Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as ‘the last modernist’, the writer in whose work the aesthetic principles which drove the modernist project dwindled and were finally exhausted. This title studies…

This book is aimed at undergraduate students, and taught postgraduate students. It gives students a clear, comprehensive and accessible guide to the key concepts shaping the British novel from 1980…

This is the first full-length study of the twenty-first-century novel. It examines writers from around the world and identifies the formal and thematic features that their novels share, suggesting the…

Human Resource Management is central to management teaching and research, and has emerged in the last decade as a significant field from its earlier roots in Personnel Management, Industrial Relations…

Written by a renowned author team, this book treats HR strategy as an essential element in business strategy, whilst integrating a vast range of relevant research and theory. Now in…