Social Sciences

Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Recessionary Times

The Italian Labour Relations in a Global Economy

Edited By: Anthony Forsyth

£59.99

This volume of papers in English analyzes the many changes in the Italian labour market. The book provides an international readership with a frame of reference for Italian Labour Law and adds a comparative dimension to the national reform debate.

Labour Law and Welfare Systems in an Era of Demographic, Technological, and Environmental Changes

By: Anthony Forsyth

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This book discusses how labour law and welfare systems will be affected by the ongoing transformation of work. It considers the impact of demography, the environment, and technology in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to provide a picture of the future of work.

Labour Law in Russia

Recent Developments and New Challenges

Edited By: Anthony Forsyth, Elena Radevich

£52.99

Russia’s transition to a market economy required new employment laws, but many issues remain unaddressed. The papers in this volume consider recent developments from a historical and comparative perspective to provide insights and examine current challenges.

Labour Markets at a Crossroads

Causes of Change, Challenges and Need to Reform

Edited By: Henrik Lindberg

£39.99

Stagnant European labour markets are failing to create jobs and growth. This volume uncovers the "corporative cartels" at the heart of the problem and presents clear policy options for vital reform.

Stagnant European labour markets are failing to create jobs and growth. This volume uncovers the “corporative cartels” at the heart of the problem and presents clear policy options for vital reform.

Labour Regulation in the 21st Century

In Search of Flexibility and Security

By: Pietro Manzella

£44.99

The economic crisis proved the EU's flexicurity strategy inadequate. These papers investigate 21st-century labour regulation, exploring the essential balance between flexibility and security from a comparative and transnational perspective.

The economic crisis proved the EU’s flexicurity strategy inadequate. These papers investigate 21st-century labour regulation, exploring the essential balance between flexibility and security from a comparative and transnational perspective.

Lacework or Mirror? Diary Poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley

By: Magdalena Ożarska

£49.99

Lacework or Mirror? This study explores the diary poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley. It examines their narrative choices and lacunae to illustrate the gradual emergence of the diarists’ individual selves.

Lake Garda

Gateway to D. H. Lawrence’s Voyage to the Sun

Edited By: Nick Ceramella

£54.99

D. H. Lawrence’s life was a journey to the sun, a quest that began in Gargnano. This unique book explores his "sun search" through a stimulating combination of literature, music, and painting. A book that any Laurentian cannot possibly miss.

D. H. Lawrence’s life was a journey to the sun, a quest that began in Gargnano. This unique book explores his “sun search” through a stimulating combination of literature, music, and painting. A book that any Laurentian cannot possibly miss.

Land Acquisition and Tribal Development in Neoliberal Eastern India

By: Debasree De

From £32.99

This book analyses land grabbing and displacement in India. Based on fieldwork in Odisha and Jharkhand, it reveals the subsequent impoverishment and trauma, with a special focus on the tribal women who bear the brunt of displacement and lose their autonomy as migrant labourers.

Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature

Remapping Uncertain Territories

Edited By: Magali Compan, Katarzyna Pieprzak

£29.99

As globalization displaces bodies, landscape becomes a potent source for identity. This collection examines how contemporary French literature re-maps post-colonial worlds, exploring dispossession, resistance, and re-appropriation in a constructed literary space.

Land and Mind

Kenneth White's Geopoetics in the Arabian Context

By: Bsaithi Omar

£34.99

This book is a study of Kenneth White’s geopoetics, applying the concept to Charles Doughty’s Arabia Deserta. The result is not only a reinterpretation of an English classic, but an introduction to a regrounded field of culture.

Land Grabbing and Conflict in the North West Region of Cameroon

An Endemic Situation, 1958-2017

By: René Ngek Monteh

From £37.99

In Cameroon's North West Region, land conflicts have reached record heights. This book argues that these protracted conflicts are fueled by a colonial legacy, flawed land laws, and authorities’ failure to address the deep-rooted causes, making solving them an uphill task.

In Cameroon’s North West Region, land conflicts have reached record heights. This book argues that these protracted conflicts are fueled by a colonial legacy, flawed land laws, and authorities’ failure to address the deep-rooted causes, making solving them an uphill task.

Land Law and Economic Development in Papua New Guinea

By: Timothy Curtin, David Lea

£39.99

This book analyzes land tenure in Papua New Guinea, arguing for replacing the customary system with private individual ownership. It demonstrates the economic advantages of this change and provides answers to cultural, social, and philosophical objections.

Land of Fertility III

The Southeast Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest

Edited By: Maciej Wacławik

From £29.99

Spanning 5000 years from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest, this volume explores civilization in the Fertile Crescent. It examines the migration of people, goods, and ideas, and ancient Egypt's relations with its neighbours—were they based on partnership, or supremacy?

Spanning 5000 years from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest, this volume explores civilization in the Fertile Crescent. It examines the migration of people, goods, and ideas, and ancient Egypt’s relations with its neighbours—were they based on partnership, or supremacy?

Land Writings

Excursions in the Footprints of Edward Thomas

By: James Riding

£58.99

Arranging itself around a number of journeys in pursuit of the early twentieth century poet and nature writer, this monograph provides a personal and moving tale of encountering literature in landscape, retreading Edward Thomas’s footprints for the last four years of his life.

Landscape and History in the Lykos Valley

Laodikeia and Hierapolis in Phrygia

Edited By: Francesco D’Andria, Celal Şimşek

£61.99

This book probes archaeological excavations and investigations into the history of the Lykos valley, Turkey. It concerns, among other things, discoveries at the Ploutonion of Hierapolis, the excavations of the tabernae in Tripolis, and the marble origins used in Hierapolis.

Landscape Representations

Conceptions of Physical and Human Space

Edited By: Jorge Luis P. Oliveira-Costa, Tatiana A. Moreira, Fátima Velez de Castro

From £30.99

This volume offers essential insights into emerging perspectives in landscape studies. Instead of focusing only on nature, this book places humans and physical aspects at its centre, combining ecological and geographical information, nature conservation, and the study of society.

Landscape, Place and Culture

Linkages between Australia and India

Edited By: Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay, Paul Brown

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the cultural, social, and ecological dimensions of the Australia-India relationship. Through comparative studies of colonial experience, migration, and shared environmental crisis, this work reassesses our relationship to place.

Landscapes of Aesthetic Education

By: Stuart Richmond, Celeste Snowber

From £19.99

A photographer and a dancer reveal how aesthetic education deepens our understanding of self and world. Discover transformative connections between creativity, the arts, nature, and the sensuous qualities of everyday life.

Landscapes of Participatory Making, Modding and Hacking

Maker Culture and Makerspaces

Edited By: Kenneth Y T Lim

£58.99

This collection describes maker culture as it is manifested in particular socio-cultural contexts, and describes some of the underlying narratives behind the emergence of such cultures and hackerspaces, approaching this phenomenon from an academic perspective.

Language – Nation – Identity

The "Questione della Lingua" in an Italian and Non-Italian Context

Edited By: Elizaveta Khachaturyan

£41.99

How does language define one’s national identity? This volume explores the relationship between language, nation, and identity from a 21st-century perspective, analyzing its changing role across different historical, social, and linguistic contexts.

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