Transnational return and social change

Return has long been considered the end of a migration cycle. Today, returnees’ continued transnational ties, practices and resources have become increasingly visible. ‘Transnational Return and Social Change’ pays tribute to the meso-level impacts that follow the practices and resources migrant r...

Political economy and global capitalism

‘Political Economy and Global Capitalism’ is a timely and unique collection by a group of esteemed authors who explore the present and future of the global political economy.

The servant and mistress stories

A companion volume to Lucinda Rhys-Evan’s ‘Servant and Mistress’, these short stories move from the near sublime to the near ridiculous, and from the superficial to the very serious as they explore both the lighthearted and darker sides of male sexual submission to female whims.

Aberrant robber

‘Aberrant Robber’ depicts the real villainy, the real harshness and the real corruption of the times.

Wittgenstein rehinged

This volume brings together several papers on hinge epistemology written by Annalisa Coliva and published after her influential monographs Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010); Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology (2015). By mixing together Wittgenstein scho...

Émile durkheim and the collective consciousness of society

This volume presents the first ever book-length treatment of Émile Durkheim’s concept of the ‘collective consciousness of society’. 

Music scenes and migrations

‘Music Scenes and Migrations’ brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil, Africa and Europe, with particular attention to the role of the city in producing, signifying and med...

Trends in comparative law and economics

The book is a short introduction to comparative law and economics, a growing field in the interaction between law, economics and comparative political science. It is a guide to economists, lawyers and political scientists looking for a brief overview. It includes both strands of the traditional l...

A theoretical approach to modern american history and literature

A reconfiguration of modern American history, showing how multiple movements at different times challenged a singularly defined modern America, and a re-representation of the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices to effect a fundamental recasting of the modern Am...

Structure, agency and biotechnology

“Structure, Agency, Biotechnology” argues for the significance of sociological theory and highlights the insights that it can offer into the study of agricultural biotechnology.

Complex solutions to local problems

This book questions the dominant narrative used in stereotyping Africa and the status of Al-Shabaab in Somalia’s quest for peace. It trumps up local alternatives to solving conflicts on the continent and avers that it is possible to revert to these local mechanisms of governance and conflict reso...

Can we live forever?

An enlightening look into the medical, cultural, religious and philosophical implications of life extension.

Emerging dynamics in audiences' consumption of trans-media products

The book investigates the new forms of agency possessed by national audiences with reference to two television texts: Mad Men (AMC, 2007–2015) and Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011–2019). Structured as a comparative study between two countries, Italy and New Zealand, the research aims to provide insight...

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...

The unspoken morality of childhood

The Unspoken Morality of Childhood: Family, Friendship, Self-Esteem and the Wisdom of the Everyday reflects the thoughts of a senior ethicist and discusses complex ethical concepts such as identity, agency, self-esteem, forgiveness, relations with our parents, dealing with loss, the moral imagina...

Towards third generation learning and teaching

This book gives up-to-date descriptions of the forces that drive change in learning and teaching, offering a perspective of learning in the near future.

Architecture and the public good

The best chance for ethically grounding the architecture profession is in the public good that results from licensing but architects have done an unconvincing job of communicating the nature of this good. This dissects the underlying tensions causing this situation and proposes solutions that wou...

Leading the sustainable organization

Our current leaders have failed to move quickly or decisively to address the challenges of climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability. The book offers a blueprint for a new generation of leaders to transform industry and create a new, more equitable future.

Multicriteria analysis for environmental decision-making

The book provides an introduction to key concepts of multicriteria analysis, and a series of case studies that illustrate its application to a variety of environmental decision-making problems, ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental imp...

Handbook of artificial intelligence and robotic process automation

President Putin’s explicit declaration that the country that makes progress in artificial intelligence will rule the world has launched a new race for dominance. In this era of cognitive competition and total automation, every country understands that it must rapidly adopt AI or go bust. To stay ...

A historical and theoretical guide to studying religion

The book is a historical and theoretical account of the development and present situation of what has come widely to be known as Religious Studies. This account emphasizes the complexity of the field due both to its origins and the uncertain and even conflicted position today of the academic stud...

Russia's oil and natural gas

A comprehensive evaluation of the Russian oil and natural gas industry and its pivotal role in the volatile Russian economy.

Land and agrarian transformation in zimbabwe

This book explores the outcomes of Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform implemented in 2000. The book pays particular attention to changing livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s countryside occasioned by the land reform.

Nikolai gretsch's travel letters: volume 1 - letters from england

Nikolai Gretsch's Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Napoleonic England, France, and Germany in 1837.  Gretsch’s witty and perceptive prose captures an outsider’s view of Western Europe in the early nineteenth century, providing a tr...

Eugene onegin

A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society – serf, provincial, aristocrat – in verse which is by turns beautiful, witty, wickedly perceptive and always readable.

Past forward

A wide-ranging collection of concise essays, ‘Past Forward’ introduces core features of Korean history that illuminate current issues and pressing concerns, demonstrating how Korea’s present circumstances both reflect and shape the understanding of its past.

Martin luther and the german reformation

A concise, critical study of Martin Luther and his impact on the modern world. The book is extensively based on the writings of Martin Luther and draws connections between Luther’s life and teachings and the contemporary world.  

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...

Technological retrogression

The aim of this book is to broaden our understanding of technological change by adopting the concept of technological retrogression. With reference to concrete cases of technological retrogression a new conceptual framework is developed. The book’s exposition aims at contrasting retrogressive eco...

Authoritarian collectivism and ‘real socialism’

The book discusses so-called real socialism and offers an alternative conceptualization of it as authoritarian collectivism, making use of an analytical methodology. It concentrates on the principles of ‘real socialism’ in its golden age but also assesses its present embrace of capitalism.

The ethics of personal data collection in international relations

This volume attests to the fact that pressing global public health concerns are ever present as subjects of societal discourse and debate in developed and developing states. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic makes the omission of the ethics of personal data collection analysis in the international ...

Refugee support and moral practice in slovakia

This ethnography accompanies people who support refugees in Slovakia—outlining the personal and political dilemmas that complicate refugee care in Central Eastern Europe and beyond.

In the name of security – secrecy, surveillance and journalism

‘In the Name of Security – Secrecy, Surveillance and Journalism’ investigates the effects of the increased number of anti-terror laws, new mass surveillance technologies and a global fear- driven security paradigm have had on in-depth public interest journalism since 11 September 2001 in a number...

Colombian gothic in cinema and literature

The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature postulates defining aesthetic features and political functions of the genre in Colombia—from the nineteenth century to the present, and from Bogotá to Cali.

War and peace in the worlds of rudolf h. sauter

War and Peace in the Worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter is the first book to examine the creative life and worlds of Rudolf H. Sauter (1895–1977), the German-born artist, poet, cultural observer and nephew of the famed novelist John Galsworthy. Revealing him to be a creative figure in his own right, it e...

Britain and its mandate over palestine

When Britain took control of Palestine from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War 1, it tried to find a way to gain a legal right both to govern Palestine and to facilitate a Jewish national home there. It never found one. As a result, the changes it brought about in Palestine lack a legal basis.

Trysts with democracy

This volume offers a collection of lucid, theoretically stimulating articles that explore and analyse the institutions and values which are salient in understanding political practices in South Asia.

Anthem guide to essay writing

The ‘Anthem Guide to Essay Writing’ is a comprehensive guide to writing successful essays in any course, with step-by-step advice and plenty of examples. Also included are style tips and citation rules.

Reaganism in literary theory

Largely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man’s replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies preserved a discourse of devotion and disqualification homologous with Reaganism. This negative moralism shelters professional privilege and competition from scrutiny, s...

Peruvian foreign policy in the modern era

Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era is a chronological treatment of Peruvian foreign policy from 1990 to the present. It focuses on the impact of domestic politics, economic interests, security concerns, and alliance diplomacy on contemporary Peruvian foreign policy.

Tractatus logico-philosophicus

Bazzocchi disposes the text of the Tractatus in a user-friendly manner, exactly as Wittgenstein's decimals advise. This discloses the logical form of the book by distinct reading units, linked into a fashioned hierarchical tree. The text becomes much clearer and every reader can enjoy, finally, i...

Explorations in twentieth-century theology and philosophy

Ann Loades has been instrumental in bringing forward for the attention of readers in later generations “voices from the past,” notably highlighting the work of pioneering women such as Evelyn Underhill and Dorothy L. Sayers as well as advancing the study of better-known Anglican forebears C. S. L...

Studies on the carvaka/lokayata

This volume is the first attempt at a scientific study of the Carvaka/Lokayata, the materialist system of philosophy that flourished in ancient India between the eighth and the twelfth century CE.

A cultural history of the bushranger legend in theatres and cinemas, 1828–2017

‘A Cultural History of the Bushranger Legend in Theatres and Cinemas, 1828–2017’ is a cultural history of the bushranger legend on stage and screen from colonial to contemporary Australia. It provides a detailed analysis of the mechanisms through which bushrangers became an indelible part of the ...

The rights track

The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery uses rich content from The Rights Track podcast [www.rightstrack.org] in an innovative book that enhances and enriches our understanding of the human rights challenges facing the world today.

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...

Publish and promote your ebook in a day

Turn your book into a bestseller! This book explains how to publish an ebook yourself, upload it for sale on Amazon and market it quickly and inexpensively.

The politics of time and youth in brand india

A study of the profound preoccupation with time, youth and the relationship between generations in contemporary popular Indian media culture, this book suggests that the politics of time is a manifestation of the radicalised war between labour and capital inherent in India’s shift to neoliberalis...

Classical edinburgh

This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland seen against a city, Edinburgh, acity that to this day is soured by class divisions. In tracing the family back several centuries, the book embeds their lives into the larger forces shaping the Scottish culture, climaxing in the ...

South of the crisis

The book offers an unorthodox account of why and how global capitalism has entered a phase of unsustainable crises of accumulation and legitimacy, and examines the different exit strategies open to Latin American countries.

Transforming the politics of mobility and migration in aotearoa new zealand

Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand is a future-focused book that formulates alternative paradigms timely and necessary for a just and ethical politics of mobility and migration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Examining a variety of topics, the book addresses the ...

Cultural processes of inequality

Cultural Processes of Inequality: A Sociological Perspective show how systemic inequality is produced and reproduced through mundane, routine actions based on taken-for-granted assumptions. The book ties such cultural assumptions to personal and institutional behavior, drawing connections between...

A new india?

This volume critically examines the notion of a ‘new’ India by recognizing that India is changing remarkably and by exposing the many economic, social, and political contradictions that are integral to contemporary India.

Isee lower level practice tests

Eisenhower and the art of collaborative leadership

‘Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership’ is a study of the leadership style of Dwight Eisenhower with an emphasis on collaboration, team-building and empathy.

Gothic appalachian literature

Gothic Appalachian Literature examines the ways contemporary Appalachian authors utilize gothic tropes to explore the complex history and contemporary problems of the region, particularly in terms of the representation of economic, environmental, and political concerns.

Globalization and challenges to building peace

This fascinating collected volume explores the relationship between world conflict, political unrest and the driving forces of Capitalism and Globalization.

Insurgent play

Insurgent Play: Social worlds of urban disruption explores play as a transgressive expression that disrupts the modern city.

Chinese television and soft power communication in australia

‘Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia’ provides a systemic test of how successful/unsuccessful China’s soft power message projection is in terms of congruence between projected and received frames in Australia.

The science and politics of extractive industries in the ocean and beyond

This edited volume provides extensive coverage of the extraction of underwater minerals, ranging from lakes, rivers, continental shelves of coastal states, and the deep ocean. The volume features interdisciplinary contributions on topics relating to the science, environment, technology, politics,...

Sexual violence and literary art

Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women’s philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.

The united states, the soviet union and the geopolitical implications of the origins of the cold war

‘The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1949’ examines the geopolitical implications of the process of institutionalization of the international order that took place in the aftermath of World War Two. The book argues that the or...

Democratic management of an ecosystem under threat

Using case studies from Florida and the Caribbean, this book summarizes the state of coral reef conservation today, exploring the most effective way to protect vulnerable coral reef ecosystems while ensuring people’s voices are heard. 

Screen writings

'Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary' offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals.

Genealogies of the west

Genealogies of the West presents a new look at the West by tracing the still-recognizable footprints of the past and reflecting on the present challenges it faces. Through a review of its rich and often controversial history, it recalls the genealogies of the plural processes, ideas, characters, ...

The colonial and national formations of the national college of arts, lahore, circa 1870s to 1960s

The book, using archival sources, examines the colonial and postcolonial history of arts education in Pakistan through the National College of Arts, founded as the Mayo School of Arts in 1875. It deconstructs art history and anthropology frameworks embedded in imperial and national discourses, po...

Philosophical meta-reflections on literary studies

‘Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them?’ takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies, philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein as well as the implications of certain pop...

Time will tell

A witty and fast-moving tale of treachery and ambition centred on a rare musical manuscript, set in the medieval past and the present day.

Religion and contemporary management

Though few might think of Moses as a ‘leader’ or even a ‘manager’ in the contemporary sense, Moses –among the most significant leaders in Western civilization – is arguably the quintessential example of leadership from whom much can be learned by people entering and occupying leadership positions.

Iconomy: towards a political economy of images

Exploring viral imagery of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Presidents Trump and Biden, Black Lives Matter, as well as the rise of a “black aesthetic” in white artworlds, this book shows that iconopolitics—especially constellations of visual images—has become pervasive within contemporary life. It que...

Candlelight

Autumn, 1914. As the generals take over from the politicians, and as both her husband and the man she loves fight on the front, Clara, a passionate young London wife, waits fearfully to see who will return from the fighting and what will become of her.  

The transformation of the organization of american states

This book explores the extent and significance of the transformation of the Organisation of American States since 1991: its roots, the reasons for and extent of its emergence, and the role that the organisation currently plays in the promotion of regional governance.

The reading figure in irish art in the long nineteenth century

This book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which figures read or hold a book. Reading fiction was cast as unmanly, while ‘silent reading’ allowed women of means to read widely and privately. Portraits of such women helped construct the idea of the ‘New Woman’ in Irel...

Academia, chernobyl, expeditions and the greeks

The memoir Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and The Greeks: A Research Psychologist on the Move recounts memorable experiences over the course of the author’s career as an academic psychologist engaged in research on stress and coping in extreme environments. The focus of the book is on the autho...

Project management for construction

The book explores and analyses the five dimensions of project management and explores how current trends can influence the efficiency of the design and construction process within a dynamic industry and changeable political and regulatory environment.

Signless signification in ancient india and beyond

The collection of interdisciplinary essays in this book examines the speculative, linguistic, literary and artistic theories on signless ways of expressing meanings in the context of traditional Indian language and culture. 

War and peace

The book explores the role of religion in war and peace through nine original contributions that examine a range of case studies from different historical periods. Religion, the volume suggests, is typically not the cause of human conflict, but rather the product of actions by the state and the l...

A dictionary of victorian london

A wonderful A–Z of the fascinating world of Victorian London, full of amazing facts and curious humour.

The anthem companion to émile durkheim

The Anthem Companion to Émile Durkheim intends to offer different practical attempts to build on Durkheim’s legacy and investigate the issues and controversies that characterise contemporary societies and thus contribute to develop further this path of critical enquiry into ‘classical sociology’.

'report on the agrarian law' (1795) and other writings

'Report on the Agrarian Law' (1795) and Other Writings is the first modern English translation of perhaps the greatest work of the Spanish Enlightenment, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos’s Informe de la Ley Agraria (1795, Report on the Agrarian Law). Informe de la Ley Agraria is a major work of polit...

Chechnya

A remarkable collection of essays, considering every angle of the Chechen conflict.

The inherence of human dignity

The second of two volumes on dignity, Law and Religious Liberty focuses on the connection between human dignity and positive law, oriented around the central question, “What role should dignity play in the development of legislation and the adjudication of disputes involving religious freedom?”

The whole durn human comedy: life according to the coen brothers

A groundbreaking, incisive critical study of the Coen Bros., the quirky team of filmmaking brothers who delight in unsettling cinematic conventions and confounding audiences while raising disturbing questions about human nature.

Montesquieu's 'the spirit of the laws'

The Spirit of the Laws is the canonical text of modern republicanism and the English translation – always deficient heretofore – is critical to an appreciation of those deliberations that led to adoption of the Constitution of the United States. The present update recovers the sense of the origin...

Unhomely cinema

Representations of troubled and inhospitable domestic places are a common feature of many cinematic narratives. “Unhomely Cinema” explores how the unhomely nature of contemporary film narrative provides an insight into what it means to dwell in today’s global societies.

Death of a butterfly

Art teacher Amanda returns home to find her husband, Mathew, murdered. The police have no leads and the only clue is a missing photograph album. Amanda soon learns that her husband had been taking out loans against her home, leaving her in negative equity, a fact the police are quick to latch ont...

The portrayal of breastfeeding in literature

Analyses the depiction of breastfeeding in literature, what it tells us about how women are perceived in our society and how it matters.

Japan's open future

Where does Japan fit in a rapidly changing world, and how should it relate to the United States and China? Three foreign commentators make a provocative and persuasive argument that the time has come for Japan to help build a stronger Asian community, and to become an engaged and conscientious gl...

National systems of innovation

‘National Systems of Innovation’ presents a new perspective on the dynamics of the national and the global economy.

Britain in india, 1858–1947

‘Britain in India, 1858–1947’ examines the last ninety years of British India, from the establishment of Crown rule after the Mutiny to withdrawal and partition in 1947.

Forgotten blood

‘Forgotten Blood’, Kamaljit Sood’s first play, highlights the enthusiasm with which Indian forces went to France to fight for the British Crown. The British rulers in India, however, reneged on their promises and resorted to repression of free speech and outright massacre.

W. h. davies

This book brings together, for the first time, a collection of articles from leading scholars on the writing, and literary and social contexts, of the ‘tramp-poet’ and memoirist W. H. Davies (1871–1940).

Thorstein veblen

The book presents state-of-the-art scholarship on Thorstein Veblen, one of the world's most influential social scientists. It explores hitherto neglected aspects of his life, works and historical relevance.

Pastoral cosmopolitanism in edith wharton’s fiction

One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that while the pastoral seems to portray troubling fractures between the social self and native soil, Wharton is more struck by how these ostensibly divergent cultural categories superimpose and interpenetrate to form an ecocritical palimpsest.

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.

Military memories

This book describes eight American military veterans of the Vietnam/Cold War era and describes their service and its influence on their lives.

The power of constitutional rights in resource conflicts

This book considers the value of constitutional environmental rights in protecting water resources through an examination of the legal strategies utilized by communities engaged in protracted mining conflicts, including oil sands development in the Canadian boreal forest and gold mining in ecolog...

Thomas hardy

Anthem Classics presents a selected collection of Thomas Hardy’s prose – ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’, ‘A Pair of Blue Eyes’, ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’, ‘The Return of the Native’, ‘The Trumpet-Major’ and ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ – in this the first volume of a two-volume set.