A cutting-edge, practical guide for graduate students undertaking independent research in Applied Linguistics.
How did Scottish scientific culture change from the Enlightenment to the Victorian period?
Investigates how the power of stories shapes war’s legacy for veterans and societies
Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare’s Britain
Offers a new understanding of doubt in Montaigne’s Essais and early modern intellectual culture
Explores the militarisation of education and youth in contemporary China.
Governments are confronted with a tradeoff between growth, liberal democracy and effective climate action. They cannot achieve all three objectives at the same time. The authors consider which one has to give.
A critical introduction to the geographies of crime. The authors examine crime through the lenses of space and place including topics such as... Læs mere
Deryn Thomas challenges the anti-work narrative by showing work not to be an individual need, but a collective one, a social activity... Læs mere
A powerful mythology has grown up around the idea of women’s entrepreneurship. Langworthy offers a political economy of women’s enterprise and asks what... Læs mere
This book examines the career of Henry Scott, third Duke of Buccleuch (1746-1812), with particular focus on his relationship with his tutor and friend, the philosopher Adam Smith, and the management of his extensive Scottish estates.
This volume is a study of the Sutherland Estate, one of the most famous landed estates in the Highlands and Britain as a whole, principally for its leading role in the Highland Clearances of the early nineteenth century.