Becoming an environmental psychologist

This book explores the interdisciplinary pathways that environmental psychologists have taken to become educators, researchers, and consultants in this highly applied and growing field. Individuals with backgrounds in architecture, urban planning, and geography, as well as in the health sciences ...

The development of an art history in the uae

Work by artists from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), interviews and first-hand accounts form the core of this book about the development of the country’s art history. Learning about artists and seeing how their practices fit into global art historical discourses can help viewers gain insight into...

Civic engagement in australian democracy

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

Ukraine’s move to the west

This book provides a great backstory of what is happening in Ukraine. It contextualises Ukraine’s 2014 EU-IMF aid deal and provides up to date empirical information and analysis through the lens of a socially connected global elite network. It contributes to the understanding of how power operate...

Taking responsibility for the life of complex human ecosystems

Moving towards, not away from, the vexing array of discouraging crises of our time and drawing on a number of innovative but congruent concepts, this short book offers to focus our path towards deep accountability for the life of complex human ecosystems.

The politics of public opinion in the novels of anthony trollope

The Politics of Public Opinion: Trollope'’s ‘Tenth Muse’ takes as its subject the rise of public opinion in the nineteenth-century British novel as (1) a uniquely collective narrative form posing as a singular voice and (2) a “voice” that distances itself from re-sponsibility by disguising its pr...

African memoirs and cultural representations

In this book, memoirs by West African writers are discussed as repositories of African communities, ranging from the traditional to the contemporary. Each memoir examined analyzes and sheds light on the inner workings of society via the individual, including the dynamic processes of African cultu...

Conspiracy and contingency

What do conspiracy theories, algorithms and meritocracy have in common? All three avoid contingency and frantically look for necessities. ‘Contingency phobia’ is not only manifest in conspiratorial thinking. It is the cause of a variety of other phenomena that have become emblematic for liberal d...

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.

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.

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...

Śambūka and the rāmāyaṇa tradition

This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial execution of Śambūka, a minor Rāmāyaṇa character of low social standing. Changing socio-political sentiments throughout Indian history have forced numerous revisions to the Śambūka ...

Beckett and broadcasting

The future of employment in africa

The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare explores the major socio-economic trends that will define the face of the sub-Saharan continent in the next three decades. It mainly focuses on the need to massively create jobs due to unseen demographic growth. The book c...

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...

Renu recipes

In preparing this cookbook, I have received wonderful encouragement and support from many quarters. I thank my sons—Fauji, Teji, and Inu—and their wives for helping me decide on the specific dishes to include. The infectious enthusiasm of my grandchildren for my cooking has propelled me onward, t...

Don't shoot the journalists

Born out of the University of Oregon’s “Extra!! Don’t Kill the Messenger: Migrating to Stay Alive” international symposium on journalism-in-exile, this volume brings together the presentations, conversations, and reflections of writers, reporters, and scholars who have faced dangers and threats t...

The failure of the voice referendum and the future of australian democracy

This book provides the first sustained scholarly and practical analysis of the 2023 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice referendum loss, with a view to informing the future attempts at First Nations structural reform and the practice of Australian democracy.

Colette and the incest taboo

This book makes an argument critical to literary theory and sexuality in 2025.  It argues that Colette’s fiction portrays a woman struggling to live in the throes of the incest taboo, understood in its psychological implications for power relations both private and public, then and now. 

Elite quality index 2025

The Elite Quality Index 2025: The Sustainable Value Creation of Nations (EQx2025), the leading global political economy index, is a comparative ranking measuring the sustainability of nations that assesses whether elites create value and expand a nation’s knowledge capabilities or use their power...

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.

Climates of migration

Climates of Migration offers a transcultural, transhistorical, transcolonial and transnational analysis of the interplay between migration and climate change. The emphasis is on the anxiety, disinformation and fear generated by the political instrumentalization of these issues, and examines how t...

Perfecting the u.s. constitution

This book tells the story 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.

How louis xiv survived his hegemonic bid

Why do some great powers survive their hegemonic bids, while others lose everything? France’s Louis XIV stands out among modern aspiring hegemons as the only one to leave his country intact, even larger than he found it. Similar to other potential hegemons, Louis fought general wars he failed to ...

Wittgenstein on other minds

The book brings together Constantine Sandis’s essays on Wittgenstein’s approach to understanding others. Sandis sketches a picture of how his anti-scepticism with regard to the philosophical problem of ‘other minds’ is not only compatible with but also supported by his scepticism concerning the r...

Developing africa?

The book depicts an Afrocentric thinker grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in the interrogation of an African development discourse in pursuit of cognitive justice.

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.

Constraining development

This book explores the ways that trade and investment treaties constrain domestic policy making. It draws a common thread through trade- and investment-related areas to show how the promises of the current international legal regime have not come to fruition and to offer new options for countries...

Cricket, fiction and nation

Cricket, Fiction and Nation examines how cricket has been used by fiction writers from the early nineteenth century to the present day to explore matters such as national identity, class, sexuality, murder, suicide, obsession, empire, migration and the global post-colonial world.

Engaging with engagement

This short book examines the taxonomy of ‘voluntary obligations’ presented by Viscount Stair in his seminal Institutions of the Law of Scotland, arguing that – notwithstanding ongoing proposals to significantly reform ‘Scots contract law’ –  Stair’s account of ‘will’ and ‘engagement’ offers the b...

After jews

The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world “after Jews”. 

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.

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...

The making of the modern chinese navy

‘The Making of the Modern Chinese Navy’ includes 14 historical case studies that help to illuminate a number of special characteristics of the modern-day Chinese navy.

The films of john schlesinger

‘The Films of John Schlesinger’ is the first comprehensive interpretation of the films of the distinguished eponymous director. It is the first book to do full justice to the director's literary roots, film artistry and capacious understanding of modern life.

Notions of otherness

‘Notions of Otherness’ is a collection of literary essays that approaches the idea of alterity politically, aesthetically, ethically, culturally and sexually in a diachronic manner.

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 ...

Neo-gothic narratives

‘Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times.

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.

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.

The anthem companion to talcott parsons

The Anthem Companion to Talcott Parsons offers the best contemporary work on Talcott Parsons, 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 Parsons’s students and scholars alike.

The films of adoor gopalakrishnan

The first comprehensive study of the feature films of India’s most distinguished contemporary filmmaker. This work offers a compelling analysis of the director’s treatment of guilt, redemption and hope within their socio-historical contexts.

The deoband madrassah movement

This innovative book analyses the growth of Deobandi Islam, a religious sect whose followers include extremist groups such as the Taliban, through the frame of a counterculture in conflict with mainstream Muslim society.

Urban crisis, urban hope

Urban Crisis, Urban Hope is an urgent, informed, and passionate critique at the crisis that has been allowed to develop in our cities, and a wide-ranging agenda for change to challenge all political and government institutions.

The transformation of capacity in international development

"The Transformation of Capacity in International Development” exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID’s work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approa...

Minutes to midnight, 2nd edition

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.

Theater in the middle east

The collected essays from noteworthy dramatists and scholars in this book represent new ways of understanding theater in the Middle East not as geographical but transcultural spaces of performance. What distinguishes this book from previous works is that it offers new analysis on a range of theat...

Vyāsa redux

Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and 'Vyāsa Redux' examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. Narrative is, in this view, cognitive rather than empiri...

Mining and natural hazard vulnerability in the philippines

This book explores how natural  hazards in the Philippines can amplify the environmental harm prevalent in mining and pose a substantial threat to the livelihoods of archipelago’s poor, who depend upon subsistence agriculture and subsistence aquaculture.

Locating australian literary memory

‘Locating Australian Literary Memory’ explores sites which are explicitly connected with eleven Australian authors through material forms of commemoration such as houses, graves, statues and assorted artefacts. While acknowledging the value of literary memorials and the voluntary labour that enab...

Knowledge evolution and societal transformations

Knowledge Evolution and Societal Transformation proposes a new paradigm based on the evolution of knowledge that synthesizes existing social science theories at three analytical levels. A central theme is how knowledge causes new problems and explains growing inequality. To solve these problems, ...

Responsible citizens

‘Responsible Citizens’ reveals how rising emphasis on the individual has gone hand in hand with an increase in subtle authoritarianism – particularly within public services – such that a kind of ‘governance through responsibility’ is today being enforced upon the population.

The spanish frustration

Old troubles persist in modern Spain, including huge public debts, extensive corruption, widespread unlawfulness, oligarchical politics, territorial splits, and permanent protests and riots. The origins of these problems are remote: the ruinous Spanish Empire made a weak state, which built an inc...

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. 

Resurgent africa

‘Resurgent Africa: Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development’ is a study of structural change dynamics in Africa and its effect on job creation, living standards and the efficiency of productive cities through manufacturing productivity growth that benefit the majority. It provides in-...

An anthology of nineteenth-century american science writing

This anthology is the first collection of primary science articles written by scientists working in America during the nineteenth century.

Anarchism in local governance

‘Anarchism in Local Governance’ relates the municipal political and administrative governance of Savonlinna, Finland, to anarchist thought and praxis to investigate how they might complement each other.

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...

The anthem handbook of screen theory

‘The Anthem Handbook of Screen Theory’ offers readers a unique survey of the new horizons of film and media theory, focusing on the applicability of screen theories and updating the field for new social, cultural and geopolitical contexts.

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.

The ocean of god

‘The Ocean of God’ proposes that the future of religions will become transreligious. Its polyphilic pluralism, entertaining religious pluralism and the unity of religions mediated by process and Baha’i thought, assumes the spiritual impulse of humanity, despite secularizations, naturalizations an...

The learning economy and the economics of hope

‘The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope’ offers original insights in processes of innovation and learning and draws implications for economic theory and public policy. The book introduces the reader to important concepts such as innovation systems and the learning economy. It throws new l...

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. 

Science advice and global environmental governance

“Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance” examines expert committees advising multilateral environmental agreements on ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants and land degradation. This work argues the co-production arising in these committees warrants recognizing their co...

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.

Ib biology revision workbook

The ‘IB Biology Revision Workbook’ is a collection of revision activities based on the Standard Level Core, Additional Higher Level and Options topics that form the DP Biology course. Highly interactive, the workbook has a wide range of different revision techniques to consolidate learning at any...

Offering theory

A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading, proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today.

Kutze, stepp'n on wheat

Alone on a midsummer night, Cat wakes to find a stranger dressed in yellow ‘rat-a-tap, tapping’ his feet. Captivated by the music of Kutze’s steps, Cat resolves to tread wheat like the stranger when he grows up: in the big city where he studies music or, eventually, further afield, across the sea.

The isle of south kamui and other stories

In this early collection of five short stories, Kyotaro Nishimura explores the criminal mind and what makes people do the unthinkable.

The early roxburghe club 1812–1835

The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. This work offers a new narrative of the formative years of the Club and early nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and its relationship to the emergent popularity and status of English vernacul...

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...

British depth studies c500–1100 (anglo-saxon and norman britain)

‘British Depth Studies c500–1100 (Anglo-Saxon and Norman Britain)’ is designed for students and teachers preparing for the new GCSE ‘Anglo-Saxon and Norman England’ British Depth Study components of the Edexcel and AQA examination boards.

Austria supreme (if it so wishes) (1684): 'a strategy for european economic supremacy’

‘Austria Supreme, if It So Wishes (1684)’ provides a scholarly introduction to the Austrian-German mercantilist classic ‘Oesterreich über Alles Wann es Nur Will’ (1684) by Philipp Wilhelm von Hörnigk.

Internationalisation of post-1992 uk universities

The internationalisation of post-1992 universities is seen as an unmitigated success. ‘Internationalisation of Post-1992 UK Universities’ looks closely at the drivers towards internationalisation and questions the cost to the organisation and the effect overseas.

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...

Migrant nation

‘Migrant Nation: Australian Culture, Society and Identity’ casts new light on Australian identity through historical accounts of the many and varied experiences of migration.

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...

Mesoscale modelling for meteorological and air pollution applications

‘Mesoscale Modelling for Meteorological and Air Pollution Applications’ combines fundamental and practical aspects of mesoscale air pollution and meteorological modelling, including applications and evaluation approaches.

Commitment in the artistic practice of aref el-rayess

In her study of Aref El-Rayess’s The 5th of June, or, The Changing of Horses, Natasha Gasparian reveals that the picture was presented and received, allegorically or metaphysically, as an idealized narrative of national liberation. By tracing the caesuras and slips in discourse, she reconstructs ...

American arabists in the cold war middle east, 1946–75

This book examines US State Department’s Middle East area experts during the Cold War, known as Arabists or Middle East hands, showing how their backgrounds and education differed crucially from that of their predecessors. This study focuses on these individuals’ transformative role in US foreign...

The poverty of television

Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television. 

The travel writings of marguerite blessington

This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) and offers the first detailed analysis of her four travel books.

National systems of innovation

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

On commerce and usury (1524)

This volume presents Martin Luther’s contribution to the modern economic sciences, providing a detailed introduction and revised translation of his 1524 pamphlet, ‘On Commerce and Usury’ (‘Von Kauffshandlung vnd Wucher’).

Australia as the antipodal utopia

Australia has a fascinating history of visions. As the antipode to Europe, Australia provided a radically different and uniquely fertile ground for envisioning places, spaces and societies. ‘The Antipodal Utopia’ evaluates this complex intellectual history by mapping out how Western visions of Au...

Global green shift

Global Green Shift - Author’s book webpage Winner of 2018 Schumpeter Prize Competition The greening of industry is described as a global process driven not so much by Western countries concerned with climate change as by China, India and other industrializing countries responding to economic imp...

Late victorian orientalism

Late Victorian Orientalism is a work of scholarly research pushing forward disciplines into new areas of enquiry. This collection of essays tries to redefine the task of interpreting the East in the nineteenth century taking as a starting point Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) in order to investi...

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...