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Examining the aesthetics and politics at stake in urban travel writing as spatial practice, this book explores French travellers’ representations of London and New York from 1851 to the 1980s.

‘The British National Daily Press and Popular Music, c.1956–1975’ examines the reactions of the national daily press to music styles popular with British youth from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s (including rock ’n’ roll, skiffle, ‘beat group’ and rock music) and challenges the perception that a one-dimensionally negative and inflammatory reaction contributed to the generation of ‘moral panic’ around popular music.

‘Adult Reactions to Popular Music and Inter-generational Relations in Britain, 1955–1975’ constitutes a thematic examination of the pervasive assumption that ‘the older generation’ reacted in a largely negative fashion to music styles popular with British young people from the 1950s to the mid-1970s (including rock ’n’ roll, skiffle, ‘beat’ and rock music) and that the music invariably exacerbated inter-generational tensions.

The book examines and explains China’s increasingly significant impact on world affairs and global economics. It analyses China’s role in global power shifts, with China’s economic, political and technological evolution since 1990 as background, and assesses its position today and in the next decades, especially regarding its relationship with the other great power America.

This book is a new and exciting resource for teachers, students, and activists who aim to critically examine contemporary sexuality through the lens of sexual literacy and situated social analysis. This original anthology provides shorter cutting-edge essays on theory, method, and activism, including the nature of globalization and local sexuality discovered in ‘glocal’ topics, processes, and contexts. These cutting-edge essays inform readers of key moments in sexual history, including areas relating to research, practice, and social policy, and provide a platform from which to engage in rich discussion and forecast the development of sexual literacy in our world within multiple contexts.

Synthesizing the science of nutrition, immunity and evolutionary genetics with a controversial new history of indigenous North America, “Decolonizing the Diet” shows how populations fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals is diminished by war, colonization and cultural destruction.

The book explores how comics, manga, animated series and pop music influenced by comic books represent law, reflecting and shaping public perception. It uses a comparative international law approach, including diverse scholars, and extends beyond Anglo-American culture to enrich the legal debate. This innovative collection fills a critical gap in legal and cultural studies.

This book focuses on the first edition of Kenneth Frampton’s Modern Architecture: A Critical History, published in 1980. It searches for clues and positions that will provide the reader with an unprecedented insight into the significance of Frampton’s historiography of modern architecture. 

'Persian Pictures' is both travelogue and meditation, an elegiac and beautifully observed account of a spellbinding land.

An authoritative review of the position of the IMF and World Bank in their sixtieth year.

The Future of Industrialization asks, how can industrial development evolve within planetary boundaries? Bringing together heads of state, global policymakers, UN leaders, CEOs, and leading scholars, this volume sets out a bold and forward-looking agenda for sustainable, inclusive, and innovation-led industrial transformation in the 21st century.

Over the last 2,000 years, critical innovations have transformed various small regions into global powers. But they have faded when they did not embrace the next big innovation. Gerard J. Tellis and Stav Rosenzweig argue in ‘How Transformative Innovations Shaped the Rise of Nations’ that openness to new ideas and people, competition and empowerment of individuals are key drivers in the development and adoption of transformative innovations.