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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
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The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory
Peter Auger
foreword by Robert Douglas-FairhurstThorough on the essentials and generous in its intellectual scope, 'The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory' is a guide to the literary terms most relevant to students and readers of English literature today.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781843318712
July 2010
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£22.95 / $22.95Thorough on the essentials and generous in its intellectual scope, ‘The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory’ is a guide to the literary terms most relevant to students and readers of English literature today.
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Anton Chekhov Through the Eyes of Russian Thinkers
Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov
Edited by Olga Tabachnikova
This volume offers modern perspectives, from a strong international team of scholars, on the perception of Anton Chekhov's works by three leading cultural figures of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318415
July 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume offers modern perspectives, from a strong international team of scholars, on the perception of Anton Chekhov’s works by three leading cultural figures of the Silver Age of Russian culture – Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov.
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Churchill, Eden and Indo-China, 1951-1955
Nông Văn Dân
'Churchill, Eden and Indo-China, 1951-1955' provides a historical analysis of the administrations of Churchill and Eden, focusing on the broad international context of decolonized Indo-China.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318774
June 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Churchill, Eden and Indo-China, 1951-1955’ provides a historical analysis of the administrations of Churchill and Eden, focusing on the broad international context of decolonized Indo-China.
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Applied Ethics and Human Rights
Conceptual Analysis and Contextual Applications
Edited by Shashi Motilal
'Applied Ethics and Human Rights: Conceptual Analysis and Contextual Applications' offers a philosophical perspective to ethical problems by providing an understanding of the concepts of human rights and responsibilities.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9788190757072
June 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Applied Ethics and Human Rights: Conceptual Analysis and Contextual Applications’ offers a philosophical perspective to ethical problems by providing an understanding of the concepts of human rights and responsibilities.
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Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture
The History of Understanding and Understanding of History
Lakshmi Bandlamudi
'Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History' explores the interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtin’s theory of dialogics.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318354
May 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History’ explores the interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtin’s theory of dialogics.
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South Asian Media Cultures
Audiences, Representations, Contexts
Edited by Shakuntala Banaji
'South Asian Media Cultures' examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318422
April 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘South Asian Media Cultures’ examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.
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Virtual Voyages
Travel Writing and the Antipodes 1605-1837
Dr. Paul Longley Arthur
'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318002
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Virtual Voyages’ is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive ‘great south land’ told through the literature of ‘imaginary voyages’.
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Mad Tales from the Raj
Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58
Waltraud Ernst
This revised and enlarged reprint provides a comprehensive assessment of the British response to mental illness among both colonizers and the colonized during the East India Company's rule in India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318811
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00This revised and enlarged reprint provides a comprehensive assessment of the British response to mental illness among both colonizers and the colonized during the East India Company’s rule in India.
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Creating Irish Tourism
The First Century, 1750-1850
William H. A. Williams
Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, 'Creating Irish Tourism' charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country's emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318446
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, ‘Creating Irish Tourism’ charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country’s emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later.
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Screen Writings
Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics
Bert Cardullo
'Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics' offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of 'classic' - as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318378
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics’ offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of ‘classic’ – as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time.
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Screen Writings
Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary
Bert Cardullo
'Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary' offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318798
March 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary’ offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals.
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Bollywood and Globalization
Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora
Edited by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318330
January 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
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Europe – giving shape to an idea
compiled by
This fascinating compilation of extracts from proposals for uniting Europe, drawn up over the centuries, shows that the idea of European integration is far older than is often imagined.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843318293
December 2009
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£36.95 / $36.95This fascinating compilation of extracts from proposals for uniting Europe, drawn up over the centuries, shows that the idea of European integration is far older than is often imagined.
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Calcutta Mosaic
Essays and Interviews on the Minority Communities of Calcutta
Edited by Himadri Banerjee, Nilanjana Gupta, Sipra Mukherjee
‘Calcutta Mosiac’ explores the history of the diverse immigrant communities of this great city.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9788190583558
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Calcutta Mosiac’ explores the history of the diverse immigrant communities of this great city.
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Friends and Enemies
The Past, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China
Kerry Brown
foreword by Will Hutton‘Friends and Enemies’ delivers a thorough account of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), explaining its origins and evolution, looking at options for its future, and laying bare its inner workings.
Anthem Press
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9781843317814
July 2009
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£24.95 / $24.95‘Friends and Enemies’ delivers a thorough account of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), explaining its origins and evolution, looking at options for its future, and laying bare its inner workings.
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The Constitution of Shelley’s Poetry
The Argument of Language in Prometheus Unbound
Edward T. Duffy
‘The Constitution of Shelley’s Poetry’ is a close philosophical reading of ‘Prometheus Unbound’ from the perspective of the argument or drama of language played out in its pages.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843317821
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The Constitution of Shelley’s Poetry’ is a close philosophical reading of ‘Prometheus Unbound’ from the perspective of the argument or drama of language played out in its pages.
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Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger
An Anthology
Edited by Geoffrey P. Nash
An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843317920
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.
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Lloyd George at War, 1916-1918
George H. Cassar
‘Lloyd George at War, 1916–1918’ refutes the traditional view that Lloyd George was the person most responsible for winning the Great War.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843317937
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Lloyd George at War, 1916–1918’ refutes the traditional view that Lloyd George was the person most responsible for winning the Great War.
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Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East
A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin"
Vlas Doroshevich
translated by Andrew A. Gentes
introduction by Andrew A. Gentes‘Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich’s “Sakhalin”’ is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich’s 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russia’s largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the north Pacific.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843313090
July 2009
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£130.00 / $130.00‘Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich’s “Sakhalin”’ is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich’s 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russia’s largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the north Pacific.
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Another Canon
Indian Texts and Traditions in English
Makarand R. Paranjape
Both rigorous and readable, ‘Another Canon’ is an original contribution to the study of Indian English literature.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9788190757003
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00Both rigorous and readable, ‘Another Canon’ is an original contribution to the study of Indian English literature.
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Petrified Utopia
Happiness Soviet Style
Edited by Marina Balina, Evgeny Dobrenko
‘Petrified Utopia’ redresses the lack of scholarship on the issue of the pursuit of collective happiness in Soviet culture, and presents a collection of essays that discuss different manifestations of happiness in literature and visual culture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843313106
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Petrified Utopia’ redresses the lack of scholarship on the issue of the pursuit of collective happiness in Soviet culture, and presents a collection of essays that discuss different manifestations of happiness in literature and visual culture.
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Decadent Verse
An Anthology of Late-Victorian Poetry, 1872-1900
Edited by Caroline Blyth
A critical collection of late-Victorian poetry, fully annotated and explored, bringing to life the often overlooked but integral verse of the period.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843313021
February 2009
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£175.00 / $175.00A critical collection of late-Victorian poetry, fully annotated and explored, bringing to life the often overlooked but integral verse of the period.
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Action!
Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
Edited by Gary Morris
foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum
introduction by Bert Cardullo‘Action!’ draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four months before he died.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843313120
February 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Action!’ draws on the very best published and unpublished interviews of the ‘Bright Lights Film Journal’, and contains many gems, including the last ever interview given by Francois Truffaut, four months before he died.
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Nationalizing the Body
The Medical Market, Print and Daktari Medicine
Projit Bihari Mukharji
‘Nationalizing the Body’ examines the different meanings of ‘modern medicine’ that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around ‘modernity’.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843313151
February 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Nationalizing the Body’ examines the different meanings of ‘modern medicine’ that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around ‘modernity’.