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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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Grand duchess elena pavlovna, princess isabel and the ending of servile labour in russia and brazil
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and Princess Isabel were key players in the political struggle ending servile labor in the empires of Russia and Brazil. This book chronicles the political activity of the two royal women to end servile labor in their respective countries
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On the fall of the roman republic
On the Republic juxtaposes the fall of the Roman Republic with the contemporary political landscape of the United States: a republic in disarray, violence and corruption thwarting the will of the people, military misadventures abroad, and rampant economic inequality diminishing a shared sense of ...
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The transformation of capacity in international development
"The Transformation of Capacity in International Development” exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID’s work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approa...
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Russia in the age of alexander ii, tolstoy and dostoevsky
A vibrant, enthralling account of Russia's most fascinating period of history.
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Reclaiming economic sovereignty in africa
This book has discussed the critical question of why the continent, despite being the most endowed place on the planet, with a diverse range of natural and human resources, has remained the most impoverished region on the planet. The book shows that this is largely due to lack of economic soverei...
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Can we live forever?
An enlightening look into the medical, cultural, religious and philosophical implications of life extension.
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Russia's penal colony in the far east
‘Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich’s “Sakhalin”’ is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich’s 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russia’s largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the north Pacific.
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Bangladesh confronts climate change
Severely threatened by climate change, Bangladesh is showing the world how to take an active role in adapting to this situation. Learning from its own experience in coping with floods and cyclones, Bangladesh is taking the lead in international climate change negotiations and attempting to persua...
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The dark side of news fixing
This book provides a local journalist's perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. Fixers are local journalists hired to help global media outlets in developing news stories on wars. The book shows how the fixers' risky news pursuits made possible for globa...
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The christian culture of islamic spain
The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain is an enquiry into how and why Christian culture survived in medieval Spain in areas under Islamic rule, why it eventually disappeared there and how knowledge of it was recovered from the sixteenth century onwards.
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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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Fat china
'Fat China' provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity in China and its relationship to the nation's changing diet, lifestyle trends and healthcare system.
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Dementia and alzheimer's
‘Dementia and Alzheimer’s” helps families, counsellors, friends and businesses to deal with the sudden rise of progressive brain deterioration in several forms of dementia, which is expected to affect many hundreds of thousands of adults in the coming years.
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The anthem anthology of victorian sonnets
‘The Anthem Anthology of Victorian Sonnets’ is a comprehensive collection consisting of over three thousand Victorian sonnets written by Victorian poets between 1836 and the early years of twentieth century.
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The “slumdog” phenomenon
Featuring a dynamic combination of landmark essays by leading critics and theorists, “The ‘Slumdog’ Phenomenon: A Critical Anthology” addresses multiple issues relating to “Slumdog Millionaire,” providing new ways of looking at this controversial film.
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From mimetic translation to artistic transduction
Literary translation can be retranslated into new ways of thinking about music and the other arts. In artistic transduction, Woolf called the word the poetical cry, Berlioz the singing lyric, and Brecht the rhyming slang.
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Secret agents and the memory of everyday collaboration in communist eastern europe
'Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe' examines the ways in which post-Communist societies have sought to make sense of Communist-era collaboration. It explores the motivations for becoming an agent and the moralities of this role, as well as the pers...
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World cinema and the visual arts
‘World Cinema and the Visual Arts’ combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. The films analysed encompass a wide geographical base, and have been drawn from a diverse array of cultural traditions.
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Prometheus and gaia
Prometheus and Gaia explores two currents in contemporary politics: a Futurism which sees boundless technology as a salvific force and an Eco-Pessimism which sees human innovation as inherently destructive. While apparent opposites, these two currents share in common a rejection of Enlightenment ...
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Development without aid
“Development Without Aid” provides a critique of foreign aid as a resource that is unable to provide the dynamism to propel the poorest countries out of poverty. It examines the rapid growth of the world’s diasporas as an alternative dynamic with potential to supersede foreign aid and drive a rea...
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The elite center cannot hold
A resurgent liberalism has become hegemonic in Philippine media and academic discourses, which were previously characterized by progressive and nationalist perspectives. While resurgent Philippine liberalism (RPL) has been precipitated by recent and current crises.
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Ethnographies of grey zones in eastern europe
Over the last two decades, Eastern European countries have experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Based on ethnographic cases, this anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect ever...
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The rise and fall of the national atlas in the twentieth century
Many countries produced an official national atlas in the twentieth century. This book examines these national atlases as an intriguing window into the connections between science, state, territory and power.
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Russia from the american embassy
David R. Francis held the post of the United States ambassador to Russia from April 1916 to November 1918, and represented his country before four Russian governments: the Imperial, Provisional, Soviet, and Northern. He was an eyewitness of the greatest events in the history of Russia: World War ...
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India and china: interactions through buddhism and diplomacy
This volume collates the classic works of the preeminent Indian scholar of Chinese history and Buddhism, Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898–1956).
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Sarah bowdich lee (1791-1856) and pioneering perspectives on natural history
This first book-length appraisal of the pioneering perspectives of Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) on natural history in the first half of the nineteenth century pivotally highlights the intercultural, interdisciplinary and multi-genre reach of her work. The fact that she undertook it independently...
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Land, labour and rights
A memorial to Thorner's wide-ranging contribution to Indian economics.
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The culture of caution
An ethnographic exploration of Islamic television talk show production, revealing behind-the-scenes challenges and strategies shaped by a culture of caution.
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Democratic management of an ecosystem under threat
Using case studies from Florida and the Caribbean, this book summarizes the state of coral reef conservation today, exploring the most effective way to protect vulnerable coral reef ecosystems while ensuring people’s voices are heard.
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Constitutional conventions in australia
Australia’s constitutions omit or barely mention many of the essential and well-known elements of the country’s system of government. This work fills that void by explaining the nature of conventions, how they arise, how they are altered, as well as their operation and development.
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Empire and the animal body
‘Empire and the Animal Body’ develops recent work in animal studies, ecocriticism and postcolonial studies to reassess the significance of exotic animals in Victorian adventure literature.
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The anthem companion to everett hughes
The Anthem Companion to Everett Hughes is a comprehensive and updated critical discussion of Hughes’s contribution to sociology and his current legacy in the social sciences. A global team of scholars discusses issues such as the international circulation of Hughes’s work, his intellectual biogra...
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Decadent verse
A critical collection of late-Victorian poetry, fully annotated and explored, bringing to life the often overlooked but integral verse of the period.
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Information technologies and economic development in latin america
Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America provides a collection of rigorous empirical studies that contributes to a better understanding of the role and impact of old and new information technologies on Latin American economic development through the use of randomized and...
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The security-development nexus
‘The Security-Development Nexus: Peace, Conflict and Development’ explores the concept of the security-development nexus from a variety of perspectives. Its collected essays investigate conceptual issues via case studies from Africa, Asia and Europe.
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Rethinking indian political institutions
A far-reaching and extensive rethinking of India's political and economic structures at every level, engagingly presented by a team of eminent academics and practitioners.
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Aspirational chinese in competitive social repositionings
Drawing upon a new perspective of competitive social repositioning and numerous new sources, this book fills the analytical gap caused by the research focus on either macro- or micro-level issues through analysing how everyday Chinese had reacted to and influenced the numerous changes in China fr...
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Ikarians in south australia, 1900-1945
This book explores the migration of Greeks from the island of Ikaria to South Australia between 1900 and 1945. This little-researched diaspora is examined alongside the key themes of emigration, settlement, community building and integration.
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Senses of upheaval
Spanning a decade of Michael Marder’s contributions as a public intellectual, Senses of Upheaval documents a period of exceptional global turmoil in intellectual, cultural, technological and political spheres.
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Religion and identity in south asia and beyond
This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India.
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Chinese tv in the netflix era
This book aims to provide an account of Chinese television, particularly online drama series, or webisodes, with an awareness of the existence and competition of Netflix.
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Politics, inequality and the australian welfare state after liberalisation
Neoliberalism has made Australia less equal and our welfare system more brutal. But it has also changed the politics of inequality. Using examples from health to housing, unemployment to universities, this book identifiesopportunities to make a more equal Australia.
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Saving sunnyville
Sunnyville has everything it needs. But one day, trouble arrives. When a sudden landslide cuts off all its power, water and fresh food deliveries, it’s up to a few curious and smart kids to find the solutions. Maya, Ana and Scotty head to the hills to explore. Using real-world examples found in n...
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