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In this ground-breaking two-volume set, world-leading experts produce a rich, authoritative depiction of the world's press, its freedom, and its limits.We want press freedom but we also want freedom...

What television viewers around the world watch often depends less on popularity or government policies than on the personal relationships between buyers and sellers in the international programme...

The role of the state in the economy has always been a controversial issue in public debate, but it has become more so in the last quarter of a century with the rise of neoliberal thinking that...

An Amazon Best Book of the Year!Little pirates will have endless fun with this vibrant board book that's set to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat! Go, go, pirate boat, Across the salty sea, Raise...

Carlo Goldoni was Italy's greatest playwright of the eighteenth century and wrote at least one hundred and fifty plays, although only a handful; of these have been performed since his time. Working...

This book explores the use of the doctrine of good faith in the common law when interpreting contracts and resolving disputes.This doctrine is well-accepted in civil law, is reflected in...

"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here," declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency...

.....A Story of Friendship, Migration and Karaoke.... Summer 1999. Margate's beaches are packed with day-trippers.... and its hotels filled with Kosovan asylum seekers - including Hanna (Celia...

More has been said about the Hart-Fuller debate than can be considered healthy or productive even within the precious world of jurisprudential scholarship - too much philosophising about how law has...

Investigates the psychological factors that led to the election of Donald Trump and the accompanying escalation of hate violence and intolerance in the United States. It also spells out the challenge...

Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts speaks to how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate, through horror, in public discourses of history, the social and creative work of...

When did our obsession with wellness start making us sick? Hear Me Raw is an autobiographical play based on the author's experiences of the online wellness industry.The play opens with the...

It is 20 years since The Ivy re-opened its doors. It has been at the heart of London's theatrical life ever since. This new book, Heavenly Ivy, is a celebration of The Ivy, its guests, history and...

Includes the plays Prince Friedrich von Homburg, The Broken Pitcher and Ordeal by FireHeinrich von Kleist committed suicide in 1811. His masterpiece, Prince Friedrich von Homburg, is set in the world...

Hollywood Independentdissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing classic films like The Apartment (1960), West Side...

It's hard turning thirty. Especially when your alcoholic father has taken the toilet door, you've got a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in your bed and your best friend is the lunatic living downstairs...

Meet Hunch. The Superhero. Coming to the rescue when you've splinters on your arse from sitting on the fence. Making decisions to save the lives of others, she must start calling the shots to save...

'You want to be a thing? Make yourself that thing.'1981. Hollywood. Sue Mengers, the first female 'superagent' at a time when women talent agents of any kind are almost unheard of, invites you into...

Perfect for fans of I Love You Night and Day and I've Loved You Since Forever, this modern, love-filled story will be the new must-have Valentine's Day book.I love you when you're close to me, and...

Adapted by Robert David MacDonald from Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness"Robert David MacDonald's In Quest of Conscience, based on Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness, a record of her interviews with...

This book presents the first detailed study of 'indirect criminalisation' (the legal treatment of antisocial behaviour through civil preventative measures such as the ASBO) in England and Wales...

The legal rules governing the use of force between States is one of the most fundamental - and the most controversial aspects of international law. An essential part of this area is the question of...

This book brings together thought leadership from academia and leading figures in asset management in key global jurisdictions, to pool together insights regarding the transformative visions and...

The respective policies of the governments of Iran and Pakistan pose serious challenges to US interests in the Middle East, Asia, and beyond. These two regional powers, with a combined population of...

There is a saying in Arabic, me and my brother against my cousin, and me and my cousin against the outsider.Iran's Influence is the first comprehensive analysis of the role that Iran plays both in...

How did the Victorians perceive Muslims in the British Empire and beyond? How were these perceptions propagated by historians and scholars, poets, dramatists and fiction writers of the period? For...

Within the already heavily polarised debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa remain highly contentious. A number of prominent academic and...

Eisenstein's last, unfinished masterpiece is a strange, complex and haunting film. Commissioned personally by Stalin in 1941, the project placed Eisenstein in the paradoxical situation of having to...

This book provides a timely analysis of the relationship between jazz and recording and broadcast technologies in the early twentieth century. Jazz histories have traditionally privileged qualities...

The story of Judaism is a story of paradox. It is the story of how a small cluster of desert tribes gave birth to a monotheistic doctrine that profoundly shaped the history of human civilization. It...