This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the 'global justice movement'. Through a detailed study of a grassroots peasants' network in Asia (People's Global Action), an inter
The complete audio collection of Alan Bennett’s celebrated monologs, published together for the first time and performed by some of Britain’s best actors. The Talking Heads monologs are widely regarde
Now in its 66th edition, The Europa World of Learning is one of the world's leading reference works. Updated to the highest editorial standards, entries are sourced directly from the organizations to
This book offers an in-depth exploration of the burgeoning field of meaning in life in the psychological sciences, covering conceptual and methodological issues, core psychological mechanisms, environ
This book offers introductory entries on 80 ideas that have shaped the study of language up to the present day. Entries are written by experts in the fields of linguistics and the philosophy of langua
Offers introductory entries on 80 ideas that have shaped the study of language.This book covers ideas that range from Sense Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Logic, through Generative Semantics, Cogn
This book is a unique and accessible reference guide to the work of eighty key figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language from antiquity to the twenty-first c
The first book to assess critically mystery in children's literature, this collection charts a development from religious mystery through rationally solved detective fictions to insoluble supernatural
This extensively revised second edition of The Geopolitics Reader draws together the most influential and significant geopolitical readings from the last hundred years. A compendium of divergent viewp
Twenty articles by Hill (1922-94) represent some of his more important short accounts published 1973-95 on Islamic engineering in classical and medieval times. They include discussions of fine technol
Inspired by the late, great Georges Perec, who is famous for writing a book whose sole subject was the letter E, illustrator Katja Spitzer and freelance writer Sebastian Gievert teamed up to tackle th
A collection of twelve full-cast BBC Radio productions of plays by Alan Bennett. It includes: Forty Years On; A Visit from Miss Prothero; Say Something Happened; Kafka's Dick; Two in Torquay; The Madn
When Irene Spencer meets Vera Small at her daughter Lesley’s wedding reception, they embark upon a correspondence that is quite unlike any other in the history of letter-writing. Both Irene and Vera a
This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one
This extensively revised second edition of The Geopolitics Reader draws together the most influential and significant geopolitical readings from the last hundred years. A compendium of divergent viewp
During a lengthy incarceration spent mostly in solitary confinement, Russell Maroon Shoatz has developed into a prolific writer and powerful voice for the disenfranchised. This first published collect
