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‘Global Villages: Rural and Urban Transformations in Contemporary Bulgaria’ aims to broaden the study of globalization from urban to rural contexts, exploring its effects through case studies from postsocialist Bulgaria. 

Scottish-born stylist Ray Petri (1948–1989), founder of the Buffalo collective, defined the look of radical 1980s magazines The Face, i-D, and Arena. This book traces how Petri’s radical casting, genderplay, and iconography of homoeroticism boldly politicized the relationship between fashion and identity, creating a new template for modern fashion photography.

We often hear that creativity is the key to economic regeneration in the west, yet those who pursue creative skills/ambitions typically experience low incomes and poor career prospects. ‘The Creativity Hoax’ argues that the ‘call to creativity’ is designed to make workers more labile, agile and mobile, ready to shelve their ambitions and transfer their skills towards the opportunities the labour market produces.

Civilisation may be a Ponzi scheme but it doesn’t have to end.The challenge of increasingly scarce resources, environmental degradation and energy-hungry Artificial Intelligence are merely “locked” opportunities. Even challenging regions like the Middle East can turn challenges into opportunities; we can alltranscend scarcity-driven ‘Black Wars’ for resources like oil and water and towards a technology-led ‘Blue Peace’ of shared prosperity.

The early chapters examine Kitchener’s career as a soldier and administrator in different areas of the Middle East. Then, as War Secretary in 1914, he looked outside the Western front to win over a key Arab chief.

‘Lloyd George at War, 1916–1918’ refutes the traditional view that Lloyd George was the person most responsible for winning the Great War.

A revision and expansion of Gopen’s highly acclaimed and widely influential 1990 American Scientist article “The Science of Scientific Writing,” this book introduces the Reader Expectation Approach—how writers need to understand certain expectations of readers in order to control both the writer’s writing process and the reader’s interpretive process.

‘Rethinking Cultural Resource Management in Southeast Asia’ explores the challenges facing efforts to protect the cultural assets of Southeast Asia from the ravages of tourism and economic development.

An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.

This book examines the broader impacts on Australian culture and cultural practice of the Australian High Court’s landmark Mabo decision of 1992. It considers how history, linguistics and anthropology as well as film, fiction, poetry and memoir writing have been challenged or transformed by Mabo.

An insightful and timely reappraisal of international broadcasting as an instrument of discursive rather than ‘soft’ power and its contested role in Australia’s Indo-Pacific regional statecraft.

The book addresses current housing affordability challenges and presents innovative planning and design strategies for contemporary communities and homes that are both livable and affordable.