Religious Education in the Mirror of a Life Trajectory

The study of religious education is of great interest in analyzing how schools and educational authorities address the demands of multicultural and mu...

Mirrors and Masks The Search for Identity

Identity as a concept is as elusive as everyone's sense of his own personal identity. It is connected with appraisals made by oneself and by others. E...

The Mirror Neuron System A Special Issue of Social Neuroscience

Mirror neurons are premotor neurons originally discovered in the macaque brain that discharge both during execution of goal-directed actions and durin...

Marriage and the Family Mirror of a Diverse Global Society

Marriage and the Family: Mirror of a Diverse Global Society is a comprehensive text about marriage and the family in sociology family science and dive...

Mirror for Man The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life

While the world has undoubtedly been shrinking at the same time it has grown more complex. The likelihood of culture clashes leading to outright confl...

Unknowing the ‘War on Terror’ The Pleasures of Risk

This book offers new insights into the excesses and uncanniness of the ‘War on Terror’ via an engagement with the pleasures of risk. Engaging with the...

The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror

The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror offers a comprehensive guide to this popular genre. It explores its origins canonical texts and thinkers the cr...

The War on Terror and the Normalisation of Urban Security

This book explores the processes by which in the 20 years after 9/11 the practices of urban security and counter-terrorism have impacted the everyday ...

The Angry American How Voter Rage Is Changing The Nation

The Clinton scandals. The Rise of militia and patriot groups. The proliferation of ?trash? TV. Record U. S. trade deficits. Isolated events or is ther...

Progressive Violence Theorizing the War on Terror

This book examines the role of collective violence in the achievement of solidarity shedding light on the difficulty faced by sociology in theorizing ...

Self-Face Recognition and the Brain How the Neuroscience of Mirror Recognition Has Changed Psychology Psychiatry and Evolution

Self-Face Recognition and the Brain explores a fundamental cornerstone of human consciousness; how recognizing ourselves leads to a better understandi...

Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror The Melancholic Sublime

This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts from architecture and art to literature digital technology an...

The Twitter Presidency Donald J. Trump and the Politics of White Rage

The Twitter Presidency explores the rhetorical style of President Donald J. Trump attending to both his general manner of speaking as well as to his p...

US Hard Power in the Arab World Resistance the Syrian Uprising and the War on Terror

Neither stability nor change in the post-colonial Arab world can be fully understood without considering the international context and American Foreig...

Dreams of Glory The Sources of Apocalyptic Terror

Islam Judaism and Christianity are engaged not in a 'clash of civilizations' but in a sectarian conflict among branches of a single civilization tradi...

Narratives of the War on Terror Global Perspectives

Challenging the predominantly Euro-American approaches to the field this volume brings together essays on a wide array of literary filmic and journali...

American Security and the Global War on Terror

This book delivers an interpretive framework for making sense of today’s geopolitical landscape and casts new light on the impact ideology and technol...

The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations

This title was first published in 2002: This field guide assesses two views of human error - the old view in which human error becomes the cause of an...

The Field Guide to Human Error Investigations

This title was first published in 2002: This field guide assesses two views of human error - the old view in which human error becomes the cause of an...

Horror Noire A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present

From King Kong to Candyman the boundary-pushing genre of horror film has always been a site for provocative explorations of race in American popular c...

Terrorism the Worker and the City Simulations and Security in a Time of Terror

Soon after watching the twin towers falling in New York some of those with business responsibilities were already asking themselves whether people wou...

Mass Hate The Global Rise Of Genocide And Terror

This book draws together the results of six decades of research on the psychology of mass hate. It focuses on situations where large portions of natio...

State Organized Terror The Case Of Violent Internal Repression

This book an outcome of an international conference entitled State Organized Terror: The Case of Violent Internal Repression addresses the antecedent ...

Social Networks as the New Frontier of Terrorism #Terror

Terrorism. Why does this word grab our attention so? Propaganda machines have adopted modern technology as a means to always have their content availa...

Islam and Sectarian Violence in Pakistan The Terror Within

This book analyses the growth of sectarian-based terrorist violence in Pakistan one of the Muslim majority states most affected by sectarian violence ...

The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks Fragile Frontiers

Critical questions remain unanswered on the events of the cold-blooded and devastating terror attacks in Mumbai on 26 November 2008. Investigative and...

Spanish Horror Film and Television in the 21st Century

This book provides an up-to-date in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It o...

Horror Television in the Age of Consumption Binging on Fear

Characterized as it is by its interest in and engagement with the supernatural psycho-social formations the gothic and issues of identity and subjecti...

Equatorial Guinea Colonialism State Terror And The Search For Stability

This book presents information on the land and people history politics economy society and culture of Equatorial Guinea. It includes views of the auth...

Literature and the War on Terror Nation Democracy and Liberalisation

This book examines cultural imaginations post 9/11. It explores the idea of a religious community and its multifaceted representations in literature a...

Trauma and Fictions of the War on Terror Disrupting Memory

This book explores the ways in which transnational fiction in the post-9/11 era can intervene in discourse surrounding the war on terror to advocate f...

Assessing the War on Terror Western and Middle Eastern Perspectives

This volume is a collection of articles that critically examine the efficacy ethics and impact of the War on Terror as it has evolved since 9/11. Duri...

The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969 Utterly Resigned Terror

For the past 30 years the so-called 'Troubles' thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland leading to the charge t...

Tim O'Brien The Things He Carries and the Stories He Tells

This collection of seven essays like the carefully linked collection of vignettes within Tim O’Brien’s most popular book The Things They Carried conta...

Micro-geographies of the Western City c.1750–1900

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c. 1750 and 1...

The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy China 1920-1940

The objectives of this study first published in 1982 are to elaborate a micro-economic model which adequately explains the interrelationships among ec...

Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives Mirror Mirror for Us All

Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives takes a public history approach to situating the physical spaces of the Disney brand within memor...

Kenzo Tange and the Metabolist Movement Urban Utopias of Modern Japan

Amid Japan’s political turbulence in 1960 seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenzō Tange’s Plan...

The White Terror Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary 1919-1921

The White Terror was a movement of right-wing militias that for two years actively tracked down tortured and murdered members of the Jewish community ...

Shaping Nations and Markets Identity Capital Trade and the Populist Rage

Shaping Nations and Markets employs a mixed methods approach to contend that economic ideas organization of domestic interests and their economic powe...

The Past in Contemporary Society: Then Now

Changes or innovations which threaten `our heritage' arouse great hostility in those who want to preserve the past in its entirity. `The heritage' has...

Philippine Security in the Age of Terror National Regional and Global Challenges in the Post-9/11 World

As the twelfth most populous nation the Philippines’ diverse religious and ethnic population makes it an ideal example of the changing tenet of what i...

Noxious Range Weeds

This is a reference book on the classification distribution ecology and control of poisonous and aggressively invasive plant species on rangeland. The...

Extremism Ancient and Modern Insurgency Terror and Empire in the Middle East

Near Eastern archaeology is generally represented as a succession of empires with little attention paid to the individuals labelled as terrorists at t...

Risk-Based Thinking Managing the Uncertainty of Human Error in Operations

Society at large tends to misunderstand what safety is all about. It is not just the absence of harm. When nothing bad happens over a period of time h...

The Micro-politics of Microcredit Gender and Neoliberal Development in Bangladesh

Microcredit has been seen in recent decades as having great potential for aiding development in poor developing countries with Bangladesh being one of...

Migration Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

Visitors to Thailand’s urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and...

The Somali Within Language Race and Belonging in ‘Minor’ Italian Literature

The recent histories of Italy and Somalia are closely linked. Italy colonized Somalia from the end of the 19th century to 1941 and held the territory ...

Ritual Emotion Violence Studies on the Micro-Sociology of Randall Collins

Microsociologists seek to capture social life as it is experienced and in recent decades no one has championed the microsociological approach more fie...

Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India Visions of Horror Allegories of Enlightenment

This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry ...

They Create Worlds The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry Vol. I: 1971-1982

They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry Vol. 1 is the first in a three-volume set that provides ...

The Lower Limbs in Jungian Psychology The Girl with Her Big Toe in Her Mouth

In The Lower Limbs in Jungian Psychology: The Girl with Her Big Toe in Her Mouth Inácio Cunha explores the motif of lower limbs by amplifying their sy...

Gender Orientalism and the War on Terror' Representation Discourse and Intervention in Global Politics

This book offers an accessible and timely analysis of the ‘War on Terror’ based on an innovative approach to a broad range of theoretical and empirica...

The Problems with Teamwork and How to Solve Them

This book offers practical evidence-based solutions to help professionals implement and support effective teamwork. Lantz Ulber and Friedrich draw on ...

Biotechnology the Science the Products the Government the Business

The over-riding premise for biotechnology in this book is bringing novel products to market to substantially advance patient care and disease mitigati...

On-Wafer Calibration Techniques Enabling Accurate Characterization of High-Performance Silicon Devices at the mm-Wave Range and Beyond

The Welfare of the Child The Principle and the Law

First published in 1999 this book responds to the meaning given to the welfare principle attracts a great deal of controversy and explores the reasons...

The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

The publication in 1988 of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses triggered a furor that pitted much of the Islamic world against the West over iss...

The North the South and the Environment

The essays in this study contribute to an analysis of the prospects for the world's economy in the face of environmental constraints. The contributors...

The Buddha The Prophet and the Christ

Originally published in 1956 this book brings together from the canonical writings of Buddhism Islam and Christianity the most important of the passag...

Advanced High Dynamic Range Imaging

This book explores the methods needed for creating and manipulating HDR content. HDR is a step change from traditional imaging; more closely matching ...

The Iranian Revolution Then And Now Indicators Of Regime Instability

In The Iranian Revolution Then and Now Dariush Zahedi assesses the Islamic Republic's potential for revolution through an in-depth theoretically infor...

The Bible: The Basics

The Bible: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the Bible as both a sacred text central to the faith of millions and a classic wor...

The Holocaust The Third Reich and the Jews

This book offers a survey of the encounter between the Third Reich and European Jewry. Pointing out the difficulties historians face in interpreting t...

Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

From Chilika India's largest coastal lake the echoes of poetry the reflections of festive lamps its ever-present turmoil and biodiverse bounty have co...

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c. 600 to 1050 AD the period in which Islamic society was for...

Concert Design The Road The Craft The Industry

Concert Design: The Road The Craft The Industry offers an exceptional journey though the world of concert design exploring not only its unique design ...

The Bront in the World of the Arts

Although previous scholarship has acknowledged the importance of the visual arts to the Brontës relatively little attention has been paid to the influ...

The Unknown Relatives The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel

The Unknown Relatives analyses a large body of Victorian literary texts dealing with the topic of Catholicism and Catholics written from the non-Catho...

The Workplace of the Future The Fourth Industrial Revolution the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a global development that shows no signs of slowing down. In his book The Workplace of the Future: The Fourth Indu...

The Filmmaker's Eye: The Language of the Lens The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image

The Language of the Lens explores the expressive power of the camera lens and the storytelling contributions that this critical tool can make to a fil...

‘The Politics’ and ‘The Political’ of the Eastern Partnership Initiative Reshaping the Agenda

The Special Issue consolidates new approaches to the study of the EU’s role in the eastern neighbourhood and beyond informed by post-structuralist tra...

Financing The Transition In The Ussr The Shatalin Plan And The Soviet Union

This book addresses the Soviet needs for external help to allow the Soviet leadership to carry out its program—in any version—of stabilization. It foc...

Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

The explosive growth of bioeconomy and bioscience coupled with an interconnected planet increases the potential impact of large-scale bio-events. Eith...

The Crusades The Kingdom of Sicily and the Mediterranean

In this collection of studies by James M. Powell two related centres of attention can be seen. One is the campaigns undertaken by western Europeans in...

We the People The Economic Origins of the Constitution

Charles A. Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of A...

The IMF the WTO & the Politics of Economic Surveillance

Both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) practice periodic surveillance of members to ensure that countries a...

The Meaning of the Twentieth Century The Great Transition

Originally published in 1965 and written by a noted economist and leader in the field of conflict resolution this book traces the forces which have br...

The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

Originally published in 1982 The Shaman and the Magician draws on the author’s wide experience of occultism western magic and anthropological knowledg...

The Business of Sports Off the Field in the Office on the News

The Business of Sports provides a comprehensive foundation of the economic organizational legal and political components of the sports industry. Geare...

The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry The Golden Smile through the Ages

The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture and their ...

The Red Rose and the White The Wars of the Roses 1453-1487

If Richard III had not charged to his death at Bosworth how different might the history of Britain have been? Beginning in 1453 and ending in 1487 The...

The Secret Army The IRA

The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the sh...

The Treason of the Intellectuals

Julien Benda's classic study of 1920s Europe resonates today. The treason of the intellectuals is a phrase that evokes much but is inherently ambiguou...

The Microbiome and the Brain

Brain related disorders are among the most challenging health issues of our time. The development of effective therapeutic and preventive strategies f...

The Distribution of the Product

Originally published in 1979 the purpose of this book is to introduce a theory of the distribution of national income between wages profits and other ...

Remediation of Firing Range Impact Berms

A part of the continuing effort to provide innovative in situ remediation techniques Remediation of Firing-Range Impact Berms presents the results of ...

The Privacy of the Self

The Privacy of the Self was the first collection of papers showing the development of the author's thinking over twenty five years of clinical work. H...

The Art of the Soluble

First published in 1967 The Art of the Soluble presents collection of essays giving the views of the author on creativity and originality in science a...

The Birth of the Clinic

In this remarkable book Michel Foucault one of the most influential thinkers of recent times calls us to look critically at specific historical events...

Advocacy for Social Change Coalitions and the Organizations That Lead Them

This book portrays how small geographically dispersed and progressive social change and social service organizations working within a coalition can in...

The Ideal of the University

The Ideal of the University is a lucid comprehensive analysis of the rationale principles and presuppositions that make contemporary universities what...

The Time Of The Gypsies

Until 1989 it was official Communist policy in eastern Europe to absorb Gypsies into the ?ruling? working class. Since 1989 the Gypsies have become th...

The Psychology of the Paranormal

Can mediums communicate with the dead? Do people really believe they’ve been abducted by aliens? Why do some people make life decisions based on their...

The Thought of the Prophets

Originally published in 1953 The Hebrew Prophets’ conception of the meaning and purpose of human history has considerable significance for a religious...

The Dissolution of the Monasteries

Originally published in 1971 this book begins with the assumption that the Dissolution of the Monasteries was neither an integral nor an essential par...

The Parthians The Forgotten Empire

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the Parthian Empire which existed for almost 500 years from 247 BC to 224 ...

Small and Short-Range Radar Systems

Radar Expert Esteemed Author Gregory L. Charvat on CNN and CBS Author Gregory L. Charvat appeared on CNN on March 17 2014 to discuss whether Malaysia ...

The Japanese LGBTQ+ Community in the World The COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges and the Prospects for the Future

This study of the Japanese LGBTQ+ community sheds light on the intersectionality of lived experiences including gender sexuality family (mental) healt...

The Spd And The Challenge Of Mass Politics The Dilemma Of The German Volkspartei

This book examines the inner dynamics of one of the most significant social democratic parties in Europe and weighs the causes and effects of the poli...