To Tell You the Truth

"Frasca combines all her talents in this thorough history and criticism of the role the Neapolitan song has played in shaping Italian and American cultures. She has done some great work digging up the facts and stories behind the songs we all know and love. But more than reveal the lives of those who composed, performed, produced and distributed such classics as 'O Sole Mio' and 'Core 'ngrato,' Frasca provides keen interpretations of the music's form and content. Illustrated with period photos, historical portraits, lyrics, playbills and posters, Birds of Passage, brings new insights of the Neapolitan song and will no doubt be the basis for future studies and analyses of this phenomenon." - Fred L. Gardaphé, Distinguished Professor of Italian American Studies, Queens College, CUNY, USA

'In this fascinating study of the transatlantic migration of Neapolitan song moving back and forth between Naples and New York in the early part of the twentieth century we hear histories and cultures sustained in sound. In a Neapolitan voice in lower Manhattan, in a tune sustained in a transatlantic passage, we catch the complex and popular fashioning of modern metropolitan life. Here music transports and translates seemingly separate historical and cultural localities into a shared and richly differentiated soundscape.' - Iain Chambers, Professor of Cultural, Postcolonial, and Mediterranean Studies, University of Naples, 'L'Orientale", Italy, and author of Migrancy, Culture, Identity (1994) and Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity (2008)

The Diaspora of Neapolitan Musicians in New York

Italian Birds of Passage

'...his writing is polished and accessible, his case is presented with seductive clarity, well illustrated by charts and maps. Above all he provides a compelling perspective on a neglected period of recent history whose lessons become increasingly relevant to our current security.' - Dr John Mackinlay, Centre for Defence Studies, RUSI Journal

The British Army, the Gurkhas and Cold War Strategy in the Far East, 1947-1954

“The critical scholars chosen to contribute to the collection are as diverse as the books examined, and this brings much to the table. … The Contemporary Irish Detective serves as a powerful tonic to those upset by poor service from the academic world.” (Gerard Brennan, Breac - A Digital Journal of Irish Studies, breac.nd.edu, June 19, 2019)“This collection of nine insightful essays opens new ground and advocates for a more considered appraisal of detective fiction, within Irish literary studies. Each essay offers a broad overview of several texts, considering reoccurring thematic issues across the series, rather than close readings of a single novel. The range and scope covered by the nine essays is commendable and a judiciously light theoretical emphasis, the absence of elitist academic jargon, will warm even casual readers to the analysis.” (John Singleton, Review of Irish Studies in Europe – RISE, Vol. 2 (1-3), March, 2018)“The collection of essays in The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel proposes – and provides – an expansion of Irish Studies to include also Irish detective fiction in a serious way. … As stated earlier, I consider this anthology to be of interest to many readers, both those interested in Irish studies, and those interested in crime fiction generally. The chapters successfully combine and expand both areas.” (Katarina Gregersdotter, Nordic Irish Studies, Vol. 16, 2017)

The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel

Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Reflect: Oxford Reading Level 12: Nathan and the Polar Bear

Tools in the Reconstruction and Transformation of Post-Apartheid South Africa

Women, Economic Development, and Higher Education

16th International Conference, HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014. Proceedings, Part II

Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge in Applications and Services

The Russian Concubine

'...a global and thought-provoking attack on ways of doing political theory that have been highly influential and with which many identify.' - Simon Birnbaum, Mind

Justice, Democracy and Reasonable Agreement

Towards More Effective International Agreements

Environment, Society and International Relations

Public Medievalists, Racism, and Suffrage in the American Women’s College

Insight Guides Nepal: Travel Guide with eBook

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Structural Dynamics for the Practising Engineer

Strategic Management for Public Governance in Europe

"A timely collection of essays, bringing together a cluster of historical and contemporary chartings of unmapped territory in the interface between cinema and representations of war." - Elisabeth Bronfen, author of Specters of War: Hollywood's Engagment with Military Conflict

"The best scholarship in the humanities is not that which answers questions but that which teaches us to ask ones we never thought of before. Heroism and Gender in War Films accomplishes this task of opening the mind by being not just another book about a well-studied genre of popular culture. The topics and authors are eclectic - from 'Mary Pickford's WWI Patriotism' to 'A People's Humor as an Aesthetic Stratagem in Golpe de Estadio (1998)' to 'Myth and Spectacle in The Hunger Games' - and what they have in common is originality, liveliness, and the choice of fascinating case studies. It's the kind of book that I think undergraduates in a gender studies class, film scholars and yes, the educated layperson wanting to learn new ways to look at movies will enjoy equally. Read Heroism and Gender in War Films and you will discover lost classics of film you may have never heard of and greatly expand your toolkit to study them as well as the latest Hollywood blockbuster." - David D. Perlmutter, Texas Tech University, USA and author of Visions of War and Photojournalism and Foreign Policy

"Assumptions concerning gender roles, behaviors and expectations are so deeply imbued in representations of war that one can view the entire genre of war films as an obstinately gendered form of expression. Yet the gender portrayals and cinematic perspectives of war-related films have shifted in significant ways, across different cultures of filmmaking and within Hollywood dominated popular culture. In fact, looking through the lens of gender calls into question the very parameters of the war film as a genre. This collection of critical essays opens up a wide-ranging discussion of the role of gender in representations of war and heroism, reorienting our consideration of these issues from a variety of cultural and historical perspectives." - Michael Griffin, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Macalester College, USA and author of "Media Images of War", Media, War, and Conflict

Heroism and Gender in War Films

"Annett grapples with what it truly means to be a fan. What are the 'complex flows and frictions' that propel certain shows to transcultural popularity? And what kind of world is it where teenage girls can be overheard describing the Holy Roman Empire as 'cute'? Annett watches the watchers, and examines the forces that create their subculture." - Jonathan Clements, author of Anime: A History

"This expansive and imaginative study of anime and fan communities takes on really big questions - and succeeds in whittling them down to size, steadily paring away the macrological framework of national histories, cultures, and territories, to expose the complex grain and weave of interactions between fans and animations. Annett generates new awareness of the challenges and possibilities of media environments by honing in on the key question: what can we do with animation?" - Thomas Lamarre, McGill University, Canada

Transcultural Flows and Frictions

Anime Fan Communities

“Headlines From the Holy Land is a readable and interesting examination of news coverage of what is now known as ‘the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’ ... . The caliber of the writing and reporting make this a good read for anyone interested in foreign correspondents at war, and Rodgers’s insights make it worth reading for anyone interested in the crisis.” (Catherine Cassara, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 94 (2), February, 2017)

Reporting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Headlines from the Holy Land

“Media, Margins and Civic Agency explores the extent to which media serve as catalysts or obstacles to civic activism and social transformation. … this is an engaging book on the challenges and opportunities in framing the groups at the margins afforded by social media and sometimes mainstream media.” (Weiwu Zhang, Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 47 (1), 2016)

Media, Margins and Civic Agency

"This is just the kind of book that is presently needed. Ithas aprecise focus: delinquency and the power of the state. It transcends ethnocentricitythrough its transnational approach and breaks away from the single discipline perspective by bringing together different methods of analysis. Aseminal book on an important subject." - Jean-Paul Brodeur, Director, International Centre for Comparative Criminology, Université de Montréal

The Hidden Face of Politics

Organized Crime and States

“This research provides valuable information on gender experts in Western European policy making. … Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate, graduate, and research collections.” (J. G. Everett, Choice, Vol. 53 (6), February, 2016)

Towards a Theory of Policy Success

Gender Expertise in Public Policy

"Rosa Luxemburg: Her Life and Legacy adds new angles of vision toward a subject that has returned from decades of relative obscurity to a vibrant global interest." - Paul Buhle, Senior Lecturer, Brown University, USA and founder of Radical America

Her Life and Legacy

Rosa Luxemburg

Geographies of Transport and Ageing

“Ali’s story is long and heart-rending, sometimes funny, sometimes frustrating, and his willingness to share it makes us all better off in the telling and re-telling as we reflect on our covenants and baggage.”

A Portrait of a Muslim as a Young Man

Children of Dust

'... an extremely comprehensive and versatile presentation of the subject. ... must be highly praised for providing the reader with a very wide spectrum of critical approaches to media commercialism from a range of reputed scholars and practitioners in the area of media and communication.' The International Journal of Media Management

Critical Studies in Media Commercialism

“Psychologised Language in Education: Denaturalising a Regime of Truth is an interesting attempt to problematise the relationship between psychology and education and contribute tools to tackle the senses (or nonsenses) of education in contemporary capitalist societies. … It can also help us to recognise that the most revolutionary action that scholars and educational workers can perform is to examine our language and to face educational practice optimistically.” (Diego Palacios Diaz, Pedagogy, Culture & Society, February 11, 2020)“Psychologized language in education is one of the most important recent contributions to educational theory in the context of contemporary social sciences and humanities, and an investment into the field of ideas aimed at transforming educational practice.” (Darko Štrajn, International Review of Education, Vol. 65, 2019)

Denaturalizing a Regime of Truth

Psychologized Language in Education

Public Policies Beyond Regulation and Voluntary Compliance

Governments and Corporate Social Responsibility

"Bourassa has written a splendid book that speaks to the deep relation of the novel as a literary form to the meaning of being...This book marks an important contribution to the growing theoretical work concerned with reading Deleuze in the context of literature and film." - Choice

"Deleuze and American Literature expertly spins a unique weave of concepts for the analysis of the novel. Affect, event, force, singularity, the outside, and the virtual. These concepts interlace and vary to generate a series of refreshingly original readings of nineteenth and twentieth century authors revolving around the notion of the nonhuman. Provocatively, it is from this notion that Bourassa draws his theory of character. The tension between the humanity of the novelistic character and its nonhuman conditions of literary emergence unfolds into an extended meditation on the difference between morality and ethics, playing out in particular around issues of race and gender. A masterful contribution to literary theory and the philosophy of the novel." - Brian Massumi, University of Montreal and author of Parables for the Virtual

Affect and Virtuality in Faulkner, Wharton, Ellison, and McCarthy

Deleuze and American Literature

In Search of Collaborative Advantage

Practices for Network Management

With Memoir, Notes And Glossary (1874)

The Poetical Works Of Gavin Douglas, Bishop Of Dunkeld V2

“The volume is an excellent starting point to understand the difficulties of reconciliation and closer collaboration in the region. With its well-rounded choice of authors and their empathetic efforts, combined with the very thoughtful and balanced summary by the editor, the book provides a valuable contribution not only to political and sociological practice, but to academic research as well.” (H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, January, 31 , 2019)

Dealing with Painful History to Create a Peaceful Present

Identity, Trust, and Reconciliation in East Asia

“The book offers significant depth and engagement on the issues of sexuality, class and masculinity in industrial England between 1895 and 1957 … . this is a rich, accessible and important contribution to our understanding of same-sex desire, class and masculinity in Britain.” (Jeffrey Meek, Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 28 (1), March, 2017)

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