Coolitude

A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire.

Perfecting the u.s. constitution

This book discusses the importance of each Constitutional Amendment and the role that the Amendments have played in shaping the American experience. Based on solid research, it is written in an engaging style that is easy to comprehend and enjoyable to read.

Isis and the pornography of violence

‘ISIS and the Pornography of Violence’ is a collection of iconoclastic essays on ISIS, spanning the four-year period from its ascendancy in late 2014 to its demise in early 2018.

A genealogy of method

This volume considers the meaning of culture and anthropology’s role in defining it. Taking up the history of the discipline and the method of ethnography in turn, the book asks if the concept of culture might be productively reclaimed within a context that acknowledges history, change, and diver...

Screen writings

'Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics' offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of  'classic' - as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time.

Secure reviews and set yourself up as a reviewer in a day

This ebook discusses how to secure positive reviews and endorsements for your book and how to use them to full advantage. It explains why setting yourself up as an expert book reviewer can help build your author brand and promote your book, and describes how to do so successfully.

Reclaiming the wicked son

This book takes the ideas of six well-known secular Jewish philosophers and views them through the lens of Jewish thought, thereby understanding their writings as part of the Jewish intellectual tradition.

The status of the translation profession in the european union

This book examines in detail traditional status signals in the translation profession. It provides case studies of eight European and non-European countries, identifying  a number of policy options and making recommendations on rectifying problem areas. 

Australian literature in the german democratic republic

Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic has resonance for all newly global reckonings of the cultural Cold War.

Ethics, law and the business of being human

An ethos of transdisciplinarity

Toyin Falola is one of modern Africa’s most prolific public intellectuals. This project seeks to illuminate the mind of this modern master in an age of transnationalisation.

War, genocide and cultural memory

This book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. Based on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of 5 years the book covers the entire history of the Waffen-SS and follows the post-war fate of the SS-veterans as well.

A solar-hydrogen economy

In this study the green hydrogen economy is depicted as successor and replacement of the fossil fuel economy in its entirety. Steps involved in building a green industrial revolution on the basis of hydrogen are outlined and the dynamics of building a technoeconomic green successor to fossil fuel...

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.

International scientific relations

International Scientific Relations offers a holistic analysis of the role and impact of science, technology, and innovation in the international system of the twenty-first century.

The politics of enlightenment

Written by one of Italy’s leading historians, this book analyses the Neapolitan nobleman Gaetano Filangieri and his seven-volume ‘Science of Legislation’ in their historical context, expounding on his legacy for the histories of constitutional republicanism, liberalism, and political economy.

Revising history in communist europe

Both Hungary’s 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy, and shaped the actions, of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the pre...

The anthem companion to c. wright mills

This companion comprises interpretive, critical, and exploratory essays on Mills’s chief writings as well as his interventions in the political conflicts of his time, stressing important aspects of his work that are neglected in the literature. 

Alessandro michele

Before Alessandro Michele took the creative helm at Gucci in 2015, the brand was mostly known for its sleek sophistication and sexy hedonism. Despite having worked at the Italian fashion house for over twelve years as the accessories and jewellery designer, Michele was relatively unknown in the f...

Bridging boundaries in british migration history

This memorial book honours the legacy of Eric Richards’s work in an interplay of academic essays and personal accounts of Eric Richards. Following the Eric Richards methodology, it combines micro- and macro-perspectives of British migration history and covers topics such as diasporas, religious, ...

Modern persian, elementary level

Modern Persian, Elementary Level is a cutting-edge elementary Persian language textbook intended for two consecutive semesters. With contemporary real-world topics, high-frequency structures and vocabulary, a multitude of engaging speaking activities in each chapter, and a companion website, this...

The atlas of conflict reduction

This book takes readers on a journey through western Montana to showcase ranchers and partner groups who are pioneering strategies for reducing conflicts with wildlife and why. Conservation heroes, using psychological theory interwoven with personal stories from the twenty-first century, provide ...

People, nations and traditions in a comparative frame

This book illustrates and celebrates Professor Jonathan Steinberg’s – a celebrated historian of modern Europe, especially Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland – contributions to historical practice. Professor Steinberg embraced methodological pluralism and pioneered comparative history, explor...

Kicking away the ladder

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

Animal presence and human identity in modern literature

Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature is an exploration of literary representations of the human-animal encounter in modernity that press human “being” to its limits. Texts studied include Shakespeare’s King Lear, Eliot’s Middlemarch, Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, Atwood’...

An immigrant nation seeks cohesion

An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion' is based on years of studying and teaching Australian politics and an active interest and involvement in immigration and settlement policies since the 1950s. This was a period of mass immigration from Britain and Europe, organised and mainly subsidised by the B...

Creativitry

THE CLASSIC BOOK ON CREATIVITY BY ASIA’S GREATEST LIVING PLAYWRIGHT; OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE CHINESE VERSION. Stan Lai has written one of the unique works of our time, explaining that the mysterious act of creativity is actually a traceable function of mind, and there is a path to lea...

Transforming healthcare in africa

The current available books and literature that shed light on health policies in many African countries are limited. This book examines the key players in the health system game in many African countries. It explores the regulatory regimes that impact the health systems, such as the Ministry of H...

Digital art in ireland

This collection of essays explores digital art in Ireland. Comprising contributions from scholars and practitioners, it examines how new media technologies are shaping the island’s contemporary artistic practices. As one of the first dedicated treatments of Irish digital art, it fills a major gap...

Kripke's wittgenstein

This book examines Kripke’s influential interpretation of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, as presented in his celebrated book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (1982). It analyses the sceptical challenge to meaning and rule-following, clarifies its implications and surveys the major res...

A history of three-dimensional cinema

A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema chronicles 3-D cinema from its origins in 19th-century stereoscopic photography through anaglyphic/digital stereoscopic cinema in the 20th century to the promise of Virtual Reality in the 21st century.

Critical approaches to fen gothic literature

The book defines and discusses Fen Gothic, an example of regional Gothic inflected by geography, relationships of centre and margins, history, ecology and gender and the perspectives offered by related Gothic critical approaches. 

Dialogues on beckett

‘Dialogues on Beckett’ is a collection of 12 conversations about 12 plays by Samuel Beckett, discussions about the meaning of life and the universe between an agnostic and a Christian, based on a close reading of the text.

The security-development nexus

‘The Security-Development Nexus: Peace, Conflict and Development’ explores the concept of the security-development nexus from a variety of perspectives. Its collected essays investigate conceptual issues via case studies from Africa, Asia and Europe. 

Locating the anglo-indian self in ruskin bond

This study explores the dialogue between the biographical and authorial selves of the writer Ruskin Bond, whose liminal subjectivity is informed by the fantasies of space and time.

Jane austen’s aunt behind bars

This new book brings together Stephen Wade’s two areas of interest, focusing on the writers in the reigns of Anne to Victoria. The essays here recount and explore the prison experience of writers, both famous and obscure, who came to know the insides of Britain’s prisons.

Magazines and modernity in brazil

The essays gathered in this book discuss transnational networks as well as cross-cultural exchanges in the context of the modern magazine print culture in Brazil (1820s to 1950s).

American literary naturalism

The book collects Pizer’s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism.

Stephen wall, trollope and character and other essays on victorian literature

‘Stephen Wall, “Trollope and Character” (1988) and Other Essays on Victorian Literature’ is a collection of critical essays by the eminent literary critic Stephen Wall, including his exceptional writings on Anthony Trollope, as well as brilliant studies of Charles Dickens and other major Victoria...

Legacies of forced removals in south africa

This book focuses on experiences of six children from various backgrounds who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, and marginality on the lifeworld’s of children.

The petersburg noverre, volume: 1

The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.

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 ...

Causes and consequences of global migration

The book summarizes scholarly knowledge on why people migrate to western countries, and how this impacts on the receiving economies and societies.

French welfare state reform

Through a historical and comparative analysis of French, Swedish, New Zealand and Dutch case studies, ‘French Welfare State Reform’ explores the political and economic sustainability of the of the welfare state.

Radical human centricity

This book is a call to action. It is a critique of the poor state of commercial research and an articulation of the shifts and changes in thinking needed to fulfil the empty promises of human-centered research.

Isee upper level practice tests

Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) is a school entrance exam taken by students in grades 4 through 12 seeking admission into private schools and non-Catholic religious schools throughout the United States. This book focuses on the ISEE Upper Level. The Upper Level ISEE Exam is for students c...

Minutes to midnight

The book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763, making special reference to the study of history.

Post-multicultural writers as neo-cosmopolitan mediators

‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ is the first book to bring together global debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade and Australian minority writers, linking them to globalisation and transnationalism in cultural studies.

Ethnographies of grey zones in eastern europe

Over the last two decades, Eastern European countries have experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Based on ethnographic cases, this anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect ever...

The art and ideology of the trade union emblem, 1850–1925

‘The Art and Ideology of the Trade Union Emblem, 1850–1925’ is a groundbreaking book that considers trade union emblems and banners as art objects in their own right. It studies their commissioning, their designers and the social conditions and gender relations that they knowingly or unwittingly ...

Water diplomacy in action

Rooted in the ideas of complexity science and mutual gains negotiation, this volume shows why traditional systems engineering approaches will not work for complex water problems and what emerging tools and techniques are needed to resolve them. This collection successfully synthesizes insights fr...

Indian democracy

‘Indian Democracy’ is an attempt to understand the development of democratic polity in India.

Punk samurai slash down

Glimpsing an elderly man leading his blind daughter on a pilgrimage, Junoshin, a freelance samurai, swiftly kills him with a sword and denounces him as part of a cult. Set in Edo-period Japan, ‘Punk Samurai Slash Down’ follows the power struggles which entangle Junoshin within the Kuroae clan, fr...

The anthem companion to gabriel tarde

‘The Anthem Companion to Gabriel Tarde’ offers the best contemporary work on Gabriel Tarde, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Tarde students and scholars alike. ‘A...

Pashtun identity and geopolitics in southwest asia

This book juxtaposes vital issues of Pashtun identity, state formation, Taliban on both sides of the Durand Line, Frontier Crimes Regulation, security prerogative and the civil societies of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which since 9/11, have been posited in a rather precarious geopolitics.

Sustainable peace in northeast asia

Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia examines the causes of lasting and complex tensions in the region and explores possible solutions to build lasting peace here.

The collected works of ann hawkshaw

Along with a biographical and critical introduction, ‘The Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw’ brings together Hawkshaw’s four volumes of poetry and republishes them together for the first time. An appendix of reviews and contemporary criticism of Hawkshaw’s work is included, along with details of th...

The truth about confident presenting, 3rd edition

More than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking are explained in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.

On beckett

“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.

Four augustan science poets: abraham cowley, james thomson, henry brooke, erasmus darwin

“Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin” is a concise study focusing on four poets who because of their distinctive profiles illustrate especially well the opportunities and pitfalls of writing science poetry during the long eighteenth century.

Occupational devotion: finding satisfaction and fulfillment at work

The devotee occupations serve as full-time or part-time livelihoods for people fortunate enough to have found them. Such work has so far been observed to exist in four sectors of the economy: the liberal professions, consulting occupations, skilled trades, and small business proprietors. Devotee ...

'grease is the word'

Bringing together a group of international scholars, ‘Grease Is the Word’ offers fresh insight into the impact and legacy of the cultural phenomenon that is Grease.

Kenya and the politics of a postcolony

This book examines the governance and politics of Kenya since independence with a particular focus on the betrayal by the political class of the aspirations of anticolonial nationalism.

Staging memory and materiality in eighteenth-century theatrical biography

“Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography” examines theatrical biography as a developing genre in eighteenth-century England. Drawing heavily on primary sources, then-contemporary reviews and archival material in the form of extra-illustrated or “scrapbooked” copi...

Christos tsiolkas and the fiction of critique

This is the first theoretically informed study of Tsiolkas’s work. It follows the arc of his controversial career, and explores the tensions between political radicality, transgressive sexuality and his more recent commercial success.

Transnational crimes in the americas

'Transnational Crimes in the Americas’ emphasizes the importance of working within public, international organizations to combat transnational crimes. It documents the role of international institutions within the Americas to form a united effort against the proliferation of illicit drugs, human ...

Timothy b. dyk

An account of what it was like to practice and adjudicate law in modern America, detailing shifts within the legal profession, both private and public, in the United States since the 1960s. 

Rethinking the social through durkheim, marx, weber and whitehead

This is the first book to systematically analyse the different concepts of the social developed by Durkheim, Marx and Weber, suggesting that debates surrounding this concept are still very much alive.

The anthem companion to norbert elias

The book brings together authoritative chapters by leading experts in the sociology of Elias. It charts Elias’s ambition to create an integrative sociological framework across a wide range of studies and assesses its continuing relevance for addressing significant issues facing sociology today.

Turkey’s water diplomacy

‘Turkey’s Water Diplomacy’ presents the legal and institutional foundations of Turkey’s water diplomacy within its historical and geographical contexts. It analyses the evolving position of Turkey vis-à- vis the international water law. Delineating actors and processes in transboundary water poli...

Fronsperger and laffemas

This volume introduces two very early, unique, and hitherto largely unknown contributions to the making of modern economic knowledge: Fronsperger's on the role of self-interest in economic development (later called the ‘Mandeville Paradox’) and Laffemas’ on the importance of an active industrial ...

Thomas keneally's career and the literary machine

Thomas Keneally: world success story or Australian writer who never fulfilled early potential? ‘Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine’ explains the disparate opinions, charting his writing’s production and reception as shaping a literary career. It tracks tensions between literary and...

The science communication challenge

‘The Science Communication Challenge’ explores and discusses the whys – as distinct from the hows – of science communication. Arguing that the dominant science communication paradigm is didactic, and tracing the origins of that paradigm, it makes the case for a political category of science commu...

The female ward

Dishari, a fourth-year engineering student, thinks of her treatment of a first-year as nothing but acceptable ‘ragging’ – the bullying of younger pupils by their seniors – something she herself experienced. But as events spiral out of control she is forced to question not only this, but the very ...

Australian patriography

This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers is the first of its kind within Australian literature. It offers compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others. 

Triangular orthogonal functions for the analysis of continuous time systems

This book deals with a new set of triangular orthogonal functions, which evolved from the set of well-known block pulse functions (BPF), a major member of the piecewise constant orthogonal function (PCOF) family.

Voices of the lost children of greece

Voices of the Lost Children of Greece is a collection of essays from Greek-born adoptees in the 1950s after two consecutive wars that ravaged the country. Their stories will strike home the experience of international adoption, whose impact has been lifelong, but has not been properly measured, l...

Stratagem of the corpse

Stratagem of the Corpse is a philosophical and literary exposition of death not so much as seen by Baudrillard but Baudrillard as seen by death.

The value of voice in shared leadership and organizational behavior

In the world of education and business, there is a disconnect between stakeholders, their roles and responsibilities in guiding and leading organizations in a shared leadership model. Currently, leaders have a conceptional understanding of shared leadership but lack the tools to effectively guide...

Nonviolent perspectives

A collection of essays exploring the problem of interpersonal violence and the potential of nonviolence as a solution. Drawing on personal experiences and philosophical insights, the book examines nonviolence through ethics, spirituality, love, and political philosophy.

Civilizing missions in colonial and postcolonial south asia

This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia.

India and china: interactions through buddhism and diplomacy

This volume collates the classic works of the preeminent Indian scholar of Chinese history and Buddhism, Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898–1956).

A narrative of cultural encounter in southern china

Using a local land reclamation project of the later eighth century, this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north.

Rainbow

An adaptation in narrative verse of a children’s fantasy tale, ‘The Other Side of the Rainbow’ (1910) by Florence Bone (1875–1971), ‘Rainbow’ presents a series of magical adventures that lead the heroine and us to a greater sense of wonder about the living world.

The cultural dimensions of peacebuilding

The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding details aspects of cultures, including language, films, journalism, political economics, museums, education, parenting, gender, artistic activism, and spirituality, which can contribute to either more violent societies or more peaceful ones. Solutions-orie...

The seriality of the one

The Seriality of the One investigates the metaphysical, ontological, and existential significance of the series in dialogue with a constellation of modern and premodern authors, giving special attention to the way seriality mediates and measures the relation between the individual and the univers...

Resolving land and energy conflicts

Based on decades of experience in addressing energy-siting conflicts, the authors of ‘Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts’ provide details of a host of tools, strategies and principles for tackling them.

Yves saint laurent

This book is an appraisal of Yves Saint Laurent’s contributions to fashion, art and culture.

Reproductive racism

The book analyses how demographic knowledge production and states’ grip to the variable of population intertwine. It introduces the concept of the Malthusian matrix in order to understand how class-selective and racist hierarchies within population narratives are combined with gendered policies o...

King john

Through contextual analysis and by reassessing the chronicle evidence, Graham E. Seel presents a compelling reevaluation of the reign of King John.

The voice of the people

‘The Voice of the People’ presents a series of essays on literary aspects of the pan-European folk revival from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.

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.

Datafication of public opinion and the public sphere

The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which publics create, articulate and express public opinion by means of ...

The importance of sentiment in promoting reasonableness in children

On Becoming Reasonable” explores the contributions that 18th Century Scottish philosophers Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and David Hume make to our understanding of important factors in the development of children as they gradually acquire central features of reasonableness.

America through the spectacles of an oriental diplomat

A beguiling account of twentieth-century America through the eyes of an outsider, a remarkable inversion of the standard 'Westerner observing the exotic' travel writing formula.

The dark side of news fixing

This book provides a local journalist's perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. Fixers are local journalists hired to help global media outlets in developing news stories on wars. The book shows how the fixers' risky news pursuits made possible for globa...

Disappearing cities

Disappearing Cities is a collection of short stories of invented cities, set in the not too distant future, destroyed by climate change impacts. The projected fictions are created from projected current climate facts. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities, the work aims to be a salien...

The modern state and its enemies

‘The Modern State and Its Enemies’ considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state and analyses the dark sides of the enemies of democracy.

The spectral west

This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrati...