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This book covers nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson who captured the multifaceted nature of life in all of its uncertainties. Studies on her exploration of faith are ample, but in this...

As research continues to accumulate on the connections between media and crime, #Crime explores the impact of social media on the criminal legal system. It examines how media influences our...

This book is a revised, updated and expanded edition of #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism (2019). In this second edition, Boyle argues for the importance of understanding #MeToo in relation to an...

This book presents an historical and sociological account of the Italian mafia-type organisation known as the 'ndrangheta. It draws together diverse perspectives on the various 'ndrangheta clans and...

This open access book examines the implications of The Bell Curve for the social, economic, and political developments of the early 21st century. Following a review of the reception of The Bell Curve...

Offers a fresh critical approach to Marx's theory of the stateMakes a significant contribution to philosophical and theoretical discussion concerning the political relation of democracy and...

This book is the first major study exploring archival and memorial practices of the Soviet unofficial culture. The creation of counter-archives was one of the most important forms of cultural...

With multidisciplinary examination, this book explores Waiting for Visa, Ambedkar's autobiographical writing. This investigation ranges from Dalit Studies to Discourse analysis. It aims to provide...

This book is a linguistic analysis of the British obesity media narrative, analysing a large corpus of published newspaper articles to demonstrate how the language used perpetuates common...

This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud's work...

This book offers a systematization of the recourse to political incivility by different subjects and in different contexts. The authors argue that incivility has now become a strategic resource that...

This book explores the issue of (un)explainable technology. As we face technologies, mostly autonomous, machine-learned algorithms (AI) that elude a seamless explanation on how they work ("black...

100 Years of Radio in South Africa, Volume 1: South African Radio Stations and Broadcasters Then & NowAuthor: Sisanda NkoalaPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 28, 2023Number of Pages:...

100 Years of Radio in South Africa, Volume 2: Community Radio, Digital Radio and the Future of Radio in South AfricaAuthor: Sisanda NkoalaPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 28,...

This book offers a multi-disciplinary visual analysis of British taxation history during the long nineteenth century. Focusing specifically on cartoons from the period, the book utilises the author's...

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of...

Since the Tsinghua PBCSF Chief Economists Forum? inception in 2019, the 2023 forum, adhering to the traditions of previous sessions, with combining online and offline innovation formats, conducted an...

This book makes a unique and timely contribution to world/global historical studies and related fields. It places essential world historical frameworks by top scholars in the field today in clear,...

Provides the first ever in-depth study on the transformation of higher education institutions in post-Soviet countriesExplores national higher education systems from all fifteen former USSR...

This book examines 3D cinema across the early 1950s, the early 1980s, and from 2009 to 2014, providing for the first time not only a connection between 3D cinema and historical trauma but also a...

This book argues that 3D films are becoming more sophisticated in utilising stereoscopic effects for storytelling purposes. Since Avatar (2009), we have seen a 3D revival marked by its integration...

China's anti-poverty campaign has liberated hundreds of millions of citizens from absolute poverty, offering a compelling model for other developing countries around the world. This book demonstrates...

This book consists of studies on China?s economic development since China carried out the reform and opening-up strategy, including China?s economic restructuring, economic operational mechanism,...

The year 2021 marked the five-hundredth anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines. With over 90% of the Filipin@s (Filipino/as) in the country and more than eight million around the world...

This open access book is your ticket to entrepreneurial success! Learn practical tips to think more like an entrepreneur, spot opportunities, build key relationships, tell compelling stories, and...

This book deals with pertinent issues and frameworks that will help readers map the course of India's Foreign Policy and its strategies. Divided in four broad sections, it aims to understand the...

Reorients 9/11 literature within a European framework, showing the event's impact on contemporary writing and thoughtIncorporates timely discussions of national, historical, and global trauma and...

Camouflaged by ?Covid-19,? an undeclared global class war was initiated in 2020, aimed at replacing liberal democracy with technocracy, a novel, biodigital form of totalitarianism. The opening...

This book offers a new framework for understanding feminism and political activiism in Kyrgyzstan, ?nomadity of being. ? Here, foreign information and requirements, even forced ones, are transformed...

The book traces the conceptual lens of historical-cultural ?survivals? from the late 19th-century theories of E.B. Tylor, James Frazer, and others, in debate with monotheistic ?degenerationists? and...