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The book traces the history of African American theatre from its beginnings to the present. It analyses the types of plays written for this theatre...

The world is getting older and no one knows exactly what life will be like in tomorrow's older societies. But we do know that age dependency ratios...

In the wake of 9/11 and hurricane Katrina, executives and policymakers are increasingly motivated to reduce the vulnerability of social and economi...

The American Congress provides the most insightful, up-to-date treatment of congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. Informed by ...

High tech products have historically had notoriously poor design. Fortunately, companies have recently started to embrace user centered design prac...

Our volume examines the potential for change during the life course and across generations. We address the possibilities for promoting healthy deve...

In this text, students of applied mathematics, science and engineering are introduced to fundamental ways of thinking about the broad context of pa...

These essays address some of the most intriguing questions raised by natural law theory and its implications for law, morality, and public policy. ...

For many everyday transmissions, it is essential to protect digital information from noise or eavesdropping. This undergraduate introduction to err...

Political observers have long since struggled with understanding how new ideas are placed on the public agenda. In their studies, most social scien...

Editorial Board: Jack L. Lesher, Loretta S. Davis, David E. Kent, David J. Cohen Pocket Guide for Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery is written for der...

Why is feminist research carried out in international relations (IR)? What are the methodologies and methods that have been developed in order to c...

The process of translating works of literature to the silver screen is a rich field of study for both students and scholars of literature and cinem...

Why do labor unions resist economic restructuring and adjustment policies in some countries and in some economic sectors while they submit in other...

Why were European economies able to pursue the simultaneous commitment to full employment and welfare state expansion during the first decades of t...

Do people in new democracies undergoing market reforms turn against these reforms when the economic adjustment is painful? The conventional wisdom ...

The authors examine the conditions under which democratic events, including elections, cabinet formations, and government dissolutions, affect asse...

Using data sets consisting of cross-sectional surveys drawn from nationally representative samples of adolescents in the U.S. and official sources ...

As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent ch...

Green plants are all around us. We are totally dependent on them for food; we cultivate them for our pleasure; and we have used them in a vast numb...

This book responds to the absence of a comprehensive consideration of the implications of culture for children's peer relationships. Although resea...

This third volume of Alan Ayckbourn plays includes "Haunting Julia", "Sugar Daddies", "Drowning on Dry Land" and "Private Fears in Public Places", ...

Three people. Stephen wants his ex to realise he's got what it takes. Helen wants her dead husband back. Jamie wants a girl to see him off to war. ...

China Since Tiananmen is the first book to look comprehensively at the intellectual and political trends in the decade since the Tiananmen Incident...

The measurement models employed to score tests have been evolving over the past century from those that focus on the entire test (true score theory...

A little boy has a problem with his dragon: he's no longer able to breathe fire. What to do? How on earth do you rekindle a despondent dragon's fla...

Stephen Spender, along with his friends W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis, rose to prominence in the 1930s, writing powerfully of the fe...

The twenty-fourth chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew. In 1360 Edward III issues a call to arms, as sporadic attacks by the French threaten to turn ...

Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as 'an act of magical retrieval' (Daily Telegraph) and 'a hymn to fa...

Although Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth book, it has all the passion and provocation we more often associate with a first collectio...

'Alright' I said, 'I'll try...' This is how Emily Stuart opens her intricate tale of a classic love affair that becomes Caroline's Bikini: a swirli...

When August Kleinzahler won the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep, the judges' citation referred to his...

An ingeniously nasty exercise reminiscent of Vladimir Nabokov and Patricia Highsmith - John Dugdale, Sunday Times This book is an experiment. We'...

The Grit Doctor is one tough task-mistress ...First she instructed us to lace up our trainers in RUN FAT B!TCH RUN Then she told us to clear the cl...

Review 'This is a very sophisticated and witty collection, offering small pleasures of recognition on almost every page . . . his finest book to d...

Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborne's The Entertainer conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive exa...

We are who you come from. We are who you'll go to. The Day family are Irish country-music royalty and Irene is their queen. Her relatives are compl...

Should I run? This is the question Pauline Gibson is asking herself. She has spent her adult life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a campaign f...

Go on then: lock the doors and see what happens. Show me how much power you really have. When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other breaks thro...

Product Description New York City is one of the fashion capitals of the world, well-known for its glamour and style. Yet high fashion means high ...

Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a ...

Anne Jirsch is a psychic with an extraordinary gift. In her first book, she reveals her own unique techniques for effortlessly developing clairvoya...

Product Description The fourth uniquely stylish crime novel, from the award-winning Peter Diamond series.'Darling, if ever I've met a group of po...

CHECK OUT THE NEW AND UPDATED EDITION, OUT ON 3RD MARCH! (9780751565447) Vicky Pattison always had big dreams, but four years ago she was working ...

Olivia Jones must make a choice. Caught between two rival supernatural forces, Liv was granted a brief period in which to make her decision. Now ...

The first Saturday in July. A missing woman. The number seven carved into her door. The countdown has begun . . . Detective Micki Dare is a season...

Product Description Connor Laird frightens people: he's intense, he's fearless, and he seems to be willing to do anything to protect himself and ...

Christopher Award-winning author Scott Menchin and New York Times bestselling illustrator Harry Bliss have teamed up for a celebration of the power...