Making Noise in the Modern Hospital, Paperback - Victoria (University of Bristol) Bates

This Element examines hospital noise, a problem that has repeatedly been discovered anew, with each new era bringing its own efforts to control and...

The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civiliza...

A compelling account of the crucial year in post-war history, in the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's award-winning and bestselling }The Peacemake...

Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and soci...

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Providing practical guidance based on real-life examples, this book shows researchers different forms and ways of keeping a research journal and ho...

Higher Education sectors across the world have experienced a gradual process of marketisation. This book offers a new interpretation on why and how...

Reducere. The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the impo...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

This book offers a blend of moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome the defects COVID-19 has exposed in our political-economic ...

Spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, this book uses an international comparative perspective to investigate the phe...

Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tas...

In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages...

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and mus...

Reducere. In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that ...

This collection brings together a diverse range of interpretivist perspectives to find fresh takes on the meanings of religion. Cutting across para...

An affecting, captivating memoir from a young sommelier, struggling to succeed in the glamorous but notoriously toxic restaurant industry

Reducere. In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which...

Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American bestsellers. But when the stories jumpe...

Though now largely a forgotten figure, V.S. Srinivasa Sastri was a celebrated Indian politician and diplomat in the early 20th Century. This book r...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Victor SeowIllustration(s): 25 halftonesNumber of pages: 376Collection: Studies of the Weather...

In its exploration of puppetry and animation as the performative media of choice for mastering the art of illusion, To Embody the Marvelous engages...

This cross-disciplinary book provides a historically grounded explanation for the rise and demise of authoritarianism. It is the first study of Egy...

Reducere. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting influence, few outside...

Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries.Publishe...

Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes ...

Shows how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal chang...

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that...

Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, ec...

The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America's smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deep...

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Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins ...

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Why has nature writing gained such popularity at a time of unprecedented ecological destruction? Guided by this question, this book offers an infor...

Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance.