Author: Kenneth A. Loparo

The authors argue that women gamers, too often ignored as gamers, are in many respects leading the way in this trend towards design, cultural produ...

A shocking look at how the idea of romantic love can justify and excuse the killing of women by their partners, and lead to sympathy and reduced se...

Analysis of the current financial/economic crisis from the Director of the Banking Sector at the FSA (Financial Services Authority). New edition up...

Drawing on the ambiguous meaning of the notion of vulnerability, the book offers an innovative approach to the topic of the female body in relation...

China is growing in importance to the economies and governments of the world, and it has been run by men with very different ideas. How China copes...

The idea of Utopia has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the pres...

Transcendental History defends the claim that historicality is the very condition for human knowledge. By explaining this thesis, and by tracing it...

How and when can a narrative agent or voice be considered unreliable? What happens when narrative authority fails and, just as importantly, why doe...

Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Pérez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisn...

Based on an extensive national survey of workers and four separate industry-specific surveys, Generations and Work will examine and provide answers...

This book offers a comparative analysis of the distinct experiences of the Peruvian and Bolivian cocaleros as political actors. In doing so, it ill...

The European Union clearly matters for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). EU officials and European political entrepreneurs has been crucial in th...

The increased targeting of civilians by militants raises serious and profound questions for policy-makers. Examining conflict in Northern Ireland, ...

This study examines Turkey's non-recognition of the right to conscientious objection to military service and locates this non-recognition within th...

This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality. Instead of trying...

Despite pioneering studies, the term 'romance novel' itself has not been subjected to scrutiny. This book examines mass-market romance fiction in t...

Soil degradation is real and global, even if the evidence is not so easy to glean. Degradation poses comparable risks to greenhouse gas emissions, ...

Despite an outpouring in recent years of history and cultural criticism related to the Holocaust, Italian women's literary representations and test...

In film, the femme fatale has long been constructed as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman. Da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse eth...

This book analyzes the literary representation of Indigenous women in Latin American letters from colonization to the twentieth century, arguing th...

Andrea Simonelli provides the first in-depth evaluation of climate displacement in the field of political science, specifically global governance. ...

Corporate Governance Practices in India examines corporate governance practice in Indian industry. This book critically analyses the governance pra...

This book studies how religion influences the way people in Colombia remember a massacre of 79 civilians that occurred in a Catholic church in 2002...

The book explains how social outcomes result from the influence of economic ideas which are themselves strongly impacted by the distribution of pow...

In an EU increasingly worried about the security of its citizens and its territory, how should the European Parliament make policy decisions in the...

Examining the connection between the concept of authority and the transformation of the Ismaili imamate, Authority without Territory is the first s...

Dead women litter the visual landscape of the 2000s. In this book, Clarke Dillman explains the contextual environment from which these images have ...

This books explores the phenomenon of irregular migration, notably the organization and role of migrant smuggling networks in aiding irregular migr...

Argues that autonomous agencies are not the result of a systematic design, but are produced by the interactions of political and bureaucratic force...

The book examines the intersection of two philosophical developments which define define contemporary life in the liberal democratic west, consider...

Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870) was a critically acclaimed poet, novelist, travel writer, historian, and artist. Here, Broom Saunders provides a...

This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarce...

This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarce...

Progressive educational approaches are currently in crisis in the face of globalization and conservative retrenchment. This book proposes a new fra...

This book is concerned with the contexts, nature and quality of the participation of young people in European democratic life. The authors understa...

Higher and tertiary education are crucial to modern nations. Vietnam has great potential, but its universities and colleges are poor-performing, un...