Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book argues that the moral collapse of Germany was due less to the failure to disseminate propaganda than to the inability of the military authorities and the Kaiser to reinforce this propaganda.

Germany, Propaganda and Total War, 1914-1918

Welch, David

The Athlone Press

Sexuality in the Legal Arena

The essays in this book explore a wide range of themes of current interest and controversy, with a particular focus on lesbian and gay issues, nationality postcoloniality, sexuality and criminality, and the politics of rights struggles.

Stychin, Carl

Legal Theory & Systems

Architecture in Black argues that architecture, as an aesthetic practice, and blackness, as a lingusitic practice, operate within the same semiotic paradigm. The book presents the first systematic analysis of the theoretical relationship between architecture and blackness. Employing a technique whereby texts are realted through the repetition and revision of their semiotic structures, Architecture in Black reconstructs the genealogy of a black racial subject reprsented by the simultaneous reading of a range of canonical apparatus invented by this reading is then used to critique a discrete set of architectural texts, demonstrating the presence of the 'black venacular' in contemporary architectural theory.

Architecture in Black

Politics & Social Sciences

Fields, Darell Wayne

Philosophy

Contemporary French Philosophy: Modernity and the Persistence of the Subject

French philosophy and cultural theory continue to hold a prestigious and influential position in European thought. One of the central themes of contemporary French philosophy is its concern with the theoretical and political status of the subject, a question which has been broached by structuralists and poststructuralists through an analysis of the construction of the subject in and by language, discourse, power and ideology.Contemporary French Philosophy outlines the construction of the subject in modern philosophy, focusing in particular on the seminal work of Althusser, Lacan, Derrida and Foucault. The book interrogates some of the most influential perspectives on the question of the subject to contest those postmodern voices which announce its disappearance or death. It argues instead that the question of the subject persists, even in those perspectives which seek to abandon it altogether.Providing a broad introduction to the field and an original analysis of some of the most influential theorists of the 20th Century, the book will be of great interest to political and literary theorists, cultural historians, as well as to philosophers.

Williams, Caroline

History

Where is Planing at the millenium? The post-war Planning acts heralded a new era in which land use became subject to comprehensive control. Fifty years later this system is largly intact. Major questions are now being asked concerning the adequacy of this system for a society which has witnissed major social, economic and political change. 'British Planning' brings together the country's leading analysts of planning and its policy to prsent a state-of-the-art review and analysis. British Plannong will prove invalubale to students, researchers and professionals in planning and Social Policy. Contributors: Paul Balchin, Philip Booth, David Callies, Lyn Davies, Malcolm Grant, Peter Hall, Ian Hodge, Peter Larkham, Vincent Nadin, John Punter, Michael Purdue, Brian Robson, Yvonne Rydin, Paul Truelove, Urlan Wannop, Stephen Ward, Christopher Wood&gt;

British Planning: 50 Years of Urban and Regional Policy

Europe

Planning and the Political Market argues that the enthusiasm for planning as an essential component of environmental protection is misplaced. Drawing on the experience of Britain and other Western democracies, the author uses public choice theory to explore the practical experience of land use planning as an example of government failure.The book opens by outlining the institutional focus of public choice theory, examining the central questions of market and government failure and the theoretical case for government intervention in the environment. Having explored the principal impacts of planning the book goes on to analyse the institutional structures which have produced these policy outcomes.The analysis suggests that institutional incentives within the 'political market' have frequently led to policies which favour special interest groups and public sector bureaucracy. The book concludes with an assessment of the potential for a private property rights, free market alternative to increase community involvement and access.

Planning and the Political Market: Public Choice and the Politics of Government Failure

Business & Money

Pennington, Mark

Economics

Cyberpunk and Cyberculture explores the work of a wide range of writers- Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shierley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson - setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema - from Metropolis to Terminator to The Matrix - and contemporary work on the culture of technology.

Cyberpunk & Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson

Literature & Fiction

Cavallaro, Dani

United States

The essays in this book explore a wide range of themes of current interest and controversy, with a particular focus on lesbian and gay issues, nationality postcoloniality, sexuality and criminality, and the politics of rights struggles.

Constitutional Law

Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida, and the Body Politic (Transversals: New Directions in Philosophy)

Political Physics analyses the work of two of the most influential thinkers of our time - Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze. The book takes the reader on a transversal journey, crossing the boundaries of philosophy and science. Political Physics explores the limits and strengths of Derridean and Deleuzean philosophical approaches. Focussing on their differing approaches to the question of the 'body politic' - in all its registers, from the physical-chemical body, to the economic, the social and the political body - the book reveals a profound difference in ontological commitment. The book argues that the straightforward materialism of Deleuzean philosophy can operate across the range of analysis whereas Derridean deconstruction effectively operates at the level of reason, consciousness and culture. Cross-cutting a Derridean analysis of the history of philosophy with a Deleuzian approach to creative dialogue and complexity theory, Political Physics illuminates the value of both approaches to the analysis of contemporary culture, politics and science and to the rereading of the history of ideas.

Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body Politic (Transversals: New Directions in Philosophy)

Protevi, John

This radical, new book brings together the key concepts, issues and debates in critical and cultural theory today. Each chapter presents a self-contained analysis of each concept as well providing a range of discussion questions and further reading. Throughout, text-links connect related material across chapters, enabling the reader to pursue their own line of disciplinary or cross-disciplinary inquiry.

Critical and Cultural Theory

Dani Cavallaro

Social Sciences

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Germany, Propaganda and Total War, 1914-1918

Sexuality in the Legal Arena

Architecture in Black

Contemporary French Philosophy: Modernity and the Persistence of the Subject

British Planning: 50 Years of Urban and Regional Policy

Planning and the Political Market: Public Choice and the Politics of Government Failure

Cyberpunk & Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson

Sexuality in the Legal Arena

Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body Politic (Transversals: New Directions in Philosophy)

Critical and Cultural Theory