Signless signification in ancient india and beyond

The collection of interdisciplinary essays in this book examines the speculative, linguistic, literary and artistic theories on signless ways of expressing meanings in the context of traditional Indian language and culture. 

Publish and promote your ebook in a day

Turn your book into a bestseller! This book explains how to publish an ebook yourself, upload it for sale on Amazon and market it quickly and inexpensively.

The transformation of the organization of american states

This book explores the extent and significance of the transformation of the Organisation of American States since 1991: its roots, the reasons for and extent of its emergence, and the role that the organisation currently plays in the promotion of regional governance.

'report on the agrarian law' (1795) and other writings

'Report on the Agrarian Law' (1795) and Other Writings is the first modern English translation of perhaps the greatest work of the Spanish Enlightenment, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos’s Informe de la Ley Agraria (1795, Report on the Agrarian Law). Informe de la Ley Agraria is a major work of polit...

Chinese television and soft power communication in australia

‘Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia’ provides a systemic test of how successful/unsuccessful China’s soft power message projection is in terms of congruence between projected and received frames in Australia.

Selected film essays and interviews

A collection of Bruce F. Kawin’s most engaging and important essays on film, accompanied by his interviews with Lillian Gish and Howard Hawks.

Death of a butterfly

Art teacher Amanda returns home to find her husband, Mathew, murdered. The police have no leads and the only clue is a missing photograph album. Amanda soon learns that her husband had been taking out loans against her home, leaving her in negative equity, a fact the police are quick to latch ont...

Humor 2.0

The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged.

How not to be human

This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about the status of “the human” and the development of an inhumanist philosophy.

Transforming the politics of mobility and migration in aotearoa new zealand

Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand is a future-focused book that formulates alternative paradigms timely and necessary for a just and ethical politics of mobility and migration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Examining a variety of topics, the book addresses the ...

The data librarian’s handbook

This books provides an insider’s guide to data librarianship packed full of practical examples and advice for any library and information professional learning to deal with data.

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.

In the name of security – secrecy, surveillance and journalism

‘In the Name of Security – Secrecy, Surveillance and Journalism’ investigates the effects of the increased number of anti-terror laws, new mass surveillance technologies and a global fear- driven security paradigm have had on in-depth public interest journalism since 11 September 2001 in a number...

Nikolai gretsch's travel letters: volume 1 - letters from england

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 tr...

Resolving land and energy conflicts

Based on decades of experience in addressing energy-siting conflicts, the authors of ‘Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts’ provide details of a host of tools, strategies and principles for tackling them.

Anthem guide to essay writing

The ‘Anthem Guide to Essay Writing’ is a comprehensive guide to writing successful essays in any course, with step-by-step advice and plenty of examples. Also included are style tips and citation rules.

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...

America through the spectacles of an oriental diplomat

A beguiling account of twentieth-century America through the eyes of an outsider, a remarkable inversion of the standard 'Westerner observing the exotic' travel writing formula.

Insight and illusion

Peter Hacker’s Insight and Illusion is a thoroughly comprehensive examination of the evolution of Wittgenstein’s thought from the Tractatus to his later ‘mature’ phase. This third edition is a reprint of the revised and corrected 1989 edition, with a new foreword by Constantine Sandis.

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...

Tanpinar's ‘five cities’

In ‘Five Cities’ (‘Beş Şehir’), Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar focuses on cities significant in Anatolian history and his own emotional life. Part history, part autobiography, part poetic meditation on time and memory, ‘Five Cities’ is Proustian in style with a tension between a backward-looking melancholy...

Multicriteria analysis for environmental decision-making

The book provides an introduction to key concepts of multicriteria analysis, and a series of case studies that illustrate its application to a variety of environmental decision-making problems, ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental imp...

The servant and mistress stories

A companion volume to Lucinda Rhys-Evan’s ‘Servant and Mistress’, these short stories move from the near sublime to the near ridiculous, and from the superficial to the very serious as they explore both the lighthearted and darker sides of male sexual submission to female whims.

Explorations in twentieth-century theology and philosophy

Ann Loades has been instrumental in bringing forward for the attention of readers in later generations “voices from the past,” notably highlighting the work of pioneering women such as Evelyn Underhill and Dorothy L. Sayers as well as advancing the study of better-known Anglican forebears C. S. L...

The spectral west

This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrati...

India and china: interactions through buddhism and diplomacy

This volume collates the classic works of the preeminent Indian scholar of Chinese history and Buddhism, Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898–1956).

Towards third generation learning and teaching

This book gives up-to-date descriptions of the forces that drive change in learning and teaching, offering a perspective of learning in the near future.

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...

Timothy b. dyk

An account of what it was like to practice and adjudicate law in modern America, detailing shifts within the legal profession, both private and public, in the United States since the 1960s. 

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. 

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).

Thomas keneally's career and the literary machine

Thomas Keneally: world success story or Australian writer who never fulfilled early potential? ‘Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine’ explains the disparate opinions, charting his writing’s production and reception as shaping a literary career. It tracks tensions between literary and...

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.

Australian patriography

This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers is the first of its kind within Australian literature. It offers compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others. 

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...

'grease is the word'

Bringing together a group of international scholars, ‘Grease Is the Word’ offers fresh insight into the impact and legacy of the cultural phenomenon that is Grease.

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...

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’...

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 ...

Civic engagement in australian democracy

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

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...

The value of voice in shared leadership and organizational behavior

In the world of education and business, there is a disconnect between stakeholders, their roles and responsibilities in guiding and leading organizations in a shared leadership model. Currently, leaders have a conceptional understanding of shared leadership but lack the tools to effectively guide...

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...

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...

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.

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. 

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...

A treatise on abundance (1638) and early modern views on poverty and famine

‘A “Treatise on Abundance” (1638) and Early Modern Views of Poverty and Famine’ is an edited English translation of Carlo Tapia’s ‘Trattato dell’abondanza’.

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.

Memory, metaphor and mysticism in kalidasa’s abhijñānaśākuntalam

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

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.

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...

Mapping the nation

Focusing specifically on the poetic construction of India, ‘Mapping the Nation’ offers a broad selection of poetry written by Indians in English during the period 1870–1920.

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...

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.

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.

Notions of otherness

‘Notions of Otherness’ is a collection of literary essays that approaches the idea of alterity politically, aesthetically, ethically, culturally and sexually in a diachronic manner.

The lost companions and john ruskin’s guild of st george

This major new work, based on significant new material on Ruskin’s Guild of St George, offers the first authoritative work on this important venture in Ruskin’s late career in social, cultural, and environmental action.

The liquidation of exile

A theoretical overview and six case studies showing that the exile of intellectuals is a difficult, dependent, and fluid condition, whose achievements are dearly bought and whose endings rarely fulfill the missions informing their beginnings.

Complexity of transboundary water conflicts

‘Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts’ seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify ...

Saffron yellow

Saffron Yellow' covers a wide range of topics relevant to life in modern Turkey, from politics to personal life. The book features the interconnected stories of a group of young adults living in Istanbul. The book follows their successes and failures, their relationships, loves, and fears as they...

Thomas hardy

Anthem Classics presents a selected collection of Thomas Hardy’s prose – ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’, ‘A Pair of Blue Eyes’, ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’, ‘The Return of the Native’, ‘The Trumpet-Major’ and ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ – in this the first volume of a two-volume set.

Latin: a fresh approach book 1

A clear and concise introduction to Latin designed to steadily lead students through a series of illustrative examples, readings, vocabulary lists and translation exercises.

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.

The new olive branch (1820) and selected essays

One of the most important and neglected works of early American economics, Mathew Carey’s “The New Olive Branch” offers insight into political economy as it happened in early America, and provides an excellent example of resistance to Adam Smith and classical economics.

Parliament today

'Parliament today' is an up-to-date textbook, placing parliament in its historical, constitutional and social context, focusing on how it operates in modern Britain and how it might be reformed.

Supporting research students

Offers guidance to enable library and information science professionals to support the specialist needs of research students effectively. This book covers such key areas as: research and the research process; the research student's experience; research skills training; introduction to research co...

Leisure and cultural conflict in twentieth-century britain

A collection of articles addressing research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century. It includes innovative research on a number of topics, including television, cinema, the circus, women’s ...

Design and popular entertainment

Design and Popular Entertainment offers a selection of nine essays that examine the range of design for popular entertainment, from theatre and film, to television and radio.

Resourcing hope for ageing and dying in a broken world

For those captive to the broken world of late modernity, wherein ageing and dying persons become vulnerable to despair, this book not only offers a diagnostic of such despair but also resources the practices of a realistic, humanising hope that might enable a strength for person to journey with a...

Gothic television

This book is the first in-depth study of the Gothic on television. It defines and explores key instances of the genre across the history of television drama in the UK and US. The book builds a strong argument for the fact that the Gothic, in its various guises, is well-suited to television as a d...

Japan's open future

Where does Japan fit in a rapidly changing world, and how should it relate to the United States and China? Three foreign commentators make a provocative and persuasive argument that the time has come for Japan to help build a stronger Asian community, and to become an engaged and conscientious gl...

Chechnya

A remarkable collection of essays, considering every angle of the Chechen conflict.

Unhomely cinema

Representations of troubled and inhospitable domestic places are a common feature of many cinematic narratives. “Unhomely Cinema” explores how the unhomely nature of contemporary film narrative provides an insight into what it means to dwell in today’s global societies.

South of the crisis

The book offers an unorthodox account of why and how global capitalism has entered a phase of unsustainable crises of accumulation and legitimacy, and examines the different exit strategies open to Latin American countries.

The united states, the soviet union and the geopolitical implications of the origins of the cold war

‘The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1949’ examines the geopolitical implications of the process of institutionalization of the international order that took place in the aftermath of World War Two. The book argues that the or...

Britain and its mandate over palestine

When Britain took control of Palestine from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War 1, it tried to find a way to gain a legal right both to govern Palestine and to facilitate a Jewish national home there. It never found one. As a result, the changes it brought about in Palestine lack a legal basis.

The reading figure in irish art in the long nineteenth century

This book examines Irish portraits during the long nineteenth century in which figures read or hold a book. Reading fiction was cast as unmanly, while ‘silent reading’ allowed women of means to read widely and privately. Portraits of such women helped construct the idea of the ‘New Woman’ in Irel...

The colonial and national formations of the national college of arts, lahore, circa 1870s to 1960s

The book, using archival sources, examines the colonial and postcolonial history of arts education in Pakistan through the National College of Arts, founded as the Mayo School of Arts in 1875. It deconstructs art history and anthropology frameworks embedded in imperial and national discourses, po...

British entanglement with brazilian slavery

This book looks beyond the British Empire and the Slavery Abolition Act to focus on Brazil as the final frontier of Britain’s centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery.

Isee lower level practice tests

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.

The science and politics of extractive industries in the ocean and beyond

This edited volume provides extensive coverage of the extraction of underwater minerals, ranging from lakes, rivers, continental shelves of coastal states, and the deep ocean. The volume features interdisciplinary contributions on topics relating to the science, environment, technology, politics,...

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.

Peruvian foreign policy in the modern era

Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era is a chronological treatment of Peruvian foreign policy from 1990 to the present. It focuses on the impact of domestic politics, economic interests, security concerns, and alliance diplomacy on contemporary Peruvian foreign policy.

Emotional monasticism

Drawing on the devotional culture of John of Fécamp’s Norman monastery, Emotional monasticism exposes the monastic roots of medieval affective piety, casts a new light on the devotional life of monks in Europe before the twelfth century and redefines how medievalists should teach the history of C...

Past forward

A wide-ranging collection of concise essays, ‘Past Forward’ introduces core features of Korean history that illuminate current issues and pressing concerns, demonstrating how Korea’s present circumstances both reflect and shape the understanding of its past.

Music scenes and migrations

‘Music Scenes and Migrations’ brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil, Africa and Europe, with particular attention to the role of the city in producing, signifying and med...

The ethics of personal data collection in international relations

This volume attests to the fact that pressing global public health concerns are ever present as subjects of societal discourse and debate in developed and developing states. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic makes the omission of the ethics of personal data collection analysis in the international ...

Stratagem of the corpse

Stratagem of the Corpse is a philosophical and literary exposition of death not so much as seen by Baudrillard but Baudrillard as seen by death.

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 voice of the people

‘The Voice of the People’ presents a series of essays on literary aspects of the pan-European folk revival from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth.

The modern state and its enemies

‘The Modern State and Its Enemies’ considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state and analyses the dark sides of the enemies of democracy.

The unspoken morality of childhood

The Unspoken Morality of Childhood: Family, Friendship, Self-Esteem and the Wisdom of the Everyday reflects the thoughts of a senior ethicist and discusses complex ethical concepts such as identity, agency, self-esteem, forgiveness, relations with our parents, dealing with loss, the moral imagina...

A historical and theoretical guide to studying religion

The book is a historical and theoretical account of the development and present situation of what has come widely to be known as Religious Studies. This account emphasizes the complexity of the field due both to its origins and the uncertain and even conflicted position today of the academic stud...

Leading the sustainable organization

Our current leaders have failed to move quickly or decisively to address the challenges of climate change, biodiversity, and sustainability. The book offers a blueprint for a new generation of leaders to transform industry and create a new, more equitable future.

Complex solutions to local problems

This book questions the dominant narrative used in stereotyping Africa and the status of Al-Shabaab in Somalia’s quest for peace. It trumps up local alternatives to solving conflicts on the continent and avers that it is possible to revert to these local mechanisms of governance and conflict reso...

The 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...