Globalization, the human condition and sustainable development in the twenty-first century

This book, based on a 175-nation study, investigates the relevance of dependency theory to the success of eight different dimensions of development, and argues that the pro-globalist policies of the European Commission are the greatest threat to Europe’s future developmental performance.

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...

Coolitude

A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire.

The museum of bioprospecting, intellectual property, and the public domain

'The Museum of Bioprospecting, Intellectual Property, and the Public Domain' discusses the issue of intellectual property rights versus the public domain in facilitating access to genetic resources for biotechnology development, through a dialogue between seven fictional scholars and a hilarious ...

Reforming international extradition

Extradition often priorities international comity and state rights over individual protections. This can create unfairness and concerns about extraditee welfare. Using case studies, this book explores these issues and argues that defendant-centered reforms are needed to adjust these unequal level...

Colonialism as civilizing mission

A fresh and stimulating examination of the ideology, programmes, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia.

Becoming – an anthropological approach to understandings of the person in java

The volume is an ethnographic monograph centring on the island of Java that also makes a singular contribution to the anthropological theorising of the person.

Truth and storytelling

The book offers a guide for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create.

Reading song lyrics

Popular song is an art form which reaches far beyond the music itself, and to fully appreciate its impact, the modern critic needs to analyse the elements that we find outside the song as well as those they find within it.

Dreams and dialogues in dylan’s "time out of mind"

This book studies Bob Dylan’s album Time Out of Mind as a series of dreams. These dreams work on three distinct levels: as murder ballads about a killer awaiting execution, as religious allegory about a protagonist torn between salvation and damnation, and as meditation on race and music in America.

Nonviolence and the grand inquisitor

This book introduces a conceptually rich and innovative new framework for the ethics of nonviolence by drawing from Dostoevsky’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor.” It offers fresh insights into civil resistance and political theory.

Civic engagement in australian democracy

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

Philosophical meta-reflections on literary studies

‘Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them?’ takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies, philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein as well as the implications of certain pop...

E-government for good governance in developing countries

Drawing lessons from the eFez Project in Morocco, this volume offers practical supporting material to decision makers in developing countries on information and communication technologies for development, specifically e-government implementation.

American paraliterature and other theories to hijack communication

A critical account of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference, which Michel Foucault called “the last countercultural event of the 1960s,” and its direct and indirect connection to American experimental literature. 

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...

An outline of financial economics

“An Outline of Financial Economics” presents a systematic treatment of the theory and methodology of finance and economics. The book follows an analytical and geometric methodology, explaining technical terms and mathematical operations in clear, nontechnical language, and providing intuitive exp...

The dancing body in renaissance choreography

The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography is a study of the theory of kinetic theatricality in the western European context. The dancing body of courtly social dance is analyzed in French and Italian dance treatises of the Renaissance through the intertexts of oratorical action, pedagogical di...

Selected poems of bernard barton, the 'quaker poet'

The first ever modern edition of Bernard Barton’s selected verse, recovering an important figure from the Romantic era. A diverse variety of his unusual and striking poetry is supplemented by letters, reviews and other contextual material, as well as a scholarly introduction and notes.

Beckett and broadcasting

Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation defended at Åbo Akademi University (Finland), it has long been out of print. It is here republished with a sizeable new introduction focusing on the role of radio in Beckett’s œuvre.

A theory of thrills, sublime and epiphany in literature

A psychological explanation of goosebumps and tears, of the epiphanic experience of seeing something ordinary in a profoundly new way, and of the overwhelming perception of the sublime. These experiences found in life and literature involve a feeling of coming to know something deeply important b...

Capital and labour redefined

A revealing investigation into the impact of capital-friendly liberalization on the fortunes of the working class in the Third World.

Cricket, fiction and nation

Cricket, Fiction and Nation examines how cricket has been used by fiction writers from the early nineteenth century to the present day to explore matters such as national identity, class, sexuality, murder, suicide, obsession, empire, race, migration and the global post-colonial world.

Inside influence

The book, Inside Influence: The Psychology of Power in Human Life, explores why people grant power to a few sometime authoritarian leaders and how power psychologically transforms those who hold it. Drawing on research, he shows how power can distort judgement, empathy and behaviour, and argues f...

Science meets literature

"Science Meets Literature" analyzes and discusses Elias Canetti’s 1935 novel “Auto-da-Fé” (original German title, “Die Blendung”) as an example of the way in which literature can contribute to the scientific understanding of the human mind and human behavior.

The spirit of luc boltanski

This volume – which brings together essays by prominent scholars in the field of sociology – provides a range of perspectives on the increasing influence of Luc Boltanski’s writings on both theoretical and empirical problems of contemporary social and political analysis.

Capitalism and freedom

In this remarkable, expansive text, Peter Nolan explores the impact of the domineering economic phenomenon on our personal and social liberties.

Globalization, nationalism and the text of ‘kichaka-vadha’

This volume offers the first English translation of one of India’s most celebrated works of anticolonial resistance. It is also the first edition of the play to provide an extensive historical-critical commentary and to draw on a comprehensive range of colonial archival documents.

Neo-victorian lesbians on screen

Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen, by Maier and Friars, argues that the on-screen portrayal of lesbians situated in the long nineteenth century across various countries is at the very least a dual task; the imperative project of revoicing lesbian silence and female companionship is complicated by ...

Catalyst

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...

Constraining development

This book explores the ways that trade and investment treaties constrain domestic policy making. It draws a common thread through trade- and investment-related areas to show how the promises of the current international legal regime have not come to fruition and to offer new options for countries...

Nikolai gretsch's travel letters: volume 3 - letters from germany

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 tre...

Critical approaches to fen gothic literature

The book defines and discusses Fen Gothic, an example of regional Gothic inflected by geography, relationships of centre and margins, history, ecology and gender and the perspectives offered by related Gothic critical approaches. 

Land and agrarian transformation in zimbabwe

This book explores the outcomes of Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform implemented in 2000. The book pays particular attention to changing livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s countryside occasioned by the land reform.

Final reflections on wittgenstein and other topics

This book is a collection of P.M.S. Hacker’s most recent papers on Wittgenstein. Some of them have been previously unpublished while others have been revised since their original publication.

Australian theatre, modernism and patrick white

‘Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White’ details the rejection of two Patrick White plays – ‘The Ham Funeral’ and ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ – by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in the early 1960s.

Religion, law and power

Examines the interplay of distinct yet overlapping facets of history, Hinduism, the state and the nation in Eastern India.

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.

The military and denied development in the pakistani punjab

This book explores retrogressive agrarian interventions by Pakistan’s military in the Punjab and details the social resentment and resistance it has initiated.

Transpacific connections: literary and cultural production by and about latin american nikkeijin

Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspiratio...

Quantitative studies of the renaissance florentine economy and society

The book is a collection of nine quantitative studies about Renaissance Florentine economy and society. Topics include plague outbreaks, interest rates, wealth distribution, taxes and subsidies, art history, neighbourhood segregation, competitive markets and monopoly power, women’s work and busin...

The argument from reason and rational agents

A mid-level exploration of the Argument from Reason, this book challenges naturalism by defending rational agency, freedom, and theism, while engaging contemporary issues such as AI, consciousness, and transhumanism. It is suitable for students, scholars, and general readers seeking clarity on mi...