Assistant Professor: 29 books
Muay Thai Sport
The Procedures for Technical Practicing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
From the heart of South East Asia rose the most dangerous sport on two feet. Muay Thai Boxing is a part of the culture of Thailand and has mainly been depicted as an ancient martial art, until now.
"Well organized and the illustrations are awesome!" -Murrington
Today Mixed...
Dispatches from the Classroom
Graduate Students on Creative Writing Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
With emphasis on practical classroom application, this up-to-date and refreshingly honest collection of essays is a wonderful resource for teaching creative writing. The original and utterly contemporary essays that accurately portray the reality of the teaching experience.
Community Music in Oceania
Many Voices, One Horizon
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Community Music in Oceania: Many Voices, One Horizon makes a distinctive contribution to the field of community music through the experiences of its editors and contributors in music education, ethnomusicology, music therapy, and music performance. Covering a wide range of perspectives from Australia,...
Making Mergers and Acquisitions Work
From Strategy and Target Selection to Post Merger Integration
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
For many industries, mergers and acquisitions have become the main pathway for reaching strategic objectives like growth, technological leadership, or efficiency in production and distribution. However, the success rate of most M&A deals is low - and flawed. Unrealistic synergies, wrong target...
Changing Narratives of Sexuality
Contestations, Compliance and Womens Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Changing Narratives of Sexuality examines the tensions and contradictions in constructions of gender, sexuality and women's empowerment in the various narrations of sexuality told by and about women. From storytelling to women's engagement with state institutions, stories of unmarried women and ageing...
Critical Rhythm
The Poetics of a Literary Life Form
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Will be of interest to those following the recent turn to a politically, socially, and historically inflected approach to literary form, as well as to those in a range of fields thinking about affect, sound studies, and aesthetics.
by Diane Austin-Broos, Francesca Merlan, visiting fellow Paul Burke
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
People and Change in Indigenous Australia arose from a conviction that more needs to be done in anthropology to give a fuller sense of the changing lives and circumstances of Australian indigenous communities and people. Much anthropological and public discussion remains embedded in traditionalizing...
Liberalism under Siege
The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaries is a compelling examination of the French Doctrinaries, a largely neglected group of liberal thinkers in post-revolutionary France who were proponents of a nuanced sociological and historical approach to political theory. The...
In Marx's Shadow
Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist intellectuals on their way to power. By drawing attention to unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking...
by Assistant Professor Tiger C. Roholt
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Key Terms in Philosophy of Art offers a clear, concise and accessible introduction to a vital sub-field of philosophy. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the key terms, concepts, thinkers and major works in the history of this key area of philosophical thought. Ideal for first-year students...
Building a Just and Secure World
Popular Front Women's Struggle for Peace and Justice in Chicago During the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Building a Just and Secure World highlights women's activism, often peripheral and one-dimensional in peace movement historiography which tends to dramatize men's antiwar and antinuclear activism in national organizations.Â
In Chicago, an urban center of anti-war and civil rights activism,...
Africa
Why Economists Get It Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
‘A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.’
Foreign Affairs
Not so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across...
by Assistant Professor Tom Malleson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
There is no alternative to free-market capitalism. At least that’s what we’ve been told since the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher first declared the debate over. Politicians daily declare it, journalists parrot it, talk show hosts acquiesce to it, rich people gloat about it, and regular people simply...
Constructing Community
Configurations of the Social in Contemporary Philosophy and Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Constructing Community examines community from the particular perspective of the shaping and control of urban space in contemporary liberal democracies. Following a consideration and critique of influential theories of community that have arisen within European philosophy over the last three decades,...