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Literacy and Longing in L.A.

by Karen Mack & Jennifer Kaufman

Some women shop. Some eat. Dora cures the blues by bingeing on books—reading one after another, from Flaubert to bodice rippers, for hours and days on end. In this wickedly funny and sexy literary debut, we...

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Law

by Andrei Marmor

The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Law provides a comprehensive, non-technical philosophical treatment of the fundamental questions about the nature of law.  Its coverage includes law's relation to...

Online Consumer Behavior: Theory and Research in Social Media, Advertising and E-tail

by Angeline G. G. Close

Social media (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, Groupon, Twitter) have changed the way consumers and advertisers behave. It is crucial to understand how consumers think, feel and act regarding social media, online advertising,...

Sexual Awareness: Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality

by Barry McCarthy & Emily McCarthy

In the newest edition of this classic text, veteran authors Barry and Emily McCarthy explain how desire, pleasure, and satisfaction can enrich your relationship. As the premier book on the subject, Sexual Awareness...

Michael J. Shapiro: Discourse, Culture, Violence

by Terrell Carver & Samuel A A Chambers

Michael J. Shapiro's writings have been innovatory with respect to the phenomena he has taken to be political, and the concomitant array of methods that he has brilliantly mastered. This book draws from his...

Projections of Power in the Americas

by Helene Balslev Balslev Clausen, Niels Bjerre-Poulsen & Jan Gustafsson

Two phenomena are of central interest in the nine contributions that make up this volume: one is the question of power and its multiple forms, and the other is that geographical, political and cultural multifaceted...

Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between

by Hazel Andrews & Les Roberts

Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration...

Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power

by Liana Chua, Joanna Cook & Nicholas Long

Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines...

Personal Relationships: The Effect on Employee Attitudes, Behavior, and Well-being

by Lillian Turner de Tormes Turner de Eby & Tammy D. D. Allen

We know that positive, fulfilling and satisfying relationships are strong predictors of life satisfaction, psychological health, and physical well-being. This edited volume uses research and theory on the need...

Globalisation and European Integration: Critical Approaches to Regional Order and International Relations

by Petros Nousios, Henk Overbeek & Andreas Tsolakis

This book explores the links between European integration and globalisation, and examines the potential for social transformation in the context of the global economic crisis and the resulting EU reforms.

Divided...

World Cinema, Theology, and the Human: Humanity in Deep Focus

by Antonio Sison

Forging an open-minded but reasoned dialogue between nine acclaimed titles of world cinema, and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the theme of human experience, World Cinema, Theology, and the...

Black Virgin Mountain: A Return to Vietnam

by Larry Heinemann

In 1967 Larry Heinemann was sent to Vietnam as an ordinary soldier. It was the most horrific year of his life, truly altering him—and his family—forever. In his powerful memoir, Heinemann returns to Vietnam,...

New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives

by Peggy J. J. Kleinplatz

New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives focuses on cutting-edge, therapy paradigms as alternatives to conventional clinical strategies. With each passing year, the treatment of sexual problems...

Edward Said's Translocations: Essays in Secular Criticism

by Tobias Doring & Mark Stein

Working with processes of translocation enabled Edward Said to point out interdependence and complementarity across geographical borders and disciplinary boundaries while recognizing cultural difference and...

European Homeland Security: A European Strategy in the Making?

by Christian Kaunert, Sarah Léonard & Patryk Pawlak

This book examines the processes and factors shaping the development of homeland security policies in the European Union (EU), within the wider context of European integration.

The EU functions in a complex...

Ethnicization and Identity Construction in Malaysia

by Frederik Holst

This book is the first monograph to provide an in-depth and multifaceted study of the processes of ethnicization and identity construction in Malaysia, from the colonial period until the present. In his analysis,...

Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise: Social Innovation through Hybrid Organization Models

by Benjamin Huybrechts

For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT). Fair Trade Social Enterprises have created a movement which...

Reading The Legal Case: Cross-Currents between Law and the Humanities

by Marco Wan

This volume examines the nature, function, development and epistemological assumptions of the legal case in an interdisciplinary context. Using the question of 'reading' as a guiding principle, it opens up new...

Corporate Power and Globalization in US Foreign Policy

by Ronald W. W. Cox

More than a decade into the new millennium, the fusion of corporate and state power is the essential defining feature of US foreign policy. This edited volume critically examines the relationship between corporations...

Labour Migration and Human Trafficking

by Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons & Willem van van Schendel

Since the signing of the UN Trafficking Protocol, anti-trafficking laws, policies and other initiatives have been implemented at the local, national and regional levels. These activities have received little...