The story of a Soviet girl who overcame numerous obstacles. The purpose of this story is to encourage young women to never give up and to keep going in life, no matter what

Under His Wings

'Laurence Gouriévidis has provided a brilliant study of the Highland Clearances as interpreted by museums. She shows how complex are the motives for memorialisation, how difficult the achievement, and how ambiguous the notions of "heritage" or, indeed, of dispassionate history. It is a welcome breath of fresh air in Scottish historical and cultural studies.' Chris Smout, University of St Andrews, UK  'With sustained interest in the history of the Clearances comes responsibility for their interpretation and (re)presentation. Drawing on a wide range of local museums as sites of interpretation, and elegantly blending insight from literature, museology, heritage studies and historical scholarship, Laurie Gouriévidis convincingly demonstrates the potency of the past and the power of collective memory in shaping present and future meanings around notions of land, home, belonging and identity.' Charles W. J. Withers, University of Edinburgh, UK  '... The Dynamics of Heritage presents an excellent academic analysis of the theoretical concerns that underpin our (re)presentations of the past, which will prove a useful case study for other researchers.' Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review

History, Memory and the Highland Clearances

The Dynamics of Heritage

'Power dynamics and competing interests in international trade negotiations are a vexing problem at the heart of global and regional trade agendas. The multi-regional and comparative cases in the volume allow a nuanced understanding of the intricacies of negotiations among asymmetrical trade partners. It is an important contribution to the debate on the architecture of global economic institutions, as well as the future of the global trade agenda.' José RaÃºl Perales, The George Washington University, USA  'Given that almost all of New Zealand’s trade negotiations are with larger partners (only Brunei is smaller), this book on asymmetry and how to cope with it is timely... it offers credible examples from the 21st century... A timely reminder of enduring global political-economic imbalances.'  New Zealand International Review  'The international political economy framework employed in this book is paired with a trade policy practitioner’s level of detailed knowledge of the world trading regime, making for a book that is both theoretically interesting and empirically satisfying. ... This book is a good contribution to international political economy analyses of the world trade regime.' Political Studies Review

Asymmetric Trade Negotiations

'Sophisticated and wide ranging, this collection will broaden the reader's sense of the possibilities of international studies. Aalto, Harle and Moisio provide compelling evidence for the insights of interdisciplinary approaches in diverse global contexts, from feminist IR and African studies to environmental change and the global financial crisis.' David Long, Carleton University, Canada  '... an innovative collection of well-argued essays. At its core is a strong message about how research on international studies ought to be undertaken, and the importance of engaging with related disciplines such that policy considerations are addressed intelligently and holistically. Although scholars from several academic communities are represented here, the three editors and many other contributors are based in Finland, reminding the reader of the significant contribution this community of researchers has made to the many faces of international studies.'  Tim Dunne, University of Queensland, Australia  'All the contributors are committed to interdisciplinarity and identify opportunities to widen IR. They also take a concrete stance to direct their choice of cases that represent the analyses in the best possible way... Overall, [this] innovative volume, with its strong message that internaÂ­tional relations research demands interdisciplinarity, will remind the field’s opinion-formers of the importance of the third period of IR studies. [This book] will interest IR scholars and stuÂ­dents and all who work on interdisciplinary studies of international, global and regional issues.' Millenium  'Although there are countless edited books about global issues, this one is original not only because the co-editors are scholars from Finland, but mainly because the authors focus on the interdisciplinary dimensions of research and innovate in their conceptualisation of international studies... In sum, this innovative collection opens new doors but is not definitive; other open-minded sch

Towards an Interdisciplinary Study

Global and Regional Problems

'When German television viewers tuned in to GÃ¼nter Gaus's interview with Hannah Arendt in 1964, they got a glimpse of the vibrant animation of her political thought. The eleven essays in this book, inspired by scenes from that interview, bring Arendt's thought to life for us. They give us a vivid feeling for the contexts, intellectual and political, that mattered to Arendt; and they show us how, even as she rejected the subordination of politics to philosophy, Arendt made thinking matter to politics. A valuable collection, rich in insights not only about Arendt but about the enterprise of political theory.' Patchen Markell, The University of Chicago, USA

In Conversation with Hannah Arendt

Power, Judgment and Political Evil

'There is much to praise in the book’s historical approach, which rightly avers that our ethical categories emerge as we reflect on concrete events in our shared past. Because the narrative arc of this work draws from particular incidents in Western Christianity, its sound conclusions carry the weight of the examples on which the authors draws.'  Theological Studies  ’This is a useful book that I shall recommend to students. In addition to historical overview, its strength is the challenge to Christian ethicists to think from the gospel of Christ and revelation of God in the scriptures to the everyday practice of criminal justice. ...The historical framework of The Last Judgment provides a very useful backdrop against which the educator or other interested parties could develop such lines of inquiry.’ Modern Believing

Christian Ethics in a Legal Culture

The Last Judgment

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Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in Science

A Discourse on Method

Came A Tall Kentucky Gentleman

'In the development policy literature, this arresting book will rank alongside Ferguson's classic The Anti-Politics Machine. At the empirical level, Transformative Policy for Poor Women explains the routine paradox of policy that fails to benefit its beneficiaries. At the theoretical level, Bina Fernandez has combined critical public administration with a feminist anti-reductionism in a novel and fertile approach. This well-written book is sure to inspire applications worldwide - and the world will be the better for them.' Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford University, UK  'Why and how do anti-poverty policies so often fail to benefit poor women? Fernandez interrogates these persistent failures with an engaging combination of scholarly precision and feminist focus. She provides a lucid explanation of her innovative framework for policy investigation: the relationship between constitutive contexts, policy representations, policy practices and consequences. Going beyond the original context prompting this analysis - policy for poor women in India - she applies her framework across several developing countries to demonstrate its relevance as an alternative policy approach for analyzing intersecting inequalities. An insightful book that clearly moves debates forward.' Caroline Dyer, University of Leeds, UK  'At a time when "poor women" have become a primary target of anti-poverty policies, this book provides a much-needed analytical framework for understanding why policy objectives are not often achieved and why there may be persistent policy failures.  Moving beyond the "thin" prescription/evaluation mind-set that characterises the study of policy in developing countries, it provides us with a "thick" description of policy as simultaneously about the discursive production of meaning and as a regime of practices.' Shahra Razavi, UNRISD, Geneva, Switzerland  'Transformative Policy for Poor Women provides an insightful and practical framework for feminist policy analysis

A New Feminist Framework

Transformative Policy for Poor Women

Managing Security in Today's Hotel, Nightlife, Entertainment, and Tourism Environment

Hospitality Security

History of the Holy Catholic Inquisition

'Central and Eastern Europe now assumes an important place in international nature conservation practice but figures rarely in scholarship. This book makes a significant contribution towards filling this gap by moving from a review of global conservation practice to insightful case studies of co-management in the Czech Republic and Macedonia.' Thomas Sikor, University of East Anglia, UK

Communities in Transition: Protected Nature and Local People in Eastern and Central Europe

Outlines of European History ...: Earliest Man, the Orient, Greece, and Rome, by J. H. Breasted. Europe From the Break-Up of the Roman Empire to the O

’In this detailed exploration of London's South Bank, Jones provides a timely exploration of what is a truly public or social space. Navigating issues of design, politics, ethnography, finance, planning and performance, On South Bank is a thoughtful and timely contribution to our understanding of both the South Bank itself and public spaces in general.’ Iain Borden, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK 'On South Bank: The Production of Public Space, by Alasdair J. H. Jones, is a compelling read, which explores the tensions between the coming of public space as a design subject and its concomital erosion, transfiguration and closing down by forces more powerful than its everyday users and architects ... As both an academic and ordinary member of the public, I would recommend On South Bank to a wide and diverse audience'. Journal of Urbanism

'Alasdair Jones presents us with an ethnographical account of street-level socio-spatial relations on London’s South Bank. Here, the mixture of public and privately owned spaces such as the Southbank Centre, along with their distinct groups of users and an active transformation during the course of the author’s investigation, make for a set of power relations worthy of empirical study…As is often the case with good research, the book is undoubtedly a labour of love and was influenced by prior personal connections to the site of the study, as the author himself used to skate in the undercroft. However, far from giving only a skewed narrative of skating, the book provides a vivid account of the South Bank, focussing on the complexities of privately owned space that is not only publicly accessible, but designated to serve the public.' The London Journal

On South Bank: The Production of Public Space

The Therapeutics of Fevers

Poesías sérias y humoristicas

The Mummy Case.; 1941

Foreigners in Turkey; Their Juridical Status

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Atmen

'A towering piece of research and writing, imbued with theoretical and methodological vigor, and sensitively illuminating the intersections of digital media and human ingenuity in the Central Himalayas.  A must read.' Arvind Singhal, University of Texas at El Paso, USA, and Clinton School of Public Service, USA  'In every age, innovative technology has been met with an awkward mixture of enthusiasm, indifference, scepticism and hostility. The advent in our time of cheap, mobile computing and cellular telephones has drawn a similar response, especially in the international development community. In Dot Com Mantra, Payal Arora goes beyond the familiar juxtapositions to show how poor individuals and communities actively negotiate their engagement with twenty-first century technology, documenting the conditions under which they use, abuse and reject it in their everyday lives. The result is a book that is fascinating in its own right, but also highly instructive to a new generation of development policymakers, in rich and poor countries alike, caught between an imperative for easy answers and the reality of messy complexity.' Michael Woolcock, World Bank  'Dot Com Mantra is an excellent work by Payal Arora. ... [it] focuses largely on the social, economic, and political aspect of development considered within a global framework. Dr. Arora speaks the language of the area and fully immersed herself in its day-to-day life, moving among farmers' organization, development groups (non-governmental organizations-NGOs), teachers and students, and even volunteering her time working in an Internet café, from all of which she derived deep understandings.'  Journal of Education, Community & Values

Social Computing in the Central Himalayas

Dot Com Mantra

A Case Study in Unequal Power, Knowledge and Material Resources

Staff, Parents and Politics in Head Start

'The role of Pietism in shaping Kierkegaard's religious outlook has often been alluded to in the secondary literature, but has only rarely been addressed in detail. Christopher B. Barnett's study goes further than any previous work in establishing the historical, biographical and textual basis for this influence and in tracing its effects in Kierkegaard's own writings. This will surely become a point of reference for any future work that takes Kierkegaard's place in the history of theology seriously and, indeed, for any work that seeks to understand what being religious meant for him. It is admirably clear and thorough in its treatment of both primary and secondary materials.' George Pattison, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity,University of Oxford, UK  'This book should be required reading for any student of Kierkegaard’s religious works, and it is highly recommended for anyone studying the philosophical writings too. Barnett traces key sources of Kierkegaard’s religious outlook back through such figures as J. G. Hamann, Nikolaus Zinzendorf, Gottfried Arnold, Johannes Arndt, Martin Luther, and Thomas Ã  Kempis, all the way  to the medieval mystic Johannes Tauler, and before. The analysis thereby illumines Kierkegaard’s polemics against mere philosophical speculation and his call for a Socratic brand of Christianity disciplined by the constant risk of martyrdom.' Andrew Burgess, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, The University of New Mexico, USA  'SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard’s intellectual relationship to Pietism is complex and dialectical - indeed, ambivalent. Barnett’s historically detailed treatise on Kierkegaard’s relationship to Pietism will thus become a standard work for international Kierkegaard researchers and for scholars of church history and dogmatics'. Niels JÃ¸rgen CappelÃ¸rn, Professor of Kierkegaard Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark  '... Barnett’s Kierkegaard, Pietism and Holiness will one day become a seminal work on this issue

Kierkegaard, Pietism and Holiness

Global Perspectives from Early Modern to Contemporary Times

The Force of Fashion in Politics and Society

Linda E. Connors awarded Drew University’s Bela Kornitzer Book Award for the best book published by an alumnus of Drew University.
"This is an interesting and very useful study of British and colonial Canadian periodicals in the period 1815-1851. Though periodicals flourished during these years and often had wide readerships, they have been seldom studied in detail. In dealing with the results of their research, the co-authors wisely focus on an important theme - the subject of national identity (or identities) as the concept applies to both Britain and its North American colonies. Astutely, they make their focus an era of great formative importance: the first half of the nineteenth century beginning with the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars."
-Michael Peterman, Canada, and author of Sisters in Two Worlds: A Visual Biography of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
"National Identity in Great Britain and British North America structures its comparative study of nineteenth-century identity messages around five themes, each of which has its dedicated chapter: politics and economics, religion, women and children, the idea of progress, and imperial relations. It has a comprehensive bibliography and an especially useful appendix that provides descriptions of the periodicals on which the research was based."
-Victorian Periodicals Review
"The study is a valuable one, not least in terms of the foregrounding of periodicals in the debate about the development of national identities..."
-Tijdschrift voor Tijdschriftstudies
"... an excellent contribution to the study of transatlantic British society. National identities existed, Connors and MacDonald observe, and the book’s organization allows them to explore this succinctly and clearly. ...Their extensive knowledge and lucid analysis of British print culture (a helpful appendix of periodical information is included) will be a benefit to historians and literary scholars alike."
-Daved Anthony Schmidt, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA

The Role of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals

National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815-1851

Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der kleinsten Wassertiere

"Well-researched studies of Jehovah’s Witnesses are few and far between. Using a wealth of newly available information, George Chryssides offers a fresh perspective on the Watchtower movement’s development from its 19th century origins to the era of globalisation. His careful account of the collision between Theocracy, the Internet, environmentalism, the sexual revolution, liberalism and accusations of sexual abuse is intriguing and highly readable." 
- James A. Beckford, University of Warwick, UK 
"I have been waiting for a book like this for a long time. George Chryssides has written a real fine piece of scholarship about the Jehovah´s Witnesses. The book is comprehensive, scientific, interesting, and easy to follow. I recommend it to students and scholars alike."
- Liselotte Frisk, Dalarna University, Sweden 
"This is a book that gives us a wealth of information about one of the best-known, yet relatively unknown, of the many minority religions that have spread throughout the globe over the past century and a half. Professor Chryssides takes us from the origins of the Jehovah’s Witnesses right up to the present day, indicating the changes that have taken place along the way. We learn about the Witnesses’ beliefs and practices, some of the more controversial of these (refusal of blood transfusions, proselytising, and conscientious objection) being discussed in a critical, yet always empathetic, manner. Particularly masterful is the way Chryssides guides us through the maze of dates and prophecies that have given rise to confusion not only for the outsider but also for many of the Witnesses themselves. Written with admirable clarity, the book provides absorbing material for a wide range of readers."
-Eileen Barker, Inform, UK 
"Jehovah’s Witnesses is a remarkable feat in both scope and depth of analysis. In clear and fluent prose, Chryssides explains continuity and change in the Watch Tower Society, exploring everything from its nineteenth century origins and modern rites of passage to its complex eschatology and twenty-first century challenges. With this book Chryssides cements his reputation as one of the world’s leading scholars of the organisation."
- Zoe Knox, University of Leicester, UK
"Finally, in this long-awaited book, George Chryssides sums up in one volume decades of activities as the leading European expert on Jehovah’s Witnesses. He analyses their historical roots, and discusses significant recent changes in the Watch Tower organisation. A seminal book, which will define the field of the scholarly study of Jehovah’s Witnesses for years to come."
- Massimo Introvigne, Pontifical Salesian University, Torino, Italy and Managing Director of CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions)
"Finally - an empathetic but non-partisan history of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in sociological perspective. Chryssides challenges many of our deeply held misconceptions about this fascinating "old/new" religious movement." 
- Susan Palmer, McGill University, Canada
"This is a much needed update on developments within and surrounding the Jehovah’s Witnesses by one of the leading scholars who has done serious research on the Witnesses. (...) Overall, this is a valuable addition to the literature on the Witnesses and on minority religions in general as they grapple with how to maintainthemselves in current times. Chryssides has done a commendable job of pulling together a tremendous amount of material and also making good use of his excellent ties with Witness congregations. His book will, I believe, stand the test of time and become a much-cited source for future scholars."
- James T. Richardson, University of Nevada, Reno

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