Taiwan

TaiwanTaiwans history and future are intimately tied to democratization, decolonialism, national identity, economic interdependence, multiculturalism and modern values all set against an ever present security dimension. This short book illuminates how its fate will determine the direction of todays global order.

An engaging and rigorous introduction and synthesis for students and the general reader looking to understand what’s at stake when the rewards of capitalism are distributed unjustly

and how the very idea of counterfeiting transcends the physical coin itself and applies to those who produce them

but never a one / Showed sorrow in her eyes of steely blue…” As children dance around the victim’s body

This volume brings together specially selected articles

including shoes

This book discusses the depictions of Italy and the Italians in British cinema

social practices

discuss a wide range of issues

Photography and Landscape is a visually striking introduction to one of the most important modes of photography

literary and artistic sources

and how her seamless garments can represent the ambiguity of a modern subject in a perpetual process of becoming

David Ian Rabey brings in sources ranging from medieval and Renaissance theatre to contemporary performances to analyse ways that time can be presented