This thought provoking volume on Internet addiction explores the topic from the perspective of personal, cultural, and political dangers associated with increasing dependence on recreational informati
"With a discussion of this everyday practice constituting both leisure and learning in this digital age, The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction informs our understanding of the discourses surroundin
The issue Margolis (U. of Cincinnati) and Moreno-Raino (Regent U., US) address is not the potential for democracy within the Internet, but the Internet as a potential tool of democracy. The fundamenta
This timely book fills an important gap in the literature on the influence of the Internet and new media in Portuguese speaking African countries. Based on extensive field work throughout the region t
For a thing to be real, it must be able to communicate with other things. If this is so, then the problem of being receives a straightforward resolution: to be is to be in communion. So the fundamenta
There have been numerous possible scenarios depicted on the impact of the internet on urban spaces. Considering ubiquitous/pervasive computing, mobile, wireless connectivity and the acceptance of the
The 2004 US election provided French citizens and their media with a springboard for re-conceiving 'self' and 'other'. By examining how the French media – newspapers, television, the internet and scho
Internet censorship is a controversial topic - while the media periodically sounds alarms at the dangers of online life, the uncontrollable nature of the internet makes any kind of pervasive regulator
In a society where split-second decisions about the value of things are grounded on how they look, museum visitors are often drawn to visually striking or iconic objects. This book investigates the qu
While writing previous books The Internet on Earth (2002) and Personal Mobilities (2006), Kellerman (emeritus, U. of Haifa) noted a difference between routine movement such as commuting to work and fr
In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In Franc
How can beliefs, which are immaterial, be about things? How can the body be the seat of thought? This book traces the historical roots of the cognitive sciences and examines pre-modern conceptualizati
Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage is the first book to focus on Carroll's irresistible fascination with all things theatrical, from childhood charades and marionettes to active involvement in the
While Blackstone may famously have described private property as "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world," the truth is that the publi
Those who control water, hold power. Complicating matters, water is a flow resource; constantly changing states between liquid, solid, and gas, being incorporated into living and non-living things and
When a venture seems to be faltering, do you persist and hope that things will get better or do you cut your losses? This may be one of the most important decisions business or project owners may ever
There are things that can be done and are done to life on earth (whether it be human, animal or plant life) which, even if they do not involve or produce any suffering, are still considered morally wr
Mapping out the fairly new terrain called environmental aesthetics, philosophers from North America and Europe consider how things merit respect for their intrinsic worth, and how the aesthetic contri
This is the first volume of a set of five undergraduate textbooks and a reader introducing contemporary themes and challenges in religious studies and published in association with The Open University
The past four decades have seen an explosion in research regarding seventeenth-century opera. In addition to investigations of extant scores and librettos, scholars have dealt with the associated area
With increasing recognition of the international market in health professionals and the impact of globalism on regulation, the governance of the health workforce is moving towards greater public engag
This volume is part of the publisher's series titled "Cultural Diversity and Law in association with RELIGARE." The project on Religious Diversity and Secular Models in Europe (RELIGARE) is funded by
This book analyses the abuse of idealism with particular reference to China's Cultural Revolution. The work examines abuse at two levels: the state leaders' metaphysical vision as the interpretation o
With contributions from experts in the field of sociology of law, this book provides an overview of current perspectives on socio-legal studies. It focuses particularly on the relationship between law
The expression 'non-state actors' has become part and parcel of the common parlance of international lawyers. Together with the traditional subjects of international law, such as states and internatio
Bloomfield charts Indiaa€?s profoundly ambiguous engagement with the thorny problem of protecting vulnerable persons from atrocities without fatally undermining the sovereign state system, a matter wh
What can unfold from an engagement of feminist issues, concerns and practices with the geopolitical? How does feminism allow for a reconfiguration of how these two elements, the geo- and the -politica
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been called the a€?worst place in the worlda€? for women, with reports of widespread and horrific incidents of rape and sexual violence and almost complete i
In 1517, the usually tranquil friary in the Hungarian town of KA?rmend found itself at the centre of controversy when its Augustinian friars, charged with drunkenness, sexual abuses and liturgical neg
Rethinking Drinking and Sport examines the complex nature of sport-related drinking. With close attention to the contradictory nature of sport-related drinking, this book considers both 'the problem'
The complexities of employee empowerment have been largely underestimated and it is clear that organisations struggle with putting the concept into practice. Rozana Ahmad Huq recognises that effective
The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject. Each o
Pevsner: The BBC Years gives the first full account of Sir Nikolaus Pevsnera€?s engagement with the BBC at a time when both were the dominant institutions in their own fields -- Pevsner as the most pe
Security Culture starts from the premise that, even with good technical tools and security processes, an organisation is still vulnerable without a strong culture and a resilient set of behaviours in
What do we value as a political virtue? What are the core values of democracy in the modern era? What is a democratic culture and can it coexist with a predatory capitalist corporatism? Is democracy j
Archbishop Michael Ramseya€?s archiepiscopate from 1961 to 1974 saw profound renegotiations of the relationship of the Church of England with its own flock, with the nation more widely, with the Angli
Health research and health care practice are radically transforming as governments invest more in large scale, national and international health projects with increasing levels of interdisciplinarity
During the last decade in particular the levels of critical engagement with the challenges posed for privacy by the new technologies have been on the rise. Many scholars have continued to explore the
The essays selected for this volume reflect the many paths followed to develop a new, more robust methodology (idMAPPING) for investigating privacy. Each article deals with the three dimensions of tim
The geographies of health and development is an emerging sub-discipline, tying in with many of the conceptual, theoretical and practical components of other disciplines working in health, health care,
