Reintegrating india with the world economy

After nearly five decades of insulation from world markets, state controls, and slow growth, India embarked in 1991 on a process of liberalization of controls and progressive integration with the global economy in an effort to put its economy on a path of rapid and sustained growth. Despite major...

Master tung’s western chamber romance

Cookin': hard bop and soul jazz 1954-65

Following on from Giant Steps, comes the second instalment in Kenny Mathieson's series of jazz histories.Cookin' examines the birth and development of two of the key jazz styles of the post-war era, hard bop and its related offshoot, soul jazz. Hard bop was the most exciting jazz style of its day...

Women's cinema

Women's Cinema provides an introduction to critical debates around women's filmmaking and relates those debates to a variety of cinematic practices. Taking her cue from the groundbreaking theories of Claire Johnston, Alison Butler argues that women's cinema is a minor cinema that exists inside ot...

Unfinished nature

Drawing on two and a half years of in-depth fieldwork spent among CERN’s research community surrounding the discovery of the Higgs boson, Arpita Roy offers a rich analysis of science in the making.

Exploring the virtual world of learning across generations

The idea for this book came about as a result of the ICT Guides project, which was funded by the Erasmus+ programme . The project was carried out in 2015-2018 in Gothenburg (Sweden), Berlin (Germany), Madrid (Spain) and Sheffield (United Kingdom). The cities identified for the project all have a ...

The work of poetry

New and classic essays by one of America's most distinguished contemporary poet-critics, The Work of Poetry surveys an extraordinary range of poets, from Dante to May Swenson, and George Meredith to Marianne Moore, as well as works from the Psalms to A Child's Garden of Verses. By turns generous ...

Doing anti-oppressive practice

NOTE: New updated 4th edition available now!This updated third edition of the immensely popular Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice introduces students to anti-oppressive social work, its historical and theoretical roots and the specific contexts of anti-oppressive social work practice. Key to this pr...

The winona laduke chronicles

Chronicles is a major work, a collection of current, pressing and inspirational stories of Indigenous communities from the Canadian subarctic to the heart of Dine Bii Kaya, Navajo Nation. Chronicles is a book literally risen from the ashes—beginning in 2008 after her home burned to the ground—and...

The ukrainian oligarchy after the euromaidan

An analysis of how the Ukrainian super-rich converted wealth into political influence which brought more wealth via rent-extraction in the gas sector

Death by laughter

Maggie Hennefeld reveals the forgotten histories of “hysterical laughter,” exploring how women’s amusement has been theorized and demonized, suppressed and exploited.

Presence, process, and the pictorial real

Today, painting has lost its dominant position and has become one artistic medium among others. This book offers a variety of perspectives on the role of painting in the twenty-first century, discussing whether and how painting is still pertinent to contemporary image production.

Health as a social system

João Costa argues that Luhmann's Social Systems Theory offers the groundwork for a vastly improved health systems thinking.

Science with street value

In his groundbreaking book, Predictions: Society's Telltale Signature Reveals the Past and Forecasts the Future, Theodore Modis showed readers a fascinating new way to understand our society and ourselves by applying fundamental scientific concepts to predicting social phenomena. Now he pushes hi...

Politics, intellectuals, and faith

This wide-ranging collection of essays examines modern intellectuals and ideologues. Matthew Feldman calls attention to the substantial role played in post-Great War Europe and the United States by religions—both familiar monotheisms like Christianity and secular ‘political faiths’—over the last ...

Greek tragedy, european odyssey: the politics and economics of the eurozone crisis

Debate among politicians and academics alike vacillates as to whether the euro is the crowning achievement of a half-century of European integration efforts, or now constitutes a force that threatens to drive European Union member states apart. This book introduces both the political and economic...

Les savoirs perdus /  panuijkatasikl kina’masuti’l

Aigle répartit sept savoirs fondamentaux parmi les animaux de la forêt, mais il oublie de mentionner une importante mise en garde; et ainsi, les animaux s’empêtrent dans la jalousie, la convoitise et l’égoïsme. Aigle se doit sauver les animaux et c’est ainsi qu’il est amené à découvrir le sens du...

Choreographies of shared sacred sites

Explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria

Time and the other

Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind.

Your friend forever, a. lincoln

Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln is a rich analysis of one of the most important friendships in American history. Joshua Speed and Abraham Lincoln's relationship was both a model of male friendship and a specific dynamic between two brilliant but fascinatingly flawed men. Their friendship resolves...

Sexuality

Michel Foucault’s interest in the history of sexuality began as early as the 1960s, when he taught two courses on the subject. These lectures offer crucial insight into the development of Foucault’s thought yet have remained unpublished until recently. This book presents Foucault’s lectures on se...

Everything is so political

The stories within Everything Is So Political explore the intersection between politics and the contemporary short story. From the overt to the subtle, this collection tackles a broad range of topics and themes, from women’s rights and Aboriginal culture to environmentalism, terrorism and totalit...

The democratization of artificial intelligence

The aim of this book is to discuss the heterogenous conditions, implications, and effects of modern AI and internet technologies in terms of their political dimension: What does it mean to critically investigate efforts of net politics in the age of machine learning algorithms?

In our interest

In this data-driven, counterintuitive book, Alexander Kustov argues that showing people how immigration benefits them and their fellow citizens can lead to greater acceptance of more open policies.

On the edge

On the Edge probes precarity in contemporary China through the lens of the dark and angry cultural forms that chronic uncertainty has generated.

Queer turkey

Queer Turkey offers a broad range of reflections on queer Turkish cultures within a transnational, Euro-American context. Ralph J. Poole discusses queer travel writers, poets, playwrights, and film directors whose multifarious works manifest the subtle and subversive ways in which artists crisscr...

The russian economy

A new introduction to the modern Russian economy, one that explores Russia's continued tentative and inconsistent use of the market and the microfoundations and leadership norms of Russia's "sistema" that continue to inhibit liberalization.

To write as if already dead

To Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. Zambreno, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade, investigates Guibert’s methods by adopting them, offering a keen sens...

Dust and other stories

Yi T’aejun was one of twentieth-century Korea’s true masters of the short story—and a man who in 1946 stunned his contemporaries by moving to the Soviet-occupied North. Dust and Other Stories offers a selection of Yi’s stories across time and place, showcasing a superb stylist caught up in his er...

Narrative mechanics

What do stories in games have in common with political narratives? This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and...

Shared heritage revisited

This book explores the intersection of cultural heritage and nationality in societies that are characterized by national, multi-national, and post-national concepts.

Between lenin and bandera

This book examines the evolution of post-Euromaidan de-Sovietization. It explores decommunization as both a political and cultural phenomenon that exposes the multivocality of the Ukrainian population and involves various forms of dialogical interaction between ordinary citizens and the state.

Political responsibility

Scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned to ethics to theorize politics in what seems to be an increasingly depoliticized age. Yet the move toward ethics has obscured the ongoing value of political responsibility and the vibrant life it represents as an effective response to pow...

Great queer provocation

Martin Gössl reflects on the possibilities of queer recognition in different social contexts.

Qualitative research in social work

The homoerotics of orientalism

One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of O...

Danger: diabolik

Danger: Diabolik (1968) was adapted from a comic that has been a social phenomenon in Italy for over fifty years. This study examines its status as a comic-book movie, traces its production and initial reception in Italy, France, the U.S., and the UK, and its cult afterlife as both a pop-art clas...

Viola desmond

Many Canadians know that Viola Desmond is the first Black, non-royal woman to be featured on Canadian currency. But fewer know the details of Viola Desmond’s life and legacy. In 1946, Desmond was arrested for refusing to give up her seat in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow,...

The future of uk-china relations

At a time when China’s role in the world is becoming the focus of international business strategy and Brexit is pushing the UK to look to the rest of the world for trade and investment, Kerry Brown assesses the potential for a new “golden age” of UK–China relations and what the UK needs to unders...

The orphic i

This book offers a new interpretation of the Orpheus myth. It suggests a model for thinking about creative interactions where composer and performer adopt each other’s perspectives.