The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In this book, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickenss imaginat…
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed explor…
This book offers an account of the physical, financial and managerial measures used throughout London to reduce the risk of terrorist attack. It discusses the changing nature of the terrorist threat against global cities in terms of tactics and targeting, examines how terrorism …