Sociology & Social Policy

This title was first published in 2001. Is there such a thing as "Tudor literature"? The question is the theme that binds the essays in this collection. Scholars from around the world address the question of whether there is a sense of continuity in the literature of the Tudor century...

This book was published in 2003. One of the most important but least studied of medieval chant repertories is that of the Kyrie...

The Arid Zones..

The Arid Zones..

This title was first publishd in 2002. This work uses the concept of the "arms dynamic" to identify and assess the various factors which influenced arms acquisitions of Southeast Asian states during the second Cold War period from 1979 to 1989, providing an essential basis for understanding contempo..

The Art of Empirical Investigation..

This title was first published in 2000:  This text redefines corporate identity. It offers an insight into the creation, management and measurement of identity - and into why the right identity can transform your organization. With the help of tests and illustrations, Mark Rowden challenges readers ..

This title was first published in 2000:  Pesticides and other agricultural chemicals are in use in virtually every country in the world. It is therefore useful and important to those involved with these chemicals to have a collection of data concerning the substances most commonly used for agricultu..

This study offers a reassesment of the "audience". It acknowledges, in the face of conventional "discourse analysis", the contextual features of discourse, to produce complex and textured understanding of the concept of audience...

The Authority of the Consumer explores the implications of `consumer society' - charting its meanings in particular circumstances and analysing this way of understanding the relationships between `providers' and 'recipients'...

This title was first published in 2001. Public childcare provision in Britain is an issue that raises much passion and has been the source of much disappointment. Free childcare in Britain is limited. Public policy has been slow to change in terms of providing more childcare...

Offers a contribution to the debate on civilization, modernity and postmodernity. The book argues that modernity never jettisoned barbarism. Rather, barbarism was repackaged in new traditions and cultures...