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Uncovers the hidden history of conservation, conflict, and resistance on the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border. Drawing on rich oral testimonies and archival records, this book examines the impact of colonial wildlife conservation policies on African societies...

In the 1930s, American government began to transform in a way that its Founders simply could not foresee. The public sector grew exponentially, creating a demand for revenue across national, state, and local levels. The absence of provisions in the U.S...

An interdisciplinary and international roster of contributors explore the theory, design, and player practices surrounding video game reward systems, arguing for the importance of understanding trophies and achievements as a central aspect of video game...

The carceral imaginary explains Americans' stubborn attachment to or at least acceptance of prisons, both in the hyperbolic tough-on-crime practices and in seemingly progressive sectors.Joining a critical reading of John Locke with theorists of...

In the first major book on the Senate of Pakistan since its creation in 1973, Dilawar Hussain explores its institutional history, membership, constitutional powers and key functions and how these have changed since the introduction of the Eighteenth...

Colonially Mediated Spaces and Beings addresses the intricate interplay between identity, mobility, and power, focusing on how these dynamics are mediated by omnicolonialism and reclaimed through translocal networks of resistance and belonging.Ibnelkaid...

It's time for social scientists to thrive in the grant-getting world.Securing external funding has never been more important for social scientists, nor has it ever required so much creativity! The Social Scientist's Grant Guide answers the call to...

Phylis West Johnson and Tina Korani reveal how women are shaping the forthcoming Metaverse with a unique social perspective that promises to revolutionize society.Examining women in leadership across the top Metaverse companies through interviews and...

In the first book to explore the philosophy of dynamism from classical India, Sthaneshwar Timalsina interrogates central metaphysical questions about the nature of reality.Timalsina argues for change and time as intrinsic to being. Exploring instances...

Academics and activists debate current problems of democratic politics and seek ways to renew the ideals of democracy in a climate of disillusionment and cynicism. Taking their inspiration from the work of David Beetham, an eminent scholar of democracy...

This volume offers a comprehensive examination of Hans Kelsen's legal and political philosophy, focusing on four central themes.The first part analyses Kelsen's theory of norms, including its periodisation and concepts of validity and coercion. The...

Video generation is rapidly becoming a key area in generative AI-combining spatial, temporal, and multimodal reasoning to produce moving images that are both coherent and creative. For many practitioners, however, understanding how these models function...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817322748Author Kathyrn M. FrederickFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint University Alabama PressPublisher University Alabama PressWeight(grams) 454g

Ancient Greek Democracy and American Republicanism explores the archetype of Prometheus in political theory, representing faith in human agency and self-governance. It borrows perspectives from Hannah Arendt and Christopher Lasch, tracing Promethean...

Intervening into fields including posthumanist, disability, animal and feminist studies, and current critiques of capitalism and consumerism, Frida Beckman explores the possibility of recovering a theory of sexuality from Deleuze's work. She thereby...

Published surreptitiously in 1670, Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise transformed early modern Europe, destabilising widely-held ideas about authority, prophecy and biblical scripture, while arguing for democracy, free speech and religious...

New Frontiers in Performance Management Research offers a comprehensive exploration of the complexities, current evidence-based knowledge, and future research opportunities relating to performance management (PM) systems. The book is organized according...

Hans-Georg Gadamer's poetics completely overturns the European aesthetic tradition. By concentrating on the experience of meaning, Unfinished Worlds shows how Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics transforms aesthetics into a mode of attentive practice...

Stoking the embers of French Hegelianism, this book looks at five recent and contemporary French philosophers: Badiou, Jambet, Lardreau, Francoise Proust and Ranciere. Each produces a post-Hegelian philosophy of history founded on an assertion of the...

David Hume is the most famous philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet his prominence in the history of philosophy has had the unhappy effect of overshadowing some of the most insightful critics amongst his contemporaries. This book aims to restore...

David Webb reveals the extent to which Foucault's approach to language in The Archaeology of Knowledge was influenced by the mathematical sciences, adopting a mode of thought indebted to thinkers in the scientific and epistemological traditions such as...

It's time to Make America Talk Again.Americans have never had more ways to connect, yet we've never been more divided, lonely, and silent. Civil discourse-once the lifeblood of democracy-has been replaced by a fear of losing friends and family, being...

This book examines the constitutional treatment of national security in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These four states share their Commonwealth heritage and are members, alongside the USA, of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance. The...

A gripping story of political idealism, disillusionment, and new hope, Nothing Left exposes how the Democratic Party was hijacked by out-of-touch activists, coastal elitists, and powerful special interests. Packed with insider revelations and razor-sharp...

Statistical methods are a key part of data science, yet few data scientists have formal statistical training. Courses and books on basic statistics rarely cover the topic from a data science perspective. The third edition of this popular guide expands...

How police reproduce social, spatial, and racial inequalities in two global citiesFrom Donald Trump to Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, political leaders endorsing "law and order" - specifically through aggressive policing strategies - have supported the...

A powerful analysis of China's bid for global pre-eminence and what it means for the future of international politics. Xi Jinping's pledge to achieve "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" by 2050 captures the ambition driving China's current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817362768Author Kathyrn M. FrederickFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint University Alabama PressPublisher University Alabama PressWeight(grams) 454g

This book proposes a new solution to the problem of the migration crisis engulfing the world by creating safe harbours, or Free Global Cities.In the face of the largest displacement crisis on record even the most optimistic view of the future suggests...

From his early work in 'Nietzsche and Philosophy' to 'Difference and Repetition', Deleuze develops a unique notion of transcendental philosophy. It comprises a radical critique of the illusions of representation and a genetic model of thought. Engaging...

Using animals for scientific research is a highly contentious issue that Continental philosophers engaging with 'the animal question' have been rightly accused of shying away from. Now, Wahida Khandker asks whether Continental approaches to animality and...

Christopher Norris raises some basic questions about the way that analytic philosophy has been conducted over the past 25 years. In doing so, he offers an alternative to what he sees as an over-specialisation of a lot of recent academic work. Arguing...

Aristotle and Tragic Temporality treats a theme that has drawn scholarly attention for millennia: Aristotle on time and our experience of it. It does so, however, in a wholly unprecedented way, grounding its interpretation in his Poetics and Ethics,...

Julia Kristeva is an important and influential figure within contemporary Continental thought. This book is an engaging appraisal of the complex relationship between Kristeva and feminist theory. Drawing in particular on her recent writings on revolt,...

Dave Boothroyd develops an original perspective on Levinas' account of the ethical Subject as contingently and empirically embedded in everyday experience. He reads Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, Deleuze, Badiou and Nancy alongside...

How police reproduce social, spatial, and racial inequalities in two global citiesFrom Donald Trump to Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, political leaders endorsing "law and order" - specifically through aggressive policing strategies - have supported the...

Marcel Mauss' 'Essai sur le don' (1923-4) has become one of the central non-philosophical references of contemporary French philosophy. Deleuze (and Guattari) and Derrida, to cite only two, engage with the concept of the gift explicitly and repeatedly...

Tynan addresses Deleuze's assertion, that 'literature is an enterprise of health', and shows how a concern of health and illness was a characteristic of his philosophy as a whole, from his earliest works to his collaborations with Guattari, to his final,...

Astronomy 101, 2nd Edition covers groundbreaking discoveries from the past decade-like the detection of gravitational waves, the imaging of black holes, and the James Webb Space Telescope's revelations about early galaxies and exoplanet atmospheres. Part...

What happens when the second generation - the children of immigrants - moves to their parents' homeland? A Place in the Homeland: Turkish-German Return Migration answers this question for the Turkish-German second-generation, sons and daughters of the...