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This volume brings together a range of work by leading writers in the field and engages with the comparative dimensions of shame, blame, and culpability and their fundamentally important impact upon modern multicultural states. Tracing use, abuse, and negotiation between the 17th and 20th centuries in a number of different geographical locations, this book forms a part of the movement within criminal and legal history to turn the focus away fr...

This text breaks new ground in giving voice to the perspectives of some of those who have been relatively neglected in the traditional narratives of foreigners' role in Republican China.

Through focusing on the unintended by-products of New England Puritanism as a cultural transplant in the Levant, this book explores the socio-historical forces which account for the failure of early envoys' attempts to convert the 'native, ' population

Clarifying and verifying the role sport has as an alternative marker in understanding and mapping memory in Japan, this book shows how memories and counter-memories of (sport) moments, places and heroes constitutes an inventory for identity.

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This volume offers an overview of the various new security challenges that have emerged in the global environment in the post-Cold War era. It aims to familiarise readers with the emerging theories and themes in international security studies.

Using the comparative axes of political economy and cultural legacy, this book demonstrates the international commonalities and differences in access to and activation of social capital in China, the US and Taiwan.

Provides an up-to-date, definitive 'how-to' reference for the diagnosis and management of fractures of both the shoulder and elbow joints.

This title examines and describes the Council of Ministers committee system and its internal decision-making process. It investigates the extent to which bureaucrats in working parties and committees make legislative decisions in the EU and the implications of this for the democratic legitimacy of Council decision-making.

Today, undergraduate students are more familiar with others cultures than ever before because of the media, Internet, local diversity, and their own travels abroad. As such, traditional intercultural communication textbooks which focus solely on the 'differences' approach aren't truly effective for today's students, nor for this area's growth.By including a social constructionist approach - which explores how culture is constructed and produce...

This book deals with the growth of cinema-going in Scotland in an extended scholarly manner, integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history.

By scrutinising the philosophical and theoretical assumptions of proponents of nonviolent political action, for example the role of the state, the rule of law and the nature of social and political power, Ian Atack establishes nonviolence as a credible theme within Western political thought.

Explores the impact of the ethnographic method on the representation of Islam in anthropology.

A revealing portrait of Medieval Arab notions of physical difference, this book uses close analysis of primary sources to bring to light cultural views and lived experiences of disability and difference.

Caused by a rising mass customisation and the high variety of equipment versions, the flexibility of manufacturing systems in car production has to be increased.In this thesis a skill-based reconfiguration mechanism is presented to enhance functional reconfigurability of industrial mobile robots. A novel reconfiguration mechanism allows to react self-organised to functional process changes. The result of this mechanism is the on-line integrati...

A child tells of seeking the perfect one to add to a family of three, and after trying various pets discovering that a baby is the perfect fit.

Share timeless wisdom with your children in these classic fables of Aesop, wonderfully illustrated with fabulous animal characters by Barbara McClintock.Nine timeless fables, first told by the Greek Aesop, selected, adapted, and illustrated by Barbara McClintock. This read-aloud collection includes such familiar tales as "The Fox and the Grapes" and the lesser-known "The Wolf and the Lamb" and "The Crow and the Peacocks."Each fable is brought ...

The 1877 text and translation of records from Richard II's Irish Council during the late fourteenth century.

Published 1863-7, the records of St Peter's, Gloucester, shed valuable light on the economy of a large medieval abbey.

First published in 1867, this is a translation, with scholarly introduction and notes, of a valuable Middle Irish chronicle.