Taylor & Francis

Exploring the concept of military boredom, this book investigates how soldiers spent their time when not engaged in battle, work or training through a study of their creative, imaginative and intellectual lives. Drawing on the experience of Australian troops participating in three key twentieth-cent..

Cities in the ancient world relied on private generosity to provide many basic amenities. This collection of essays by leading scholars explores the important phenomenon of benefaction and public patronage in Roman Italy...

Schoenberg's Op.23 for solo piano, written between 1920 and 1923, represented a move from his atonal music of the preceding twelve years to 12-note music. In this analysis of the five pieces which make up Op.23, Kathryn Bailey discusses the ways in which Schoenberg clearly explores new ideas in thes..

This book is devoted to the writing of the scholar-activist Bruce Kidd on sport and politics, the Canadian sport system and the Olympic Movement...

This book provides an assessment of several important topics in the study of new religions, exploring developments in some well-known groups such as the Unification movement, The Family International (Children of God), the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and the Church of S..

This text provides a lens of how to empower citizens’ abilities through leisure in a variety of environments. It concentrates on working with the abilities of individuals so as to enhance their participation in leisure activities._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Annals of ..

_x005F_x000D_ ¿De acuerdo? 20 Simulaciones para la clase español is the ideal course for intermediate to advanced students of Spanish seeking to develop their speaking skills...

This book’s critical focus on local agency in North Africa, namely Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt, intends to explore the dynamic facet of ‘democratic learning’ in the popular protests of the ‘Arab Spring’. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of North Afr..

This book studies the ways Hardy writes about music, and argues that this focus allows for a close and varied investigation of the affective dimensions of his poetry and fiction, and his recurrent preoccupations with time, community and love. Although the book does incorporate some biographical det..

This facsimile edition reproduces the work titled Eliza's Babes which was first published in 1652. The volume comprises devotional and political verse and prose meditations. The poems cover a wide range of forms from verse epistles to poetic petitions, religious love lyrics to poems on earthly marri..

This facsimile edition reproduces the extant works of the seventeenth-century poet, 'Ephelia'. The identity of 'Ephelia' continues to be debated. In her Introductory Note, Maureen Mulvihill suggests that the most likely candidate is Mary Villiers, later Stuart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1622-1..

The Beatles' "Revolver" has been shocking, provoking and delighting listeners for decades. This collection of essays attempts to define what it is that has enabled "Revolver" to endure as a complex and ambitious statement about the possibilities of popular music...