Society and Social Sciences

A comprehensive study of research into management tools and the far-reaching influence they have in organizations and society.

Makes Mencius'' and Xunzi''s political thought accessible to political theorists, philosophers and scientists with no expertise in classical Chinese or sinology.

This timely account of politicized homophobia contests portrayals of the African continent as hopelessly homophobic, highlighting how elites deploy it.

Analyzes current philosophical and scientific debates about animal rights and the ethics of eating meat.

Fourteen leading scholars explore the lives of seven of the most famous Jewish lawyers in the history of international law.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

Introduces the idea of a flexible approach to the human rights movement that returns to basics in an increasingly diverse and multipolar world.

This book provides a contextual analysis of ASEAN law and its impact on the business and commercial aspect of laws.

Maps an apartheid-era Zulu Radio station as it grew to become one of the largest stations in Africa, countering censorship and propaganda.

An explanation of the foundations of Kant''s philosophy of mathematics and its connection to his account of human experience.

Develops an original control theory of emotions and related affective states, providing new perspectives on the mind as a whole.

Examines a range of contemporary social and cultural conflicts in East Asia and the echoes they have throughout the world.

Presents the first full-length, systematic study of the reception of Cicero''s speeches in the Roman educational system.

Discusses the nature of corporate groups and networks, and provides arguments for rules extending liability beyond insolvent entities.

This unique study spotlights the role of masculinity in Iranian history, linking masculinity to social and political developments.

Investigates the struggle between governments, parliaments, the people and courts over who participates in EU treaty making.

Investigates how foreigners charged with capital murder in the United States are deprived of rights by police and courts.

Examines how contemporary asymmetric conflicts between the United States and their non-state adversaries have become contests over the two norms of casualty-aversion and civilian protection.

At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy.

A critical take on the convergence of human rights discourse with the counterterrorism agenda revealing its effects on developing countries.

The way we tell stories influences how others react to our emotions, and impacts how we cope with emotions ourselves.

Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.

Drawing on extensive interviews, Hartshorn explains how labor became a revolutionary topic prior to the Arab Uprisings of 2010–2011.

Shows how the Norwegian model of judicial review provides an alternative to American and European constitutionalism.

Critically examines the human rights activities of the Council of Europe and the European Union at a time of uncertainty and change.

Argues that in depression, perceptions of control and the self are intertwined - with important implications for diagnosis and recovery.

Utilizing surveys of Obama, McCain, and Romney donors, the authors explore the question: who donates to presidential campaigns?

A vision of contemporary China from the inside, Xu''s essays offer a liberal reaction to the complexity of China''s rise.

The notion of ''representative democracy'' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?

An introductory guide with real-life examples on using AI to help homeless youth, diabetes patients, and other social welfare interventions.

Explores the development of a ''European security culture'' from the Congress of Vienna to the First World War.

The first volume of its kind to take a comprehensive view of social justice issues and interventions for young people from a global perspective.

This book represents the first comprehensive analysis of NGO participation at international criminal and human rights courts.

Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.

Explores the profession of singing, operatic culture, and the representation of female performers on the nineteenth century French stage.

This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women''s literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.

Offers an integrative account of the relation between experiences, physiology and environment in psychiatric disorders.

Provides a new way of thinking about parties formed by social movements, and their evolution over time.

This business history elucidates the international history of the interwar period by putting the armaments sector front and center.

Shows that modernism was concocted out of surprising sources, and that one of them was Toryism during 1900–1920.

Apocalyptic rhetoric creates dangerous politics; three great thinkers show how clear-eyed realism is our best hope.

Links democracy with the process of overcoming severe social inequality, rather than with ideal forms of political debate.

Examines Iran''s Armenian community, shedding light on Muslim-Christian relations in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

Explores how foreign policy was used to promote American nationalism by creating external threats in the early republic.

Provides a new approach to psychological hedonism and applies it to the growing global epidemic of unhealthy behavior.

Explores how global youth push the boundaries of standard language and exploit the potential of their multilingual repertoires online.

Provides the first formal account and theory of endurance as a practice in performance art and protest.

A nuanced range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of emotions in moral and political reactions to mass violence.

Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.

Offers an innovative study of visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread of AIDS.