This book traces a dialectic relationship between "politics" and "antipolitics," the first, as used here, being akin to…

Working at the intersections of feminist literary criticism, new historicism, and narratology, Chastity and Transgression in…

Nanak Kakwani and Hyun Hwa Son make use of social welfare functions to derive indicators of development relevant to specific…

This book documents and analyzes the experiences of the UN's first Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. It highlights…

Wang proposes and applies an innovative analytical framework to study the institutional continuity and changes in China. On…

The Social Psychology of Nonverbal Communication gathers together leading nonverbal communication scholars from around the…

Piers Gray was one of the most brilliant literary writers of his generation. These essays ranging from Oscar Wilde to Levin,…

In Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City , Nunez and Sribnick explore the world of New York's poor children and…

The first comparative study of how the French Popular Front and its right-wing opponents transformed the masses into the…

A basic income would be an income paid periodically and unconditionally to every man, woman and child as a fundamental right…

The book is concerned with questions about love: questions about its many forms, strands and aspects, and the relation in…

What is the role of legislatures in the budget process? Do powerful assemblies give rise to pro-spending bias? This survey…

Produkt Cuban Film Media, Late Socialism, and the Public Sphere - Balaisis, Nicholas zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele…

This text is concerned with the increasingly important and problematic area of financial exclusion, broadly defined as the…

There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment all over the world. This book is about their problems,…

This edited book examines cultures of learning from the perspectives of education, applied linguistics and language…

This book weaves together service users' lived experiences of mental health recovery and ideas about how creative activities…

Financial Crime and Knowledge Workers examines the role of lawyers in court cases involving white-collar crimes, revealing…

This third volume of the series of International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) examines the political economy of a…

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In his 1889 novella The Kreutzer Sonata Lev Tolstoy declared war on human sexuality. Psychoanalysis of Tolstoy's diaries and…

The book examines the rapid growth and dramatic changes in capital flows globally and to emerging markets. The book makes…

This book traces America's rise as a hegemon of the capitalist system, arguing that the greatest threat to global economic…

Social protection systems in Latin America developed in a fragmented manner, offering varying access to benefits and benefit…

This book tackles the age-old interpretative problem of 'pleasure' in Keat's poetry by placing him in the context of the…

An introduction by leading experts in the field to the fascinating subject of translating audiovisual programmes for the…

The book discusses five examples of NGO action in four countries - Indonesia, Philippines, South Africa and Sri Lanka - with…

Drawing on European philosophies, this book examines collective myopia and its role in global business through various case…

This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue students, scholars and…

Forging Chivalric Communities in Marlory's Morte D'Arthur shows that Malory treats chivalry not as a static institution but…

The Writing of Rural England 1500-1800 documents and contextualizes the conflicting representations of rural life during a…

A unique focus on the relationship between religion and political culture in the Third World using a comparative and…

Based on an extensive research project in the US, Britain, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland and Sweden, The Internet…

Three forms of competition in local government are identified: competition between local authorities, competition between…

The present study argues that in his short stories Wells was not simply emulating the styles and themes of his predecessors…

By joining the World Trade Organization China legitimizes its own brand of 'catch-up' industrialization. What does China's…

Discussing the UK experience in the 'war on terror', this book critically analyses the discourse of 'war' and ideas of the…

The world of pricing has been changing at a fast pace. There has been a development of new dynamic pricing strategies, an…

By taking the long view on the evolution of this country's tax policies through the past few decades, Henrekson and Stenkula…

Professionals Making Judgments examines the role of judgment in professional work. The book makes the argument that too many…

Warriors and Peasants depicts the lives of the Don Cossacks in late Imperial Russia. The book explores how that identity…

This book explores and celebrates imaginative and creative approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of…

This editedcollection takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the 'Active Ageing' agenda toenable readers to consider the…

Explores the transformations that have taken place in Japanese workplaces since the dawn of the new millennium in terms of…

The book examines the extent to which Amartya Sen's conception of 'development as freedom' can be a guide for development…

This book is a cutting-edge exploration of the UK commercial banking industry, as reflected primarily in the experience of…

Its contributors explore Islamic contributions to this field, addressing the theories and practices of the Islamic…

Drawing from long term ethnographic work and practice in Guatemala, this incisive and interdisciplinary text brings in…

While most dialogue works on past and contemporary matters, this volume takes on the relations among the Abrahamic religions…