Soldier Heroes explores the image of masculinity in adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyzes modern British adventure heroes as historical, masculine forms originating from the era of 19th-century popular imperialism. Tracing their subsequent transformations, it examines the way these identities are internalized and lived by men and boys.

This text offers an interdisciplinary critique of the free market backlash - the view that free-market economics can improve the position, status and well-being of women. The authors challenge the view that equal opportunities legislation distorts the market and advocate policy intervention as a positive and enabling force for equal opportunities.

This is an introduction to the costs of unemployment and inflation, which analyzes the ways in which these two issues profoundly influence the conduct of economic policy. The book covers economic events and policies in the UK and the USA.

In this volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.