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A Russian Perspective on Theoretical Archaeology The Life and Work of Leo S. Klejn

A Russian Perspective on Theoretical Archaeology The Life and Work of Leo S. Klejn

Both the work and the life of Leo S. Klejn Russia’s foremost archaeological theorist remain generally unrecognized by Western scholars. Until now. In this biography and summary of his work Stephen Leach outlines Klejn’s wide-ranging theoretical contributions on the place and nature of archaeology. The book details-Klejn’s diverse work on ethnogenesis migration Homeric studies pagan Slavic religion homosexuality and the history of archaeology;-his life challenges as a Russian Jewish scholar jailed for homosexuality by the KGB and for his challenges to Marxist dogma;-his key contributions to theoretical archaeology and in particular Klejn’s comparisons between archaeologists and forensic scientists. | A Russian Perspective on Theoretical Archaeology The Life and Work of Leo S. Klejn

GBP 34.99
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Incorrect Thoughts Notes on Our Wayward Culture

Incorrect Thoughts Notes on Our Wayward Culture

In this new volume of political essays and social commentary John Leo offers a lively alternative to the Washington-oriented slant of much political journalism. Rejecting the dry insider's air of knowing punditry Leo's conversational style and acerbic wit engage the reader with his insightful and humorous views of what is going on in education law advertising television the news media language and the various liberation movements that are shaping-and sometimes convulsing-the country. The unifying thread of Incorrect Thoughts is the emergence of Political Correctness and its diffusion throughout American social and cultural life. Most of the media have viewed the rise of PC as a collection of unimportant oddball anecdotes but Leo perceives it as a coherent social movement sweeping through colleges and schools the courts the media the feminist movement and the art world. Its goals are traditional goals of the left-equality inclusion liberation racial justice-but as Leo notes the tactics employed are often less than noble and the contempt for tradition standards and Western culture has grown each year. The new orthodoxy has developed a taste for censorship and coercion. Speech codes and anti-harassment policies are used as weapons to silence and intimidate opponents. Speakers have been shouted down and whole editions of college newspapers stolen to keep students from reading the arguments of conservatives and moderates. Readers will find here judicious and often devastating appraisals of self-esteem and therapeutic trends in education of efforts to revamp history along multicultural lines and of the extremities and absurdities of identity politics among other of the latest fashions in radical chic. Drawing from ideas first presented in his U. S. News and World Report columns Leo charts the political fever of a contentious and disordered period in American society. At the same time his pointed humor long-term perspective and strong moral edge ensures his continuing importance to the debates of our time. This book will interest those who share Leo's concerns as well as those who appreciate models for incisive political commentary. | Incorrect Thoughts Notes on Our Wayward Culture

GBP 42.99
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Mass Spectrometry in Food Analysis

Mass Spectrometry in Food Analysis

The quality and safety of food are crucial for human nutrition. However evaluating the chemical composition of food is challenging for the analyst and requires powerful methods. Chromatography and mass spectrometry (MS) is the gold standard for analyzing complex food samples including raw materials and intermediate and finished products. Mass Spectrometry in Food Analysis covers the MS-based analysis of different aspects of food quality which include nutritional value profile of macronutrients (proteins lipids and carbohydrates) micronutrients (vitamins) and nutraceutical active compounds. Additionally sensory quality flavor food pigments safety and detection of pesticides contact materials veterinary drugs and pharmaceuticals organic pollutants and pathogens are covered. Key Features: Contains the basics of mass spectrometry and experimental strategies Explores determination of macro- and micronutrients Analyzes sensory and nutraceutical food quality Discusses detection of contaminants and proof of authenticity Presents emerging methods for food analysis This book contains an introductory section that explains the basics of MS and the difference between targeted and untargeted strategies for beginners. Further it points out new analytical challenges such as monitoring contaminants of emerging concern and presents innovative techniques (e. g. ambient ionization MS and data mining). Also available in the Food Analysis & Properties Series: Nanoemulsions in Food Technology: Development Characterization and Applications edited by Javed Ahmad and Leo M. L. Nollet (ISBN: 978-0-367-61492-8) Sequencing Technologies in Microbial Food Safety and Quality edited by Devarajan Thangadurai Leo M. L. Nollet Saher Islam and Jeyabalan Sangeetha (ISBN: 978-0-367-35118-2) Chiral Organic Pollutants: Monitoring and Characterization in Food and the Environment edited by Edmond Sanganyado Basil K. Munjanja and Leo M. L. Nollet (ISBN: 978-0-367-42923-2) For a complete list of books in this series please visit our website at: www. crcpress. com/Food-Analysis-Properties/book-series/CRCFOODANPRO

GBP 175.00
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Music and Musicians in Renaissance Rome and Other Courts

Music and Musicians in Renaissance Rome and Other Courts

First published in 1999 the essays that follow have been selected from the author’s writings to explore musical institutions in 15th and 16th century Italy with a detailed focus on the papal choir but with additional comments on Mantua (Mantova) Florence and France. Much of the material which formed the basis of those essays was largely drawn from archives. Richard Sherr explores diverse areas including the Medici coat of arms in a motet for Leo X performance practice in the papal chapel during the 16th century the publications of Guglielmo Gonzaga Lorenzo de’ Medici as a patron of music and homosexuality in late sixteenth-century Italy. | Music and Musicians in Renaissance Rome and Other Courts

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Culturally Mindful Communication Essential Skills for Public and Nonprofit Professionals

Culturally Mindful Communication Essential Skills for Public and Nonprofit Professionals

Intercultural communication is a necessary skill for those who work in the public and nonprofit sectors and yet there is a dearth of literature available to help public and nonprofit professionals develop an ability to effectively communicate interact and lead in a multicultural society. Drawing on research in intercultural communication psychology and public and nonprofit administration Culturally Mindful Communication provides useful strategies for students and practitioners of public service to improve their intercultural communication skills. Topics include: expectations for public and nonprofit professionals in today’s multicultural society frameworks for assessing cultural differences and similarities verbal and nonverbal communication in the intercultural context stereotyping prejudice ethnocentrism microagression and social privilege as barriers for effective intercultural communication key considerations for effective multicultural teams approaches for effective multicultural community engagement and leading with cultural mindfulness. To facilitate student learning several useful pedagogical features are employed throughout the book. The reader follows the stories of two fictional characters – Lavita a cultural coordinator in city government and Leo a program manager at a nonprofit – in their intercultural communication challenges in public and nonprofit sectors. Mini-case stories called ‘cultural moments’ are incorporated to illustrate real-world intercultural communication examples and to invite application of the tools and concepts introduced in the text. Each chapter includes a set of discussion questions designed to build on the intercultural communication challenges of Lavita and Leo and the ‘cultural moments’ as well as activities that can be completed in class or as homework assignments. Designed to offer guidance to both current and would-be public servants Culturally Mindful Communication will be required reading for Public Administration and Public Affairs courses that address diversity and cultural competence as well as for practitioners looking to develop their intercultural leadership and communication skills. | Culturally Mindful Communication Essential Skills for Public and Nonprofit Professionals

GBP 38.99
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Bosnian Authors in a European Window A Comparative Study

Bosnian Authors in a European Window A Comparative Study

The study compares three Bosnian authors with three European titans: The poet Mak Dizdar to Homer the novelist Meša Selimović to Fyodor Dostoevsky and the novelist Ivo Andrić to Leo Tolstoy. The purpose is to move the appreciation of the writing of the most important Bosnian writers of the 20th century closer to the European literary community and to the wholeness of the literary phenomenon. Secondary literature on the Bosnian authors is too narrow focusing on their ethnic heritages and the Balkan milieu in which they write and missing something essential to a critical appreciation of their works. The study creates not only affinities but more importantly amitiés between the authors. The discipline of comparative literature reveals what is missing in the secondary literature namely a vision of the literary universe inclusive and comprehensive. | Bosnian Authors in a European Window A Comparative Study

GBP 48.99
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Giovanni Gabrieli and His Contemporaries Music Sources and Collections

Giovanni Gabrieli and His Contemporaries Music Sources and Collections

For more than three decades Richard Charteris has researched European music sources and collections focusing particularly on late Renaissance England Germany and Italy. This group of essays many concerning previously unknown or unexplored works and materials covers the 16th and early to mid 17th centuries. The studies involve variously 'new' compositions music manuscripts and editions and documents that relate to figures such as the Italians Giovanni Gabrieli Claudio Monteverdi and Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder the Germans Hans Leo Hassler and Adam Gumpelzhaimer as well as the Englishmen John Coprario John Dowland John Jenkins Henry Lawes William Lawes Peter Philips and the French composer Marin Marais. In addition Charteris elucidates contemporary performance practice in relation to works by Gabrieli investigates printed music editions that originated from the Church of St Anna Augsburg and evaluates materials in collections inlcuding ones in Berlin Hamburg Krak³w London Regensburg and Warsaw. | Giovanni Gabrieli and His Contemporaries Music Sources and Collections

GBP 42.99
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Interaction in the Language Curriculum Awareness Autonomy and Authenticity

Interaction in the Language Curriculum Awareness Autonomy and Authenticity

Interaction in the Language Curriculum offers an innovative theory of language education integrating curriculum practice research and teaching. It emphasises the interdependence of knowledge and values and stresses the central importance of learning as a social process. Leo van Lier argues that moral as well as intellectual and practical principles must underlie curriculum development and everyday teaching captured in his triple focus on Awareness Autonomy and Authenticity. In addition to its rich grounding in language education practice the book draws support for his position from diverse sources in sociology philosophy and cognitive science from the work of Bourdieu Giddens Wittgenstein Peirce Vygotsky Bakhtin and Dewey. In the current broadening context of language education this study makes an important contribution to research. It presents a coherent philosophical theory as well as considering practical issues in implementation of a new language curriculum. As such it will be of great benefit to teachers applied linguists and educationalists generally. | Interaction in the Language Curriculum Awareness Autonomy and Authenticity

GBP 130.00
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Clowns In Conversation

Clowns In Conversation

Clowns: In Conversation is a groundbreaking collection of interviews expanded in this second edition to include over 30 of the greatest clowns on earth. In discussion with clown aficionados Ezra LeBank and David Bridel these legends of comedy reveal the origins inspirations techniques and philosophies that underpin their remarkable odysseys. These artists speak candidly about their first encounters with clowning and circus the crucial decisions that carved out the foundations of their style and the role of teachers and mentors who shaped their development. Follow the twists and turns that changed the direction of their art and careers as they explore the role of failure and originality in their lives and performances and examine the development and evolution of the signature routines that became each clown’s trademark. This new edition has been fully updated and expanded bringing in Lila Monti Cristina Marti Leo Bassi Danise Payne Bernice Collins Ketch Robert Dunn Nina Conti Hélène Gustin and Tanja Simma Michelle Matlock Shannan Calcutt and Gardi Hutter. Clowns is a unique and definitive study on the art of the clown exploring their role in the modern world – a fascinating series of discussions for students scholars and teachers of clowning. | Clowns In Conversation

GBP 35.99
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Commercial Culture The Media System and the Public Interest

Commercial Culture The Media System and the Public Interest

American mass media are the world's most diverse rich and free. Their dazzling resources variety and influence arouse envy in other countries. Their failures are commonly excused on the grounds that they are creatures of the market that they give people what they want. 'Commercial Culture' focuses not on the glories of the media but on what is wrong with them and why and how they may be made better. This powerful critique of American mass communication highlights four trends that sound an urgent call for reform: the blurring of distinctions among traditional media and between individual and mass communication; the increasing concentration of media control in a disturbingly small number of powerful organizations; the shift from advertisers to consumers as the source of media revenues; and the growing confusion of information and entertainment of the real and the imaginary. The future direction of the media Leo Bogart contends should not be left to market forces alone. He shows how the public's appetite for media differs from other demands the market is left to satisfy because of how profoundly the media shape the public's character and values. Bogart concludes that a world of new communications technology requires a coherent national media policy respectful of the American tradition of free expression and subject to vigorous public scrutiny and debate. 'Commercial Culture' is a comprehensive analysis of the media as they evolve in a technological age. It will appeal to general readers interested in mass communications as well as professionals and scholars studying American mass media. | Commercial Culture The Media System and the Public Interest

GBP 130.00
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Culture and Civilization Volume 2 Beyond Positivism and Historicism

Culture and Civilization Volume 2 Beyond Positivism and Historicism

This second volume in this new series aims to anchor the 21st century in the tradition of the new to raise methodology into historiography. As the new millennium develops it is becoming evident that science and society are critical pivots in the formation of a larger mosaic of culture and civilization. A tradition has developed and refuses to dissolve under the withering aspect of analysis. Whether flying under the banner of Arthur Lovejoy George F. Kennan Pitirim Sorokin Arnold Toynbee Alexander Solzhenitsyn T. S. Eliot Thorstein Veblen and countless others it has become clear that making sense of the whole and not resting easy with bits and pieces has become the mission of Culture & Civilization. This second volume expands upon the initial efforts to deepen the sense of tradition with outstanding contributions ranging from Charles Murray The Happiness of the People; Peter Watson Ideas: A History of Thought from Fire to Freud; Evan Selinger Ethics and Poverty Tours; Walter A. McDougall American Policy Traditions in the Middle East; Raymond Ibrahim Violence in Judaism Christianity and Islam; Michael Curtis Israel: Land Law and Legitimacy; Marian Tupy Persistent Poverty in Africa; David Ronfeldt and Danielle Varda Cyberocracy Revisited; a retrospective by Leo Alexander on Medical Science under Dictatorship; and a series of brilliant new essays on Wyndham Lewis Jonathan Swift Max Scheler and Thurman Arnold. Culture and Civilization does not embrace idiosyncratic visions of the apocalypse or the end of Western empires. It does attempt to bring together immediate issues and ideas that are substantial and challenging. The essential polarity between democracy and autocracy has now taken on historical dimensions that has now taken on larger deeper dimensions in different political economic and ecological terrain of our day is civilization versus barbarism. This second volume is a sober deeper response to such a challenge. | Culture and Civilization Volume 2 Beyond Positivism and Historicism

GBP 130.00
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Niccolò Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court Politics Patronage and Service in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Niccolò Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court Politics Patronage and Service in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Niccolò Ridolfi (1501–50) was a Florentine cardinal nephew and cousin to the Medici popes Leo X and Clement VII and he owed his status and wealth to their patronage. He remained actively engaged in Florentine politics above all during the years of crisis that saw the Florentine state change from republic to duchy. A widely respected patron and scholar throughout his life his sudden death during the conclave of 1549–50 led to allegations of poison that an autopsy appears to confirm. This book examines Cardinal Ridolfi and his court in order to understand the extent to which cardinalate courts played a key part in Rome’s resurgence and acted as hubs of knowledge located on the fault lines of politics and reform in church and state hospitable spaces that can be analysed in the context of entanglements in Florentine and Roman cultural and political patronage and intersections between the princely court and a more professional and complex knowledge and practice of household management in the consumer and service economy of early modern Rome. Based on an array of archival sources and on three treatises whose authors were closely linked to Ridolfi’s court this monograph explores these multidisciplinary intersections to allow the more traditional fields of church and political history to be approached from different angles. Niccolò Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court will appeal to all those interested in the organisation of these elite establishments and their place in sixteenth-century Roman society the life and patronage of Niccolò Ridolfi in the context of the Florentine exiles who desired a return to republicanism and the history of the Roman Catholic Church. | Niccolò Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court Politics Patronage and Service in Sixteenth-Century Italy

GBP 145.00
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Anarchism as Political Philosophy

Anarchism as Political Philosophy

Reports of people rejecting political authority assaulting it with words and often violent acts are actions that are part of modern life. Anarchism has been considered a dead movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth century but it assumed a renewed and substantial relevance in the late twentieth century. Robert Hoffman points out in his incisive Introduction that anarchists have always been viewed either as foolish idealists or at the other extreme as serious threats to justice and social tranquility. But the editor argues most anarchists have been ordinary people who have shared a singular passion for what they believe to be a just society. To clarify widespread misconceptions about anarchism this volume offers a lively debate on the subject consisting of works by both advocates of anarchism and people who take it seriously but reject it. Represented here in the writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Leo Tolstoy George Bernard Shaw Bertrand Russell and others are different types styles and periods of anarchist writing reflecting a rich variety of thought arising from the anarchist perspective. The essays deal with many of the different strands of anarchists including anarchist attacks on democracy patriotism and military conscription and provide an outline of the movement's tumultuous history. Against these are set pieces that argue anarchism's impossibility and estimate its relevance to social change. The debate format of Anarchism introduces the reader to a fresh perspective and understanding of vital issues of political and social theory and provokes him to examine his own thinking. Looking at both sides of the controversy this volume discourages unquestioning or over-confident opinions. Although the anarchist credo that man can live without government is difficult or impossible for most people to accept as long as we find it difficult to live within the framework of government control the influence and potential appeal of anarchist thought will continue to be felt. | Anarchism as Political Philosophy

GBP 130.00
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Handbook of Dairy Foods Analysis

Handbook of Dairy Foods Analysis

Dairy foods account for a large portion of the Western diet but due to the potential diversity of their sources this food group often poses a challenge for food scientists and their research efforts. Bringing together the foremost minds in dairy research Handbook of Dairy Foods Analysis Second Edition compiles the top dairy analysis techniques and methodologies from around the world into one well-organized volume. Exceptionally comprehensive in both its detailing of methods and the range of dairy products covered this handbook includes tools for analyzing chemical and biochemical compounds and also bioactive peptides prebiotics and probiotics. It describes noninvasive chemical and physical sensors and starter cultures used in quality control. This second edition includes four brand-new chapters covering the analytical techniques and methodologies for determining bioactive peptides preservatives activity of endogenous enzymes and sensory perception of dairy foods and all other chapters have been adapted to recent research. All other chapters have been thoroughly updated. Key Features: Explains analytical tools available for the analysis of the chemistry and biochemistry of dairy foods Covers a variety of dairy foods including milk cheese butter yogurt and ice cream Analysis of nutritional quality includes prebiotics probiotics essential amino acids bioactive peptides and healthy vegetable-origin compounds Includes a series of chapters on analyzing sensory qualities including color texture and flavor. Covering the gamut of dairy analysis techniques the book discusses current methods for the analysis of chemical and nutritional compounds and the detection of microorganisms allergens contaminants and/or other adulterations including those of environmental origin or introduced during processing. Other methodologies used to evaluate color texture and flavor are also discussed. Written by an international panel of distinguished contributors under the editorial guidance of renowned authorities Fidel Toldrá and Leo M. L. Nollet this handbook is one of the few references that is completely devoted to dairy food analysis – an extremely valuable reference for those in the dairy research processing and manufacturing industries.

GBP 205.00
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Sporting Equality Title IX Thirty Years Later

Sporting Equality Title IX Thirty Years Later

As part of its Education Amendments the United States Congress passed Title IX in 1972 to ensure that no person should be discriminated against in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. In the decades since Title IX has had among other effects a marked increase on school athletic programs for women and girls at both the high school and college level. Despite this a range of questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the federal government's enforcement and also the impact on male athletics. The government can enact legislation but how it works remains the domain of administrators at one end and thousands of athletes at the other. Sporting Equality reviews the impact of Title IX thirty years after its passage and suggests future areas of contention. This new title includes the major findings and recommendations of the Secretary of Education's Commission on Opportunities in Athletics established in 2002 as well as the commission's minority report. These contributions are followed by seven chapters that analyze and assess the strength and weakness of Title IX and offer recommendations for strengthening or changing its goals and objectives. These include: Kimberly A. Yuracko Title IX and the Problem of Gender Equality in Athletics; Eric C. Dudley Jr. and George Rutherglen A Comment on the Report of the Commission to Review Title IX; Barbara Murray How to Evaluate the Implementation of Title IX at Colleges and Universities and Attitudes and Interest of Students Regarding Athletics; John J. Cheslock and Deborah Anderson Lessons From Research on Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics; Valerie M. Bonnette The Little Fusses Over Title IX. The book concludes with two controversial chapters. The first by Leo Kocher argues that Title IX has been detrimental to male athletics especially gymnastics swimming wrestling and track while the second by Ellen J. Staurowsky claims that Title IX has not gone far enough in providing women athletes with the equality they deserve. This volume will be of interest to specialists in the sociology of sports women's studies scholars and sports educators. | Sporting Equality Title IX Thirty Years Later

GBP 130.00
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John G. Gunnell History Discourses and Disciplines

John G. Gunnell History Discourses and Disciplines

John Gunnell has compelled political theorists to rethink their relation to political science the history of political thought the philosophy of social science and political reality. His thinking has been shaped by encounters with Heidegger and Plato Wittgenstein and Austin the Berkeley School and émigrés such as Strauss and Arendt. His writings have challenged the idealist assumptions behind the idea of a Great Tradition of Political Thought and the philosophical claims about mind and language. Gunnell has engaged and challenged colleagues in political theory political science and the philosophy of social science on a range of issues from political action time pluralism ideology concepts conventions the political and democracy to the roles of philosophy science literary theory cognitive science mind and history on the enterprise of theorizing today. The book focuses on his work in three key areas:Political Theory and Political Science Gunnell’s work has often focused on the historical emergence of the study of political theory as a subdiscipline of political science and its critical relation to and alienation from political science from the postwar era. His argument has been consistent: political theory self-identified as an interpretative social science and mode of historical reflection is an invention of political science. Political theory divorced from political science weakens both activities in their ties to concerns with and relevance to political society and the contemporary university. Interpretation and ActionGunnell has been particularly interested in the nature of concepts and how they change. These investigations begin with analysis of theory and theorizing as they are constituted and practiced in historiography the philosophy of social sciences the philosophy of science political science and metatheory. He engages with thinkers whose positions inform and oppose his own and explores concepts such as: democracy justice time pluralism science liberalism and action. Theorists Philosophers and Political LifeGunnell’s work has developed through a series of encounters with theorists and philosophers. He has rejected attempts to present politics as a stable and essential set of phenomena. There are common themes that guide conversations with the German émigrés ordinary language philosophers and theorists from the history of political thought. This book includes works that focus on Max Weber Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin Gilbert Ryle J. L. Austin and Ludwig Wittgenstein. | John G. Gunnell History Discourses and Disciplines

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