Professor Peter John: 10 books
Exits, Voices and Social Investment
Citizens’ Reaction to Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Over fifty years ago, Albert Hirschman argued that dissatisfied consumers could either voice complaint or exit when they were dissatisfied with goods or services. Loyal consumers would voice rather than exit. Hirschman argued that making exit easier from publicly provided services, such as health...
Understanding Classical Sociology
Marx, Weber, Durkheim
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2003
Praise for the First Edition:
`Totally reliable… the authors have produced a book urgently needed by all those charged with introducing students to the classics… quite indispensable' - Times Higher Education Supplement
This is a fully updated and expanded new edition of the successful...
Beyond Ethnicity
New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics. Race is not the primary paradigm through which Hawai‘i is understood. Instead, ethnic difference...
Pacific America
Histories of Transoceanic Crossings
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the 1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical trend and making Asian Americans...
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai
Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth...
A Tokyo Anthology
Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology—including fictional and dramatic works,...
The Antipodean Philosopher
Public Lectures on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions...
Toward a Political Economy of Culture
Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics...
by Michael Boyd, Bryan Brown, Paul Carr
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Encountering Ensemble, is a text for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the history, conceptual foundations and practicalities of the world of ensemble theatre. It is the first book to draw together definitions and practitioner examples,...
Managing soil health for sustainable agriculture Volume 2
Monitoring and management
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
There has been growing concern that both intensive agriculture in the developed world and rapid expansion of crop cultivation in developing countries is damaging the health of soils which are the foundation of farming. At the same time we are discovering much more about how complex soils are as living...