Highlighting new informationrequirements, knowledge transfer technologies and changing patterns of social…

This work disentangles painstakingly from a maze of sometimes contradictory, obscure and often neglected contributions, the…

Looking at the representation of the animal in law, religious writings, literary representation, science and political…

This edited volume focuses on the interplay between organizational identities and firm growth, an area which remains largely…

Against a background of weak and contested national identity and capricious interaction between religious affiliation and…

Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa examines the colonial discriminatory practices against Muslim…

This is the first book that documents and analyses the paramount role of secret services in the decomposition of the…

This book provides a timely and insightful analysis of the expansion of biofuels production and use in recent years. Drawing…

Interpreting Convergence in the European Union introduces the idea of collective action as a prerequisite for achieving…

In this first book-length study of Stevie Smith, Romana Huk reassesses the work of this major twentieth-century woman writer…

The main aims of this book are to establish that it is rational to believe that God exists; He also treats ethical…

How far is the cultural construct of fatherhood linked to biological paternity, and what is biological paternity? These are…

Maps the emergence of a powerful psycho-social idea out of its historical and social circumstances, as the concept of injury…

This book presents a comprehensive review of the impact of residential design on crime focusing upon research, policy and…

Ten case studies pitting Latin American countries against Southeast Asian ones reveal the sources of political credibility.…

This book looks into the role played by mediated communication, particularly new and social media, in shaping various forms…

This book develops a human capital model to explain transformational growth within different stages of economic development,…

This book is an eclectic mix of essays that reposition Murdoch's work in relation to current debates in philosophy,…

Philosophy has long puzzled over the relation between mind and brain. This volume presents some of the state-of-the-art…

This volume presents new research and critical debates in African book history, and brings together a range of disciplinary…

An exploration of the recent financial crisis which argues that the hitherto dominant intellectual and policy paradigm of…

This study aims to provide readers with a convenient source of reliable, scholarly, and accessible information on Chaucer's…

This interdisciplinary collection is concerned with important theoretical and methodological issues facing women's studies.…

The first critical ethnography of bilingual education in Japan. Based on fieldwork at five different schools, this examines…

This volume contains a selection of the talks given at the Philosophy of History seminar in the IHR, London, in the period…

This book is about relating the concepts of rape and murder in both senses of the term; that is the way rape and murder are…

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Alder Book Prize in 2015 from the Australian and New Zealand Society of CriminologyHistorical abuse of children is a…

By positioning the late Edward Said's political interventions as a public intellectual on behalf of Palestinian populations…

Focusing on a number of contemporary research themes and placing them within the context of palpable changes that have…

Integrating Amartya Sen's approach with the literature on place-based territorial development processes, this book…

This book explores how and why Mexico's approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development…

This edited volume is the first collection of essays exploring the intersection of social economics and the law, providing…

The volume explores Elizabeth I's impact on English and European culture during her life and after her death, through her…

The book is an in-depth review of the theory and empirics of the demand for money and other financial assets. The different…

(Mis)readings of Marx In Continental Philosophy reflects on the way major European philosophers related to the work of Karl…

It addresses the politics of unemployment and the extent to which opposition to some or all of the book's various proposals…

Robert Taylor examines some of the most important personalities and events that shaped the Trades Union Congress during the…

In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed masculinist…

This book presents a deeper understanding of the on-going de facto economic integration in East Asia, looking at the extent…

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection examines diverse forms of anti-social behaviour in Victorian and…

This is a book about shifting national identities in Belgium. It aims at explaining why the Belgian identity, which in 1830…

As Russell said The word matter is, in philosophy, the name of a problem and our scientific investigations and philosophical…

Placing gender at the centre of the debate about young children and multimedia, particularly video games, the book develops…

This book covers a wide spectrum of issues in behavioural game theory (BGT), ranging from players' heterogeneity, social…

Broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating…

This volume analyzes the economic achievements of China since the opening in 1979, and the measures taken by the government…

The Middle East has been the arena of three cataclysmic events since 1979 - the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War and…

Within a decade, private capital surpassed aid as the primary capital source for developing countries. A probe into…