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Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 explores the rise of Germany as a nation state and a European power centre, through to the humiliation of the state in the First World War. Covering both domestic and foreign policy, this key text combines historical detail, questions and analysis and evaluation of primary sources.

This book presents a series of debates arising from the housing needs of different EU countries. The authors address key issues by examining in turn: * the consequences of European integration for different housing markets * the impact of the Maastricht Treaty and other policy documents * the social consequences of integration including income distribution, homelessness and marginal housing estates * current housing policy in the Nordic countr...

Modern applications of logic in mathematics, computer science, and linguistics require combined systems composed of different types of logic working together. In this book the author offers a basic methodology for combining--or fibring--systems. The technique shows how to break complex systems into simple components which can be easily manipulated and recombined.

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This book explores member state disparities between demand and supply of subsidies and housing provision within the confines of European integration, demonstrating the complex nature of the issue.

This work explores the difficulties of solving contemporary environmental problems within existing global institutions. It questions guidelines set out in recent influential policy reports, and suggests new agendas for sustainability, industrial ecology, and institutional reform. Including case studies from the USA, Europe and China, this book investigates a wide range of environmental problems presently confronting experts worldwide.

Music in Ancient Greece and Rome" is a comprehensive introduction to the study of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Trajan. John G. Landels offers the first scholarly overview of the practical and performance elements of music, rather than the moral and aesthetic discussion typified by the works of Plato. Illustrated with transcriptions of surviving musical scores, diagrams and line-drawings of instruments and performers, the book ...

This text examines successful and unsuccessful tourism with regard to the marine environment. Providing an overview of the history and development of tourism centred around the marine environment, the author goes on to explore the characteristics of marine tourists.

This book examines the diffusion of flexible automation at a local firm and global level in countries such as Brazil, India, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela.

Bioregionalism is the first book to explain the theoretical and practical dimensions of bioregionalism from an interdiscipinary standpoint, focusing on the place of bioregional identity within global politics.

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This collection of black and white photographs, spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries, brings together all aspects of daily life in Durham and the surrounding areas.

This book recognises the organisational, professional and emotional challenges of social care training, and provides a theoretical framework for training and professional development.

This volume is an up-to-date, highly readable study of the female aspects of religion both in past and present mythologies. It explores the function and nature of goddesses and their cults in many cultures.

This is the first scholarly treatise to tell the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, a monumental collection of drawings and descriptions of plants in mainland Greece and the Balkan Peninsula. Originally described by Diskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Balkan Peninsula were neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists John Sibthorpe and John Hawkins, with the help of illustrator Ferdinand Baue...

This book summarizes the most recent data on the molecular and cellular mechanisms that determine the unique properties of nerve cells-their ability to differentiate, establish connections to each other, and to form the nervous system with its immense capability for receiving, analyzing, and storing information about one's external and internal world. The author underscores the key role of calcium ions in this process, as well as nervous syste...

Drawing on more than 25, 000 uncensored letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides, McPherson shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict.