American democracy is at an inflection point. Will we stride toward the 22nd century with evidence and will? Or will we ......more

Increasingly, faculty with intersectional perspectives are challenging many aspects of higher education and urging a rad......more

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is a unique region, with a sharply changing political and ideological orientation ......more

A book that fills a niche in academic analysis of the Tour de France. The Tour de France is an event known worldwide by ......more

From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Ea......more

This book describes the worldwide evolution of land-based visual time signals that were used by mariners in the nineteen......more

Housing has always had a close association with the lives refugees lead in exile and the settlement of refugees is, at i......more

This book lays the groundwork for a relational theory of the firm as a network of stakeholder resources and interests. D......more

This book mainly seeks to explain, define and update the recurring forms of populism in the 21st century. Examples used ......more

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This volume presents a comparative study on the pivotal role of religion in social transformation of Central and Eastern......more

"For the first time in the modern era, Asia is not dominated by an outside power and contains within it three nations of......more

Buddhist-Muslim relations are usually seen as inherently confrontational. This book challenges the view of Buddhism and ......more

This book explores later-in-life cannabis use among those born between 1954 and 1965. By examining the resurgence of can......more

​This book examines the experiences of refugees who populated the Displaced Persons (DP) camps in the British Zone of Al......more

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Care and Pandemic captures an up-to-the-moment account of COVID-19 and its aftermath by an interdisciplinary network of ......more

China under Xi Jinping: an Interdisciplinary Assessment offers an overview of reforms and changes that took place in Chi......more

What do we owe to each other simply out of respect, or concern, for our common humanity? What can we claim? The United N......more

Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif critically analyzes civil-military relations and the way armies are constructed in divided soci......more

Phenomenal waste has surfaced as the social form and substance of value. In capital’s totalizing process, which commodif......more

This book offers unique insights into institutional and social processes that lead to silence in the face of corruption.......more

Socio-ecological conflicts about land use in Latin America are complex: they involve various actors and flare up due to ......more

Biodiversity should not be understood in biological terms only and as a thing apart from society, but rather as biocultu......more

This contemporary text--the first in over a decade on the region--presents the geography of the Middle East and North Af......more

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Jane Eyre is a feminist Pilgrim’s Progress in which the heroine asserts the moral equality and responsibility of men and......more

First published in 1988, Crossing Boundaries challenges existing disciplines and fields of study from a feminist perspec......more

In the 1950s, America was in the grip of Cold War paranoia and McCarthyism. Communism and ’gender maladjustment’ were tw......more

First published in 1981 and now with a new preface by the renowned scholar Jeffrey Weeks, The Theory and Practice of Hom......more

First published in 1992, The Inward Gaze looks at men’s fantasies and self-images from a wide range of texts (notably bo......more

Feminism has put the critical study of men and masculinities firmly on to the academic agenda. First published in 1992, ......more

Although the role of the teacher has been extensively explored, the role of the pupil has received very little attention......more

Graduates (1972) examines the careers of UK graduates for six years following their successful completion of their degre......more

How do people actually experience God, Jesus Christ, the Kingdom and the Church? Does this experience affect their aware......more

Britons Abroad (1968) takes the lid off nine 1960s package tours, mainly in Europe, revealing the kind of people taking ......more

Originally published in 1976 under the title Modernization, Exploitation and Dependency in Latin America, and again in 1......more

Although the importance of domestic servants in eighteenth-century England has long been recognized, The Domestic Servan......more

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With an introduction by Gregor Benton. The Longest Night tells the story of Chinese Trotskyism in its later years, inclu......more

Grounding Critique: Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations argues that marxism must have a robust und......more

This book presents case studies concerning the impact of development projects on societies at various levels of affluenc......more

The participation of the public sector in assessing the social impact of a wide range of projects is the focus of this g......more

This book explores elite perceptions of the external threats facing the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Na......more

Kevin Lane discusses the tension existed between China’s traditional claim to sovereignty over Hong Kong. He believes th......more

An array of case studies exploring evolving tax policy and economic development in Pacific Asian countries....more

This book is the outcome of a Development Studies Association Workshop on Technology that we convened in Queen Elizabeth......more

This book grew out of research funded by the Montana Department of Labor and Industry. This study will argue that the di......more

The Jewish community of Egypt in modem times-now practically non-existent-consisted in part of autochthonous Jews who tr......more

The sixth edition of this annual furnishes statistics on the population, resources, infrastructure, armed forces and mil......more

Now in its seventh year, this annual review provides a detailed database on military forces and strategic developments i......more

Capital is often depicted as an all-encompassing and abstract social force which seeks to "subsume" all of human life. B......more

To advance the debates around temporary migration in the Pacific, a governmentality framework contributes to understandi......more

To advance the debates around temporary migration in the Pacific, a governmentality framework contributes to understandi......more

Criminalization: Politics and Policies provides a thorough analysis of the relationship between politics, policies, and ......more

Due to significant processes of transnationalization in the European context, a considerable relevance of potential soci......more

The Signifying Self is a study in people watching. It uses semiotics, psychoanalytic theory and sociological perspective......more

This book is the second publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, prese......more

Reflecting recent re-examinations of the nature and purpose of the modern publicly held corporation, Progressive Corpora......more

This volume analyzes in considerable depth how fears, prejudices, social and moral values, and individual perceptions ha......more

Production of world food supplies is related to more complicated socioeconomic variables than have previously been analy......more

While many developing countries rapidly expanded their scientific and technological capabilities during the 1960s and 19......more

This book examines the process of rural community development and transition--exploring the ways in which history, cultu......more

This book presents several general theoretical notions about the process of science and technology as it relates to deve......more

This book considers Chinese foreign policy and China’s future role in world affairs in the context of the country’s rece......more

This book assesses the sources and nature of growth, structural change, and industrialization in Thailand, Malaysia, and......more

Although the Congress Party has dominated Indian national politics in recent years, a more uncertain picture has emerged......more

This pathbreaking study provides the first comprehensive comparative analysis of states and markets in Japan and Russia/......more

This book focuses on the relationship between international migrants and host societies and discusses the historical uni......more

This book is an empirical study of various rural development projects in some African countries such as The Gambia, Ghan......more