This volume is a political, social, and economic history of Zimbabwe from 1890 to 2008. Including topics such as women’s and human rights, this study brings the history of Zimbabwe almost up to the present day, superseding older volumes.
This book investigates how Estonia, Poland and Latvia comply with the EU’s free movement of capital. It compares their laws, analyzes the link between national restrictions and cross-border capital flows, and reports the views of affected business executives.
The Holocaust and World War II
This interdisciplinary volume explores the connection between World War II and the Holocaust in history and memory. Nineteen articles from prominent scholars, including acclaimed historian Gerhard L. Weinberg, examine presidential decisions, racial hatred, and more.
This book explores logistics, distribution, and supply chain management through theoretical analysis and practical heuristics. It features eight case studies on designing distribution systems, location problems, and inventory management for students and professionals.
Assessing Pragmatic Competence in the Japanese EFL Context
Examines how Japanese and American listening styles can cause miscommunication and investigates if listener responses can be taught, providing language teachers with practical classroom strategies.
Across seven centuries, trace the global journey of Chinese art. These essays reveal how collectors and museums in Japan, Europe, and America have shaped its circulation, taste, and cultural meaning across cultures.
Semiotics and Visual Communication
This book explores how semiotic theory can be applied to visual communication practice. Featuring contributions on design, media, and the visual arts, it is an essential asset for anyone interested in semiotics from both a theoretical and applied view.
Cultivating Peace
This book embraces a new approach: cultivating peace. Using global case studies, its narratives offer constructive lessons on preventing violence, restoring shattered societies, and creating positive change through nonviolent, locally-driven initiatives.
As Time Goes By
This volume provides literary analyses of ageing through writers from Cervantes to Cixous. Exploring universal themes, these essays offer portraits of what age is, has been, and might be, demonstrating literature’s power to reflect social trends.
Emma di Resburgo
A tale of dynastic rivalry, kidnap, and usurpation in a wild Scotland, Emma di Resburgo established Meyerbeer’s reputation in Italy. This milestone of Romantic opera blends the Rossinian idiom with the composer’s own technical mastery and rich invention.
Albert Camus’s The Stranger
This collection of critical essays by international experts examines Camus’s The Stranger from both philosophical and literary perspectives. Presenting the first known critical examination in English, this volume sheds new light on the classic novel.
Cesare Pugni
Prolific 19th-century composer Cesare Pugni worked with the era’s greatest choreographers to create renowned ballets. His works include Esmeralda, based on Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris, and Le Violon du diable, a tale of a violinist given irresistible power.
Inside Arguments
This collection of essays by the finest specialists provides a decisive input to the study of logic and argumentation theory. The authors clarify the relationship between these concepts, taking stock of the most recent developments. An essential tool.
“The Real Thing”
Tom Stoppard is the most significant living British dramatist. The critical essays in this volume celebrate his insightful and wry work, addressing well-known plays like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead as well as his critically neglected fiction.
Turkey
This book explains the most important domestic and international developments related to Turkey during the last two decades. Written by experts to the highest academic standards, it focuses on Turkey’s relations with the wider world and is highly analytical.
This book explores the silenced link between reason and madness. Reading Plato through Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Derrida, it forges a new logic to reclaim the human need for a meaningful life in a world that denies it.
Claiming Sylvia Plath
Claiming Sylvia Plath is a critical study of the public obsession with the poet. It explores how she has been claimed by critics, feminists, and biographers to further theories, politics, and careers, offering new perspectives on her public image.
Colour in Sculpture
This book introduces sculpture across five millennia, exploring the intentional relationship between colour and form. It suggests that whether used for cultural custom or to enhance expression, polychromy adds another dimension of encoded meaning.
The New European Frontiers
This inter-disciplinary book explores Europe’s new frontiers, examining complex social and spatial integration in multicultural border regions. It shows how context shapes the meaning of borders and how cooperation can give a new role to local communities.
Market Place
This book explores how ‘food quarters’ have emerged in three transforming London markets. It reveals how the interplay between design and food-focused social practices enriches urban life and sustainability, while paradoxically contributing to gentrification.