The imperatives surrounding museum representations of place have shifted from the late eighteenth century to today. The political significance of place itself has changed and continues to change at al
The origin of this book is the compelling evidence that a high proportion of machinery-related deaths and injuries are attributable to genuine and serious risks originating within machine design and c
All institutions concerned with the process of judging - whether it be deciding between alternative courses of action, determining a judgea€?s professional integrity, assigning culpability for an alle
What factors contribute to tourism and recreation development? How can we characterise stakeholder rationales and organisation modes to enhance tourism resources and foster tourism and recreation serv
The Spanish Civil War (July 1936 to April 1939) was arguably one of the most politically and socially significant conflicts of the 20th century. Conscience and Conflict, accompanying a ground-breaking
In Scandinavian countries immigration is a sensitive issue and legislatorsa€? approach to the questions it has raised has varied over the years. Whatever immigrant and integration policies are adopted
Organisations continue to struggle with their strategies; even when they have a strategy development process, their plans rarely have the impact that was intended. Too many of their people don't know
Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman draws on work by Kinji Imanishi, Frans de Waal, and other biologists to create an interdisciplinary, materialist notion of culture f
This book examines a number of landmark shifts in our account of the relationship between human and divine existence, as reflected through the perception of time and corporeal experience. Drawing toge
Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional
Shedding light on the relationship between violence and contemporary society, this volume explores the distinctive but little-known theories of violence in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean Baudri
Pilgrimages can be analysed as acts of conflict - such as the Crusades - or also as platforms for relationship building and rapprochement between religions. With a set of contributions from leading ex
A rich examination of the neglect and abuses occurring to women in correctional facilities, Women, Incarceration, and Human Rights Violations draws upon a wealth of case studies from around the world
Women and Entrepreneurship comes from two authors with especially rich experience in this field of research. Embracing experience in a range of developed and developing countries and examining both de
Informed by the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and framed by the philosophy of harm reduction, Habitus and Drug Using Environments provides a sociological analysis of public environments affected by injec
This anthology addresses the modern musical culture of interwar Osaka and its surrounding Hanshin region. Modernity as experienced in this locale, with its particular historical, geographic and demogr
Why did Britain come to play such a prominent role in the war on terror and why did the military instrument come to be the dominant theme in the British prosecution of what was an ideological and poli
What is sacrifice? For many people today the word has negative overtones, suggesting loss, or death, or violence. But in religions, ancient and modern, the word is linked primarily to joyous feasting
This book draws together the work of a new community of scholars with a growing interest in carceral geography: the geographical study of practices of imprisonment and detention. It combines work by g
Though best known as the author of Dracula (1897) Bram Stoker had a successful career in the theatre. This collection brings together all Stoker’s theatrical reviews from Dublin’s Evening Mail, his pu
The philosophy of Hans Jonas was widely influential in the late twentieth century, warning of the potential dangers of technological progress and its negative effect on humanity and nature. Jonas advo
Baltic-Russian relations have been complicated and tense since the collapse of the USSR and the restoration of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian independence. Although Baltic accession to the European
Presenting new opportunities in the dialogue between philosophy and theology, this interdisciplinary text addresses the contemporary reshaping of intellectual boundaries. Exploring human experience in
Written in a lively and engaging style from the perspective of a leading immigration judge, this book examines how states resolve disputes with migrants. The chapters reflect on changes in the laws an
Sociologists, anthropologists, criminologists, and various medical specialists consider such aspects of the phenomenon as a contextual understanding of club drug use in New York City, conceptions of r
Comer and Stephens, both computer fraud consultants, claim that their book is so effective that just leaving it out for others to see will improve one's chances of not being deceived. In their ironic
A dozen papers from the fourth biennial conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, held in San Francisco in March 2001, look at geography, travel, and communication as interlocking aspects of
Deakin (Napier University, UK) provides an overview of problems relating to rural and urban development at the beginning of the 20th century and considers certain methodologies, models, and instrument
Dunn (Texas State U.) describes relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Russian state, which suddenly turned from monarchism and orthodoxy to communism and atheism. He maintains that throu
The social history of Poland during the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly between the world wars, has been Zarnowski's primary interest over the past three decades, and so he has written mostly in
Fifteen otherwise not readily available scholarly essays, 1975-95, investigate the values underlying competing views of monarchy and polity that ushered in early modern English politics and law. Guy (
Elton (English literature, City U. of New York) attempts to dismantle the characterization of the play as a puzzling "problem play," placing it instead in the historical context of the Inns of Court
When anthropologist Varisco went to Yemen to study traditional irrigation and agriculture, he realized that people were using methods that were described in medieval texts, and that he could interpret
This is the first of three volumes collecting essays by Richard M. Frank (emeritus, Catholic U. of America) on kalam, Islamic theology. The 15 studies here provide both the lexical and intellectual co
This volume represents key scholarship on the issue of parental rights and responsibilities, selected from a dense forest of literature. The collection offers an overview of the subject and covers top
There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpretative approach for understanding architecture, or that use the formal and social logics of architecture for underst
Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituality of architecture is rarely directly addressed in ac
Based on a variety of contemporary debates on federal theory Understanding Federalism and Federation honours Michael Burgessa€? contribution to the study of these topics through a selection of approac
"Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and borders
Disability studies has engaged with discourse analysis in key works both from the UK and the USA. While the perspectives and analyses of discourse analysis have proved well suited for exploring disabi
