The book identifies the emergence and increasing political importance of ecological modernization as a new language in environmental politics.
The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound change brought about by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? Survey of the structure of the publishing field in Britain and the United States…
Charts Imperial Chemical Industries' response to the changing social, political and economic environment of the past twenty years. It examines the evolution of organization structure and culture, technology, and union-management relations within this corporate giant.
The material we call milk is a food that has been reversed and ignored, respected and feared, in almost equal measure. This book is a history of attempts to bring it under control, manipulate its naturally variable composition and, in effect, redraw the boundaries between nature…
This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England between 1440 and 1660, the period of emergent capitalism and rapidly changing prop…
Italian Paintings. Florentine and Tuscan, mid-13th-mid-17th century. Sienese, 14th-mid-16th century. Venetian, mid-14th-early 17th century. Venetian, late 17th-18th century. Lombard, Ligurian, and Piedmontese, 14th-18th century. Emilian and Romagnole, 14th-mid-17th century. Roma…
This guide provides an introduction to the great diversity of freshwater invertebrates and the means to identify the many different types, from flatworms to beetles. A series of easy-to-follow keys, along with notes on ecology and distribution, allow identification of the more c…
"Reporting War examines the nature of contemporary war reporting in a range of locales, including Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East - especially Iraq - and southern Asia. The contributors, both practising and former journalists and leading academics, consider issues including…