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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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Secret dreams in istanbul
A highly intelligent, empathetic account of a family haunted by dark secrets. Simultaneously a psychological study, a focus for feminism, a novel of intrigue, it has the unique and laudable ability to win the reader’s sympathy for the most unsavoury of characters.
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Antonio pietrangeli, the director of women
This book re-examines the films of Antonio Pietrangeli, one of the founding fathers of neorealism in the postwar period in Italy, from a feminist perspective. Of the ten full-length films completed by Antonio Pietrangeli, eight featured a female protagonist. This attention to the female subject i...
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The morality of politics
This book deals with the morality, self-conception and honour of states, something that goes well beyond the narrow, rationalist defence of national interests, which dominates most IR studies. The volume pursues this line of thinking by focussing on three different but interconnected thematics: m...
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Russian people: revolutionary recollections
This book is a first-hand account of the Russian Revolution and its impact on the Russian people. Cantacuzene, an American journalist who lived in Russia during the revolution, provides a detailed and personal narrative of the events leading up to the revolution, the revolution itself, and its af...
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Chernobyl trauma and gothic
This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It argues for the contextualisation of the disaster’s collective traumatic wound and its Soviet political repression through public articulation of surviv...
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Anton chekhov through the eyes of russian thinkers
This volume offers modern perspectives, from a strong international team of scholars, on the perception of Anton Chekhov's works by three leading cultural figures of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov.
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Self-haunting
A study in the literature of selfhood across time, this book analyzes how the Gnostics, the Romantics, Kierkegaard, Beckett, and Ashbery dramatize the self’s struggle to fulfill an ideal of integrity and autonomy that will not let it go.
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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.
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Traditional african bonesetters and western medical practitioners
This unique interdisciplinary study of biosocial medicine examines how traditional African bonesetter practices inexorably, and relentlessly, clash with ‘Western’ care protocols. These long-standing traditional vs. contemporary patient-care collisions in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Zimbabwe we...
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The spanish frustration
Old troubles persist in modern Spain, including huge public debts, extensive corruption, widespread unlawfulness, oligarchical politics, territorial splits, and permanent protests and riots. The origins of these problems are remote: the ruinous Spanish Empire made a weak state, which built an inc...
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God's boat
A mother constantly dreams of a passionate and all-consuming past affair, of which nothing now remains but her daughter, as the two travel through Japan and through life, love and the terrible pain of loss.
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On commerce and usury (1524)
This volume presents Martin Luther’s contribution to the modern economic sciences, providing a detailed introduction and revised translation of his 1524 pamphlet, ‘On Commerce and Usury’ (‘Von Kauffshandlung vnd Wucher’).
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New lithuania in old hands
‘New Lithuania in Old Hands’ examines the impact Lithuania’s EU membership has had upon the country’s ageing small-scale farmers.
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Foreign aid to the gaza strip between trusteeship and de-development
One of the very few books that focus on the political economy of Gaza under the foreign aid regime that has emerged post Oslo Agreement 1993.
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Digital immersive art in china
This book explores the role of virtual reality and augmented reality in China’s rejuvenation, especially in relation to cultural displays, performances and art exhibitions. It examines how audiences, both in China and globally, respond to Digital China through digital immersive art.
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Ragnar nurkse (1907-2007)
‘Ragnar Nurkse (1907-2007): Classical Development Economics and its Relevance for Today’ presents a selection of papers that casts new insight on Nurkse’s thought, and discusses his relevance for today.
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Power shifts and global governance
‘Power Shifts and Global Governance: Challenges from South and North’ explores changing architectures of global governance in the midst of great power shifts in the twenty-first century.
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Engaging with engagement
This short book examines the taxonomy of ‘voluntary obligations’ presented by Viscount Stair in his seminal Institutions of the Law of Scotland, arguing that – notwithstanding ongoing proposals to significantly reform ‘Scots contract law’ – Stair’s account of ‘will’ and ‘engagement’ offers the b...
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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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Surviving capitalism
A fresh, funny and imaginative discourse on the nature of capitalism and how society has learned to cope with it.
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The unmaking of arab socialism
This study examines the perplexing reasons for the Arab world's developmental descent from the pinnacle of Arab socialism to its present desolate condition, focusing on Egypt, Syria, and Iraq.
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La economía de la iniciativa yasuní-itt
El cambio climático se presta a la economía política. Vogel ha construido un argumento a favor de llevar a los países ricos en carbono, pero pobres económicamente, a través del cuello de botella de la economía de vaquero y hacia el “comercio en el derecho de emisiones” de los países Anexo I del P...
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South american perspectives on cultural diversity
This book delves into the evolution of cultural diversity policies in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. It highlights the struggles of marginalized groups for equality and explores how these policies challenge the monocultural narratives imposed by nation-states over the last 15 years.
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How america was tricked on tax policy
How America was Tricked on Tax Policy explains how regular citizens were “tricked” by the outdated view of economists that much heavier taxation of labor rather than capital is economically justifiable. The truth is that workers pay their taxes while the rich pay very little. Based on reputable s...
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Transnational community mobilization and transformation, 2010-2020
This book explores transnational community mobilization through local transnational encounters and connections.
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Post-truth
‘Post-truth’, Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind ‘post-truth’ is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself.
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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.
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The demographic dividend and the power of youth
The book is a compendium of essays from around the world on how governments and institutions can effectively manage and take advantage of the demographic dividend. It highlights the role young people can play as actors of change.
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Reading greek australian literature through the paramythi
This book explores Greek Australian literature through its paramythic tropes and focuses on reading it as a bridge between multiculturalism and world literature.
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A beginner's guide to the later philosophy of wittgenstein
In this Beginner’s Guide, Peter Hacker introduces the later philosophy of Wittgenstein in a lively and engaging combination of lectures and dialogues that presupposes no philosophical knowledge. He examines such topics as the nature of language and linguistic meaning, the analysis of necessity an...
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Rural india facing the 21st century
A profound analysis of a broad range of issues, providing a masterly overview of rural development in India.
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Gladstone and the logic of victorian politics
This book analyses the career of William Gladstone, charting the key stages in his political development and the ideas and influences that shaped his conduct.
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The legacy of pierre bourdieu
This volume explores the sociological legacy of the late Pierre Bourdieu through an examination of the intellectual division between his reception in the world of French social sciences and his reception in the Anglophone world.
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Modern world university atlas
Simply the best atlas for college and university students, Anthem’s ‘Modern World University Atlas’ is the essential reference resource for the contemporary world.
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Wittgenstein and artificial intelligence, volume i
Wittgenstein and AI (Volume I): Mind and Language. This is the first of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on mind and language.
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Europe’s unfinished currency
The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) of the European Union is a unique historical experiment, as no monetary union of sovereign states has survived to date. This book explores how it could work, and develops scenarios of how things might evolve in case of failure.
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Martin luther and the german reformation
A concise, critical study of Martin Luther and his impact on the modern world. The book is extensively based on the writings of Martin Luther and draws connections between Luther’s life and teachings and the contemporary world.
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Dialogics of self, the mahabharata and culture
'Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History' explores the interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtin’s theory of dialogics.
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Architecture and the public good
The best chance for ethically grounding the architecture profession is in the public good that results from licensing but architects have done an unconvincing job of communicating the nature of this good. This dissects the underlying tensions causing this situation and proposes solutions that wou...
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Socialising the biomedical turn in hiv prevention
This book addresses the major challenge for HIV prevention: that is, to reach beyond the limitations of biomedical approaches to disease and to design prevention strategies informed by and connected with the social realities of people’s lives.
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Salaam america
A rare insight into the group identity of South Asian Muslims in New York, investigating Islamic stereotypes post-September 11th.
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Nuclear gothic
Nuclear Gothic investigates the previously unexplored congruities that lie between gothic forms and modes and nuclear cultures and techno-sciences; it aims to read Western nuclear fictions in relation to their Japanese counterparts and through a cohesive critical framework that examines atomic pr...
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Literature and inequality
Great works of literature, by the likes of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton, can help us to better understand the social ramifications of high-end inequality – not just in the authors' eras but today.
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