Vague language ('bags of time', 'doing stuff', 'and all that') is an aspect of communicative competence of considerable social importance. This book examines its function. It... Læs mere
The conception of welfare services has changed to consider the more specialized needs of individual users or consumers.... Læs mere
Over the years, Daniel Snowman has interviewed a selection of some of the finest historians alive. This book is an anthology of the resulting critical essays on these writers and their work.... Læs mere
This independent study has already attracted controversy. Containing much fresh evidence, it vividly portrays the Islanders' day-to-day Occupation experiences, whilst exploring - and often refuting - what are today becoming received ideas of a mostly 'shameful' wartime past.
This volume presents the state of the art in terms of stylistic research and application, including EFL and ESL language classroom situations.
Integrating insights from foreign policy analysis, integration theory, and social theory and providing an in-depth analysis of... Læs mere
The first fully comparative empirical analysis of the relationship between education and social cohesion, this book develops a new... Læs mere
Taking Britain and Italy as comparative cases, the author explores the extent to which dominant notions of family life differed in postwar Britain and Italy and the implications this had on the development of family policy in these two countries.
The authors show that with violent conflict in the developing world as the critical issue for the twenty-first century, and conflict prevention a... Læs mere
Despite profound disagreement on whether identities are essential or existential, primordial or constructed, singular or multiple, there is... Læs mere
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have played a major role in focusing policy since their original incarnation in the mid to late 1990s... Læs mere
This study presents, for the first time, a synoptic picture of the future directions in which public policy in EU countries is likely to move based on using... Læs mere