In this study, Davison (music, U. of Leeds, UK) analyzes the practices of film soundtrack composition in non-Hollywood films made after 1980. She contends that, since the mid-1970s, the model of the c
Hine (transport and road assessment, U. of Ulster) and Mitchell (U. of York) pose questions relating to the direction of British transport policy. Among them how the links between transport and social
Catherine Urner journeyed to Paris to study with Charles Koechlin after winning a prize for several years' study of music abroad. She studied with him from 1919-1921, when she returned to America and
This collection engages with current issues on equal protection in the USA, as seen from the perspectives of leading academics in this area. Contributors with a range of perspectives interrogate the l
Twenty papers from the first conference hosted by the Institute for Feminist Theory and Research, held in January 2000 in Liverpool, explore the changes in the roles of women in higher education in th
Art historian Shield offers the first English translation of Danish artist Jorn's three philosophical texts The Natural Order , Value and Economy , and Luck and Chance . Jorn (1914-73) was a co- found
Terrorist acts of the 21st century have broken down traditional philosophical and legal resistance to the use of nations' armed services to deal with domestic crises. Historical precedence for domesti
In this volume in a series discussing how legal and judicial processes have been influenced by psychological theories and research, Canter (U. of Liverpool) introduces a dozen conference-based papers
The four years of the first Bush administration were too short to digest and handle all the consequences of the end of the cold war for transatlantic security, says Vanhoonacker (European Institute of
As part of a new series, this volume offers an analysis of how local government structures shape the capacity to address and mitigate the problems of urban air quality management. In his comparative c
Chaucer's tomb is located at Ewelme, as is the rare surviving medieval almshouse complex known as God's House. Chantry foundations supporting communities of priests, poor men, and schools represented
Documenting on the early history of Italy's transition into a immigration country, Andall (U. of Bath) focuses specifically on the experiences of African women migrants from the early 1970s to the ear
This book establishes new information about the likely content of ten lost plays from the period 1580-1642. These plays’ authors include Nashe, Heywood, and Dekker; and the plays themselves connect in
"Aristocratic dynasties have long been regarded as fundamental to the development of early modern society and government. Yet recent work by political historians has increasingly questioned the domina
The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research. However, the application of such studies to musical genres outside the 'classical' film cano
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
Gargarella (Torcuato di Tella University, Argentina) collects case studies from Latin America, Africa, India, and Eastern Europe to examine the role of courts as a channel for social transformation to
The complexities of employee empowerment have been largely underestimated and it is clear that organisations struggle with putting the concept into practice. Rozana Ahmad Huq recognises that effective
Arguing against the critical commonplace that Evelyn Waugha€?s post-war fiction represents a decline in his powers as a writer, D. Marcel DeCoste offers detailed analyses of Waugh's major works from B
Historically organised at a local or national scale, the fields of medicine and healthcare are being radically transformed by new communication, transport and biotechnologies creating, in the process,
Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740 to 1820, Rebecca Daviesa€?s book plots the formation of a written paradigm of maternal education that associates maternity with educat
Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens and LAco FerrAc are three emblematic figures of post-war French popular music who have been constantly associated with each other by the public and the media. They have
People often overlook the uncanny nature of homecomings, writing off the experience of finding oneself at home in a strange place or realizing that places from our past have grown strange. This book c
Kit Oung's Energy Management in Business is written on the basis of 'energy reduction'. It covers four important yet commonly treated as trivial aspects of managing energy: strategy for successful imp
This volume presents an overview of the principal features of the legacy of International Tribunals and an assessment of their impact on the International Criminal Court and on the review of the Rome
Finely produced in a traditional scholarly style, this book takes an academic art historian's look at a subject that has some interest for general readers as well. Western Europe in the eighteenth and
Jackish (history, U. of St. Francis) presents a study of the activities of the Pan-German League and argues that tensions they helped foment in the German right contributed to Hitler's success. The Le
There is almost unanimous agreement that civilians should be protected from the direct effects of violent conflict, and that the distinction between combatant and non-combatant should be respected. Bu
This book is an examination of the music of the Balinese gendAcr wayang, the quartet of metallophones - gendAcr - that accompanies the Balinese shadow puppet play - wayang kulit. The book focuses on p
In a contribution to tourism studies, Metro-Roland (Western Michigan U.) constructs a theoretical framework for understanding how meaning in deduced from the built environment; offers a core geographi
Whilst much scholarly work has been focused on Spain's American colonies, much less is known about Spanish colonization of the Pacific. As such, this book fills an important gap in our knowledge, dire
In his own day, Bedford's landscape photography was celebrated as the gold standard. In the first chapters of this fine study, Spencer (North Carolina State U.) documents Bedford's travels through Eng
In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture, Altick anticipated-and helped produce-
This collection of essays focuses on the reception of Plato and Greek political thought in the work of some major (pre)Victorian classical scholars and expands on a remarkable range of hotly debated i
Schreiber (California College of the Arts) examines the imagery of the human figure in a small socialist journal published in New York City between 1911 and 1917, Masses, which in addition to attendin
No one doubts that Gustav Mahler's tenure at the Vienna Court Opera from1897-1907 was made extremely unpleasant by the antisemitic press. The great biographer, Henry-Louis de La grange, acknowledges t
Investigating Jewish spatial practices by exploring the symbol of the house in Judaism, this book examines two groups of houses: ritual objects based on the iconology of the house (ritual houses) and
Mass marketing and the public consumption of science first arose in England during the lifetime of Isaac Newton (1642-1727), according to Wigelsworth (English and world history, Red Deer College, Cana
Museum educator Talboys presents a step-by-step guide for teachers on taking a class, from ages five through eighteen, to a day at a museum. He would prefer that this book be part of teacher education
Rosy Aindow examines the way fiction registered and responded to the emergence of a modern fashion industry during the period 1870-1914. She traces the role played by dress in the formation of literar
