This is the first major study to bring together for examination all of Conrad's Malay fiction: the early novels, Almayer's Folly , An Outcast of the Islands , and Lord Jim ; the two later novels, Victory and The Rescue ; and various short stories, such as The Lagoon and Karain .
This book attempts to explore the impact of globalization and Europeanization on the development of Scandinavian social... Læs mere
Public policies increasingly emphasize active consumerism, entrepreneurship on the part of service providers and professionals, privatisation and... Læs mere
The humorous side of Dutch culture of the seventeenth century is obscured by a change that took place around 1670. Religious treatises and books of manners warning against laughter contributed to a new image, that of the humourless, Calvinist Dutch.
This book contains new theoretical discussion and new empirical evidence on the way people think about and cope with the risks and uncertainties of modern life. People's... Læs mere
This book investigates Yeats's experiments with the media of language and dance in his plays. The impact of Diaghliev's Ballets Russes also played its part in... Læs mere
The plight of women in post-reform Russia has its roots in the combination of the new, untrammelled market system and the old legacy... Læs mere
The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction has continued to give cause for concern even after the end of the Cold War. It will examine the... Læs mere
Cabinets in Eastern Europe is a comprehensive study which enables the reader to compare the origins, structure, composition and activities of these cabinets and to draw lessons from this comparison.
It analyzes the role of those involved in the process building Beijing, Lisbon, the local Portuguese Macau administration, the Macau branch of the New China News Agency, the Luso-Chinese Joint Liaison Group and the local political and social groups.
Policy Networks in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and challenging collection of studies on the workings of pressure groups in criminal justice and the articulation of pressure group politics and criminal justice policymaking.
Relationships of culture and political psychology shape a wide range of important contemporary political issues. The book is an important... Læs mere