Anthem Press: 226 books
Fat China
How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
China's economy has boomed, but a potentially disastrous side effect - along with pollution and a growing income gap between urban and rural regions - is the effects obesity will have on the country's fragile healthcare system. Today's overweight in China can look to a mixed future of bright economic...
Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity
A Constructive Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
‘Habermas and Giddens on Modernity: A Constructive Comparison’ investigates how two of the most important and influential contemporary social theorists have sought to develop the modernist visions of the constitution of society through the autonomous actions of subjects. It compares Habermas and...
Alternative Modernities in French Travel Writing
Engaging Urban Space in London and New York, 18511986
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
Ever since human beings first travelled, cities have constituted important material and literary destinations. While the city has formed a key theme for scholars of literary fiction, travellers’ modes of writing the city have been somewhat neglected by travel studies. However, travel writing with...
by Wheeler Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
More and more, just a few canonical classics, such as Michael Curtiz’s “Casablanca” (1942) or Victor Fleming’s “Gone With The Wind” (1939), are representing the entire output of an era to a new generation that knows little of the past, and is encouraged by popular media to live only in...
by Bruce F. Kawin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This engaging collection of Bruce F. Kawin’s most important film essays (1977–2011) is accompanied by his interviews with Lillian Gish (1978) and Howard Hawks (1976). The Hawks interview is particularly concerned with his work with William Faulkner and their friendship. The Gish interview emphasizes...
On Beckett
Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
“On Beckett: Essays and Criticism” is the first collection of writings about the Nobel Prize–winning author that covers the entire spectrum of his work, and also affords a rare glimpse of the private Beckett. More has been written about Samuel Beckett than about any other writer of this century...
The Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington
The Most Gorgeous Lady on the Tour
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This book derives from the conviction that Marguerite Blessington (1788–1849) merits scholarly attention as a travel writer, and thus offers the first detailed analysis of Blessington’s four travel books: ‘A Tour in The Isle of Wight, in the Autumn of 1820’ (1822), ‘Journal of a Tour through...
by Richard Reeve
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
The main focus of 'The Sexual Imperative in the Novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard' is Haggard's preoccupation in his fiction with the theme of the sexual imperative and the relationship between his fictional representations and his personal emotional geography and experiences. It illuminates and explores...
Migrant Nation
Australian Culture, Society and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Focusing on particular historical blind spots by telling stories of individuals and groups that did not fit the favoured identity mould, the essays in 'Migrant Nation' work within the gap between Australian image and experience and offer fresh insights into the ‘other’ side of identity construction....
Memory Machines
The Evolution of Hypertext
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications. Barnet tells both the human and the technological story by weaving together contemporary literature and her exclusive interviews with...
Brexit
Sociological Responses
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Brexit traces the implications of the UK’s projected withdrawal from the EU, placing short-term political fluctuations in a broader historical and social context of the transformation of European and global society. This book provides a forum for leading Eurosociologists (broadly defined), working...
SouthSouth Trade and Finance in the Twenty-First Century
Rise of the South or a Second Great Divergence
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
The last two-three decades have seen a dramatic rise in South–South economic relations, yet no book exists that systematically examines these changes in the global economy. Most studies on South–South relations focus on regionalism, that is regional integration in South America, preferential trading...
Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities
Strategies for Engagement, Readiness and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Drawing on research from the New England Climate Adaptation Project, “Managing Climate Risks for Coastal Communities” introduces a framework for building local capacity to respond to climate change. The authors maintain that local climate adaptation efforts require collective commitments to risk...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001 saw the start of the so-called war on terror. The aim of ‘In the Name of Security – Secrecy, Surveillance and Journalism’ is to assess the impact of surveillance and other security measures on in-depth public interest...