This book provides researchers the understandings needed to develop scientifically validated internet survey methods. To avoid ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out,’ it is essential to support best practices in presentation, sampling, data collection, and analysis.
Berkeley
This book reconstructs Berkeley’s philosophy, arguing his opposition to materialism was not subjective idealism but a common-sense response to the emergence of modern science, offering a fuller, realist portrait of his philosophy of immaterialism.
Prisoners of War and Forced Labour
This book expands the historical perspective by connecting the Holocaust with the treatment of prisoners of war and forced labourers in the Third Reich. The volume consists of papers from international researchers presented at the Falstad symposium.
Mary Shelley
This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the Romantic age. Her texts converse with those of her family and contemporaries, including her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, illuminating the contexts in which they were composed.
L’Intime épistolaire (1850-1900)
Through the private letters of authors like Flaubert, Zola, and Sand, this study casts fresh light on intimacy in Nineteenth-Century French culture. It interprets letter writing as a unique genre, distinct from diaries or memoirs, with its own rules.
Africa, arguably the world’s richest continent, lags in development and is politically marginalized. This book debates strategies to advance a Union of African States, arguing it is critical to provide the clout needed to spur development and gain global relevance.
The Medieval Empire in Central Europe
This book offers a political history of the Medieval Empire, from its 10th-century inception to becoming Europe’s strongest power. It traces its support of the papacy, the struggle for supremacy, the shift to Italy, and its demise by the mid-13th century.
Discrimination in Northern Ireland, 1920-1939
This book examines allegations of discrimination by Northern Ireland’s Unionist government against the Catholic minority. Focusing on 1920-39, it assesses whether the charges of overt discrimination levelled against the government were warranted.
Emblems of Adversity
These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats’s poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.
NeoLiberal Scotland
Contrary to popular belief, neoliberalism has become institutionalised in Scotland. This book details for the first time its negative effects on society and democracy, and serves as a case study of neoliberalism in a “stateless nation” of the West.
Revisiting Decadence
An introduction to the fifteenth century through the chronicles and personal recollections of its writers. It examines how their pessimistic conclusions about the conduct of their contemporaries contributed to the era’s reputation for decadence.
Helena Peričić’s brave, open-hearted testimony of surviving the Homeland War in Croatia during the ’90s.
This bilingual edition includes the English translation and the original Croatian text.
Dublin Castle and the Anglo-Irish War
This book examines why the British, with a modern army and vast empire, were unable to suppress an infant Irish insurgency. It probes the operational failures and complex animosities within the British security apparatus to find the answer.
The Future of Post-Human War and Peace
The fickle conventional wisdom on war and peace has blinded us to the dark sides of both. This book offers a new theory to transcend existing approaches, fundamentally changing the way we think about war, peace, and the future of humanity.
Au Naturel
The essays in this collection propose a major revision of Hispanic naturalism. Reframing it as a phenomenon that transcends time, they demonstrate how naturalist texts–literary and filmic–engage societal problems from the 19th century to the present day.
Single-Voice Transformations
This study models smooth voice leading with abstract algebra via the single-semitone transformation (SST). The model yields 3D graphical lattices and serves as a versatile analytical tool for music from Chopin and Webern to Paul Lansky and John Adams.
Comparative Patriarchy and American Institutions
This book oscillates between analysis, which tries to explain what man is, and anecdote, which teaches what he is capable of becoming. By examining diverse gender relationships, we may gain wider perspectives on our own prejudices and become more fully human.
Matter and Meaning
What is matter? Can it point us towards meanings outside itself? This book offers new historical, scientific and theological insights from leading figures, exploring the complex dialogue between these disciplines beyond its presentation in the popular media.
Holocaust Persecution
This anthology uniquely approaches Holocaust Studies by focusing on the responses to and consequences of persecution. Essays by renowned scholars explore topics from Arab rescuers of Jews to the legal precedents set by the Nuremberg trials.
Documents on the Balkans – History, Memory, Identity
This book explores how Balkan films produce identities based on memory, often in response to the 1990s conflicts. Case studies connect the ‘private space’ of everyday lives to macro-debates, making this a powerful contribution to cultural and visual history.