Anthem Press: 226 books
An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion
Australia from 1788
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion presents Australian traditions, myths and legends in an understanding but often critical light in the belief that such devices have often been used by interested parties and even governments to maintain social solidarity and to mould a very complex people into a...
Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business networks and...
The Art and Science of Sociology
Essays in Honor of Edward A. Tiryakian
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
The book consists of a volume of essays in honor of the outstanding sociologist, Edward A. Tiryakian; whose work has spanned a considerable number of countries, regions and topics. He has been highly influential, particularly in American and French sociology.
Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change
Keeping Our Heads above Water
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change – but it is also a country that is capable of coping. Far from being a victim, Bangladesh has lessons for activists, scientists, government and donor officials and concerned citizens who want to know what climate change looks like...
Aboriginal Art and Australian Society
Hope and Disenchantment
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
This book is an investigation of the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has been entangled with Australian society’s negotiation of Indigenous people’s status within the nation. Through critical reflection on Aboriginal art’s idiosyncrasies as a fine arts movement, its vexed relationship with...
Australian Literature in the German Democratic Republic
Reading through the Iron Curtain
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2016
Exploring the imaginative construction of the post-colonial South by the communist East, this is a multi-faceted, collaborative study of the reception of Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic. An account of fraught and complex cross-cultural literary exchange between two highly distinct,...
The Creativity Hoax
Precarious Work and the Gig Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
We often hear that creative and intellectual innovation is the key to western economic renewal, that cognitive capitalism has succeeded in globalizing the mental-manual division of labour, and that old work – blue-collar, repetitive, de-skilled – is now consigned to the factories of the developing...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
John Ruskin, whose bicentenary will be celebrated world-wide in 2019, was not only an art historian, cultural critic and political theorist but, above all, a great educator. He was the inspiration behind such influential figures as William Morris, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and Mahatma Gandhi and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
‘Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging’ explores mediated debates about belonging in contemporary Australia by combining research that proposes conceptual and historical frameworks for understanding the concept in the Australian context. A range of themes and case studies make the book...
by Sneja Gunew
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ argues the need to move beyond the monolingual paradigm within Anglophone literary studies. Using Lyotard’s concept of post as the future anterior (back to the future), this book sets up a concept of post-multiculturalism salvaging the...
Tales from a Mountain Cave
Stories from Japans Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The sound of a trumpet across a Japanese mountain valley leads a young man to befriend a mysterious stranger. During repeated visits to the cave where the stranger has set up home, the young man learns about his past – in the mines, villages and ports of the region. The stranger’s hilarious, bawdy...
IB Music Revision Guide 2nd Edition
Everything you need to prepare for the Music Listening Examination (Standard and Higher Level 2016-2019)
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The ‘IB Music Revision Guide 2nd Edition’ includes analyses of all the prescribed works of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme music course through 2019. It also includes a comprehensive overview of all the musical styles and cultures that are examined during the course, practice...
Worst-Case Economics
Extreme Events in Climate and Finance
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Worst-case scenarios are all too real, and all too common. The financial crisis of 2008 was not the first or the last to destroy jobs, homeownership and the savings of millions of people. Hurricanes clobber communities from New York to Bangladesh. How bad will the next catastrophe be, and how soon...
Global Green Shift
When Ceres Meets Gaia
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The world that created modern industry, pioneered in the West, is in decline. It is being transformed by a global green shift, creating new industries based on clean energy, clean water and clean food – all produced in a safe, clean and sustainable way, in abundance, at low (and diminishing) cost...