This book explores the transformation of Anglo-Greek relations since 1945. With contributions from leading academics and journalists, it focuses on cultural perceptions, covering literature, the work of aid agencies, and television series set in Greece.
Between Jihad and McWorld
Inspired by Benjamin Barber’s bestseller *Jihad vs. McWorld*, contributors grapple with inequality, democracy, and power in our times. Barber joins them with an insightful essay on democracy and terrorism in a world shaped by globalization and conflict.
Global Student Mobility in the Asia Pacific
Millions of students study abroad, facing hostility, poverty, and alienation. This book explores the dilemmas of transnational education, proposing pragmatic approaches and positive responses to the challenges of global student mobility.
Learning Accountancy
This book takes a different approach to accountancy. It starts with cash flow statements, profit and loss, and balance sheets before introducing the rules of double entry, helping the layman and student to gain a valuable insight into the subject.
Australia and Human Rights
Was the Howard government’s human rights retreat an aberration? Examining policies on refugees, China, and the UN, this book reveals a deeper legacy of failure, questioning Australia’s supposedly proud human rights history.
Which tasks are most successful for language learning, and what instructions work best? This book examines the effects of different task types on both immediate performance and long-term acquisition, revealing surprising results with major implications for teaching.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Where Angels Fear to Tread highlights the ethical and emotional challenges for counsellors when clients become suicidal. It explores the tension between protective professional guidelines and the needs of a client in overwhelming pain, told through narrative research.
The Meeting Place of British Middle East Studies
This volume unites young scholars at the cutting edge of Middle East Studies. Their work spans diverse fields, from medieval literature to contemporary policy, and is selected for its relevance to general readers and academics alike. A timely and indispensable source.
This book discusses memory construction associated with war, genocide, and colonialism. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of how conflict memories reshape history and identity, destabilizing fixed meanings and clarifying our invisible bonds to the past.
Spooked
Britain’s leading intelligence historians present a fresh study of British secrecy since 1945. Drawing on recently declassified archives, these essays explore the use and misuse of intelligence, from the era of decolonisation to the ‘War on Terror’.
Locating Agency
“Politics” is more than government—it is power and agency in the lives of ordinary people. These collected essays explore this popular politics in religion, culture, and everyday life, suggesting political activity was embedded in almost every aspect of life.
This collection of studies addresses how globalization impacts culture, literature, language communication, and teaching policies within English Studies. Written by authors with diverse backgrounds, it explores how “global” and “local” entities are intertwined.
Conflict Prevention and Management in Northeast Asia
Leading scholars offer a comparative analysis of two of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints: the Korean Peninsula and the Taiwan Strait. This volume examines new strategies for conflict prevention, identifying lessons that could be transferred between cases.
A Spiritual Portrait of a Believer
This study seeks to identify the ‘I’ of Romans 7. It finds that the closer a Christian gets to God, the more aware they are of their sinfulness. The ‘I’ is a mature believer, growing closer to God while in ‘pain’ over the remaining effects of sin.
The first book on ‘engagement’ in Religious Education, this collection breaks new ground by creating a dialogue with ethics. It offers fresh insights for the 21st century, aiming to make Religious Education a more stimulating and enjoyable experience for all.
This multidisciplinary collection of essays offers a comprehensive understanding of women and depression. Experts from psychology, public health, and other fields integrate research, personal experiences, and self-help strategies in an accessible guide for all.
This collection analyses research in the sciences, humanities, and high technology. The authors explore the contexts of scientific research, the links between information technology and everyday life, and the relations between innovation and business culture.
Reel Politics
This volume explores reality television’s potential as a platform for political engagement. It cautions readers against both quickly dismissing reality TV’s potential for political discourse and subscribing to celebratory rhetoric about its democratic potential.
This book examines how syndromes, disorders, and diseases appear in modern literature and film. Rather than being portrayed as a handicap, limitation becomes the hero, allowing previous outcasts into the mainstream to affirm their moral worth, skill and intelligence.
Learning Citizenship by Practicing Democracy
This volume brings together international perspectives on learning citizenship by practicing democracy. It explores learning democracy in educational institutions, communities, and participatory budgeting, sharing a commitment to deepen democracy worldwide.
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