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Provides an in-depth look at how China's financial institutions interact with foreign investment

Offers a new political explanation for the creation of market institutions as it investigates Russia's transition from a command economy

Offers the first complete biography in English of Epiphanius, lead bishop of Cyprus in the late fourth century CE and author of the Panarion, a massive encyclopaedia of heresies. Young Richard Kim studies the bishop as a historical person and a self-constructed persona, as mediated within the pages of the Panarion.

Explores rhetorical delivery and cultural sovereignty in the digital humanities. The exigence for the book is rooted in a practical digital humanities project based on the digitization of manuscripts in diaspora for the Samaritan community, the smallest religious/ethnic group of 770 Samaritans split between Mount Gerizim in the Palestinian Authority and in Holon, Israel.

It is often thought that small party survival or failure is a result of institutional constraints, the behavior of large parties, and the choices of individual politicians. Jae-Jae Spoon, in contrast, argues that the decisions made by small parties themselves determine their ability to balance the dual goals of remaining true to their ideals while maximizing their vote shares.

Examines perceived power on the basis of which symmetries and asymmetries in the relations between parties can be identified

Focusing on cases arising in public interest practices, authors Gary Bellow and Martha Minow gather a group of "stories"--first-person accounts of actual experiences of clients and lawyers in concrete legal contexts. The stories deal with problems arising from child custody, parental rights, juvenile crime, victim's rights, consequences for retirees of corporate bankruptcy, and more.

An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the art and craft of contemporary poetry

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Writing in the beginning of the 1980s, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe explored possibilities for a new socialist strategy to capitalize on the period's fragmented political and social conditions. Two and a half decades later, Ferruh Yilmaz argues that the populist far right has demonstrated greater facility in adopting successful hegemonic strategies along the structural lines Laclau and Mouffe imagined.

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Examines the antique destruction and reuse of statuary, investigating key responses to statuary across most regions of the Roman world. Contributors address questions of definition, identification, and interpretation for particular treatments of statuary, including metal statuary and the systematic reuse of villa materials.

Examines the largely unexplored terrain of underground music - exploratory forms of music-making, such as noise, free improvisation, and extreme metal, that exist outside or on the fringes of mainstream culture, generally independent from both the market and from traditional high-art institutions.

Employs a groundbreaking research design to assess the effects of gender quotas on all phases of political recruitment. Louise K. Davidson-Schmich investigates the extent to which quotas and corresponding increases in women's descriptive representation have resulted in similar percentages of men and women joining political parties, aspiring to elected office, pursuing ballot nominations, and securing selection as candidates.

In this collection, Aaron Shurin has brought together thirty years' worth of his provocative essays. Fuelled by gender and queer studies and combined with radical traditions in poetry, Shurin's essays combine a highly personal and lyrical vision with a trenchant social analysis of poetry's possibilities.

Offers the first full-length study of the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of "vermin” as creatures and category in the early modern literary, scientific, and political imagination. In the space between theology and an emergent empiricism, Lucinda Cole's argument engages a wide historical swath of canonical early modern literary texts alongside other nonliterary primary sources.

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Studies a variety of representations of lobotomy to offer a rhetorical history of one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine. Johnson employs previously abandoned texts - science fiction, horror, political polemics, and conspiracy theory - to show how lobotomy's entanglement with social and political narratives contributed to a powerful image of the operation that still persists.

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Uncovers the ways in which the spectator's memory informs theatrical reception.