This comprehensive dictionary has remained unsurpassed for almost 50 years.
Until 1855, slanderous language was punishable in Britain's ecclesiastical courts. Waddams shows how the law worked not only in theory but in practice. The evidence of the witnesses supplies fascinating details of day-to-day events.
Postcolonial Resistance seeks to redefine resistance to reconnect an analysis of colonial discourse to material structures of colonial exploitation and inequality.
John M. Hill discerns a distinctive 'narrative pulse' arising out of the poem's many scenes of arrival and departure. He argues that such scenes, far from being fixed or 'type' scenes, are socially dramatic and a key to understanding the structural density of the poem.
This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy.
Judith Abwunza provides in this ethnography both the fruit of her research into the lives of Logoli women of Western Kenya and substantial transcripts giving the women's own description and analysis of their situation.
Bridging anthropology, sport studies, and childhood studies, Fields of Play offers a rich understanding of an area that has, to date, garnered relatively little attention by social scientists.
Examines the 'knowledge network' whose primary mandate is to create and disseminate knowledge based on multidisciplinary research that is informed by problem-solving as well as theoretical agendas.
This book introduces a new model for analysing how people negotiate social relations through the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It focuses on SFL’s conception of social context, and the interpersonal component of context known as tenor.
Adult children of Holocaust survivors share honest and deeply personal stories about growing up in the aftermath of survival.... Læs mere
Water is both a human right and a shared duty. Water on Wall Street reveals how smart pricing, sound policy, and responsible markets can secure global water sustainability – keeping taps flowing for all before crisis turns to collapse.
In this urgent investigation of the RCMP’s failures and challenges in both local and national security policing, Kent Roach draws attention to alternatives that may better serve contemporary Canadian needs.