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  • - From Economic Superpower to What Power?
    av R. Drifte
    787

    This book looks at Japan's foreign policy at the regional and global level from a power perspective. This new power posture has been referred to as 'civilian power' but is no less effective for national interest than military power was in the past.

  • av R. Horrocks
    571

    This book examines some of the ways in which sexuality has been described and interpreted in the West. the psychoanalytical model, including such notions as the sexual drive, infantile sexuality, the Oedipus complex, and the distinction between male and female sexuality;

  • av R. Langbaum
    2 007

    Taking into account the latest criticism, Langbaum discusses Hardy's fiction and poetry from various contemporary points of view so as to show Hardy as a still-powerful literary presence.

  • - Between Islam and the Nation-State
    av B. Tibi
    1 347

    The third edition includes a new Part Five on the tensions between Arab nationalism and Islam arising from the crisis of the nation-state and of the de-legitimisation of Pan-Arab regimes.

  • - Masculinity in Popular Culture
    av R. Horrocks
    771

    This book studies some important myths of masculinity in various popular genres, including the western, the horror film, rock music and pornography. Attention is also paid to important theoretical issues in gender studies and cultural studies, such as identification and the relation between subject and text.

  • - The Politics of War, Peace and Ethnicity in SubSaharan Africa
     
    2 061

    The two main arguments in the book are to contest the reduction of African civil wars to ethnic conflicts, and to point out the emergence of civil wars as the result of political struggles. The book aims at bringing the political power struggle as it evolves around the state to the forefront in analyses of civil wars and societal conflict.

  • av Shanna Swendson
    171

    A teenage governess becomes a spy in this alternative U.S. history where the British control with magic and the colonists rebel through inventions.

  • - The Development and Security Impacts
    av K. Kingma
    1 167

    In the early and mid-1900s, several African countries demobilized part of their armed forces. This book analyzes, in the light of Africa's large development challenges and continuing wars and insecurity, the question of how demobilizations have contributed to peace and human development.

  • - Security and Law of the Sea Issues
    av NA NA
    1 647

    Section 2 addresses law of the sea and governance issues, and includes studies on Greece and the law of the sea, maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean, the Imia Rocks crisis, human security and governance, fisheries management, water resources management, joint development zones, and dispute settlement in the law of the sea.

  • - Critical Questions and Alternative Scenarios
     
    1 457

    The Middle East peace process has gone through various stages of development, but has been impaired at each step by an inability to overcome economic problems in the region.

  • - A Comparison with the Japanese Experience
    av Ryoshin Minami & Trans Wenran Jiang
    1 457

    This book identifies that problems that China must face to develop its economy and elucidates the structural deficiencies which lay behind these problems. The book also analyzes China's present economic situation and, where possible, provides prescriptions for solving its problems by comparing it with the Japanese development experience.

  • av Angela Moorjani
    1 457

    This text probes the psychic and social roots of artistic scenarios of loss. Demonstrating that artistic activity is inextricably bonded to imaginary scripts of bereavement and these in turn to patterns of social dominance, the author argues in favor of an "aesthetics of lessness" that is, postmodern resistance to imaginary inscriptions of grief and their misogynist sequels. The book draws on psychoaesthetics, discourse theory and feminist social critiques to analyse literary visual figurations of loss. Included in its analysis of the romantic and post-romantic imaginary are readings of Merimee, Nerval, Hoffmann, H.D., Anne Hebert, Proust and Beckett, and essays, among others, on Kollwitz, Glacometti, Bellmer, Klee, Gidal and Oulton.

  • - From the Edict of the Nantes to the Present Day
    av NA NA
    1 457

    Antony Alcock recounts four stages in the history of regional cultural minority protection: protection of religious minorities and the rise of cultural nationalism before 1914;

  • - A Cross-Cultural Reader
     
    1 347

    Religion, Art, and Visual Culture is a cross-cultural exploration of the study of visuality and the arts from a religious perspective. This forward looking and accessible collection gathers together the most current scholarship for those interested in art, religion, visual culture, and cultural studies.

  • - Third Worlds and the City
     
    621

    Since its birth in 1781, Los Angeles has come to define both the material and spiritual force of American civilization. Unmasking L.A.: Third Worlds and the City, an interdisciplinary collection of essays, dialogues, and photographs, seeks to reveal the third world geographies, cultures, and populations of Los Angeles.

  • - New Agendas on Work, Responsibility and Learning in a Globalizing World
     
    1 347

    This book explores the powerful global discourse of employability in labour markets and how it is expressed in local worklife practice. This is key to understanding contemporary changes in the workings of labour markets and highlights changes in ideas regarding responsibility and learning.

  • - Feeling and Thought
    av D. Vallins
    1 167

    In addition to being the leading philosopher of English Romanticism and one of its greatest poets, Coleridge explores the dynamics of consciousness and mental functioning more extensively than any of his contemporaries.

  • av Eric Walters
    361

    Adam has killed again. It had to be done, part of him knows that, but murder changes a person. It can certainly change a teenager who's already grown up too quickly in the wake of the global blackout five months ago. Adam and his neighbours have turned their middle American suburban neighborhood into a fortress, defending against countless enemies.

  • av Ralf Dahrendorf
    1 167

    Trust and Civil Society offers an original and accessible analysis of the meaning of 'trust' in a range of critical contexts: voluntary organizations, faith associations, the economy, the state and welfare, environmental issues and charity.

  • - The Political Languages of British Geography, 1650-1850
    av R. Mayhew
    1 167

    Enlightenment Geography is the first detailed study of the politics of British geography books and of related forms of geographical knowledge in the period from 1650 to 1850. Enlightenment Geography questions broad assumptions about British intellectual history through a revisionist history of geography.

  • - Theory and Practice
     
    1 647

    This book approaches economic sanctions as a form of statecraft in order to better study the oft used but not well understood policy. Their authors come from both academic and policy making fields, as well as different disciplinary backgrounds (political science and economics).

  • - The South African Civics Movement and the Transition to Democracy
    av Jonny Steinberg & Glenn Adler
    1 167

    In the 1980s South Africa's urban townships exploded into insurrection led by youth and residents' organisations that collectively became known as the civics movement.

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    1 167

    Its impressively wide-ranging set of contributors engage in re-thinking what practices now constitute viable political strategies in the world economy, focusing on popular responses to neoliberal globalization and the rearticulation of society, politics and the state.

  • - Integration and Polarization in the Global Economy since 1760
    av M. Alam
    1 167

    In Poverty from the Wealth of Nations , the author presents an analysis of the evolution of global disparities that goes beyond the earlier neo-Marxist critiques of global capitalism. He moves beyond their narrative by inserting two additional asymmetries into the global economy - those created by 'unequal races' and unequal states.

  • - Social Security, Health and Education Policies
    av M. Ramesh
    627

    This is the only in-depth study of social policies in Southeast Asia. It compares social security, health, and education policies in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. After describing the policies and assessing their adequacy and equity implications, it examines the forces that have shaped them.

  • - A Literary Life
    av J. Thaddeus
    1 167

    Emphasizing Frances Burney's professionalism and her courage, Janice Farrar Thaddeus shows the protean writer who recognised her abilities and exercised them, always carefully shaping her career.

  • - Essential Facts on Society, Business, and Politics in China
    av NA NA
    301

    A new series of easy-to-digest profiles on individual countries and regions, featuring everything you'll ever need to know about the places, people and practices of each country. The series will continue with eight further titles to launch in Spring/Autumn 2000, on Scandinavia, Southern Africa, and Central Europe.

  • - A Merchant's Life in the Seventeenth Century
    av Thomas Max Safley
    1 167

    This book reconstructs the worldview of a Lutheran merchant from the city of Augsburg in the seventeenth century. Yet, despite its individual focus, the book explores universal institutions of early modern Europe: patriarchy, hierarchy, honor, community, and confession.

  • - Debating Britain's Future
    av Mark Baimbridge
    1 167

    Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) will have far-reaching consequences for participating nations. The economic and policy implications are evaluated by distinguished economists, whilst the impact upon national sovereignty and the world of work is debated by prominent MPs and representatives of business and trade union organisations.

  • - A Literary Life
    av David Wykes
    1 457

    Waugh's life and his literary life exist in fascinating, dynamic relationship.

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