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Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women's Fiction מאת Andrea Adolph In her feminist intervention into the ways in which British women novelists explore and challenge the limitations of the mind-body binary historically linked to constructions of femininity, Andrea Adolph examines female characters in novels by Barbara Pym, Angela Carter, Helen Dunmore, Helen Fieldin...

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Performance Under Stress (Human Factors in Defence) מאת Peter A. Hancock and James L. Szalma The world is a dangerous place. Many recent events have served to render it unfortunately less safe and there are many arenas of conflict and even combat across the world. Such situations are the quintessential expression of stress. You stand in imminent danger and live with the knowledge that you m...

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When Empire Meets Nationalism מאת Didier Chaudet "When Empire Meets Nationalism" presents an in-depth political and sociological analysis of the internal power politics and imperial forms developed by the Russian neo-eurasianists and the neo-conservatives in the United States. This innovative study traces the growth of nationalism and the concept ...

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Distributed Situation Awareness (Huamn Factors in Defence) מאת Paul M. Salmon Having an accurate understanding of what is going on is a key commodity for teams working within military systems. 'Situation awareness' (SA) is the term that is used within human factors circles to describe the level of awareness that operators have of the situation that they are engaged in; it foc...

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Crew Resource Management (Critical Essays on Human Factors in Aviation) מאת Katherine A. Wilson and Eleana Edens Eduardo Salas Crew Resource Management (CRM) training was first introduced in the late 1970s as a means to combating an increased number of accidents in which poor teamwork in the cockpit was a significant contributing factor. Since then, CRM training has expanded beyond the cockpit, for example, to cabin crews, ...

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Understanding Human Error in Mine Safety מאת Geoff Simpson The consideration of human factors issues is vital to the mining industry. As in other safety-critical domains, human performance problems constitute a significant threat to system safety, making the study of human factors an important field for improving safety in mining operations. The primary pur...

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The Politics of Unemployment in Europe מאת Marco Giugni This book offers a state-of the-art discussion of the political issues surrounding unemployment in Europe. It is unique in offering both a policy and institutional perspective and in studying the perspective of individual members of civil society who engage in collective action related to the issue ...

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Romantic Autobiography in England (The Nineteenth Century Series) מאת Eugene Stelzig Taking into account the popularity and variety of the genre, this collaborative volume considers a wide range of English Romantic autobiographical writers and modes, including working-class autobiography, the familiar essay, and the staged presence. In the wake of Rousseau's "Confessions", autobiogr...

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Planning in Ten Words or Less מאת Michael Gunder Spatial planning practice employs a discourse full of terms and buzzwords, such as 'social justice', 'environmental sustainability', 'public interest' or 'community engagement'. This book takes a Lacanian, and related post-structuralist perspective to demythologise ten of the most heavily utilised t...

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Eucharistic Sacramentality in an Ecumenical Context (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies) מאת David J. Kennedy This book explores the epiclesis or invocation of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharistic Prayer, using the Anglican tradition as an historical model of a communion of churches in conscious theological and liturgical dialogue with Christian antiquity.Incorporating major studies of England, North America ...

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Jerome of Stridon מאת Andrew Cain This book assembles eighteen studies by internationally renowned scholars that epitomize the latest and best advances in research on the greatest polymath in Latin Christian antiquity, Jerome of Stridon (c.346-420). It is divided into three sections which explore topics such as the underlying motiva...

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Encounter Between Eastern Orthodoxy and Radical Orthodoxy מאת Adrian Pabst This book presents the first debate between the Anglo-Catholic movement Radical Orthodoxy and Eastern Orthodox theologians. Leading international scholars offer new insights and reflections on a wide range of contemporary issues from a specifically theological and philosophical perspective. The anci...

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The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Europe מאת Christopher Storrs In recent decades, historians of early-modern Europe, and above all those who study the eighteenth century, have elaborated the concept of what has been called the 'fiscal-military state'. This is a state whose international effectiveness was founded upon the development of large armed forces, whose...

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Volume 7, Tome I: Kierkegaard and his Danish Contemporaries - Philosophy, Politics and Social Theory (Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources) מאת Jon Stewart The period of Kierkegaard's life corresponds to Denmark's 'Golden Age', which is conventionally used to refer to the period covering roughly the first half of the nineteenth century, when Denmark's most important writers, philosophers, theologians, poets, actors and artists flourished. Kierkegaard w...

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The Globalization of Corporate Governance מאת Alan Dignam The process of economic globalization, as product and capital markets integrate, places huge, and it is argued by some, irresistible pressures on the worlds 'insider' stakeholder oriented corporate governance systems. Insider corporate governance systems in countries such as Germany and Japan, so th...

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Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music) מאת Bruce Johnson and Martin Cloonan Written against the academically dominant but simplistic romanticization of popular music as a positive force, this book focuses on the 'dark side' of the subject. It is a pioneering examination of the ways in which popular music has been deployed in association with violence, ranging from what appe...

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Paradoxes of European Legal Integration מאת Hanne Petersen The focus of this book is on the tensions and difficulties of European legal integration. Four paradoxes of contemporary integration are presented with the purpose of offering a framework for understanding some of the major interconnected processes. Dilemmas in the processes of constitutionalization...

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Ports in Proximity (Transport and Mobility) מאת Theo Notteboom "Ports in Proximity" provides an overview of key contemporary research in the field through a broad range of international case studies. The concepts of strategic management, supply chain management, port and transport economics and economic and transport geography are applied throughout the book to...

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Transferred Illusions מאת Marilyn Deegan This is a study of the forms and institutions of print - newspapers, books, scholarly editions, publishing, libraries - as they relate to and are changed by emergent digital forms and institutions. In the early 1990s hypertext was briefly hailed as a liberating writing tool for non-linear creation. ...

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Contemporary Issues Shaping Chinas Civil Aviation Policy מאת Alan Williams The emergence of China as a future major participant in international aviation raises some interesting questions, especially from a strategic policy perspective. The progressive shift from a command to a mixed market economy under the central leadership of the Beijing administration now finds itself...

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The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Fr 19093) מאת Jr. Carl F. Barnes This new facsimile edition of the Portfolio of the 13th-century Picard artist Villard de Honnecourt is the first printed facsimile in eighteen years and the first ever in color. The thirty-three leaves are reproduced at actual size from color transparencies the same size as the leaves themselves to ...

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Sex Tourism in Africa (New Directions in Tourism Analysis) מאת Wanjohi Kibicho Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from Kenya - one of the most popular country destinations in Africa for sex tourism - this book gathers much-needed statistics and data, and then critically examines the features of tourism and the sex trade, contextualizing this in relation to tourism deve...

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Debating the Slave Trade (Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies) מאת Srividhya Swaminathan How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth century? Srividhya Swaminathan examines books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both side...

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Design and Science: The Life and Work of Will Burtin מאת R. Roger Remington and Robert Fripp Will Burtin pioneered important contributions to international typography and visual design. He is best known as the world leader in using design to interpret science; as a proponent of 'clean,' uncluttered sans-serif typography; and for his large-scale three-dimensional models, which carried the cr...

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Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice מאת Ruth Webb This is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetorical schools and as used by Greek writers of the Imperial period (2nd-6th centuries CE). The author places the practice of ekphrasis within its cultural co...

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Disciplining the Divine מאת Paul Fletcher "Disciplining the Divine" offers the first comprehensive treatment of the Social Model of the Trinity, exploring its central place within much theological discourse of the past half century, including its relation to wider cultural and political concerns. The book highlights the manner in which theo...

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Contested Categories (Theory, Technology and Society) מאת Susanne Bauer Drawing on social science perspectives, "Contested Categories" presents a series of empirical studies that engage with the often shifting and day-to-day realities of life sciences categories. In doing so, it shows how such categories remain contested and dynamic, and that the boundaries they create ...

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Reassessing Suez 1956 מאת Simon C. Smith The nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 triggered one of the gravest international crises since the Second World War. The fiftieth anniversary of the Suez crisis in 2006 presented an ideal opportunity to revisit and reassess this seminal episode in post-war history. Although much has been writ...

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Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece (Soas Musicology) מאת Eleni Kallimopoulou Since the 1980s, musicians and audiences in Athens have been rediscovering musical traditions associated with the Ottoman period of Greek history. The result of this revivalist movement has been the urban musical style of 'paradosiaka' ('traditional'). Drawing from a varied repertoire that includes ...

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Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship (Studies in Migration and Diaspora) מאת Umut Erel "Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship" develops essential insights concerning the notion of transnational citizenship by means of the life stories of highly educated Turkish migrant women in Germany and Great Britain, interweaving and developing theories of citizenship, identity and hybridity with...

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Representations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture מאת Galia Ofek Galia Ofek's wide-ranging study elucidates the historical, artistic, literary, and theoretical meanings of the Victorians' preoccupation with hair. Victorian writers and artists, Ofek argues, had a well-developed awareness of fetishism as an overinvestment of value in a specific body part and were f...

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Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church מאת Mark Edwards While it has often been recognised that the development of Christian orthodoxy was stimulated by the speculations of those who are now called heretics, it is still widely assumed that their contribution was merely catalytic, that they called forth the exposition of what the main church already belie...

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Command and Control: The Sociotechnical Perspective (Human Factors in Defence) מאת Guy Walker Military command and control is not merely evolving, it is co-evolving. Technology is creating new opportunities for different types of command and control, and new types of command and control are creating new aspirations for technology. The question is how to manage this process, how to achieve a ...

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Gender and Migration in 21st Century Europe (Law and Migration) מאת Helen Stalford This collection provides new interdisciplinary and empirically-grounded insights into the issues surrounding gender and migration into and within Europe. The work presents a comprehensive and critical overview of the historical, legal, policy and cultural framework underpinning different types of Eu...

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Travel, Space, Architecture (Design and the Built Environment) מאת Jilly Traganou Cultural theorists have, over the past few decades, examined the role of travel in spatial definition, and have noted its significance in the constant exchange and interaction between cultures. Whilst travelling has also been the subject of architectural research, particularly concerning the work of...

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Topics in Latin Philosophy from the 12th14th centuries (Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy) מאת Sten Ebbesen Sten Ebbesen has contributed many works in the field of ancient and medieval philosophy over decades of dedicated research. His crisp and lucid style and his philosophical penetration of often difficult concepts and issues is both clear and intellectually impressive. Ashgate is proud to present this...

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Humanism and Protestantism in Early Modern English Education (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History) מאת Ian Green This volume is the first attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Protestantism on the education offered to a wide range of adolescents in the hundreds of grammar schools operating in England between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. By placing that education in the context of Lutheran...

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Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World מאת Caroline A. Williams "Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic World" brings together ten original essays by an international group of scholars exploring the complex outcomes of the intermingling of people, circulation of goods, exchange of information, and exposure to new ideas that are the hallmark of the early modern Atlan...

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Tomorrow's Criminals מאת Rolf Loeber It has been acknowledged for some years that the early onset of delinquency can predict a long and serious criminal career. Most resources are targeted at the teenage years but this book argues convincingly that research and interventions should be aimed at child delinquents, aged 12 and under.This ...

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What Are We Doing When We Pray? מאת Vincent Brümmer What do we do when we ask things of other people, when we thank them or praise them, when we express penitence for what we have done to them and ask their forgiveness? And how does doing these things in relation to God differ from when we do them in relation to other people? And what does this entai...

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Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama) מאת Kevin Curran "Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court" constitutes the first full-length study of Jacobean nuptial performance, a hitherto unexplored branch of early modern theater consisting of masques and entertainments performed for high-profile weddings. Scripted by such writers as Ben Jons...

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The Mahabharata Patriline מאת Simon Pearse Brodbeck "The Sanskrit Mahabharata" (which contains the Bhagavad Gita) is sorely neglected as a classic - perhaps the classic - of world literature, and is of particularly timely human importance in today's globalised and war-torn world. This book is a chronological survey of the "Sanskrit Mahabharata's" cen...

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Critical Intersex (Queer Interventions) מאת Morgan Holmes To date, intersex studies has not received the scholarly attention it deserves as research in this area has been centred around certain key questions, scholars and geographical regions. Exploring previously neglected territories, this book broadens the scope of intersex studies, whilst adopting pers...

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Supporting People with Dementia at Home (In Association With Pssru (Personal Social Services Research Unit)) מאת David Challis This groundbreaking study of an intensive case management scheme designed for older people with dementia at risk of entry to residential care uses a quasi-experimental approach, where individuals in one community mental health team for older people received case management and were matched to those ...

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Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic Era מאת Elizabeth A. Dolan Arguing that vision was the dominant mode for understanding suffering in the Romantic era, Elizabeth A. Dolan shows that Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley experimented with aesthetic and scientific visual methods in order to expose the social structures underlying suffering. Dol...

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The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance מאת Rachel Farebrother Beginning with a subtle and persuasive analysis of the cultural context, Farebrother examines collage in modernist and Harlem Renaissance figurative art and unearths the collage sensibility attendant in Franz Boas' anthropology. This strategy makes explicit the formal choices of Harlem Renaissance w...

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Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700 מאת Dimitris Tziovas The Greek diaspora is one of the paradigmatic historical diasporas. Though some trace its origins to ancient Greek colonies, it is really a more modern phenomenon. Diaspora, exile and immigration represent three successive phases in Modern Greek history and they are useful vantage points from which ...

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The Elderly (The International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law) מאת Martin Lyon Levine Aging is a public health priority that is becoming increasingly important in both developed and less developed nations, with individual health care providers and law-makers each facing difficult ethical and policy dilemmas. The complex issues physicians deal with include informed consent and patient...

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Ubiquitous Law (Law, Justice and Power) מאת Emmanuel Melissaris "Ubiquitous Law" explores the possibility of understanding the law in dissociation from the State while, at the same time, establishing the conditions of meaningful communication between various legalities. This task is partly methodological and partly substantive. The book argues that the enquiry i...

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music (Soas Musicology Series) מאת Alison Tokita and David W. Hughes Music is a frequently neglected aspect of Japanese culture. It is in fact a highly problematic area, as the Japanese actively introduced Western music into their modern education system in the Meiji period (1868-1911), creating westernized melodies and instrumental instruction for Japanese children ...

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The Framed World (New Directions in Tourism Analysis) מאת Mike Robinson The 'taking' of photographs is one of the most characteristic and symbolic moments in tourism. Since its invention over 150 years ago, tourists have taken photographs of everything - cities, buildings, restaurants, other people and themselves. In doing so, they create visual narratives of their expe...

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Return Migration of the Next Generations מאת Dennis Conway Return migration has recently been 're-discovered' as a significant emerging dimension of today's global migration patterns. It is no longer the forgotten or overlooked dimension in international circuits of emigration and immigration. It is no longer disparaged as the mobility response of the unsuc...

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Killer Robots מאת Armin Krishnan Military robots and other, potentially autonomous robotic systems such as unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) could soon be introduced to the battlefield. Look further into the future and we may see autonomous micro- and nanorobots armed and deployed in swarms of...

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Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare מאת Richard Meek This book examines Shakespeare's fascination with the art of narrative and the visuality of language. Richard Meek complicates our conception of Shakespeare as either a 'man of the theatre' or a 'literary dramatist', suggesting ways in which his works themselves debate the question of text versus pe...

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Masculinity and Western Musical Practice מאת Ian Biddle How have men used art music? How have they listened to and brandished the musical forms of the Western classical tradition and how has music intervened in their identity formations? This collection of essays addresses these questions by examining some of the ways in which men, music and masculinity ...

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European Air Traffic Management מאת Andrew Cook "European Air Traffic Management: Principles, Practice and Research" is a single source of reference on the key subject areas of air traffic management in Europe. It brings together material that was previously unobtainable, hidden within technical documents or dispersed across disparate sources. Wi...

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Securities Markets and Corporate Governance מאת Yuwa Wei This book explores the rationalities and functions of securities markets and takeover activities. Focusing on the Chinese experience of utilizing the securities market as an effective mechanism of corporate control, this volume analyses the future development of China's financial market in the era o...

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God in Postliberal Perspective (Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology) מאת Robert Andrew Cathey Who is God? The variety of images of God tends to overwhelm us in the present age. Is 'God' a fiction of human construction, or a reality that makes claims upon how we practice 'faith in God'? How does this quest for an understanding of 'God' illumine who 'we' are?"God in Postliberal Perspective" pr...

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The Counsel of Rogues? מאת Tim Dare There is a widespread perception in popular culture, literature, philosophy and in the day to day business of law that even when acting with good conduct, dishonesty and deviousness are displayed by lawyers. This book sets out the principles that comprise the standard conception of the lawyer's role...

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'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) מאת Sarah Hill In the 1960s, Welsh-language popular music emerged as a vehicle for mobilizing a geographically dispersed community into political action. As the decades progressed, Welsh popular music developed beyond its acoustic folk roots, adopting the various styles of contemporary popular music, and ultimatel...

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The Clash of Cultures on the Medieval Baltic Frontier מאת Alan V. Murray The conversion of the lands on the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea by Germans, Danes and Swedes in the period from 1150 to 1400 represented the last great struggle between Christianity and paganism on the European continent, but for the indigenous people of Finland, Livonia, Prussia, L...

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Living with Religious Diversity in Early-Modern Europe (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History) מאת C. Scott Dixon Current scholarship continues to emphasise both the importance and the sheer diversity of religious beliefs within early modern societies. Furthermore, it continues to show that, despite the wishes of secular and religious leaders, confessional uniformity was in many cases impossible to enforce. As ...

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Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) מאת Julie D. Campbell An important contribution to growing scholarship on women's participation in literary cultures, this essay collection concentrates on cross-national communities of letters to offer a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing. The essays gathered here focus on multiple li...

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American Prints from Hopper to Pollock מאת Stephen Coppel with the assistance of Jerzy Kierkuc-Bielinski

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Chant and its Origins (Music in Medieval Europe) מאת Thomas Forrest Kelly The Latin liturgical music of the medieval church is the earliest body of Western music to survive in a more or less complete form. It is a body of thousands of individual pieces, of striking beauty and aesthetic appeal, which has the special quality of embodying, of giving voice to, the words of th...

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Jews, Race and Popular Music (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music) מאת Jon Stratton Jon Stratton provides a pioneering work on Jews as a racialized group in the popular music of America, Britain and Australia during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Rather than taking a narrative, historical approach the book consists of a number of case studies, looking at the Americ...

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Analysing Practical and Professional Texts (Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis) מאת Rod Watson "Analysing Practical and Professional Texts" focuses on texts as constituents of human usage, showing how written documents and other 'texts' are integral to social organization. It reveals social organization itself to be not only textually-mediated in nature, but also textually-constituted, showin...

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GreekLatin Philosophical Interaction (Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy) מאת Sten Ebbesen Sten Ebbesen has contributed many works in the field of ancient and medieval philosophy over many decades of dedicated research. His style is crisp and lucid and his philosophical penetration and exposition of often difficult concepts and issues is both clear and intellectually impressive. Ashgate i...

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Defining Civil and Political Rights מאת Alex Conte ###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################...

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Maritime Security in the South China Sea (Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series) מאת Shicun Wu Maritime security is of vital importance to the South China Sea, a critical sea route for maritime transport of East Asian countries including China. The adjacent countries have rendered overlapping territorial and/or maritime claims in the South China Sea which complicate the situation of maintaini...

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Counseling Psychology (The International Library of Psychology) מאת Frederick T.L. Leong and Mark M. Leach Since its beginnings after WWII, Counseling Psychology has grown to become an applied specialty within psychology with unique areas of emphasis. This book introduces readers to the field by presenting its history, emphases, trends and relationships to other areas within psychology, followed by semin...

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The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology (Ashgate Philosophy of Religion Series) מאת Michael Sudduth Michael Sudduth examines three prominent objections to natural theology that have emerged in the Reformed streams of the Protestant theological tradition: objections from the immediacy of our knowledge of God, the noetic effects of sin, and the logic of theistic arguments. Distinguishing between the...

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Planning Cultures in Europe (Urban and Regional Planning and Development Series) מאת Joerg Knieling Bringing together an interdisciplinary team from across the EU, this book connects elements of cultural and planning theories to explain differences and peculiarities among EU member states. A 'culturized planning model' is introduced to consider the 'rules of the game' how culture affects planning ...

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Managing Aviation Projects from Concept to Completion מאת Triant G. Flouris Triant Flouris is a prominent academic and administrator in aviation management education; Dennis Lock has more than forty years experience in practising, lecturing and writing about project management. When these two experts combined their considerable talents to write their earlier book "Aviation ...

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Re-Thinking Men מאת Anthony Synnott Much writing on men in the field of gender studies tends to focus unduly, almost exclusively, on portraying men as villains and women as victims in a moral bi-polar paradigm. "Re-Thinking Men" reverses the proclivity which ignores not only the positive contributions of men to society, but also the m...

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North Korea's Foreign Policy under Kim Jong Il מאת Tae-Hwan Kwak The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) joined the rank of nuclear powers in October 2006 after exploding its first nuclear device. The test was not fully successful yet it unequivocally demonstrated DPRK's nuclear weapons capability. This book distinguishes itself from all o...

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Giacometti: Critical Essays (Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture) מאת Peter Read "Giacometti: Critical Essays" considers Giacometti's work and career from the 1920s to the 1960s via a series of specific contextual studies. Active during a complex period in France's intellectual history, Giacometti took on a number of different artistic styles in his work, and forged a remarkable...

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Keys to the Drama מאת Gordon Sly Sonata form is fundamentally a dramatic structure that creates, manipulates, and ultimately satisfies expectation. It engages its audience by inviting prediction, association, and interpretation. That sonata form was the chief vehicle of dramatic instrumental music for nearly 200 years is due to the...

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Re-framing Representations of Women מאת Susan Shifrin Crossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, this volume integrates text and image, essays and object pages to explore the processes inherent in gender representation, rather than resituating women in particular categories or spheres as other scholarly publications and exhibitions have done. ...

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Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England (Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present) מאת Monica Flegel Moving nimbly between literary and historical texts, Monica Flegel provides a much-needed interpretive framework for understanding the specific formulation of child cruelty popularized by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the late nineteenth century. Flegel co...

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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe מאת Peter Burke Long neglected by historians, the concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to bear on every aspec...

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Modern Methods for Musicology (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities) מאת Tim Crawford Written by leading experts, this volume provides both a picture of the realities of how ICT is currently being used in musicology as well as prospects and proposals for how it could be fruitfully used in the future. Through its coverage of topics spanning content-based sound searching/retrieval, sou...

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Remembering Hiroshima (Justice, International Law and Global Security) מאת Francis X. Winters As the rapidly moving shadow of defeat stole over the American political landscape during the winter of 2006-2007, a happy distraction from the Middle-East gloom appeared on screen in the twin Iwo Jima films produced by Clint Eastwood: "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima". Both recalli...

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Mobility in Daily Life (Transport and Society) מאת Malene Freudendal-Pedersen Why do we choose specific modes of transport and what are the perceived rationalities for our choice? How are different theoretical concepts within mobility research actually perceived and lived in everyday life? At this book's core is a conceptual and empirical contribution to critical mobility res...

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Somatechnics (Queer Interventions) מאת Nikki Sullivan Somatechnics highlights the reciprocal bond between the soma and the techne of 'the body' and the techniques in which bodies are formed and transformed as crafted responses to the world around us. Structured around the themes of the governance of social bodies, the gendering of sexed bodies and the ...

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Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age מאת Denisa Kostovicova "Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age" addresses the question of why state weakness in the global era persists. It debunks a common assumption that state weakness is a stop-gap on the path to state failure and state collapse. Informed by a globalization perspective, the book shows how state w...

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Travel Demand Management and Road User Pricing (Transport and Mobility) מאת Wafaa Saleh Throughout the world, traffic levels are increasing and, in urban areas, these increasing levels have led to pressures on the road network which are causing serious economic, environmental and social problems. Many past policies have failed to deal adequately with these problems, including the tradi...

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G8 against Transnational Organized Crime (Global Finance) מאת Amandine Scherrer The fight against money laundering, drug trafficking, illegal immigration, cyber crime, and the promotion of the enhancement of judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters have been at the core of the G8's actions in this field since the 1990s. This book sheds light on the nature, structure ...

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Car Troubles (Transport and Society) מאת Jim Conley Bringing together an international and multi-disciplinary team of leading transportation scholars, this book's central premise is that the car as the dominant mode of travel needs to be problematised. It examines a wide range of issues that are central to automobility by situating it within social, ...

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The Multitasking Myth (Ashgate Studies in Human Factors for Flight Operations) מאת Loukia D. Loukopoulos 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 been only limited research into the nature and range of concurrent task demands in real-world settings....

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Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters מאת Paul-André Bempéchat Jean Cras (1879-1932) was a remarkable man by anyone's measure. Twice a decorated hero of the Great War, this Rear-Admiral of the French navy, scientist, inventor, moral philosopher and war-hero, was also a highly esteemed composer during his lifetime, enjoying the same stature and level of recognit...

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Reflections on Rawls מאת Shaun P. Young The late John Rawls was one of the most inspiring, provocative and influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. In this collection, a panel of distinguished political philosophers critically explore the intellectual legacy of Rawls. The essays herein engage Rawls' political theorizin...

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Safety Management Systems in Aviation (Ashgate Studies in Human Factors for Flight Operations) מאת Alan J. Stolzer Although aviation is among the safest modes of transportation in the world today, accidents still happen. In order to further reduce accidents and improve safety, proactive approaches must be adopted by the aviation community. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has mandated that al...

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Ethics Education for Irregular Warfare (Military and Defence Ethics) מאת Don Carrick In "Ethics Education in the Military" (eds. Paul Robinson, Nigel de Lee and Don Carrick: Ashgate 2008) the contributing authors surveyed and critically analysed the existing theory and practice of educating soldiers, sailors and airmen in the ethics of 'old fashioned' warfaring. This volume consider...

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Islam in American Prisons (Law, Justice and Power) מאת Hamid Reza Kusha The growth of Islam both worldwide and particularly in the United States is especially notable among African-American inmates incarcerated in American state and federal penitentiaries. This growth poses a powerful challenge to American penal philosophy, structured on the ideal of rehabilitating offe...

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Ninian Smart on World Religions: Volume 1 (Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Religion: Collected Works) מאת John J. Shepherd Ninian Smart came to public prominence as the founding Professor of the first British university Department of Religious Studies in the late 1960s. His pioneering views on education in religion proved hugely influential at all levels, from primary schools to academic teaching and research. An unendi...

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Painting, Politics and the Struggle for the École de Paris, 19441964 מאת Natalie Adamson "Painting, Politics, and the Struggle for the Ecole de Paris, 1944-1964" is the first book dedicated to the postwar or 'nouvelle' Ecole de Paris. It challenges the customary relegation of the Ecole de Paris to the footnotes, not by arguing for some hitherto 'hidden' merit for the art and ideas assoc...

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The Idea of Work in Europe from Antiquity to Modern Times מאת Josef Ehmer This volume takes a fresh and innovative approach to the history of ideas of work, concerning perceptions, attitudes, cultures and representations of work throughout Antiquity and the medieval and early modern periods. Focusing on developments in Europe, the contributors approach the subject from a ...

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Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century מאת Giles Constable Crusading in the twelfth century was less a series of discrete events than a manifestation of an endemic phenomenon that touched almost every aspect of life at that time. The defense of Christendom and the recovery of the Holy Land were widely-shared objectives. Thousands of men, and not a few women...