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The great illustrators of edgar allan poe
An introduction to some of the most important illustrators producing work inspired by the tales and poems of American writer Edgar Allan Poe from their earliest iterations in the 1880s to the present day
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The constitution
The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts provides students with a road map through the evolution of the Supreme Court and its decisions involving criminal justice, civil liberties, social justice and federalism, and the balance of powers between the three branches of government placed in a his...
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Symbols and myth-making in modernity
‘Symbols and Myth-Making in Modernity’ unpacks the deep culture that nourishes human perception of reality through symbols. From ancient, mythical creatures and rites through Renaissance masterpieces to cinema, religion and art, the book illustrates how ever-present symbols erupt in popular cultu...
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Challenging the narrative
Filmmaker McLaughlin addresses the need to create platforms for survivors of political violence to tell their stories in order to challenge marginalizing narratives and injustices and as a form of public acknowledgement and personal healing.
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Democracy, social justice and the role of trade unions
Trade unions worldwide face a powerful paradox at this critical juncture: collective organisations for workers are urgently needed and yet there are serious pressures undercutting the legitimate role of trade unions. The aim of this book is to examine how trade unions can effectively navigate thi...
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Up against the wall
The book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexico border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north.
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Youth movements and generational politics, 19th–21st centuries
Youth Movements and Generational Politics, 19th–21st Centuries by Richard and Margaret Braungart is a collection of 19 of their previously published research articles on youthful political activism, generational conflict and social change—from the first student movement in Germany in 1815 to the ...
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Process philosophy
The book analyses and compares a variety of processes of change: in evolution, learning and innovation, language and meaning, self and society and ethics and morality. Taking a realistic approach, the book is inspired by pragmatic philosophy, in particular, that of Dewey, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein ...
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Tribunal
Vladimir Voinovich’s Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by a Soviet dissident who was sometimes called ‘Russia’s greatest living satirist.’ Voinovich is also the author of Moscow 2042 and The Life and Extraordinary Adventures...
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Behind tax policy controversies
This book provides a short, critical introduction to controversies in tax policy. It emphasizes the many diverse underlying factors that drive tax policy debates and sheds light on traditional and newly emerging issues of tax policy.
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Archipelagothic: studies in the philippine gothic
Archipelagothic: The Gothic in Philippine Culture is an edited volume that brings together essays that examine the place of the gothic in Philippine culture. This groundbreaking volume, the first book on the topic, is appropriately comprehensive, covering a range of genres, historical periods, re...
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The anthem companion to niklas luhmann
The Anthem Companion to Niklas Luhmann is a major contribution to analysing the work of one of the greatest social theorists of the twentieth century. This companion provides the latest scholarly interpretations of a thinker who revolutionised the theoretical foundation of the discipline of socio...
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Performing memories and weaving archives:
This book engages with how the South African Indians in South Africa and Siddis in Gujarat perform creolized musical, spiritual, and culinary practices in their respective geopolitical spaces in the contemporary era.
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Swedish gothic
The monograph gives an overview of the development and characteristic features of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today.
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Sociology in times of glocalization
This book offers a series of critical discussions of how sociology is responding to the challenges of globalization, to local counter-reactions to them, to the many ways ‘the global’ impacts our lives, and to the new questions about research this poses.
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Causes and consequences of global migration
The book summarizes scholarly knowledge on why people migrate to western countries, and how this impacts on the receiving economies and societies.
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British encounters with syrian-mesopotamian overland routes to india, 1751-1795
The book examines the relationship between the Enlightenment idea of improvement and eighteenth-century travel writings about Middle Eastern overland routes to India.
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Latin american foreign policies in the new world order
At a time of growing US-China tensions, and of Latin America’s deepest crisis in a century, Active Non-Alignment option embodies a novel way out of this predicament.
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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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Our emotions and culture
In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in people’s lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.
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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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Law and peace
This book provides a critical introduction to the complex relationship between law and peace.
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Planting the seeds of research
‘Planting the Seeds of Research’ explores why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide.
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Male homosexuality in 21st-century thailand
This book explores the experiences, meanings and identities of young same-sex attracted men in rural Thailand. It is based on a study of 25 young rural Thai men who were each interviewed three times within a two-year period while they were aged 18–20, uncovering significant fluidity, variety and ...
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Economic development of caricom
The book seeks to determine why CARICOM nations, despite their incorporation into the international economy for almost four hundred years, have experienced little meaningful economic transformation.
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The rise and fall of the privatized pension system in chile
‘The Rise and Fall of the Privatized Pension System in Chile’ analyses the Chilean experience with a privatised pension system and examines its impact on pension levels for the ageing population, differences in benefits across different groups, impact on local capital markets, savings redistribut...
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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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Grand-guignol cinema and the horror genre
Grand-Gugignol Cinema and the Horror Genre maps important contributions of the Parisian Grand-Guignol theatre’s Golden Age as theoretical considerations of embodiment and affect in the development of horror cinema in the twentieth century. This study traces key components of the Grand-Guignol sta...
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Art, politics and the environment in bangladesh
‘Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh’ features original research of a new generation of scholars of Bangladesh. The chapters collectively engage with many enduring topics of academic interest, such as violence, poverty, environment, development, democracy, religion and human rights fr...
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Climate uncertainty and risk
In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, Judith Curry shows how we can break the gridlock surrounding the climate debate. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are facing and how we can respond.
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Climate change and the future of boston
An in-depth analysis of the climate impacts facing Boston and the city’s efforts to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate.
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Advanced scat practice tests
This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 6 and above to take the Advanced School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an above-grade level test designed at grades 9 to 12...
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'a midsummer night’s dream' in context
How might Shakespeare’s audiences have responded to this enduringly popular comedy? This guide to the various contexts that situate 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary socio-political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of comedy th...
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Project management for construction
The book explores and analyses the five dimensions of project management and explores how current trends can influence the efficiency of the design and construction process within a dynamic industry and changeable political and regulatory environment.
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Polar shift: the arctic sustained
Polar Shift addresses how to sustain the Arctic's richness, beauty, and local and global value. It describes programs specifically created to protect this region and presents competing ideas of how it can be improved with specific recommendations
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Intermediate scat practice tests
This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 4 and 5 to take the Intermediate School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an above-grade level test designed at grades 6 to 8 ...
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The identity politics of postcolonial feminism
The Identity Politics of Postcolonial Feminism provides an original analysis of the conceptual categories of essentialisms (situated and strategic) and the politics of location evoked and practised by five hyphenated South Asian postcolonial feminists in the contemporary Anglo-North-American acad...
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Private equity
Private Equity’ explores the deal making and investment strategies of private equity investors with an analytical framework that focuses on value-add.
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Natural law jurisprudence in u.s. supreme court cases since roe v. wade
A critical examination of U.S. Supreme Court cases since the Roe v. Wade decision in light of natural law reasoning and principles. The text incisively reviews textual opinions of the various justices and attempts to discern the influence of natural law jurisprudence on modern day decisions.
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Elementary scat practice tests
This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 2 and 3 to take the Elementary School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an above-grade level test designed at grades 4 and 5 t...
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Literature and transformation
An inquiry into readers’ experiences of life-changing encounters with works of literature, the book uncovers the relationships between life-crises, being moved by literature and transformation of the self.
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