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Business is increasingly interested in responding positively to environmental issues in the 1990s. The nature of this response deserves closer academic attention because it influences not only business operations, but also the wider context of policy, public opinion and environmental concern. Environmental Issues and Business details the dimensions of the business response to environmental issues by taking a critical social science perspective...

Many authors who discuss the idea of globalization see it as continuing pre-established paths of development of modern societies. Post-modernist writers, by contrast, have lost sight of the importance of historical narrative altogether. Martin Albrow argues that neither group is able to recognize the new era which stares us in the face.

∗ Comprehensive and original re-examination of democratic thought and the subject of direct democracy - the direct involvement of citizens in politics. ∗ Unlike most previous discussions on the subject, author argues that direct democracy is now feasible for a mass society in light of new developments in communication.

∗ The first systematic study of the consequences of new media technologies for questions of access and regulation. ∗ Criticises orthodox views of the Left and Right about media and communication policies. ∗ Develops a major new framework for policy makers with regard to the media in the UK and elsewhere.

Believing that educational progressivism has overestimated the power of rationality and repressed any understanding of unconscious mental processes, the author uses psychoanalysis to explore the constitution of the human subject within an educational setting.

First published in 1915, Old Calabria is one of the most comprehensive and exciting accounts of adventure travel in this century. Captivated by the cheerfully pagan quality of the mezzogiorno, as he understood it, Douglas plunged into Calabria, the southernmost and most backward part of Italy (a province that was still largely devoid of any form of modern amenity). He endured extremes of climate, scaled mountains, rode in rickety carriages dri...

The focus of this book is the unknown George Grant, namely, the philosophic, religious, and artistic inspiration behind his well-known public postions.