The History of the Book in South Asia covers not only the various modern states that make up South Asia today but also a multitude of languages and scripts. For centuries it was manuscripts that domin
Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was a major figure in post-war British art who is known for his searching portraits of the male nude and his association with the Neo-Romantic painters. This book provides for
As the 2007 Prunella Clough exhibition at Tate testified, Clough (1919-1999) was one of the best and most original artists to emerge in the second half of the 20th century. This book celebrates her ou
A Short Guide to Fraud Risk is for: * anyone who needs to better understand fraud risks, either company-wide, or in a specific business unit; * directors and managers who would like to add value by bu
In this very distinctive book, Images of Projects challenges how we think about projects in the most fundamental way: it rejects outright the idea of a one 'best way' to view all projects and also the
A team of ethicists and economists defend the core tenets of the Quality-Adjusted Life Year as a unit of measure by which to decide who gets scarce health-care resources, which proposes that health ca
JerA3nimo Lobo was the last survivor of the small band of Jesuit Fathers who tried, with a measure of success, to reconcile Ethiopia to the Church of Rome. His life was long and adventurous. The narra
This is the first major work on the history of the secular church in the Frankish states of Syria and the Holy Land a€“ a subject which has not hitherto attracted the interest of ecclesiastical histor
State formation after civil war tackles a problem that has challenged the UN system and scholars alike since the end of the Cold War: What kind of phenomenon is a transition from civil war to peace, a
The Social War was a significant uprising against the Roman state by Romea€?s allies in Italy. The conflict lasted little more than two and a half years but it is widely recognised as having been imme
The intense rivalry in battleship building that took place between Britain and Germany in the run up to the First World War is seen by many as the most totemic of all armaments races. Blamed by numero
Born in Dublin into the Anglo-Irish gentry, Anna Maria Hall moved to London when she was fifteen where she became famous for her books, plays and travel writing. It was her book, Sketches of Irish Cha
Evelyn Karet's in-depth study of the Antonio II Badile Album - the earliest known example of an art collection pasted onto the pages of a book - is both focused and broad in its appeal to those intere
This is the first general selection from the substantial body of surviving documents about Elizabetha€?s navy. It is a companion to The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I (Vol.157 in the NRS Series), where
A good business case is so much more than simply the means to justify a decision. A well-written and well-researched business case will secure funding; make sure any project stays on the right side of
St Katherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular saints in both the Orthodox and Latin Churches in the later Middle Ages, yet there has been little study of how her cult developed before c. 1200
Walter was an official in the city of Antioch when it formed the nucleus of the second largest of the crusader kingdoms in Palestine. He narrated events around him from 1114 to 1115 and 1119 to 1122,
Why Customers Would Rather Have a Smartphone than a Car explores some of the fundamental changes in consumer behaviour: Why do we buy less in shops and more on the internet? Why do we spend more on ga
Although attention to the Book of Judith and its heroine has grown in recent years, this is the first full-length study to focus on adaptations of the Biblea€?s Old Testament Book of Judith across a r
Humans are weird! They can be emotional, irrational and often unpredictable, yet as their manager, it is your job to get the best out of them. In fact they are often the key to your success. Sadly, hu
This is the first title in a new series called Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution. This series will appeal to those involved in English literary studies, as well as those working in fields of st
James Tower (1919-88) is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive figures in post-war British ceramics. This is the first single publication to be devoted to his work and will reveal to a new au
John Byrne (b.1940) grew up on the Ferguslie Park housing scheme in Paisley. He escaped work in a carpet factory to study at the Glasgow School of Art, and has since carved out a successful dual caree
The track record of IT projects is poor. Less than a third of IT projects deliver what they said they would, on schedule and on budget. The major cause of IT project failure is not, as you might expec
Analyzing the International Criminal Court's first cases, this work examines the ICC’s potential to contribute to truth telling in the aftermath of mass atrocities. The book assesses whether ICC pro
Federico Maria Sardelli writes from the perspective of a professional baroque flautist and recorder-player, as well as from that of an experienced and committed scholar, in order to shed light on the
Tourist visits used to be a less common activity in the past. However, more people than ever now make leisure trips, making this an era of mass tourism. This drastic change in spatial behaviour is not
Several different approaches to medieval legal history are evident in these articles. The first group uses law to investigate the principles that governed society, whether clearly articulated or not,
Over the last forty years Professor Hall has been a major contributor to the a€?new viewa€? of Newton now generally accepted. Essentially this has derived from the bringing to light and examination of
Law mattered in later medieval England and Ireland. A quick glance at the sources suggests as much. From the charter to the will to the court roll, the majority of the documents which have survived fr
This is the third of three volumes reprinting the collected papers on Islamic subjects by Richard M. Frank, Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of America, and completes the set. The present
The main theme of this book is the adaptation process of the new EU member states from Central-Eastern Europe (Hungary and Poland) to the multi-level system of governance in public policy, particularl
The EU is not a super-state in the making but the most sophisticated regional organization. Against conventional wisdom, this book provides a contribution to the research on regional organizations whi
Researchers have neglected the cultural history of education and as a result women's educational works have been disparaged as narrowly didactic and redundant to the history of ideas. Mary Hilton's bo
Drawing together leading international experts such as Knut Halvorsen, Robert Y. Shapiro, Stefan Svallfors and Wim van Oorschot, this volume addresses issues of justice and legitimacy in the context o
Investigates possible European and Asian influences on early Norse verse and prose, mythological allusion in Eddic and scaldic poetry, the Anglo-Saxon knowledge of Norse myths as expressed in Beowulf
The conventional opposition of scholastic Aristotelianism and humanistic science has been increasingly questioned in recent years, and in these articles William Wallace aims to demonstrate that a prog
Walter Ullmann's contribution to the study of medieval political and legal thought needs no emphasis. In the present volume are collected a number of the early articles which it was not possible to in
Guernsey (Florida International U.) examines the works, mainly murals, of four European painters--Delacroix, James Barry, Chenavard, and Courbet--all of which were presented to state institutions betw
