Anthem Press imprint: 181 books
by Kenneth Weisbrode
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
"Eisenhower and the Art of Collaborative Leadership" examines the theory and practice of collaboration, and collaborative leadership, in the life and career of Dwight Eisenhower. It relates his collaborative style to his ideas about friendship, his Kansas upbringing and his family, his military...
Water Security in the Middle East
Essays in Scientific and Social Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Water Security in the Middle East explores the extent and nature of water security problems in transboundary water systems in the Middle East. This collection of essays discusses the political and scientific contexts and the limitations of cooperation in water security.
The contributors argue...
Structure, Agency and Biotechnology
The Case of the Rothamsted GM Wheat Trials
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Structure, Agency and Biotechnology argues for the significance of sociological theory and highlights the insights it can offer to the study of agricultural biotechnology. Cautioning against a simplistic reading of the GM controversy as merely a debate of science versus politics, Aristeidis Panagiotou...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
'Voyage to the Moon' And Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America gathers for the first time in a scholarly critical edition four moon voyage stories published by Americans prior to the Civil War. Included in this volume are the works by George Tucker, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard...
by Sutapa Dutta
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
‘British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861’ focuses on the contributions made by Dorothy Carey, Hannah Marshman, Mrs Yates, Mrs Pearce, Mary Ann Cooke, Mrs Mundy, Miss Bird, Mrs Weitbrecht and Hannah Mullens, even if some were to only suffer silently while others were more active in their...
How to Get Into Medical School in Australia
The Definitive Guide to Applying to Medical School
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
‘How to Get into Medical School in Australia’ is the definitive guide on how to succeed in your application to medical school – and how to excel once there. The book provides comprehensive detail on the admissions processes – both undergraduate and graduate – in an easy-to-digest, chronological...
Regimes of Happiness
Comparative and Historical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
'Regimes of Happiness' is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment, determining divergent moral, ethical and religious traditions, and incommensurate and conflicting understanding of the meaning of the ‘good...
Religion and Contemporary Management
Moses as a Model for Effective Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Although few might think of Moses as a ‘leader’ in the contemporary business and political sense, Moses is not only among the most significant leaders in Western civilization but is also arguably the quintessential example of a powerful leader from whom much can be learned by anyone entering and...
Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition
Branding the Potters of Kolkata
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
In Kolkata’s traditional potter quarter of Kumartuli, a modern and a competitive market oriented approach to life is concealed behind tradition. Among the potters inhabiting the dirt-floored workshops of this caste-based neighbourhood, the history of a modern and economicly neoliberal-minded India...
by Susan Kippax, Niamh Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This book concerns HIV prevention. The authors argue that until the world focuses its attention on the social issues carried and revealed by AIDS, it is unlikely that HIV transmission will be eradicated or even significantly reduced. Currently we are witnessing the remedicalisation or the continuing...
by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Over the past decade India has witnessed a number of land wars that have centred crucially on the often forcible transfer of land from small farmers or indigenous groups to private companies. Among these, the land war that erupted in Singur, West Bengal, in 2006, went on to make national headlines...
Classical Economics Today
Essays in Honor of Alessandro Roncaglia
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
“Classical Economics Today: Essays in Honor of Alessandro Roncaglia” is a collection of essays that investigates and applies the method and principles of Classical political economy to current issues of economic theory and policy.
The contributors to the volume, like all classical economists...
Emerging Market Economies and Financial Globalization
Argentina, Brazil, China, India and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In the past, foreign shocks arrived to national economies mainly through trade channels, and transmissions of such shocks took time to come into effect. However, after capital globalization, shocks spread to markets almost immediately. Despite the increasing macroeconomic dangers that the situation...
by Bengt-Åke Lundvall
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
‘The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope’ brings together the most important contributions by an expert on policies, management and economics of innovation and knowledge. It offers original insights in processes of innovation and learning and it draws implications for economic theory and...