We now know much more about the process of language development in all children, and also much more about variations in the process due to multi-cultural and multi-linguistic backgrounds, and developmental anomalies.
This volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss.
This is a study in EU legitimacy from the perspective of EU citizens. Mather argues that legitimacy is empirical: 'legitimacy only exists if people feel that it does' and that the EU is a unique and dynamic institution, hence legitimating factors are also evolutionary.
Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics provides a state of the art review of the major theoretical approaches and substantive... Læs mere
Britain, Australia and the Bomb tells the story of the unique partnership between the two countries to develop nuclear weapons in the... Læs mere
Alleyne analyzes the key role of the UN's public information department in the organization's pursuit of its objectives. The prominence of concepts such as human rights and national self-determination in the international arena is due to the activity of this UN department.
The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa challenges prevailing wisdom, showing how ruling political elites and... Læs mere
Price theory has provided solutions to myriad problems affecting society without invoking any precepts beyond those encapsulated in the standard... Læs mere
Modern mainstream economics is attracting an increasing number of critics of its high degree of abstraction and lack of relevance to economic reality.
Steven Kettell analyzes the development of exchange rate policymaking from a Marxist perspective.
This new, corpus-driven approach to the study of language and style of literary texts makes use of the Dickens' 4.6 million-word corpus for a detailed examination of patterns of lexical collocations.
This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than national and global reformation.