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 ...

Exploring animal crossing

An exploration of the Animal Crossing virtual world, bringing together insights about law, commerce, psychology, sociology and creativity for scholars and non-specialist readers.

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...

Aboard the democracy train

'Aboard the Democracy Train' is a gripping front-line account of Pakistan's decade of turbulent democracy (1988-1999), as told through the eyes of the only woman reporter working during the Zia era for the nation's leading English language newspaper.

Explorations of a mind-traveling sociologist

“Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist” is a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Renée C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide insight on enduring––and pressing––issues of geopolitics, epidemics, aging, f...

Post-truth

‘Post-truth’, Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind ‘post-truth’ is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself.

Indian and chinese immigrant communities

This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributions give insight on the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business network...

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.  

Nonviolence and the grand inquisitor

This book introduces a conceptually rich and innovative new framework for the ethics of nonviolence by drawing from Dostoevsky’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor.” It offers fresh insights into civil resistance and political theory.

Tales from a mountain cave

The sound of a trumpet across a Japanese mountain valley leads a young man to befriend a mysterious stranger. During repeated visits to the cave where the stranger has set up home, the young man learns about his life in the region. The stranger’s hilarious, bawdy and touching narratives captivate...

Narrative art and the politics of health

This intersectional collection considers how literature, film, and narrative, more broadly, take up the complexities of health, demonstrating the pivotal role of storytelling in health politics.

Satire, comedy and tragedy

This book provides a closereading of the satiric, comic, and tragic plot structures of TristramShandy and then traces the themes that inform Laurence Sterne’s greatest novel to his letters, sermons, and other writings. The book also argues for a writing-to-learn approach to teaching Sterne’s recu...

The tämpiṭavihāras of sri lanka

The Ṭämpiṭavihāras of Sri Lanka focuses on one distinctive Buddhist architectural practice from pre-modern Sri Lanka – the construction of Buddha image-houses on elevated wooden platforms supported by stone pillars. 

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.

Neo-gothic narratives

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

The stakes of regulation

This engaging work functions as extended critical essay in dialogue with the republication of ‘Bread, Politics and Political Economy’ (1976), focused on 18th-century France, dealing with the fraught question of regulation in its multiples guises: economic, social, political, cultural and psycholo...

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...

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...

The rise of little big norway

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

On the fall of the roman republic

On the Republic juxtaposes the fall of the Roman Republic with the contemporary political landscape of the United States: a republic in disarray, violence and corruption thwarting the will of the people, military misadventures abroad, and rampant economic inequality diminishing a shared sense of ...

Ventures in philosophical history

The book provides a series of innovative studies of the treatment of major issues by philosophers ranging from classical antiquity to the present day.

Judicial dispute resolution

This book describes the ways in which judges, using judicial dispute resolution (JDR), have been facilitating problem-solving among litigants, and in the process ensuring more just outcomes. JDR is similar to mediation, alternative dispute resolution (ADR),as it is sometimes called, but it is pro...

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.

Sense and value in wittgenstein’s tractatus

The book provides a reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, focusing on its treatment of sense, language, and logic, then examines its ethical and value-oriented themes. It analyzes the work’s concluding remarks on ethics, situating them within its scientific worldview and highlighting parallels wit...

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.

Black configurations

Black Configurations is the first volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including b...

Gaucho dialogues on leadership and management

“Gaucho Dialogues on Leadership and Management” analyzes Latin American militias as organizations, highlighting the elements that best fit people who see themselves as members of groups—a description that fits the vast majority of the world. Among militias, loyalty largely overrides merit and can...

Trailing the bolsheviki

A special correspondent of The New York Times, Carl W. Ackerman traveled from Vladivostok to Irkutsk to Omsk to Ekaterinburg in the fall of 1918 in the midst of the Russian Civil War. He met with officers of the American and Japanese expeditionary forces, with members of the Czecho-Slovak corps f...

Memory, metaphor and mysticism in kalidasa’s abhijñānaśākuntalam

‘Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s ‘AbhijñānaŚākuntalam’’ aims to read Kālidāsa’s masterpiece through poetic and philosophical resonances as evidenced in the metre, rhythm and symbolism carefully embedded in the narrative and dramatic text.

Gulf gothic

Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas.

Voices of the unvoiced

This book describes the Pukhtun women’s educational struggle in the traditionalist Pukhtun society to succeed against the odds. The sample women call for Pukhtun feminism for their emancipation and empowerment in Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Aging with a plan

This book is a concise, comprehensive resource for readers facing the prospects of their own aging and of caring for elderly relatives―an often overwhelming task for which life rarely prepares us. It covers legal, financial, social, medical, and other aging challenges, offering abundant practical...

China and sustainable development in latin america

China and Sustainable Development in Latin America documents the social and environmental impacts of the China-led commodity boom in Latin America. It also highlights important areas of innovation where governments, communities and investors have worked together to harness the commodity boom for ...

Common sense and science from aristotle to reid

Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid brings to light the dynamic and evolving relationship between common sense and scientific thinking that stretches from Aristotle to the present day.

Anthology of new woman poetry

Women poets of the late Victorian period created much fascinating verse from the standpoint of the independent and advanced New Woman, a profoundly important figure. This anthology features a broad range of crucial subjects addressed by these poets, including marriage, motherhood, female desire, ...

Strategic thinking and decision making

This book covers a wide range of managerial problems that leaders may encounter in business, often in unexpected or incomplete ways. Varied essays depict complex situations that organizational leaders encountered and had to resolve. The leadership challenge is to develop meta-skills for thinking ...

Nikolai gretsch's travel letters: volume 2 - letters from france

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 tre...

Design in airline travel posters 1920-1970

Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920–1970 offers an original insight into the structure of travel advertisements and the way recurrent motifs adapt to changing times and functions. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information an...

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...

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...

Amazonian indigenous cultures in art and anthropological exhibitions

The book discusses the representation of Amazonian indigenous cultures in exhibitions from a postcolonial perspective through the analysis of several temporary exhibitions taking place in both art and anthropological institutions from the 1980s onwards.

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.

Potential russia

Richard Washburn Child travelled to Russia in 1916 on the eve of its dramatic revolutions and describes what he observes, making a case for American investment in the country before other nations take advantage of the opportunity.

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.

California gothic: the dark side of the dream

California has always represented new beginnings and opportunities in a golden land. In constructing the California Dream, much has been omitted or repressed. This study explores the dark side of the dream, as revealed in the state’s rich tradition of Gothic literature and film.

Adoption reckonings

This book presents a new theater play, titled For Three Refrigerators and a Washing Machine, along with a thorough introduction that provides historical context and theoretical framing of the “historic” child adoptions from postwar Greece.

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...

An interdisciplinary approach to the theory and practice of wildlife corridors

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors charts some best practices and makes new theoretical contributions about the design and creation of wildlife corridors. The book provides the necessary background for understanding habitat connectivity projects, and ma...

'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...

The anthem companion to robert k. merton

Robert K. Merton (RKM) was an important figure in the mid-nineteenth development of sociology in terms of social theory, methodology and several substantive areas key to understanding modern societies – the sociologies of science, media, professions and bureaucracy. This book reveals the differen...

The politics of belonging in algerian art

This book examines how Algerian artist Denis Martinez, particularly through 7 murs revisités (1989), drew on Amazigh art and other marginalized visual forms to articulate alternative forms of belonging in postcolonial Algeria. By integrating these traditions into modern painting, Martinez challen...

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...

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.

Crimes of states and powerful elites

A collection of case studies investigating the crimes of the powerful, the social harms caused and the perpetuation of inequalities through lack of prosecution.

The anthem companion to ferdinand tönnies

This book is a collection of ten articles covering various aspects of the thought of Ferdinand Tönnies. Leading authorities on Tönnies have written these articles in a way that will appeal to both the general reader and the sociological specialist. 

Imaginary plots and political realities in the plays of william congreve

Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve is a study of the political and social milieu that informs William Congreve’s writings. The book attempts to read Congreve’s plays and his novella, Incognita, against the political and social upheaval of the period initiated...

The metahistory of western knowledge in the modern era

The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era –from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose articulated problems of a time and the inquiry methods to address them develop in a coordinated mann...

Bauman's legacy

What remains of the idea of liquid modernity? Is Bauman’s thought still relevant? This volume aims to answer these questions, without forgetting the vastness and complexity of his work, where the idea of liquidity remains fundamental, before and after the central turning point of the year 2000.

Changes in attitudes to immigrants in britain, 1921-2021

This book reviews changes in attitudes towards immigrants in Britain and the language used to put these feelings into words between 1921 and 2021. It analyses in what context attitudes were articulated and where they came from.

Tribunal

Vladimir Voinovich’s Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by a Soviet dissident who was sometimes called ‘Russia’s greatest living satirist.’ Voinovich is also the author of Moscow 2042 and The Life and Extraordinary Adventures...

The next right move

The book is a fictional story about three characters who go on a road trip and experience technology, organizations, and work life in 2030, charting a developmental journey and pathway towards a happy, healthy, and productive life ahead.

Practical rationality, learning and convention

This volume consists of a selection of the writings of Christopher Winch on topics on and related to the philosophy of education from 1988 until the present.

Final reflections on wittgenstein and other topics

This book is a collection of P.M.S. Hacker’s most recent papers on Wittgenstein. Some of them have been previously unpublished while others have been revised since their original publication.

Aesthetics and the cinematic narrative

‘Aesthetics and the Cinematic Narrative’ examines the manner in which disparate Aesthetic traditions inform the conception, creation and reception of cinematic narrative while placing film, as an art form, in a wider historical and aesthetic context.

Affordable housing for livable cities

The book addresses current housing affordability challenges and presents innovative planning and design strategies for contemporary communities and homes that are both livable and affordable.

Nordic terrors

In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a setting for Gothic terror. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition as it provided a vocabulary for Gothic texts, examining the cultural significance these references held for writers ...

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. 

The global spread of football from the 1860s to the 1880s

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

Islands, identity and the literary imagination

Australia is the planet’s sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how shifting understandings of the island continent shed new light on the relationship between islands and...

Travel writing in an age of global quarantine

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine is an anthology of travel accounts by a diverse range of writers and academics. Challenging conventional academic ‘authority’, each contributor writes, from memory during the covid-19 lockdown, about a place they have previously visited, ‘accompanied’...

Reforming international extradition

Extradition often priorities international comity and state rights over individual protections. This can create unfairness and concerns about extraditee welfare. Using case studies, this book explores these issues and argues that defendant-centered reforms are needed to adjust these unequal level...

The democracy amendments

A vicious spiral of political polarisation, failing government, loss of public faith, and conspiracy-mongers undermining US elections, are pushing the country toward the abyss of political violence. Only deep constitutional change, brought about by a new national convention, can free us from this...

More meditations of a militant moderate

The book collects almost thirty-five opinion pieces, essays, and two poems by the author on a wide variety of public policy topics written and published between 2006 and 2022. The author, a self-described “militant moderate,” draws on his participation in many public debates. The articles are gro...

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.

The anthem companion to peter berger

Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) was among the most prominent sociologists of the past half century. He co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality, considered to be a modern classic of social science. His work on social theory, the sociology of religion, third world developme...

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.

Thucydides' meditations on fear

Adapting Greek philosopher Thucydides’ fivefold classification of fear, this book analyses fears emerging in contemporary great-power states facing existential crises in their identity politics. 

Caste, entrepreneurship and the illusions of tradition

This ethnographic study is an empirical exploration of caste through the story of Indian potters who have transformed caste into a marketable brand in the business of selling sculptures. To these contemporary potters, caste is in their blood, caste is about being a creative and independent artist...

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.

The christian culture of islamic spain

The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain is an enquiry into how and why Christian culture survived in medieval Spain in areas under Islamic rule, why it eventually disappeared there and how knowledge of it was recovered from the sixteenth century onwards.

Sara coleridge and the oxford movement

‘Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement’ reveals a significant body of virtually unknown religious works by a woman writer. The first scholarly edition of Sara Coleridge’s religious writings, it presents selections from works not published since the 1840s, and substantial extracts from a major un...

Hands, wrists, fingers

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

The peterborough chronicle, volume 1

This work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle. 

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 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.

The british national daily press and popular music, c.1956–1975

‘The British National Daily Press and Popular Music, c.1956–1975’ examines the reactions of the national daily press to music styles popular with British youth from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s (including rock ’n’ roll, skiffle, ‘beat group’ and rock music) and challenges the perception that ...

Sustainability is the new advantage

"Sustainability Is the New Advantage" is a practical blueprint for leaders who want to start, develop, and grow sustainable organizations. The book provides stories and practical examples of how to assess challenges, create demonstrations projects, and scale the capabilities needed for sustainabl...

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...

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...

The peterborough chronicle, volume 2

This work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle.

Crafting revision in creative nonfiction

Creative nonfiction combines the accuracy of fact with the artistry of storytelling. This book shows how small writing choices, including the selection of a single word, can shape the truth on the page. Writers will learn techniques for crafting vivid scenes, structuring narratives, and revising ...

The sexual imperative in the novels of sir henry rider haggard

‘The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard’ offers a detailed and previously undocumented account of how the writer’s emotional experiences, primarily in the sexual arena, consistently informed and enriched his fiction.

Australian women’s historical photography

Australian Women’s Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views focuses on the works of six Australian women who were working as photographers in the period 1850–1950. It critically examines their works against the historical backdrop of settler violence towards Indigenous Australians, the Fi...

Contestatory and creative poetics for a time of climate catastrophe

This volume is a collaborative work of ficto-critical ecopolitics written by two Australian scholar-poets based in the Western Australian Wheatlands (John Kinsella) and Germany’s south-western Württemberg (Russell West-Pavlov).

Joseph karo and shaping of modern jewish law

The book provides a global perspective on the history of Jewish law during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on the codification works of R. Joseph Karo. 

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...

The science communication challenge