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At the Fourth United Nations Congress on Women in Beijing in 1995, Muslim and Catholic delegations from diverse countries united to oppose provisions on sexuality, reproductive rights, women s health…
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It has been co-authored by experienced Media and Film Studies tutors, offering fresh and innovative ways of talking about the key concept of representation.
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More than just a fascinating story, Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography - the first slave narrative to be widely read - reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences…
A comprehensive source of official statistics at a regional level for all the countries of the United Kingdom, Regional Trends is the ideal tool for researching on and comparing between…
The Pink Book provides detailed estimates of the UK Balance of Payments for the last 11 years, including estimates for the current account, the capital account, the financial account and…
Shedding new light on an old favourite, this is an enjoyable account of how the film got made, combined with a careful scene-by-scene analysis, a wealth of illustrations and the…
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This text examines the complex forces pushing and constraining technological developments in cinema. It contests the view that technological advance is simply the result of scientific progress. Rather, the author…
Reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between popular and elite art, and on the role of the intellectual…
Ginette Vincendeau discusses the artistic value of his films in their proper context and comments on Jean-Pierre Melville’s love of American culture and his controversial critical and political standing in…
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Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE coursework requirements, this book contains - author details, background to the work, summaries of the text, critical commentaries, analysis of…
Communicating with the World defines and examines public diplomacy in the context of a government’s conduct of foreign affairs and identifies its rationale as an outgrowth of the worldwide communications…
Reconfiguring Modernism explores the relationship between modern literature and modern art. Schwarz considers texts - visual and written - of the modern period as a contoured textual field without absolute…
This illuminating collection of essays assesses the 17th century, interpreting what used to be called The Puritan Revolution, the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and…
Offers a record of the author’s dreams to present a picture of her life and mind.
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Spanning the eight decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, The Roots of African-American Identity focuses on the lives of African Americans in the nominally free northern and…
The prophets of the Ancient world were mystics whose words have transcended the ages. In this collection, Biblical scholars look at passages from the writings of the period, from Isaiah’s…
With words that echo the Old Testament story of creation, St. John sets his story of Christ in the cosmic framework of God’s plan to save the world from the…
Job is probably one of the best-known and most touching characters from the Bible. The Book of Job is the first great work of ancient literature to explore in depth…
Throughout his long career as a political thinker and activist, Mahatma Gandhi encountered the dilemma of either remaining faithful to his nonviolent principles and risking the failure of the Indian…
A well-respected consultant and Harvard think-tank guru exposes American business as still mired in 1950s-style business practices, despite all the hype over the new economy, and explains how to reorganize…
Method Acting is one of the most popular and controversial approaches to acting in the United States. By concentrating on three areas of the Method - its theory, practice, and…
China and the People’s Liberation Army defines great powers and developing states and suggests that the purposes of their militaries are fundamentally different.
Declining incomes and growing income inequality have led to a rise in poverty in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
In particular it traces China’s relationship since the thirteenth century to the emergent world order and the various world institutions of which that order is comprised. Each chapter discusses China’s…
Contributors from diverse disciplinary, ideological, and theoretical perspectives, examine the multiple aspects and dimensions of globalization.
Irish society at the end of the twentieth century is still engaged in an ongoing debate with a revolutionary settlement from which it is only now beginning to emerge.
Contemporary female novelists tend to portray the relationship between women and the state as profoundly negative, in contrast to various constructions in current feminist theory.
Eric Wilson reveals a neglected yet powerful current in several major Romantic figures: the affirmation of - not escape from - turbulence.
As the 1998 annual World Bank assessment soberly observed: No country in recent history, let alone one the size of Indonesia, has ever suffered such a dramatic reversal of fortune.
Russia’s attempt to replace the failed Soviet system and its command economy with a capitalist, democratic society has produced a health and social welfare crisis, at considerable human cost.
When 51 nations gathered in 1945 to witness the birth of the United Nations, international business groups urged governments to ratify the UN Charter without delay. This book examines why…
Small islands often enjoy a distinct juridical personality. Globalization can be richly asymmetrical, offering lucrative opportunities for differentiation and nice strategies for small island jurisdictions.
International Perspectives on Gender and Democratization brings together the experience of women’s democratic movements in different countries and regions, North and South, and assesses how different discourses of democracy have…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning: Interviews and Recollections gathers accounts of the two poets from her precocious childhood to his death in Venice.
Traditional management systems were designed to manage routine operations, not to manage innovation. This book compares the management systems of highly innovative companies with those of more typical companies to…
Political culture is one of the central, but most difficult, concepts in political science. Culture and Politics: A Reader explores this concept by compiling previously-published works that focus on the…
In Queering the Moderns, Anne Herrmann revisits the narrative of literary modernism and the historical uses of the term queer to explore the emergence of identities specific to modernism.
In a major new theory of criminal behavior, Mark Colvin argues that chronic criminals emerge from a developmental process characterized by recurring, erratic episodes of coercion.
This book describes the emergence of ecological understanding among the English Romantic poets, arguing that this new holistic paradigm offered a conceptual and ideological basis for American environmentalism.
In Activists Speak Out, a group of fifteen American activists speak candidly about how and why they struggle for change. And, whatever the initial motivation to become engaged in the…
This innovative book outlines the great complexity, variety and difference of male identities in Islamic societies.
Chapters range across fields as diverse as music and anthropology, sociology and cultural memory, politics and (post)modern theorizing, economics, communications and cultural globalization, poetry, narrative and drama, and all are…
In this engaging oral history, residents of California’s scenic, sparsely-populated Owens Valley reflect on their varied experiences with the region’s turbulent past.
Family Spending provides analysis of household expenditure broken down by age and income, household composition, socio-economic characteristics and geography. This report will be of interest to academics, policy makers, government…
is an indispensable work on African Americans in the performing arts, examining well-known performers, such as James Earl Jones, Morgan Freeman, and Pearl Bailey. Gill s work is a moving…
In this comprehensive introduction to political parties, two of the country’s foremost scholars combine the traditional PIE, PIG, PO approach with unique chapters on such issues as race and campaign…
Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped…
