Inventive in its approach and provocative in its analysis, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchi
In the resilience engineering approach to safety, failures and successes are seen as two different outcomes of the same underlying process, namely how people and organizations cope with complex, under
By looking at land-use planning in Florida, this volume recognizes the need for planners and resource managers to address ecosystem problems at local and community levels.The factors causing ecosyste
Applying recent developments in new historicism and cultural materialism a€“ along with the new perspectives opened up by the current debate on intertextuality and the construction of the theatrical t
Working at theoretical and practical levels, the contributors of these 14 essays examine the moral issues behind foreign policy in an era of international terrorism. They relate exceptionalism and the
This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. Reflecting critically on economic migration and on the
This valuable volume reprints the most important and influential journal articles and papers on aviation management with an extensive introduction by the editor. The volume is designed to improve acce
The essays selected and reproduced in this volume explore how international refugee law is dynamic and constantly evolving. From an instrument designed to protect mostly those civilians fleeing the wo
Despite the fact that Byzantine culture was definitely patriarchal, women were considered spiritually equal to men and played an important role. Albeit behind the scenes, in politics and economics. Th
Concentrating on the crucial period following a peace agreement, scholars of various political sciences and African studies look at the process by which peace was made, and the potential sustainabilit
German writer Praetorius (1630-80) is thought of primarily as a collector and recorder of superstitions and popular tales, but Scholz Williams (humanities, Washington U., St. Louis) explains his impor
In the prefatory matter, specifically dedications and addresses to readers, during the era of Shakespeare, Bergeron (English, U. of Kansas) finds evidence of a vital, vibrant, and necessary system of
This volume investigates advances in the field of legal translation both from a theoretical and practical perspective, with professional and academic insights from leading experts in the field. Part I
McLean and Williamson (both U. of Glasgow) examine the legal and ethical issues surrounding the transplantation of organs from animals to humans. They point out that xenotransplantation represents a m
Museums already serve as primary sources of alternative education and still have enormous potential for increased and even more innovative methods of teaching at all age levels. Specialist Talboys des
Finding personification to be a ubiquitous pattern of thought in the ancient Greek world, classicists and other scholars from Europe and Australia explore its manifestation in Greek literature, art, a
Neusner (religion and theology, Bard College) reproduced articles and essays he has published over nearly 50 years of study into the formation of normative Judaism into three volumes representing the
Marginal studies have become imperative in a world increasingly divided into haves and have-nots. Byron (sociology and anthropology, University of Wales) brings together a selection of nine cases from
In a study that grew out of her Ph.D. dissertation in political science for Purdue University, Anand advocates and explores the mechanisms and ramifications of integrating environmental justice into r
This book examines how contemporary migrants form and transform their involvement with the law in their host countries and which factors influence this relationship. It suggests a more comprehensive i
Wishing to encourage comparative studies and especially to bring together Chinese and U.K.-based investigators of social policy, the editor presents 20 essays from an October 2001 conference devoted t
This volume brings together a selection of the most significant journal essays in forest economics and forest policy published between 1955 and 2001. Twenty-six contributions are organized into secti
Eleven papers present British, Korean, and Chinese views about the development of the Chinese shipping industry and its links worldwide. Topics include Chinese shipping policy, the role of the seagoin
Jowitt (English Renaissance literature, U. of Wales) and Watt's (British Medieval and Renaissance literature, U. of Wales) text evolved from a Summer 1997 conference held in Aberystwyth, Wales. The es
The "uneven development" pattern of growth and change in Southeast Asia has resulted in massive environmental degradation in urban areas. Daniere (U. of Toronto, Canada) and Takahashi (U. of Californi
Eleven contributions from international scholars consider women's desires and women as objects of desire in texts and images from medieval times to the present. Throughout the volume they address the
Byzantinists, art historians, and other medievalists will welcome this new resource by Brubaker (art history) and Haldon (Byzantine history, both are at the U. of Birmingham, UK). The volume contains
Akhter (political science, U. of Chittagong) focuses on the nature of elections a basic pillar of democracy and electoral corruption in Bangladesh, both before and after independence from Pakistan in
This volume is part of the publisher's series titled "Cultural Diversity and Law in association with RELIGARE." The project on Religious Diversity and Secular Models in Europe (RELIGARE) is funded by
Metropolitan government and metropolitan governance have been ongoing issues for more than sixty years in the United States. Based on an extensive survey and a review of existing literature, this book
This collection is anchored in an African conception of children's rights and the law, and reflects contemporary discourses taking place in the region of the children's rights sphere. The majority of
Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio FernA!ndez, author Ilenia ColA3n Mendoza investigates how and why the artist and his patrons manipulated these images in co
Collected in this volume are Achsah Guibborya€?s most important and frequently cited essays on Donne, which, taken together, present her distinctive and evolving vision of the poet. The book includes
Using an innovative auto-ethnographic approach to investigate the otherness of the places that make up the childhood home and its neighbourhood in relation to memory-derived and memory-imbued cultural
The survival and revival of Roman Catholicism in post-Reformation Britain remains the subject of lively debate. This volume examines key aspects of the evolution and experience of the Catholic communi
Deterrence is a theory which claims that punishment is justified through preventing future crimes, and is one of the oldest and most powerful theories about punishment. The argument that punishment ou
Cultural anxieties about fatness and the attendant stigmatisation of fat bodies, have lent a medical authority and cultural legitimacy to what can be described as a€?fat-phobiaa€?. Against the backdro
The social scientific study of social movements remains largely shaped by categories, concepts and debates that emerged in North Atlantic societies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, namely resource m
Rejecting a reductive, biomedical and individualistic diagnosis of contemporary problems of health and well-being, this book contends that many such problems are to be understood in the light of radic
Part of the publisher's series, "Science, Technology, and Culture, 1700-1945," this volume presents 16 contributed chapters on the life and activities of Matthew Boulton (1728-1829), who was the busin
