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“Subjectivism and Interpretative Methodology in Theory and Practice” uses the subjectivist approach originated in Max Weber’s interpretation method, Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology, and Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s sociology of knowledge to understand economic and social phenomena.

‘Human Resource Policy’ describes how policies anchor HR practice and connect HR to organisational strategy.

Old troubles persist in modern Spain, including huge public debts, extensive corruption, widespread unlawfulness, oligarchical politics, territorial splits, and permanent protests and riots. The origins of these problems are remote: the ruinous Spanish Empire made a weak state, which built an incomplete nation, which sustains a minority democracy. "The Spanish Frustration" provides an interpretation of several important aspects of present-day Spain and its past stories.

This book juxtaposes vital issues of Pashtun identity, state formation, Taliban on both sides of the Durand Line, Frontier Crimes Regulation, security prerogative and the civil societies of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which since 9/11, have been posited in a rather precarious geopolitics.

Water Security in the Middle East explores the extent and nature of water security problems in transboundary water systems in the Middle East. This collection of essays discusses the political and scientific contexts and the limitations of cooperation in water security.

This book analyzes the mythical aura of Spanish low-budget films of the late 1970s and 1980s, and how marginalization was exploited and romanticized.

Both Hungary’s 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy, and shaped the actions, of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the present.

Focusing on an author characterised by geographical and aesthetic mobility, and on those who worked with him or wrote for him, ‘Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s’ investigates the operations of transatlantic literary networks during a period of key changes in transatlantic publishing through a series of critical case studies.

‘Planting the Seeds of Research’ explores why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide.

‘Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement’ reveals a significant body of virtually unknown religious works by a woman writer. The first scholarly edition of Sara Coleridge’s religious writings, it presents selections from works not published since the 1840s, and substantial extracts from a major unpublished work of religious dialogues.

‘The Modern State and Its Enemies’ considers the historical intellectual developments that provided the fundaments of the modern state and analyses the dark sides of the enemies of democracy.

When a high school honors student emerges from a police confrontation outside his home bruised and beaten, and facing serious criminal charges, an American city erupts in protests. A long quest for justice begins. "A City Divided" uncovers what happened and examines if race, fear and police conduct answer key questions that have become all too familiar. What goes wrong in these police confrontations and why? Can the courts find justice? And how can we prevent these tragedies in the future?