Anthem Press imprint: 181 books

The Science Communication Challenge

Truth and Disagreement in Democratic Knowledge Societies

by Gitte Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018

Current knowledge societies tend to be based on an understanding of science as an all-purpose problem-solver and include the expansion of scientific methods and frameworks of thought to ever more areas of life. Such development is less pragmatic and down-to- earth than it may appear at first glance....

Greece's 'Odious' Debt

The Looting of the Hellenic Republic by the Euro, the Political Elite and the Investment Community

by Jason Manolopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011

Jason Manolopoulos lends a unique perspective, based on experience of the global financial system, emerging markets and crises, European politics and Greek society, to demonstrate how one of the EU’s smaller countries played a catalytic role in a crisis that threatens the future of the euro, and...

Judge Knot

Politics and Development in International Investment Law

by Todd N. Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018

In recent decades, international legal constraints have shifted far beyond the national border. International lenders’ structural adjustment programs require states to slash budgets, privatize public enterprises and cut pensions. Trade agreements have shifted from locking in low tariffs to forbidding...
by Ali Kadri
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

Conditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the developing world, the immediate post-independence period represented an age of hope and relative prosperity. But imperialism did not sleep while these countries...

Economic Development of Emerging East Asia

Catching Up of Taiwan and South Korea

by Frank S.T. Hsiao, Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017

Economic Development of Emerging East Asia presents economic studies of Taiwan and South Korea, compares them chiefly with Japan and the United States and finds that these East Asian countries are still in the process of emerging in the world economy. A timely quantitative and econometric analysis...
by Bruce F. Kawin
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012

Horror films can be profound fables of human nature and important works of art, yet many people dismiss them out of hand. “Horror and the Horror Film” conveys a mature appreciation of horror films along with a comprehensive view of their narrative strategies, their relations to reality and fantasy,...

Water Diplomacy in Action

Contingent Approaches to Managing Complex Water Problems

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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017

Complex water problems cannot be resolved by numbers or narratives. Contingent and negotiated approaches are necessary for actionable outcome. In the face of a constantly changing array of interconnected water issues that cross multiple boundaries, the challenge is how to translate solutions that...

Iron Men

How One London Factory Powered the Industrial Revolution and Shaped the Modern World

by David Waller
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

In the early nineteenth century, Henry Maudslay, an engineer from a humble background, opened a factory in Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth, a stone’s throw from the Thames. Maudslay invented precision engineering, which made the industrial revolution possible, helping Great Britain become the workshop...

The Creation of Modern China, 18942008

The Rise of a World Power

by Iain Robertson Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016

China preoccupies us; yet its recent past is still relatively unfamiliar. No country has undergone a greater period of sustained and turbulent change than China in the twentieth century, but it has emerged again as a leading global power. It is, therefore, more important than ever to understand the...

Eugene Onegin

A Novel in Verse

by Alexander Pushkin
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016

A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society – serf, provincial, aristocrat – in verse which is by turns beautiful, witty, wickedly perceptive and always readable. This is essential reading for anyone...
by Hisashi Inoue
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013

Tokyo Seven Roses' is set in Japan during the waning months of WWII and the beginning of the Occupation. It is written as a diary kept from April 1945 to April 1946 by Shinsuke Yamanaka, a fifty-three-year-old fan-maker living in Nezu, part of Tokyo's shitamachi (old-town) district. After the war,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016

Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States. Many of the most famous American works of the nineteenth century that we know today — such as Herman Melville’s...

Tokyo Seven Roses

Volume II

by Hisashi Inoue
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013

Tokyo Seven Roses' is set in Japan during the waning months of WWII and the beginning of the Occupation. It is written as a diary kept from April 1945 to April 1946 by Shinsuke Yamanaka, a fifty-three-year-old fan-maker living in Nezu, part of Tokyo's shitamachi (old-town) district. After the war,...
by Mitchell Rolls, Anna Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016

'Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia’s cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia’s sense of itself as a nation....
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