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A historical account and comprehensive assessment of the factors surrounding the referendum on an elected assembly in the North-East region of England, in November 2004. -- .

This book is the first comprehensive survey of the Irish state, its history and evolution, its nature and its role in Ireland's recent economic boom. Containing contributions from some of the leading authorities on the subject, it offers an in-depth analysis of a state widely seen as a model of success in this globalised era. -- .

This book seeks to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of a society in the process of transition between war and peace. -- .

Social movements and Ireland is an innovative new text which aims to provide a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of collective action in Irish society. -- .

Focuses on the business of the event film, and includes chapters on techniques and meanings ranging from music to spirituality. This title offers essays on multimedia products associated with the films. It also contains a dossier of reviews, interviews, production details and box-office returns.

A fascinating and revealing set of essays discussing the career and films of Luc Besson, one of the most acclaimed figures in international cinema -- .

The Hidden Alternative will be of interest to students and academics studying economic, business studies, history or politics, and also to policy-makers who have witnessed the inadequacies of investor-led business models during the global recession. -- .

A lavishly illustrated, expertly written and perspicaciously edited volume that showcases one of the oldest continually-evolving academic library collections of the Anglophone world. From papyri to modern first editions, Renaissance portraits to C20th abstracts, this book will be a benchmark in academic publishing. -- .

This book gives a picture of a year's activities at the Theatre des Varietes. It includes an account of the financial side of the Theatre, impressions of the principal actors and actresses, as well as a month by month overview of what was actually performed. -- .

Examines the extent to which semi-presidentialism has affected the process of democratization in Central and Eastern Europe since the early 1990s -- .

A major multi-disciplinary portrayal and analysis of the often overlooked Protestant tradition in Ireland. -- .

Spanning a range of practices including kinetic art, happenings, environments, performance, installations, relational and new media art from the 1950s to the present, this critical anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when you - the viewer - are invited to 'do it yourself.' -- .

Saramago's labyrinths focuses on both the form and the content of Saramago's writing, paying particular attention to Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness) and Todos os Nomes (All the Names). -- .

Provides the definitive account of why and how Labour introduced citizenship education as a compulsory subject in the National Curriculum. -- .

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the agency phenomenon in the European Union. It takes stock of the emergence and development of EU agencies, providing insight into the characteristics as well as the consequences of the ongoing EU agencification process. -- .

In this volume, eighteen experts from a variety of academic backgrounds explore the use of songs in films from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. This volume illustrates how - rather than simply helping to tell the story of - songs in Hispanic and Lusophone cinema commonly upset the hierarchy of the visual over the aural, thereby rendering their hearing a complex and rich subject for analysis.Screening songs... constitutes a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary collection. Of particular interest to scholars and academics in the areas of Film Studies, Hispanic Studies, Lusophone Studies and Musicology, this volume opens up the study of Hispanic and Lusophone cinema to vital, new, critical approaches. The soundtracks of films as varied as City of God, All About My Mother, Bad Education and Buena Vista Social Club are analysed alongside those of lesser known works that range from the melodramas of Mexican cinema's golden age to Brazilian and Portuguese musical comedies from the 1940s and 1950s. Fiction films are studied alongside documentaries, the work of established directors like Pedro Almodóvar, Carlos Saura and Nelson Pereira dos Santos alongside that of emerging filmmakers, and performances by iconic stars like Caetano Veloso and Chavela Vargas alongside the songs of Spanish Gypsy groups, Mexican folk songs and contemporary Brazilian rap.

Looks beyond the sound and fury of the 2010 British general election campaign in search of the deeper causes and long-term consequences of the poll, placing the election in a broader context. -- .

This anthology of original sources from c.1400 to 1650, translated from Italian or Latin, is a companion to the authors Women in Italy, 1340-1650. Ideals and Realities, though it can be read independently. These texts, mostly unfamiliar and often vivid, deal with women’s involvement in the visual arts and material culture of their day. The documents are from inventories, letters, diaries, wills, artists’ contracts, and more formal treatises or poetic works. Each section has a general introduction to the broader context and issues. Short introductions precede each text.Advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and lecturers in art history or Italian studies, will deepen their understanding of the relationship between women, artists and the visual arts in early modern Italy. This book will be an essential aid for a class discussion and further research.Part I deals with the material environments which women inhabited, their living quarters and contents, and women’s appearance outside the home, on everyday occasion, and in lavishly orchestrated spectacles. Part II examines women as agents, commissioning, supervising or bequeathing ambitious architectural projects. The commissioning and acquisition of painting and sculptures also show the reader the significance of different types of art for patronesses and intended audiences. Part III looks at women’s religious devotion, and the role played in it by buildings, paintings and objects. Part IV enables the reader to enter the working lives of female artists and the little-explored topic of how women authors of the time wrote about real or imaginary artefacts.

How should we respond to the inhumanity that suffused the 20th Century and continues in the present one? Has there been an adequate treatment of this issue by the political left? Questions such as these are treated in this, the first scholarly book to combine academic and blogging approaches to some of the major political issues of the day. -- .

This interdisciplinary book provides a timely analysis of the practical effects and potential limitations of New Labour rhetoric in the area of social justice and will be essentuial reading for anyone with hopes for the development of a more generous and inclusive vision of social justice for the future. -- .

This topical book comprehensively draws together diverse perspectives from key leaders in the field to address critical issues for children in relation to their rights, welfare and protection at a critical time in Ireland. -- .

A collection of essays that are tightly focused around the issue of religion in England between 1640 and 1660, the time of upheaval and civil war in England -- .

In this authoritative book, a number of eminent and respected figures in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology and political activism set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence. -- .

This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate - such as 'society' and the 'individual' - have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real nature of the social world is respected. -- .

One of two volumes of an early seventeenth century play, showing two distinct versions which both have much to commend them. The only editions of the play in print, it was very popular in the early years of the rule of Charles I. Edited and with an introduction. -- .

First collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in their field on one of the most controversial and influential dramatists who emerged during the 'In-Yer Face' generation of British dramatists in the 1990s. Essential, wide-ranging, European guide to Kane for students and scholars of Theatre Studies or English Literature. -- .

A first rate collection of essays on queer Gothic, ranging from 'Frankenstein' to George Eliot, E.M.Forster to Michael Jackson. Provides a chronological investigation of the Gothic from the eighteenth century to the present day and in doing so produces a new way of reading the Gothic tradition. -- .

New and original assessment of the second Labour government 1929-31 with up to date analyses of its policies and politics. -- .

A study of La Mothe Le Vayer's 'Lettre sur la comedie de L'Imposteur'. -- .

First book-length critical work devoted to the impact of the end of empire and traces of imperial memory in mainstream English Literature since the Second World War. Authors studied include Josephine Tey, William Golding, Penelope Lively, David Peace and Ian McEwan. Represents the best of current scholarship. -- .