Does feminism give a much-needed voice to women in a patriarchal world? Or is the world not really patriarchal? Has feminism begun to level the playing field in a world in which women are more often paid less at work and abused at home? Or are women paid equally for the same work and not abused more[...]
This text examines perceptions and representations of Indian music in the West over a period of 200 years, ranging from Orientalist studies of Indian history and culture in the 18th and 19th centuries to the adoption of elements from Indian music in Western popular culture in the late 20th century.[...]
Is the party over? Parties are the central institutions of representative democracy, but critics increasingly claim that parties are failing to perform their democratic functions. This book assembles unprecedented cross-national evidence to assess how parties link the individual citizen to the forma[...]
Many artists, writers, and other creative people do their best work when collaborating within a circle of likeminded friends. Experimenting together and challenging one another, they develop the courage to rebel against the established traditions in their field. Out of their discussions they develop[...]
The Teacher's Books contain comprehensive teaching notes as well as additional photocopiable resources. There is a Digibook (a digital version of the Pupil's Books) packaged with the Teacher's Books which is designed to provide a more flexible range of teaching options in the classroom.[...]
The Teacher's Books contain comprehensive teaching notes as well as additional photocopiable resources. There is a Digibook (a digital version of the Pupil's Books) packaged with the Teacher's Books which is designed to provide a more flexible range of teaching options in the classroom.[...]
Rico learns that the culture he thought he hated may be his best source of strength Rico hates everything to do with his Mayan heritage. Fighting to preserve Mayan customs was what killed his dad. Now his family is poor, and he and his sister Delfina need to sell their produce in the city to earn mo[...]
Jacques Derrida's final seminars were devoted to animal life and political sovereignty--the connection being that animals slavishly adhere to the law while kings and gods tower above it and that this relationship reveals much about humanity in the West. David Farrell Krell attended these seminars an[...]
"Krell creates a remarkable interplay of meanings, allusions, and connotations--an interplay of multiple resonance which is finely tuned to Derrida's thought and which makes his essay as artful as it is conceptually disciplined. He is surely one of the most astute translators and readers in contempo[...]
"The Religious Imagination of American Women" is an exploration of five ideas that have become particularly powerful catalysts in the theological imaginations of women in many difference communities. These are ambivalence toward their traditions; the immanence, or indwelling, of the divine; the sacr[...]
Since its release in 1980, Kay Lawson's Political Parties and Linkage: A Comparative Perspective has become a classic text in the field of political science. In her groundbreaking work Lawson approaches linkage from an angle left unexplored by her predecessors. Her thinking filled in the systematic [...]
Two stunning, Booker Prize-winning historical novels that vividly chronicle the crumbling edges of the British Empire in India and Ireland--in one Contemporary Classics hardcover.
Inspired by historical events, "The Siege of Krishnapur "is the mesmerizing tale of a British outpost, under siege [...]
A fictional retelling of the life of a notorious voodooienne takes readers into mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, offering an interpretation of Marie Laveau's secret religious practices and how they shaped her surrounding culture. Reprint. AB. K.[...]
Governments across the world are pursuing reform in an effort to improve public services. But have these reforms actually led to improvements in services? "Evaluating Public Management Reforms" develops a framework for a theory-based evaluation of reforms, and then uses this framework to assess the [...]