Publications
Now showing items 401-420 of 10381
Lacan's Return to Antiquity
(2017)
Lacan’s Return to Antiquity is the first book devoted to the role of classical antiquity in Lacan’s work. Oliver Harris poses a question familiar from studies of Freud: what are Ancient Greece and Rome doing in a ...
Nonbelievers, Apostates, and Atheists in the Muslim World
(2025)
Nonbelievers, Apostates, and Atheists in the Muslim World offers a contemporary, cross-cultural look at nonbelief and nonreligion in Islam. Providing historical, conceptual, statistical, and ethnographic data on nonbelievers ...
Stem Cell Oncology
(2018)
Stem cell research is one of the fascinating areas of contemporary biology, but, as with many expanding fields of scientific inquiry, research on stem cells raises scientific questions as
rapidly as it generates discoveries. ...
Education in Scotland
(1998)
Education in Scotland is markedly different from what happens in the rest of the UK - with a different National Curriculum, school boards to oversee school management and a General Teaching Council which has been in existence ...
Chapter 1 Spatialization of oppression
(2023)
For architecture and urban space to have relevance in the 21st Century, we cannot merely reignite the approaches of thought and design that were operative in the last century. This is despite, or because of, the nexus ...
Narrating the Many Autisms
(2024)
Autism is a profoundly contested idea. The focus of this book is not what autism is or what autistic people are, but rather, it grapples with the central question: what does it take for autistic people to participate in a ...
The Civil Service in Europe
(2025)
This book opens an often nationally focused field of research to a transnational, common European debate. It addresses the ongoing transformation of the civil service, examining its evolving landscape across Europe and ...
Citizenship and Social Exclusion at the Margins of the Welfare State
(2023)
This book presents a critical account of how citizenship unfolds among socially marginalised groups in democratic welfare states. Legal, political and sociological perspectives are applied to offer an assessment of the ...
Civil Democracy Protection
(2024)
Civil Democracy Protection is an overview of attempts by organisations to oppose groups that are perceived to threaten democracy.
The book traces the history of civil democracy protection actors from the establishment ...
Will Schooling Ever Change?
(2023)
This book is an insightful meta-narrative about schooling which explores the global natural experiment of the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential impact on school culture.
The proposed book discusses how the abrupt and ...
Migrant Scholars Researching Migration
(2024)
Language Order, antropology, biographical research, biography, careers, experiences, geography, methodology, migrants, migration, objectivity
Learner-Centred Pedagogy in the Global South
(2023)
Learner-Centred Pedagogy in the Global South: Pupils and Teachers’ Experiences shines light on learner-centred pedagogy (LCP), which has gained popularity within global and national governments, albeit resulting in puzzling ...
Conflict Management and the Future of EU Foreign and Security Policy
(2025)
This book analyses how the European Union (EU) has dealt with crises and conflicts, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Iran’s nuclear dispute and Syria’s civil war, to understand the peculiar nature of its role in ...
Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City
(2023)
This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration, livelihood, and public ...
Suzan-Lori Parks in Person
(2014)
This collection of interviews offers unprecedented insight into the plays and creative works of Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as being an important commentary on contemporary theater and playwriting, from jazz and opera to ...
Good Governance in the Era of Global Neoliberalism
(2004)
This new collection critically examines the new global policy of 'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book redresses the ...
Developing Modern Livestock Production in Tropical Countries
(2023)
The Animal Production International Seminar (APIS) is the first international conference held by the Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Brawijaya. APIS was held for the first time in 2010 and was repeated every three ...
How Europeans Understand Solidarity, Reciprocity and Fairness in the EU
(2024)
This edited book sheds new light on the understanding of solidarity, reciprocity and fairness from the perspective of European Union (EU) citizens and, with this, how cohesion in the EU can be achieved.
Drawing on ...
Time and Causality in Early Modern Drama
(2024)
The opening of the first commercial theatre in London in 1579 initiated a pattern of development that radically reshaped representation. The competition among theatres required the constant production of new works, creating ...
State Fragility
(2023)
Presenting case studies and comparisons across seven countries, this book addresses key questions as to the nature of state fragility, policies used to mitigate it, assessment of outcomes and prospects. It offers a novel ...