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Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Television shows that we might call ‘prestige television’ represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive sometimes powerful and sometimes exceedingly complex. This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama comedy and horror that utilize prison or places of incarceration as a central theme or setting to show how they conform to or challenge the standard conversation about the prison industrial complex and the common understanding of prisons as violent spaces where we house the worst among us. Drawing on the work of Angela Davis Doran Larson Dylan Rodriguez Michelle Alexander and Lisa Guenther the author presents focused studies of Orange Is the New Black Rectify American Horror Story and The Walking Dead (along with briefer discussions of The 100 police procedurals and popular sitcoms) to explore the responsibility of television to represent prison in as authentic a fashion as possible the exploitation of the incarcerated in reductive representations of prison and the shifting nature of the national conversation about prison as it is depicted on screen. As such the book will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies criminology and sociology with interests in incarceration and representations of prison in popular culture. | Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

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Social Class in Modern Britain

Social Class in Modern Britain

The book incorporates three alternative conceptions of class. Erik Olin Wright's structural Marxist account is set alongside John Goldthorpe's occupational class schema and the Registrar-General's prestige and skill-related categories. The authors use their unique data on inequality and conflict in contemporary Britain to provide for the first time a rigourous comparison of Marxist sociological and official class frameworks. The book ranges widely across such topics as sectionalism in the workforce; privatism of families and individuals; fatalism; gender and class processes; sectoral production and consumption cleavages. The authors conclude that class is still crucial in structuring economic political and social life. | Social Class in Modern Britain

GBP 29.99
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Magna Carta

Magna Carta

This new history is the first to tell the story of Magna Carta ‘through the ages’. No other general work traces its continuing importance in England’s political consciousness. Many books have examined the circumstances surrounding King John’s grant of Magna Carta in 1215. Very few trace the Charter’s legacy to subsequent centuries and even fewer look at the fate of the physical document. Turner also underlines its great influence outside the United Kingdom especially in North America. Today the Charter enjoys greater prestige in the United States the land of lawyers than in Britain. U. S. citizens claim Magna Carta as a source of their liberties guaranteeing ‘due process of law’ and condemning ‘executive privilege’.

GBP 130.00
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The Theory of the Leisure Class

The Theory of the Leisure Class

In The Theory of the Leisure Class his first and best-known work Thorstein Veblen challenges some of society's most cherished standards of behavior and with devastating wit and satire exposes the hollowness of many of our canons of taste education dress and culture. Veblen uses the leisure class as his example because it is this class that sets the standards followed by every level of society. The sign of membership in the leisure class is exemption from industrial toil and the mark of success is lavish expenditure conspicuous consumption is the famous term he invented to describe somethings that satisfies no real need but is a mark of prestige. The process Veblen describes continues today albeit in a more circuitous form. The Theory of the Leisure Class is part of an ongoing effort to make available the collected works of Veblen to a present-day audience of students and scholars.

GBP 130.00
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Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China The participation of local communities

Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China The participation of local communities

This edited book examines the significance of intangible cultural heritage to local communities and the state in Hong Kong and China. Through ethnographic studies the various chapters in this edited book argue for the role of the local community in the creation and conservation of the intangible cultural heritage and traditions. Irrespective of whether they are selected and listed as regional national or UNESO intangible cultural heritage they are part of the living traditions unique to that particular local community. This edited book argues that there are threefold significance of intangible cultural heritage to the local community and the state. First intangible cultural heritage is seen as a social prestige. Second it acts as socio-cultural and economic capital for members of the community to tap into to ensure socio-cultural and economic sustainability of the community. Finally the intangible cultural heritage serves as a depository of the collective memories of the community linking the past to the present and the future. | Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China The participation of local communities

GBP 42.99
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The Myth of Modernity

The Myth of Modernity

First published in 1950 this was a new work by Charles Baudouin world-famous French psychologist and takes its title from the opening chapter which examines the transformation of the myth of Progress characteristic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries into the myth of Modernity characteristic of the time of writing. The author has little sympathy for a development which he regards as essentially vulgar; the myth of Progress he says had its aspiration and gave man reasons for reaching out for better things but the myth of Modernity ‘seems to give humanity reasons only for fleeing from itself reasons for unhappiness inasmuch as the man who runs away from himself is an unhappy man’. This chapter is characteristic of those that follow – on Baudelaire Verlaine and other literary topics; on Art and the Epoch The Prestige of Action Technique versus Mysticism Opinion and Tolerance etc. A broad humanity and a gentle irony are the characteristic features of this simulating book now available again to be enjoyed in its historical context.

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The Routledge Companion to Reward Management

The Routledge Companion to Reward Management

The Routledge Companion to Reward Management provides a prestige reference work and a state-of-the-art compilation mapping out contemporary developments and debates on rewarding people in employment and how they relate to business corporate governance and management. Reward management stands at the interdisciplinary interface between economics industrial relations and HRM industrial psychology and organizational sociology and increasingly corporate governance incorporating debates around equity and fairness in and around the employment relationship and wider capital-labour relations. In recent years trade union decline and widening differentials between those employed at the top of organizations have generated critical commentary in the popular media which can negatively impact on social cohesion. Theoretically underpinned but practically oriented this Companion will synthesise these trends and controversies around issues while tracing conceptual and empirical provenance currency and future prospects. It will be an invaluable resource for policy makers practitioners students and researchers in reward management corporate governance management and HRM seeking convenient access to an area which is highly complex and controversial in application.

GBP 42.99
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The Moulding of Modern Man A Psychologist's View of Information Persuasion and Mental Coercion Today

The Moulding of Modern Man A Psychologist's View of Information Persuasion and Mental Coercion Today

First published in 1961 The Moulding of Modern Man discusses views of the nature and boundaries of the Self its relation to the physical world and to human beings real and imagined with reference to procedures training ‘space men’ to travel alone or in company deprived of the assurances of sight sound even weight. It discusses methods of publicity and advertising of overtly or covertly influencing motives subception or subliminal persuasion and techniques of ‘thought reform’ often vaguely termed character training and more confusingly ‘brain-washing’. Other topical subjects are conflicting loyalties with special reference to the moral problems of scientists; the social significance in different countries of intellectuals and anti-intellectuals; the effects of mass culture upon the individual’s beliefs tastes and opinions; the role of the Organization Man in Britain; the concepts of ‘face’ and ‘prestige’ in groups and nations; and conflicting ideas of progress maintained by contemporary thinkers in ‘two cultures’. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy and psychology. | The Moulding of Modern Man A Psychologist's View of Information Persuasion and Mental Coercion Today

GBP 90.00
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Courtly Pastimes

Courtly Pastimes

The modern concept of passing leisure hours pleasantly would in the Middle Ages have fallen under the rubric of Sloth a deadly sin. Yet aristocrats of past centuries were not always absorbed in affairs of state or warfare. What did they do in moments of peace downtime as we might call it today? In this collection of essays scholars from various disciplines investigate courtly modes of entertainment ranging from the vigorous to the intellectual: hunting jousting horse racing; physical and verbal games; reading writing and book ownership. Favorite pastimes spanned differences of gender and age and crossed geographical and cultural boundaries. Literary and historical examples come from England France Germany Spain and Italy. Courtly Pastimes analyzes the underlying rationales for such activities: to display power and prestige to acquire cultural capital to instill a sense of community or to build diplomatic alliances. Performativity − so crucial in social rituals − could become transgressive if taken to extremes. Certain chapters explore the spaces of courtliness: literal or imaginary; man-made natural or a hybrid of both. Other chapters concern materiality and visual elements associated with courtly pastimes: from humble children’s toys and playthings to elite tournament attire castle murals and manuscript illuminations.

GBP 120.00
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In the Long Run A Cultural History of Broadway’s Hit Plays

In the Long Run A Cultural History of Broadway’s Hit Plays

In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway’s Hit Plays presents in-depth analysis of 15 plays that ran over 1 000 performances examining what made each so popular in its time—and then in many cases fall into obscurity. Covering one hundred years of theatre history it traces the long-running Broadway play as a distinct cultural phenomenon that rises and falls from 1918 to 2018. Each chapter focuses on the longest-running plays of a particular decade synthesizing historical research and dramaturgical analysis to explain how they functioned as works of theatrical art cultural commodities and reflections of the values conflicts and fantasies of their times. At the heart of each play’s history are the ideological contradictions often present in works of popular culture that appeal to diverse audiences particularly around issues of gender race class and sexuality. Suitable for anyone with an interest in Broadway and its history In the Long Run explores the nature of time in this ephemeral art form the tensions between commerce and art between popularity and prestige and the changing position of the Broadway play within American popular culture. | In the Long Run A Cultural History of Broadway’s Hit Plays

GBP 36.99
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Nuclear Rivals in the Middle East

Nuclear Rivals in the Middle East

Nuclear weapons are the elusive ‘toys’ of modern warfare and are hankered after by every Middle Eastern government. Although no Middle eastern government has formally admitted that the purpose of its investment in nuclear research is to develop weapons it is certain that two countries Israel and Pakistan have mastered the technology for making nuclear bombs and that others are attempting to manipulate their nuclear hardware to this end. The combination of these nuclear ambitions the large amounts of money that can be made available for research and the area’s political instability make the region a powerful example of both the drive towards and the dangers of nuclear proliferation. This book first published in 1988 examines the evolution of nuclear research and development in the region. It shows that it is the product of a complex web of internal and external factors fuelled by considerations of international prestige and local rivalries. Whilst concluding that it is probably no longer possible to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons technology to the Middle East it suggests ways in which the rate of proliferation can be slowed down. | Nuclear Rivals in the Middle East

GBP 35.99
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The Routledge Handbook of Accounting Information Systems

The Routledge Handbook of Accounting Information Systems

The Routledge Handbook of Accounting Information Systems is a prestige reference work offering a comprehensive overview of the state of current knowledge and emerging scholarship in the discipline of AIS. The pace of technological-driven change is rapid and this revised edition provides a deeper focus on the technical underpinnings and organisational consequences of accounting information systems. It has been updated to capture the changes in technology since the previous edition. It now includes chapters and scholarly thought on artificial intelligence predictive analytics and data visualisation among others. Contributions from an international cast of authors provide a balanced overview of established and developing themes identifying issues and discussing relevant debates. The chapters are analytical and engaging. Many chapters include cases or examples and some provide additional resources for readers. The chapters also provide a reflection on where the research agenda is likely to advance in the future. This is a complete and indispensable guide for students and researchers in accounting and accounting information systems academics and students seeking convenient access to an unfamiliar area as well as established researchers seeking a single repository on the current debates and literature in the field.

GBP 190.00
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An Introduction to Television Studies

An Introduction to Television Studies

This comprehensive textbook now substantially updated for its fourth edition provides students with a framework for understanding the key concepts and main approaches to Television Studies including audiences representation industry and global television as well as the analytical study of individual programmes. This new edition reflects the significant changes the television industry is undergoing in the streaming era with an explosion of new content and providers whilst also identifying how many existing practices have endured. The book includes a glossary of key terms with each chapter suggesting further reading. New and updated material includes: Chapters on style and form narrative industry and representation and identity Case studies on Bon Appétit’s YouTube channel Insecure British youth television ABC and Disney+ fixed-rig observational documentary streaming platforms' use of data to shape audience experience Chewing Gum Korean drama and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel Sections on medical drama YouTube creators Skam and scripted format sales the global spread of streaming platforms prestige TV and period drama With individual chapters addressing television style and form narrative histories industries genres and formats realities production audiences representation and identity and quality this book is essential reading for both students and scholars of Television Studies. | An Introduction to Television Studies

GBP 29.99
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The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Human Conflict

The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Human Conflict

If human burials were our only window onto the past what story would they tell? Skeletal injuries constitute the most direct and unambiguous evidence for violence in the past. Whereas weapons or defenses may simply be statements of prestige or status and written sources are characteristically biased and incomplete human remains offer clear and unequivocal evidence of physical aggression reaching as far back as we have burials to examine. Warfare is often described as ‘senseless’ and as having no place in society. Consequently its place in social relations and societal change remains obscure. The studies in The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Human Conflict present an overview of the nature and development of human conflict from prehistory to recent times as evidenced by the remains of past people themselves in order to explore the social contexts in which such injuries were inflicted. A broadly chronological approach is taken from prehistory through to recent conflicts however this book is not simply a catalogue of injuries illustrating weapon development or a narrative detailing ‘progress’ in warfare but rather provides a framework in which to explore both continuity and change based on a range of important themes which hold continuing relevance throughout human development.

GBP 44.99
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Human Trafficking in Colonial Vietnam

Human Trafficking in Colonial Vietnam

Examining the widespread phenomenon of human trafficking in Vietnam during the period of French colonial rule this book focuses on the practice of kidnapping or stealing Vietnamese women and children for sale in Chinese markets from the 1870s through to the 1940s. The book brings to light the fact that human trafficking between Vietnam and China existed prior to more contemporary instances of this trade. It provides information as to the perpetrators the nature and the scope of this illicit commerce and its impact on the lives of its victims who were mainly domestic servants concubines or prostitutes. The book also examines the ways in which French colonial actors (missionaries administrators military officers adventurers and observers and consuls) reported described and reacted to it and goes on to analyse the impact of human trafficking on the concept of French ‘prestige’ and on the French colonial project in Vietnam. Human trafficking in colonial Vietnam illustrates the tensions and the conflicts not only between the French and the Vietnamese but also between the Vietnamese and the Chinese as well as between the colons and the French colonial administration and between the colonial and metropolitan governments. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asian History Colonial History and Criminology.

GBP 48.99
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The Classical Music Industry

The Classical Music Industry

This volume brings together academics executives and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of the classical music industry. The central practices theories and debates that empower and regulate the industry are explored through the lens of classical music-making business and associated spheres such as politics education media and copyright. The Classical Music Industry maps the industry’s key networks principles and practices across such sectors as recording live management and marketing: essentially how the cultural and economic practice of classical music is kept mobile and alive. The book examining pathways to professionalism traditional and new forms of engagement and the consequences of related issues—ethics prestige gender and class—for anyone aspiring to ‘make it’ in the industry today. This book examines a diverse and fast-changing sector that animates deep feelings. The Classical Music Industry acknowledges debates that have long encircled the sector but today have a fresh face as the industry adjusts to the new economics of funding policy-making and retail The first volume of its kind The Classical Music Industry is a significant point of reference and piece of critical scholarship written for the benefit of practitioners music-lovers students and scholars alike offering a balanced and rigorous account of the manifold ways in which the industry operates.

GBP 39.99
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Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory

Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory

Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory is the first reference work to compile the contributions of the greatest social thinkers to the global conversation about consumption and consumer culture. A prestige reference work it offers original chapters by the world's most prominent thought leaders. It introduces the works of historical theorists and surveys how their work has influenced and shaped consumption theory both through history and at the cutting edge of research. Consumption is at core of contemporary lifestyles of political successes and failures and with discussions of sustainability and environmental change. Contemporary consumer culture shapes modern identities and is the engine of the globalizing capitalist economy. Still the majority of social theorizations over the last century and a half have been addressing production processes rather than consumption processes. This is about to change. Studies of consumption play an increasing role as a topic and a domain of study in marketing anthropology sociology and cultural studies. Currently there is no single compilation that systematically links scholarly work published by the greatest social thinkers of the last century and a half to the understanding of contemporary consumer society. This book provides a solid framework for understanding the relevance of these canonical authors in social theory to facilitate analysis of consumer culture and to act as a comprehensive reference point for consumer researchers doctoral students and practitioners.

GBP 52.99
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The Routledge Companion to Management Information Systems

The Routledge Companion to Management Information Systems

The field of Information Systems has been evolving since the first application of computers in organizations in the early 1950s. Focusing on information systems analysis and design up to and including the 1980s the field has expanded enormously with our assumptions about information and knowledge being challenged along with both intended and unintended consequences of information technology. This prestige reference work offers students and researchers a critical reflection on major topics and current scholarship in the evolving field of Information Systems. This single-volume survey of the field is organized into four parts. The first section deals with Disciplinary and Methodological Foundations. The second section deals with Development Adoption and Use of MIS – topics that formed the centrepiece of the field of IS in the last century. The third section deals with Managing Organizational IS Knowledge and Innovation while the final section considers emerging and continuing issues and controversies in the field – IS in Society and a Global Context. Each chapter provides a balanced overview of current knowledge identifying issues and discussing relevant debates. This prestigious book is required reading for any student or researcher in Management Information Systems academics and students covering the breadth of the field and established researchers seeking a single-volume repository on the current state of knowledge current debates and relevant literature. | The Routledge Companion to Management Information Systems

GBP 52.99
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The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games Assessing the 30-Year Legacy

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games Assessing the 30-Year Legacy

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. Fresh off the back of the financially disastrous Montreal Games of 1976 and the politically controversial Moscow Games of 1980 the Olympic movement returned to the United States for the sixth time in an attempt to salvage the economic viability and global prestige of the Olympics. The Los Angeles Olympics proved to be both provocative and polarizing. On the one hand they have been heralded as an overwhelming transformative success ushering the Olympic movement into the modern commercial age. On the other hand critics have repudiated the Games as a manifestation of commercial excess and a platform for western political and cultural propaganda. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Olympics this volume examines their legacy. With an international collection of contributing scholars this volume will span a range of global legacies including the increasing commercialization of the Games the changing participation of women the Communist boycott movement nationalism and sporting identity and the modernization and California-cation of the Games. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport. | The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games Assessing the 30-Year Legacy

GBP 44.99
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Evidence-Based Offender Profiling

Evidence-Based Offender Profiling

Offender profiling is an investigative tool used to narrow down the range of potential suspects for a crime by predicting the personality behavioral and demographic characteristics that an offender is likely to possess based upon information collected at the crime scene. While offender profiling has been popularized by TV shows and movies such as Criminal Minds Silence of the Lambs and Mindhunter the real-world impact of offender profiling is largely unknown. This book discusses the history of offender profiling summarizes research on offender profiling methods and reviews offender profiling evaluations of accuracy and applied impact. This book also describes a promising new offender profiling methodology called evidence-based offender profiling. This new method relies upon empirical data and scientific methods to develop evaluate and replicate offender profiles thereby increasing offender profiling’s accuracy and utility for active police investigations. It uses prior information about statistical regularities between types of offenders and types of offenses to predict the characteristics of offenders in unsolved cases. A discussion of the future of offender profiling research and implications for law enforcement is also included. This book also explains how practitioners can benefit from the use of empirically tested and validated profiles in their unsolved investigations and how the use continued research and evaluation of evidence-based offender profiling can advance the quality prestige and utility of the field of offender profiling.

GBP 18.99
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British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art 1793-1840

British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art 1793-1840

As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art the imagination and the period’s political social and commercial realities. Dr McCue examines poetry plays novels travel writing exhibition catalogues early guidebooks and private experiences recorded in letters and diaries by canonical and noncanonical authors including Felicia Hemans William Buchanan Henry Sass Pierce Egan William Hazlitt Percy Shelley Lord Byron Anna Jameson Maria Graham Callcott and Samuel Rogers. Her exploration of the idea of connoisseurship shows the ways in which a knowledge of Italian art became a key marker of cultural standing that was no longer limited to artists and aristocrats while her chapter on the literary production of post-Waterloo Britain traces the development of a critical vocabulary equally applicable to the visual arts and literature. In offering cultural historical and literary readings of the responses to Italian art by early nineteenth-century writers Dr McCue illuminates the important role they played in shaping the themes that are central to our understanding of Romanticism. | British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art 1793-1840

GBP 38.99
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The Decadence of Delphi The Oracle in the Second Century AD and Beyond

The Decadence of Delphi The Oracle in the Second Century AD and Beyond

Examining the final years of Delphic consultation this monograph argues that the sanctuary operated on two connected yet distinct levels: the oracle which was in decline and the remaining religious political and social elements at the site which continued to thrive. In contrast to Delphi other oracular counterparts in Asia Minor such as Claros and Didyma rose in prestige as they engaged with new theological issues. Issues such as these were not presented to Apollo at Delphi and this lack of expertise could help to explain why Delphi began to decline in importance. The second and third centuries AD witnessed the development of new ways of access to divine wisdom. Particularly widespread were the practices of astrology and the Neoplatonic divinatory system theurgy. This monograph examines the correlation between the rise of such practices and the decline of oracular consultation at Delphi analyzing several examples from the Chaldean Oracles to demonstrate the new interest in a personal soteriological religion. These cases reveal the transfer of Delphi’s sacred space which further impacted the status of the oracle. Delphi’s interaction with Christianity in the final years of oracular operation is also discussed. Oracular utterances with Christian overtones are examined along with archaeological remains which demonstrate a shift in the use of space at Delphi from a pagan Panhellenic center to one in which Christianity is accepted and promoted. | The Decadence of Delphi The Oracle in the Second Century AD and Beyond

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Trophy Hunting A Psychological Perspective

Trophy Hunting A Psychological Perspective

This book explores the psychology of trophy hunting from a critical perspective and considers the reasons why some people engage in the controversial activity of killing often endangered animals for sport. Recent highly charged debate reaching a peak with the killing of Cecil the lion in 2015 has brought trophy hunting under unprecedented public scrutiny and yet the psychology of trophy hunting crucially remains under-explored. Considering all related issues from the evolutionary perspective and ‘inclusive fitness’ to personality and individual factors like narcissism empathy and the Duchenne smiles of hunters posing with their prey Professor Beattie makes connections between a variety of indicators of prestige and dominance showing how trophy hunting is inherently linked to a desire for status. He argues that we need to identify analyse and deconstruct the factors that hold the behaviour of trophy hunting in place if we are to understand why it continues and indeed why it flourishes in an age of collapsing ecosystems and dwindling species populations. The first book of its kind to examine current research critically to determine whether there really is an evolutionary argument for trophy hunting and what range of motivations and personality traits may be linked to this activity. This is essential reading for students and academics in psychology geography business environmental studies animal welfare as well as policy makers and charities in these and related areas. It is of major relevance for anyone who cares about the future of our planet and the species that inhabit it. | Trophy Hunting A Psychological Perspective

GBP 28.99
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University Trends Contemporary Campus Design

University Trends Contemporary Campus Design

The campus has a deep-rooted prestige as a place of teaching learning and nurturing. Conjuring images of cloistered quadrangles of sunny lawns of wood-panelled libraries it is a word viscerally charged with centuries of scholarly tradition. And yet it is also a place of cutting-edge science vibrancy and energy. It is this dual nature this concurrent adherence to tradition and innovation which renders the physical environment of the university such a redolent enduring and dynamic realm. However it also means that the twenty-first-century campus is a highly challenging and exacting landscape to design and manage successfully. Today the scale of the pressures and the rate of change facing higher education institutions are greater than ever. Squeezed public spending growing societal expectations and the broadening education ambitions of developing nations are set against a backdrop of rapid technological progress and changing pedagogies. What are the repercussions for the physical realities of university planning and architecture? And how are university campuses adapting to contend with these pressures? University Trends: Contemporary Campus Design introduces the most significant widespread and thought-provoking trends that are currently shaping the planning and architecture of higher education institutions across the world. Within this completely revised third edition Part One identifies current patterns such as student hubs large-scale expansions and buildings for innovation and interdisciplinary research. Part Two profiles these through recent well-illustrated global case studies. This is the essential guide to current and future trends in campus design. | University Trends Contemporary Campus Design

GBP 94.99
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In Search of Vikings Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England

In Search of Vikings Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England

The Viking Age lasted a little over three centuries but has left a lasting legacy across Europe. These dynamic warrior-traders from Scandinavia who fought and interacted with peoples as far apart as North America Russia and Central Asia are some of the most recognizable historical figures in the western world. In the modern imagination they represent ruthlessness heroism adventurousness and a unique prestige embellished by the wondrous tales and poetry of the sagas. Yet the sum of evidence for the Viking presence is far less clear than their reputation implies. In Search of Vikings presents a collection of papers from experts in a broad range of disciplines including history archaeology genetics and linguistics to provide a detailed understanding of the Vikings in peace and in war. This book focuses on one particularly exciting area of the Viking world namely the north-west region of England where they are known to have settled in large numbers. North-west England was the crossroads between Ireland Scotland Wales the Isle of Man and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. It was a battleground for distant powers and dynasties and its Irish Sea coastline created opportunities for trading and settlement. Silver hoards burials and Old Norse place-names attest to the Viking presence and Scandinavian DNA is detectable amongst the modern population. The 12 integrated studies in this book are designed to reinvigorate the search for Vikings in this crucial region and to provide must-reading for anyone interested in Viking history. | In Search of Vikings Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England

GBP 175.00
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