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"What is valuable about literary studies? What is its point and purpose? In The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas, leading scholars in the field illuminate both the purpose and priorities of literary criticism. At a time when the humanities are increasingly called upon to justify themselves, this book seeks to clarify their myriad values and ideologies. Engaging the idea of literary value while at the same time remaining attuned to aesthetic, ethical, political and psychological principles, this book serves to underscore the enduring significance of literary studies in an academic climate that is ostensibly concerned with expediency and quantification. As a sophisticated examination of literary theory and criticism, The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas provides a comprehensive and hopeful view of where the discipline is now and what avenues it is likely to take from here"

"This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe including mining archaeology, technologies of mining, migration and mining, the everyday life of the miner, the state and mining, industrial relations in mining, gender and mining, environment and mining, mining accidents, the visual history of mining, and mining heritage. The result is a counter balance to more common national and regional case study perspectives."

"Introducing comparative politics / Mark Kesselman, Joel Krieger, and William A. Joseph -- Established democracies. Britain / Joel Krieger ; France / Mark Kesselman ; Germany / Christopher S. Allen ; Japan / Haruhiro Fukui and Shigeko N. Fukai ; India / Atul Kohli ; United States / Louis DeSipio -- Transitional democracies. Brazil / Al Montero ; Mexico / Merilee S. Grindle ; Russia / Joan DeBardeleben -- Non-democracies. China / William A. Joseph ; Nigeria / Richard A. Joseph ... [et al.] ; Iran / Ervand Abrahamian."