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Victorian fiction and the insights of sympathy
This ground-breaking study of sympathetic readings in Victorian fiction breathes new life into contemporary literary criticism.
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Empire and the animal body
‘Empire and the Animal Body’ develops recent work in animal studies, ecocriticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature.
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Sixties radicalism and social movement activism
'Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism' explores and re-analyses major events, debates and themes from the radical developments of the nineteen sixties and relates them to contemporary social movements and issues.
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A history of ireland, 1800–1922
Ireland from 1800 to 1922 was a veritable theatre of political and civic disorder. This study seeks to integrate this sensational and often tragically scarred story with other more expansive historical narratives involving cultural, social and technological change.
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Invented history, fabricated power
This book examines more than twenty cultures, both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, emphasizing how kings, empires, religions and societies have enhanced their authority and power through fictional histories, claims of divine origins, fabricated genealogies, and miraculous events presente...
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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.
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Patrick white beyond the grave
Carrying forward the momentum of the twenty-first-century ‘rediscovery’ of Patrick White (1912–1990), winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, this book features work by White scholars aiming to stimulate future research into ‘world’ modernism, queer literature, and the ‘jittery’ modernist ...
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The anthem companion to thorstein veblen
“The Anthem Companion to Thorstein Veblen” offers a collection of original essays by leading scholars in the field of Veblen studies. Contributions span a wide range of Veblen’s concerns, with a special emphasis on Veblen’s significance for contemporary debates about epistemology, social evolutio...
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Literature and transformation
An inquiry into readers’ experiences of life-changing encounters with works of literature, the book uncovers the relationships between life-crises, being moved by literature and transformation of the self.
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Climate change and the future of boston
An in-depth analysis of the climate impacts facing Boston and the city’s efforts to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate.
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Poetry and freedom: discoveries in aesthetics, 1985–2018
This book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the aesthetics of poetic freedom, from antiquity to the present and from Europe and the Middle East into the poetry of the English-speaking world. Questions about the elusiveness of poetic freedom are tested vis-à-vis the works of Whitman, Dickins...
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The anthem companion to alfred schutz
This book examines various concepts in Schutz’s philosophical theory and considers issues in theory of knowledge, social science, and the theory of society.
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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 ...
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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...
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Blood on the stone
'Blood on the Stone' is a gripping account of the cartel, warlords, gun runners and shadowy traders who populated Africa’s bloody diamond wars, and the faltering, decade-long effort to clean up an entire industry.
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The origin and development of dougong and zaojing in early china
This book inquiries about the origin of dougong and zaojing in Chinese Bronze Age, and their heavenly interpretations in the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220), with an aim to remind people the rich cultural meanings embodied in these two important architectural elements in early China.
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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...
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Latin: a fresh approach book 2
The second book in a clear and concise introduction to Latin designed to steadily lead students through a series of illustrative examples, readings, vocabulary lists and translation exercises.
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Environmental law, policy, and economics
This textbook is designed to introduce the reader to important and emerging issues in contemporary environmental law, policy, and economics, and environmental science. It addresses both classical chemical pollutants and greenhouse gases, explains the major environmental law statutes.
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Picturing shakespeare
This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeare’s texts – obviously destined for stage performances – to generate mental images and mental colours. Jean-Louis Claret, both a Shakespeare professor at Aix-Marseille University and an illustrator, proposes to shed light on the process that leads ...
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The u.s. military in the print news media
This book analyses the history of the popular discourse in the United States concerned with the U.S. military and its engagement in foreign wars from the Spanish-American War through to the U.S. invasions of Iraqand the War on Terror.
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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.
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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...
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Lebanon and the split of life
This scholarly biography explores the act of bearing witness through the politically charged, mural-scale art of Lebanese-Americanactivist and neo-expressionist, Nabil Kanso.
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The anthem companion to alexis de tocqueville
‘The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville’ contains original interpretations of Tocqueville’s major writings on democracy and revolution as well as his lesser- known writings on colonies, prisons and minorities. Each chapter compares Tocqueville’s ideas on a given subject with those of other...
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The anthem companion to david ricardo
This edited volume provides a comprehensive survey of the life and work of David Ricardo (1772–1823), a major contributor to the British classical school of political economy.
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Muscle
Family man Freddie Weston, who supplies bouncers for London clubs, lives by night and on the edge. He is seeking vengeance for a 40-year-old wrongdoing to his family, which means tangling with one of the most dangerous East End villains. And time is running out.
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The life and world of francis rodd, lord rennell (1895-1978)
This book is a biographical study of the geographer/explorer and banker Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978), who during World War II became an important figure in wartime military administration. In 1943, during the Allied invasion of Italy, he was head of AMGOT (Allied Military Government of ...
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Travelling home, 'walkabout magazine' and mid-twentieth-century australia
'Walkabout' was one of the most popular magazines in mid-twentieth century Australia, educating local and international readers about the Australian landscape, its peoples and industry. It featured many of the most interesting writers, natural scientists and commentators. This book investigates '...
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Colonialism as civilizing mission
A fresh and stimulating examination of the ideology, programmes, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia.
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Doing gender in heavy metal
This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but not yet an accomplis...
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The model of open cooperativism
This book examines the role of open-source technologies and the digital commons in fostering a cooperative economy. Through case studies such as Open Food Network and CoopCycle, it explores grassroots innovation and platform cooperativism as pathways toward a sustainable, post-capitalist economic...
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Archival anxiety in documentary and mockumentary horror
This study traces a Gothic realism in the dark, sensorial epistemologies emerging from intersections of documentary and horror cinema. From the ineffable subjects of horror documentaries and pseudo- documentaries, to the obsessive chroniclers of mockumentary, fake found-footage, and screenlife ho...
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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.
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Isee middle level practice tests
Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) is a school entrance exam taken by students in grades 4 through 12 seeking admission into private schools and non-Catholic religious schools throughout the United States. This book focuses on the ISEE Middle Level. The Middle Level ISEE Exam is for students...
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Artists activating sustainability
Artists Activating Sustainability: The Oregon Story examines the way in which the artists within specific communities, against the background of landscape and history, reveal concepts of sustainability that help us broaden our knowledge of what is needed to create a sustainable world.
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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.
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Rabindranath tagore's drama in the perspective of indian theatre
‘Rabindranath Tagore's Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre’ examines Tagore’s plays from the viewpoint of Indian dramatic/performance traditions, locating him as a playwright, performer and director in the panoramic continuum of Indian dramatic/performance traditions.
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Creativity and "the paris review" interviews
In Creativity and The Paris Review Interviews: A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers' Composing Practices, author Ronda Leathers Dively explores contexts, behaviors, and composing practices that generated some of the world’s most significant literary works. Her analysis ultimately leads to concr...
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Competitiveness and development
‘Competitiveness and Development’ provides an insightful analysis of the confusions surrounding the concept of competitiveness in the context of developing countries, and proposes how these countries can attain competitiveness at a high level of development.
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A guide to the professional interview
Investigative Interviewing provides more accurate and reliable information than any other known interview technique. It is founded on interpersonal communication theories and informed by cognitive and social psychology. Equally important, it is designed for practitioners and delivered through a p...
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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.
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Musicians on twitch
Musicians on Twitch examines the lives of musicians navigating Twitch’s attention-driven ecosystem. Through interviews and observations, it reveals the tensions between creativity, financial stability and well-being, offering critical insights into the intersection of music, technology and creati...
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Scenes of bohemian life
This book is a new translation of Henry Murger’s influential Scènes de la vie de bohème, first published in French in 1851.
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Churchill, eden and indo-china, 1951-1955
'Churchill, Eden and Indo-China, 1951-1955' provides a historical analysis of the administrations of Churchill and Eden, focusing on the broad international context of decolonized Indo-China.
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What is the state for?
The first English translation and analysis of a 1793 text by Karl von Dalberg (1744–1817) in defence of enlightened absolutism against Kantian criticisms.
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Strongman eugen sandow’s world tour of 1904-1905
Strongman Eugen Sandow (1867–1925) was renowned as the world’s “perfect man” at the turn of the 20thcentury. This book examines his fascinating 2-year “world tour” of South Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and China in 1904–1905, at the peak of European imperialism and rising Asian confidence and n...
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Dispossession and the making of jedda
Dispossession and the Making of Jedda (1955)' brings together a history of race relations, pastoral boom and film-making. It is a personal account of coming to terms with a history of dispossession and colonial power relations in a place that has offered the author a strong sense of belonging and...
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On reading the history of philosophy
An exploration of the value of the history of philosophy as a reading practice—that is, as a practice through which words from a philosophical past can give rise to wonder, can alienate, can lead to transformational breakthroughs or can animate a will to create anew.
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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...
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Banned books and counterfeit notes
This study examines how convicts sent to France’s most notorious penal colony in French Guiana would use the colonial postal system to document and challenge lived experiences of transportation and forced labour.
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