Can elections create democrats? Why and how do formerly armed opposition groups decide to invest in... Læs mere
This exciting collection represents a range of scholarly approaches and include close textual study, comparative readings, and broad cultural analysis. Contributors to this... Læs mere
In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive photographs, the book shows how images of tattooed bodies communicate and disrupt notions of gender,... Læs mere
This collection attends to western women's struggles within Roman Catholicism by examining how women throughout the centuries have attempted to reconcile their unruliness with their Catholic backgrounds or conversions.
This book documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his contemporaries, including such celebrated writers as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw and Bram Stoker.
A comparative analysis of classical revisions by eighteenth and nineteenth century Black women... Læs mere
This book describes the WTO from its post-WWII beginnings in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade through a series of negotiated... Læs mere
A story about science, technology, and people, The Future of Pricing provides an inside look at how airlines price tickets and... Læs mere
This book analyzes the political obstacles to economic recovery, and the economic consequences of democratic political reforms. The contributors focus... Læs mere
This book examines village democracy and the prospects of China's democratization. It explains how three key factors - township, economy and... Læs mere
This thoughtful and surprising book analyzes the effect of animal extremism on the world's scientists, their institutions, and professional societies. The Animal Research War... Læs mere
A fascinating and important history of foreign students in American higher education. The book will have appeal to specialists in student services, but also to the thousands of faculty members responsible for teaching and mentoring foreign students.