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Explaining how and why there are such diverging outcomes of UN peace negotiations and treaties, this book offers a detailed examination of peace processes in order to demonstrate that how treaties...

The chilling story of the covert group at the core of the Radical Right?s ongoing assault on America?s airwaves, schools, environment, and, ultimately, its democracy.Author: Anne NelsonPublisher:...

Offering an expansive exploration of the intersections between the human and non-human worlds, chapters are grounded in close readings of Shakespeare's plays to focus on the rich and persuasive...

Shakespeare / Play asks: what is (a) play? How do Shakespeare's plays engage with, and represent, early modern modes of play - from jests, games, and toys, to music, spectacle, movement,...

This book offers a comprehensive array of readings of 'skin' in Shakespeare, a term that embraces the human and animal, noun and verb. Deliberate in its reimagining of critical and theoretical...

The first dedicated exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson for three decades, this volume takes an in-depth look at the themes and legacies of her 200-plus short stories. Recognized as...

A journalistic expos?of the global takeover of political power by corporations, which increasingly decide how justice is defined, resources are allocated, and territories are governedAuthor: Claire...

Skip Novak shares the sum of his knowledge and the wisdom of his experience on wide-ranging topics to help you become a better sailor.Author: Skip NovakPublisher: Bloomsbury PublishingPublication...

A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR'An excellent book' Vince Cable 'A must read' Jo Johnson 'A fascinating read' Bill Dudley A timely manifesto on how digital currencies will win the New...

This book introduces the non-specialist reader to the principal ideas, nature and purpose of social network analysis. Assuming no prior knowledge of quantitative sociology, this book presents the key...

In the wake of colonial and racial exploitation, political leaders, technocrats, activists, and workers across the Third World turned to socialism to offer a new vision of post-colonial development...

In a world dominated by the visual, this book presents how a focus on the sounded experience and acts of listening may carve a way to reformulate emerging publics, create space for critical...

When God is ?dead? and governments themselves are increasingly subject to the power of global corporations, massive movements of peoples, transnational political upheavals, and ecological disasters,...

When the Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his treatise Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry in 1766, he outlined the strengths and weaknesses of each art...

This book explores how avant-garde directors in French theatre play on their audiences' frustration to generate an encounter with the real. Focusing on the work of directors such as Gisèle Vienne,...

An innovative and ecumenical Pentecostal theological method rooted in a critical intellectual history of revivalist theology and spirituality and practically worked out into imagined worlds" of...

Post-conflict scenarios are often proposed for Arab countries that have witnessed significant changes and civil wars. Yet the plans for reconciliation, transitional justice, and the return of the...

Explaining state-building failures in Lebanon during the 20th century, this book looks at the relationship between legitimacy and stability in the country since the creation of the state in 1920. The...

This open access book takes a deeper and broader perspective of the Hassaniya-speaking groups of the western region of the Sahara. There has been a surge of interest in this region, often centred...

This book explores the application of the work of the philosopher Giorgio Agamben to the post-Arab Uprisings in the Middle East, considering the evolution of regime-society relations that ultimately...

Stephen Hetherington's prominent career within epistemology has been a series of distinctive, bold, varied and provocative arguments and ideas. Bringing together Hetherington's unique body of writing...

Against the backdrop of a hyper-competitive AAA industry and the perception that it is a world reserved for top programmers and hard-core 'gamers', Story Mode offers an accessible entry-point for all...

A cultural and social history of the rat, examining how one creature achieved total world domination and has inspired such love and loathing. Rats are creatures which inspire fear and fascination in...

This book analyzes Russo-Iranian relations from the perspective of the emerging literature on authoritarian regionalism, exploring the role domestic politics and common threat perceptions play in...

Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explores the interplay of social, economic and political interests created by this...

Before the Mughal style came to dominate the Islamic architecture of the Indian sub-continent, Bengal and its rulers had developed their own forms. The mosque architecture of the Independent...

Phillip A. Hussey examines the scholarship of Jonathan Edwards and interrogates the relationship between Christ and the decree within Reformed Theology; and reveals the contemporary theological...

Azmi Bishara's book on the Syrian Revolution is one of the most comprehensive and profound works on the subject published to date. Translated here into English for the first time, the study examines...

T&T Clark Handbook of Public Theology introduces the various philosophical and theological positions and approaches in the emerging discourse of public theology. Distinguishing public theology from...

The tools and techniques of archaeology were designed for the study of past people and societies, but for more than a century a growing number of archaeologists have turned these same tools to the...