This book presents a rethink on the significance of Thai Buddhism in an increasingly complex and changing post-modern urban context, especially following the financial crisis of 1997. Defining the cul
Editor Eicher (economics, Friends U.) and seven co-contributors offer a broader than usual perspective on corruption in international business intended to help business school students better identify
Grounded in medical, juridical, and philosophical texts of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, this innovative study tells the story of how the idea of woman contributed to the emergence of mod
Among the many immigrants from South Asia there are those who follow various Christian religions rather than Hinduism, Buddhism or Islam. The particular experiences of these groups differ from those o
Dreambooks in Byzantium offers for the first time in English translation and with commentary six of the seven extant Byzantine oneirocritica, or manuals on the interpretation of dreams. (The seventh,
The nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 triggered one of the gravest international crises since the Second World War. The fiftieth anniversary of the Suez crisis in 2006 presented an ideal oppor
The first concept album in the history of popular music, the soundtrack of the Summer of Love or 'Hippy Symphony No. 1': Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is first and foremost the album that gave
The movement to incorporate leadership training in law schools has lagged behind that movement in other professions such as nursing and business, for example. This volume presents 16 contributions add
G.W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879) had a major impact on the mid-Victorian era that until now has been largely unacknowledged. A prolific novelist whose work had a massive circulation, and an influential jou
The first concept album in the history of popular music, the soundtrack of the Summer of Love or 'Hippy Symphony No. 1': Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is first and foremost the album that gave
Between 1975 and 1978, the Khmer Rouge carried out genocide in Cambodia unparalleled in modern history. Approximately 2 million died a€“ almost one quarter of the population. Taking an explicitly geog
Peasant festival imagery began in sixteenth-century Nuremberg, when the city played host to a series of religious and secular festivals. The peasant festival images were first produced as woodcut prin
The cultural landscapes of Central European cities reflect over half a century of socialism and are marked by the Marxists' vision of a utopian landscape. Architecture, urban planning and the visual a
In this book Allan Doig explores the interrelationship of liturgy and architecture from the Early Church to the close of the Middle Ages, taking into account social, economic, technical, theological a
Regional cooperation, regionalism and regionalization in the Middle East are usually considered to be weak and rather ceremonial. However, since September 11, 2001, a new regional order is emerging an
The role of French security policy and cooperation in Africa has long been recognized as a critically important factor in African politics and international relations. The newest form of security coop
Offers a look at the dynamics of the city, that is, how cities work in relation to the long cycles of economic development and suggests that a wave of prosperity, built on technologies and industries,
Chapter 1 describes the event, which occurred in March 2006: Three Duke University lacrosse players "...were wrongly accused and indicted on charges of sexual assault for the gang rape of an exotic da
Domestic work has become highly relevant on a local and global scale. Until a decade ago, domestic workers were rare in European households; today they can be found working for middle-class families a
Philosophy was not an idle venture in the Renaissance. There were no clear-cut boundaries between theory and the practice. Theologians, jurists and humanists gave opinions on practical matters from wi
The revolutionary Romanticism and poetic experimentation of the decade is generally attributed to the American and French revolutions, but Manly (U. of St. Andrews, Scotland) traces it to 17th-century
The idealist Enlightenment epistemological tradition continues to encourage a reading of the Bible that inhibits a full awareness of divine agency in scripture, contends Bowald (religion and theology,
For centuries, philosophy of action helped clarify such concepts as action, intention, premeditation, and autonomy, but has been slacking off since the 1960s. Here scholars of philosophy from the US a
There are many books about how people ought to interpret the Bible. This book is about how people in churches actually interpret the Bible, and why they interpret it in the way that they do. Based on
Payne (history, U. of Missouri-Kansas City) investigates the dispassion, called clinical detachment today, that some men in early modern England acquired as a result of practicing medicine, especially
Heather Laing examines, for the first time, the issues of gender and emotion that underpin the classical style of film scoring, but that have until now remained unquestioned and untheorized, thus pro
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that depart from mainstream realism, from fairy tales by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti,
Conflicting claims to authority in relation to the translation and interpretation of the Bible have been a recurrent source of tension within the Christian church, and were a key issue in the Reformat
Sustainable mobility has become the new imperative for transport policy. There have been a number of policy attempts at sustainable mobility globally, such as the development of more efficient convent
Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe is the first book to focus directly on the visual representation of marginal and outcast people in early modern Europe. The volume offers a comprehensive and
The ongoing deregulation and liberalization of worldwide air transport markets confronts airport planners with an increasingly problematic context. On the one hand, the capital intensive, large-scale
As more and more people survive into old age, the burden of caring for them becomes greater and greater. Although it is now possible to alleviate many of the afflictions that beset mankind, no society
Exploring the 'roads less travelled', MacDonald continues his monumental essay in the history of ideas. The history of heterodox ideas about the concept of mind takes the reader from the earliest rec
It has been claimed that the natural sciences have abstracted for themselves a 'material world' set apart from human concerns, and social sciences, in their turn, constructed 'a world of actors devoid
Bacht (King's College, U. of Cambridge, UK) compiles 14 essays by music scholars in Europe and Australia who examine the unstable relationship between music, theater, and politics in Germany during th
Is it true that religion is weakening in modern times, or are we facing religious resurgence? What is fundamentalism? How does it emerge and grow? What role does religion play in ethnic and national c
Observing that social structure has played only a minor role in the development of the regulation theory of capitalist development and the debate on the transition from Fordist to post-Fordist growth
Berg (English, Gettysburg College) believes that a cache of letters she ran across in the Society of Antiquaries in London are in fact the skeleton of two novels, even though some of the figures in th
Williams (aviation management, Massey U., New Zealand) explores how broad geopolitical and economic changes are reshaping the role of the international airport in East and Southeast Asian countries. H
Dibua (history, Morgan State U.) focuses on Nigeria in his examination of the crisis of underdevelopment at both the theoretical and practical levels, looking at the state, class, gender and culture.
