Throughout the world, the number of festivals has grown exponentially in the last two decades, as people celebrate local and regional cultures, but perhaps more importantly as local councils and other
Detention and occupation are two challenging aspects of international humanitarian law in 21st century warfare. The essays selected for this volume examine the historical foundations of these issues,
A specialist in poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Romantics generally, Quillin delves into the relationship between his poetry and music, a link often mentioned by scholars but not analyzed in depth u
This volume brings together thematically arranged articles on the relationship between Islam and science and how it has been shaped over the last century. The articles represent a broad variety of app
The water's edge, whether shore or riverbank, is a marginal territory that becomes invested with layers of meaning. The essays in this collection present intriguing perspectives on how the water's edg
Though Robert Fergusson published only one collection of poems during his lifetime, he was a fixture in the Scottish periodical press. Brown explores Fergusson's poetic output in its immediate periodi
Jennifer C. Vaught (University of Lousiana, Lafayette, US) has written a detailed study of English carnival and literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Vaught looks at specific written
A key theme in this collection of thirteen essays is the creative tension between the Carolingian dynasty and its aristocratic followers across 250 years. The first section explores the rising dynasty
Costello (art history, Rice U.). who takes pleasure in exploring the relationship of opposites, engages with Turner's history paintings and seascapes to discover the artist's notions and visual treatm
Countries which take spatial planning seriously should take planning law and property rights also seriously. There is an unavoidable logical relationship between planning, law, and property rights. Ho
Art historian David R. Smith (U. of New Hampshire) wrote the first of 12 contributed chapters. He explains that this collection stems from a session on parody and festivity at the 96th annual meeting
While he sees value in both macro-level explanations of poverty that focus on economic conditions and the labor market and micro-level explanations that focus on individual attributes, credentials, an
Eric Coates (1886-1957) is perhaps the most familiar name associated with British light music. Sir Charles Groves said that 'his music crackled with enthusiasm and vitality. He could write tunes and c
Death affects all aspects of life, it touches our emotions and influences our identity. Presenting a kaleidoscope of informative views of death, dying and human response, this book reveals how differe
Looking past the apparent lack of a sustainable Irish display culture, this book demonstrates that there is a very full story to tell of the way Ireland displayed its art from the late eighteenth to t
Fisher (Lenoir-Rhyne U.) has compiled a fascinating book explaining representations of Roman Catholic saints in Victorian literature in order to study the relationship between conservative thought and
The focus of this four volume series is on the law of peace and how international law underpins and helps to achieve the conditions of peace and security between states. In times of peace the main f
From the 1930s the East African Revival influenced Christian expression in East Central Africa and around the globe. This book analyses influences upon the movement and changes wrought by it in Uganda
In this valuable contribution to understanding urban cultural pluralism, situated between the extremes of assimilation and multiculturalism, Krase (City U. of New York) draws on many years of walking
The interrelationship of music and theology is a burgeoning area of scholarship in which conceptual issues have been explored by musicologists and theologians including Jeremy Begbie, Quentin Faulkner
Based on interviews with a wide spectrum of people who work with CSR in England, Denmark and in the EU Commission, the book argues that when CSR is linked to social exclusion it is a way of renegotiat
Students of Curcic, a Serbian scholar of Byzantine art and architecture, now in the US, present 14 essays on aspects of Byzantine architecture inspired by his own interests and contributions. They are
Human ecology - the study and practice of relationships between the natural and the social environment - has gained prominence as scholars seek more effectively to engage with pressing global concerns
This book offers a detailed critical analysis of the representation of mental health conditions across a range of fictional and factual genres in film, television and radio, thus presenting an underst
Bauer (music, U. of California-Irvine) explores core themes in Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti's (1923-2006) works, and suggests new ways to think about the relation of contemporary music to the tona
Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, and thinking have not yet received the attention they
Scholars of European literature and history explore how constructions of childhood were inflected by considerations of gender throughout the early modern world. They look at conceptualizing childhood:
Biddle (music and cultural theory, Newcastle U., England) foregrounds issues of gender and ideology in this effort to "queer" the musicology of the Austro-German 19th century, at once the temporal and
This volume on airline business and emerging technologies explores the benefits of digital and mobile technologies for streamlining services and outlines future trends in airline management focusing o
During the 1990s, Europe became the first continent with a 'mature society', where people aged 60 years and older outnumber children and as this trend continues, the resulting 'ageing societies' will
This text addresses a wide range of topics pertaining to an enterprise-wide risk management approach in aviation. Coverage includes corporate sustainability, a holistic and proactive perspective conce
With music technology becoming an increasingly central aspect of the music composition curriculum in England and Wales, Armstrong (St Mary's U. College, England) questions assumptions of automatic inc
The Derbys of Knowsley Hall have been neglected by historians to an astonishing degree. In domestic political terms, the legacies of Disraeli and his Conservative successors have long obscured their L
This volume concerns several aspects of China's changing market based economy. These include commercial contract enforcement, corporate structures, competition law and other issues related to China's
In this revealing book Junie Tong reflects on the role of banking and finance in China. The author adopts a critical perspective that views the societal as well as economic functioning of banking and
Taking an original approach to Robert Browning's poetics, Britta Martens focuses on a corpus of relatively neglected poems in Browning's own voice in which he reflects on his poetry, his self-conceptu
The International Commission for Research into European Food History (ICREFH) is an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars of history, ethnology, sociology, economics, geography, techno
In her study of Charlotte BrontA?, Harriet Martineau and George Eliot, Lesa Scholl shows how three Victorian women writers broadened their capacity for literary professionalism by participating in tra
Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical contingencies, C.F. Goodey's paradigm-shifting study tr
