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The Culture of Control charts the dramatic changes in crime control and criminal justice that have occurred in Britain and America over the last 25 years. It explains these transformations by showing how the social organization of late modern society has prompted a series of political and cultural adaptations that alter how governments and citizens think and act in relation to crime. The book presents an original and in-depth analysis of conte...

This is the first detailed analysis of the internal working and the external relationships of the boards of Britain's leading companies. Responding to calls for greater scrutiny of boards, this book presents an in-depth examination of directors of UK public companies, a survey of company secretaries, and four case studies of UK PLCs (BAA, Burmah Castrol, Securicor, and Allied Domecq), finding boards to be important devices in maintaining the s...

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Political Genealogy After Foucault offers a radically new understanding of political freedom. Combining the most powerful elements of Foucault's theories, Michael Clifford produces a methodology for cultural and political critique called "political genealogy" to explore the genesis of modern political identity. At the core of American identity, Clifford argues, is the ideal of the Savage Noble, a hybrid that marries the Native American "savage...

In this book, eighteen contributors look at the way gender is inscribed and reproduced by and through information and communication technologies.

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This invaluable reference provides a comprehensive overview of corrosion and environmental effects on metals, intermetallics, glossy metals, ceramics and composites of metals, and ceramics and polymer materials. It surveys numerous options for various applications involving environments and guidance in materials selection and substitution. Exploring a wide range of environments, including aqueous and high-temperature surroundings, Environmenta...

Globalization has been hailed as removing the need for company location as an issue. However, there remains a strong tendency for some industries to form geographical clusters. This book examines the reasons for this trend.

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The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, contains one of the best and most representative collections of Bronze Age Cycladic art outside Greece. Much of this was acquired by purchase or gift in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the interest of Sir Arthur Evans, the eminent archaeologist, at that time Keeper of the Museum. The first comprehensive, fully illustrated account of the contents of this internationally significant collect...

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This book presents a case study in bilingual acquisition in a child under the age of two and explores the case's implications for language acquisition theory. The data collection methodology is fully discussed, and the book includes an extensive list of the child's words in English and Spanish.

In recent years, national competition laws have become increasingly important, often creating tensions between national-level and European-level regulation. Despite this importance, images of Europe's experience with competition law often remain vague and are sometimes dangerously distorted. This book examines the European experience in protecting competition by analyzing its dynamics, revealing its importance, and highlighting the political a...

Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering and death? Is it because we see horrific matter controlled by majestic art? Or because tragedy actually reaches out to the dark side of human nature? Nuttall's wide-ranging, lively, and engaging book offers a new answer to this perennial question. Writers discussed include Aristotle, Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and Freud.

Cancer causes a quarter of all deaths in England and Wales. There is great professional and public interest in cancer trends, but no satisfactory source to which to turn to find information about these trends and explanation of them. It is even more difficult to know where to turn forinformation on trends in factors causing cancer. This book presents new analyses that bring together for the first time, data on cancer trends in the country sinc...

Spektakuläre Fortschritte prägten die Chemie des 20. Jahrhunderts, wobei auch revolutionäre Theorien stimulierend auf die Wissenschaft einwirkten. Trotz der rasanten Entwicklung der Chemie im 20. Jahrhundert hat sich die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der zeitgenössischen Chemie nicht in dem Maße angenommen, wie dies zum Verständnis der technisch-industriellen Kultur der Moderne wünschenswert wäre. An der Wende zum neuen Jahrhundert ist es jedoch an ...