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The accessibility and familiarity of a postcard makes it an artistic medium rich with potential for subversion, appropriation or manipulation for ...

Over the past decade, digital tools have radically transformed the design, practice and construction of architecture. But behind the superslick, ph...

Tony T-Rex's Family Album is a humorous history of dinosaurs as told by Earth's last surviving dinosaur, Tony. Tony pens a no-holds-barred family h...

Photo Adventures is an activity book by photographer and professional fun-maker Jan von Holleben, who reveals the secret to bending reality using n...

Originally published in 2006, this book reveals the many harms which flow across the ever-more porous sovereign borders of a globalising world. The...

This 2007 book considers how agencies are currently figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reco...

Governments in recent decades have employed public disclosure strategies to reduce risks, improve public and private goods and services, and reduce...

Product Description New Anatomies, Grace of Mary Traverse, Our Country's Good, Love of a Nightingale & Three Birds Alighting on a Field Book ...

The most controversial and newsworthy plays of British theatre are a rash of rude, vicious and provocative pieces by a brat pack of twentysomething...

Someday soon (if it hasn't happened in secret already), the first cloned human being will be born and mankind will embark on a scientific and moral...

In 1980, the United Nations Convention for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) came into being as an attempt to create a uniform commercial sale...

Adaptive signal processing (ASP) and iterative signal processing (ISP) are important techniques in improving receiver performance in communication ...

This 2006 book was born as an international tribute to Fiorenzo C. Ugolini, an outstanding soil scientist, now retired from university teaching and...

The relationship between science, law and justice has become a pressing issue with US Supreme Court decisions beginning with Daubert v. Merrell-Dow...

This is the first law book devoted entirely to the subject of truth commissions. The book sets forth standards of procedural fairness aimed at prot...

This book was first published in 2005. Faced with a systemic financial sector crisis, policymakers need to make difficult choices under pressure. B...

International criminal law has developed considerably in the last decade and a half, resulting in a complex and re-invigorated discipline. This has...

The interdisciplinary nature of bioinformatics presents a research challenge in integrating concepts, methods, software and multiplatform data. Alt...

The market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has served as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted gu...

How can an escalation of conflict lead to negotiation? In this systematic study, Zartman and Faure bring together European and American scholars to...

Rescuing Science from Politics debuts chapters by the nation's leading academics in law, science, and philosophy who explore ways that the law can ...

The countries of Central Europe in the first round for admission to the European Union have all established constitutional, electoral democracies a...

This book contains perspectives of world-renowned scholars from the fields of law, economics, and political science about the relationship between ...

Are political understandings of bureaucracy incompatible with Weberian features of administrative neutrality? In examining the question of whether ...

Based on the subjects from the Clay Mathematics Institute/Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Workshop titled 'Recent Progress in Dynamics' in...

Medieval discourses of masculinity and male sexuality were closely linked to the idea and representation of work as a male responsibility. Isabel D...

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban socia...

The holy sites in Jerusalem exist as objects of international veneration and sites of nationalist contest. They stand at the heart of the Israeli-P...

The year 2006 marked the two hundredth anniversary of John Stuart Mill's birth. Though his philosophical reputation has varied greatly, it is now c...

This 2006 book provides a fully annotated discussion of the ethical universe surrounding state-mandated and private legal disputes involving the cu...

Economic conditions are said to affect election outcomes, but past research has produced unstable and contradictory findings. This book argues that...

Procedural sedation and analgesia represents one of the great advances in the maturation of emergency medicine as a discrete speciality within medi...

A common literary language linked royal absolutism to radical religion and republicanism in seventeenth-century England. Authors from both sides of...

This 2006 book treats two vital public policy issues: how should distributions from individual accounts be regulated, and how can the market for pr...

This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and ...

This 2006 book is based on two longitudinal studies of behavior development, both conducted in Finland, a living laboratory setting for longitudina...

International financial centres have come to represent a major economic stake. Yet no historical study has been devoted to them. Professor Cassis, ...

This 2007 book assists the practitioner seeking to enforce a foreign judgment in the United States or a US-rendered judgment abroad in navigating t...

Marriage and the Economy explores how marriage influences the monetized economy as well as the household economy. Marriage institutions are to the ...

An anthology of schemes, stories and ideas which people have dreamt of as Utopia. Provides a picture of the hopes and desires of the age in which e...

In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of English theatre. This volume includes some of the early plays which launched his ca...

This second collection of John Osborne's dramatic work includes The Entertainer, The Hotel in Amsterdam, West of Suez and Time Present. 'A lifelo...

A new edition of the first volume of the collected plays of Steven Berkoff. It includes East, West, Greek, Sink the Belgrano!, Massage, Lunch, The ...

A magnificent, semi-autobiographical sequence from a Nobel Prize-winning poet, Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissa...

Product Description Towards the end of his life the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote nearly four hundred poems in French - notably...

Product Description The author is committed to psychoanalysis as part of a wider cultural conversation, and this unique collection of essays on a...

It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success, and its production history since it was first performed in 1960 has establish...

A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons - which is cracking at the ...