To account for the assimilation of Assyria into British culture and its ideological work during the middle of the 19th century, Malley (English, Bishop's U., Canada) explores the rhetorical processes
In this comprehensive collection, Moore (U. of Tennessee, Knoxville) draws together 31 essays first published from 1965 to 2010 in journals and monographs on music education, for music educators, appl
Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observing and describing. In twelve chapters, a team of auth
This study offers thoughtful, provocative analysis by two academics, who are also avid fans. Hawkins (musicology, U. of Oslo, Norway) and Niblock (journalism, Brunel U., UK) write engagingly about the
In 10 essays from an April 2006 conference in Boston, scholars of conservation, architecture, history, and international relations recount how the idea of protecting sites as examples of world heritag
Wollenberg (music, U. of Oxford) analyzes the instrumental music by Viennese composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Her perspectives are his major-minor usage and its nuances, second themes, poetic tran
This interesting monograph on early modern Shakespearean theater examines the costumes of original stage productions and explores the way in which meaning was conveyed to audiences through the use of
An important and critical re-evaluation of South Asia's post-tests nuclear politics, in contrast to other books, this volume emphasises the political dimension of South Asia's nuclear weapons, explain
Between the later middle ages and the eighteenth century, religious orders were in the vanguard of reform movements within the Christian church. Recent scholarship on medieval Europe has emphasised ho
'From Rivalry to Partnership' is the first to study a potentially valuable way forward in tackling the challenges of Africa, namely bilateral partnerships. The book evaluates the significance and stre
Based on 30 years' experience as a specialist play area designer, Barbara Hendricks details a radically new approach, applying cutting-edge thinking from child development and child psychology to find
Television presenters are key to the sociability of the medium, speaking directly to viewers as intermediaries between audiences and those who are interviewed, perform or compete on screen. As targets
Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. It argues that cultural, political
Proposing the concept of transformation as a key to understanding the Victorian period, this collection explores the protean ways in which the nineteenth century conceived of, responded to, and create
This collection of seminal articles illustrates the reasons for the spiraling nuclear race in the Asian subcontinent and introduces the principal debates in the field. Authors discuss whether the acqu
This volume collects 34 essays reviewing current understandings of qualitative and quantitative research on non-state actors, understood for the purposes of the collection as being comprised of non-go
"This book is willfully wide-ranging in terms of the theoretical approaches taken and the types of mobility considered. Some chapters are historical, while others are contemporary. All, however, remai
De-Centring Western Sexualities critically assesses the current state of knowledge about sexualities outside the framings of 'The West', by focusing on gender and sexuality within the context of Centr
Finding current scholarly understanding of the concept of vengeance as the ideological motivation for the Crusades to be both incomplete and inaccurate, particularly in regards to the prevalence of bi
Thomas Lodge was the most versatile of the pioneering professional writers of the English Renaissance, experimenting in an astonishing variety of forms. His long, eventful, and well-documented life ma
Ever since Peter Gabriel fronted progressive rock band Genesis, from the late 1960s until the mid 1970s, journalists and academics alike have noted the importance of Gabriel's contribution to popular
This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities most effective. The authors argue that three conditions are essential for such investments: citizen em
Claudio Monteverdi is now recognized as the towering figure of a critical transitional moment of Western music history: relentless innovator in every genre within chamber, church and theatre music; se
By the end of the 2000s Russia had become an increasingly authoritarian state, which was characterised by the following features: outrageously unfair and fraudulent elections, the existence of weak an
Woshinsky (emerita, U. of Miami) examines the lives of nuns through her readings of religious and literary works, revealing attitudes towards the body, admonitions that suggest less-than-strict follow
This updated second edition of the 1994 original work on the rethinking of common beliefs about human error as a contributing factor to accidents and unplanned outcomes, provides engineers, designers
Melissa Calaresu is the McKendrick Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK.Filippo de Vivo is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Birkbeck College, Univer
'Peace Without Consensus' demonstrates that the rise of Sinn FAcin and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was not 'inevitable'. Rather, it argues that critics who blame Northern Ireland's power-shari
A Criminological Imagination contains a selection of key articles from Pat Carlen's research studies of magistrates' courts and women's imprisonment together with a range of other articles on social c
The current economic crisis throws into question a number of well-established and received beliefs. In particular, it questions the long-term viability of the decoupling between multinational firms a
This collection of twenty-three articles on emerging technologies in military robotics presents current scholarship on a wide variety of topics relating to Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and the manage
The increasing spread of newly `invented' places, designed under innovative configurations, such as theme parks, shopping malls and revamped historic areas, makes a need for a redefinition of the con
The Philosophy of Religion is one result of the Early Modern Reformation movements, as competing theologies purported truth claims which were equal in strength and different in contents. Renaissance t
Influenced by Enlightenment principles and commercial transformations, the history of the book in the eighteenth century witnessed not only the final decades of the hand-press era but also development
In this massive volume, the editors have assembled the first systematic global and comparative history of textile workers from 1650 to 2000, covering textile production from pre-industrial times throu
Simeone (historical musicology, U. of Sheffield, UK) examines the origins and creation of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. He discusses Bernstein's work in theater up to 1957, the collaborative pr
Virtual environments (VE) are human-computer interfaces in which the computer creates a sensory-immersing environment that interactively responds to and is controlled by the behaviour of the user. Sin
Childrena€?s services in The Developing World brings together evidence relating to the health and development of children in the global South. It is essential reading for students, scientists, policy
It is now generally recognized that corporations have ethical obligations that go beyond their legal responsibilities, and that these obligations are owed to a range of ’stakeholders’ other than their
Despite growing concern with the effects of concurrent task demands on human performance, and research demonstrating that these demands are associated with vulnerability to error, so far there has bee
