12 Nobel Laureates take readers on a tour of some of the everyday issues that can be explored using basic economic principles. Topics... Læs mere
This book illustrates why both academic research and policy thinking need to factor-in gender hierarchies and structures if they are to address some of the key challenges of contemporary societies: the widespread informality and insecurity of paid work and the crisis of care.
Saint-Simonians were a group of young engineers and doctors who proposed original solutions to the social and banking crises of the... Læs mere
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is one of the truly great philosophers of the modernist period, and there is currently a major renaissance of interest in his unduly neglected texts and ideas amongst philosophers, literary theorists, and social theorists.
Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to... Læs mere
This book advances an Islamic political philosophy based on the concept of Ihsan, which means to do beautiful things.
It also explores devising in relation to the work of Simon McBurney and contemporary groups, and scenography in relation to the work of Dmitry Krymov, Robert Wilson and Robert Lepage.
This book is about harmful traditional practices: damaging and often violent acts which include female genital mutilation, forced marriage, honour killings and abuse, breast ironing, witchcraft and faith-based abuse.
Unlike most books on the ethics of war, this book rejects the 'just war' tradition, proposing a virtue ethics of war to take its place. Like torture, war cannot... Læs mere
This book focuses on issues concerning identity in terms of Balkan and non-Balkan cultures, and examines questions of modernity and the ever-present dread of primitivism which is highlighted in certain types of narratives.
Katharine Adeney demonstrates that institutional design is the most important explanatory variable in understanding the different... Læs mere