This comprehensive guide to the poems, prose, biography, ideas and contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley features entries on all…

Using a Schumpeterian approach, this book views competitiveness as the outcome of rivalry and competition between industries…

This book broadens the scope of Latina/o criticism to include both widely-read and understudied nineteenth through…

This book examines and illustrates the potential of narrative technology, the integration and synthesis of storytelling and…

This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in…

Through case studies this volume provides evidence that a link between sourcing capabilities and organizational structure…

This book provides a comparative study of the use of partnerships and new forms of governance to achieve policy goals that…

This book provides a fascinating analysis of the external and internal linkages that have for decades impeded economic and…

This book examines the treatment of suspects in interrogation and explores issues surrounding the right to silence.…

The book asks whether transplanting banks can solve the problems involved in creating a well-functioning market economy from…

The book ranges widely over modern social theory, giving detailed treatments of major sources to identify common themes and…

This book examines the impact of neo-liberal reform on the traditional caring ethos of public services such as education,…

This book looks at the organization and strategy of state-wide parties from across some of the most important multi-layered…

This book comprises of fourteen specially commissioned essays on the theme of drug abuse and the control of drug use in…

A comparative and interdisciplinary study of issues of citizenship, culture, ethnicity and migration with contributions from…

How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often unanticipated, journey that China has taken over the past…

This book examines the visual representations used in the popular communication of genetics. The book will be particularly…

This collection of essays argues that there is an pre-history, that is, a longer tradition of the transnationalization of…

This book analyzes the outstanding development problems confronting Africa today, and the policies necessary for improving…

Lawrence emerges as a writer who pulls metaphor away from its merely rhetorical moorings: his distinctive style is the…

This book considers the concept of strategic community, a framework that integrates knowledge possessed by people, groups or…

This book presents insights from several countries in Latin America and beyond on how to organize critical sectors, such as…

How has globalization impacted on development? For Harrison, the answer lies in the international political economy, and the…

Recent debt crises and consequent dislocations and distress in the underdeveloped world have shown that the development…

This book discusses ways to improve macroeconomic policy in the context of the various macroeconomic problems of the past…

This topical collection of eleven commissioned essays by well-established contributors from sociology, religious studies and…

Norwegian deregulation was, together with the British, a pioneer forerunner in the restructuring of European electricity…

This book explores the causes and effects of the rise of neoliberalism in Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the collapse of…

An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians; what politicians actually do…

This book presents a re-examination of classical issues in the relationship between different forms of democratization,…

Study abroad is often seen as a crucial dimension of language learning - developing communicative proficiency, language…

Rufus Wood contextualizes his study of The Faerie Queene through an initial discussion of attitudes towards metaphor…

Transnational Corporations and Transnational Governance examines the different kinds of distance-related barriers related to…

This book attempts to read the character of Mary in the infancy narratives of Luke and Matthew alongside the lives of…

It is found that the local entrepreneurial state deploys local state enterprises to undertake strategic urban redevelopment…

This book argues that while pain is an irreducible neuro-physiological phenomenon, how pain is experienced is powerfully…

This book aims to improve the relationship between the media and those subject to media scrutiny at a time of crisis or…

The book makes a significant contribution to critical higher education studies, specifically to graduate employability…

Has a new political ideology emerged in the aftermath of the Sixties? Gayil Talshir examines the ideological evolution of…

This book examines the role that the IMF has played in the management of financial crises in developed nations. The topic is…

It is also the history of people who, driven by disillusion, despair and anger, either withdrew from the public sphere and…

This volume identifies and analyses the crucial issues in the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on less developed…

The focus of this book is on industrial infrastructures of production and circulation, from power distribution and roads to…

An examination of the ways in which the French Left adapted, through a series of transformations, to the exigencies of…

Amarjit Kaur examines wage labour's role in economic growth and change in Southeast Asia since 1840. the international…

Leading scholars discuss whether some of the main tenets or theses that are currently or traditionally ascribed to…

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most important contemporary social thinkers. Bauman's work is put into its social and…

Based on a major international research project undertaken by The Institute for East West Studies, this book provides the…