Joanne Finkelstein teaches sociology and cultural studies at Monash University. She is the author of Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners, The Fashioned Self, and Slaves of Chic: An A-Z of Consumer Pleasures.
Nissim Mannathukkaren hails from Muvattupuzha, Kerala. He was trained in Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Queen's University, Canada. He teaches at the International
Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov was a Bulgarian communist politician. He was the first communist leader of Bulgaria from 1946 to 1949. Dimitrov led the Communist International from 1934 to 1943. He was a
Paul R. Brass is Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has published fifteen books and numerous articles on comparative an
