Anthem Press: 226 books
by Martin Luther, Philipp Robinson Rössner
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Against the backdrop of today’s renewed uncertainty over the present economic system, this timely volume presents Martin Luther’s contribution to the modern economic sciences, providing a detailed introduction and revised translation of his major pamphlet on economic matters, ‘On Commerce and...
How Transformative Innovations Shaped the Rise of Nations
From Ancient Rome to Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The first thesis of ‘How Transformative Innovations Shaped the Rise of Nations’ is that economic growth, national dominance and global leadership are fueled primarily by embracing innovations, in particular transformative innovations.
A transformative innovation is one that changes the...
South Asia 2060
Envisioning Regional Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
“South Asia 2060” is a dialogue among 47 experts from a diverse range of expertise and backgrounds, ranging from policymakers to academia to civil society activists and visionaries, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia’s future. The collection explores current regional trends,...
The Asia-Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility
The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
As the age of social media progresses, the Asia Pacific, like the rest of the world, is experiencing an increase in cultural diversity and global connection. Those within the region are witnessing rapid social and cultural changes. As individuals and groups navigate through an increasingly mobile,...
The New Power Elite
Inequality, Politics and Greed
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Elites have always ruled – wielding inordinate power and wealth, taking decisions that shape life for the rest. In good times the ‘1%’ can hide their privilege, or use growing social mobility and economic prosperity as a justification. When times get tougher there’s a backlash. So the first...
Sophisticated Interdependence in Climate Policy
Federalism in the United States, Brazil, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Since the Kyoto Protocol’s signing in 1997 the United States has been the world’s most prominent climate change outlaw. In the United States, air pollution policymaking starts and ends with the states, whose governmental units implement federal programs.
But we find ourselves in uncharted...
Private Equity
A Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
’Private Equity’ is an advanced applied corporate finance book with a mixture of chapters devoted to exploring a range of topics from a private equity investor’s perspective. The goal is to understand why and which practices are likely to deliver sustained profitability in the future. The book...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Social Ecology is an emerging concept situated in the field of critical social theory and new integrative sciences that addresses the complex and interrelated relationship between nature and society, offering a perspective on how environmental issues are embedded in a social context. Border landscapes...
The Craft of Professional Writing
A Guide for Amateur and Professional Writers
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
The Craft of Professional Writing is the most complete book ever written about the real-life work of being a writer. Covering topics ranging from business writing (advertising, PR) to commercial work (news reporting, feature writing, blogging, non-fiction books) to creative writing (screenplays and...
Death of a Prototype
The Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
This is the first work by Victor Beilis to make it into English since the single-volume publication in 2002 of a duo of novellas—“The Rehabilitation of Freud & Bakhtin and Others”(translated by Richard Grose). Much like the novellas that preceded it, “Death of a Prototype” is a hyper-allusive...
'Volpone' in Context
Biters Bitten and Fools Fooled
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Everything you need to know about the cultural contexts of 'Volpone'. The unremitting exposure of human vileness is black and bleak, redeemed perhaps by the eventual punishment of the wrongdoers in an outcome achieved more by luck than justice. This book provides detailed in-depth discussion of the...
by Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
"Report on the Agrarian Law" (1795) and Other Writings' is the first modern English translation of perhaps the greatest work of the Spanish Enlightenment, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos’s 'Informe sobre la Ley Agraria' (1795). A major work of political economy and a beautifully crafted philosophical...
Unto the Tulip Gardens
My Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The sumptuous Topkapı Palace in eighteenth century Istanbul is a place of breathtaking splendour where human foibles, love, lust and above all greed reign supreme in the lives of a sultan, a painter, a grand vizier and some of the world’s most beautiful women. [NP] Imperial favour has raised a...
Notions of Otherness
Literary Essays from Abraham Cahan to Dacia Maraini
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Defining what one means by the notion of ‘otherness’ is no mean feat. Typing the word into JSTOR results in no fewer than 39,000 citations. One can be overwhelmed with notions of what constitutes ‘otherness’.
To a great extent, the essays in ‘Notions of Otherness’ approach specific...