The violence of everyday struggles

Through the individual narratives of divorced mothers living in Germany with immigration biographies from Turkey, this book approaches their daily struggles by analyzing the theories, discourses, and (in)visibilities of everyday violence.

Transnational community mobilization and transformation, 2010-2020

This book explores transnational community mobilization through local transnational encounters and connections.

Jazz theory – contemporary improvisation, transcription and composition

This course offers advanced work in composition, analysis, arranging and current theoretical ideas and processes relevant to improvisors and composers.

Athletic ceos

‘Athletic CEOs: Leadership in Turbulent Times’ presents an unorthodox model of effective business leadership for turbulent environments – Athletic Leadership. Athletic CEOs are not humble or empathic; their leadership is grounded in a combination of toughness and adaptability. They deliver superi...

The anthem companion to raymond boudon

This book seeks to identify the main threads of a resolutely complex course of thought which has contributed greatly to sociology.

Death by choice

The last seven days of a man who has chosen to kill himself take on unexpected twists and turns in this exploration of the cult of suicide in Japan – and the culture that has created it – as he chooses how to spend his last days on earth. 

Touching god

The first book devoted to the study of love in the writings of Gerald Manley Hopkins, ‘Touching God’ offers fresh readings of Hopkins’ poetry by considering love in relation to mutual touch.

Robert franklin williams speaks: a documentary history

Williams was a compassionate man. He was an intelligent American citizen and Korean war veteran, who claimed his right of American citizenship. Acutely aware of the broken promises of the US government, he remained fully invested in the rights, privileges, and responsibilities the Constitution gu...

Dickens and the sentimental tradition

‘Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition’ is a timely study of the ‘sentimental’ in Dickens’s novels, which re-evaluates his presentation of emotion as part of a complex literary tradition that enables him to critique nineteenth-century society.

Affect and realism in contemporary brazilian fiction

This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment.

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.

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.

Confronting the body

A key South Asian Studies title that brings together some of the best new writing on physicality in colonial India.

The anthem companion to immanuel wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the most influential yet controversial sociologists of the past half-century, is a touchstone in innumerable debates about globalization and the power of capitalism, the nature of development in the modern era, and how to come to grips with widespread inequalities whi...

Adult responses to popular music and intergenerational relations in britain, c. 1955–1975

‘Adult Reactions to Popular Music and Inter-generational Relations in Britain, 1955–1975’ constitutes a thematic examination of the pervasive assumption that ‘the older generation’ reacted in a largely negative fashion to music styles popular with British young people from the 1950s to the mid-19...

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...

An outline of financial economics

“An Outline of Financial Economics” presents a systematic treatment of the theory and methodology of finance and economics. The book follows an analytical and geometric methodology, explaining technical terms and mathematical operations in clear, nontechnical language, and providing intuitive exp...

Japan’s budget black hole

This book describes the astonishing policy failures of populist politicians in Japan. Focussing on popular tax cuts in Japan as a salutary case study the book details their serious side effects: government debt, cuts to social security expenditure, inadequate public services and even the potentia...

The wto and its development obligation

'The WTO and its Development Obligation' boldly argues that, in view of the WTO's development-based focus, there is an urgent need for developing countries to realise the potential benefits of global trade in their domestic environment.

Icts and development in india

'ICTs and Development in India' is a unique attempt to study the nature and consequences of the growing presence of Information Technology in development projects in India.

A critical edition of thomas tod stoddart's ‘the death-wake’ or 'lunacy'

Thomas Tod Stoddart’s innovative gothic epic poem The Death-Wake (1831), now little known, may have been lost to history if not for the interventions of Edgar Allan Poe in 1842 and Andrew Lang in 1895. This critical edition reprints and contextualises Stoddart’s morbid and distinctive masterpiece...

Tennessee williams, t-shirt modernism and the refashionings of theater

Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater engages the Williams we thought we knew, as he grew, developed, reconfigured himself into a playwright we didn’t, in his attempts to refashion himself amid the vortices of changing sexual mores, including the performance of ma...

The creativity hoax

We often hear that creativity is the key to economic regeneration in the west, yet those who pursue creative skills/ambitions typically experience low incomes and poor career prospects. ‘The Creativity Hoax’ argues that the ‘call to creativity’ is designed to make workers more labile, agile and m...

Self-presentation and representative politics

The book presents six articles written at intervals of about a decade between 1960 and 2020, all of which relate to the problem of representative politics. The articles are contextualised historically to document a developing presentation of self on the part of the author while also raising quest...

Pangea

‘Pangea’ is an anthology of short stories by authors from across the globe, celebrating the human condition from many different perspectives against the backdrop of many different cultures, and expressing the beauty of diversity and the commonality therein.

Sociology global

This book is about sociologies around the world. Viewed from a global perspective, this research-based study examines the world of sociology and its global features and trends. Sociology as a discipline has a history of two centuries which has varied between countries. Its presence across the wor...

World atlas of atmospheric pollution

Provides a revealing global overview of air pollution and its startling impact through graphical and visual representation of data.

The persistent poverty of african americans in the united states

This book sheds light on American politics and power that has disadvantaged African Americans through the implementation of public policies, causing them to remain poor and underprivileged in the United States.

Lost souls, sacred creatures

An expensive Matsusaka cow vanishes from a cattle-house at the last minute before shipment. Jukichi is a seasoned fisherman who can row a fishing boat with proficiency and catch fish an abundance of fish in the traditional way until he comes across nameso, a sea beast. A crab moves slowly along t...

International broadcasting and its contested role in australian statecraft

This book offers an insightful reappraisal of international broadcasting as discursive rather than ‘soft’ power in service of democratic statecraft. This at a time when issues of transnational media, the credibility of news and the perils of disinformation and information warfare, figure worrying...

Changes in attitudes to immigrants in britain, 1841-1921

This book reviews changes in attitudes to immigrants in Britain and the language used to put these feelings into words between 1841 and 1921.

Edward fitzgerald’s rubáiyát of omar khayyám

The book examines the text of Edward FitzGerald’s three main versions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and features commentary on the origins, role and influence of the poem.

Coolitude

A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire.

Improvisations of empire

‘Improvisations of Empire’ examines the varied career of Thomas Pringle, a Scottish poet and journalist. It engages his formative Scottish years, his stay in South Africa and his subsequent residence in London where he became the secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society and a well-known editor.

Perfecting the u.s. constitution

This book discusses the importance 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.

Screen writings

'Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics' offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of  'classic' - as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time.

Secure reviews and set yourself up as a reviewer in a day

This ebook discusses how to secure positive reviews and endorsements for your book and how to use them to full advantage. It explains why setting yourself up as an expert book reviewer can help build your author brand and promote your book, and describes how to do so successfully.

A genealogy of method

This volume considers the meaning of culture and anthropology’s role in defining it. Taking up the history of the discipline and the method of ethnography in turn, the book asks if the concept of culture might be productively reclaimed within a context that acknowledges history, change, and diver...

Isis and the pornography of violence

‘ISIS and the Pornography of Violence’ is a collection of iconoclastic essays on ISIS, spanning the four-year period from its ascendancy in late 2014 to its demise in early 2018.

Reclaiming the wicked son

This book takes the ideas of six well-known secular Jewish philosophers and views them through the lens of Jewish thought, thereby understanding their writings as part of the Jewish intellectual tradition.

The status of the translation profession in the european union

This book examines in detail traditional status signals in the translation profession. It provides case studies of eight European and non-European countries, identifying  a number of policy options and making recommendations on rectifying problem areas. 

Australian literature in the german democratic republic

Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic has resonance for all newly global reckonings of the cultural Cold War.

Ethics, law and the business of being human

An ethos of transdisciplinarity

Toyin Falola is one of modern Africa’s most prolific public intellectuals. This project seeks to illuminate the mind of this modern master in an age of transnationalisation.

Us consular representation in britain since 1790

'US consular representation in Britain since 1790' is a history of US consular activities in the UK, which began in 1790 and continue to the present with consulates general in Edinburgh and Belfast. It also contains many previously unpublished illustrations.

A solar-hydrogen economy

In this study the green hydrogen economy is depicted as successor and replacement of the fossil fuel economy in its entirety. Steps involved in building a green industrial revolution on the basis of hydrogen are outlined and the dynamics of building a technoeconomic green successor to fossil fuel...

International scientific relations

International Scientific Relations offers a holistic analysis of the role and impact of science, technology, and innovation in the international system of the twenty-first century.

War, genocide and cultural memory

This book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. Based on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of 5 years the book covers the entire history of the Waffen-SS and follows the post-war fate of the SS-veterans as well.

The politics of enlightenment

Written by one of Italy’s leading historians, this book analyses the Neapolitan nobleman Gaetano Filangieri and his seven-volume ‘Science of Legislation’ in their historical context, expounding on his legacy for the histories of constitutional republicanism, liberalism, and political economy.

Revising history in communist europe

Both Hungary’s 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy, and shaped the actions, of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the pre...

The anthem companion to c. wright mills

This companion comprises interpretive, critical, and exploratory essays on Mills’s chief writings as well as his interventions in the political conflicts of his time, stressing important aspects of his work that are neglected in the literature. 

Elementary scat practice tests

This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 2 and 3 to take the Elementary School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an above-grade level test designed at grades 4 and 5 t...

Alessandro michele

Before Alessandro Michele took the creative helm at Gucci in 2015, the brand was mostly known for its sleek sophistication and sexy hedonism. Despite having worked at the Italian fashion house for over twelve years as the accessories and jewellery designer, Michele was relatively unknown in the f...

Modern persian, elementary level

Modern Persian, Elementary Level is a cutting-edge elementary Persian language textbook intended for two consecutive semesters. With contemporary real-world topics, high-frequency structures and vocabulary, a multitude of engaging speaking activities in each chapter, and a companion website, this...

People, nations and traditions in a comparative frame

This book illustrates and celebrates Professor Jonathan Steinberg’s – a celebrated historian of modern Europe, especially Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland – contributions to historical practice. Professor Steinberg embraced methodological pluralism and pioneered comparative history, explor...

The atlas of conflict reduction

This book takes readers on a journey through western Montana to showcase ranchers and partner groups who are pioneering strategies for reducing conflicts with wildlife and why. Conservation heroes, using psychological theory interwoven with personal stories from the twenty-first century, provide ...

Bridging boundaries in british migration history

This memorial book honours the legacy of Eric Richards’s work in an interplay of academic essays and personal accounts of Eric Richards. Following the Eric Richards methodology, it combines micro- and macro-perspectives of British migration history and covers topics such as diasporas, religious, ...

Kicking away the ladder

Exposes the attempts by developed countries to 'kick away the ladder' from developing countries trying to join the economic elite.

Animal presence and human identity in modern literature

Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature is an exploration of literary representations of the human-animal encounter in modernity that press human “being” to its limits. Texts studied include Shakespeare’s King Lear, Eliot’s Middlemarch, Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, Atwood’...

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...

Creativitry

THE CLASSIC BOOK ON CREATIVITY BY ASIA’S GREATEST LIVING PLAYWRIGHT; OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD IN THE CHINESE VERSION. Stan Lai has written one of the unique works of our time, explaining that the mysterious act of creativity is actually a traceable function of mind, and there is a path to lea...

Transforming healthcare in africa

The current available books and literature that shed light on health policies in many African countries are limited. This book examines the key players in the health system game in many African countries. It explores the regulatory regimes that impact the health systems, such as the Ministry of H...

Kripke's wittgenstein

This book examines Kripke’s influential interpretation of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, as presented in his celebrated book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (1982). It analyses the sceptical challenge to meaning and rule-following, clarifies its implications and surveys the major res...

A history of three-dimensional cinema

A History of Three-Dimensional Cinema chronicles 3-D cinema from its origins in 19th-century stereoscopic photography through anaglyphic/digital stereoscopic cinema in the 20th century to the promise of Virtual Reality in the 21st century.

Critical approaches to fen gothic literature

The book defines and discusses Fen Gothic, an example of regional Gothic inflected by geography, relationships of centre and margins, history, ecology and gender and the perspectives offered by related Gothic critical approaches. 

Dialogues on beckett

‘Dialogues on Beckett’ is a collection of 12 conversations about 12 plays by Samuel Beckett, discussions about the meaning of life and the universe between an agnostic and a Christian, based on a close reading of the text.

Digital art in ireland

This collection of essays explores digital art in Ireland. Comprising contributions from scholars and practitioners, it examines how new media technologies are shaping the island’s contemporary artistic practices. As one of the first dedicated treatments of Irish digital art, it fills a major gap...

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. 

Locating the anglo-indian self in ruskin bond

This study explores the dialogue between the biographical and authorial selves of the writer Ruskin Bond, whose liminal subjectivity is informed by the fantasies of space and time.

Jane austen’s aunt behind bars

This new book brings together Stephen Wade’s two areas of interest, focusing on the writers in the reigns of Anne to Victoria. The essays here recount and explore the prison experience of writers, both famous and obscure, who came to know the insides of Britain’s prisons.

Normativity, meaning and philosophy: essays on wittgenstein

This is a collection of essays on Wittgenstein originally published between 1996 and 2019, with a new introduction. The essays defend and develop a central Wittgensteinian idea: ‘grammatical rules’ for the use of expressions hold the key to understanding linguistic meaning, as well as its connect...

Advanced scat practice tests

This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 6 and above to take the Advanced School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an above-grade level test designed at grades 9 to 12...

Magazines and modernity in brazil

The essays gathered in this book discuss transnational networks as well as cross-cultural exchanges in the context of the modern magazine print culture in Brazil (1820s to 1950s).

Stephen wall, trollope and character and other essays on victorian literature

‘Stephen Wall, “Trollope and Character” (1988) and Other Essays on Victorian Literature’ is a collection of critical essays by the eminent literary critic Stephen Wall, including his exceptional writings on Anthony Trollope, as well as brilliant studies of Charles Dickens and other major Victoria...

American literary naturalism

The book collects Pizer’s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism.

Legacies of forced removals in south africa

This book focuses on experiences of six children from various backgrounds who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, and marginality on the lifeworld’s of children.

The petersburg noverre, volume: 1

The Petersburg Noverre is an account of Marius Petipa’s career in Russia that focuses on the description and reception of his ballets.

Ssat upper 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 ...

Causes and consequences of global migration

The book summarizes scholarly knowledge on why people migrate to western countries, and how this impacts on the receiving economies and societies.

French welfare state reform

Through a historical and comparative analysis of French, Swedish, New Zealand and Dutch case studies, ‘French Welfare State Reform’ explores the political and economic sustainability of the of the welfare state.

Radical human centricity

This book is a call to action. It is a critique of the poor state of commercial research and an articulation of the shifts and changes in thinking needed to fulfil the empty promises of human-centered research.

Isee upper 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 Upper Level. The Upper Level ISEE Exam is for students c...

Minutes to midnight

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.

Post-multicultural writers as neo-cosmopolitan mediators

‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ is the first book to bring together global debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade and Australian minority writers, linking them to globalisation and transnationalism in cultural studies.

Ethnographies of grey zones in eastern europe

Over the last two decades, Eastern European countries have experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Based on ethnographic cases, this anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect ever...

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 art and ideology of the trade union emblem, 1850–1925

‘The Art and Ideology of the Trade Union Emblem, 1850–1925’ is a groundbreaking book that considers trade union emblems and banners as art objects in their own right. It studies their commissioning, their designers and the social conditions and gender relations that they knowingly or unwittingly ...

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...

Indian democracy

‘Indian Democracy’ is an attempt to understand the development of democratic polity in India.

Wittgenstein and artificial intelligence, volume i

Wittgenstein and AI (Volume I): Mind and Language. This is the first of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on mind and language.

Punk samurai slash down

Glimpsing an elderly man leading his blind daughter on a pilgrimage, Junoshin, a freelance samurai, swiftly kills him with a sword and denounces him as part of a cult. Set in Edo-period Japan, ‘Punk Samurai Slash Down’ follows the power struggles which entangle Junoshin within the Kuroae clan, fr...

The anthem companion to gabriel tarde

‘The Anthem Companion to Gabriel Tarde’ offers the best contemporary work on Gabriel Tarde, 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 Tarde students and scholars alike. ‘A...

Pashtun identity and geopolitics in southwest asia

This book juxtaposes vital issues of Pashtun identity, state formation, Taliban on both sides of the Durand Line, Frontier Crimes Regulation, security prerogative and the civil societies of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which since 9/11, have been posited in a rather precarious geopolitics.

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 collected works of ann hawkshaw

Along with a biographical and critical introduction, ‘The Collected Works of Ann Hawkshaw’ brings together Hawkshaw’s four volumes of poetry and republishes them together for the first time. An appendix of reviews and contemporary criticism of Hawkshaw’s work is included, along with details of th...

The truth about confident presenting, 3rd edition

More than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking are explained in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.

Civic engagement in australian democracy

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

Four augustan science poets: abraham cowley, james thomson, henry brooke, erasmus darwin

“Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin” is a concise study focusing on four poets who because of their distinctive profiles illustrate especially well the opportunities and pitfalls of writing science poetry during the long eighteenth century.

On beckett

“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett.