Nasser Al-Taee is the director of Education and Outreach at the Royal Opera House, Muscat, Oman. Prior to this, he was an associate professor of musicology in the School of Music at the University of
No wonder ethnicity remains such a contentious concept. In introducing this collection of 13 chapters, Hasmath (sociology, U. of Toronto, Canada) notes that the term derived from a classical Greek wor
The New Bruckner provides a valuable study of Bruckner's music, focusing on the interaction of biography, textual scholarship, reception history and analysis. Dr. Dermot Gault conveys a broad chronol
Daily life and living conditions in the Byzantine world are relatively underexplored subjects, often neglected in comparison with more visible aspects of Byzantine culture, such as works of art. The
The uses of fiction in early modern Europe are far more varied than is often assumed by those who consider fiction to be synonymous with the novel. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the sign
Arising from two conferences held in Toronto and Amsterdam in 2006 and 2008, this volume contains 13 contributions by academics involved with anthropology, diversity and culture, social work, religiou
Abugideiri (History, Villanova University) examines the transformation of medicine and medical education in Egypt as the result of British colonization during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The au
There has been much academic interest in the role of museums as places where understanding of the past is shaped and legitimised for a wide and increasingly diverse public. This book focuses on the mu
New Labour deployed community as a conceptual framework to rearticulate the state / citizen relationship to be enacted at and through new spaces of governance. An important example of this was how suc
What happens to us when we die? According to Christian faith, we will rise again bodily from the dead. This claim raises a series of philosophical and theological conundrums: is it rational to hope fo
This volume focuses on the period between the conquest of the Achaemenid empire by Alexander the Great and the advent of Islam, dominated in the central regions of the Near East by the Seleucid, the P
Science and religion have often been thought to be at loggerheads but much contemporary work in this flourishing interdisciplinary field suggests this is far from the case. The Ashgate Science and Re
Welfare offices usually attract negative descriptions of bureaucracy with their queues, routines, and impersonal nature. Are they anonymous machines or the locus of neutral service relationships? Show
This book provides a critique of the knowledge business, and describes and evaluates its different manifestations in, and impacts on, the university sector. Its focus is the social sciences and, in pa
With an increasing international interest in post civil war demobilisation and reintegration, especially in Africa, Ojeleye presents a well timed body of knowledge on the Nigerian civil war. Moreover,
There has been a great deal of recent interest in masculine clothing, examining both its production and consumption, and the ways in which it was used to create individual identities and to build busi
This book explores how people may use music in ways that are helpful for them, especially in relation to a sense of wellbeing, belonging and participation. The central premise for the study is that he
Britain's military forces have rarely been busier. It is therefore crucial to understand the developing trends and underlying assumptions of British Defence Policy, in regard to both foreign policy an
Peterson (English literature, Miami U.) investigates representations of "hysterical diseases" of women in early modern English medical texts and dramatic plays. She pays particular attention to the de
This fine collection of essays makes an important contribution to the literature on 18th-century architectural space as it was constructed and experienced across Europe...the essays uniformly move bey
How music functioned in the middle ages, what it meant to its hearers, and how it was performed: these are the subjects of this fascinating volume. The studies collected here introduce the reader to t
Terrorism and political violence has invariably accompanied the progressive modernization of states; a socio-cultural phenomenon that responds to problems of social change and development. To underst
Raphael Holinshed's account of English history from 1377-1485 in the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland is most well-known as the source of Shakespeare's English history plays. Although the
Historically, European churches have played a large part in the provision of welfare. Responsibility, however, has gradually shifted to the state a€“ a shift that forms an integral part of the process
This book explores how people may use music in ways that are helpful for them, especially in relation to a sense of wellbeing, belonging and participation. The central premise for the study is that h
This book combines theoretical and empirical perspectives to address three relevant issues that are marking the European communicative landscape: the role of media and journalism in shaping the Europ
Spanning two centuries and two continents, Art, Piety and Destruction in the Christian West, 1500-1700 addresses the impact of religious tensions on art, design, and architecture in the early modern w
During the late 1980s, economist Flynn and a colleague at the University of the Pacific developed the Unified Theory of Prices using Optimal Control Theory, and when Gitadez arrived soon after, the tw
Unger (art history, Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev and Bezalel Academy of Art, Israel) has written a study of eight of Guercino's paintings that focuses both on the history of style and on the political c
This volume offers an informed and critical analysis of the operationalization and institutionalization of the peace and security architecture by the African Union and Africa's Regional Economic Commu
Scholars of political science and peace studies, most from northern Europe or southern Africa, describe elements of an emerging framework for bilateral and multinational relations between African coun
In an interview with GA?nther Gaus for German television in 1964, Hannah Arendt insisted that she was not a philosopher but a political theorist. Disillusioned by the cooperation of German intellectua
How can museum educators and higher education tutors enhance the way HE students use museums? There are many examples in the UK of museums and universities working together in productive and innovativ
Nicholls (English, University of Leeds) considers the evolution of the work of male Gikuyu author Ngugi wa Thiong'o in terms of the women he presents. Nicholls feels that in the early books women appe
Modern architecture scholar, Pearson, gives a lively history of the designing and building of UBESCO headquarters in Paris during the 1950's. Although concentrating on the architecture of the building
In this lavishly illustrated study, Areford (art history, University of Massachusetts, Boston) invites the reader to view late medieval prints as they were intended to be seen. Starting with paintings
One of the great paradoxes of post-medieval Europe, is why instead of bringing peace to a disorganised and violent world, modernity instead produced a seemingly endless string of conflicts and social
The material that we call milk is a food that has been revered and ignored, respected and feared, in almost equal measure. This book is a history of attempts to bring it under control, manipulate its
Over the last quarter-century, evangelicalism has become an important social and political force in modern America. Here, new voices in the field are brought together with leading scholars such as Wil
Dittmer (human geography, University College, London) and Sturm (geography, UCLA) introduce and contribute to a collection of essays on the international spread of American evangelical religious belie
