This exciting new and original collection locates dance within the spectrum of urban life in late modernity, through a range of theoretical perspectives. from set dancing to ballroom dancing, to hip hop and swing, and to ice dance shows;
A topical study of regional arrangements covering ASEAN, SAARC and APEC in Asia, NAFTA and MERCOSUR in the Americas, SADC, SACU and ECOWAS in Africa, and the European Union, EFTA and Eastern Europe.
This highly readable and up-to-date history provides an informative critique of the causes and consequences of the modern agricultural... Læs mere
The Concept of Time deals with tense and tenselessness; time, change and causation. For example, the debate about tenselessness turns out to hinge largely on whether a genuinely... Læs mere
It is a century since Mahan and his disciples taught the world that a battlefleet was indispensable to a great power. Great and not so great powers still keep powerful navies today, but we have no generally-accepted principles to explain why.
Three forms of competition in local government are identified: competition between local authorities, competition between councils and private contractors, and competition between parties for political power.
In this second volume of his Lenin trilogy, Robert Service builds on the approach established in the first. He also details ways whereby Lenin led a... Læs mere
Over seven chapters the book shows how international communication has been shaped by the structure of international political power and how these means of global communication have in turn been strategic tools for the exercise of international political power.
The book studies the social issues related to the status of women in Saudi Arabia and the extent to which Saudi Arabian women actively participate in the development of their... Læs mere
This book argues that while the USA was instrumental in establishing the 'idea' of human rights as a dominant theme in the day-to-day rhetoric of... Læs mere
On the eve of the Pacific war (1941-45), there were 198,000 Japanese in Brazil, the largest expatriate body outside East Asia.... Læs mere
These are some of the questions addressed by Figuring Madness , a study which employs the insights of current post-structuralist psychoanalysis and... Læs mere