This book explores a big puzzle in development economics - why Argentina, despite rich natural resources and ample human capital, has endured such poor growth... Læs mere
This book examines the changing national identities that are transforming East Asia - pushing China and Taiwan apart and toward a showdown, while propping up a weakened North Korea. Accomplished contributors analyze the dynamics and the U.S.'s policy response.
This book focuses on the location of the religious heritage of Africa within the academic study of religion - including indigenous African religions,... Læs mere
Sikes traces the shifting role of performance in the fashioning of subjectivity from the Modern to the Postmodern eras.... Læs mere
Howard brings together top contributorsin avolume that provides a survey of new research and theoretical work on the topic of individualization. Topics covered include gender, social policy reform, and economy.
This groundbreaking volume considers whether the question of the high school's seeming demise is exaggerated and why it is experiencing the many problems that it does. Essays focus on the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.
Through detailed studies, this collection of writings by academics and activists explores the emergence of contemporary lesbian and... Læs mere
This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer.
Melding evolutionary theory and both animal and human ethology together with close, descriptive historical research on a typical Tuscan village in the Seventeenth century, Hanlon explains the good reasons individuals had for behaving in ways that now seem strange to us.
This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through reading novels by such... Læs mere
This book reads Milton's Paradise Lost as a poem that seeks to educate its readers by narrating the education of its main characters.
This book examines the relationship between the literary and bioscientific cultures of the period as a means of exploring the ways in which the comprehension and representation of the human body fundamentally shapes a variety of the period's communal and national visions.