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Hawthorne's histories, hawthorne's world
Hawthorne’s Histories, Hawthorne’s World collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne since the publication of his ground-breaking Province of Piety, elaborating and refining his analyses of how Hawthorne’s most memorable early tales “do history,” but proceeding the...
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Challenges to the world bank and imf
A unique title considering the challenges to the World Bank's development goals and reducing world poverty.
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Revolution, empire, and the gothic dream
This monograph examines the centrality of dreams and their significant transformations in British Gothic novels and in Caribbean novels. The Gothic counters the Enlightenment’s internalization of dreams by reimagining dreams as social and political phenomena. They subsequently play vital roles in...
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The anthem companion to norbert elias
The book brings together authoritative chapters by leading experts in the sociology of Elias. It charts Elias’s ambition to create an integrative sociological framework across a wide range of studies and assesses its continuing relevance for addressing significant issues facing sociology today.
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Is brazil afraid of the world?
What do you think when someone mentions “Brazil”? Probably the first ideas that come to your mind are samba and football. Maybe you think of Pelé, Neymar, Ayrton Senna and Giselle Bundchen. Maybe you think of the rainforest and Rio. But have you ever thought Brazil to be a country afraid of becom...
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Reclaiming nature
Explores the relationship between the environment, human activity and social justice.
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Yeats and revisionism
The books collects Daniel T. O’Hara’s half century of essays and review-essays on Yeats and his major poetry an drama and how leading critics and theorists have sought to revise their reception for their periods of time and indeed for the future. Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last...
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Struggling giant
This book offers a thematic discussion of the key issues surrounding the rise of China and what that will mean to people outside China in the years ahead.
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From mimetic translation to artistic transduction
Literary translation can be retranslated into new ways of thinking about music and the other arts. In artistic transduction, Woolf called the word the poetical cry, Berlioz the singing lyric, and Brecht the rhyming slang.
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The cultural dimensions of peacebuilding
The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding details aspects of cultures, including language, films, journalism, political economics, museums, education, parenting, gender, artistic activism, and spirituality, which can contribute to either more violent societies or more peaceful ones. Solutions-orie...
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The great dumpling debate
This is the definitive global guide about dumplings for dumpling lovers (is there anyone who’s not?).It is a scientifically ironic travel cookbook that has created and analysed a dumpling database, including over 200 dumplings from 70 countries, each classified into six dimensions of dumplingness...
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Feeding the world in the 21st century
'Feeding The World in the 21st Century: A Historical Analysis of Agriculture and Society' provides and utilizes a historical understanding of the current global food situation as the basis for analyzing the ultimate challenge on how to feed an ever-expanding world of 10 billion people.
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Frameworks for scientific and technological research oriented by transdisciplinary co-production
This book presents the Framework Knowledge Acquisition Design, indicated for the development of scientific and technological research that demand the dialogue of academic and non-academic researchers for the configuration of the unit of knowledge, established in a transdisciplinary methodology of...
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The other canon of economics, volume 1
Other Canon Economics: Essays in the Theory and History of Uneven Economic Development brings together key essays on development economics from one of the most prolific and important development economists and historians of economic policy today. Erik S Reinert argues through essays ranging from ...
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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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Statistics and the quest for quality journalism
This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage o...
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Capital without borders
This volume examines different facets of international capital movements - the role of openness, the implications of large inflows of foreign capital and the impact of regulatory frameworks - from the point of view of the global South.
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Civilizing missions in colonial and postcolonial south asia
This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia.
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Living across connectivity
This volume looks at the role of digital media platforms in shaping migrants’ practices of connectivity and mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, it explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for intimacy, entrepreneurship, and care for East Asian migr...
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The puritan ideology of mobility
The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living “bodies politic” with a metaphysi...
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Soviet materialities
Soviet materialities rethinks Soviet history and culture through the lens of materiality, exploring how humans and objects co-shaped identity, ideology, and social life. This interdisciplinary volume bridges Soviet-era thought with theoretical insights from New Materialism, offering a groundbreak...
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Us cultural diplomacy after the cold war
In the decades following the USSR’s collapse, the United States has shifted from unrivalled hegemon to a position of relative decline. Although America appeared dominant after 1991, its culture—like its diplomatic, military, and economic power—faced little competition. Such favourable conditions ...
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South asian media cultures
'South Asian Media Cultures' examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.
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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...
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Scenes of bohemian life
This bookis a new translation of Henry Murger’s influential Scènes de la vie de bohème, first published in French in 1851. The book recounts the lives of a bohemian group of creative young people as they fall in and out of love, endure cold and hunger, enjoy drunken parties, see their friends suf...
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Policing the beats
A bold analysis that exposes the racist policing of Black music.The emergence of UK drill music made headline news, portraying it as a criminal enterprise instead of recognising it as an art form. This new rap subgenre, however, is neither the first, nor the only Black music to be targeted this w...
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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 ...
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Altered destinations
‘Altered Destinations’ addresses the complex interrelations of state, nation and identity in India through the medium of culture, and compellingly reframes the debate in the context of the Gandhian concept of swaraj.
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Land, labour and rights
A memorial to Thorner's wide-ranging contribution to Indian economics.
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Thorstein veblen
The book presents state-of-the-art scholarship on Thorstein Veblen, one of the world's most influential social scientists. It explores hitherto neglected aspects of his life, works and historical relevance.
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Religion, law and power
Examines the interplay of distinct yet overlapping facets of history, Hinduism, the state and the nation in Eastern India.
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Confronting the irish past
Building peace in Northern Ireland today, which involves Ireland as a whole, requires confronting the violence and intolerance of Ireland’s 1912–1923 decade.
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Taxidermy and the gothic
Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. It tells the story of the emergence in the long nineteenth century of the twin golden ages of the Gothic genre and the practice of taxidermy, and their shared rhetorical and na...
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The rights track
The Rights Track: Sound Evidence on Human Rights and Modern Slavery uses rich content from The Rights Track podcast [www.rightstrack.org] in an innovative book that enhances and enriches our understanding of the human rights challenges facing the world today.
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World atlas of atmospheric pollution
Provides a revealing global overview of air pollution and its startling impact through graphical and visual representation of data.
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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.
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Sensibilities and emotion on trans-globalisation era
This book offers a reflection about the state of politics of sensibilities on a planetary scale today; the authors propose a space that is destined to listen and exchange our own experiences of inquiry.
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Rethinking foreign investment for sustainable development
Consisting of country case studies and comparative analyses from Latin American and US based political economists, this volume addresses the shortcomings of foreign investment for development, and sets out the challenges facing policy makers in this field.
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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.
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Chernobyl trauma and gothic
This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It argues for the contextualisation of the disaster’s collective traumatic wound and its Soviet political repression through public articulation of surviv...
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Early buddhism as philosophy of existence
This book makes the connection between early Buddhism and nature. Early Buddhism was a system of thinking which applied the universal laws of nature to human beings. It was a comprehensive worldview. But after the first 400 to 500 years, it was mostly lost.
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Queer and religious alliances in family law politics and beyond
Family law is a site of social conflict and the erasure of non-traditional families. This book explores how conservative religious and progressive queer groups can cooperatively work together to expand family law’s recognition beyond the traditional state-sponsored family. This book also looks to...
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The violence of everyday struggles
This book approaches the daily struggles of migrantized divorced motherhood through theories, discourses, and (in)visibilities of everyday violence. Analyzing the individual narratives of divorced mothers living in Germany with immigration biographies from Turkey, it tackles their struggles with ...
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Rethinking development economics
This title represents the most forward thinking and comprehensive review of development economics currently available.
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Friends and enemies
‘Friends and Enemies’ delivers a thorough account of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), explaining its origins and evolution, looking at options for its future, and laying bare its inner workings.
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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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The indian uprising of 1857-8
An in-depth study of the 1857 Indian mutiny-rebellion, exploring the political and social themes of this remarkable phenomenon.
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Doing sociology through film and literature
This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
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Poetics of race in latin america
Poetics of Race offers innovative approaches to the study of aesthetic and cultural representation of race and ethnicity in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean and the Andean region. Interdisciplinary studies elaborate on issues of marginalization, immigration, violence, ...
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Globalization and challenges to building peace
This fascinating collected volume explores the relationship between world conflict, political unrest and the driving forces of Capitalism and Globalization.
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Fashioning the dandy
The book explores the dandy as a cultural type across Europe and Russia from the eighteenth century through the present day. Olga Vainshtein offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards...
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Politics of the possible
A refreshing and wide-ranging approach to the study of South Asian politics.
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Transpacific connections: literary and cultural production by and about latin american nikkeijin
Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspiratio...
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Trends in comparative law and economics
The book is a short introduction to comparative law and economics, a growing field in the interaction between law, economics and comparative political science. It is a guide to economists, lawyers and political scientists looking for a brief overview. It includes both strands of the traditional l...
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Britain’s empires
A history of the many different British Empires – the Old Colonial System (1600-1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776-1870), the New Imperialism (1870-1945), Decolonisation (1945-1990) and the era of humanitarian intervention (1990-2020). Britain’s Empires aims to tell the story of the colonial p...
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Essays and interviews on contemporary american poets, poetry, and pedagogy
In sixteen chapters devoted to avant-garde contemporary American poets, including Kenneth Goldsmith, Adeena Karasick, Tyrone Williams, Hannah Weiner, and Barrett Watten, prolific scholar and Purdue University professor Daniel Morris engages in a form of cultural repurposing by “learning twice” ab...
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Animals and plants in chinese religions and science
This transdisciplinary study focuses on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science. It examines how medieval religious agents engaged with animals and plants as material culture in the mundane world, and how the spiritual world and natural world mutually enriched each other in t...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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A narrative of cultural encounter in southern china
Using a local land reclamation project of the later eighth century, this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north.
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Hollywood, the pentagon and washington
A concerned investigation of the curious relationship between Hollywood and the US Department of Defense that exposes some distressing collaborations.
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Moments in hell
A war correspondent's breathtaking account of early twentieth-century wars, including the Greek-Turkish War (1897) and the Spanish-American War (1898).
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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...
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Globalizing india
This is one of the first books to present a collection of writings on the effects of globalization on India and Indian society.
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Law and humanities
This edited collection provides the first accessible introduction to Law and Humanities. Each chapter explores the nature, development and possible further trajectory of a disciplinary ‘law and’ field.
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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...
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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.
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Russia's oil and natural gas
A comprehensive evaluation of the Russian oil and natural gas industry and its pivotal role in the volatile Russian economy.
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America magica
An enthralling account of the conflicting experiences of discovering the New World, drawing upon the intriguing tales of early discovery and amazing illustrations of the day.
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London's underworld
A thrilling exposé and a considered anthropological review of London's seedy underbelly.
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Transforming china
A wide-ranging review of China's economic boom and the way in which it has been rapidly transformed beyond all recognition.
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Wittgenstein and popular culture
This volume makes an incisive contribution to the field of philosophy of culture in outlining the potential of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for the study of popular culture, focusing on concrete examples: from detective fiction and comics, to TV series and football fandom.
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Prizing scottish literature
This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reveal about the wider...
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Captain philip beaver's african journal
Captain Philip Beaver’s journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhum...
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Genocide: a thematic approach
The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. It is intended to give the needed context to understand why such violence has been perpetrated in the past and why it continues to occur so freque...
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Living with poverty and dependence in england
This book addresses the effects of poverty on multiple interdependencies in kinship, neighbourly and friendship relations. It explores how interpersonal relationships are made, unmade, recuperated or ended by people who are living with poverty in one of England’s most deprived neighbourhoods.
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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...
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International mathematical olympiad volume 1
A fantastic compilation of mathematical puzzles, this fully updated three-volume series will challenge and engage serious mathematicians and enthusiasts alike.
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What was the first bible like?
This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and...
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Public diplomacy on the front line
The Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, held at the Royal Academy of Arts of London and seven other major venues, had never been academically investigated. The research unearthed abundant firsthand documents to reconstruct the episode and claims that the initiative was intended and managed ...
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Fronsperger and laffemas
This volume introduces two very early, unique, and hitherto largely unknown contributions to the making of modern economic knowledge: Fronsperger's on the role of self-interest in economic development (later called the ‘Mandeville Paradox’) and Laffemas’ on the importance of an active industrial ...
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Persian pictures
'Persian Pictures' is both travelogue and meditation, an elegiac and beautifully observed account of a spellbinding land.
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Real world economics
An engaging, important text calling for the reform of economics and pushing for the discipline to become an honest and effective tool for democracy.
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The economics of the yasuní initiative
Climate change lends itself to both political economy and humor. Through the lens of thermodynamics, the payment Ecuador seeks for not drilling in the Yasuní is equitable and efficient.
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Epic ambitions in modern times
Epic Ambitions in Modern Times examines how artists, in various forms and media, have reinvented the epic in the past three centuries.
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The language experience approach and the science of literacy instruction
This book considers Russell Stauffer’s Language Experience Approach (LEA), an approach that must be judged by its impact on student learning and not on the age of conception. The nature of wholistic teaching in early childhood and beyond is explored, and developmental maturation for the different...
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International mathematical olympiad volume 3
A fantastic compilation of mathematical puzzles, this fully updated three-volume series will challenge and engage serious mathematicians and enthusiasts alike.
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The insider's secrets to getting your school leadership job
What separates The Insider’s Secrets to Getting Your School Leadership Job from other books on this topic is that the author is the ultimate insider. Dr. Laurence Aronstein knows how the hiring process works from the inside. He vividly and simply de-mystifies the inner dynamics of the job search ...
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Screen writings
'Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary' offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals.
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Discourse on applied sociology: volume 1
This engaging and wide-ranging two-volume study urges a balance between theoretical and practical sociology.
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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.
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A critical edition of caroline norton's love in "the world"
Caroline Norton’s forgotten novel, which has remained unpublished until now, tells of the perils of courtship facing a naïve young girl Alixe, who has been launched onto the London social season. Her encounters with both a worthy and an undesirable suitor open an intriguing window onto the fashio...
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Gender and the race for space
This book argues that the American astronaut image was informed by early Cold War ideals of masculinity that helped mold a distinctly American (anti-communist) masculinity, which appeared—on the surface anyway—to resolve not only an American “crisis of masculinity” but helped win the Cold War on ...
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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...
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The imf and the world bank at sixty
An authoritative review of the position of the IMF and World Bank in their sixtieth year.
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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...
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