If you are new to Vail this book should serve as a guide to the trails and special features that you'll find here. If you've been to Vail before, it's possible that you've missed a run that might be p
Looking at the political debates, ethnic tensions, economic policy, religious organizations, gender relations, the media, the role of the Yugoslav National Army, dissidents, nonalignment, and relation
With an eye to further our understanding of everyday life in global capitalism, Urban Displacements provides the first systemic critical political economy analysis of low-income rental housing and soc
With an eye to further our understanding of everyday life in global capitalism, Urban Displacements provides the first systemic critical political economy analysis of low-income rental housing and soc
Originally published in 2003, The Light Inside is a ground-breaking study of an Afro-Cuban secret society, its sacred arts, and their role in modern Cuban cultural history.
This book provides a comprehensive comparative review of party politics in each Latin American country. It examines the evolution of specific parties and discusses each country's distinctive patterns
Originally published in 1994, The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade provides a detailed analysis of the economic linkages between the trade and forest degradation.
In the ten years prior to first publication ethnographic studies of pupils in schools had increased in number and importance. First published in 1984, this book collects together significant contribut
This book examines NATO and the state of transatlantic security relations, as well as the challenges that the Alliance is likely to face, in the early 21st century.
This interdisciplinary volume explains how the current world information war began and how it has developed, as well as examining how the West is learning to defend itself and where it remains vulnera
This book provides a clear guide for companies to understand cyber from a business perspective rather than a technical perspective, and to build resilience for their business. Written by a world-
This book provides a clear guide for companies to understand cyber from a business perspective rather than a technical perspective, and to build resilience for their business. Written by a world-
Analyzing the current ‘authoritarian’ political moment in different areas of the world, this book elicits and addresses the paradoxical persistence of neoliberal economics, politics and policies and t
China Briefing, 1989 approaches the events of the previous year differently from past volumes in the series, providing a long-term perspective on the dramatic developments of spring and summer 1988.
This anthology features the writings of 17 important analysts of American character and culture. From 1945 to the present, this book includes selections by Charles Reich, Christopher Lasch, Philip Sla
In this collection of essays, leaders in the fields of ethics, medicine, nusing, economics and public policy explore the pressing issues of providing health care for the elderly.
This book explores the way in which human culture and technology have altered the environment through time. Through an examination of the past and an analysis of the present, the contributors cast lig
First published in 1984, most of the contributors were trained as or by social psychologists. All share a common approach, focusing on the individual as s/he is buffeted about by social forces and cop
Originally published in 1984, this work is organised in three parts. Part 1 explores what a structure is. Part 2 critically explores the dynamic (energic) conceptualization of psychological and s
In many areas of psychology, a number of issues have characterized methodological evolution of the discipline, including questions regarding context and reductionism, or laboratory versus field resear
This book examines egalitarian social ideals and institutions that arose in preindustrial China and England, and in the process, uncovers China’s forgotten role in the history of social justice debate
This book explores the misconception of nature in the West since the birth of modern philosophy and the devastating impact that this has had in practice. Drawing on recent anthropological work, it pro
Suitable for those who know their way around Photoshop and Painter and want to use these amazing programs to take their skills further, this book takes you on a journey of the imagination and shows yo
Analyzes romantic fiction and its depiction of women within its historical context and as part of the history of ideas about women. This volume discusses such areas as: early years - class and wealth;
This text examines the rise to power of William Pitt, the Younger (1759-1806), Britain's youngest head of government, and explores how he achieved this.
What makes girls avoid math, science, and technology in school? And what can teacher educators do to help new teachers keep this from happening so that all of our children's talents can find expressio
This volume offers a thorough analysis of the institutions of government in South Korea, their transformation by the introduction of political pluralism, and the impact of that on the country's econom
This book gives new teachers an idea of how to get the most out of primary school work relationships. It uses actual experiences, questionnaires and check lists to help the inexperienced.
This handbook allows rapid reference to conditions commonly encountered in school-aged children, and to rare diseases as well. It focuses particularly on the impact of the condition on the child's abi
This text focuses on religious education, history, geography and cross-curricular planning in the primary school. It includes discussion of the purpose of education, and how the humanities fit into th
This text outlines the future roles of schools, business and industry, higher and adult education. Using examples of learning communities that are adapting for the future, the author describes the con
Tackling Truancy in Schools is an up-to-date comprehensive text on the subject of truancy. It synthesises and brings together in a practical way recent knowledge and ideas on truants and truancy.
Altheide's new book advances the argument set in motion some years ago with 'Media Logic' and continued in 'Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era:' that in our age, information technology and the com
Howard visits many families and tries to discover what makes the best ones work so well. She finds the family in one guise or another remains everybody's most basic hold on reality. She reports on vis
