Crime films

Crime Films: Investigating the Scene analyzes the wide body of films that fall under the rubric of crime, from the gangster film to the film noir to classic whodunit television series like Law and Order and CSI. Ever since Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery in 1903, audiences have been fas...

Political dynamics of transnational agrarian movements

Transnational agrarian movements (TAMs) are organizations, networks, coalitions and solidarity linkages of farmers, peasants, pastoralists and their allies that cross national boundaries and seek to influence national and global policies. Today’s TAMs have contributed to reframing a wide range of...

Concurrences in postcolonial research

The concept of concurrences is a blanket term for challenging dominating statements of the past and present. Concurrent stories have varying claims to reality and fiction, as well as different, diverging, and at times competing claims to society, culture, identity, and historical past. Dominant ...

Articles in english as a second language

The aim of this study is to provide an overview of research findings on the acquisition and use of articles in English as a second language, investigated from a phraseological perspective. It also presents an examination of various linguistic accounts of the English article system with respect to...

Thinking through the body

From one of our most outspoken feminist critics, this collection explores various ways in which the body can be rethought of as a site of knowledge rather than as a medium to move beyond or dominate. Moving between a theoretical and confessional stance, Gallop explores Sade's relation to mothers ...

Early childhood education leadership in times of crisis

Authors from twelve countries present empirical findings gaining information on different crisis management mechanisms in early childhood education and care ECE systems around the world.

Holocaust to resistance, my journey

Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis on a farm in rural France. Alone after the war, she lived in progressive-run orphanages, where she ga...

Financialization

An unrivalled analysis of the pervasive forms that financialization has taken, its rise as a global phenomenon, its impact on economic growth, its transformative effect on businesses and the costs that we pay as consumers. Has finance become a burden to growth and what, if anything, can be done t...

The art of war

Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It is the first known attempt to formulate a ...

United nations general assembly resolutions

This book analyzes the UN General Assembly resolutions from 2014 through 2023 in the context of Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine.

Illusions of control

Drawing on extensive field research and hundreds of interviews with stakeholders, Erica L. Gaston unpacks the challenges of attempting to control proxy forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

Apocolocyntosis

Apocolocyntosis depicts a posthumous trial in which the recently deceased Emperor Claudius makes the case for his elevation to the company of the gods.

The new authoritarianism

This volume continues a series that scrutinizes, from a risk perspective, the current phenomenon of authoritarianism as displayed by the new radical right. Of particular timeliness is an examination of the corporate/radical-right stance on the COVID-19 pandemic and the phenomenon of wild allegati...

Interpreting the world to change it

Born in 1945 in Odisha, India, to parents who were deeply committed to the Communist cause as members of the Communist Party of India, Patnaik is one of the most outstanding economists of his generation and a leading Marxist theoretician in the world today. Through his work as an academic, he has...

Executing a renaissance

This collection is an attempt at existential optimism and a response to the poets, thinkers, and scholars who are again persecuted and executed by the Russian soldateska.

Social capital and welfare reform

In this groundbreaking study, Jo Anne Schneider considers the reasons behind the limited success of most welfare reform initiatives and offers evidence-based recommendations for enhancing the effectiveness of welfare policy.Schneider draws on her rich and nuanced ethnographic studies of Philadelp...

Latin hitchcock

This study explores how five major Spanish and Latino directors modeled their early careers on Hitchcock and his film aesthetics.

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.

Sweet and lowdown

Tracing the recurrent theme of regret from his stand-up comedy through classics like Annie Hall as well as less esteemed accomplishments, this volume argues that it is ultimately the shallowness of his protagonists' regret—their lack of deeply felt, sustained remorse—that defines Woody Allen’s vi...

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...

Negotiating governance on non-traditional security in southeast asia and beyond

Mely Caballero-Anthony examines how non-traditional security challenges have changed state behavior and security practices in Southeast Asia and the wider East Asia region. She analyzes how non-state actors are engaging with states, regional organizations, and institutional frameworks to address ...

Between two shores

This is a story that begins in California and ends in China—a detective tale with a subtle love interest. After a Chinese American man dies in mysterious circumstances near Hangzhou, his wife, an Irish American, goes to China to find out what really happened.

Perspektiven linguistischer sprachkritik

This volume provides a collection of new perspectives on linguistic aspects of language criticism. It aims to offer a systematic account of the linguistic dimensions of all complex actions and discourses that can be the subject of critical language theory, which tries to link language and society...

The canadian non-profit sector

A comprehensive overview of the anatomy of the Canadian non-profit sector providing critical analysis of key social policy and political issues.

Economic competence and financial literacy of young adults

The authors take a detailed look at the economic competence and financial literacy of young adults, especially of those who start an apprenticeship or who take up their studies at a university. Economic competence and financial literacy are of special interest within this group, because these you...

Language and power in ukraine and kazakhstan

This is the first such collection of essays presenting a critical multi-author examination of language and power relations in Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

Economic thought

In this concise history, Heinz D. Kurz selects major moments in the development of economic ideas to portray how insights are acquired, lost, and reborn. He focuses on the dynamic individuals who give old ideas new life and the historical events that provoke the combination and recombination of d...

Shreds of war. vol. 2

In this second volume of Shreds of War the authors uncover the effects of the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia.

Wandering from china to america

This autobiography offers a tale of the joys and hardships of simple living in Chinese and American societies.

Freedom and the self

Contemporary philosophers assess the late author’s ideas on fatalism, free will, and art.

Pope francis among the wolves

Marco Politi takes us deep inside the power struggle roiling the Catholic Church worldwide, beginning with Benedict XVI's resignation and intensifying with the contested and unexpected election of Pope Francis. Politi's account balances the perspectives of Pope Francis's supporters, Benedict's sy...

Narrative therapy with older adults

This book is an in-depth guide to narrative therapy for students and practitioners in health care, social work, gerontology, and counseling, showing readers how to develop a culturally sensitive practice framework with older adults.

“i hate feminists!”

Stifled progress – international perspectives on social work and social policy in the era of right-wing populism

Social work as a democratically constituted profession committed to human rights is currently facing cross-border encroachments and attacks by right-wing populist movements and governments. This book examines how social work can respond effectively to nationalism, exclusion, and skepticism about ...

Transgender 101

Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and its unique experiences of discrimination. Chapters introduce transgenderism and its psych...

On desire

Desire indicates phenomena that are implicated in a productive ambiguity. These phenomena associate basic elements of human coexistence, while also referencing complex social processes and institutions. With today's new media we experience an assemblage of desire that maps out new relationships t...