Certain bizarre spaces, where disruption or disarray rule, leave us estranged and 'out of place'. This book examines such spaces, highlighting the emotional and mediated geographies of uncertainty and
Explored in this essay collection is how Shakespeare is rewritten, reinscribed and translated to fit within the local tradition, values, and languages of the world's various communities and cultures.
Looking at historical romance in both its popular and literary manifestations, Fletcher (English, journalism, and European languages, U. of Tasmania, Australia) examines the genre as a complex and ong
Rowley and Hartley (both information and communications, Manchester Metropolitan U.) reflect the increasing shift toward network and digital technology in this new edition, but still offer a solid ove
Dominated by Darwinism and the numerous guises it assumed, evolutionary theory was a source of opportunities and difficulties for late Victorian novelists. Texts produced by Wells, Hardy, Stoker, and
Visions of Development presents first-hand stories of groups and movements from many different religious and spiritual traditions that are working with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia and Lat
Specialists in various areas of philosophy from Europe, North America, and Australia explain the major themes, theories, and arguments of the most prominent ancient Greek philosophers for students and
American and British scholars of literature explore the representation, self-representation, and non-representation in literature, film, and other cultural forms of the people who actually write the m
Seventeen contributions written by an international group of scholars in the fields of Byzantine and modern Greek language and literature, archaeology, ancient history, and other fields explore the wa
Those who control water, hold power. Complicating matters, water is a flow resource; constantly changing states between liquid, solid, and gas, being incorporated into living and non-living things and
Drawing on historical and current data, this thought-provoking book summarises the pathways to the present predicament and maps out strategies to develop financial and economic systems for a sustainab
The South Caucasus region, comprising the former Soviet states of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia occupies a key strategic location, squeezed between the Black and Caspian Seas, Iran, Russia and Turke
This book brings together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social sciences and transport science and offers rich consideration of the issues, practices and structures of mu
Despite decades of policy interventions and awareness raising programmes, migration and mobility continue to give rise to tensions and questions of how to live together in a culturally diverse world.
Billions of dollars are being spent nationally and globally on providing computing access to digitally disadvantaged groups and cultures with an expectation that computers and the Internet can lead to
This book brings together important material from a range of sources and highlights how government organizations, musicians, academics and commercial companies are concerned with, and seek to use, a p
Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) covers socio-technical systems in which humans and technology must interact as a whole, and this textbook for engineering and design students provides a comprehensive des
Tokita (School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash U., Australia) and Hughes (ethnomusicology, School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London, UK) present a collection of 16 essays
The characteristic features of Greek writing during late antiquity, and how that literature can help illuminate the period, are explored by British and US classicists--about half established and half
Finding a gap in literature available for their courses on international law and human rights, Roper and Barria (both political science, East Illinois U.) explore the origins, structure, and influence
Hamilton (U. of Southern Maine) uses a cross-national comparative analysis of coal development policies and environmental policies in the US and Indonesia to show how political culture and institution
The metalworking traditions of the Middle Ages are important both for their intrinsic interest and as links between their ancient antecedents and their modern sequels, say European and American histor
A textbook for a graduate or undergraduate course in business and related fields, and for management training and executive development. It analyzes management processes from the perspective of a numb
Natural and social scientists explore the closing off of possible futures and the challenges made to exclusionary futures. They pose such questions as how future scripts carry assumptions and presumpt
Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dan
Why is it that modern architects and planners - these benevolent and socially visionary a€?expertsa€? - have created environments that can make one feel so uneasy? Using a philosophical and psycho-ana
David Downes' early work on delinquency in East London made an original contribution to the comparative study of anomie and subcultural theory, and social policy on education and employment. His resea
Engaging with some of the central issues in the sociology of religion, this volume investigates the role and significance of churches and religion in contemporary Western and Eastern Europe. Based on
This volume reproduces writings, social teachings, testimonies and reports of figures as diverse as Karl Marx, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, and bodies such as the US Congress. Extracte
This collection of ten essays explores the development and recurring crises of global capitalism. They cover the origins and development of the global capitalist economy, the Great Recession and the U
Making exhibitions is a collaborative art, producing is a multi-layered unity of ideas and objects, of invention and manifestation, of content and form. However, there is an antagonistic dimension to
City and regional planners and other social scientists pose a set of questions for planning practitioners and scholars about how current planning practices have neglected the needs of the lesbian, gay
A landscape architect practicing in both Britain and New Zealand, Robinson incorporates changes in vegetation design practice and theory over the ten years since the first edition, and alters the form
A fundamental change in the way organisations approach innovation is taking place. It involves cooperating and collaborating with external parties in the area of innovation and in the research and dev
Drawing extensively on the research findings of natural and social sciences both in America and Europe, Reframing the Social argues for a critical realist and systemist social ontology, designed to sh
By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban complexity, namely the dynamic and entangled nature of urban issues, and puts forwa
Social scientists in Africa and the West describe how Africa is interpellated into the narratives and discourses on political violence and terrorism since the 9/11 attack. They foreground knowledge th
Researchers in political and military fields from Western Europe and the US explore relations between the two spheres in post-Soviet Russia. Among their topics are sovereign democracy and great power
Based on new and original research, this volume brings together specialists in housing policy and legal studies to examine the UK privately rented sector, and its future direction. The contributors sh
The underlying notion is that maternity must be considered performative, and that the maternal body therefore functions as a fertile space for cultural conflict and a site of imagination and contest.
