This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global... Læs mere
This volume addresses what happens to Christian theology when it follows its traditional habit of excluding religious others... Læs mere
Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan... Læs mere
Draws on societies' unique histories, distinctive paths of institutional development and contrasting cultures to explain why they... Læs mere
This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first... Læs mere
This volume fills this gap by examining the many ways in which political parties, the business world, foreign policymakers, and the intelligence community experienced, confronted, and even actively contributed to domestic and transnational forms of dissent.
Negin Nabavi brings together essays written by experts and scholars that shed light on the many transformations that Iran has experienced in the thirty years under the Islamic Republic and speculate on the import of the developments of 2009 and beyond.
This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms, concepts, contexts and locations, featuring new... Læs mere
This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the... Læs mere
it is increasingly apparent that the privatization experiment in sub-Saharan Africa has... Læs mere
In light of the growing phenomenon of Islamic schools in the United States and Europe, this compelling study outlines whether these schools share similar traits with other religious schools, while posing new challenges to education policy.
The Pursuit of Justice is a realistic yet hopeful analysis of how the law works in practice rather than in theory. The multi-chapter... Læs mere