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Those on Crusade needed their interests at home to be protected, this volume looks at how this could be achieved, in both theory and practice.

Brings together leading thinking on issues of new professional practice and on the future of a sustainable built environment This book focuses on both construction and development issues, and examines how we can transition to a sustainable future by the year 2050--bringing together leading research and practice at building, neighbourhood, and city levels. It deftly analyses how emerging socio-economic, technological, and environmental trends ...

The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself declines or thrives under President Trump's leadership, the post-war liberal international order underpinned by US military, economic and ideological primacy and supported by global institutions serving its power and purpose, is coming to an end. But what will take its place? A Chinese world order? A re-constituted form of American hegemony? A regionalized system of global coop...

The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself declines or thrives under President Trump's leadership, the post-war liberal international order underpinned by US military, economic and ideological primacy and supported by global institutions serving its power and purpose, is coming to an end. But what will take its place? A Chinese world order? A re-constituted form of American hegemony? A regionalized system of global coop...

The most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 1520-1680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides students with a deep appreciation for, and sensitivity toward, the ways in which poets of the period understood and fashioned a distinctly vernacular voice, whi...

Gething's journey from self-professed couch potato to competitor in the World Marathon Challenge, in which seven marathons occur across seven continents over the course of a week, is related intimately here.

Revised edition of the author's Elite deviance, c2008.

Le colloque organisé les 2-3 mai 2014 à l'Université de Genève avait pour but de donner une vue d'ensemble des connaissances sur les rites liés aux portes ou la ritualisation des passages à travers les portes dans l'Antiquité, plus précisément en Egypte, en Mésopotamie, en Anatolie, en Grèce et dans le monde biblique. Conçu sur deux journées, le colloque donnait d'une part la parole aux jeunes chercheurs de l'Université de Genève, d'autres par...

One little elephant learns that a parent's love is unconditional in this board book adaptation of Dodd's beloved picture book. Full color.

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Covers the theory and practice of innovative new approaches to modeling acoustic propagation There are as many types of acoustic phenomena as there are media, from longitudinal pressure waves in a fluid to S and P waves in seismology. This text focuses on the application of computational methods to the fields of linear acoustics. Techniques for solving the linear wave equation in homogeneous medium are explored in depth, as are techniques for...

This book examines the contemporary reaction against the establishment or `the system¿ in terms of a new divide between those who wish to see an interconnected world, and those who seek distance through protectionism and opposition to immigration. An analysis that draws on the notion of `face¿ to explore reactions to processes such as automation and globalisation, the author considers people¿s new conception of themselves as networked individu...

Essays demonstrating the importance and inflence of Italian culture on medieval Britain.

The first regional history of music in England.

The final section of the Montpellier Codex analysed in full for the first time, with major implications for late-medieval music.

An intriguing insight into the politics of gender, family and religion in Elizabethan England.

This volume arises from a tradition of realism, both philosophical and political, a universe in which the common sense understanding of things is included in our judgement about them. The scope is both vast and narrow - vast because it is aware of the reality of things, narrow because it is the individual person who can and wants to know them.

Königin Marie-Antoinette begeisterte sich für seine so präzisen wie anmutigen Blumenbilder ebenso wie Josephine Bonaparte: Unbeirrt von den Wirren der Französischen Revolution, fertigte Pierre-Joseph Redouté Hunderte von Blumentafeln an, die ihn zum legendären Doyen der Blumenmalerei machten. Die handkolorierten Stiche dieses Bandes beschwören die Schönheit und Pracht längst vergangener Pariser Gärten und Gewächshäuser herauf.

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