Okinawa

Located between the tip of Japan and Taiwan, Okinawa is a tiny island of huge geopolitical importance. Its US military bases means it has the attention of both China and North Korea.

Heralds of a democratic europe

Detailed research that challenges the received wisdom in European integration history that, long before the EU was plagued by Euroscepticism and other forms of contestation, there was a "permissive consensus" between European elites and the general public, which allowed European integration to mo...

Social movements in latin america

A comprehensive survey of Latin American social movements, which are likely to be at the centre of any future progressive politics in Latin America.

The economics of oil and gas

A concise and rigorous presentation of petroleum economics that examines the entire value chain of the oil and gas industry from exploration, development and production to transportation, refining and marketing.

Syria

The book offers an insightful and balanced analysis of the threat the Assad regime poses in both its regional context as well as the continued problem it poses for the international community.

The pursuit of governance

Fabrizio Tassinari seeks to rediscover the methods, practices and limits of good governance by taking inspiration from the Nordic region, where democratic governance has delivered some of its most impressive feats.

The price of football

This revised and updated third edition of the bestselling guide to understanding football club finance includes analysis of the most recent club accounts, the latest legal rulings on club affairs, and coverage of recent club sales, bankruptcies and accounting irregularities.

Demography and the making of the modern world

How has demography shaped the Arab Spring, migrant flights from Africa to Europe, budget negotiations in the USA, immigration debates in Japan and economic growth in India and Brazil, among others? John Rennie Short explores the wide-ranging economic, social and public policy implications of popu...

The contradictions of capital in the twenty-first century

An international team of leading economic historians provide an overview of global developments in the theory and reality of inequality in the light of the work of Thomas Piketty.

The south korean economy

Charts the astonishing economic development of South Korea and explains the country's remarkable transformation to a highly innovative economy based on advanced technologies and infrastructure in spite of a postcolonial legacy of military leaders in suits and the absence of fully developed free m...

Unhappy families

Adam Ferner's short, engaging book explores the ethical and political dimensions of parenthood, childcare and reproduction, and the dominant ethos of the family, in a world riven by conflict, inequality and the absence of hope.

Austerity

A clear and rigorous guide to the principles and mechanisms of austerity economics, which offers a balanced point of reference for anyone keen to understand the economic thinking behind key policy decisions in the wake of the financial crisis.

Heterodox economics

Andrew Trigg traces the heterodox tradition in economics from its origins in the anti-capitalism ideas of the first half of the nineteeth century, through to Keynes and the present day and considers the methodological challenge they present to mainstream economics.

Unfinished empire

An essential primer for the reader looking to understand the consequences of the war with Ukraine for Russia's regional relationships with bordering countries and Russia’s place in the world beyond the binary East–West tensions.

Social democracy

A short history of one of the most successful European political ideologies and movements.

Essays on civil war, inequality and underdevelopment

These essays are a significant contribution to understanding the failure of sustainable economic development and the armed conflict that it spawns in developing states.

Want

Helen Barnard asks what it takes to slay "Want" in modern Britain and explores what we can learn from our past to build a better, fairer, more equal and more hopeful society.

Analysing corruption

An authoritative and engaging introduction to the field of corruption analysis and the challenges facing its researchers.

The political economy of deindustrialization

A critical examination of the processes of deindustrialization that explores why it has become an issue of deep politics, informing right-wing populism, contemporary geopolitical tensions (with China), Brexit, the New Green Deal and levelling up.

The new politics of trade

A penetrating analysis of the complexities of the TTIP negotiations, which explores why they proved so difficult to conclude, what motivated the different parties concerned and what implications there have been for future trade deals, especially for the UK in its post-Brexit negotiations.

Banking on the state

Mark Cassell explores the unique entity that is the German public banking system and the lessons it offers to banking systems worldwide.

What is we?

The concept "we" is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, yet it has been overdetermined by the question of “who we are”, leaving its basic conceptual operations undertheorized. In What is We? Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan argues that “we” is not a collectiv...

The political economy of industrial strategy in the uk

The collection of essays explores the political and institutional foundations of industrial policy, the value of "foundational" economic practices, the challenge of greening capitalism and addressing regional inequalities, and the new financial and corporate governance structures required to radi...

Pandemonium

The last decade has seen the EU beset by crisis and Covid-19 has presented yet another threat to its existence. Luuk van Middelaar assesses the EU's response and how it has been shaped by it.

A modern migration theory

How does the EU square the seemingly contradictory objectives of bringing about less migration – its current approach to the refugee crisis – and more migration, which is its current response to the Union’s demographic deficit? Peo Hansen explores how this might be resolved.

Talking to china

Kerry Brown re-examines the UK–China relationship and considers how the recent seismic geopolitical events may have reframed and recast the UK’s future engagement with China and how the UK needs to actively engage with China and understand its ambitions and values.

The economics of airlines

This updated and expanded third edition explains the economic realities of the airline industry and the challenges that the sector now faces to decarbonise aviation.

Slipping loose

Westlake argues that Brexit should be seen as a series of longer-term trends that were inexorably leading, or pushing, the UK away from full membership of the European Union, rather than as a sudden, impulsive act of rejection.

The resource curse

An authoritative introduction to one of the most perplexing issues of economic growth: the notion that developing countries rich in natural resources perform less well economically than countries with fewer natural resources.

The strongmen

How the disruptive policies and behaviour of Xi, Trump, Putin and Erdogan are confounding and frustrating Europe and what Europe needs to do to better handle them.

Of time and lamentation

A bold, original and thought-provoking exploration of the nature and meaning of time. Tallis, with characteristic fearlessness, seeks to reclaim time from the jaws of physics, arguing that time as it is lived, the long narrative of our human journey, can not be told by caesium clocks and Lorentz ...

Insurgent planning practice

This book investigates the communicative turn in planning practice, and its potential for insurgent forms of civic engagement and democracy-building, drawing on interviews with urban planners who challenge technocratic spatial planning by incorporating notions of participation, spatial justice an...

Negotiating our economic future

The negotiation, implementation and policing of trade agreements involves nation states, non-state actors, NGOs, transnational businesses and institutions all pursuing vested interests. This book explores the role of trade diplomacy in today's global economy to provide the reader with an unparall...

Modern monarchy

The monarchy is the heart of the United Kingdom’s social, political and constitutional construction. Craig Prescott presents a detailed and considered study of the role of monarchy in the twenty-first century, and how it might adapt to survive and be relevant for the people of Britain and the wid...

The european social question

This analysis of EU social policy-making asks whether the EU's efforts contribute to social cohesion or, on the contrary, undermine it, and whether its action in the social realm should be intensified, or curtailed.

Digital content in museums

Digital Content in Museums provides a comprehensive grounding in the skills, best practices and tools needed for digital content editors and managers to succeed in the museums, galleries, libraries and heritage sector.Focusing on how digital content can positively impact the GLAM sector, this pra...

Radical school librarianship

Radical School Librarianship is an essential read for school librarians and educators looking to gain a better understanding of how to create environments where equality, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom (EDIIF) can thrive.School librarians perform a critical and frontline role in d...

Between the spreadsheets

‘Clear, concise, engaging and entertaining. Highly recommended for anyone involved with data in any capacity.' Information ProfessionalDirty data is a problem that costs businesses thousands, if not millions, every year. And with the increasing use of AI and Generative AI, it’s only getting worse...

The new age of genocide

With recent events in Gaza, Martin Shaw seeks to restore the idea of genocide to its central place in thinking about mass atrocities, to apply it to neglected cases, and ultimately to settle the question of ‘What is genocide’?

After jews

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

Cricket, fiction and nation

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

Constraining development

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

Engaging with engagement

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

The future of employment in africa

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

Developing africa?

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

Perfecting the u.s. constitution

This book tells the story of each Constitutional Amendment and the role that the Amendments have played in shaping the American experience. Based on solid research, it is written in an engaging style that is easy to comprehend and enjoyable to read.

Don't shoot the journalists

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

Finding the way to 'long day's journey into night'

A profound new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill t...

Climates of migration

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

A pedagogist’s memoir

The memoir now looms large as a pedagogical tool for multiple levels of schooling and of education. Addressed essentially to senior students in schools, students undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate teacher preparation courses in universities.

How louis xiv survived his hegemonic bid

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

Colette and the incest taboo

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

Political authority

This volume makes available Peter Winch’s previously unpublished manuscripts on political philosophy. Editorial notes and an interpretive essay show the development of Winch’s thinking over time and situate the manuscripts within the broader context of Winch’s work.

Renu recipes

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

Wittgenstein on other minds

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

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.

Elite quality index 2025

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

From broadway to the bronx

A fascinating and vibrant depiction of New York City in song across a variety of different genres, focusing on Broadway, musical theatre, hip hop, punk, folk, and jazz genres, as well as the work of New York born artists and those who are intimately connected with the city.  Read the introductio...

Building community choirs in the twenty-first century

This book explores how five diverse community choirs build their collective identity within the complex setting of Northern Ireland. The case studies investigate the ways in which singers engage in their choral practice and demonstrates how this engagement can move beyond sectarian identity const...

Gaia wakes

A bold and compelling new framework for understanding the past, present, and future of our planet, one which explores the development of a technologically enabled planetary brain capable of coordinating ecological functions and peering far into the future and universe.

Phd thesis by publication in social science research

Focusing on education, library and broader social science research, this practical book is the ultimate guide for PhD students undertaking a thesis by publication (TBP) - a thesis that includes scholarly outputs produced during the period of doctoral study.Answering key questions and highlighting...

Ai-powered cataloguing

This practical guide instructs on how to build AI-powered cataloguing apps using Power Apps, with a focus on creating inclusive bibliographic records. It will enable the readers to train AI models and develop tools to effectively catalogue and manage their collections.

Entity modelling

This guide aims to improve the principles of the third generation of cataloguing and, more widely, to contribute to the shift of paradigm related to the emerging bibliographic ecosystem. Readers will learn the importance of adopting new methods to remain relevant in modern and international setti...

Reimagining the public library

Library and Information Science has always been a contested space. This book captures some of the major debates that have taken place within the profession over the past 25 years and suggests how these can be used to inform the future development of libraries.

Information science

What is Information Science? This comprehensive book answers this key question and explains how information science differs from data science and library science.Using a range of practical examples, the book explores how information science cuts across disciplines and integrates a range of inform...

Championing your school library

This book is a comprehensive guide to practical strategies for advocating, marketing, and promoting your library by targeting diverse and specific stakeholder groups. It is becoming an essential read as libraries increasingly need to demonstrate their value and impact.

Web metrics for library and information professionals

This new edition has been extended and updated throughout to reflect the rapidly changing nature of the field, and has been modified to incorporate important changes that have taken place in the information ecosystem since the first edition.

Beckett and broadcasting

Taking responsibility for the life of complex human ecosystems

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

The varieties of joycean experience

A collection of essays on Joyce’s work stressing variations of approach. Forays into and across Joyce’s oeuvre would draw upon a number of new and recent modes of criticism, including textual genetics, cognitive studies, and ecocriticism.

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...

Aspirational chinese in competitive social repositionings

Drawing upon a new perspective of competitive social repositioning and numerous new sources, this book fills the analytical gap caused by the research focus on either macro- or micro-level issues through analysing how everyday Chinese had reacted to and influenced the numerous changes in China fr...

Periodic crises of overproduction (1913)

Albert Aftalion’s Periodic Crises of Overproduction is an enlightening complement to Keynes’ General Theory, as it develops key macroeconomic concepts such as the accelerator principle from a detailed investigation of the interdependencies and temporal asymmetries of an industrial economy. It is ...

The development of an art history in the uae

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