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From the ragtime one-step of the early twentieth century to the contemporary practices of youth club cultures, popular dance and music are inextricably linked. This collection reveals the intimate connections between the corporeal and the sonic in the creation, transmission and reception of popular dance and music. The volume provokes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation that includes scholarship from Asia, Europe and the United Stat...

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Parasitic Disease in Clinical Practice is the sixth monograph to appear in the now established and flourishing Bloomsbury Series in Clinical Science. Written by a distinguished authority in the field, the book gives a comprehensive and detailed description of parasitic infections and their clinical consequences. Such infections are no longer confined to tropical parts of the world and now have a widespread distribution. Rapid advances are bein...

On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Quotations from Chairman Mao, this edited volume is the first to examine the Little Red Book as a global historical phenomenon, challenging established ideas about the book and re-examining the history of the twentieth-century world.

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Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval Rowley poems, in particular, engendered a renewed fascination ...

Waking in a hospital bed with her leg in a cast, the last six weeks of Jill's life are a complete blank . . . All she knows is what she's been told: while in Italy on a school trip she was involved in a fatal accident and had to be jetted home to receive intensive care. Care that involves a lawyer. And a press team. Because maybe the accident . . . wasn't just an accident. If you can't remember what happened, how can you be sure you're not to ...

Fully annotated edition of a Cambridge student's notebook from the seventeenth century sheds important light on developments in philosophy during the period, as well as on the structure and content of a university education.

This is the first academic account of the most famous trial in Chinese history - the Gang of Four trial of Madame Mao and other radical leaders. This spectacular show trial was also a curious example of transitional justice in a socialist context, marking the transition to the contemporary era of reform and opening.

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Custom Curriculum allows you to address the issues that students face in today's world in a way that can be fully customized to be a perfect fit for your group.

The locked room mystery is one of the iconic creations of popular fiction. Michael Cook's critical study reveals how this archetypal form of the puzzle story has had a significant effect in shaping the immensely popular genre of detective fiction. The book includes analysis of texts from Poe to the present day.

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Essex was a busy small town in 1812. The town, then called Potopaug after an Indian tribe, was located six miles up the Connecticut River from the Long Island Sound. The town's main business was shipbuilding and many vessels were ready to fight against the British Navy and the embargo it forced upon the Americans The British had heard about the ships waiting to be launched and were determined to prevent this from happening. Was there a spy who...

Daily Grace" is a fresh collection of daily reflections to help readers uncover God's presence, power, and provision for living life purposefully and gracefully. An inspiring scripture, encouraging quote, and profound grace principle accompany each affirming devotion.

Spirituality, Theology and Mental Health provides reflections from leading international scholars and practitioners in theology, anthropology, philosophy and psychiatry as to the nature of spirituality and its relevance to constructions of mental disorder and mental healthcare. Key issues are explored in depth, including the nature of spirituality and recent debates concerning its importance in contemporary psychiatric practice, relationship ...

It is Unputdownable!&rdquo, -Rev. Dawn Linder "Compassion is indeed not pity, it is to believe in and live by justice. Rev. Bob Cook's life and ministry, in so many ways, offers the proof necessary to live by the only life that counts-compassion: 'to suffer with.' To speak with Bob about those in need and to have been given the grace, even for a short while, to serve alongside him offers all of us a lesson in the only life worth living. As Bob...

It is Unputdownable!&rdquo, -Rev. Dawn Linder "Compassion is indeed not pity, it is to believe in and live by justice. Rev. Bob Cook's life and ministry, in so many ways, offers the proof necessary to live by the only life that counts-compassion: 'to suffer with.' To speak with Bob about those in need and to have been given the grace, even for a short while, to serve alongside him offers all of us a lesson in the only life worth living. As Bob...

A wartime spy thriller of betrayal, vengeance and obsessive love from 'One of the finest American thriller writers' (Daily Mail)