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Why are climate mitigation and adaptation failing? This book situates climate policy in the cultural history of future-prediction practices. Tracing relations between modelling, epistemology, politics, food security, religion, art and the apocalyptic, its case studies examine how different modes of representing nature and imagining futures are catalysts or obstacles for immediate action.

The book aims at reframing the discussion on the "public sphere, " usually understood as the place where the public opinion is formed, through rational discussion. The aim of this book is to give an account of this rationality, and its serious shortcomings, examining the role of the media and the confusing of public roles and personal identity. It focuses in particular on the role of the theatrical and comical in the historical development of ...

Taking a bio-social approach, this volume bridges critical gaps in the understanding of the daily lives and experiences of adolescents in diverse cultures around the world and provides insights into how interactions between biology, ecology, culture, and social structures influence the patterns of adolescent identity development.

Focusing on dialogic communication theory, science and technology studies, and action research, this volume explores the methodological, epistemological, and ethical conundrums that arise within collaborative research in the dialog between researchers, policy makers, and citizens. It argues that researchers can best deal with the complexities and tensions of collaborative research through reflexive analyses of how "dialogue" and "participation...

This volume focuses on developing a theory of culture that reveals how ideas create and legitimize social inequality, using empirical case studies ranging from automobile design to architecture to compare and critique two of the most influential theories of culture in contemporary sociology. It questions to what extent our culture reflects class inequality, and to what extent our culture masks those inequalities through the sameness of unified...

This book looks at liquidity preference theory and its most important problems, showing how one should understand the role of money in modern monetary economies.

Through a series of incisive and insightful essays by accomplished scholars, this Companion offers readers a new window to the world of Ulysses.

This workbook accompanies the Complete Crime Scene Investigation Handbook. It presents an abridged version of the Handbook, supplying professionals with the most critical points and includes hands-on exercises for practice and skill enhancment. The workbook can be used by law enforcement agencies as a training tool in crime scene investigation and processing, supplementing their experiences in the field.

Art therapists working with a range of ages and neurological conditions including epilepsy, dementia, Alzheimer's, acquired brain injury, motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis, describe the effects of the conditions on clients' functioning and how different art therapy practices have transformed the rehabilitation process.

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This engaging treatment of Aquinas's theory of self-knowledge provides a comprehensive look at a neglected aspect of medieval philosophy, from both a historical and a philosophical perspective. It will be valuable to specialists and advanced students in medieval philosophy, the philosophy of mind and the history of ideas.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Examining the significance of Kant's account of "rational faith, " this study argues that he profoundly revises his account of the human will and the moral philosophy of it in his later religious writings.First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book explores the theory and practice of medieval letter-writing, arguing that the form, proportion and style of letters were contoured by ideology.

Moments of Truth: The Politics of Financial Crises in Comparative Perspective looks at the political repercussions and policy implications of financial crises in comparative perspective, using case studies in Latin America, Korea, and Russia, as well as the contemporary crises in the US and in key European countries. Contributors to this volume look at the crises as critical junctures that generate high levels of uncertainty while calling for ...

Studies of intercultural communication in applied linguistics initially focused on miscommunication, mainly between native and non-native speakers of English. But the advent of the twenty-first century has witnessed a revolution in the contexts and contents of intercultural communication, technological advances such as chat rooms, emails, personal weblogs, Facebook, Twitter, mobile text messaging on the one hand, and the accelerated pace of pe...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Leading international experts and aspiring researchers from the fields of political science and sociology use a range of case studies from North America, Europe and Australia to guide the reader through the complexities of this debate offering an unprecedented comparative examination of public opinion and immigration.