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This edited book focuses on the intersection of return migration and crises in non-Western countries. The book explores a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives while offering...

This book overcomes the dichotomies, generalizations and empirical shortcomings that surround the understanding of return migration within the migration-development-peace-building nexus. Using the...

This book offers a detailed case study of the transfer of ownership to Nigeria in November 2022 of the 72 artworks in the Horniman?s collections looted by the British from Benin City in 1897, as an...

This book argues that superhero revision offers new perspectives on the theory and practice of revision in broader contexts, in particular composition studies. Key developments in the history of...

This book takes issue with the likening of contemporary globalization to nineteenth century trade interdependence, in which the defining feature of contemporary globalization is the spread of global...

Showcases the sources of policy failures financial instability and income disparitiesCounters criticism levied against economics about its inability to solve economic problems and predict financial...

Serves as timely reminder of the importance of metaphors in International Relations in their historical/theoretical aspects​Dissects how foreign policy is conceptualized and assists in...

This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald's 1727 adaptation of the "lost" play of Cardenio, possibly co-authored by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. In a departure...

Despite growing popular and policy interest in 'new' slavery, with contemporary abolitionists calling for action to free an estimated 40 million 'modern slaves', interdisciplinary and theoretical...

This open access book by Nils Karlson explores the strategies used by left- and right-wing populists to make populism intelligible, recognizable, and contestable. It presents a synthesized...

Ideas influence people. In particular, extremely well-developed sets of ideas shape individuals, groups, and societies in far-reaching ways. This book establishes these "idea systems" as an academic...

This book confronts the question of immortality: Is human life without immortality tolerable? It does so by exploring three attitudes to immortality expressed in the context of three revolutions, the...

Explains what the Revolutionary Committee was and how it was formed and composedDraws serious scholarly attention to the governance reform venturePresents the background of the emergence and scope of...

Revolutionizing Economic and Democratic Systems: Reinventing the Third WayAuthor: Kenneth NordbergPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 15, 2016Number of Pages: 227 pagesBinding:...

This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white heterosexual masculinity continues to be the dominant...

This book presents an in-depth analysis of Howard Goldblatt?s translation of Mo Yan?s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (L&D). It explores how Goldblatt translates the original novel under the...

Rhetoric and the Global Turn in Higher EducationAuthor: Christopher MinnixPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Mar 20, 2018Number of Pages: 225 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Rhetoric in NeoliberalismAuthor: Kim Hong NguyenPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Nov 11, 2016Number of Pages: 234 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 3319398490ISBN-13:...

This book aims to help readers interpret, and reflect on, their reading more effectively. It presents doctrines of ancient and renaissance rhetoric (an education in how to write well) as questions or...

Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts: But How Does It Work?Author: Charlotte Bonham-CarterPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jul 28, 2017Number of Pages: 172 pagesBinding: Hardback or...

Provide fresh ways of conceptualizing and assessing audience responsesDocuments the benefits of audience research for rhetoriciansIncludes chapters that illustrate overlooked methodologies applied to...

This book chronicles Japan's rice farmers who live in mainly rural areas in the west and south of Japan through original interviews conducted in Japanese. It argues that current agricultural policy...

This book re-examines the Nixon administration's attitude and approach to the European integration project. The formulation of US policy towards European integration in the Nixon presidential years...

Riding the Leadership Rollercoaster: An Observer's GuideAuthor: Manfred F. R. Kets de VriesPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Apr 29, 2018Number of Pages: 190 pagesBinding: Hardback or...

In recent years, the question of human moral duties toward robots has gained momentum in scholarly research due to great advancements in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics...

This book aims to raise awareness about the possibility of achieving the goals of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), in order for all disabled people...

Breaks new ground in the analysis of contemporary urban changeDemonstrates how everyday practices, traditionally thought to be consequences of gentrification, are often actively transformed to...

This book provides an account of the transformation of Chinese stakeholders' engagement in Internet governance, from normative contestation to integration, and from isolation to an industrial...

In this book, Jin Kai provides an alternative perspective on the power interactions between a rising China and a "relatively" declining U.S. in the changing world situation. Grounded in previous...

Open AccessFirst book-length treatment of rising powers' policies Provides insight into how rising powers do peacebuilding differentlyDiscusses how the increasing influence of rising powers in the...