The extended second edition of this inspiring introduction to Shakespeare offers readers more insights into what makes Shakespeare great, and why we still read and perform his works.

• A highly innovative introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare


• Explores Shakespeares works through the -Seven Ages of Man-, from childhood to -second childishness and mere oblivion-


• Now includes more material on fathers and sons, the perils of courtship, the circumstances of Shakespeares own life, the performance history of...

Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach is a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• Includes chapters on Hegel; Marx and Western Marxism; Schopenhauer, Freud, and Bergson; Nietzsche; hermeneutics; phenomenology; existentialism; structuralism; poststructuralism; French feminism; and postmodernism.
  
• Provides an ideal text or background resource for many different introductory and advanced courses on modern European philosophy.

This book explains the principal qualitative methods and applies them to psychological problems. It is designed for use in psychology and also other branches of social science. The books main aim is to increase people's confidence to use qualitative methods in their own research.

Decolonization and its Impact is a ground-breaking comparative study of decolonization from before the Second World War to the early 1960s.

• Compares key cases across the European colonial empires
• Focuses on the process and impact of decolonization at the level of the 'late colonial state' and of colonial societies
• Presents an original model of decolonization that seeks to reconcile imperial and nationalist perspectives
• Engages with important theoretical approaches
• Makes extensive reference to recent literature on the subject

Critiquing Habermas, this volume bring fresh perspectives and ideas to bear on debates about the public sphere.

• Engages in different ways with Jurgen Habermas's seminal study, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.
  
• Moves beyond Habermas by reflecting on current social processes and events, such as anti-corporate protests and the emergence of the Internet.
  
• Considers alternative theories by Bakhtin, Bourdieu and Honneth, among others.
  
• Combines work by established commentators and new researchers.

This book offers a novel and wide-ranging interpretation of Japanese economic policy, using historical analysis of Japanese economic development to shed light on current objectives, trends and possibilities.