The topics examined focus on the course of Japanese expansion, American-Japanese relations, Japanese reactions to war, the…

This book aims to explore the nature and extent of the 'care deficit' problem in European societies and how effective the…

The book seeks to understand China's evolving political and economic role in Africa and assesses what impacts Chinese aid,…

Contemporary France has witnessed a rise of new forms of social movement, mobilising around new causes and articulating…

The human imprint on the biosphere has become so pronounced in recent years that there has been talk of a new geological…

This volume in the International Papers in Political Economy series explores the latest developments in political economy,…

The potential of crime prevention, security and community safety is constrained by implementation failure. This book…

This highly accessible, lively and informative study gives a clear and comprehensive overview of recent trends in American…

This framework of analysis generates a comparative account of European socialist parties and their attitudes to…

This book traces the word 'progressive' through modern British history, from the Enlightenment to Brexit. It also places…

Written by the world's leading academics in the outsourcing field, this books gives the most recent overview of developments…

Belarus: From Soviet Rule to Nuclear Catastrophe examines the principal effects of Soviet rule on Belarus as the prelude to…

Inequalities of wealth and income have a significant impact for the achievement of economic, political and human development…

This book focuses on the recurring struggle over the meaning of the Anglican Church's role in the Indian residential…

Explores the ongoing transformation of service relationships, focusing on the incorporation of the customer's active…

Exploring how animal suffering is made meaningful within Western ramifications, the book investigates themes such as…

Rather than physiological health only, complementary and alternative medicines aim at the production of wellbeing. This book…

William Blake is acknowledged as a poet of opposition and contradiction: a writer who, from Songs of Innocence and…

Language Use offers a philosophical examination of the basic conceptual framework of pragmatic theory, and contrasts this…

Exploring the interaction between entrepreneurs and managers, this book attempts to understand the psychology behind how…

Cultural diversity and difference is increasing in European cities, driven by economic integration, migration and EU…

Addressing both language teachers and identity researchers, this book underlines the importance of identity in ELT through…

This book examines the challenge of reform of the urban water supply sector in developing countries, based on case studies…

Anatomising Embodiment and Organisation Theory explores the relationship between the human body and the development of…

This book highlights the role that national culture plays in shaping the emergent relationship between IT and organisations.…

Beyond Capital argues that these problems can be traced back to Marx's failure to write his planned book on Wage-Labour.…

Provides readers with a comprehensive overview of how to achieve entrepreneurial excellence in the knowledge economy and…

This first-of-its-kind volume explores the frequency, patterns, and economic implications of multitasking, with a particular…

Significant space is devoted to the 'minor' novels, the short stories, and to Hardy's real life literary relations with his…

It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in history, geography,…

Presents research in Employee-Driven Innovation, an emergent field of study that meets the demand for exploiting new…

This book carries out a comparative study of the US response to popular uprisings in the Middle East as an evaluation of…

This book addresses itself to the problem of understanding the relations between psychoanalysis and language not only in…

This study examines the evolution and political consequences of the 2009 British MPs' expenses scandal. Despite claims of a…

This book investigates women's ritual authority and the common boundaries between religion and notions of gender, ethnicity,…

The relevance of culture has recently enjoyed increasing recognition for the study of European integration and a European…

Since their explosion in the mid-1990s, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have turned into a global phenomenon with growing…

Harold Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' speech, delivered to the South African parliament in Cape Town at the end of a landmark…

This book examines the aging of the US population as a primary domestic public policy issue. An increase in the proportion…

This book explores dominant ideologies about citizenship, nation, and language that frame the everyday lives of…

Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian.…

Intermedial Shakespeares argues that intermediality has refashioned performances of Shakespeare's plays over the last two…

Much has been made of the role of various media in the shaping of conflicts and political agendas in today's Arab world.…

Climate Change Adaptation and Human Capabilities explores learning, health, mobility, and play as climate capabilities and…

Warfare in the modern era has often been described in terms of national armies fighting national wars. This volume…

This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical…

This work provides an in-depth case-study of decision-making in the Soviet Union in the Stalin era. It analyses the role of…

Examines recent evidence of a growing symmetry in the operation of devolution in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This…