Publications
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Children in Custody
(2009)
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Despite their very different histories, societies, political and legal systems, Russia ...
Poor Poverty
(2011)
This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. It is available as open ...
Habitual Ethics?
(2022)
What if data-intensive technologies’ ability to mould habits with unprecedented precision is also capable of triggering some mass disability of profound consequences? What if we become incapable of modifying the deeply-rooted ...
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company
(2021)
Eubanks Winkler and Schoch reveal how – and why – the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare’s lifetime changed absolutely everything. Founder of the Duke’s Company, Sir William Davenant influenced how ...
Joseph Cornell Versus Cinema
(2013)
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Joseph Cornell is one of the most significant American artists of the 20th century. His ...
Fame Attack
(2012)
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The follow up to Chris Rojek's hugely successful Celebrity, this book assesses celebrity ...
Connected Sociologies
(2014)
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book outlines what theory for a global age might look like, positing an agenda for ...
Digital Disinformation in Africa
(2024)
In an era when hashtag campaigns like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter capture global attention for victims of injustice, politicians and corporations are now spending billions employing Cambridge Analytica-type consultancies ...
Framing Ageing
(2024)
Framing Ageing, available open access, addresses scholars from across the Humanities and Social Sciences who want to approach the urgent topic of old age in their work, mapping the intellectual state of the field and putting ...
The Financial Constitution of European Integration
(2023)
This open access book delivers a much-needed analysis of the interplay between the EU’s financial constitution and European integration.
The economic rescue package NextGenerationEU has multiplied the EU’s financial ...
Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe : Small State Responses to Economic Changes, 1960s- 1980s
(2025)
With this remit underscoring the inherent vulnerabilities of smaller national economies and their strategies of economic survival beyond the constraints of Cold War alignments, Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War ...
The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam
(2018)
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Islamic Publications Ltd. I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute ...
The Highest Good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita
(2024)
This open access book presents a comparative study of two classics of world literature, offering the first sustained consideration of what unites and divides the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita. Focusing on the ...
Freedom of Religion
(2020)
This open access book presents a variety of perspectives on the concept of freedom of religion in different European countries against the background of the European Convention on Human Rights, the EU Charter of Fundamental ...
What is Good Academic Writing?
(2020)
This book is published open access. The field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) developed to address the needs of students whose mother tongue is not English. However, the linguistic competence required to achieve ...
Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles
(2021)
Winner of the British Association for Comtemporary Literary Stuides (BACLS) monograph prize The period since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 has seen a sustained decrease in violence and, at the same time, Northern Ireland ...
The Making of Teachers in the Age of Migration
(2023)
This open access book aims to unravel entrenched hegemonically-induced hindrances and barriers to internationally acquired teaching competencies' recognition processes. With curricula of teacher education – like school ...
Now About All These Women in the Swedish Film Industry
(2023)
In the aftermath of the MeToo movement, during an ongoing pandemic, and in the midst of repeated demands for a 50/50 split between men and women in above-the-line positions, this book analyzes and interrogates the politics ...
The Power to Tax in Europe
(2023)
This open access book is the seventeenth volume in the Swedish Studies in European Law, reflecting the series aim to explore the variety of issues and dilemmas that European law faces in specific areas of EU law and policy, ...
Literary Studies and Well-Being
(2022)
The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes at the core of our engagements ...
Codification of Administrative Law
(2023)
This open access book presents the first comparative study on the legal sources of administrative law. Every modern legal order needs a set of general rules to apply and enforce administrative law; the rules impose principles ...
Legal Aid and the Future of Access to Justice
(2023)
This open access book provides a snapshot of the state of contemporary access to justice in England and Wales. Legal aid lawyers provide a critical function in supporting individuals to address a range of problems. These ...
Olympiodorus: On Plato First Alcibiades 10–28
(2016)
This open access book looks at Olympiodorus (AD c. 500–570), possibly the last non-Christian teacher of philosophy in Alexandria, who delivered 28 lectures as an introduction to Plato. This volume translates lectures 10–28, ...
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Rewriting Alpine Orientalism : Postcolonial Readings in Canadian and Austrian Mountain Tourism
(2024)
This comparative study examines Orientalist discourse through a wide range of mountain representation from the Canadian Rockies and Austrian Alps, including exploration reports, newspaper articles, promotional documents, ...
Corporate Capture of Development
(2023)
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have gained a renewed momentum in recent years, and have come to be viewed by governments and funders alike as a silver bullet for infrastructure development and public service provision. ...
Ovid on Cosmetics
(2016)
The Medicamina Faciei Femineae is a didactic elegy which showcases an early example of Ovid's trademark combination of a moralistic, instructive form and trivial subject and meter. Exploring female beauty and cosmetics, ...
Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism
(2017)
Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women’s activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, ...
Human Rights and Democracy
(2013)
Combines an overview of the key theoretical models of democracy and human rights with a state-of-the-art survey which reports on trade-offs between achievements, set-backs and challenges in some of the world's 'hotspots'. ...
The Welfare of Future Children
(2024)
This open access practical guide to reproductive ethics navigates the complex subject of the policy around IVF treatment and disability screening based on the concerns around the welfare of future children. It focuses on ...
Economic Cooperation in the Shadow of Contested Sovereignty
(2025)
This open access book is the first of its kind to address a question of both theoretical and practical significance: how do countries or entities approach economic cooperation in the face of vexing political concerns and ...
Children’s Publishing in Cold War France
(2025)
Exploring the history of Cold War censorship legislation and its impact on the French publishing industry for children, this open access book focuses on the publisher Hachette to detail how it dominated the country’s new ...
The University and the Algorithmic Gaze
(2025)
This open access book takes an innovative and critical look at the ways in which digital data and algorithms are changing the face of higher education in multiple ways. It examines their impact at both the macro scale of ...
The Health Resort in Modern European Literature
(2025)
This innovative open access book reappraises the health resort in literature from its rise in the late Enlightenment period to the wellness age of the 21st century. Most of the existing body of academic work on the subject ...
International Organizations and the Cold War
(2025)
The post-WWII era was a time of superpower confrontation and antagonistic bloc politics, but it was also a period in which organized internationalism reached its peak as both an ideological value and a political practice. ...
The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain
(2025)
This open access book explores tanning culture: how the desire for tanned white skin led to the phenomenal growth in sunbed use and how the practice spread through Britain. By analysing the role of the media, medical ...
Shakespeare and Seriality
(2025)
Encompassing a wide variety of genres, media and art forms across a broad historical scope, this open access book identifies central strategies of serialization in Shakespeare’s plays and their adaptations. Beginning with ...
Human Rights at the Intersections
(2022)
At a time when states are increasingly hostile to the international rights regime, human rights activists have turned to non-state and sub-state actors to begin the implementation of human rights law. This complicates the ...
Reinventing Christian Doctrine
(2022)
Providing an alternative to current Trinitarian and Christocentric approaches to dogmatics, this open access book instead centres the Augustinian and classical Reformation Law-Gospel distinction.
Maarten Wisse demonstrates ...
Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-21
(2022)
Socialist Women and the Great War: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, an open access book, is the first transnational study of left-wing women and socialist revolution during the First World War and its aftermath. ...
Nationalism, Identity and Statehood in Post-Yugoslav Montenegro
(2017-11-16)
This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of political and social developments in Montenegro from the processes that led to the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Montenegro's ...