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Europe Since 1989: Transitions and Transformations by William Outhwaite
RRP: £94.99£82.35Europe Since 1989 charts the development of Europe east and west since the 1989 revolutions. It analyses the emergent European society, the development of a European public sphere, and civil society. Most books on Europe are heavily biased to the West... -
The International Dimensions of Cyberspace Law by Bruno De Padirac
RRP: £29.99£26.64This title was first published in 2003. This text is part of the "Law of Cyberspace" series, which deals with the legal aspects of the emerging information society and corresponding ethical matters. The book examines the international... -
Stemming the Torrent: Expression and Control in the Victorian Discourses on Emotion, 1830-1872: Expression and Control in the Victorian Discourses on Emotion, 1830-1872 by Gesa Stedman
RRP: £79.99£69.60This title was first published in 2002: Gesa Stedman mines the vein of emotion in Victorian writing to unearth new insights into the ways literature responded to the dramatic social and political changes then taking place. Contemporary research from... -
Competition, Regulation and the Privatisation of British Rail by John Shaw
RRP: £32.99£29.16This title was first published in 2000. This work looks at the privatization of British Rail. It covers the competition for franchises and the regulation of those franchises. The aim of this study was to evaluate the extent to which the promotion of... -
Souvenirs: The Material Cultre of Tourism by Michael Hitchcock
RRP: £29.99£26.64This title was first published in 2000: Souvenirs, broadly conceived, are generally thought to be the material counterpart of travels, events, relationships and memories of all kinds. The material items classed as souvenirs discussed in this text have... -
Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Theological Context: Restless Readings: Restless Readings by J'annine Jobling
RRP: £32.99£29.16This title was first published in 2002: The premise of the text is that there is a continuing need for biblical hermeneutic propsals and frameworks which emerge from the fields of both feminism and Christian theology. Feminism, the author asserts,... -
Regionalisation and Integration in China: Lessons from the Transformation of the Beef Industry by Colin G Brown
RRP: £25.99£23.03This title was first published in 2002: Changing economic, institutional and market environments have turned the spatial inter-relationships thought to exist in China upside-down. Through an investigation of the beef industry, this text builds a picture... -
Challenges to Democracy: Essays in Honour and Memory of Isaiah Berlin by Raphael Cohen-Almagor
RRP: £37.99£34.98This title was first published in 2000: The essays gathered in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and practical issues concerning a variety of problems which democracies confront time and again. Their aim is to look at challenges to democracy... -
The Measurement and Development of Empathy in Nursing by William J Reynolds
RRP: £35.99£31.69This title was first published in 2000: Empathy is known to be crucial to helping relationships, but professional helpers, including nurses, do not normally display much empathy as it has not been measured in clients' terms and accordingly taught. This... -
Routing Borders Between Territories, Discourses and Practices by H.van Houtum
RRP: £120.00£104.01This title was first published in 2003. This multi-disciplinary reading focuses on the latent meaningful and contextual strategies that are often implied and included in bordering processes. It demonstrates that the border as a concept is not so much an... -
William Tinsley (1831-1902): Speculative Publisher: Speculative Publisher by Peter Newbolt
RRP: £51.99£45.59This title was first published in 2001. An account of the activities of 19th-century publisher William Tinsley, particularly in relation to his authors and his chosen way of making a living. In considering the library-publishing system that dominated all... -
The Gendering of Inequalities: Women, Men and Work by Jane Jenson
RRP: £36.99£32.93This was first published in 2000: This work is founded on the premise that many analyses of economic restructuring and of gender relations fail to recognize two things. First, the situation facing women is different from that of the 1960s when the... -
Studies in Public Law and the Retail Sector by Ann R Everton
RRP: £39.99£35.46This title was first published in 2000: Part 1 Shifting patterns of retailing - a journey to and through the "golden age": highlights of the earlier history; the post-war decades - the '50s, '60s and '70s; the "retail revolution" of... -
Re-citing Marlowe: Approaches to the Drama: Approaches to the Drama by Clare Harraway
RRP: £76.99£67.05This title was first published in 2000: Re-citing the available information on Christopher Marlowe, this study seeks to illuminate the preoccupations and pitfalls of previous accounts of the dramatist's canon in an effort to discover, or to elaborate,... -
The Persistence of Taste: Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu by Carol Tulloch
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of taste. For the first time, this book unites sociologists and other social scientists with artists and curators, art theorists and... -
Agriculture and a Changing Environment in Northeastern India by Sumi Krishna
RRP: £19.99£18.09India's northeastern region, forged by a unique geological history and peopled by several waves of migration, is extraordinarily complex. Farming systems in the hills and the riverine plains are embedded in a heterogeneous environment, comprising... -
Being Brahmin, Being Modern: Exploring the Lives of Caste Today by Ramesh Bairy
RRP: £47.99£41.81There is clearly an academic and political obsession with the 'idea' of the Brahmin. There is also, simultaneously, a near-complete absence of engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book addresses this intriguing paradox by... -
Streaming Music: Practices, Media, Cultures by Sofia Johansson
RRP: £135.00£117.28Streaming Music examines how the Internet has become integrated in contemporary music use, by focusing on streaming as a practice and a technology for music consumption. The backdrop to this enquiry is the digitization of society and culture, where the... -
Emergent Commercial Trends and Aviation Safety by Ruwantissa I.R. Abeyratne
RRP: £32.99£29.16Published in 1999, the pre-eminent concern of the air transport industry and aircraft manufacturers at the present time is safety in the air. It is also the foremost priority of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The basic strategic... -
Care in the Community: Challenge and Demonstration by Martin Knapp
RRP: £22.99£20.16First published in 1992, this second book in the series fully described the evaluation programme and seeks to answer pressing questions of policy and practice This book is split into four parts: Introduction to the pilot programme, the projects and their... -
Anti-racism and Social Welfare by Micheal Lavalette
RRP: £32.99£29.16First published in 1998 , this book is a compendium of writings in regards to racism in 1990s Britain and the social impact racism have on black communities in Britain in regards to unemployment , working conditions , housing and health. Aiming to create... -
Composing the Music of Africa: Composition, Interpretation and Realisation by Malcolm Floyd
RRP: £32.99£29.16First published in 1999, this volume explores the great diversity of music created by African communities is reflected in this book, which discusses the ways in which a wide range of musical forms are composed and performed from Egypt to South Africa and... -
British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics: The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964-79 by John McIlroy
RRP: £32.99£29.16First published in 1999 , this book discusses trade unionism in Britain from 1964 to 1979. Detailing political change in British politics from union strikes to Thatcherism in the late 1970s and the implications that had on trade unions and industrial... -
Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan by Andrea Germer
RRP: £45.99£40.53Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan makes a unique contribution to the international literature on the formation of modern nation-states in its focus on the gendering of the modern Japanese nation-state from the late nineteenth century to the... -
Yoga, Bhoga and Ardhanariswara: Individuality, Wellbeing and Gender in Tantra by Prem Saran
RRP: £45.99£40.13This book offers a social-scientific interpretation of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions of Tantra dating back 15 centuries. It is a self-reflexive study approached with an insider's empathy and the perspective of an Indologist, anthropologist, mystic... -
Of Human Bonding: Parent-Child Relations across the Life Course by Alice S. Rossi
RRP: £135.00£118.28This life-course analysis of family development focuses on the social dynamics among family members. It features parent-child relationships in a larger context, by examining the help exchange between kin and nonkin and the intergenerational transmission... -
Language, Education and Uyghur Identity in Urban Xinjiang by Joanne Smith Finley
RRP: £45.99£40.13As the regional lingua franca, the Uyghur language long underpinned Uyghur national identity in Xinjiang. However, since the 'bilingual education' policy was introduced in 2002, Chinese has been rapidly institutionalised as the sole medium of instruction... -
Gender Violence in Ecofeminist Perspective: Intersections of Animal Oppression, Patriarchy and Domination of the Earth by Gwen Hunnicutt
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book aims to begin an eco-centered, eco-feminist informed discussion about the ways in which our relationship to "nature" is bound up with gender, patriarchy, and violence. Ecofeminist scholars study the interconnections between gendered... -
Twenty-Something in the 1990s: Getting on, Getting by, Getting Nowhere by John Bynner
RRP: £22.99£20.16First published in 1997, this study of 9,000 people born in the same week in 1970, who have been followed up since birth, has produced a unique picture of life for those in their mid 20s - a year before the new Labour Government took office. The new... -
Women and Public Policy: The Shifting Boundaries Between the Public and Private Spheres by Susan Baker
RRP: £32.99£29.16First published in 1999, this volume aims to go beyond this debate is to explore the factors which have contributed to women's exclusion from rights and full citizenship. Beginning by linking the construction of a dichotomous relationship between public... -
Lost and Found: Making and Remaking Working Partnerships with Parents of Children in the Care System by Judith Masson
RRP: £31.99£28.33First published in 1999, this volume is a collection of essays focused on the theme of partnership with parents in social work practice with children and families. It covers issues relating to the quality of care and preparation for aftercare,... -
Performance and Practice: Oral Narrative Traditions Amongst Teenagers in Britain and Ireland by Michael Wilson
RRP: £22.99£20.16First published in 1997, this volume takes a dive into methods of teenage storytelling, including questions of believability, fashionability, rebellious spirit, the supernatural, personal narratives and riddles, along with an archive of texts collected... -
Matching Resources to Needs in Community Care: An Evaluated Demonstration of a Long-Term Care Model by Bleddyn Davies
RRP: £45.99£40.53First published in 1986, Matching Resources to Needs describes the PSSRU's community care approach and analyses the first of the community care projects, a seminal set of experiments in the care of the elderly at high risk of institutional long-term care... -
Comparative Vandalism: Asger Jorn and the Artistic Attitude to Life by Peter Shield
RRP: £32.99£29.16First published in 1998, this volume is a study of Asger Jorn's attempt to formulate the 'first complete revision of the existing philosophical system' from the standpoint of the artist in the period 1961-67. The Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914-73),... -
Policy Competition and Foreign Direct Investment in Europe by Philip Raines
RRP: £22.99£20.16First published in 1999, this volume recognised how widespread attention has been given to charting how the global rise in investment flows has caused numerous changes in the operation of economies - such as the globalisation of production and increasing... -
Americans on Shakespeare, 1776-1914 by Peter Rawlings
RRP: £45.99£40.13Published in 1999. Shakespeare is 'the great author of America' declared James Fenimore Cooper in 1828. The ambiguous resonance of this claim is fully borne out in this collection of writings on Shakespeare by over forty prominent Americans, spanning the... -
Modern Banking in the Balkans and West-European Capital in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Kostas P. Kostis
RRP: £32.99£29.16First published in 1999, Kostis in this book traces the influences Western modern banking systems in Balkan states and the economic development of these countries. The contributors of this book consider a wide arrange of approaches in relation to issues... -
Higher Education and Disabilities: International Approaches by Alan Hurst
RRP: £32.99£29.16First published in 1998, this volume compares disability services and strategies along with students with disabilities across various countries around the world. Its publication followed a series of conferences held at different international locations... -
Making Rights Work by Penny Smith
RRP: £32.99£29.16First published in 1999, this edited collection of essays explores various perspectives on making rights work in South Africa, Canada, the USA and the UK, along with pieces on gender, political, LGBT and British legal rights. The volume was inspired by... -
Therapeutic Correctional Relationships: Theory, research and practice by Sarah Lewis
RRP: £46.99£40.97The relationship between offender and criminal justice practitioner has shifted throughout rehabilitative history, whether situated within psychological interventions, prison or probation. This relationship has evolved and adapted over time, but...