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This anthology is the first such collection to focus on the exclusively philosophical aspects of ecological feminism. It addresses basic questions about the conceptual underpinnings of women-nature' connections, and emphasises the importance of seeing sexism and the exploitation of the environment as parallel forms of domination. Ecological Feminism is enriched by the inclusion of essays which take differing views of the importance and nature ...

Through a reading of the texts of Lyly, Raleigh, Chapman, Spenser and Shakespeare, Berry explores the themes of sexuality and politics, classical myth and Neopatonic mysticism which became associated with Elizabeth I.

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Twelve iconoclastic and eye-opening essays on life and culture.

These are dramatic monologues rooted in New England, but ranging widely over a spectrum of emotions and narrative styles. They speak in the voices of fathers to daughters, sons to mothers, sisters to brothers, and wives to husbands. They are intimate, reflective, and colloquial. They tell stories about how we deal with pain and endure with those we love the most.

In this startling and illuminating book, Leo Rubinfien's "map" is neither precise nor defined by boundaries. It is, rather, a celebration, a book of photographs composed poetically through subjective eyes, a sequence of couplets (here seen as paired photographs) carefully arranged by the hand of an artist.

In his richly perceptive essay, Corboz takes to task previous European analyses of the American city which, he suggests, are little more than reflections of their own old-world bad faith. Using post-modern Los Angeles-the L.A. of contemporary cultural theorists Frederic Jameson and Mike Davis-as the terrain upon which his argument advances, he makes the case for a new city without a center yet united by what he sees as a typically American gre...

In 1821, British Columbia was the exclusive domain of an independent Native population and the Hudson's Bay Company. By te time it entered Confederation some fifty years later, a British colonial government was firmly in place. In this book Tina Loo recounts the shaping of the new regime.

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...an exemplary sociological analysis of American's infatuation with gasoline-powered dreams and how such dreams both fuel and fuse individual identity with that of the nation state.' Peter McLaren, UCLA

An account of the practice, policy and management issues involved in the assessment and treatment of adult and adolescent sexual offenders against children. Written for practitioners from all related disciplines, the text also discusses the potential impact on service providers.

This book is an attempt to tackle the problem of democratization in East-Central Europe from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Its contributors look at the process of change within a comparative framework, discussing the emergence of multi-party and new electoral systems, comparing democratic transition in other parts of the world with that of Eastern Europe and analysing that region's relationship with the Soviet Union.Democratization in...

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Gives a succinct and authoritative account of research into the nature and extent of bullying in schools, evaluating the success of different approaches to the problem.

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This book presents essays on the best known film, television and video versions of Shakespeare's plays.

Field's Nocturnes & Other Short Piano Pieces are published within the 'Signature' Series, a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works, prepared from original sources by leading scholars. Includes informative introductions and performance notes.

Most people today know their "star-sign", but few know much of the system of thought which relates human destiny to the stars, or of its origins. Winner of the 1993 Routledge Ancient History Prize, this book reveals the importance of astrology in ancient thought, morals, politics and daily life.

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