In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the ... more »

Product Info Introductory text which guides the student of design history through the delights and difficulties of the subject, highlighting various approaches to study. more »

Analyses the construction of socio-spatial boundaries seen in gender, colour, sexuality, age, lifestyle and disability, arguing that powerful groups tend to dominate space to create fear of minorities in the home, community and state. more »

Product Info This volume is written from a criminological perspective and examines the effects of an emerging global culture on the nature of police and policing. more »

Complete with an introduction that summarises the state of the field, this book contains major reinterpretations by leading Holocaust authors along with key texts on testimony, memory, and justice after the catastrophe. more »

... their original social, cultural and performance context and mediate between ancient and modern ideologies. The four of Euripides plays covered are: * Medea * Alcestis * Helen * Iphigenia at Aulis. more »

Focusing on Europe this book explores the complex relationships between ethnicity and democratisation. Case studies cover ethnic experiences in a range of countries including Germany Spain, Russia, Hungary and Polnad. more »

A presentation of the key debates about globalisation, linking them with the growing related discussion of the possible development of global democracy. A valuable textbook and resource for students of International Relations, Politics. more »

An introductory textbook on the politics of Third World Countries, this book draws on examples from Latin America, Africa and Asia to analyse their role in the global political economy. more » more »

Men's domination of the public domain is obvious, yet this is often ignored in social and political analyses. This major new text examines the problems of `public men' within `public patriarchies'. more » more »

Product Info Keith Stringer looks at the relationship between government, warfare, and the rise and fall of the medieval states in this reassessment of Stephen's ability as a ruler. more »

This book studies tropical island resorts, the areas they occupy, the people who live and work there and the tourists who visit them. An island resort is a special place - a pleasure periphery set apart from the mainland and from the mainstream - a community exhibiting many of the key characteristics ... more »