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Globalization and Work challenges conceptions of globalization as a project orchestrated by governments, multinational companies and international agencies.

Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.

This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades.

Film and the Emotions explores the complicated relationship between filmed entertainment, such as movies and television shows, and our capacity to feel emotions. This volume of The Midwest Studies in Philosophy covers topics such as the role of imagination in our capacity to respond emotionally to films, how emotions felt in response to films relate to emotions felt about real events, and the moral implications of responding emotionally to fictions, among others. This collection includes nineteen original articles from experts on film and emotion, including Noel Carroll, Gregory Currie, Susan Feagin, Stacie Friend, Robert Hopkins, Peter Lamarque and Peter Goldie, Derek Matravers, Carl Plantinga, and Murray Smith.

The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the 19th century. Today there are many who still believe that this progression was part of a European miracle that underlay the rise to global supremacy of the West. This book dismantles this Eurocentric view of the world.

Nutrition plays a crucial role in supporting patients receiving treatment for cancer. Carefully considered nutritional options can help to manage patients with weight loss and cachexia, support the patient's ability to recover from surgery and cope with treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defence, including defence against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defences, and constitutive and inducible defences.

The material of this book will derive its scientific under-pinning from basics of mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, engineering, soil science, and related disciplines and will provide sufficient breadth and depth of understanding in each sub-section of hydrology.

Stroke is the most common cause of adult disability and is of increasing importance within ageing populations. This brand new title in the ABC series covers the entire patient journey, from prevention through to long-term support.

This liquid modern world of ours, like all liquids, cannot stand still and keep its shape for long. Everything keeps changing - the fashions we follow, the events that intermittently catch our attention, the things we dream of and things we fear.

Blog Theory offers a critical theory of contemporary media. Furthering her account of communicative capitalism, Jodi Dean explores the ways new media practices like blogging and texting capture their users in intensive networks of enjoyment, production, and surveillance.

Media power in the global era has to do with how people understand the world, their place in it, and their relation to the others who populate it. Making connections with distant places and people is the work of cosmopolitan imagination, which involves seeing the world through the eyes of others.

Michel Agier is an excellent French anthropologist who works on an extremely important topic: refugees and refugee camps.

Antonio Negri is an internationally famous political thinker. The book consists of nine letters on art written by Negri, about his conception of art in the postmodern world.

With around 645 million people expected to be displaced D by wars and other catastrophes D by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instant by looking at the future of human settlement and migration through the evolution of the city.

Philippines is Helene Cixous's reverie or 'truedreaming' which intertwines Freud's uneasy views on telepathy,autobiographical memories conflating Algeria and Paris, childhoodand adult life, shared with her brother 'Pete', and literaryevocations from Proust and George du Maurier's forgotten novelPeter Ibbetson.

* This book is based on 10 years of research and is widely regarded as an outstanding contribution to sociology. * Pleyers examines the question of how citizens and civil society can contribute to the building of a fairer, sustainable and more democratic co-existence of human beings in a global world.

* Provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history. * Examines the origins and development of the field and elucidates current debates and controversies. * Discusses in a clear manner pitched at undergraduate students the various methods and approaches used by gender historians.

The first volume in a new textbook series from Polity: key themes in family communication. The volumes are designed to introduce key topics in more depth than the standard overview textbook treatment.

* Provides a concise political and sociological introduction to social policy. * Helps readers to grasp the nature of social programs and the political struggles surrounding them. * Takes a broad comparative and historical viewpoint of social policy in the developed world.

* Written by an author of international stature, very well-known in the worlds of sociology and politics and in left-of-centre politics.

* A new volume in Polity s successful War and Conflict in the Modern World series. * Offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes and consequences of sexual violence across a range of conflict zones.

Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psychoanalyst, social and cultural theorist, and novelist, Kristeva's broad interdisciplinary appeal has impacted areas across the humanities and social sciences. S.K.

We spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work. So why is it not taken more seriously? The answer: we take shopping for granted. Indeed, culture can only work by being taken for granted.

* A timely, comprehensive and highly readable survey of one of the most exciting and current areas of media studies. * Aims to be the authoritative textbook, providing a synopsis of the field from breaking news on television through to the impact of electronic and digital media, such as war blogging.

Reading the Bible as Literature provides the ideal entry-point to the process of reading, understanding, and assessing what many recognize to be the important and powerful literature of the Bible. Such reading holds potential for helping students understand literature generally and the Bible in itself.

What does the study of Plato s dialogues tell us about the modern meaning of sex ? How can recent developments in the philosophy of sex and gender help us read these ancient texts anew? Plato and Sex addresses these questions for the first time.

Will help architects, engineers, project managers, facilities managers, surveyors, and contractors 'sell' themselves to prospective clients. Illustrated with plenty of diagrams and checklists. Sets out the seven key aspects of selling and marketing professional services.

The recent literature on whole genome sequences provides abundantevidence for the action of natural genetic engineering inevolution. Discoveries about natural genetic engineering havecoincided with rapid progress in our understanding of epigeneticcontrol and RNA-directed chromatin formation.

Oligonucleotides modulate gene-specific expression within cells and can be used to identify genes involved in diseases. Continuing developments in oligonucleotide research have begun to unleash their potential as therapeutic agents.