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  • av Asa K. Cusack
    685 - 1 015

    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the implementation, functioning, and impact of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), cornerstone of Venezuelan foreign policy and standard-bearer of "postneoliberal" regionalism during the "Left Turn" in Latin America and the Caribbean (1998-2016).

  • - World-wise Marketing in the Age of Branding
    av Jan-Benedict Steenkamp
    635,-

    Global Brand Strategy speaks to three types of B2C and B2B managers: those who want to strengthen already strong global brands, those who want to launch their brands globally and get results, and those who need to revive their global brand and stop the bleeding.

  • - Tales That Come, Tales That Go
    av Walter E.A. van Beek
    625 - 769,-

    This study on Kapsiki-Higi tales compares two corpuses of stories collected over two generations. These dynamics affect some types of tales more than others, reflect social change and intergroup contact, but also depend on characteristics of the tales themselves.

  • - A Literary Life
    av A. Maunder & G. Law
    625,-

    Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life draws on recently available business and personal correspondence to establish a fresh portrait of one of Victorian Britain's busiest authors. The book takes in Collins's notoriously complicated private life as well as his work as a professional author in the changing world of Victorian publishing.

  • - Volume 2: Materiality, Memory, Spectrality
    av J. Wolfreys
    605

    Following on from Julian Wolfrey's successful Writing London (1998), this second volume extends Wolfrey's original argument that a new urban sensibility in the nineteenth century had been developed which established new ways of writing about and responding to the city.

  • - Armor and Militant Nostalgia in Marlowe, Sidney, and Shakespeare
    av Susan Harlan
    1 345

    Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of "spoiling" - or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the vanquished in battle - provides a way of thinking about England's relationship to its violent cultural inheritance.

  • av Iain E. Johnston-White
    1 679,-

    This book is the first comprehensive study of the British Commonwealth in the Second World War. Johnston-White looks in depth at how the Commonwealth war effort was financed, the training of airmen for the air war, the problems of seaborne supply and the battles fought in North Africa.

  • - Gaga and Ohad Naharin's Movement Research
    av Einav Katan-Schmid
    1 739

    Representing the first comprehensive analysis of Gaga and Ohad Naharin's aesthetic approach, this book follows the sensual and mental emphases of the movement research practiced by dancers of the Batsheva Dance Company.

  • av Lin Gang
    1 345

    China's quest for democracy is constrained by Confucian legacies and the norm of the one-party system. This book explores the feasible paths toward democracy in China, challenging methodological wisdom in employing quantitative changes in socioeconomic structure to predict dichotomous change in the political system.

  • - Create, Edit, Re-edit and Present
    av A. Attrill
    919

    This book explores psychological theories around the ways in which people present themselves online. The role of dispositional and situational factors along with the motivations that drive self-presentation across diverse Internet arenas are considered.

  • - The Death and Commemoration of Edith Cavell
    av K. Pickles
    625,-

    The execution of British matron Edith Cavell by occupying German forces was portrayed by the allies as one of the key atrocities of the Great War. This book recovers and interprets the worldwide reaction to Cavell's death, exploring its contextual relationship within imperial and international history, as well women's history and gender history.

  • av Murielle Gaude-Ferragu
    1 215

    This book examines the power held by the French medieval queens during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their larger roles within the kingdom at a time when women were excluded from succession to the throne.

  • av R. Campbell
    1 229,-

    This book argues that a plausible account of emergence requires replacing the traditional assumption that what primarily exists are particular entities with generic processes. Traversing contemporary physics and issues of identity over time, it then proceeds to develop a metaphysical taxonomy of emergent entities and of the character of human life.

  • - A Return to Political Economy in the Teaching of Economics
    av A. Ozanne
    769,-

    Mainstream economics almost completely ignores the role power plays in determining economic outcomes, which means it can only provide partial explanations of the distribution of wealth and income, and of the problems associated with inequality and poverty.

  • - Between Despair and Hope
    av P. Hayden
    769,-

    This book traces the compelling ethical and political ideas that unfold in the multifaceted work of Albert Camus, one of the twentieth century's most provocative and influential figures, and explores their relevance for human existence in an unsettling world of global integration and fragmentation.

  • av M. Debus & H. Back
    1 345 - 1 455,-

    In analysing speeches made by legislators, this book provides theoretical and empirical answers to questions such as: Why do some Members of Parliament (MPs) take the parliamentary floor and speak more than others, and why do some MPs deviate more than others from the ideological position of their party?

  • av C. Lugg
    789,-

    This book presents a history of queer erasure in the US public school system, from the 1920s up until today. By focusing on specific events as well as the context in which they occurred, Lugg presents a way forward in improving school policies for both queer youth and queer adults.

  • - Criminal Investigative Procedure in Victorian Horror & Mystery
    av Michael Arntfield
    1 629,-

    Michael Arntfield interrogates the legacy of Victorian-era crime fiction and Gothic horror on investigative forensic methods used by police today.

  • av A. Winch
    625 - 1 215

    From Mean Girl to BFF, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood explores female sociality in postfeminist popular culture. Focusing on a range of media forms, Alison Winch reveals how women are increasingly encouraged to strategically bond by controlling each other's body image through 'the girlfriend gaze'.

  • - Conflict Prevention and Informal Peacebuilding
    av M. Weissmann
    605 - 769,-

    Using a case study based approach, Weissmann analyses the post-Cold War East Asian security setting to demonstrate why there is a paradoxical inter-state peace. He points out processes that have been important for the creation of a continuing relative peace in East Asia, as well as conflict prevention and peacebuilding mechanisms.

  • - The Political Economy of Norms
    av Alejandro M. Pena
    1 079 - 1 475,-

    In doing so, the author illuminates the 'receiving side' of private regulation and governance, developing a nuanced understanding of transnational norm diffusion wherein political and ideational factors in the global South are granted primacy over global structures, processes, and agents.

  • - A New Sociological Imagination
    av O. Pyyhtinen
    919

    More-than-Human Sociology is a call for a bolder, more creative sociology. A fresh and innovative take on the promise of sociology, this book will appeal to scholars and students both within sociology and the social sciences more broadly.

  • - European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century
    av Alexander C.T. Geppert
    555

    Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination.

  • - A European Perspective
    av Anne O'Connor
    1 345 - 1 475,-

    This book provides an in-depth study of translation and translators in nineteenth-century Ireland, using translation history to widen our understanding of cultural exchange in the period.

  • - Beauties at Work
    av Liu Jieyu
    1 345 - 1 475,-

    This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as 'white-collar beauties'. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance.

  • av B. Clements
    769,-

    Clements provides a detailed study of religious beliefs in British society, using a broad range of opinion poll and social survey data. Examining public opinion on religious-secular issues, this book provides a rich analysis of the belief and attitudes of social groups over time.

  • av James Alexander Fraser
    789,-

    Leaving behind the pathologizing discourses by which Joyce's interest in betrayal has been treated as an 'obsession,' this book offers a vision of Joyce as both dramatist and theorist of betrayal.

  • - Promoting Ethics in Public Policy and Administration
    av J. Uhr
    769,-

    This book recovers Aristotle's understanding of the roles of rhetoric and prudence in public leadership, comparing it to the other major political theories of leadership: utilitarianism, as advocated by J.S. Mill, and duty-ethics, as advocated by Immanuel Kant.

  • - Teen Players
    av Jacqueline Briggs
    1 079 - 1 455,-

    This book analyses the various ways and the extent to which young people participate in politics, focusing primarily on the UK and including cross-national comparisons where relevant.

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