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Against the background of an increasingly diverse British society, this book traces the evolution of British identity in the twentieth century. Debates exploring the nature of Britishness and multiculturalism are here deconstructed through a linguistic lens, which considers the role played by the English language in shaping Britain's national identity.

The relationships between investors, directors and companies have never been so vital. From discussions with over 100 leading practitioners, detailed studies of 3 leading companies, and an extended case study on investor engagement at Royal Dutch Shell, the author draws a series of ideas and guidance for all of the parties involved.

A comparative European overview focusing upon the main areas of social construction as it relates to health and illness; including an emphasis upon lay beliefs and the different way understandings of health can impact upon health behaviour, examining health knowledge and the interaction and comparison between lay and professional knowledge systems.

As the longest economic boom in history has given way to leaner times, unemployment has re-emerged as a major issue. This theoretically and empirically sophisticated book examines how unemployment takes on widely different political meanings and explores the ways in which governments act to change their own accountability for unemployment.

Prior to liberalization, there was little scope for predatory behaviour in the aviation market

'Collaboration' is a complex cultural and political phenomenon: the combined practice of two or more artists, simultaneously or across time, or the willing (and therefore publicly reprehensible) collusion implied by the term's specifically historical meaning.

Some of Bill Clinton's most basic foreign policy elements are embodied in the US-Russian Highly Enriched Uranium Purchase Agreement, illustrating how successfully the US and Russia could work together to reduce global nuclear fears. This book explains the theory of democratic peace and demonstrates a more advanced nuclear restraint regime.

Within this volume the contributors have included a wide range of journal essays that consider the impact of climate change on specific sectors; goods and services; the costs and benefits of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation; and policy design for mitigation, including both domestic instruments and issues related to international agreements.

Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800-2000 addresses the changing nature of individualism and public service in the 19th and 20th centuries, and consists of a collection of essays authored by senior figures in economic, social, cultural and educational history.

Using a unique analytical framework based on host-stranger relations, this book explores the response of cities to the arrival and settlement of labour immigrants. Comparing the local policies of four cities - Paris, Amsterdam, Rome and Tel Aviv.

The rural market in China is the venue where 60% of the country's 1.3 billion inhabitants buy and sell necessities and agricultural products, and a key area of conflict between government control and liberalization policies. This book focuses on how China's rural market has changed and how this has affected the marketing activities of peasants.

Investigating how circumstances laid out in the landmark English cases of X v. Bedfordshire County Council and Barrett v. Enfield London Borough Council have been dealt with by the European Court of Human Rights and in several key jurisdictions, the book reviews differences in procedure and compares alternate sources of compensation for claimants.

Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer is the first modern book-length study of this important nineteenth-century educational reformer, author, and publisher. Though he made significant contributions during his lifetime to the cause of popular education, providing inexpensive but quality reading material.

Research into ageing and later life has tended to describe old age in relation to society's problems concerning health and social care

Presenting a philosophical exploration of the ideas central to health care practice this book explores such concepts as caring, health, disease, suffering and pain from a phenomenological perspective.

Technology acquisition, consultancy know-how, research data and services, marketing information, intellectual property

The art Bruegel produced between 1559 and 1563 presents a rare opportunity to investigate a concentrated period of productivity by one of the world's greatest artists

Tami A. Jacoby explores the incongruent narratives of Israelis and Palestinians with regards to Israel's security barrier and the policy of unilateral withdrawal. This insightful book offers a multidimensional approach that takes into consideration different sides of the barrier conflict as well as internal divisions.

By studying the negotiations which led to the conclusion of the original Treaty of Rome and the creation of the European Economic Community, this informative book, based on recently released archival sources, analyses the Franco-German bargain which shaped the Community's initial framework and policies.

Many of the most far-reaching shifts in planning regimes have occurred in large-scale, environmentally unique or sensitive regions to protect critical and vulnerable areas; discussed by scholars within, the contemporary challenge of environmental and land use planning devised by regional policies in the US.

Beyond Transition focuses on the economic problems and issues facing Central Europe and the Baltics, the Balkans, and countries belonging to the Commonwealth for Independent States (CIS) in the post-transition context. This focus reflects the need to better understand two processes that are increasingly apparent in the post-communist economic space.

This book brings together a diversity of perspectives on environment and development issues from governments, society and businesses in the Western Hemisphere; reviews specific areas where trade, environment and social policies intersect in the Americas, proposing that more integrated laws could strengthen progress toward sustainable development.

Illustrated by case studies from Europe, North America and the Middle East, this book examines how non-market values can be identified, measured and incorporated into planning evaluation methodologies. The traditional means of assessing planning options, benefit-cost analysis, requires that all effects be expressed in monetary terms and this volume offers alternative approaches.

The definitions for 'marginality' and 'marginal regions' are vague and differ between academic disciplines

This book explains how to find our way through these disputes and shows how we can be freed from assumptions and prejudices which make progress impossible by deeper philosophical insight into the concepts involved. Books about religion usually concentrate on a few central Judaeo-Christian doctrines.

Australian forces have repeatedly stood with American troops fighting common enemies for over 50 years. This study looks at the key factors which, have shaped and applied the aims and aspirations of this mutual defence agreement to the real world of shifting threats, changing strategic balances and the democratic uncertainties of domestic politics.

The 2004 US election provided French citizens and their media with a springboard for re-conceiving 'self' and 'other'. By examining how the French media represented the election from a critical geopolitical perspective, this book provides the first major in-depth study of views of the US in contemporary foreign media.

This book presents an empirical investigation into the attitudes of local planning authorities into the development of offshore wind farms, examining these findings in light of wider debates about the use and management of the seas and the potential contribution of the mechanisms of planning

Epic has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the male literary genius and as an incarnation of patriarchal values

Said to contain the words of the earliest of the biblical prophets (8th century BCE), the book of Amos is reinterpreted by the author in light of new and sometimes controversial historical approaches to the Bible. Amos is read as the literary product of the Persian-era community in Judah.