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Renaud Dehousse - The 'Community Method'; Obstinate or Obsolete (2011).jpg
Europe is said to be in crisis. National leaders can seem to be more concerned with domestic issues than with identifying options which serve the interests of all European states, and a decade of institutional debate has not provided European citizens with a clear sense of ...
Job Et Al Coben – Sustainable Humanities (2009).jpg
The present strong position of the humanities is under pressure. There is no doubt that the humanities are flourishing in the Netherlands: the number of students is growing, as a rule humanities scholars achieve at a high level, and their work in education and research, ...
John Braithwaite - Reconciliation and Architectures of Commitment; Sequencing Peace in Bougainville (2010).jpg
Following a bloody civil war, peace consolidated slowly and sequentially in Bougainville. That sequence was of both a top-down architecture of credible commitment in a formal peace process and layer upon layer of bottom-up reconciliation. Reconciliation was based on ...
Cristina Chimisso - Writing the History of the Mind; Philosophy and Science in France.jpg
For much of the twentieth century, French intellectual life was dominated by theoreticians and historians of mentalité. Traditionally, the study of the mind and of its limits and capabilities was the domain of philosophy, however in the first decades of the twentieth ...
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Since February 2002, English translations by Janet Watson of episodes from a popular Yemeni radio series called Mus’id wa Mus’ida, written and produced by Abd al-Rahman Mutahhar since 1988, have been published in the Yemen Times. This book contains fifty such ...
Susan Y. Najita - Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific (2006).jpg
In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political ...
Alan Renwick - The Politics of Electoral Reform; Changing the Rules of Democracy (2011).jpg
Elections lie at the heart of democracy, and this book seeks to understand how the rules governing those elections are chosen. Drawing on both broad comparisons and detailed case studies, it focuses upon the electoral rules that govern what sorts of preferences voters can ...
Claudia Joseph - Kate; The Making of a Princess (2011).jpg
With her glossy dark hair and classic looks, Kate Middleton displays all the poise expected of a wife of the heir to the throne. Drawing on interviews and photographs, this title gives an account of Kate Middleton's life so far.
Julie Livingstone - Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana (2006).jpg
In the rush to development in Botswana, and Africa more generally, changes in work, diet, and medical care have resulted in escalating experiences of chronic illness, debilitating disease, and accident. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana documents how ...
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham - Mobilizing Islam; religion.jpg
"Mobilizing Islam" explores how and why Islamic groups succeeded in galvanizing educated youth into politics under the shadow of Egypt's authoritarian state, offering important and surprising answers to a series of pressing questions. Under what conditions does ...
Martin Schain - The Politics of Immigration in France.jpg
This book argues that although labor market needs have been an important element in the development of immigration policy, they have been filtered through a political process: the politics of immigration. It is this process that drives immigration policy in each country. ...
John M. Kirk - Cuban Medical Internationalism; Origins.jpg
While public health is important for revolutionary Cuba, providing medical services to the developing world is also a priority: 38,000 medical staff are engaged abroad; the largest medical school in the world (ELAM) has an enrollment of over 8,000 students from the Third ...
Pamela Beth Radcliff - Making Democratic Citizens in Spain; Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition.jpg
A fascinating study of the contribution of ordinary men and women to Spain’s democratic transition of the 1970s. Radcliff argues that participants in neighbourhood and other associations experimented with new practices of civic participation that put pressure on the ...
Zachary S. Davis - The India-Pakistan Military Standoff; Crisis and Escalation in South Asia (2011).jpg
Focusing on the 2001-2002 crisis which brought the nuclear rivals to the brink of war, this book explores the dynamics of strategic stability between India and Pakistan. Like the 1999 Kashmir crisis and the 2008 Mumbai crisis, the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament set in ...
Arpad Szakolczai - Sociology.jpg
Grace is a central concept of theology, while the term also has a wide range of meanings in many fields. For the first time in book format, the sociology of grace (or enchantment) is comprehensively explained in detail, with fascinating results.
Mirko Tobias Schäfer – Bastard Culture! How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production (2011).jpg
New online technologies have brought with them a great promise of freedom. The computer and particularly the Internet have been represented as enabling technologies, turning consumers into users and users into producers. Furthermore, lay people and amateurs have been ...
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This collection of eighteen chapters plus an editorial introduction brings together studies of land and development throughout the Caribbean region by historians, anthropologists, geographers, land use planners, a sociologist and a human rights lawyer. Themes ...
Tanja Sihvonen – Players Unleashed! Modding The Sims and the Culture of Gaming (2011).jpg
It has been ten years since video game giant Electronic Arts first released The Sims, the best-selling game that allows its players to create a household and then manage every aspect of daily life within it. And since its debut, gamers young and old have found ways to “mod” ...
Jonathan Kertzer - Poetic Justice and Legal Fictions (2010).jpg
Literature reveals the intense efforts of moral imagination required to articulate what justice is and how it might be satisfied. Examining a wide variety of texts including Shakespeare's plays, Gilbert and Sullivan's operas, and modernist poetics, Poetic Justice and ...
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Through an examination of the work of a renowned scholar of Thailand, Tracks and Traces offers a wealth of insight into this dynamic and rapidly changing country. Andrew Turton’s anthropological studies of Thailand cover a wide spectrum, from politics and economy to ...
Anthony J. Bebbington - Can NGOs Make a Difference; The Challenge of Development Alternatives (2008).jpg
Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? Addressing this question, this book brings together leading ...
James Dignan - Understanding Victims & Restorative Justice (2004).jpg
This new book examines the origins of and the relationship between the rise of the “victim movement” and the emergence of “restorative justice.” It assesses their strengths and weaknesses in meeting the needs of victims as part of the overall response to crime. For ...
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Diaspora and transnationalism are concepts that have become very popular in modern academic and political discourses. And while most of the new literature treats the two separately, this book studies these fields alongside one another. Rainer Bauböck and Thomas Faist ...
