Rabiger, Michael (Professor Emeritus, Columbia College, Chicago, Il, Usa) ; Hurbis-Cherrier, Mick (Hunter College, City University of New York, Usa)

Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics is a comprehensive exploration into the art and craft of directing for film and television. It's filled with

Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundr

Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics is a comprehensive exploration into the art and craft of directing for film and television. It's filled with

The Transatlantic Century is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, cult

The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocrati

Peter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew's Germany Since 1945 traces the social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second Worl

A panoramic history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship.

This is a cutting-edge yet accessible introduction to Second Language Acquisition. It covers concepts, themes, goals, research problems, methods, theo

Cutting through the jargon of EU politics, the third edition of this engaging and informative textbook examines the history, institutions, processes a

This book uses the mythological hero Heracles as a lens for investigating the nature of heroic violence in Archaic and Classical Greek literature, fro

Recounts the events of the year 63 B C E when a disgruntled nobleman, L Sergius Catilina, after two electoral defeats, made himself the leader of a gr

In the new edition of this lively and accessible Very Short Introduction to Buddhism, Damien Keown looks at all the distinctive features of the major

This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.

The Racist Fantasy explores the psychic basis for the racism that appears so conspicuously throughout modern history. Racism persists because it ties

This book explains the value of the study of pottery for the archaeologist. It shows how evidence about the production, trade and use of pottery can b

More comprehensive and up-to-date than ever before.

Cultural psychology through a global lens.

Learning Legal Rules introduces law students to the techniques of legal analysis and argument, equipping them with the knowledge and reasoning skills

In this Very Short Introduction to the gene Jonathan Slack explores the discovery, nature, and role of genes in evolution and development. Looking at

This book presents a powerful new argument for how and why the Greek city-states, including their distinctive society and culture, came to be - and wh