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Radicalism and Terrorism in the 21st Century
(2016-12-22)
This book addresses the issues of radicalism and terrorism, which are of exceptional importance and relevance in contemporary society. Each of the two phenomena are analyzed from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book ...
Hazard or Hardship
(2013-07-15)
Today, hazardous work kills 2.3 million people each year and injures millions more. Among the most compelling yet controversial forms of legal protection for workers is the right to refuse unsafe work. The rise of ...
Medical Bondage
(2017-11-15)
Medical Bondage explores how, in the nineteenth century, experimental surgeries on enslaved and laboring women enabled the rise of American gynecology as a medical specialty, and shaped our understanding of race. Merging ...
The Novel Map
(2013-01-31)
Focusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the ...
The Goalkeeper
(2010-12-01)
"The Goalkeeperis a new scholarly almanac devoted to the art of Vladimir Nabokov.
Himself an ardent goalkeeper, the author of Lolita viewed soccer as more than
a game: “I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper ...
Pioneering Conservation in Alaska
(2006-12-18)
"Designed as a companion to his "Environmental Conflict in Alaska" (2001), which presented the environmental issues of Alaska's statehood period, the newest study by Ross provides an in-depth view of the resource management ...
Tropes of Transport
(2012-02-29)
Intervening in the multidisciplinary debate on emotion, Tropes of Transport offers a fresh analysis of Hegel’s work that becomes an important resource for Pahl’s cutting-edge theory of emotionality. If it is usually assumed ...
Health, Rights and Dignity
(2010-12-09)
The idea that there is such a thing as a human right to health has become pervasive. It has not only been acknowledged by a variety of international law documents and thus entered the political realm but is also defended ...
Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius
(2015-04-14)
This volume offers the first bilingual edition of a major text in the history of epistemology, Diogenes Laertius's report on Pyrrho and Timon in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Leading experts contribute a philosophical ...
By Fables Alone
(2014-06-09)
Academic Studies Press is proud to present this translation of Professor Andrei Zorin’s seminal Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in English, including “The ...