A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy,... Læs mere
What role might civil disobedience play in the politics of representative democracies as power 'leaks' from the nation state? If traditional... Læs mere
This volume focuses on gynaecological cancer to explore the ways in which gender has shaped medical and public health responses to cancer in England. Rooted in... Læs mere
Examines the evolution of the modern Afghan state in the shadow of Britain's imperial presence in South Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century, and... Læs mere
The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine. This book is the first to consider the idea... Læs mere
Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary... Læs mere
More and more policy issues involve issues that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the question of values. Public Policy Values overcomes... Læs mere
The author of this book believes passionately in the National Health Service and through his work offers the government recommendations for how its reform process can be saved... Læs mere
Based on first-hand information obtained from Chinese and Foreign enterprises and institutions in the Chinese ICT industry, this book presents... Læs mere
Management-science or management-art? This text addresses this question through a philosophy of an art-related management practice,... Læs mere
This book examines the theory and practice of performance budgeting, which aims make government more effective by linking the funding of government... Læs mere
This provocative new work examines the years between the Nazi book fires and the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), a period when book burning captured the popular... Læs mere