Constantine of Rhodes's tenth-century poem is an account of public monuments in Constantinople and of the Church of the Holy Apostles. In the opening section of the work, Constantine describes columns
Focuses on generating awareness of the relationship forged between self and surroundings. This title details research undertaken at the South Wall in Dublin city and the Maharees peninsula in Co Kerry
This book investigates time-banking as it practiced in the US. Time-banking is one of several kinds of community or local currencies, and the authors of this study consider it worth focusing on becaus
Calling out Facebook as the quintessential example, Marchal (California Lutheran U., US) argues that the hyperconnectivity of today's information society social networking has made it "increasingly di
This study highlights fundamental differences and tensions between the Jesuit cardinal Pallavicino and the artist Bernini. Through close readings and comparison of texts, Delbeke (architecture and urb
This collection, edited by MacDonald (U. of Guelph, Canada), Nabers (Christian-Albrechts-U. zu Kiel, Germany), and Patman (U. of Otago, New Zealand), examines the role of political leadership and idea
Derived from her PhD dissertation (under Barbara Stafford, at the U. of Chicago), this study investigates the production, uses, and meaning of fine arts prints in Victorian Britain, centering on the o
Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509-80) remains one of the most intriguing characters in the history of the sixteenth century Catholic Church - with neither his contemporaries nor subsequent scholars being
Informed by theories of the visual, knowledge and desire, The Postcolonial Eye is about the 'eye' and the 'I' in contemporary Australian scenes of race. Specifically, it is about seeing, where vision
In this fascinating study, Merriam (Bard College) describes the meaning and use of a common 17th-century art form, the garland flower painting, many of which include devotional images of the Virgin an
Over the last decade the "transition paradigm", which is based on the conviction that authoritarian political systems would over time necessarily develop into democracies, has been s
Ives (English, Texas A&M U.) explains in her introductory essay that fascination with celebrities preceded the 20th-century mass media explosion of interest, and this collection of articles explor
Bodies and body parts of the dead have long been considered valuable material for use in medical science. Over time and in different places, they have been dissected, autopsied, investigated, harveste
This edited volume provides an innovative contribution to the debate on contemporary European geopolitics by tracing some of the new political geographies and geographical imaginations emergent within
Criminology lost a world leader with the untimely death of Richard Ericson in 2007. Ericson was one of the most prolific, influential and widely cited criminologists of his generation, producing monum
This volume on comparative Victorian Gothic literature explores the conflict between the rational and scientific sensibilities of the age with the development of spiritualist and occultist themes in p
Why is the Resurrection of Christ so remote, almost non-existent in many early Christian writings of the first 140 years of Christianity? This is the first Patristic book to focus on the development o
Why is the Resurrection of Christ so remote, almost non-existent in many early Christian writings of the first 140 years of Christianity? This is the first Patristic book to focus on the development o
Based on papers given at a 2006 conference concluding an Arts and Humanitites Research Council project on the Mother of God in Byzantium, the 16 papers of this collection offer a satisfying array of s
"The flowering of Gothic architecture depended to a striking extent on the use of drawing as a tool of design. By drawing precise 'blueprints' with simple tools such as the compass and straightedge, G
This study focuses attention on early 19th-century novels that are usually given only cursory attention as antecedents of the literature for children that flowered later. The author has found these wo
Art historians, geologists, and chemists provide students and scholars a primer demonstrating the various ways to look at and think about material, in this case limestone, the principle building mater
In her prologue Lawson (Brigham Young U.) recounts an early experience in her education in which she heard a professor at UCLA demonstrate music on the pipa, (a type of Chinese lute). He played some p
Popolo applies Foucauldian methodology to the understanding of Complexity Science for the purposes of generating new understandings related to International Relations in general and to the Kosovo con
This is a timely and essential study into a subject so curiously neglected by the social sciences in recent years. To those of us used to dealing with the currency of religion in the public sphere, t
This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vladimirovich Lomonosov (1876-1952). Not only does it
Policy instruments are techniques used to implement policy goals. Subject to political conflict, they address the relationship between those who govern and those who are governed. Why do political act
Feminist scholars have long pointed out the relevance of the unpaid work that goes on within European households in sustaining the well-being of the continent's populations. However, care work and dom
Bringing together a range of case studies from Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece, this book compares and contrasts different models of food re-loca
Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentiall
The Black Sea region rarely hit the media headlines until the outbreak of war in Georgia in 2008, yet its importance as a focus of European Union (EU) external policy making had already been growing f
Rabelais is best remembered as the author of outrageously scatological, obscene, and entertaining stories, particularly Pantagruel and Gargantua. Hayes (French, U. of Kansas) adds another dimension to
This book examines the processes through which public art museums, as modern Western institutions, were introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century and how they subsequently developed distincti
Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procrcation demonstrates that two major monuments of Italian Renaissance culture---Bellini's and Titian's famous series of mytho-poetical paintings for t
Why have the early years of the 21st century seen increasing use of emergency-type powers or claims of supra-legal executive authority, particularly by the Western countries regarded as the world's le
Electronic Commerce and International Private Law examines the maximization of consumer protection via the consumer's jurisdiction and law. It discusses the proposition that a new connecting factor be
Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's later writings, this collection makes a case for the seriousness and significance of the writer's mature work. While Swinburne's scandalous early poetry has re
This book explores the theology and philosophy of the distinguished modern Muslim scholar and theologian Bediuzzaman Said Nursi [d.1960]. Nursi wrote in both Ottoman Turkish and Arabic and his life an
This volume provides the reader with a window into important theological engagements of Muslims with issues of justice and theodicy. In these well-argued and thoughtful chapters, a first-rate team of
She's So Fine explores the music, reception and cultural significance of 1960s girl singers and girl groups in the US and the UK. Using approaches from the fields of musicology, women's studies, film
