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Examines the role consumption plays in Japanese lives. The text examines the research of a Japanese think-tank which was established to study consumer behaviour. It explores the patterns of change that are uniquely Japanese and those that are shared by consumers in other advanced industrial nations

About the Series Contemporary philosophy of science combines a general study from a philosophical perspective of the methods of science, with an inquiry, again from the philosophical point of view, into foundational issues that arise in the various special sciences. Methodological philosophy of science has deep connections with issues at the center of pure philosophy. It makes use of important results, for example, in traditional epistemology,...

Contributors address the central themes of Tunstall's work: the operation of media policy and the relationship between media and government, and the sociology of labour in the media industry.

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A collection of poetry, ranging in both form and subject matter.

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Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and...

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Following QCA's new Scheme of Work for Primary Science, this series takes a sequential development through the primary curriculum for science. The pupil books concentrate on content and comprehension questions, the copymasters offer classroom activities and homework. The series should sell equally well overseas, because of its accessibility and emphasis on progression from age 5 through to age 11.

Brings to public knowledge information about the effects of psychological trauma and bereavement on children.

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In 1820 a sperm whale rammed and sank the Nantucket whaling ship Essex. These are the original memoirs of members of the crew and their captain about the incident and the epic three month journey of the survivors to safety that followed.

Featuring worked examples covering a wide range o of environmental topics, drawings and icons, chapter summaries, a glossary of statistical terms and a further reading section, this book provides an invaluable student friendly introduction.

Critical assessment of the complete range of sustainable energy technologies for policy-makers and advanced students.

This reader collects some of the most important essays on the relationship between culture and music. The topic has received enormous attention over the last few decades, transforming musicology throughout much of the Western world. The essays examine the connections between music and such diverse areas as language, the body, class, production, and consumption. Among the contributors are Jacques Attali, John Blacking, Michel Foucault, Lydia Go...

This book adopts a polemical stance. It approaches the problems raised by the media by way of a set of arguments with the two dominant paradigms now current for thinking about the media: post-modernism and Information Society theory. It argues that the media are important because they raise a set of questions that have been central to social and political theory since the Enlightenment.

A major new synthesis and interpretation of findings over the past twenty-five years in biblical archaeology. Thompson's conclusions are sure to spark intense debate.

From birth and adolescence through maturity and old age, our lives are punctuated by sudden medical emergencies and by chronic illnesses, and by encounters with doctors, nurses, and other care-givers. Physicians and patients, operations and cures, suffering and compassion--all are part of thereality of human existence. Now, in a beautifully illustrated volume, R.S. Downie offers a vibrant, kaleidoscopic look at the healing arts, bringing toget...

This is the first complete copy-based record of the English novel at a key moment in its development, during the Romantic era. There are almost 2, 500 separate entries in all, providing accurate researched details of authors, bibliographical composition of books and the whereabouts of surviving copies. It is a valuable record of women's writing: indicating that as much as 60 per cent of fiction written at this time was by female authors.