Mercier and camier

Mercier and Camier, Beckett’s first postwar novel and his first in French, has been described as a forerunner of his most famous work, Waiting for Godot. Like the play, Mercier and Camier revolves around two wandering vagabonds. Their journey is described as relatively easy going, with no frontie...

Mercury

Ariana Reines returns with more of her elegant, blisteringly direct attention to culture, lovers, and the deep image.

Mercury in the environment

Mercury pollution and contamination are widespread, well documented, and continue to pose a public health concern in both developed and developing countries. In response to a growing need for understanding the cycling of this ubiquitous pollutant, the science of mercury has grown rapidly to inclu...

Mercy

A new collection by the National Book Award winner and one of America's most beloved poets.

Mercy

Róisín Kelly’s Mercy is an attempt to reconcile her Irish Catholic background with her pagan heritage, transcending the limits of a world in which everything is connected. Both intimate and political, this powerful debut collection combines a passionate exploration of self with an awestruck confr...

Mergers and acquisitions, entrepreneurship and innovation

This volume of Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy is devoted to research aimed at understanding success and failure factors of mergers and acquisitions in entrepreneurial firms. Contributions are multidisciplinary and cross-cultural, and tackle key issues from a var...

Merging fires

The past two decades have witnessed the emerging role of grassroots social movements and community-based peacebuilding as key sites of transformative political and cultural engagement. Merging Fires offers case studies of grassroots alliance building between non-Indigenous activists and three Ind...

Merit, meaning, and human bondage

Perhaps everything we think, feel, and do is determined, and humans--like stones or clouds--are slaves to the laws of nature. Would that be a terrible state? Philosophers who take the incompatibilist position think so, arguing that a deterministic world would be one without moral responsibility a...

Meritocracy and economic inequality

Most Americans strongly favor equality of opportunity if not outcome, but many are weary of poverty's seeming immunity to public policy. This helps to explain the recent attention paid to cultural and genetic explanations of persistent poverty, including claims that economic inequality is a funct...

Meritocratic beliefs and the persistence of educational inequality

An examination of meritocracy in education how such beliefs are shaped by experiences and what consequences they have for the reproduction of educational inequality.

Merleau-ponty's poetic of the world

Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature.

Merlin and the grail

Messages from george simmel

Simmel's influence on Sociology has been immense. This volume aims to re-examine that legacy and draw lessons for today's scholars.

Messages from tahrir

One of the many striking things about Egypt’s 25 January Revolution as manifested in Cairo’s Tahrir Square was the imagination and creativity of the posters, placards, and signs that the protesters wore, waved, or hung from buildings, fences, and lampposts day by day throughout the demonstrations...

Messianism and sociopolitical revolution in medieval islam

This study of messianism and revolution examines an extremely rich though unexplored historical record on the rise of Islam and its sociopolitical revolutions from Muhammad’s constitutive revolution in Arabia to the Abbasid revolution in the East and the Fatimid and Almohad revolutions in North A...

Messianism in medieval jewish thought

How did medieval Jewish scholars, from Saadia Gaon to Yitzhak Abravanel, imagine a world that has experienced salvation? What is the nature of reality in the days of the Messiah? This work explores reactions to the seductive promises of apocalyptic teachings, tracing their fluctuations between in...

Messy eating

Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on human–animal relationships have infrequently converged. Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging scholars about the connections between their academic w...

Messy europe

Interdisciplinary Different disciplines actually integrated nicely Grounded in fieldwork in specific countries Focus on local- and state- and pan-state levels Offers critical look at “crisis” talk Links together crisis that are often treated separate  Offers unique un...

Meta-religion

Whereas many textbooks treat the subject of world religions in an apolitical way, as if each religion were a path for individuals seeking wisdom and not a discourse intimately connected with the exercise of power, James W. Laine treats religion and politics as halves of the same whole, tracing th...

Metacommunity ecology

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions, selection, and stochasticity—with larger-scale issues such as dispersal and habitat heterogeneity. Until now, the field has fo...

Metal music and the re-imagining of masculinity, place, race and nation

Metal is a form of popular music. Popular music is a form of leisure. In the modern age, popular music has become part of popular culture, a heavily contested collection of practices and industries that construct place, belonging and power.

Metamorphoses

One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Spring 2023Metamorphoses springs from Ovid’s epic poem to explore the slipperiness of identity, its propensity for change and transience. In poems that shift registers from travelogue to elegy, from nature documentary to a simple record...

Metamorphoses reimagined

Metamorphoses Reimagined offers a twenty-first-century retelling of Ovid’s masterpiece that decenters the human.

Metamorphosis

"These stories are grounded in soul, a deep communion with the belief that we can—and must—rebuild our relationship with the planet.”—Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange ParadiseOtherworldly but remarkably familiar, ancestral but firmly rooted in alternate futures, these twelve innovative stori...

Metaphors of spain

Brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artefacts. Addresses “formal” representations such as the flag to music, bullfighting, and other more diffuse examples. Describes a nationalism that is constantly evolving...

Metaphysics

This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics but also to Adorno's own intellectual standpoint, as developed in his major work Negative Dialectics. Metaphysics for Adorno is defined by a centra...

Metaphysics of the profane

Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Together they produced a dynamic body of ideas that has had a lasting impact on the study of religion, philosophy, and literary criticism.Drawing from Benjamin's and Scholem's...

Metaprogramming elixir

Metaverse dynamics

Metaverse Dynamics: Exploring the Intersection of Technology, Business Transformation, and User Experience offers a deep exploration of the Metaverse phenomenon, its evolution, and its profound implications for businesses, individuals, and society.

Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine: A Love Story presents an insider’s view of the world of methamphetamine based on the life stories of thirty-three adults formerly immersed in using, dealing, and manufacturing meth in rural Oklahoma. Using a respectful tone towards her subjects, Shukla illuminates their often de...

Method for the one-keyed flute

This indispensable manual for present-day players of the one-keyed flute is the first complete method written in modern times. Janice Dockendorff Boland has compiled a manual that can serve as a self-guiding tutor or as a text for a student working with a teacher. Referencing important eighteenth...

Méthod(e)s

The bilingual, French–English journal Méthod(e)s is an African initiative with the objective to enlarge the methodological debates on the Global South. It is not a forum for simple discussions on the mechanics of research but a tool to question social interests influencing academic research and g...

Methodological advances in research on social movements, conflict, and change

Now that we are almost a quarter of the way into the 21st century, the field of sociology is in need of research like this which explores methods for studying contentious politics in the context of broader social changes to peacebuilding, armed conflicts, and social movements.

Methodological challenges and advances in managerial and organizational cognition

Managerial and organizational cognition has sustained and gained the interest of researchers for over a quarter of a century. This volume takes stock of the methodological accomplishments of the MOC field in recent years, and it sets the agenda for the next phase of its development.

Methodological issues in management research

Using contemporary examples of business and management research, predominantly within the context of India, this book offers numerous tools and techniques which can be applied to a diverse range of research needs. Topics discussed include: research designs, sampling, interviews, focus groups, cas...

Methodologies of mobility

Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel socio-cultural, ethical, and methodological questions. Speaking beyond disciplinary boundaries to the challenges of engaging with a world on the move, Methodologies of Mobility traces innovative strategies...

Methods and design principles for financial innovation, explaining the supply side for interoperability in finance- and insurance-tech

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. In this second part of the INFINITECH book series, the basic concepts for FinTech referring to the diversity in the use of technology to underpin the delivery of financial services are reviewed.

Methods for applied macroeconomic research

The last twenty years have witnessed tremendous advances in the mathematical, statistical, and computational tools available to applied macroeconomists. This rapidly evolving field has redefined how researchers test models and validate theories. Yet until now there has been no textbook that unite...

Methods in forest canopy research

Poised between soil and sky, forest canopies represent a critical point of exchange between the atmosphere and the earth, yet until recently, they remained a largely unexplored frontier. For a long time, problems with access and the lack of tools and methods suitable for monitoring these complex ...

Methods of criminology and criminal justice research

As scholarly work on crime, deviance, criminal justice, and social control advances and sophisticated methods of investigation develop, chapter authors demonstrate the methodological maturity and diversity of current empirical research in criminology and criminal justice.

Methods of exhibition analysis

A tool kit for exhibition analysis packed with a diversity of methods to critically examine exhibitions from various angles.

Methods to improve our field

Offering innovative ideas that explore how strategy and management methodology can be developed, Methods to Improve Our Field considers approaches that range from the re-imagining of secondary data in the digital age and Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to Machine Learning and Artific...

Métis methodologies

Foregrounded by Métis epistemologies, ontologies, and axiologies, Métis Methodologies provides transformative frameworks for Métis research.

Metric culture

Data and metrics play an unmistakably powerful role in today’s society. Over the years, their use has expanded to cover almost every sphere of everyday life. This book provides a critical investigation into what we can call a “metric culture” in which practices of self-tracking and quantification...