Inventing Subjects

A Marxist-Feminist perspective on the development of socio-cultural formations in colonial India.

Ragnar Nurkse (1907-2007)

‘Ragnar Nurkse (1907-2007): Classical Development Economics and its Relevance for Today’ presents a selection of papers that casts new insight on Nurkse’s thought, and discusses his relevance for today.

Fundamentals of Market Access for Pharmaceuticals

This book provides a conceptual and pragmatic approach to the complexity of market access for pharmaceuticals across different types of economies and health care systems around the world, providing a comprehensive toolbox with key concepts and methods for students, executives from companies, publ...

Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons

This book engages with decolonial mourning by bearing witness to the political grief work of contemporary struggles against migration-coloniality necropolitics in Europe, the United States and Latin America.

Humor 2.0

The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged.

A Guide to the Professional Interview

Investigative Interviewing provides more accurate and reliable information than any other known interview technique. It is founded on interpersonal communication theories and informed by cognitive and social psychology. Equally important, it is designed for practitioners and delivered through a p...

The Lure of Economic Nationalism

The Lure of Economic Nationalism addresses the continued appeal of economic nationalism, placing it in both historical and contemporary contexts. It also considers its alternative, a rules-based, multilateral trading system.The book argues that going beyond zero-sum outcomes is better suited to a...

Insight and Illusion

Peter Hacker’s Insight and Illusion is a thoroughly comprehensive examination of the evolution of Wittgenstein’s thought from the Tractatus to his later ‘mature’ phase. This third edition is a reprint of the revised and corrected 1989 edition, with a new foreword by Constantine Sandis.

Youth Movements and Generational Politics, 19th–21st Centuries

Youth Movements and Generational Politics, 19th–21st Centuries by Richard and Margaret Braungart is a collection of 19 of their previously published research articles on youthful political activism, generational conflict and social change—from the first student movement in Germany in 1815 to the ...

Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco Trade

Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco Trade is a history of the role of Portuguese and Sephardic merchants in the tobacco industry and trade of Amsterdam. It focuses on the contraband trade with Tierra Firme and Hispaniola in the early seventeenth century as documented in th...

Kid Power, Inequalities and Intergenerational Relations

This book combines theories of power with empirical material on children’s lives across the world to propose a novel framework for understanding kid power. It explores the nature of power relations between children and adults and provides a critical analysis of kid power, considering inequalities...

US Consular Representation in Britain since 1790

'US consular representation in Britain since 1790' is a history of US consular activities in the UK, which began in 1790 and continue to the present with consulates general in Edinburgh and Belfast. It also contains many previously unpublished illustrations.

The Rise of Little Big Norway

“The Rise of Little Big Norway” chronicles Norway’s unheralded rise from Nordic peripherality to the global example and Arctic frontliner of today. Scholars and non-specialist readers alike will appreciate its wide-ranging subject matter, astute analysis and wealth of comparative insight, written...

Ascetics and Brahmins

This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years.

P. S. O'Hegarty (1879-1955)

'P. S. O'Hegarty (1879-1955)' provides an informative and lively biography of the Irish nationalist P.S. O'Hegarty, a major historical figure in the modern separatist movement.

Art and Design in 1960s New York

Art and Design in 1960s New York explores the mutual influence of fine art and graphic design in Manhattan during the long decade of the 1960s.

Alessandro Michele

Alessandro Michele revolutionized Gucci with his eclectic, gender-fluid aesthetic, blending nostalgia, pop culture and philosophy into a maximalist vision. This book explores Michele’s impact as a fashion auteur who reshaped contemporary style, identity and fashion storytelling. 

Changing France

Focusing on cultural areas such as exhibitions, transport, food, dress and photography, ‘Changing France’ shows how apparently trivial aspects of modern life provided Second Empire writers with a versatile means of thinking about deeper issues.

George Orwell’s Commander in Spain

The first complete biography of Georges Kopp, an important figure in the life of George Orwell and his commander in Spain. 

Orphanage Tourism in Nepal

This book explores the social, cultural and economic backdrop of the growing phenomenon of orphanage tourism in Nepal.

Tokyo Seven Roses

Seven beautiful women – the Seven Roses – take a stand against an unheard-of threat to the integrity of Japanese culture in post-WWII Japan.

Elementary SCAT Practice Tests

This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 2 and 3 to take the Elementary School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an above-grade level test designed at grades 4 and 5 t...

Normativity, Meaning and Philosophy: Essays on Wittgenstein

This is a collection of essays on Wittgenstein originally published between 1996 and 2019, with a new introduction. The essays defend and develop a central Wittgensteinian idea: ‘grammatical rules’ for the use of expressions hold the key to understanding linguistic meaning, as well as its connect...

Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume I

Wittgenstein and AI (Volume I): Mind and Language. This is the first of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on mind and language.

Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy

This edited collection provides contemporary and interdisciplinary reflections on the changing patterns of civic participation in Australian democracy.

Tanpinar's ‘Five Cities’

In ‘Five Cities’ (‘Beş Şehir’), Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar focuses on cities significant in Anatolian history and his own emotional life. Part history, part autobiography, part poetic meditation on time and memory, ‘Five Cities’ is Proustian in style with a tension between a backward-looking melancholy...

Political Authority

This volume makes available Peter Winch’s previously unpublished manuscripts on political philosophy. Editorial notes and an interpretive essay show the development of Winch’s thinking over time and situate the manuscripts within the broader context of Winch’s work.

British Entanglement with Brazilian Slavery

This book looks beyond the British Empire and the Slavery Abolition Act to focus on Brazil as the final frontier of Britain’s centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery.

Iron Lazar

The first English-language biography of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin’s leading deputies, ‘Iron Lazar’ provides an insight into the political and personal relations of the Stalin group, and examines Kaganovich’s role in shaping policy during the Stalinist regime.

The European Byron

This book considers how Byron’s cosmopolitanism, mobility, and chameleon style influenced Byron’s identity in West and Eastern Europe. Transformed by French translations, Byron’s work was read by Thomas Moore, Ugo Foscolo, Lady Mosergan, Madame de Staël, Adam Mickiewicz and Alexander Pushkin. His...

The Poetry of Anna Akhmatova

Outlines a fresh and coherent framework, reviewing Akhmatova's oeuvre in its totality for the first time.

Outlaw Heroes in Myth and History

This book provides an overview and analysis of the global tradition of the outlaw hero. The mythology and history of the outlaw hero is traced from the Roman Empire to the present, showing how both real and mythic figures have influenced social, political, economic and cultural outcomes in many t...

A Guide to Trade Credit Insurance

This compact volume is a practical guide for anyone interested in Trade Credit Insurance. The International Credit Insurance & Surety Association (ICISA) presents an approachable but detailed guide written collaboratively by carefully selected industry experts. The guide describes the ‘lifeli...

Climate Uncertainty and Risk

In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, Judith Curry shows how we can break the gridlock surrounding the climate debate. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are facing and how we can respond.

Anthem Test Papers 11+ and 12+ Verbal Reasoning Book 1

Written in multiple-choice format and covering a wide range of questions, the test papers in this pack emulate the style and content of questions featured in actual verbal reasoning assessments, and are the perfect exam-preparation tool.

Lloyd George at War, 1916-1918

‘Lloyd George at War, 1916–1918’ refutes the traditional view that Lloyd George was the person most responsible for winning the Great War.

A Theory of Thrills, Sublime and Epiphany in Literature

A psychological explanation of goosebumps and tears, of the epiphanic experience of seeing something ordinary in a profoundly new way, and of the overwhelming perception of the sublime. These experiences found in life and literature involve a feeling of coming to know something deeply important b...

Studies in the Kasikavrtti. The Section on Pratyaharas

This volume contains a critical edition, English translation and essays on the initial section of the Kasikavrtti (7th c. CE), the oldest complete commentary on the Astadhyayi of Panini.

Learning from Franz L. Neumann

"Learning from Franz Neumann" examines the political and legal thought of Franz Neumann in relation to the contemporary decline of the social welfare state and the rise of populism.

Prometheus and Gaia

Prometheus and Gaia explores two currents in contemporary politics: a Futurism which sees boundless technology as a salvific force and an Eco-Pessimism which sees human innovation as inherently destructive. While apparent opposites, these two currents share in common a rejection of Enlightenment ...

Bulgaria in British Foreign Policy, 1943–1949

This book explores Britain’s involvement in Bulgaria between 1943 and 1949, and by integrating little-known Communist Party documents with British diplomatic records, offers a new understanding of the origins of the Cold War in Bulgaria and the Balkans. 

The BRICS and the Financing Mechanisms They Created

An insider’s account of the BRICS process and of the negotiation and implementation of the monetary fund and development bank BRICS created

The Non-Geometric Lenin

This book is a collection of eleven essays dealing with Lenin’s attempt to develop a Bolshevik Party between 1910 and 1914 as well as his curious relations with a tsarist police spy and a female Bolshevik during that period.

Soccer and Racism

This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazil’s history from the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power – the so-called First Republic. 

Living with Poverty and Dependence in England

This book addresses the effects of poverty on multiple interdependencies in kinship, neighbourly and friendship relations. It explores how interpersonal relationships are made, unmade, recuperated or ended by people who are living with poverty in one of England’s most deprived neighbourhoods. 

International Mathematical Olympiad Volume 3

A fantastic compilation of mathematical puzzles, this fully updated three-volume series will challenge and engage serious mathematicians and enthusiasts alike.

Contemporary Black Urban Music

This course will examine Contemporary Black Urban Music and its historical development by tracing the evolution of soul and funk music into rap and hip-hop.

Good Trouble

Good Trouble is the story of the strong connection between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland – specifically, the influence of the Montgomery to Selma march on the 1969 Belfast to Derry march through oral history.

Hands, Wrists, Fingers

Hands, Wrists, Fingers is a practical book offering concepts and tools to help musicians of all abilities become comfortable using their hands in healthy and expressive ways.

Beckett and Broadcasting

Teaching Palestine on an Israeli University Campus

The word “occupation” is not heard in classrooms on the Hebrew University campus, at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem. The “war outside” is not spoken of. Israeli and Palestinian students unsettle this denial for the first time in a practice-led course on human rights in the reality around...

Decolonizing the Diet

Synthesizing the science of nutrition, immunity and evolutionary genetics with a controversial new history of indigenous North America, “Decolonizing the Diet” shows how populations fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals i...

Intellectual Entertainments

‘Intellectual Entertainments’ consists of eight dialogues on the nature of the mind and consciousness, thought and thinking, perceptual qualities and ownership of pain. Each dialogue has five participants, some living, some dead and some imaginary who represent different points of view. No philos...

Kicking Away the Ladder

Exposes the attempts by developed countries to 'kick away the ladder' from developing countries trying to join the economic elite.

The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century

Many countries produced an official national atlas in the twentieth century. This book examines these national atlases as an intriguing window into the connections between science, state, territory and power.

Extending Hinge Epistemology

The essays in this volume present new voices and challenges within hinge epistemology. They explore new applications and directions of hinge epistemology, particularly as it relates to the philosophy of mind, society, ethics, and the history of ideas.

The Spatial History of Empire

Empires expand from a central core, incorporating territories and peoples into political and economic systems that favor the core. Drawing on examples across time and regions, this book explores Empire as a spatial and territorial phenomenon.

Political Cinema in Kazakhstan

Political Cinema in Kazakhstan is the first book-length study of the films of Adilkhan Yerzhanov, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary world cinema. Across dark comedy, absurdism and satire, Yerzhanov exposes the contradictions of power, corruption and everyday life in authoritarian...

Post-liberal Futures

Post-Liberal Futures: Epistemic Justice, Ontological Freedom and the Black Archive advances a critique of liberalism’s limits in securing recognition and non-domination, positioning the Black Archive as a conceptual and institutional resource for reimagining democracy through alternative epistemo...

Animals in Gothic Short Fiction

Animals in Gothic Short Fiction is an anthology of 19th- and early 20th-century Gothic short stories featuring animals.

The Possibility of Sociology

The Possibility of Sociology offers a foundation for sociology in today’s global world – integrating approaches that see society primarily in terms of intersectional conflict, intrasectional differences and heterosectional complementarity.

Screen Adaptations of Daphne du Maurier’s Fiction

Focusing on feature films adapted from Gothic suspense thrillers by British popular writer Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), this book explores both celebrated classics, including Alfred Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn, Rebecca and “The Birds,” Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now, Henry Koster's My Cousin Rachel,...

Public Diplomacy on the Front Line

The Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, held at the Royal Academy of Arts of London and seven other major venues, had never been academically investigated. The research unearthed abundant firsthand documents to reconstruct the episode and claims that the initiative was intended and managed ...

Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science

This transdisciplinary study focuses on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science. It examines how medieval religious agents engaged with animals and plants as material culture in the mundane world, and how the spiritual world and natural world mutually enriched each other in t...

The Global Spread of Football from the 1860s to the 1880s

This book offers a study of how football became in the 1870s a global sport that was played by high school students on several continents. It provides a horizontal perspective that focusses on the spread of football from its English cradle to Germany, the United States, and Argentina.

Atlantic Exchanges in the Early Modern World

Rethinking Atlantic history beyond discovery, this volume traces the circulation of objects, ideas, texts, and knowledge, revealing dynamic networks of exchange, encounters, and transformations that connected cultures and continents across centuries.

International Broadcasting and Its Contested Role in Australian Statecraft

An insightful and timely reappraisal of international broadcasting as an instrument of discursive rather than ‘soft’ power and its contested role in Australia’s Indo-Pacific regional statecraft.

Cultural Theory in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

This book considers several aspects of Alfred Hitchcock’s filmmaking from philosophical and social scientific points of view. Its principal aim is to place Hitchcock’s films in the context of debates in various philosophical and cultural traditions.

Freetown Echoes

Freetown Echoes: Tales from Along the Odokoko is an autofiction that captures a decade of life along the Odokoko stream in Freetown, Sierra Leone, through vivid memories and interwoven tales of childhood, folklore, ritual, and community. It concludes with a quiet act of care, revealing the humor,...

British Foreign Policy and the Coming of the Great War

Paying specific attention to the work of George Peabody Gooch (1873–1968) and Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979) the book discusses the role of British policy in the coming of the Great War.

Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Africa and the Diaspora

An in-depth study of Cape Town’s celebrated Africa Café, and an original framework explaining how African and diaspora entrepreneurs convert culture, community, and knowledge into enterprises that endure.

The Great Mirror of Korea

Why did Korea dream the West so successfully that the West now dreams of Korea? Drawing on twenty years of lived experience, the book combines historical analysis with philosophy and popular culture.

Teacher Identity Research and Theory

This book is a brief, yet comprehensive, overview of research and scholarship of teacher professional identity development beginning in the early 1990s and ending in the present.