With its catalogue of hit songs, iconic characters, memorable quotes and familiar scenes, 'Grease' is truly a behemoth of US and global popular culture. From the stage show's debut in 1...więcej »
George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has set the benchmark for contemporary epic fantasy. Labelled by Time magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in the world, M...więcej »
'Africa and Economic Policy: Developing a Framework for Policymakers' aims to fill an important gap in the current literature on economic policy in developing countries. Despite its richness and...więcej »
In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, Judith Curry shows how we can break the gridlock surrounding the climate debate. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are...więcej »
Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid reveals that thinkers have pondered the nature of common sense and its relationship to science and scientific thinking for a very long time. It demon...więcej »
‘Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment’ presents the idea that local communities can develop sustainably under changing environmental conditions when the discrepancy are sufficie...więcej »
‘Economics for People and the Planet’ challenges the myth that economic growth must come at the expense of the natural environment and advances our understanding of how a more egalitarian distri...więcej »
For the 2019 IVR World Congress of Philosophy of Law meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, Drs. Barry W. Bussey and Angus Menuge organized a special workshop on the inherence of human dignity, featur...więcej »
For the 2019 IVR World Congress of Philosophy of Law meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, Drs. Barry W. Bussey and Angus Menuge organized a special workshop on the inherence of human dignity, featur...więcej »
Peter Hacker's Insight and Illusion is a thoroughly comprehensive examination of the evolution of Wittgenstein's thought from the Tractatus to his later 'mature' phase. This is...więcej »
This book describes the astonishing policy failures of populist politicians in Japan. Focussing on popular tax cuts in Japan as a salutary case study over a quarter of a century since the collap...więcej »
The gothic is a dark mirror of the fears and taboos of a culture. This collection brings together a dozen chilling tales of the nineteenth-century American South with non-fiction texts that illu...więcej »
'Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them?' takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studi...więcej »
"Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance" examines expert committees established to provide science advice to multilateral environmental agreements. By focusing on how these instituti...więcej »
This book is unique in its dedicated tackling of the subject of death in the work of Jean Baudrillard. Through new readings of his work, juxtaposed with philosophical (Schopenhauer, Kant) and ar...więcej »
“Structure, Agency, Biotechnology” argues for the significance of sociological theory and highlights the insights that it can offer into the study of agricultural biotechnology.więcej »
"Textuality, Culture and Scripture," a study of the necessary and close relations between the three concepts, puts forward three main arguments. The first is that Western modernity retained the ...więcej »
We often hear that creativity is the key to economic regeneration in the west, yet those who pursue creative skills/ambitions typically experience low incomes and poor career prospects. ‘The Cre...więcej »