This volume deals with questions of political and constitutional principle and theory that affect the law and regulation of content in new media that are based on digital technology. In the light of c
These essays deal with two central preoccupations: the new styles of political behaviour developed by Christian rulers and Christian congregations during the century or so after Constantine's conversi
Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present is a collection of essays with a distinctive focus and an unusual range. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, with
This intriguing study blends fictional representations of female murderers with transcripts, biographies and broadsides about real women convicted of murder. Saxton (English, Mills College, Oakland, C
Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, Fellow Romantics offers an insp
Using private diary writing as her model, Catherine Delafield investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women's writing and reading practices. Beginning with an examination of non-f
This book examines Shakespeare's fascination with the art of narrative and the visuality of language. Richard Meek complicates our conception of Shakespeare as either a 'man of the theatre' or a 'lite
Since the 1980s, musicians and audiences in Athens have been rediscovering musical traditions associated with the Ottoman period of Greek history. The result of this revivalist movement has been the u
The gawking tourist with cameras dangling from his neck is a universal icon. Robinson and Picard, of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, have gathered essays on tourists and photography. The views are
Temperley (Music, University of Illinois, Urbana, emeritus) has spent his career in search of the music sung and played in Protestant English parish churches. Along with many books on the subject, he
Of particular interest to scholars concerned with medieval technology and technology as well as those interested in medieval art and architecture, this is a "special publication" in the series publish
Rural Identities investigates and engages with the ways in which ideas of the English countryside and rural nature, are enrolled into and fashion the narratives of Englishness. At the heart of the boo
This book is concerned with the argument that religious traditions are inherently environmentally friendly. Yet in a developing country such as India, the majority of people cannot afford to put the '
With both opponents and a significant number of proponents of the death penalty widely agreeing that the capital punishment system in the United States is almost irrevocably broken (to the extent that
Kwak (PhD, international relations, Claremont Graduate U.) and Joo (political science, U. of Minnesota-Morris) present 13 chapters examining various aspects of North Korean foreign policy, with the ke
Combining linguistic theory with analytical concepts and literary interpretation and appreciation, Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques traces the creation and development of Austen's narrative techniqu
Even if they deplore it, anyone who has been on a plane in this century will identify with the anger of passengers who sometimes become violent. Hunter, who spent many years in the airline industry, s
In her innovative study of spatial locations in postcolonial texts, Sara Upstone adopts a transnational and comparative approach that challenges the tendency to engage with authors in isolation or in
Part of a series that gathers notable scholarship on aspects of medieval music into one source, this volume presents 18 previously published articles on the music called ars antiqua, with separate sec
Krishnamurthy (Fitchburg State College) presents 12 essays examining a diverse array of figures who through various forms sought to engage 18th and 19th British audiences with the realities of the wor
Hansen and Friedman (both New England School of Law) began with a discussion over lunch, then moved to a series of essays published in the on-line journal The Jurist, expanded their research into secr
The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-
The evolving role of fathers in familial power relations is explored in this volume, with Aitken (geography, San Diego State U. and the Norwegian U. of Science and Technology) noting that societal not
This book opens up the debate on the interrelations between space and mobilities with regard to different dimensions of social inequality. Based on the premise that the dynamics caused by modernizatio
In 1887, in the wake of his success with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, British author Robert Louis Stevenson set off on travels that would take him to the United States for a year, two years traveling in the
This book brings together important material from a range of sources and highlights how government organizations, musicians, academics and commercial companies are concerned with, and seek to use, a p
With the exponential rise in leisure mobility, tourism has increasingly become of great economic significance. Cultural heritage, such as museums, churches, historical landscapes, urban parks, and exh
Athenagoras of Athens was a Christian thinker of the second century who engaged with contemporary philosophical thought in the matters of the divine, and the relationship of that divine to the materia
This book develops a thorough account of the sphere of human moral action in sustained dialogue with JA?rgen Moltmann. By examining God's role as promise-giver, particularly in the Christian understan
The frequency with which particular words are used in a text can tell us something meaningful both about that text and also about its author because their choice of words is seldom random. Focusing on
In keeping with recent trends of synthesis in literary criticism, Markwick (English, University of Exeter, UK), Morse (English, College of William and Mary) and Gagnier (English, University of Exeter,
The role of popular music in advertising is examined in this volume, with Klein (media industries, U. of Leeds, UK) investigating such topics as authorship and ownership issues and the legitimization
With its emphasis on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this collection of essays takes the messenger figure as a
Complying with Colonialism presents a complex analysis of the habitual weak regard attributed to the colonial ties of Nordic Countries. It introduces the concept of a€?colonial complicitya€? to explai
Drawing on recent research in prospective memory and on a much longer history of studies of the basic mechanisms of attention memory, three human factors researchers with the National Aeronautical and
For decades North Africa and the Middle East have experienced overlapping identities and integration processes. With the exception of Morocco, the countries of North Africa have supported the re-launc
The articles collected together in this volume are concerned with why and how people get involved in politics, whether through formal mechanisms such as voting, through some of the more informal means
It was the Renaissance culture of paradox, argues Platt (English, Barnard College), that provided Shakespeare with the vocabulary and the conceptual framework for his presentation of an array of persp
This volume explores the nature of health and health-care experiences in Russia by comparing societies and communities with different socio-cultural conditions. The unique use of longitudinal data col
Jefferson presents the Warden's Account Books of one of the 12 big livery companies in the City of London from 1344 to 1520, with Modern English translation facing pages of the original Norman French,
