The role of popular music in advertising is examined in this volume, with Klein (media industries, U. of Leeds, UK) investigating such topics as authorship and ownership issues and the legitimization
It is increasingly acknowledged that an analysis of emotions is necessary to fully understand the social world, and recent research on transport, travel and mobilities has begun to consider the gender
An important challenge facing tourism is the anticipation of the threat of crises precipitated by natural and people-made catastrophes, and being adequately prepared for them. Despite an increase in r
Including twenty-one classic essays, published during the past 70 years, this collection introduces the reader to the issues and controversies raised by Pareto's social and political thought. In his i
Drawing on recent research in prospective memory and on a much longer history of studies of the basic mechanisms of attention memory, three human factors researchers with the National Aeronautical and
In economic development, theory and practice exist as two seemingly separate realities. Academics strive to develop or refine theory by drawing on abstract concepts about the way people behave and ins
A revered instructor of the eremitic monks of Nitria, Sketis and Kellia, Evagrius Ponticus is a fascinating yet enigmatic figure in the history of fourth-century mystical thought. This historical and
From 1840a€“57, Heinrich Ernst was one of the most famous and significant European musicians, and performed on stage, often many times, with Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Alkan, Clara S
This volume brings together a selection of the most influential and informative English language refereed journal articles on children in out-of-home care, their birth relatives and carers. The articl
Over the past two decades, virtually all areas of family law have undergone major doctrinal and theoretical changes - from the definition of marriage, to the financial and parenting consequences of di
Wyclif's ideas caused a major upheaval both in the country of his birth and in the Bohemian area of central Europe; that upheaval affected theological, ecclesiastical and political developments from t
This book explores the impact and contribution of post-theories in the field of Christian feminist theology. Post-theory is an important and cutting-edge discursive field which has revolutionized the
Just as the cover image of a salamander specimen confronts us with the ambiguities of life and death and transpecies kinship, this interdisciplinary volume by international scholars in queer theory, c
Whereas many writers and scholars interested in the field of social democracy have focused on factors such as the role of economic globalization and electoral pressures, Ashley Lavelle explores the im
Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored
Vilfredo Pareto is a key figure in the history of economics and sociology. His sociological works attempted to merge these two disciplines through a psychologistic analysis of society, economy and pol
This collection of John Barton's work engages with current concern over the biblical canon, in both historical and theological aspects; with literary reading of the Bible and current literary theory a
In these 13 essays, contributors analyze pictures, sculptures, printed materials and ritual spaces from 1400 to 1800. They address the uses of allegory in the works of Michelangelo, Winckelmann and Ca
In Britain during the late 1970s and early 1980s, a new phenomenon emerged, with female guitarists, bass-players, keyboard-players and drummers playing in bands. Before this time, women's presence in
Musicians suffer greatly from industry-related injury and illness, and many of these problems are established during student days or even before. This affects all forms of music-making from classical
The essence of war, observes editor Kassimeris (U. of Wolverhampton, UK) in his introduction to this volume, "remains the organized maiming, crippling and murder of other human beings" and probably ca
The vast majority of writing on film music is concentrated on Hollywood in particular and on a canon of North American scores and films more generally. Recent scholarship acknowledges other traditions
As traditional religions in the Western world are abandoned to the elderly and the fundamentalists, new forms of spiritual and religious practices are emerging that are entwined with the political, th
Resident and associate researchers with the China Youth and Children Research Centre, a national research center sponsored by the Chinese government, present studies that can be used as a textbook for
Marshall (history, U. of Warwick) examines the evidence behind the constant shifts, fits and starts of the early practice of Protestantism in England in such topics as evangelical conversion, fear and
Women were never members of professional troupes in early modern England, but literature and drama scholars here show that the royal, aristocratic, common, and foreign women on stage were not exceptio
In the turbulent contexts of globalization, hyper-competition due to converging meta-markets, and the 9/11 attacks, Jarach (service management and marketing, Boccini U., Milan, Italy) presents a new b
Aurigi (U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) seeks to provide a snapshot of the deployment of digital public space (information and communication technology projects) in European cities and to demonstrate t
A dozen essays by scholars of literature from Europe and North America explore European travel writing to cast light on how Europeans constructed themselves, and constructed everyone else in the world
The twelve studies presented by Carey (politics, U. of Nottingham, UK) and Poe (political science, U. of North Texas, US) seek to apply systematic quantitative and qualitative tools of social science
Davidson (U. of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK) and Burke (York U.) present 20 individual country overviews of the status of women in management positions in Europe, the Americas,
This book looks at the question of the inculturation of Christian worship, particularly in the Eucharist. Looking at the relationship of worship and culture requires insights from both theology and an
British theologian Gill revises his 1993 The Myth of the Empty Church , which has been out of print for nearly a decade, by incorporating subsequent theoretical and empirical scholarship and revisiti
Taking as a case study the seasonal weather forecasts by the Southern African Regional Climate Outlook Forums in 1997 and reactions to them, scientists of the climate, agriculture, and trade consider
This study by Michael Head (law, U. of Western Sydney) critically examines laws in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia established to protect the stability and security of prevailing polit
Utilizing a comparative examination of case-law from England, Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, this volume provides a comprehensive and systematic study of the law of intervening c
From a perspective of social history and more specifically the history of work, Shpayer-Makov (history, U. of Haifa, Israel) analyzes the London Metropolitan policeman as a worker and the Metropolitan
This study explores the act of writing within and between the boundaries of 19th-century biblical criticism and fiction. The eight chapters reflect on Christian poetics after Augustine to Baur, Feurba
Rosslyn (English, U. of Leicester) traces the central stream of feeling in tragic drama across time and cultural barriers, particularly looking at what the audience needs expressed and what the artist
What can unfold from an engagement of feminist issues, concerns and practices with the geopolitical? How does feminism allow for a reconfiguration of how these two elements, the geo- and the -politica
