Conklin (human performance and safety integration, Los Alamos National Laboratory) outlines a road map for understanding how to manage safety in the workplace and solve problems before they become acc
Cornelison (Italian Renaissance art, U. of Kansas) recounts the steps of her scholarly journey beginning with her attraction to Giambologna's St. Antoninus Chapel at San Marco in Florence, then to a s
Pena presents 11 chapter-length studies of modern pop-cultural phenomena following in the foot-steps of Roland Barthes and his study of mythological modes of discourse in modern French culture. These
This volume collects a set of papers on ancient Platonism that span the nine centuries between Plato himself and his commentator Olympiodorus in the 6th century, many of them less easy to obtain. Much
In our post 9/11 world where there is a growing religious fundamentalism, and when both exclusion and easy tolerance are inadequate options, this book offers a creative alternative arguing that Pentec
Focusing on images of or produced by well-to-do nineteenth-century European women, this volume explores genteel femininity as resistant to easy codification vis-A -vis the public. Attending t
This is not an easy book to read and it would not have been easy to write. A medical history of World War I could hardly be otherwise. Every page lists a new horror, often related by witnesses or part
What defines pop music? Why do we consider some styles as easier listening than others? Arranged in three parts: Aesthetics and Authenticity - Groove, Sampling and Industry - Subjectivity, Ethnicity a
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
The anthology was conceived in the spring of 2005 at a Human Rights Initiative conference in Georgia while evidence of US soldiers torturing prisoners in Iraq was dominating popular media. US law scho
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
Henderson (Oxford Brookes U., UK) assesses the impact of US actions and arguments in the post-Cold War era on the status of jus ad bellum (justification for going to war) in international law. General
The articles in this volume explore the way in which military developments helped to sculpt, out of very strange and diverse components, our familiar Europe. The period studied covers the fall of the
Healy (Australian National U.) examines experiences in regulating the safety and quality of patient care in the health systems of Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and North America, focusing on the reg
In its most advanced form, e-commerce allows unidentified purchasers to pay obscure vendors in 'electronic cash' for products that are often goods, services and licenses all rolled into one. This book
This book undertakes a critical appraisal of sustainable development in the European Union. In addition to existing issues of sustainability, it examines the development of a European "general pr
The broad question is whether transplanted legal systems can productively take root in countries where they did not originate. Paquin (U. of Ottawa, Canada) offers a close analysis of business law in
Although it has a rich historiography, and from the late ninth century is rich in textual evidence, northern Iberia has barely featured in the great debates of early medieval European history of recen
In Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures scholars look afresh at representations of nineteenth-century ’oriental’ bodies, inquiring deeply into their erotic dimensions, tracin
Portraits of Queen Marie Leszczinska (1703a€“1768) were highly visible in eighteenth-century France. Appearing in royal chA￠teaux and, after 1737, in the Parisian Salons, the queena€?s image was centr
In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food. In light of this, contributor
Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the first in Art History - to juxtapose temperate and tropi
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
Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical practice and in the lives of ordinary people. Widely considered as the mos
This volume is based on possibly the biggest single Europe-wide project in urban history. In 1955 the International Commission for the History of Towns established the European historic towns atlas pr
"Edmund Campion has always been the leading Elizabethan martyr, an accolade that overshadowed his early life. This biography assesses the power of Campion's spoken word, in Prague and in England, the
The a€?theological turna€? in continental philosophy and the a€?turn to Paula€? in political philosophy have occasioned a return to radical theology, a tradition whose philosophical heritage can be tr
"Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-aa-vis high-income countries rather than articulating local creativity in resp
Climate change control has risen to the top of the international agenda. Failed efforts, centred in the United Nations, to allocate responsibility have resulted in a challenge now reaching crisis stag
The papers in this volume were presented at a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar held at the University of Oxford in 2009-2010, which sought to investigate side by side the two important movements of conversion th
This collection is anchored in an African conception of children's rights and the law, and reflects contemporary discourses taking place in the region of the children's rights sphere. The majority of
The US and international defense industrial sectors have faced many challenges over the last twenty years, including cycles of growth and shrinkage in defense budgets, shifts in strategic defense prio
In contrast to speculative, sweeping literature on globalization Global Exposure in East Asia grounds globalization theories in a detailed empirical analysis, providing a systematic investigation of w
The last 40 years has seen a significant shift from state commitment to asylum-based mental health care to a mixed economy of care in a variety of locations. In the wake of this deinstitutionalisation
This companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Although anthropology has expanded greatly over time in terms of the diversi
Sir Andrzej Panufnik was born in Warsaw and studied in the newly independent Poland in the 1930s, as well as in Vienna and Paris just before the outbreak of the Second World War. During the German occ
Revitalizing railways as a major sustainable transport mode in modern societies faces many issues and challenges. This in-depth overview places the importance of railways in the wider context of compr
Health status and the experience of working in health care roles are both strongly shaped by gender and, although there have been attempts to incorporate a€?gender awarenessa€? in both health and empl
This book examines the multiple ways in which rural regions in Europe are being restructured through globalization and the regional development responses that they have adopted. It provides an underst
