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This book reveals how the Japanese national ministries can exploit their Special Status Corporations in order to intensify their administrative power over industries and local governments and to perpetuate the…
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Donal Cruise O'Brien is a leading authority on Islam in Africa. This is a collection of his writing over the last 30 years, some significantly rewritten to render this a…
This book chronicles American history through the stories of the individuals and movements that dreamed of a better future and then took action to make that dream a reality, arguing…
This book addresses the criticisms and explores new angles to just war thinking, analyzing its practical adequacy in the face of modern-day realities.
This alphabetical handbook defines and explains key concepts in classical Indian philosophy, identifies controversial issues, describes major traditions of thought, and locates influential thinkers in their intellectual and religious contexts.
This book is a valuable guide to ethical issues and the language, concepts, and positions central to ethical theorizing. It is a valuable guide to ethical issues and the language…
In an accessible style and format, Jewish Philosophy A-Z covers everything from Philo to Levinas and explores non-Jewish thinkers, such as Plotinus and Heidegger, who have had an important influence…
This is a startling and controversial investigation into the international assistance given to countries at war. Looking at the game that large aid organizations play by appealing to a moral…
Focus on People and Migration paints a comprehensive picture of the UK’s population, both now and in the future. It then focuses on the age structure of the UK population…
Brodie’s Notes are invaluable study guides for English Literature GCSE and A-Level students, both for course work projects and at revision time.
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The approach to project management is too often formulaic, describing what should be done, but not describing why those actions are important. This book outlines the what and how of…
Overturning the argument that Western culture has been imposed on subject cultures in favor of the paradigm of exchange, East of West examines the rich intersection of East and West…
This book is about Postcultural theories, and about the ways in which they challenge current thinking and open other, positive and constructive, possibilities for thought and research in the nineties.
The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the College de France, one of the world’s most prestigious institutions. In the…
Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the ‘dream factory’ that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business.
Serial Television focuses on contemporary television drama, offering detailed accounts of hugely popular, influential, and groundbreaking shows such as The Sopranos, Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, Twin Peaks…
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Der Btirobereich hat insbesondere in den letzten lahren einen tiefgrei- fenden Bedeutungswandel erfahren. Das Btiro von heute ist zu einem Zentrum der Informationsverarbeitung geworden, in dem Texte dik- tiert und…
This book traces the country’s expansion southward during medieval times, its resistance to Muslim invasion, and, under energetic leaders, its defense of its independence during the European scramble for Africa.
A major bestseller in Italy, Paul Ginsborg’s account of this most recent and dynamic period in Italy’s history is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand contemoprary Italy.
Drawing upon recent theories of genre and intertextuality, Film Remakes describes remaking as both an elastic concept and a complex situation, one enabled and limited by the interrelated roles and…
This second annual volume from the Organization of American Historians, containing the best American history articles published between the summers of 2005 and 2006, provides a quick and comprehensiveoverview ofthe…
Marx is out of fashion in intellectual circles on the whole but he is increasingly seen as an astute and relevant guide to the spread of a new raw capitalism…
Marco Verweij presents a theoretical framework with which to understand international relations, based on the cultural theory developed by Mary Douglas, Michael Thompson, Aaron Wildavsky and others. He applies this…
In addition, the two dozen scientists who collaborated with their American and Canadian allies were to have a profound effect on the post-War world, helping to shape the nuclear programs…
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Presents a comprehensive analysis of secessionist regions in the late-20th century. While the literature on secession has focused on issues of politics and ethnicity, this book identifies the economic forces…
This collection presents Native American perspectives on the events of the colonial era, from the first encounters between Indians and non Indians in the early seventeenth century through the American…
This book is a revealing insiders’ account of the deteriorating special relationship between the United States and Romania in the last years of the Ceausescu dictatorship.
The central theme of the book is the limitations and constraints on state action which arise from the relation between the (nation) state and the global flow of money.
Engendering History broadens the base of empirical knowledge on Caribbean women’s history and re-evaluates the body of work that exists. The book is pan-Caribbean in its approach, though most articles…
During the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, Washington policymakers aspired to destabilize the Soviet and East European Communist Party regimes by implementing programs of psychological warfare and gradual cultural infiltration.
The articles of this volume address changes of international organizations that were in different ways directly linked to the East-West conflict.
The history of African American performance and theatre is a topic that few scholars have closely studied or discussed as a critical part of American culture.
Wage determination is studied here in an international perspective, using a common theoretical framework and statistical method through the individual-country chapters to reveal similarities and differences between Japan, South Korea…
Contains eight contributions presented at a workshop (date and location unknown) on the theme of ethnic Chinese as Southeast Asians. Topics included perceptions of the Southeast Asian Chinese in terms…
While scholarship in lesbian/gay studies, queer studies, and studies of gender and sexuality has had an enormous impact on medieval studies, little attention has been paid thus far to women…
Women often appear invisible in what is widely perceived as the male-oriented society of Islam. Women in the Medieval Islamic World seeks to redress the balance with a series of…
This study argues that the two phases of history - like the two phases of Indian writing in English - together represent the sociohistorical process of colonization and decolonization and…
Throughout their entire history, the sedentary civilizations of China and Europe had to deal with nomads and barbarians. Even today, while Russian populations in Asia contract, the population pressures in…
Heloise, the twelfth-century French abbess and reformer, emerges from this book as one of history’s most extraordinary women, a thinker-writer of profound insight and skill.
The Spanish expression - la cultura cura (culture heals) - is an affirmation of the potential healing power of a variety of cultural practices that together constitute the ethos of…
Job-creation figures are equally impressive: by 1997 there were 23 per cent more jobs in the economy than in 1987,compared with 17 per cent for the US, 5 per cent…
This study considers writing by Caribbean women, such as the slave narrative of Mary Prince and the autobiography of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole, and works by women whose travels to…
A critical analysis of Titanic as modern myth, this book focuses on the second of the two Titanics. The first was the physical Titanic, the rusting remains of which can…
Lambda literary award finalist, Same-Sex Love in India presents a stunning array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature.
However, in contrast to the majority of the literature which focuses on alleged Chinese abuses of human rights, the author examines the emergence and evolution of a Chinese conception of…
