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The Sunna and Shi'a in History
Division and Ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Sunni-Shi'i relations have undergone significant transformations in recent decades. In order to understand these developments, the contributors to the present volume demonstrate the complexity of Sunni-Shi'i relations by analyzing political, ideological, and social encounters between the two communities from early Islamic history to the present.
by Professor William S. Maltby
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
At its peak the Spanish empire stretched from Italy and the Netherlands to Peru and the Philippines. Its influence remains very significant to the history of Europe and the Americas. Maltby provides a concise and readable history of the empire's dramatic rise and fall, with special emphasis on the economy, institutions and intellectual movements.
Mary I
Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
This book explores the gender politics of the reign of Mary I of England from her coronation to her funeral and examines the ways in which the queen and her supporters used language, royal ceremonies, and images to bolster her right to rule and define her image as queen.
A Monarchy of Letters
Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This book examines Elizabeth's correspondence with several significant rulers, analyzing how her letters were constructed, drafted and presented, the rhetorical strategies used, and the role these letters played in facilitating diplomatic relations.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Confronting the issue of the unacceptable as a social category, this collection of international essays provides distinctive perspectives on the theme of what is deemed socially acceptable. The book reveals the ways category of the unacceptable reflects sexual, racial and political fault-lines of a society.
The Spaces of Organisation and the Organisation of Space
Power, Identity and Materiality at Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
This book examines the role and utilization of workplace 'space': how it is organized; how it can reflect organisational values; how it can affect employee identities; and the many ways in which the physical environment can influence and affect organisational goals, especially in areas such as commitment, creativity and innovation.
Performing Site-Specific Theatre
Politics, Place, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
This book investigates the expanding parameters for site-specific performance to account for the form's increasing popularity in the twenty-first century. Leading practitioners and theorists interrogate issues of performance and site to broaden our understanding of the role that place plays in performance and the ways that performance influences it
Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance
Inside/Outside Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Discussing crises through diverse examples, including the UK's National Theatre, public art installations, Occupy LSX, repatriation ceremonies and performances of the everyday, this book asks how performance captures and resists what is considered (politically, ideologically, culturally or socially) 'inside' or 'outside' Europe.
Against Caste in British Law
A Critical Perspective on the Caste Discrimination Provision in the Equality Act 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This book discusses the salience of the caste question in UK law. It provides the background to how the caste provision came into the Equality Act 2010 and how it was reinforced in 2013, and analyses the various interests that played a role in getting caste into law.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Since September 11, 2001, long-standing debates over the nature and proper extent of executive power have assumed a fresh urgency. In this book eleven leading scholars of American politics and political theory address the idea of executive power.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
This new study of Tudor international relations is the first in nearly thirty years. Adopting a fresh approach to the subject, this lively collection presents the work of a team of established and younger scholars who discuss how the Tudor monarchs made sense of the world beyond England's shores. Taking...
The French Queen’s Letters
Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
A fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry that imbued the French and English courts.
Leisure and Positive Psychology
Linking Activities with Positiveness
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book explores, from a leisure studies perspective, the central role that leisure has to play in positive psychology, exploring themes such as flow, fulfilment, altruism, well-being, and interpersonal relationships.
Greece, Financialization and the EU
The Political Economy of Debt and Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The debt crisis in Greece has sparked lively debates about the origins of the crisis and policy measures to be adopted in order to fix it. The authors offer the first original and comprehensive narrative on Greece.