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The Last Century of Sea Power, Volume 2
H. P. Willmott
Old Believers
Irina Paert
Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights (Melland Schill Studies in International Law)
Patrick Thornberry
This study of the rights of indigenous peoples looks at the historical, cultural, and legal background to the position of indigenous peoples in a range of different cultures, including america, africa and australia.
The Cultural Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Patrick Thornberry
The Uncanny
Nicholas Royle
This study is of the uncanny; an important concept for contemporary thinking and debate across a range of disciplines and discourses, including literature, film, architecture, cultural studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis and queer theory.
The Nonprofit Sector in Germany
Helmut K. Anheier
The Uncanny
Nicholas Royle
This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history.
The Boxmaker's Revenge
Peter Lake
100 Years of European Cinema
Diana Holmes
Cinema provides entertainment, but it also, inevitably, communicates a set of values, a vision of the world or an ideology.
The British Presidency
Michael Foley
Intergenerational Trusts and Environmental Protection (Melland Schill Studies in International Law)
Catherine Redgwell
A monograph treatment of the application of intergenerational trusts for environmental protection.
Cultures of Empire: A Reader
Catherine Hall
Collects together the best articles by key historians, literary critics, and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the british empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries..
Cultures of Empire: A Reader
Catherine Hall
A Farewell to Arms
Michael Cox
The 1990s has been one of the most momentous of the entire post-war period.
Antonio's Revenge
John Marston
This edition seeks to evaluate antonio's revenge not merely as a literary text but as a drama for a particular company, in a specific theatre.
Urbane and Rustic England
Carl B. Estabrook
The rapid growth and renewed vitality of english cities and towns in the century after 1660 was remarkable.
Scandinavian Politics Today
David Arter
This volume represents a unique study contemporary politics and policy-making in the five nation-states and three home rule territories of the nordic region.
Latin and Vernacular in Renaissance Spain
Barry Taylor
Death in England
Peter C. Jupp
Death in england provides the first ever social history of death - from the earliest times to diana, princess of wales.
The Politics of the British Constitution (Political Analyses)
Michael Foley
The british constitution has recently become a highly contentious source of political critique and reform activity.
Women in Contemporary Spain
Anny Brooksbank Jones
The author's familiarity with debates in both cultural and social studies make this a particularly rich text.
Missionaries and Managers
N. Tiratsoo
This volume provides an account of us government attempts to reform european management education in the years 1945-1960.
Toni Morrison (Contemporary World Writers (Manchester Univ Pr))
Jill L. Matus
This is an illuminating and original introduction to toni morrison's fiction, focusing on its engagement with african american history and the way the traumas of the collective past shape morrison's work.
Keeping the Peace
N. D. White
When it was first published in 1993, keeping the peace quickly became the definitive legal and political analysis of the powers and practices of the un in the field of collective security.
Framing France
Richard Thomson
The Land Without Music
Andrew Blake
Examines the ways in which 20th-century britons have tried to find a distinctive musical voice.
The Illustrated History of Late Medieval England
Chris Given-Wilson
Il Giorno Della Civetta (Italian Texts)
Leonardo Sciascia
Di questo romanzo breve sulla mafia, apparso per la prima volta nel 1961, ha scritto leonardo sciascia: "...
Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Barry Jordan
Offers an analysis of the main trends and issues in spanish film since the death of franco in 1975.
The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland
John McGurk
Economic Cycles
Solomos Solomou
The ups and downs of booms and slumps, often referred to as business cycles, are features of all modern economies.
Political Economy of Financial Integration in Europe
Jonathan Story
Few aspects of the great european integration project have been as difficult and fraught with political conflict as the creation of a single financial market and monetary union.
Us Economic History Since 1945
Michael French
A concise, accessible review of the principal economic developments and social changes in the us between 1945 and the present day..
Sustaining Amazonia
Anthony L. Hall
In the wealth of literature on brazilian amazonian, little has been written to show how communities affected by hostile commercial forces have reacted..
Christian Dualist Heresies in the Byzantine World C.650-C.1450
Janet Hamilton
Christian dualism originated in the reign of constans ii (641-68).
The Archaeology of Landscape
Paul Everson
Economic Cycles
Solomos Solomou
The ups and downs of booms and slumps, often referred to as business cycles, are features of all modern economies.
Ethical Problems in Clinical Practice
Soren Holm
The Italian Resistance
Philip E. Cooke
Comprises a collection of archive texts about one of the more controversial periods in modern italian history.
Human Rights Fifty Years on
Tony Evans
The Norfolk Broads
Tom Williamson
Lavishly illustrated, this book tells the story of the evolution of the norfolk broads and its landscape.
Simone De Beauvoir's the Second Sex
Ruth Evans
Hailed by some feminists as the single most important theoretical work of this century, but ignored or reviled by others, simone de beauvoir's the second sex (1949) occupies an anomalous and even uneasy place in the feminist 'canon'.
Prime Minister and Cabinet Today (Politics Today)
Graham P. Thomas
This comprehensive account of a crucial but rather neglected aspect of british government examines the role and significance of the prime minister and cabinet today.
Visual Culture
John Albert Walker
This book is about the expanding realm of visual culture: in everything from architecture and art to computer imagery and virtual reality, this is the age of the visual image, and whatever excites and attracts the eye the most is king.
The First Crusade
Jonathan Phillips
The first crusade (1095-9) a mass of armed pilgrims aiming to march 4000 kilometers to the holy land to conquer jerusalem was one of the most remarkable episodes in medieval history.
A Union of Multiple Identities
David Eastwood
The Modernity of English Art 1914-1930
David Peters Corbett
This ground-breaking book re-conceptualises the history of english painting from 1914 to the end of the 1920s.
Weimar Germany
Paul Bookbinder
The weimar period, which extended from 1919 to 1933, was a time of political violence, economic crisis, generational and gender tension, and cultural experiment and change in germany.
Liberal Democracy into the Twenty-First Century
Roland Axtmann
This book offers a contemporary critique of liberal democracy, understood as a set of institutions and as a set of ideas.
Building European Union
Trevor C. Salmon
The International Co-Operative Movement
Johnston Birchall
The international co-operative movement picks up where johnston birchall's widely acclaimed co-op: the people's business (mup, 1994) left off.
Chaucer in Context
S. H. Rigby
Amongst the most written about works of english literature, chaucer's canterbury tales still defy categorization, claims the author.
European Environmental Policy
Mikael Skou Andersen
European union environmental policy has developed rapidly, partly because some member states have developed domestic environmental policies, while others have limited or no national environmental legislation..