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This book analyses the problem of distributive justice in the European Union. The author examines the nature of the distributive duties linked to EU membership and puts forward a set of policy proposals to advance a just Europe. -- .

This volume is the first comprehensive overview of how International Relations theories - liberal, rational choice, feminist, and sociological institutionalism, realism, constructivism, practice theories, critical security studies, and complexity theory - can help us understand UN peace operations.

This book offers a psychoanalytical, Marxist, feminist approach to the way motherhood is portrayed in quality American television series and how that affects the position of mothers in neoliberal American society.

Global London on screen presents a mélange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday life to the more fantastical, odious or extraordinary circumstances that are captured cinematically in this superdiverse city.

A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in the midst of radical change.

Explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century -- .

A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in the midst of radical change. -- .

The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections. The editors invite the submission of articles in these fields and welcome discussion of in-progress projects.

The 1922 Committee is seen as the kingmaker in Conservative politics. This book provides a comprehensive account of its history, structure and influence.

In this compelling memoir, Thomas Paul Burgess recounts his time as a member of Ruefrex, one of Northern Ireland's most successful punk rock bands. Through a series of revealing vignettes, he traverses strife-torn Belfast and bohemian London, revealing another side of the punk rock story.

Through a sustained and critical engagement with the histories, social relations and cultures surrounding animal research, this book asks what the sector can teach us about the relations between science, society and animals in the twenty-first century.

Whether you are writing a police procedural or a psychological thriller, a contemporary or historically set novel, this book will help you identify the right beginning, middle and end of your crime novel. It will help you recognise your talent and realise your ambition in practical and realistic ways.

Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and psychical research movements between 1914 and 1939.

Examines changing ideas about childhood and Ireland in Irish Anglican writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in a wide variety of genres, including novels, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational treatises, histories, catechisms and children's bibles.

This book makes an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices. It shows how the performance of forensic scientists has been shaped by political regimes, law and ideology, leading to different forensic cultures.

Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy's literary works as a significant case study demonstrating our need to recognise the interrelated complexities of economic policies, environmental crises, and how public policy and rhetoric shapes our value systems. In a world recovering from global economic crisis and poised on the brink of another, studying the methods by which literature interrogates narratives of inevitability around global economic inequality and eco-disaster is ever more relevant.

This book addresses global concerns about microbial resistance. Combining historical case studies and first-hand practitioner accounts, it offers insights beyond current literature. Contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policy makers explore outbreaks of MRSA and compare infection control measures in different case-study contexts.

This is first English-language study of cine quinqui, a cycle of Spanish delinquent-themed films made in the 1970s and 1980s. Exploring how the films reflected the auditory experience of marginal youth cultures during this period, the book casts new light on the criminological, economic and political fault lines of Spain's transition to democracy. -- .