There has been a sea-change in the focus of organizations - whether private or public - away from a traditional product- or service-centricity towards customer-centricity and projects are just as much
Australian by birth but a longtime resident of Great Britain, David Lumsdaine (b.1931) is central to both Australian and British modernism. During the early 1970s Australian musical modernism was at i
In this useful text for graduate students, adjunct instructors, and full-time faculty, Davis (musicology, State U. of New York at Fredonia) brings together 11 essays by music history professors from t
This collection of essays provides an array of cross-disciplinary perspectives on how Western Europeans made sense of the Far East, largely dominated by Chinese culture, prior to British and Dutch col
Shedding light on the meaning of 'passing' and 'outing' in relation to identity, Passing/Out constructs a dialogue between the work of scholars whose intellectual careers began prior to the advent of
Drawing on rich interview material spanning fifteen years, Patrons of History sheds light not only on communism as it existed and the stratification that persisted under such regimes, but also on the
Pena presents 11 chapter-length studies of modern pop-cultural phenomena following in the foot-steps of Roland Barthes and his study of mythological modes of discourse in modern French culture. These
In his hugely influential book Discipline and Punish, Foucault used the example of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon prison as a means of representing the transition from the early modern monarchy to the la
Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores how for English travelers, the Jew of the imagination contrasted with the Jew they actually encountered in southern Europe, North Africa and the L
Japanese folk performing arts incorporate a body of entertainments that range from the ritual to the secular. They may be the ritual dances at Shinto shrines performed to summon and entertain deities;
This important volume brings together a range of material in different areas of law and the social sciences that address questions concerning the rights of minorities. The discipline is arguably one o
Why do Gods persist in contemporary society? Religious revival and vitality all over the world contradict the vision of continuing declining of belief. This linear process of eclipse of the sacred in
Part of a series of inter-disciplinary works on emerging challenges in a globalized world, this collection of seven articles on energy policy examines issues of energy security in regional and global
This collection provides an up-to-date analysis of key country approaches to Militant Democracy. Featuring contributions from some of the key people working in this area, including Mark Tushnet and He
The past several decades have seen the emergence of a vigorous ongoing debate about the 'politics of recognition'. The initial impetus was provided by the reflections of Charles Taylor and others abou
Civilized Violence provides a social and historical explanation for the popular appeal of cinema violence. There is a significant amount of research on the effects of media violence, but less work on
The revival of interest in early instruments that began over a hundred years ago has more recently led to a desire amongst scholars, performers, and listeners to understand how old instruments sounded
Playing with Purpose shows how a facilitator, coach, manager, people developer or trainer can invent or reinvigorate an artificial learning experience and make it so much more than a game. The authors
This book presents a significant repudiation of the traditional eschatological doctrines, both Catholic and Protestant, based on the key idea that human death, as a dying into the death of Christ, is
This collection of chapters focuses on the regulation of the British economy in the long eighteenth century as a means to understand the synergies between political, social and economic change as Brit
Far from being a narrow subject, Berenguier's (French, U. of New Hampshire) in-depth study demonstrates how readings of conduct books reveal the gamut of French society before and after the Revolution
There is a widespread perception that even when lawyers are acting squarely within their roles, being good lawyers, they display the vices of dishonesty and deviousness. At the heart of the perception
John Armstrong's 2000-line poem The Art of Preserving Health was among the most popular works of eighteenth-century literature and medicine. It was among the first to popularize Scottish medical ideas
Reminding us that the Genevan Reformation does not begin and end with John Calvin, this book provides an introduction to Guillaume Farel (1489-1565), one of several important yet often overlooked Fren
Black (history, U. of Exeter, UK) explores the relationship between government policy and public debate about the British role in the world as it rose to imperial hegemony, complementing his earlier w
This book is an account of how the Milan Provincial Administration and a team of researchers from Milan Polytechnic worked together to develop a new 'Strategic Plan' for Milan's urban region. Informed
The explicit association between food and status was, academically speaking, first acknowledged on the food production level. He who owned the land, possessed the grain, he who owned the mill, had the
Because of the quantity of available material, the three editors (Florian Jentsch, Michael Curtis, and Eduardo Salas--all affiliated with the U. of Central Florida) had to be selective in assembling t
Arising from a seminar at the 2008 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, this volume contains 14 contributed chapters, a lengthy introduction by the editors, and an afterword. The focus i
In her preface editor Spector mentions her two previous collections of essays pertaining to the intersection of Romanticism and Judaica. When the first was published in 2002, the subject was viewed as
Dorothy Percy Sidney was born into a family full of educated women and contentious men. She married into another one. This edition of her letters is long overdue. Brennan (Renaissance studies, Univers
In 1991, the publication of Koji Suzuki's Ring, the first novel of a bestselling trilogy, inaugurated a tremendous outpouring of cultural production in Japan, Korea, and the United States. Just as the
While there has been renewed interest in anarchist movements in recent years, much of it has focused on anarchism as a countercultural activity and neglected the role of anarchists in organizing aroun
Norden's 1618 text was written at a time when property ownership and rights were being asserted, contested or superceded, depending on one's place in society, in part through the transformation of the
This study finds that competition between airports in Europe exists in several regions and asks whether the competition is strong enough to limit market power, drawing on case studies from Greece, Ger
The articles reprinted in this volume treat operas as opera and from some sort of critical angle; none of the articles uses methodology appropriate for another kind of musical work. Additional criteri
Mark J. Cartledge has taken David Martin's concept of rescripting which he applies to (in Jeff Astley's language) the `ordinary theology' of a local Pentecostal denomination and has pulled off a remar
Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics theorises images from Attie's `The Writing on the Wall 1991-1993' installation as a memorial activity, and as an index or habitation for
Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume examines J.M. Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to Diary of a Bad Year. The choice of essays reflects three broad goals: a
Music historians offer a sampling of scholarship at the turn of the century on French Baroque composer Charpentier (1643-1704). Their topics include the Italian background of his void notation and its
