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Challenging such neoliberal assumptions as the "death of distance" and suggestions that geography no longer matters within a shrinking globe, Geographies of Globalization is a critical introduction to the concepts and realities surrounding what has become the leitmotif of our contemporary world.

Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. * The first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia. * The first book by a geographer to focus on a community of mixed descent.

* An original and engaging introduction to the subject of historical linguistics. * Presents controversial but compelling ideas in developing a clear understanding as to why historical linguistics has had significant success in some domains, such as phonological history, and why it is considerably less successful in others.

From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. It covers mythology and family sagas, as well as less well-known areas, such as oral story-telling, Eddaic verse and skaldic verse. It shows how a range of authors from Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney have been influenced by this literature.

* Challenges the standard depiction of the 1660s as the beginning of a new age of stability. * Presents the Restoration as a process rather than an event. * Demonstrates that the 1660s were multi--faceted, dynamic and exciting.

This text provides an account of the child's journey from the womb to young adulthood. The first half of the book, discussing normal patterns of growth and development, is cross-referenced to equivalent chapters in the second half, discussing atypical conditions.

This flexible introductory textbook explores several key themes in philosophy, and helps the reader learn to engage with the key arguments by introducing and analysing a selection of classic readings. * Fully integrated introductory text with readings for beginning students of philosophy.

This popular text has now been revised to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the growing number of people interested in all the main philosophical traditions of the world. Introduces all the main philosophical systems of the world, from ancient times to the present day.

Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969.

This work investigates problems of unequal access to information technology in the United States. The author examines how the problem arose, how serious it is, and what the future implications might be if the gap in access continues to grow.

* Introduces the Qumran Scrolls to the uninitiated general reader. * Explains how revolutionary the discovery of the Scrolls was and their enduring significance. * Sets the Scrolls within the wider context of Jewish history and religion of the second temple period.

The French New Wave: An Artistic School is a lively introduction to this critical moment in film history by one of the worlda s leading scholars on the New Wave. * Provides a concise account of the French New Wave by one of the worlda s leading film scholars.

* Combines physics, philosophy, and history in a radical new approach to introducing the philosophy of physics. * Emphasizes the integral role that philosophical analysis plays in physics. * Presents many concrete examples in which struggles with conceptual issues drove innovation in physics.

An introduction to the thought of Gottlob Frege. Following Frege's thought chronologically the book guides the reader through an explanation and assessment of Frege's radical and lasting contributions to our understanding of language, meaning, and the foundations of arithmetic.

* Explores the concepts and debates surrounding the complex modern phenomenon of multiculturalism, and its varied effects on the advanced industrial nations of the world. * Unique -- views citizenship as the most important vehicle for enhancing multiculturalism and transnationalism.

This is a comprehensive analysis of the main dynamics of modernity which discusses the technological, social and political elements of modernism, and analyzes the works of Hegel, Marx, Weber, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Arendt.

Presents the history of Japan from c 8000 BC to the present day. This title covers a range of subjects, including geology, climate, agriculture, government and politics, culture, literature, media, foreign relations, imperialism, and industrialism.

Addresses the most pressing question in the study of religion today: are new forms of spirituality overtaking traditional forms of religion? This book provides a theoretical perspective which explains both secularization and sacralization. It offers some predictions about the future of religion and spirituality in the west.

Presents an account of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor. This title argues that Tiberius' character provides the key to understanding his reign. It portrays Tiberius as a man whose virtues and beliefs were corrupted by power. It shows how Tiberius' fears of conspiracy and assassination caused him to lose his grasp of reality.

This book introduces readers to the evolution of modern fiction in Spanish--speaking Latin America. aeo Presents Latin American fiction in its cultural and political contexts. aeo Introduces debates about how to read this literature.

This is the fourth edition of a book that has been widely acknowledged as the higher-level ecology text of choice throughout the world for almost twenty years. The latest revision has been the most extensive so far.

* An authoritative, practical text on selection and assessment. * Explains psychometric testing in occupational settings. * Covers other methods of selection such as assessment centres and e--selection. * Systematically covers all the topics required for the BPS Certificates of Competence in Testing Levels A and B.

Presents a study of three foundational issues in the semantics of natural language that have been relatively neglected. This book focuses on the formal characterization of intensions, the nature of an adequate type system for natural language semantics, and the formal power of the semantic representation language.

This text argues that political Marxist influence obscures, transforms, distorts, and renders inaccessible Marx's basic philosophical insights. It concentrates on recovering Marx's philosophical ideas not in opposition to, but rather within the larger, Hegelian framework.

This study deals with the perennial question of how far religious faith needs reason. The book deals squarely with such problems as the existence of different religions, the relation between science and religion, and how religion should be treated in a pluralist society.

In this series of lectures, previously unpublished in English, and here translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation by noted scholar Thierry Weil, leading organizational scholar James March uses great works of literature to explore the problems of leadership.

This book is an authoritative account of Poland's emerging foreign and security policies and will contribute to an understanding of the foreign policy preferences of an enlarged EU.

This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire. Covers both mainstream Graeco-Roman religion and regional religious traditions, from Egypt to Western Europe. Examines the shared assumptions and underlying dynamics that characterized religious life as a whole.

Ethics: The Fundamentals explores core ideas and arguments in moral theory by introducing students to different philosophical approaches to ethics, including virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, divine command theory, and feminist ethics. * The first volume in the new Fundamentals of Philosophy series.

* An exploration of the character of the Eucharist as communion in and through sacrifice. * Argues that the Eucharist cannot be separated from sacrifice, and rediscovers the biblical connections between sacrifice and communion. * Timed to coincide with the Year of the Eucharist, proclaimed by Pope John Paul II.