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  • A history of the case study

    Sexology, psychoanalysis, literature

    by Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi, Alison Lewis ...
    This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences.It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of Weimar Germany and to the United States of America in the post-war years.Foregrounding the figures of ... Read more

    $131.99 CAD

  • Weimar's Queer Visual Cultures

    Edited by Birgit Lang, Ina Linge, Katie Sutton ...
    Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period? This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history, literature, film, performance, and gender studies to explore the ongoing resonances of visual and narrative queer mythologies from Weimar Germany, ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas

    Resisting Institutions

    Edited by Sabine Lang, Petra Meier, Birgit Sauer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited collection explores how party politics impacts the implementation of gender quotas in political representation across Europe. Contributors identify actors, institutions, and cultural legacies shape how quotas are put into practice. The volume’s subtitle, Resisting Institutions, points to the myriad ways in which parties and other institutions in Europe over time have resisted the ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge

    Edited by Joy Damousi, Birgit Lang, Katie Sutton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and the sexed self. This volume interrogates how case studies have been used by doctors, lawyers, psychoanalysts, and writers to communicate their findings both within the specialist circles of their academic disciplines, and beyond, to wider publics. At the same time, it ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Return Migration and Regional Development in Europe

    Mobility Against the Stream

    Edited by Birgit Glorius, Robert Nadler, Thilo Lang, Zoltán Kovács ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book assesses recent migration patterns in Europe, which have significantly included 'return migration' against the stream of East-West migration. Since the Eastern enlargement of the EU, many regions of Central and Eastern European have experienced a loss of human resources in core industries, raising concerns about social, economic and territorial cohesion in the region. The success rates ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • What is Translation History?

    A Trust-Based Approach

    by Andrea Rizzi, Birgit Lang, Anthony Pym ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a dynamic history of the ways in which translators are trusted and distrusted. Working from this premise, the authors develop an approach to translation that speaks to historians of literature, language, culture, society, science, translation and interpreting. By examining theories of trust from sociological, philosophical, and historical studies, and with reference to ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Gender Equality in Politics

    Implementing Party Quotas in Germany and Austria

    by Petra Ahrens, Katja Chmilewski, Sabine Lang, Birgit Sauer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a timely and unique contribution to current debates on how effectively voluntary party quotas address the persistent underrepresentation of women in legislatures. Using a most similar case design and a mixed-methods approach, the authors draw attention to the ways in which electoral systems and party regulations interface with voluntary party quotas in Germany and Austria. All ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

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    TTIP in a Globalized World

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  • The Untold Story of the World's Leading Environmental Institution

    UNEP at Fifty

    by Maria Ivanova ...
    Series series One Planet
    The past, present, and possible future of the agency designed to act as "the world's environmental conscience."The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) was founded in 1972 as a nimble, fast, and flexible entity at the core of the UN system--a subsidiary body rather than a specialized agency. It was intended to be the world's environmental conscience, an anchor institution that established ... Read more

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  • Policy-Making Processes and the European Constitution

    A Comparative Study of Member States and Accession Countries

    Edited by Thomas König, Simon Hug ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This new volume presents a wealth of fresh data documenting and analyzing the different positions taken by governments in the development of the European Constitution.It examines how such decisions have substantial effects on the sovereignty of nation states and on the lives of citizens, independent of the ratification of a constitution. Few efforts have been made to document constitution building ... Read more

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  • World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

    Resurgence and the Development Agenda

    by Christopher May ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    Covering the World Intellectual Property Organization, this volume introduces a much ignored element of the contemporary structure of global governance to scholars of international political economy.Christopher May discusses:how the World Intellectual Property Organization works, its antecedents and historythe debates about the role and justification of intellectual propertythe role of WIPO within ... Read more

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  • The European Union and Human Rights

    Analysis, Cases, and Materials

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