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  • - Critical Investigations
    av Thomas Teo
    881

    Outline of Theoretical Psychology discusses basic philosophical problems in the discipline and profession of psychology. By engaging with these basic philosophical problems, Teo demonstrates how psychology can avoid its common pitfalls and continue as a force for resistance and the good.

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    421

    This book explores the variety of social and political phenomena that combined to the make the First World War a key turning point in the Jewish experience of the twentieth century.

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    1 861

    In the West, human bondage remains synonymous with the Atlantic slave trade. Together, these chapters illuminate the historical and contemporary dimensions of bondage in Africa and Asia, with important implications for the fight against modern-day bondage and human trafficking.

  • - Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge
    av Matilda Mroz
    1 617

    This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinema's engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust.

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    621

    This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of established and emerging scholars from the disciplines of history, political science and communication studies, to provide a historical reappraisal of Cambodia's relationships with the West.

  • - Transatlantic Affinities
    av Ellen McWilliams
    1 457

    Individual chapters engage in detail with questions central to the social or literary history of Irish women in North America and pay special attention to the following: discourses of Irish femininity in twentieth-century American and Canadian literature;

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    591

    This edited volume brings together a collection of provocative essays examining a number of different facets of Elizabethan foreign affairs, encompassing England and The British Isles, Europe, and the dynamic civilization of Islam.

  • - Popular Resistance and Marginalized Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings
     
    1 777

    While the Arab people took center stage in the Arab Spring protests, academic studies have focused more on structural factors to understand the limitations of these popular uprisings. This book analyzes the role and complexities of popular agency in the Arab Spring through the framework of contentious politics and social movement theory.

  • - Popular Resistance and Marginalized Activism beyond the Arab Uprisings
     
    1 471

    While the Arab people took center stage in the Arab Spring protests, academic studies have focused more on structural factors to understand the limitations of these popular uprisings. This book analyzes the role and complexities of popular agency in the Arab Spring through the framework of contentious politics and social movement theory.

  • - The Political Roots of Banking Crises in Spain
    av Sebastian Royo
    1 147

  • - Historical, Philosophical, and Practical Dimensions
    av Kathleen Slaney
    951 - 1 741

    This book critically examines the historical and philosophical foundations of construct validity theory (CVT), and how these have and continue to inform and constrain the conceptualization of validity and its application in research.

  • - A Re-Appraisal
    av Joan Templeton
    1 147 - 1 741

    Dismantling the notion that Shaw distorted Ibsen to promote his own view of the world, and establishing Shaw's initial interest in Ibsen as the poet of Peer Gynt, it chronicles Shaw's important role in the London Ibsen campaign and exposes the falsity of the tradition that Shaw branded Ibsen as a socialist.

  • - Imaging Military Recruitment and the French Revolution
    av Valerie Mainz
    421 - 1 147

    This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. This military song, later adopted as the national anthem, represents a deceptively unifying moment of collective engagement in the making of the modern French nation.

  • av Emma McEvoy
    467

    From Strawberry Hill to The Dungeons, Alnwick Castle to Barnageddon, Gothic tourism is a fascinating, and sometimes controversial, area. This lively study considers Gothic tourism's aesthetics and origins, as well as its relationship with literature, film, folklore, heritage management, arts programming and the 'edutainment' business.

  • - The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World
     
    6 381

    Now in its 158th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions.

  • - Melody, Harmony and Rhythm in the Modern World
    av Sabby Sagall
    1 741

    This book argues that the need for music, and the ability to produce and enjoy it, is an essential element in human nature. This book analyses the stylistic changes in music from the emergence of 'tonality' in the late seventeenth century until the Second World War.

  • - Epistemic Problems and Cultural-Historical Perspectives of a Cross-Disciplinary Concept
     
    951

  • - Machine Amusements
    av Alex Goody
    817 - 1 117

    Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements explores how modernist women poets were inspired by leisure technologies to write new versions of the gendered subject.

  • av Vicki Harman
    817 - 881

    This book presents an engaging sociological investigation into how gender is negotiated and performed in ballroom and Latin dancing that draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as the author's own experience as a dancer.

  • - Novel Grounds
    av Matthew Ingleby
    847 - 1 411

    As Bloomsbury became increasingly identified with the cultural capital of writers rather than the economic capital of established wealth, writers subtly affiliated themselves with the area, and the figure of the writer and Bloomsbury became symbolically conflated.

  • - Analysing Cultural Translation in Diasporic Writing
    av Michela Baldo
    881 - 1 217

    This book examines the concept of translation as a return to origins and as restitution of lost narratives, and is based on the idea of diaspora as a term that depicts the longing to return home and the imaginary reconstructions and reconstitutions of home by migrants and translators.

  • av Anne Drumaux & Paul Joyce
    1 617 - 1 781

    This book investigates the role and effectiveness of strategic management within public governance in Europe. This book argues for the need to develop more effective multi-level governance that combines unity of strategic purpose at the European level with strategic leadership and mobilisation at the national level.

  • - From the 1870s to the Present
    av Zoe Knox
    1 481

    This book examines the historic tensions between Jehovah's Witnesses and government authorities, civic organisations, established churches and the broader public.

  • - Interviews in Applied Linguistics
    av Dasha Zhurauskaya & Rachel Wicaksono
    921

    This book explores the mechanics of storytelling within a study aimed at focusing on a 'hidden' population of migrants in the city of York, UK. The book will be of interest to students, academic researchers and community project leaders who are interested in migration stories and interviews as a method of data collection.

  • - A Case Study of Panther, Gangster, and Hyphy Discourses in Oakland, CA (1965-2010)
    av Lavar Pope
    1 157

    Rap and Politics maps out fifty years of political and musical development by exploring three specific moments of local discourse, each a response to failures by local, state, and national governments to address police brutality, violence, poverty, and poor social conditions in Oakland, California and the surrounding Bay Area.

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    1 861

    This book develops the first integrated, critical-historical examination of the terms, narratives and assumptions constructing present day notions of participation and value, and the relations between them.

  • av Timothy Besley
    1 457 - 1 627

  • - The Delusion of Norm Diffusion
     
    1 407

  • - Celebrating Moments of Sheer Human Togetherness
    av Cees J. Hamelink
    577 - 771

    Hamelink defines peace as conceived of moments of celebrating human togetherness, with deep fractures that polarize society standing in the way of collectively celebrating togetherness and posing a serious existential risk to humanity.

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