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Democracy, social justice and the role of trade unions
Trade unions worldwide face a powerful paradox at this critical juncture: collective organisations for workers are urgently needed and yet there are serious pressures undercutting the legitimate role of trade unions. The aim of this book is to examine how trade unions can effectively navigate thi...
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Secret dreams in istanbul
A highly intelligent, empathetic account of a family haunted by dark secrets. Simultaneously a psychological study, a focus for feminism, a novel of intrigue, it has the unique and laudable ability to win the reader’s sympathy for the most unsavoury of characters.
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Journalism and the metaverse
Journalism has been in a state of disruption since the development of the Internet. The Metaverse, or the future of the Internet, is likely to fuel even further disruption in journalism. This book will provide a critical examination of the implications of the Metaverse for the continuing transfor...
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How to use facebook and other social networking sites to sell your ebook in a day
This ebook explains how to build an online marketing platform for your book using social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Google+, Ning and Bebo.
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The creation of markets for ecosystem services in the united states
The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States provides an in-depth analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. It explains why very few of these markets have succeeded even after close to twenty years of scholarly enth...
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Selected poems of bernard barton, the 'quaker poet'
The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton’s selected verse, recovering an important figure from the Romantic era. A diverse variety of his unusual and striking poetry is supplemented by letters, reviews and other contextual material, as well as a scholarly introduction and notes.
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The dancing body in renaissance choreography
The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography is a study of the theory of kinetic theatricality in the western European context. The dancing body of courtly social dance is analyzed in French and Italian dance treatises of the Renaissance through the intertexts of oratorical action, pedagogical di...
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Stages of life
Four autobiographies of early twentieth-century actors and playwrights are presented in English translation, with substantive chapters on the Parsi theatre and strategies for reading autobiography in the Indian context.
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Worst-case economics
In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. ‘Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance’ explores the underlying cau...
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Consumption, cities and states
‘Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities’ examines the fascinating intersection of consumption, citizenship and the state in a cross-section of global cities in Asia and the West.
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Screen performance and the shakespeare film canon in the spotlight of archivision
Without exception, existing studies of cinematic Shakespeare adaptations conform to the long-established paradigm of the descriptive history. Even comprehensive studies of segments of this vast and diverse grouping of films (by Robert H. Ball, Jeremy Sams, Mark T. Burnett, Luke McKernan, et al.) ...
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The retreat of democracy and other itinerant essays on globalization, economics, and india
‘The Retreat of Democracy’ presents an expanded and reworked selection of Basu's best journalistic writings on political and economic themes since the late 1990s.
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Reading greek australian literature through the paramythi
This book explores Greek Australian literature through its paramythic tropes and focuses on reading it as a bridge between multiculturalism and world literature.
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Belarusian theatre and the 2020 pro-democracy protests
This book highlights the important creative work of Belarusian theatre and filmmakers seeking to raise awareness of the Pro-democracy movement and human rights abuses in Belarus and to build communities of care and mourning following the fraudulent 2020 presidential elections in Belarus.
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Ib music revision guide 2nd edition
IB Music Revision Guide 2nd Edition analyses the prescribed works for IB Diploma Programme music through to 2019 – broken down into individual segments on the elements of music. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of musical styles and cultures and contains revision tips and advice on ex...
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Institutional change and economic development
A comprehensive discussion of the issues surrounding institutional progression in relation to the economy of the developing world.
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Guerrilla marketing and diy distribution for your book in a day
This ebook explains how to set up a blog and YouTube video to promote your book, and how to get the most out of both these marketing channels.
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Environmental problem-solving – a video-enhanced self-instructional e-book from mit
Environmental Problem-Solving - A Video-Enhanced Self-Instructional e-Book from MIT’ offers an online, self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve p...
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Literature and inequality
Great works of literature, by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, can help us to better understand the social ramifications of high-end inequality – not just in the authors' eras but today.
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Religion and identity in south asia and beyond
This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.
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Crime fiction in the age of #metoo
Informed by fourth-wave feminism, Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely reading of crime fiction in the age of #MeToo. The book explores five major fourth-wave feminist topics, #MeToo, rape culture, toxic masculinity, LBGTQ+ perspectives, and transgender. These topic...
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Women, gender and everyday social transformation in india
‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ explores key processes of gendered change in contemporary India. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the volume foregrounds the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a so...
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Tobacco control and tobacco farming
This book exposes the myths behind tobacco industry claims that implementing policies aimed at curbing tobacco consumption will negatively affect farmers and that no economically sustainable alternatives exist.
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Interpersonal encounters in contemporary travel writing
A critical study on the theme of interpersonal encounter in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century French and Italian travel writing.
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Urban landscape priorities, opportunities and prospect
Urban Landscape Priorities, Opportunities and Prospect focuses on current planning and design priorities and opportunities for the enhancement of future urban landscape contexts. Current priorities include walkability, access, urban greening and climate mitigation. These and other priorities are ...
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Religion, supernaturalism, the paranormal and pseudoscience
“Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal and Pseudoscience” provides a comprehensive rejoinder to the challenges posed to science, scientific anthropology, evolutionary theory and rationality by the advocates of supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific perspectives and modes of thought.
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Fair value in accounting
A complete handbook for fair value measurement (IFRS & US GAAP). The book combines professional accounting literature, standards and practice into a single well-rounded and user-friendly resource.
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Bauman, elias and latour on modernity and its alternatives
‘Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives’ summarizes and compares the sociological works of three contemporary authors insofar as they deal with the themes of modernity and its alternatives. These alternatives are either deemed to be possible or actually experienced, whether hi...
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Antiquity and loyalist dissent in revolutionary america, 1765–1776
The book explores how the loyalist rebuttal to the American patriot movement derived much of its inspiration and rationale from the ancient literature of the Greco-Roman world—the same repository of classical ideas and principles the patriots coopted to persuade their fellow countrymen to disavow...
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Ib chemistry revision guide
‘IB Chemistry Revision Guide’ simplifies the content of IB chemistry and provides clear explanations for the material.
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A blogger's manifesto
An expansive and captivating interrogation of free speech in the modern world, exploring the limitations of the digital age.
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Emerging thoughts in disability and humanness
Emerging Thoughts in Disability and Humanness engages with fundamental questions about the legitimacy of the atypical body for membership, quasi-membership or exclusion from the category of human.
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Socialist realism in central and eastern european literatures under stalin
This collection on the export of Socialist Realism into Central and Eastern Europe after WWII is the first work on the subject which offers an in-depth analysis of the particularities of distinct national and cultural contexts and explores complexities of the cultural Sovietisation of the region.
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The varieties of joycean experience
A collection of essays on Joyce’s work stressing variations of approach. Forays into and across Joyce’s oeuvre would draw upon a number of new and recent modes of criticism, including textual genetics, cognitive studies, and ecocriticism.
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Ralph ellison and cinema
The first dedicated study of the relation between cinema and the work of African American author Ralph Ellison (1913–1994).
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A pedagogist’s memoir
The memoir now looms large as a pedagogical tool for multiple levels of schooling and of education. Addressed essentially to senior students in schools, students undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate teacher preparation courses in universities.
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Ssat elementary 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 ...
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9 historic revolutions
This book describes with fascinating detail what happened in the nine greatest revolutions of history. It also explains a progressive theory of history derived from the chapters on the revolutions. Finally, it shows how to apply the theory to the present.
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Religion, law and power
Examines the interplay of distinct yet overlapping facets of history, Hinduism, the state and the nation in Eastern India.
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Girls, youth justice and the regulation of sexualities
Girls, Youth Justice, and the Regulation of Sexualities shows historically and contemporarily the complexities in responding to girls’ sexualities (bodies, behavior, and identities) in the juvenile justice system.
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Australian newspapers in the television age, 1956-2006
This extensive, quantitative study illuminates how newspaper practices and priorities developed, and how the nature of news changed in the half century after the introduction of television.
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Navigating social exclusion and inclusion in contemporary india and beyond
This book contains a collection of lucid, empirically grounded articles that explore and analyse the structures, agents and practices of social inclusion and exclusion in contemporary India and beyond.
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Sentimental songs, melodrama and filmic narrative in bollywood’s golden age (1951–1963)
The way in which the spectator responds to the song and how narrative, lyrics, music, mise-en-scènes, all come together to accentuate sentimentality and melodrama in the Golden Age of Bollywood cinema (1951–1963) is the book’s key thematic concern.
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Judge knot
‘Judge Knot’ explores the biggest and the most controversial success story in international law: investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, and asks what makes the system tick and what it means for the future of democracy and development.
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John ruskin and nineteenth-century education
John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and William Morris among others. A great educator, Ruskin is the force behind key debates in education today. The essays in ‘John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education‘ examine Ruskin’s influence on educating girls, libraries, cr...
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Marxism in dark times
This volume is a collection of essays on an alternative understanding of Marxism, anchored in the ideas of humanism, democracy and pluralism.
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How to enjoy paris in 1842
This delightful text combines the practicalities of a travel guide with the revealing observations of social journalism.
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Nationalizing the body
‘Nationalizing the Body’ examines the different meanings of ‘modern medicine’ that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around ‘modernity’.
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Symbols and myth-making in modernity
Why do people queue up and break the bank to watch fantasy movies? Why do some fictional characters and mythical creatures strangely arrest our mind and senses? Why do some images and tales affect us so deeply? From mystical heroic journeys to uncanny images and invincible goddesses, ‘Symbols and...
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Economic development and financial instability
Jan A. Kregel is one of the most important post-Keynesian economists alive. These essays deal with topics ranging from financial crisis in developing countries to today’s financial regulations in the US. This key collection examines crises and their impact on growth from post-Keynesian and Minsky...
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Queer and religious alliances in family law politics and beyond
Family law is a site of social conflict and the erasure of non-traditional families. This book explores how conservative religious and progressive queer groups can cooperatively work together to expand family law’s recognition beyond the traditional state-sponsored family. This book also looks to...
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Management and leadership skills that affect small business survival
Have you ever wondered why many of the over 28 million small businesses in operation in the United States do not survive past the first five years? Is it the economy? The stock market? Or is it something else? ‘Management and Leadership Skills That Affect Small Business Survival’ explains why.
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Demilitarizing the future
Demilitarizing the Future draws from art, anthropology, and activism to investigate the entrenchment of militarism in everyday lives and consider novel imaginaries of its dissolution—of peacemaking, community, and shared equitable futures.
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Balancing work and new parenthood
This book examines Australian parental leave provisions and compares them with their counterpart provisions in Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. Following comparison and analysis, recommended amendments to the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 (Cth) are provided.
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'voyage to the moon' and other imaginary lunar flights of fancy in antebellum america
'Voyage to the Moon' And Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America offers critical textual editions with introductions, explanatory footnotes and appendixes of the four moon voyage stories written by Americans before the Civil War.
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The selling and self-regulation of contemporary poetry
The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry is the first book-length study of the contemporary poetry industry. By documenting radical changes over the past decade in the way poems are published, marketed, and circulated, it connects the seemingly small world of poetry with the other, ...
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The constitution
The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts provides students with a road map through the evolution of the Supreme Court and its decisions involving criminal justice, civil liberties, social justice and federalism, and the balance of powers between the three branches of government placed in a his...
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The mahanubhavs
This volume offers an overview of the origins and main religious and doctrinal characteristics of the Mahanubhavs, the ascetic, devotional sect that arose in 13th century Maharashtra.
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Procreation and population in historical social science
The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the c...
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Samuel richardson as anonymous editor and printer
During the first two decades of his career, Richardson’s role as printer was hardly limited to setting the type for the periodicals that issued from his shop. Perhaps the most glaring evidence of his intervention in producing text is the fact that both The True Briton (1723-24) and The Weekly Mis...
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Place of a skull
‘Place of a Skull’ is a story of a family torn apart by the Troubles in Northern Ireland, of guilt, revenge and a killer’s search for redemption.
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Reading fiona sampson
Integrating analysis and a honed interpretation of the near-total gamut of the oeuvre to-date of Professor Fiona Sampson, the book synthesizes its rigorous discussions of the poetry, prose in different genres, and literary practices of Professor Sampson over a decades-long and much-lauded literar...
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Politics and the theory of language in the ussr 1917-1938
'Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938' provides ground-breaking research into the relationship between linguistic theory and politics during the first two decades of the USSR.
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Environmental problem-solving: balancing science and politics using consensus building tools
'Environmental Problem-Solving' offers a self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems.
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The inner world of research
A book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher, and on the role of emotions and social relations in research based on the author’s reflections from a life as a researcher and on interviews with leading scientists about their work and careers.
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The end of the world and the last god
The End of the World and the Last God is a philosophical work that poses a disturbing existential question: what if mankind is definitively bored with Earth? And if so, what will happen if we fail to find a way out of our planet?
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Fitzgerald’s rubáiyát of omar khayyám
For all its fame in the wider world, Edward FitzGerald’s ‘Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ (1859) has been largely ignored by the academic establishment. This volume explores the reasons for both its popularity and neglect.
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Suburban space, the novel and australian modernity
‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ investigates the interaction between suburbs and suburbia in a century-long series of Australian novels. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric of Australian fiction in dialogue with its evocative and imaginative rendering of subu...
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Paradoxes of populism
“Paradoxes of Populism” discusses the fantasies, promises and contradictions of populism as also its backgrounds and causes. While demonstrating the many varieties of populism, the book explains its rising popularity and steers the reader through the many myths and misconceptions surrounding it.
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Hawthorne's histories, hawthorne's world
Hawthorne’s Histories, Hawthorne’s World collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne since the publication of his ground-breaking Province of Piety, elaborating and refining his analyses of how Hawthorne’s most memorable early tales “do history,” but proceeding the...
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Responsibility to protect and prevent
This volume explores the development and application of responsibility to protect (R2P), a principle which – according to its supporters – has evolved into a new type of responsive norm regarding how the international community should react to serious and deliberate human rights violations.
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Power of sage
The book constructs a new model for attaining power, challenging the traditional Machiavellian approach to construct power.
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South asia 2060
“South Asia 2060” is a dialogue between 47 thought leaders, ranging from policymakers to academics to civil society activists and visionaries from across South Asia and the world, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia’s future as a region. The collection explores how South Asia’s ...
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Virtual voyages
'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'.
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The beaver bot of yellowstone
As the artificial intelligence revolution sweeps through the global economy, nothing is more important than Pure-Play leadership. Using a fable, ‘The Beaver Bot of Yellowstone’ guides business leaders on how to lead their firms through the mysterious and complex cognitive transformation. Not just...
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Start me up and keep me growing
This easy-to-read book tells how the Rolling Stones started out 60 years ago as a venture to confess the blues, unprepared for planetary success. It shows how they managed, adapted, innovated and grew, and how they succeeded in dealing with the interpersonal dynamics inherent in any form of human...
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Spanish romance in the battle for global supremacy
By exploring England’s fanatical consumption of the so-called books of the brave conquistadors, this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico, Peru, Guiana, California, and Australia) and rooted the idea of English empire as a civilized alternative...
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Living across connectivity
This volume looks at the role of digital media platforms in shaping migrants’ practices of connectivity and mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, it explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for intimacy, entrepreneurship, and care for East Asian migr...
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Studies in hindu law and dharmaśāstra
This book presents for the first time a collection of the major studies on Hindu law and Dharmaśāstra by Ludo Rocher, one of the brightest lights of American academia. This collection of essays serves as an invaluable introduction to Rocher’s distinctive and important contributions to the field o...
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Russia and europe in the twenty-first century
A comprehensive exploration into the fractious historical and contemporary relationship of these two influential political powers.
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Petrified utopia
‘Petrified Utopia’ redresses the lack of scholarship on the issue of the pursuit of collective happiness in Soviet culture, and presents a collection of essays that discuss different manifestations of happiness in literature and visual culture.
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Why the economists got it wrong
The book illustrates the development of the financial crisis and traces its cultural origins in mainstream economics. The Keynesian theory of uncertainty and Minsky's concept of financial fragility provide an alternative interpretation of past events and future policy developments.
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Transnationalism and translation in modern chinese, english, french and japanese literatures
Drawing on the latest work in comparative philosophy and comparative literature, this book presents an innovative model of transnational literary exchanges.
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Corporate wrongdoing and the art of the accusation
This book addresses an old and basic question: what is the moral order of the market? ‘Corporate Wrongdoing and the Art of the Accusation’ is an exploration of accusations of wrongdoing and the revelations these accusations expose about the dark side of capitalism and modern corporations.
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Quakernomics
Combining commercial success with philanthropy and social activism, ‘Quakernomics’ offers a compelling model for corporate social responsibility in the modern world.
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Forever
The idea of transferring humans into humanoid bodies has been the theme for many eminent titles. This book’s unique contribution is its exploration of the legal questions and embedded philosophical issues that flow from being able to transfer a copy of a person’s mind into a synthetic body that l...
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Robert louis stevenson, literary networks and transatlantic publishing in the 1890s
Focusing on an author characterised by geographical and aesthetic mobility, and on those who worked with him or wrote for him, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s’ investigates the operations of transatlantic literary networks during a period of ke...
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Horror and the horror film
‘Horror and the Horror Film’ is a vivid, compelling, insightful and well-written study of the horror film and its subgenres from 1896 to the present, concentrating on the nature of horror in reality and on film.
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Rethinking therapeutic reading
Through a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology, ‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.
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Promoting income security as a right
This book is about the right to a basic income: a right without conditions, just as a citizen of a good society should have the right to clean water.
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Captain philip beaver's african journal
Captain Philip Beaver’s journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhum...
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Finding the way to 'long day's journey into night'
A profound new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill t...
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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...
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Critical perspectives on further education and training
This book is essential reading for educators, student teachers, policymakers, and anyone with an interest in critical viewpoints on adult, community, and further education. It offers a variety of outlooks that include educator identity, critical pedagogy, assessing learning, community education, ...
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The abcs of cold war history
A short, but highly relevant, history of the Cold War, 1919–1994, and its significance today. The 75-year Cold War pitted the Anglo-American world against the Soviet Bloc, with China, the ultimate prize.
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Joycean possibilities: a margot norris legacy
Inspired by the work of Margot Norris, this volume takes up her theme of how James Joyce’s works open up a host of new possibilities: for interpretation, for stylistic “iridescence,” for narrative, for other possible worlds, and for gender equality.
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Reforming the governance of the imf and the world bank
A radical and comprehensive review of the practices of governance within one of the world's most important and influential organizations.
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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...
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The elite center cannot hold
A resurgent liberalism has become hegemonic in Philippine media and academic discourses, which were previously characterized by progressive and nationalist perspectives. While resurgent Philippine liberalism (RPL) has been precipitated by recent and current crises.
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Tradition, veda and law
The essays presented in this volume constitute a progression from general considerations related to the ‘etic’ (in the geertzian sense of the word) approach to South Asian cultural productions, to peculiar and detailed investigations of them.
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