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Life History Evolution: A Biological Meta-Theory for the Social SciencesAuthor: Steven C. HertlerPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jul 20, 2018Number of Pages: 417 pagesBinding: Hardback...

Life imprisonment is the punishment most often imposed worldwide for what societies regard as the most serious offences. Yet, in Asia the phenomenon has never been studied systematically. Life...

This edited volume moves beyond the traditional examination of the treaty ports of China and Japan as places of cultural interaction. It moves ?beyond the Bund?, presenting instead the history of...

In this timely and expansive book, Wakefield-Rann investigates how emerging disease ecologies are undermining definitions of health and immunity that have persisted since the 19th century, and had a...

This book analyses transcultural works of life writing relating to youth and childhood by Azouz Begag, Maryam Madjidi, and Laura Alcoba, of Algerian, Iranian, and Argentinian heritage respectively...

This book explores how the writers, poets, thinkers, historians, scientists, dilettantes and frauds of the long-nineteenth century addressed the "limit cases" regarding human existence that medicine...

Limbo Reapplied: On Living in Perennial Crisis and the Immanent AfterlifeAuthor: Kristof K. P. VanhouttePublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jun 15, 2018Number of Pages: 258 pagesBinding:...

This book highlights the multiplicity of American women's writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Often informed by notions of crossing,...

This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence. It explores two kinds of limits of the secular: the inadequacies of its assumptions...

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the socio-cultural and political context of modern China in terms of its interaction with America and the West, focusing on the influence of the...

This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in...

Provides both global and local perspectives on the empowerment of learning local/first/heritage languages and cultures in schoolsDemonstrates the possibility of shifting the balance of power of the...

This book discusses developments in the study of implicatures and presuppositions, drawing on recent linguistic and psycholinguistic literature. It provides original discussions of specific formal...

This book explores the present-day Irish Diaspora in Argentina, using oral narrative and a sociolinguistic theoretical framework to draw out the features that define contemporary Hiberno-Argentine...

This book asks how we--as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers--can counter the abuse of language in our midst. How can we take back the power of language from those who flaunt that power to...

This book explores African international students? lived experience within Chinese higher education, including their language ideologies, investment in Chinese language learning and the (re)shaping...

This book presents an innovative institutional transpositional ethnography that examines the textual trajectory of "the life of a calling script" from production by corporate management and clients...

Questioning why research centers so often fail to commercialize discoveries, this book explores the concept of linked innovation, which promises to drive economic sustainability while preserving...

This book advances knowledge on loss & damage (L&D) and its interlinkages with climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction. The book includes twelve case studies conducted across South and...

This book project studies the variation of sovereignty in international order by analysing how the general model of sovereignty is localised in the political practice of two major non-Western rising...

This book presents a high-quality contribution to the applications of modern financial algorithms for liquidity risk management and its practical uses and applications to investable portfolios and...

Liquidity Risk, Efficiency and New Bank Business ModelsAuthor: Santiago Carb? ValverdePublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Sep 26, 2016Number of Pages: 305 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

This book investigates a host of primary sources documenting the Calvinist Reformation in Geneva, exploring the history and epistemology of religious listening at the crossroads of sensory...

Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features...

This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles. It shows how different...

- Sociological approach fuses audience research with theoretical analysis of contemporary cultural policy initiatives- Until now the behaviour and experiences of literary festival audiences have been...

The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant 'native' literary culture until the postcolonial period. Indeed, most literary histories of the...

The first book-length literary analysis of the WPA's Federal Writers' Project (FWP)--a massive New Deal program that put thousands to work documenting the country during the Depression. Drawing on...

This book brings together geographers and literary scholars in a series of engagements near the boundaries of their disciplines. In urban studies, disproportionate attention has been given to a small...

Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature: New Interdisciplinary DirectionsAuthor: Andrea SelleriPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 15, 2016Number of Pages: 290 pagesBinding:...