Crimes of states and powerful elites

A collection of case studies investigating the crimes of the powerful, the social harms caused and the perpetuation of inequalities through lack of prosecution.

Practical rationality, learning and convention

This volume consists of a selection of the writings of Christopher Winch on topics on and related to the philosophy of education from 1988 until the present.

Surgeon grow

Malcolm Grow’s commentary presents us with a fascinating personal account of wartime experience, one that highlights a number of pertinent issues of Russia’s experience of total war. While military historiography is replete with studies of battle plans and strategies, troop movements, numbers of ...

Law and humanities

This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary ‘law and’ field.

Italy’s renaissance in buildings and gardens

Palaces, villas and churches. These were the highlights of my first visit to Italy. I took a lot of photos and looked forward to sharing them with friends and family. Back home, though, I found that I didn’t recall much about the places that impressed me. Although I had the benefit of a half-day ...

Ssat upper level practice tests

The SSAT is a standardized test used by admission officers to assess the abilities of students seeking to enroll in an independent school. The SSAT measures the basic verbal, math, and reading skills students need for successful performance in independent schools. About 80,000 plus students take ...

Language, mind, and value

This book is a collection of 15 essays on important themes in Wittgenstein’s philosophy, such as linguistic normativity, the concepts of understanding, reasons, and knowledge, questions of value in aesthetics, ethics, and religion.

Banned books and counterfeit notes

This study examines how convicts sent to France’s most notorious penal colony in French Guiana would use the colonial postal system to document and challenge lived experiences of transportation and forced labour.

The anthem anthology of victorian sonnets

‘The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets’ is a comprehensive collection consisting of over three thousand Victorian sonnets written by Victorian poets between 1836 and the early years of twentieth century.

Wittgenstein and the life we live with language

This work is guided by the idea that Wittgenstein’s thought opens the door to a more profound break with the philosophical tradition than has been generally recognized. It brings this insight to bear on some basic problems of philosophy. 

Csr and sustainability

CSR and Sustainability promotes the need for social responsibility and sustainability and highlights their link with the big issues of society. It shows how science and positive thinking by humankind can prevent oft-vouched disasters due to human rights violation, global warming, growing income i...

The ecstasy of reproduction

The Ecstasy of Reproduction is a piercing analysis of contemporaneity which the author still terms postmodernity. Aesthetics and critical theory are at stake to define concepts such as the end of art, kitsch, simulacra, reproduction, and the commodification of living forms..

Operational decision-making

The highest art of operational leadership is that of making timely and sound decisions. The act of exercising command consists of making decisions and ordering their execution.

Manfred thierry mugler

Manfred Thierry Mugler encapsulates the notion of a fashion auteur. Championing the subversion of cultural codes, the late designer built a fashion house that transcends and transgresses boundaries of formal and social convention that in turn influenced the generation of designers to emerge in hi...

Sustainability, well-being and socio-environmental quality

This book offers an updated view of interconnected issues such as sustainable development, well-being and environmental dynamics in advanced economies, delineating a broad interpretation of complex (local) development paths reviewing theoretical approaches and providing paradigmatic examples.

Statistics and the quest for quality journalism

This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage o...

Being and becoming european in poland

This book explores the life-story narratives of southern Poles, and asks what it means to be Polish as its population ‘becomes European’ following Poland’s entry into the European Union.

Servant and mistress

Stephen Mason sets out to explore his submissive side with a range of available female partners, but ends up chasing an impossible passion with one married woman. A big, readable story of obsessive love and off-centre sex told with compassion, insight and humour.

Language, texts, and society

This collection brings together the research papers of Patrick Olivelle, published over a period of about ten years. The unifying theme of these studies is the search for historical context and developments hidden within words and texts.

Anthem how to do 11+ and 12+ verbal reasoning: technique and practice

Written by experienced tutors, ‘Anthem How To Do 11+ and 12+ Verbal Reasoning: Technique and Practice’ offers an extensive breakdown of the types of questions likely to feature in verbal reasoning assessments, along with advice on how to prepare for tests and practice materials.

Guardians of the jesus gene

As Nero’s Rome burns, Christ’s brother, Simon, and Pontius Pilate’s daughter, Clodia, are thrown together in the war between Rome and Jerusalem. Their son, Joshua, is the genetic link to Jesus, an inheritance that makes him a target of satanic forces. 

Paradoxes of rationality, probability and utility

This unique anthology reflects the author’s analyses and/or resolutions of some of the most perennially perplexing and widely discussed problems arising in rational choice theory, probability theory, and utility theory. It spans 25 years of his research and publications in these related fields. P...

The miss(ed) opportunities of teaching with the department of education

To inform and engage a broader audience about the stakes involved in educational mismanagement from an education and business perspective.

Paradoxes of rationality, probability, and utility

This unique anthology reflects the author’s analyses and/or resolutions of some of the most perennially perplexing and widely discussed problems arising in rational choice theory, probability theory, and utility theory. It spans 25 years of his research and publications in these related fields. P...

Polish minds that shaped world philosophy

This is the story about twenty-eight Polish philosophers who shaped both the continental and the analytical traditions of world philosophy. Each is portrayed and discussed with three key words.

Emerging voices

This is a collection of fresh perspectives and opinions on the creative interventions on the Nigerian literary and entertainment space. Tackling issues from different authorial perspectives, bring a freshness that come with unsullied critical in their analysis of the different aspects of Nigeria’...

A critical political economy of inflation

The book is an original critical economy account of the meaning, causes and consequences of inflation.

Unchained russia

Charles Edward Russell was a major intellectual and political figure of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. As a very well-known American radical, he published many books on the US economy, the condition of workers, social issues, and other subjects.

Becoming into others (b.i.o.)

As the world faces escalating species extinction, increasing urbanization, and widespread pollution, this book advocates for a new paradigm of coexistence, "Becoming into Others" (B.I.O.). It calls for rethinking connections to enhance cohabitation among all life forms, expanding our ontological ...

The culture of caution

An ethnographic exploration of Islamic television talk show production, revealing behind-the-scenes challenges and strategies shaped by a culture of caution.

A diary of the russian revolution

This book presents Houghteling’s original account along with explanatory notes and an introduction that sets the diary in the wider context of American interpretations and misinterpretations of the revolutions of 1917 that did so much to shape the twentieth century."

Universality and utopia

This book explores the intersection between philosophical and literary universalism in Latin America, tracing its configuration within the twentieth-century Peruvian socialist indigenista tradition, following from the work of José Carlos Mariátegui and elaborated in the literary works of César Va...

Regimes of happiness

‘Regimes of Happiness’ is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment.

Collaboration in space and the search for peace on earth

The book explores the peaceful exploration of space, which became a launching pad for new visions of human community and peaceful collaboration during the Cold War.

An interdisciplinary approach to the theory and practice of wildlife corridors

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors charts some best practices and makes new theoretical contributions about the design and creation of wildlife corridors. The book provides the necessary background for understanding habitat connectivity projects, and ma...

Genocide: a thematic approach

The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. It is intended to give the needed context to understand why such violence has been perpetrated in the past and why it continues to occur so freque...

The life and writings of maria teresa de sá nogueira

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira examines the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira, revealing how her fearless writing challenged colonial power and gave voice to the marginalized in Mozambique and Portugal. A vital contribution to Lusophone postcolonial studies.

Journalism ethics in eastern europe

This textbook looks into the current ethical challenges of public communication in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe and addresses some of the most pressing issues of journalism, including political and corporate pressures, declining commercial revenues, the rise of citizen journal...

Philosophical embarrassment

This book explores moments of philosophical embarrassment, focusing on Hume and Wittgenstein, who recognized how their critiques challenged the very foundations of philosophy. It examines how figures like the Vienna Circle and Quine redefined philosophy’s aims and how the later Wittgenstein warne...

Navigating data standards in business strategy

This book is designed to help companies create and apply data principles for a positive impact on business strategy and growth, providing stability outside of the ever-changing technology, data, and legal landscapes.

The anthem companion to henri lefebvre

This edited volume explores the sociology of Lefebvre and its continuing relevance for the discipline today. Contributors explore the sociological Lefebvre across a number of topics, including the influence of Marxism, rural sociology, everyday life, the urban, utopia and violence, to name a few.

Resilience and recovery of hospitality and tourism

A comprehensive guide exploring resilience strategies in tourism and hospitality, focusing on leadership, sustainability and data-driven recovery in a post-pandemic world.

Creative nonfiction

Crafting revision in fiction

Crafting revision in academic writing

Academic writing is built on choices, and even a single word can change the strength and direction of an argument. This book helps students move beyond formulas, showing how to draft with purpose, revise for clarity, and build credible, well-supported claims. Through real examples, practical exer...

Poetry

Academic writing is built on choices, and even a single word can change the strength and direction of an argument. This book helps students move beyond formulas, showing how to draft with purpose, revise for clarity, and build credible, well-supported claims. Through real examples, practical exer...

The politics of belonging in algerian art

This book examines how Algerian artist Denis Martinez, particularly through 7 murs revisités (1989), drew on Amazigh art and other marginalized visual forms to articulate alternative forms of belonging in postcolonial Algeria. By integrating these traditions into modern painting, Martinez challen...

Crafting revision in creative nonfiction

Creative nonfiction combines the accuracy of fact with the artistry of storytelling. This book shows how small writing choices, including the selection of a single word, can shape the truth on the page. Writers will learn techniques for crafting vivid scenes, structuring narratives, and revising ...

Becoming a doctor

Becoming a Doctor is an intimate account of one person’s transformation from naïve student to professorial physician. Packed with unforgettable anecdotes and surprising insights, the book is far more than a memoir of medical education. Chapter by chapter, it exposes the challenging issues that do...

The liberty way

This book examines how Liberty University, church planting networks, and grassroots mobilization shaped U.S. policy toward Israel. It explores the role of Evangelical activism in influencing Congress and the White House, highlighting the intersection of theology, political strategy, and pro-Israe...

The u.s. military in the print news media

This book analyses the history of the popular discourse in the United States concerned with the U.S. military and its engagement in foreign wars from the Spanish-American War through to the U.S. invasions of Iraqand the War on Terror.

W. e. b. du bois’ africa

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the leading figures of Pan-African thought and activism in the twentieth century. This book delivers for the first time a comprehensive Afrocentric investigation and critique of Du Bois’s writings on Africa and Pan-Africanism.

Russia in upheaval

Edward Alsworth Ross, one of the founders of the academic field of sociology, spent July–December 1917 traveling across the Russian Empire and talking to the people there. As he states in his brief introduction, “I have taken it as my business to describe impartially the major social changes goin...

The village: russian impressions

Chicago native, political activist, and journalist Ernest Poole (1880-1950) provides a distinctive view of the  Bolshevik Revolution in his work, The Village: Russian Impressions. This work is unusual in the library of American accounts of Revolutionary Russia because it addresses the world of th...

Traditional african bonesetters and western medical practitioners

This unique interdisciplinary study of biosocial medicine examines how traditional African bonesetter practices inexorably, and relentlessly, clash with ‘Western’ care protocols. These long-standing traditional vs. contemporary patient-care collisions in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Zimbabwe we...

Russia from the american embassy

David R. Francis held the post of the United States ambassador to Russia from April 1916 to November 1918, and represented his country before four Russian governments: the Imperial, Provisional, Soviet, and Northern. He was an eyewitness of the greatest events in the history of Russia: World War ...

Ten days that shook the world

Another view of Russia on the eve of revolution The author is an interesting person his own right as an American who became enamored with fascism

Six red months in russia

This new edition of Bryant's book is annotated and set in its appropriate historical context to create a more accessible text for modern readers on the anniversary of this truly world-changing event. 

Donald thompson in russia

Donald Thompson in Russia is a compilation of letters to his wife Dorothy in Topeka, Kansas, illustrated with photos. First published in 1918, it outlines Thompson’s conspiracy thesis that :German intrigue, working among the unthinking masses, has brought Russia to her present woeful condition.”

Nonviolence and the grand inquisitor

This book introduces a conceptually rich and innovative new framework for the ethics of nonviolence by drawing from Dostoevsky’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor.” It offers fresh insights into civil resistance and political theory.

Dissent and social media

This book explores the relationship between dissent and social media to understand the role both play in enacting cultural change. 

Through the russian revolution

Through the Russian Revolution by Albert Rhys-Williams, a Congregationalist pastor turned labor organiser and journalist, offers readers a first-hand account of the exciting and confusing events of the Russian revolution from June 1917 to August 1918. Williams, a lifelong defender of the Soviet s...

Excavating the castle

Excavating the Castle demonstrates that the serious and respectable historiography of the Gothic begins not in 1921 but in the early nineteenth century and that the Gothic concept crystallized more than half a century earlier than historians of the Gothic had realized previously. 

Gender, sexuality and feminism in pakistani urdu writing

This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth century. It introduces the resilient voices of poets who tread a fine line between the secular and sacred in an Islamic society to articulate a new feminist aesthetic. 

Robert franklin williams speaks: a documentary history

Williams was a compassionate man. He was an intelligent American citizen and Korean war veteran, who claimed his right of American citizenship. Acutely aware of the broken promises of the US government, he remained fully invested in the rights, privileges, and responsibilities the Constitution gu...

Ray petri

Scottish-born stylist Ray Petri (1948–1989), founder of the Buffalo collective, defined the look of radical 1980s magazines The Face, i-D, and Arena. This book traces how Petri’s radical casting, genderplay, and iconography of homoeroticism boldly politicized the relationship between fashion an...

Transformation of indigenous north america

This is a book about the adaptation of Indigenous groups in North America (Mexico, USA, Canada) and their interrelatedness to each other and outside influences over time.

Struggle, resistance, and decolonization in african american literature after 1960

Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement’s backdrop, this book examines six African American writers who use the cultural and historical past to imagine a different present and future.

Beyond the metrics

This interdisciplinary book explores how fitness technology affects self-image, anxiety, and social identity, connecting sports science, psychology, and digital culture.

Political theology as critical theory

This book maps a new path to understanding subjectivity and history in response to the challenges faced by modern political thinking, including the shortcomings of liberal individualism in accounting for our lives together. It describes a critical theory derived from political theology and focuse...

Struggle, resistance and decolonization in african american literature after 1960

Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement’s backdrop, this book examines six African American writers who use the cultural and historical past to imagine a different present and future.

Learning with ludwig

Beethoven’s Freude theme—or “Ode to Joy”—is perhaps the most iconic melody ever created. This book sets out to show why the Freude theme has acquired this almost mythic status and what its use in the finale of the Ninth Symphony reveals about the mechanics of tonal composition.

Publishing science and technology under franco

This book presents an exhaustive analytical history of the great Spanish publishing house Editorial Gustavo Gili, specifically the scientific and technological works in its catalogue that were published during the years of the Franco regime.

The great transformation

This book examines the definitional differences between classical and modern political theory pertaining to the constituent parts of justice.