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This book brings together leading specialists from public policy and academia to reflect on historical and contemporary aspects of Russian maritime power. -- .

The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and impacts public perceptions of drinking. This book maps the historical and cultural dimensions of the phenomenon, emphasising medical attitudes to alcohol and the changing perception of consumption in... číst celé

This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath. -- .

This landmark book reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international. Tens of thousands of fighters, including communists, Jews and POWs, joined networks across Europe, greatly affecting the course of the long Second World War. -- .

The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars in order to move Urban Political Ecology into current debates about urbanization and climate change. -- .

A necessary and timely study of Barker's influence in dark fantasy, gothic and horror studies. The book features twelve groundbreaking essays on Barker's creative legacy and influence, and reevaluates his celebrated and lesser known works in fiction, film and visual art, from the Books of Blood (1984-85) to The Scarlet Gospels (2015). -- .

The collection studies the interactions of the European Union and the Asia Pacific, focusing on the EU as an emerging global player in contemporary international relations. -- .

This highly illustrated catalogue presents new essays on Albrecht Durer, focusing on an understudied aspect of his practice: the material worlds of manufacture, design and trade. -- .

This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and perceptions of the self. -- .

This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present. -- .