In 1895, the newly formed Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association (Dainippon Butokukai)held its first annual Martial Virtue Festival (butokusai) in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The Festival marked t
First published in 1992, this is the first study of the work of Alice Munro to focus on her obsession with mothering, and to relate it to the hallucinatory quality of her magic realism. A bizarre coll
Coercive Care asks probing and challenging questions regarding the use of coercion in health care and the social services. The book combines philosophical analysis with comparative studies of social p
This book argues for a historical perspective on issues relating to the notion of participatory media. Working from a broad concept of media – including essays on the 19th century press, early sound m
Series: Critical Concepts in EconomicsJean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) is remembered primarily for Say's Law, one of the cornerstones of classical economics. This set covers such themes as; Say in the Hi
The megalithic monuments of Western Europe cover a period of over 2,000 years, from the earliest neolithic to the beginning of the Bronze Age, and have excited the popular imagination for centuries. B
The culmination of three decades of studying and treating survivors of adult onset trauma, Wounded by Reality is the first systematic attempt to differentiate adult onset trauma from childhood trauma,
Women's Rights and Women's Lives In France explores the everyday experiences of women between the liberation, and May 1968. In 1945, French women believed that a new era was beginning for them, in whi
How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don’t know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and
Bringing together sociolinguistics/discourse analysis, critical tourism studies and contemporary social-economic theory, this work demonstrates how tourism is one of the major forces shaping the socia
Legal Theology provides a genealogy of modern law as a secular theology, calling into question the received ideas that modern law is radically different fromits religiousantecedents, and t
Legal Theology provides a genealogy of modern law as a secular theology, calling into question the received ideas that modern law is radically different fromits religiousantecedents, and t
The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of qualitative research in sport and exercise, both in terms of the number of research studies and their relative importance. In some sub-discipline
This book explores issues related to the loss of democracy, neoliberalism, and the problems of globalization and their relevance to education in the United States, Britain and other countries today.Ut
Over the last two centuries, artists, critics, philosophers and theorists have contributed significantly to such representations of "the economy" as sublime. It might even be said that much of the eme
Fritz Machlup (1902–83), the Austrian-American economist, is recognized as one of the first scholars to examine knowledge as an economic resource and, for more than half a century, many other economis
The Internet is expected to be at the heart of future innovations in services marketing, but can it facilitate relationships between companies and their customers? This is a critical question because
Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural StudiesAn invaluable introduction to Shakespeare, this book places Shakespeare's work and criticism against the background of Elizabethan life in its hi
In this book Shirley See Yan Ma provides a Jungian perspective on the Chinese tradition of footbinding and considers how it can be used as a metaphor for the suffering of women and the repression of t
Series: Critical Issues in Modern PoliticsThis three-volume collection of published articles considered seminal in the development of linguistic research, specifically on Japanese, represents a variet
Despite its recent rapid economic growth, China’s political system has remained resolutely authoritarian. However, an increasingly open economy is creating the infrastructure for an open society, with
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary Maghreb. Made up of contributions from leading academics in the field, it highlights specific issues of importance, including internat
This book considers the problem of managing the unfinished business of a violent past in societies moving out of political violence. Truth Commissions are increasingly used to unearth the acts committ
This is the first text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the current fitness culture.Fitness today is not simply about health clubs and exercise classes, or measures o
This book develops a creative theoretical framework for understanding the welfare state: the theory of the state and the idea of welfare connected to autonomy.Written by a well-known expert of politic
This unique study presents the results of a cross-national analysis of citizenship and participation among citizens in twelve European democracies.Research on the future and quality of contemporary de
Series: Adelphi Papers Reissue HardbackHistory and Philosophy of Science reprints a distinguished selection of important texts published in this field over the last century.
This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last eighteen years. It includes over twenty essential articles from the journal Disability and So
Series: The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (Second Series)First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Series: Economic HistoryA new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, this is a four-volume collection of foundational and cutting-edge research on
Lexical Priming proposes a radical new theory of the lexicon, which amounts to a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. Here they are not confined to the defi
This book argues that the liberal concept of rights presupposes and is grounded in an individualistic culture or shared way of relating, and that this particular shared way of relating emerged only in
This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape d
Eight academics from the UK and the U.S. contribute nine essays concerned with countries from post-communist Europe and parts of the Soviet interior: Russia, Moldova, Georgia, Poland, the Czech Republ
Whilst energy use is fundamental to human existence, it is also at the heart of many environmental problems we face in the 21st century. Deteriorating air quality and the global warming phenomenon can
In 1949, immigrant recording engineer Moses Asch embarked on a lifelong project: documenting the world of sound produced by mankind, via a small record label called Folkways Records. By the time of hi
The concept of negotiation is critical to coping with all manner of strategic problems that arise in the everyday dealings that people have with each other and organizations. Game theory illustrates t
Consumer law, particularly consumer credit law, is characterised by increasingly complex regulation in Western economies. Reacting to the Global Financial Crisis, governments in the UK, the EU, Austra
