Japan’s Budget Black Hole

Japan’s Budget Black HoleThis book describes the astonishing policy failures of populist politicians in Japan. Focussing on popular tax cuts in Japan as a salutary case study the book details their serious side effects: government debt, cuts to social security expenditure, inadequate public services and even the potential for a national default.

The first English-language biography of Lazar Kaganovich

This book introduces the concept of disciplined agency as a valuable explanatory tool vis-a-vis new forms of labour exploitation in service realms of production and the material and moral insecurities of capitalism under neoliberal governance

This collection explores what Roland Barthes termed the ‘autobiographical turn’ in art

The origin of photographic cinema is reframed based on a multitude of visual examples

hereby suggesting a way to overcome the fragmentation characterising the humanities today

This new edition has been extended and updated throughout to reflect the rapidly changing nature of the field

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how it can be fixed as well as new advice on using GenAI and why it is so important to have clean data before using it

This book challenges this widely held belief by demonstrating that the sūtra is a Chinese creative translation rather than an indigenous Chinese composition

transnational and feminist legacies manifest in performance

but their characters and plots sprung from radically distinct psychologies

which is truly experimental in attempting to draw together the resources for a cultural study of events