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In this ground-breaking work Mike F. Keen and Janusz L. Mucha have compiled a complete history of sociology in Central and Eastern Europe in the post-Communist era. Through the autobiographies of ten sociological witnesses from the region, they turn the sociological imagination upon itself. The result is a compelling and revealing account of the struggles, triumphs, and continuing challenges of the sociology and sociologists of Central and Eas...

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This book explores the phenomenon of language change, with a particular focus on the social contexts of its occurrence and its possible motivations, including speakers' intentions and attitudes. Using wide-ranging case studies presenting new or little-known data, Jones and Singh draw a distinction between "unconscious" and "deliberate" change. The discussion on "unconscious" change considers phenomena such as the emergence and obsolescence of ...

What are the essential skills needed to set up and run a successful coaching practice? Coaching is the new growth industry in the UK and coaching as a profession is increasingly becoming an attractive option for motivated professionals. Achieving Excellence in Your Coaching Practice provides a practical and accessible guide to the business skills needed to succeed as a self-employed coach. It focuses on every aspect of setting up and developin...

Of the many family banks founded in Restoration England, Hoare's Bank is the only one that continues - by adapting to the new circumstances of every generation - as an independent partnership. This title reflects the changing face of England over three centuries through the story of a single family.

At what stage of their careers do great artists produce their most important work? In a series of studies that bring new insights and new dimensions to the study of artistic creativity, Galensona (TM)s new book examines the careers of more than one hundred modern painters, poets and novelists to reveal a powerful relationship between age and artistic creativity. Analyzing the careers of major literary and artistic figures, such as CA(c)zanne, ...

The Realm of Reason is a manifesto for a new rationalism in philosophy. Christopher Peacocke develops an original theory of what makes a thinker entitled to form a given belief. The theory is articulated in three principles of rationalism, which together imply that all entitlement has an element that is independent of experience. Peacocke elaborates this rationalism in detail for the classical issues of perceptual knowledge, induction, and the...

This book provides an in-depth focus on new and emerging developments in marketing communication, including advertising, public relations, and sales promotions. Twenty-five of the most prominent contemporary marketing experts from the United States and Europe share their specialized knowledge and views, making this essential reading for anyone interested in keeping pace with the rapidly changing marketing techniques and communication technolog...

This book provides a comprehensive and unified account of the structure and properties of crystalline binary adducts. Perhaps better known as molecular complexes and compounds, these crystals are currently estimated (from molecular recognition studies) to make up one quarter of the world'scrystals, providing evidence for some sort of special attraction between the two components. DNA is perhaps the most famous example but others (hydrates, sol...

How can we understand the relationship between employer and employee? What determines the give and take of such relationships and what happens when they go wrong? This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of what is now the major way of trying to understand the employment relationship - the concept of the psychological contract.

Assessing the formation process of the International Criminal Court (ICC), this study provides a fuller and richer understanding of this institution. Adopting three analytical approaches, the volume draws conclusions about the changing nature of world politics in terms of conflict management, authority, governance and actor relevance.

The innovative work in design, typography, and content of music printer and publisher Ottaviano Petrucci (1446-1539) became the standard by which all following printers measured themselves. He created the defining moment when Italy took the lead in book printing in the Renaissance. This book is a bibliographic study of the output of the Petrucci presses, laying emphasis on the professional career of Petrucci. It includes a detailed study of t...

South-East Asia: A Political Profile is an ideal introduction to the politics of South-East Asia. It introduces the key themes and issues that influence politics in the region, also examining differences and trends. The text looks at methods of achieving power and styles of government and the effect of modernization. It investigates the relationship between authority and legitimacy, and civil and political rights. Other topics include economic...

Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George Prince of Wales and Prince Regent, and her daughter, Princess Charlotte, lived out their lives surrounded by a cast of characters who might have been lifted straight from the pages of some Gothic novel.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

One evening, Colonel Clifton is engrossed in a horror story he was reading, being passionate about tales of ghosts. Soon after the book was finished, Clifton and Miss Partridge's night is troubled by strange goings-on...could the house be haunted? Our friend cannot believe it. So he leads an investigation in order to discover the bad joker...

She links the collecting craze during the romantic era with the subsequent fetishization of romantic poets and their possessions, revealing the extent to which an ongoing fascination with material objects - with Keats's hair and Shelley's guitar, for example - helped to produce an enduring image of these poets as spiritual emissaries of a less materialistic age. In language both witty and idiosyncratic, Pascoe makes the case that the romantic ...

A major new exploration of the history and development of gunpowder weapons in the 15th century based on the artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy.

Unitevi a Topolino, Pippo e ai loro compagni d’avventura e lasciatevi travolgere da questa collezione natalizia di spassose risate. Divertimento a non finire nell’episodio “Paperino, Chip e Chop e i regali di Natale” in cui i nostri amici si fronteggiano in un testa a testa di battute comiche in perfetto clima vacanziero. Entrate poi nella tradizione classica delle feste con un nuovo colpo di coda in compagnia di “Crudelia Natalizia” e del suo...

Marxism in Britain has declined, almost to the point of oblivion, since the Second World War. The Communist Party of Great Britain had more than 50, 000 members in the early 1940s, but less than 5, 000 when it disbanded in 1991. Dissenting and Trotskyist organizations experienced a very similar decline, although there has been a late flowering of Marxism in Scotland. Based on the Communist Party archives at Manchester, "Marxism in Britain exam...