, examines the security,…

On the basis of a distinctive 'material-cultural' approach to ethics Questions of Conduct puts the case for radically…

Produkt Government and Society in Louis XIV's France zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Palgrave Macmillan.…

Riots and Pogroms presents comparative studies of riots and pogroms in the twentieth century in Russia, Germany, Israel,…

Nobody thinks love unimportant, but we are not as clear as we should be about what love involves, and about what it is to…