This book examines the foreign policy debates shaping the UK-US “special relationship” from 1992-2008. It reveals a bond founded not on shared values, but on something more surprising, shedding new light on the two nations and their partnership.
The Foreignness of Foreigners
This collection examines Britain’s encounters with the Other through literature, art, and politics. It explores how figures of the foreigner were imagined and fabricated, revealing the crucial role Otherness played in fashioning Britain’s national identity.
Promoting healthy lifestyles for students is a shared responsibility. While schools lay the foundation, it requires the combined efforts of family and society. This book is for teachers, parents, and community members who wish to understand their role in this vital process.
This book evaluates Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI) within the international scientific context. It assesses this research elite’s role and transcendence to recognize the impact and success of Mexico’s research policy.
In 1945, the Catholic Stage Guild of Ireland united the Irish Church and its most famous performers. This unprecedented study reveals the Guild’s surprising influence over Irish theatre at home and abroad—a fascinating story, untold until now.
Based on fresh research into primary sources, this volume examines the formative years (1849–1875) of the International Telegraph Union. It appraises the ITU’s mechanics amid constant diplomatic pressure, offering a history of media, international relations and business.
As the field of ELT studies sees continued horizontal and vertical diversification, from new forms of online learning to a greater depth of analysis, a new sophistication has emerged. This increasing sophistication is reflected in the research papers in this volume.
The Foundations of Urban Education
This volume explores key 21st-century issues impacting urban schools. It prepares teachers by focusing on theoretical and historical foundations, discussing topics like the achievement gap, charter schools, teacher pay, culturally relevant pedagogy, and teacher motivation.
This book investigates the discourses on origins, identifying four types: mythical, rational, scientific, and phenomenological. It analyzes the singular structure of each, defining them as ascending or descending to reveal the unique ways we talk about our beginnings.
The Fragmenting Force of Memory
This study is about cultural production that works through personal experiences of the civil war in Lebanon. It explores how writers and filmmakers reposition their sense of self from agent to casualty of history, unraveling self and circumstance through memory.
In today’s vague and flexible warfare environment, military leaders need to be more versatile, with rapid decision-making capacities. This study explores why high-level commanders must now behave more like diplomats, intellectuals, and academics than ever before.
The complex security environment requires military leaders to adapt more rapidly than ever. This book is an analytic study of military leadership—a valuable reference for academics, students, and armed forces members. This second edition features two new chapters and updates.
A historic tension defines American governance: the clash between presidents and the permanent, apolitical civil service. This book traces this power struggle from its origins to its explosive crisis during the Trump administration, exploring the future of the state.
The Free Movement of Capital and Financial Services
This book investigates the compliance of financial services legislation in Estonia, Poland, and other EU states with the free movement of capital. It offers recommendations and draws implications for the financial services sector.
The Friulian Language
What is the place of a minor language in a global world? This is the first comprehensive study in English of Friulian, exploring its history, culture, literature from medieval ballads to Pasolini, and the migration of its people.
The Fruits of Madness
This title brings together presentations given at a seminar held in 2014 as part of the Annual International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, and offers fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on the ancient Israelite and early Jewish concern with prophecy.
The Future is Now
This collection of essays from new voices in African Diaspora Studies explores art, literature, film, and music across the Americas and Europe. Scholars interrogate themes of memory, power, and identity to uncover forgotten episodes of history.
Representing the proceedings of the inaugural conference of the University of Arizona Center for American Culture and Ideas, these contributions explore the relationship between the high arts and culture in America, considering a range of subjects from dance to philosophy.
The Future of Aesthetic Experience
Dr. Baofu argues that postmodernism is an aesthetic fad and the current debate on beauty is obsolete. He reveals the great transformations of aesthetic experience to come, both here on Earth and later in deep space, based on his new transformative theory.
The Future of Asian Feminisms
This book on Asian feminisms confronts fundamentalisms, conflicts, and neo-liberalism. A critical contribution from Asian women’s studies scholars and activists, it stimulates a unique “Asian voice” in the global women’s movement.
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