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Alchemy and Psychotherapy: Post-Jungian Perspectives

Routledge, 2014

Alchemical symbols are part of popular culture, most recently popularised in the Harry Potter books. Alchemy intrigued Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology. It inspired him as he wrote ‘the Red Book’ - the journal of his voyage of internal discovery. He devoted much of his life to it, using alchemical symbols as...

The Future of the Arab Spring: Civic Entrepreneurship in Politics, Art, and Technology Startups

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013

Civic entrepreneurship lies at the heart of the Arab Spring. From the iconic image of an occupied Tahrir Square to scenes of dancing protesters in Syria and politically conscious hip hop in Tunisia, people across the Middle East and North Africa continue to collaborate and experiment their way out of years of dictatorship and political...

Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present

Reaktion Books, 2019

Located at the intersection of Asia and the Middle East, Afghanistan has been strategically important for thousands of years. Its ancient routes and strategic position between India, Inner Asia, China, Persia, and beyond has meant the region has been subject to frequent invasions, both peaceful and military. As a result, modern...

Better Business Decisions from Data: Statistical Analysis for Professional Success

Apress, 2014

Everyone encounters statistics on a daily basis. They are used in proposals, reports, requests, and advertisements, among others, to support assertions, opinions, and theories. Unless you’re a trained statistician, it can be bewildering. What are the numbers really saying or not saying? Better Business Decisions from Data:...

Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers

W W Norton, 2019

The little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work captured?and influenced?a critical moment in American history.

Who was Ernest Withers? Most Americans may not know the name, but they do know his photographs. Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and ’60s: Martin...

Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology: Third International Workshop

Springer, 2013

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology, SFCM 2013, held in Berlin, in September 2013. The 7 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions and are complemented with an invited talk. The papers discuss recent advances in the...

Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)

Routledge, 2011

This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift in official thinking toward the role of popular...

The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge: Immigration Policy and Social Research

Cambridge University Press, 2009

PO L I T I C I A N S and civil servants seem to be attaching more weight to using research in policymaking than ever before. Over the past decade, it has become de rigueur for governments and international organizations to stress the need for ‘evidence-based’ policy. The tendency was well exemplified by the Labour administration that...

Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century (International Political Economy Series)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic, and social power. Building on the work of International Political Economy scholar Susan Strange, this multidisciplinary volume features experts from political science, anthropology, law, criminology,...

The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right

Haymarket Books, 2019

The eighteen months between June 2016 and the end of 2017 saw the victory of Leave in Britain’s EU referendum, the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, and unprecedented support for Marine Le Pen of the Front National in her campaign for the same office in France. Nearly a decade after the great financial...

Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement

Oxford University Press, 2021

An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and political purposes.

Camping appears to be a simple proposition, a time-honored way of getting away from it all. Pack up the car and hit the road in search of a...

The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism (Routledge Companions to Gender)

Routledge, 2021

Unique in its global and interdisciplinary scope, this collection brings together comparative insights across European, Ottoman, Japanese, and US imperial contexts while spanning colonized spaces in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives...

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