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Courts and Courtiers in Renaissance Northern Italy The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It starts with Baldessar Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (1528) which encapsulates this sense of renewal: his experiences at court and their subsequent rewriting form the backbone of the work. The author then addresses questions of biography gender genre and the varied roles of the courtier expanding the perspective of Castiglione's text to include the lives and writings of other courtiers and patrons. What was it like to be a courtier? What were the problems associated with such a lifestyle? The importance of women in court circles is also highlighted in studies of one of the most notable of female patrons Isabella d'Este (1474-1539) and of the theoretical developments in writing about gender stimulated by such women. Stephen Kolsky's analysis of both well-known and comparatively obscure texts brings out the diversity of practices that constituted court society and their centrality to our understanding of the Renaissance. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138375529

Courts and Social Transformation in New DemocraciesAn Institutional Voice for the Poor? Using case studies drawn from Latin America Africa India and Eastern Europe this volume examines the role of courts as a channel for social transformation for excluded sectors of society in contemporary democracies. With a focus on social rights litigation in post-authoritarian regimes or in the context of fragile state control the authors assess the role of judicial processes in altering (or perpetuating) social and economic inequalities and power relations in society. Drawing on interdisciplinary expertise in the fields of law political theory and political science the chapters address theoretical debates and present empirical case studies to examine recent trends in social rights litigation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138264540

Courts And Transition In RussiaThe Challenge Of Judicial Reform It is hardly a revelation to say that in the Soviet Union law served not as the foundation of government but as an instrument of rule or that the judiciary in that country was highly dependent upon political authority. Yet experience shows that effective democracies and market economies alike require courts that are independent and trusted. In Courts and Transition in Russia Solomon and Foglesong analyze the state and operation of the courts in Russia and the in some ways remarkable progress of their reform since the end of Soviet power. Particular attention is paid to the struggles of reformers to develop judicial independence and to extend the jurisdiction of the courts to include constitutional and administrative disputes as well as supervision of pretrial investigations. The authors then outline what can and should be done to make courts in Russia autonomous powerful reliable efficient accessible and fair. The book draws upon extensive field research in Russia including the results of a lengthy questionnaire distributed to district court judges throughout Russian Federation.Written in a clear and direct manner Courts and Transition in Russia should appeal to anyone interested in law politics or business in Russia ? scholars and practitioners alike ? as well as to students of comparative law legal transition and courts in new democracies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367096540

Courtship Marriage and Marriage BreakdownApproaches from the History of Emotion This book explores the history of marriage and marriage-like relationships across five continents from the seventeenth century to the present day. Across fourteen chapters leading marriage scholars examine how the methodologies from the new history of emotions contribute to our understanding of marriage seeking to uncover not only personal feeling but also the political and social implications of emotion. They highlight how marriage as an institution has been shaped not just by law and society but also by individual and community choices desires and emotional values. Importantly they also emphasize how the history of non-traditional and same-sex relationships and their emotions have long played an important role in determining the nature of marriage as an institution and emotional union. In doing so this collection allows us to rethink both the past and present of marriage destabilizing a story of a stable institution and opening it up as a site of contest debate and feeling. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367424558

Courtship and the English NovelFeminist Readings in the Fiction of George Meredith First published in 1987 these essays deal with the three major novels of George Meredith. It explores in particular Meredith’s feminism and demonstrates how each novel embodies his very modern views of the relations between the sexes. This book will be of interest to those studying 19th Century literature and feminism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138671706

CourtshipAn Ethological Study This concise but thorough study of courtship behavior in fish birds and arthropods is the first rigorous examination of the evolutionary origins and mechanisms of courtship and its contribution to biological success. Demonstrating the fruitfulness of an empirically based inductive approach to understanding courtship the book also explains clearly how principles of modern evolutionary theory can be successfully employed in studying behavior.The author describes many observations and experiments that have not previously appeared outside specialized journals and brings an abundance of simple yet accurate examples of animal behavior to bear on explanations of ethological concepts and evolutionary theory. No attempt is made to skim over the gaps of knowledge apparent in the study of behavior evolution; rather the author discusses the limitations and difficulties of different approaches critically reviews the deductions that can be and have been made from them and tries to present enough evidence on controversial points for the reader himself to judge the validity of specific arguments.Indicating how ethological method firmly based on biological principles can intensively investigate and illuminate a single area of animal behavior the book will be valuable to students and professionals in zoology animal behavior and experimental psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521346

Courtyard Housing and Cultural SustainabilityTheory Practice and Product Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the fourth pillar alongside the other three: environmental economic and social sustainability. However the concept is neither fully explored nor widely accepted or recognized. This book elicits the interplay of nature-culture-architecture and theorizes the concept of cultural sustainability and culturally sustainable architecture. It identifies four key themes in Chinese philosophy: Harmony with Heaven Harmony with Earth Harmony with Humans and Harmony with Self along with Greek philosopher Aristotle’s physics: form space matter and time it sets them as criteria to evaluate the renewed and new courtyard housing projects constructed in China since the 1990s. Using an innovative architectural and social science approach this book examines the political economic social and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability. Supported by a multiplicity of data including: field surveys interviews with residents architects and planners time diaries drawings photos planning documents observation notes and real estate brochures the book proposes new courtyard garden house design strategies that promote healthy communities and human care for one another a concept that is universally applicable. The volume is a first opportunity to take a holistic view to encompass eastern and western tangible and intangible cultures in the theorization of cultural sustainability and culturally sustainable architecture. It is a comprehensive contribution to architectural theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138256774

Courtyard Housing for Health and HappinessArchitectural Multiculturalism in North America Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for governments to include happiness as a criterion to their policies. The Healthy Cities or Happy Cities movement has been endorsed by the WHO since 1986 and a Healthy House or Happy Home is a critical constituent of a healthy city or a happy city. Nevertheless the concept has not been fully explored. Existing literature on the healthy house has often focused on the technical economic environmental or biochemical aspects while current scholarship on the happy home commonly centers on interior decoration. Few studies have addressed the importance of social and cultural factors that affect the health and happiness of the occupants. Identifying four key themes in Chinese philosophy to promote health and happiness at home this book links architecture with Chinese philosophy social sciences and the humanities and in doing so argues that Architectural Multiculturalism is a vital ideology to guide housing design in North America. Using both qualitative and quantitative evidence gathered from ethnic Chinese and non-Chinese living in the USA and Canada the study proposes that the Courtyard is a central component to promote social and cultural health and happiness of residents. It further details courtyard garden house design strategies that combine a sense of privacy with a feeling of community as represented in courtyard housing. The schemes may have universal implications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138567757

Courtyards Markets City StreetsUrban Women In Africa Although women have long been active residents in African cities explorations of their contributions have been marginal. This volume brings women into the center of the urban landscape using case studies to illustrate their contributions to family community work and political life. The book begins with a rich introduction that discusses how wo Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367315252

Cousins at One Remove: Anglo-German Studies: 2nd: Cousins at One RemoveAnglo-German Studies "This collection of essays is a sequel to ""Anglo-German Studies"" published in 1992 by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. The emphasis of this volume is on the English reception of German literature." Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781351199513

Covalent Organic Frameworks Rational synthesis of extended arrays of organic matter in bulk solution crystals and thin films has always been a paramount goal of chemistry. The classical synthetic tools to obtain long-range regularity are however limited to noncovalent interactions which usually yield structurally more random products. Hence a combination of porosity and regularity in organic covalently bonded materials requires not only the design of molecular building blocks that allow for growth into a nonperturbed regular geometry but also a condensation mechanism that progresses under reversible thermodynamic self-optimizing conditions. Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) a variety of 2D crystalline porous materials composed of light elements resemble an sp2-carbon-based graphene sheet but have a different molecular skeleton formed by orderly linkage of building blocks to constitute a flat organic sheet. COFs have attracted considerable attention in the past decade because of their versatile applications in gas storage and separation catalysis sensing drug delivery and optoelectronic materials development. Compared to other porous materials COFs allow for atomically precise control of their architectures by changing the structure of their building blocks whereby the shapes and sizes of their pores can be well-tuned. Covalent Organic Frameworks is a compilation of different topics in COF research from COF design and synthesis crystallization and structural linkages to the theory of gas sorption and various applications of COFs such as heterogeneous catalysts energy storage (e.g. semiconductors and batteries) and biomedicine. This handbook will appeal to anyone interested in nanotechnology and new materials of gas adsorption and storage heterogeneous catalysts electronic devices and biomedical devices. Media > Books > Print Books Pan Stanford Publishing 9789814800877

Covenant and Civil SocietyConstitutional Matrix of Modern Democracy The essence of the covenant tradition is the idea of human beings freely associating for common purposes through pacts of mutual commitment. In the political realm the idea of covenant has been particularly influential in frontierlands. Reinformed by the idea of the federated commonwealth that emerged out of the Protestant Reformation covenant eventually fostered the establishment of the United States of America and our modern idea of federalism. More recently these great products of the covenant tradition helped to bring about the collapse of twentieth-century totalitarianism and fueled a new spirit in contemporary political life throughout the world. A return to political covenantalism seems to be an appropriate response to the crisis of modern civilization and the new epoch after World War II. Covenant and Civil Society is the final volume in Elazar's monumental series The Covenant Tradition in Politics. In it he traces the tradition's rebirth and development in the modern epoch.Covenant and Civil Society also considers issues of communal solidarity on a postmodern basis. Elazar traces the transition from the covenanted commonwealth of the Protestant Reformation to the civil society of the modern epoch and explores the covenant's role in the modern statist era and the development of modern democracy. Scandiriavia and the Latin-Germanic borderlands many of which are typically thought of as examples of organic or hierarchical models. Elazar argues that a covenantal model is more appropriate and is part of the Western tradition as such.The book concludes with examination of the present and future of covenantal thought. Today the global spread of federalism most clearly seen in the formation of the European Union is also seen in local and private arenas. Elazar considers the benefits of covenantal thought while balancing such optimism with a realistic sense of its limits. As a prescription for change Covenant and Civil Society is a fundamental and original contribution. Along with the previous volumes in this series all available from Transaction it will be of deep interest to historians social scientists political theorists and theologians of all persuasions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508644

Covenant and Commonwealth At the very beginning of the history of the covenant idea human beings were conceived as entering into a morally grounded and informal pact with God. Politically this pact or covenant involves the coming together of basically equal humans who consent with one another through a morally binding pact setting the partners on the road to a new task. As a theological and political concept covenant is designed to keep the peace in the face of conflicting human interests needs and demands. This pioneering continuation of Daniel J. Elazar's work is concerned with political uses of the idea of covenant and the political arrangements that flow from it.Covenant and Commonwealth is the second in a series of volumes exploring the covenantal tradition in Western politics. The first Covenant and Polity in Biblical Israel analyzed how the Bible set forth ideas of covenant in ancient Israel and the Jewish political tradition. In this volume those themes are taken a step further to examine covenant as a political idea and tradition along with the culture and behavior that they produced. The book focuses on the struggle in Europe to produce a Christian covenantal commonwealth a struggle that climaxed in the Reformed Protestantism of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It also briefly examines covenant and hierarchy in Islam and other premodern polities that shape our present.The third volume in this series will examine the progressive secularization of the covenant idea in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Covenant and Commonwealth is a fundamental and original contribution to the scholarship of Western civilization. It ranks with commensurate efforts of Ferdinand Braudel and Joseph Needham. As such it will be of deep interest to historians social scientists and theologians of all persuasions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508651

Covenant and ConstitutionalismThe Covenant Tradition in Politics This volume traces the trends and the developing relationships of constitutionalism and covenant that ultimately led to the transformation of the latter into the former. Elazar explores the paths that emerged out of the constitutionalized covenantal tradition in Europe such as federalism communitarianism and the cooperative movement. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508668

Covenant and Polity in Biblical IsraelVolume 1 Biblical Foundations and Jewish Expressions: Covenant Tradition in Politics In this first volume of a trilogy Daniel J. Elazar addresses political uses of the idea of covenant the tradition that has adhered to that idea and the political arrangements that flow from it Among the topics covered are covenant as a political concept the Bible as a political commentary the post-biblical tradition medieval covenant theory and Jewish political culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521353

Coventry: Medieval Art Architecture and Archaeology in the City and its VicinityVolume 33 The British Archaeological Association's 2007 conference celebrated the material culture of medieval Coventry the fourth wealthiest English city of the later middle ages. The nineteen papers collected in this volume set out to remedy the relative neglect in modern scholarship of the city's art architecture and archaeology as well as to encompass recent research on monuments in the vicinity. The scene is set by two papers on archaeological excavations in the historic city centre especially since the 1970s and a paper investigating the relationships between Coventry's building boom and economic conditions in the city in the later middle ages. Three papers on the Cathedral Priory of St Mary bring together new insights into the Romanesque cathedral church the monastic buildings and the post-Dissolution history of the precinct derived mainly from the results of the Phoenix Initiative excavations (19992003). Three more papers provide new architectural histories of the spectacular former parish church of St Michael the fine Guildhall of St Mary and the remarkable surviving west range of the Coventry Charterhouse. The high-quality monumental art of the later medieval city is represented by papers on wall-painting (featuring the recently conserved Doom in Holy Trinity church) on the little-known Crucifixion mural at the Charterhouse and on a reassessment of the working practices of the famous master-glazier John Thornton. Two papers on a guild seal and on the glazing at Stanford on Avon parish church consider the evidence for Coventry as a regional workshop centre for high quality metalwork and glass-painting. Beyond the city three papers deal with the development of Combe Abbey from Cistercian monastery to country house with the Beauchamp family's hermitage at Guy's Cliffe and with a newly identified stonemasons' workshop in the 'barn' at Kenilworth Abbey. Two further papers concern the architectural patronage of the earls and dukes of Lancaster in the 14th century at Kenilworth Castle and in the Newarke at Leicester Castle. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315095363

Cover Stories (Routledge Revivals)Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller First published in 1987 this title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler Ian Fleming and John Le Carré and shows how these tales of spies moles and the secret service tell a history of modern society translating the political and cultural transformations of the twentieth century into the intrigues of a shadow world of secret agents. Combining cultural history with narrative analysis Cover Stories explores the two main traditions of the thriller: the thriller of the work in which bureaucratic routines are invested with political meaning; and the thriller of leisure in which the sports and games that kill time become a time of dangerous political contests. Examining the characteristic narrative structures of the spy novel – the adventure formulas and the plots of betrayal disguise and doubles – Denning shows how they attempt to resolve crises and contradictions in ideologies of nation and empire and of class and gender. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138796256

Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction Embodied conversational agents (ECA) and speech-based human–machine interfaces can together represent more advanced and more natural human–machine interaction. Fusion of both topics is a challenging agenda in research and production spheres. The important goal of human–machine interfaces is to provide content or functionality in the form of a dialog resembling face-to-face conversations. All natural interfaces strive to exploit and use different communication strategies that provide additional meaning to the content whether they are human–machine interfaces for controlling an application or different ECA-based human–machine interfaces directly simulating face-to-face conversation.Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction presents state-of-the-art concepts of advanced environment-independent multimodal human–machine interfaces that can be used in different contexts ranging from simple multimodal web-browsers (for example multimodal content reader) to more complex multimodal human–machine interfaces for ambient intelligent environments (such as supportive environments for elderly and agent-guided household environments). They can also be used in different computing environments—from pervasive computing to desktop environments. Within these concepts the contributors discuss several communication strategies used to provide different aspects of human–machine interaction. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367379292

Covering Castro This book discusses Cuba's domestic situation and its relations with the two countries whose foreign policies have the greatest impact on it Russia and the United States. It covers some eight wars and many other violent manifestations of the human condition. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508675

Covering China The relationship between China and the United States has been marked by a lack of mutual comprehension that stretches from America's missionary paternalism in the early twentieth century to the fears and fascinations of the present. Throughout the twentieth century China has attracted the attention of American journalists from the first China hands who covered an ancient country lurching into the modern world to the chroniclers of World War II and the Chinese civil war to the reporters who today explore the contradictions of China's economy. Covering China looks at the questions concerns and conceptions of all the generations of American reporters against the backdrop of Chinese history and China's own media.Covering China is divided into three sections. "Histories" takes up the events anniversaries and processes that have shaped Chinese and American media coverage over the century. Included here are chapters focusing on the civil war and analyzing American reporting in the 1930s and 1940s in their many viewpoints as well as in the decades when China was closed to American journalists. Other chapters consider the influence on journalism of various political movements from the anti-Western May 4th movement of 1918 to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. "Communicating" explores the challenges of explaining China to Americans and America to the Chinese. Among the topics covered here are the Chinese media reaction to the Clinton scandal the status of Hong Kong as a window between China and the West Communist efforts to control public opinion in the media and the pioneering role of Pearl S. Buck in interpreting China for American readers. The concluding section "Issues " examines important stories now emerging in China that will matter to both journalists and China watchers including the changing roles of Chinese women little-covered instances of ethnic unrest and the complexities of economic and environmental stories.The variety of points of view expressed in Covering China is a testament to the vigor of contemporary writing on China. As one contributor notes American media coverage of China needs to challenge existing assumptions and be ready for the unexpected. By doing so journalists can minimize the sense of shock that erupts in America at each swing of Chinese history. Covering China will be of interest to China area specialists journalists and cultural historians.Robert W. Snyder is managing editor of the Media Studies Journal a historian and author of Transit Talk: New York's Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories. He has taught at Princeton University and New York University. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521360

Covering Congress Observers of media-government relations most often think first of conflicts with the executive branch yet interactions between Congress and the media have been extensive and varied since the first Washington "correspondents" began sending dispatches from the sessions of Congress. In recent years the relationship between Congress and the news media has grown more complex. Coverage of Congress by the print and electronic media is extensive. At the same tune Congress has increasing power to make communications policy that will have an important impact on the ability of the media to conduct their affairs both economically and politically. Covering Congress explores those aspects of the relationship between the media and Congress that shape the news that reaches an information-seeking public.The contributors consider Congress as the source of much news as well as a great deal of self-promotion. They note there is neither a broad nor deep understanding of our national legislature in the United States. Contributors try to remedy this shortcoming by looking at the overall picture the media scene on Capitol Hill the messages that reach beyond Washington and the history of relations between the Congress and the press. They discuss such issues as: the relationship Newt Gingrich has forged between his office and the media perhaps at his own peril; the importance of speed over substance when reporting from Capitol Hill; the unflattering image of Congress as depicted in political cartoons; and the unparalleled power wielded by Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn when he dealt with the national media.Congress depends on the media to reach the public but also has considerable muscle to shape its media relations when it has strong leadership and a coherent plan. It usually lacks these but Congress does much to try to project a friendly face to the public through the media facilitating interviews hi Capitol Hill radio and television studios. Regardless of what happens in any particular election it is clear that Congress is fully alert to the modern communications age and that the consequences of this encounter are likely to be accentuated in the years ahead. Covering Congress is a necessary addition to the libraries of communications scholars media specialists political scientists historians and sociologists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521377

Covering DisasterLessons from Media Coverage of Katrina and Rita In 2005 journalists faced enormous challenges while covering hurricanes Katrina and Rita along America's Gulf Coast. They struggled to find ways to communicate move from one place to another and find reputable information. They witnessed complete chaos observed human suffering and were outraged with delayed or ineffective rescue mechanisms. Not only did journalists face these normal problems of crises since many themselves were among the victims they were forced to do their jobs under circumstances that seemed impossible.The contributors to Covering Disaster study personal and professional coping mechanisms and lessons that may be learned from media disaster coverage. During Katrina and Rita journalists responded largely by redefining traditional ideals of fairness balance and objectivity and by adopting an emotionally driven and somewhat more subjective reporting style. In this way they rediscovered and emphasized journalistic purposes and techniques that have long been the hallmarks of greatness. Their work during those months of destruction and pain was applauded by their readers and viewers because it was useful critical of officials who were not doing their jobs sought support for those who were suffering and took a position of public leadership.Now that the winds have died down flood waters have receded and rebuilding has begun the brand of publicoriented journalism found in the midst of the storms must not be forgotten. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412845823

Covering the CourtsFree Press Fair Trials and Journalistic Performance Covering the Courts shows how writers and journalists deal with present-day major trials such as those involving Timothy McVeigh and O.J. Simpson. The volume features such outstanding contributors as Linda Deutsch and Fred Graham and provides an in-depth look at the performance of the court in an age of heightened participation by reporters camera operators social scientists major moguls of network radio and television and advocates of special causes.The volume does far more than discuss specific cases. Indeed it is a major tool in the study of the new relationships between a free press and a fair trial. Interestingly a consensus is described in which the parties involved in efforts to balance freedom of the press and the right to a fair trial are moving in tandem. In this regard sensitive issues ranging from the universality of law to the particularity of racial religious and gender claims are explored with great candor.The volume also turns the intellectual discourse to its major players: the members of the press the lawyers and the judiciary. Has there been a shift from reporting functions to entertainment values? Does television and live presentation shift the burden from the contents of a case to the photogenic and star quality of players? What excites and intrigues the public: serious disturbances to the peace and mass mayhem such as the Oklahoma bombings or sexual adventures of entertainment and sports figures? The findings are sometimes disturbing but the reading is never dull. This book will be of interest to journalists lawyers and the interested general public.This volume is the latest in the Transaction Media Studies Series edited by Everette E. Dennis dean of the school of communication at Fordham University. The volume itself is edited by Robert Giles the editor and Robert W. Snyder the managing editor of Media Studies Journal. The original contributions were initially presented at The Freedom Forum and its Media Studies Center. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521391

Covering the EnvironmentHow Journalists Work the Green Beat This practical primer explains the primary issues in writing about the environment identifies who to go to and where to find sources and offers examples of writing and reporting the beat. Observations and story excerpts from experienced journalists provide real-world context both for those in the U.S. as well as internationally. Practice story assignments resources and a glossary of critical terms gives budding journalists all the tools needed to cover the green beat. Updated with detailed coverage of how companies and climate change have evolved over the past decade this second edition expands upon the digital sphere and the myriad ways that deadline multimedia and mobile reporting have changed environmental journalism. Including consideration of issues such as the water crisis in Flint Michigan and the GMO controversy this new edition provides a fresh take on the green beat with a newly organized table of contents and a guide to freelance and entrepreneurial journalism anywhere in the world. Contents include: • an overview and history of the environment and journalism spotlighting the most significant issues in the beat; • guidance on understanding environmental and health science ranging from issues of risk to scientific research and studies to interviewing scientists; • insights into government and regulatory communities and environmental advocates on all sides of the political spectrum and internationally; • assistance in accessing public records and conducting digital and computer-assisted reporting; • guidance in writing the story for print broadcast and internet audiences; • an examination of the future of journalism and news coverage of the environment in the U.S. and throughout the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138284418

Covert Discrimination And Women In The Sciences The process of achieving equal opportunity for professional advancement involves not only legal issues but also psychological and social ones. This book deals with the barriers that can hinder professional development discussed in the context of women in the sciences. Five issues are raised. First what behavior constitutes discrimination how is Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780429051036

Covert NetworkProgressives the International Rescue Committee and the CIA This book tells the story of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) the largest nonsectarian refugee relief agency in the world. Founded in the 1930s by socialist militants the IRC attracted the support of renowned progressives such as Eleanor Roosevelt Norman Thomas and Reinhold Niebuhr. But by the 1950s it had been absorbed into the American foreign policy establishment. Throughout the Cold War the IRC was deeply involved in the volatile confrontations between the two superpowers and participated in an array of sensitive clandestine operations. The IRC thus evolved from a small organization of committed activists to a global operation functioning as one link in the CIA's covert network. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315286495

COVID-19 and Emerging Environmental TrendsA Way Forward The extensive safety restrictions imposed globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic have brought significant changes to almost all environmental parameters. The largest pandemic of the century has left an indelible mark on all aspects of human life and the environment. This book revolves around COVID-19 and its influence on all biotic and abiotic components on earth with a focus on the regulatory role of air quality during the pandemic environmental toxicity and susceptibility to COVID-19 and the impact of the lockdown on different ecosystems. The book fundamentally explains the biology of SARS-CoV-2 and the pathophysiology and epidemiology of COVID-19. Dedicated chapters highlight the ongoing global cutting-edge research on COVID-19 control and safety measures and public health concerns. COVID-19 and Emerging Environmental Trends: A Way Forward is aimed at graduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in environmental and medical science health and safety and ecology. This book offers a multiperspective and multidisciplinary approach to the discussion of the pandemic as well as emerging environmental issues current trends and a way forward. As humanity stands face-to-face with the largest global crisis in recent times this book helps readers to easily understand its various aspects from a beginner’s perspective without going into the intricate technicalities of medical science or environmental science and beautifully juxtaposes critical issues with lucid language and flexible scientific explanations. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367623210

Covid-19 and International BusinessChange of Era The Covid-19 pandemic has induced a crisis grasping the world abruptly simultaneously and swiftly. As a critical juncture it ignited a change of era for international business. This book illustrates how governments have dealt with the pandemic and the consequent impacts on international business. It also explores the disrupted operations and responses of businesses as their worldwide interconnectivity has been  seriously threatened.  The book discourses multidirectional aspects of the effects of Covid-19 on international business ranging from the juxtaposing forces disrupting globalization and installing a change of era through decoupling of technological production and knowledge flows to its stimulating aspects to the strategic response on business industry and state level. The book contains thirty chapters that offer a multidimensional interpretation of impacts of Covid-19 on international business theory and practice. Employing the latest state of knowledge on the topic the book is aimed at international business audience - scholars students and managers who need to understand better the nature scope and scale of the impacts of the pandemic on international business. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367623241

COVID-19 and Islamic Social Finance It is said that the COVID-19 pandemic has turned back the poverty clock. As such there is a need to have social mechanisms put in place to provide relief to those who are affected in this regard. Islamic social finance consists of tools and institutions that could be used to alleviate poverty. This book explores the impact of COVID-19 on Islamic finance to better understand the effectiveness of Islamic social finance in helping those who have been affected by poverty overnight due to the halt in all major economic activities in the context of the pandemic. Since the struggle against poverty in each country will be different the book attempts to shed light on the experiences of different countries by presenting successful models of Islamic social finance. The book first looks at poverty and COVID-19 before delving into the role of Islamic social financial institutions and how they have risen against COVID-19. The book concludes by examining the impact of COVID-19 on Islamic microfinance. This book is the first of its kind on the subject of COVID-19 and it intends to bridge the gap in the literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367639938

COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age explores how states and societies have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and their long-term implications for public policy and the rule of law globally. It examines the extent to which existing methods of protecting public safety and national security measure up in a time of crisis. The volume also examines how these ideas themselves have undergone transformation in the context of the global crisis. This book: Explores the intersection of public policy individual rights and technology; Analyzes the role of science in determining political choices; Reconsiders our understanding of security studies on a global scale arising out of antisocial behaviour panic buying and stockpiling of food and (in the United States) arms; Probes the role of fake news and social media in crisis situations; and Provides a critical analysis of the notion of global surveillance in relation to the pandemic.   A timely prescient volume on the many ramifications of the pandemic this book will be essential reading for professionals scholars researchers and students of public policy especially practitioners working in the fields of technology and society security studies law media studies and public health. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780367560232

COVID-19Two Volume Set The SARS-CoV-2 virus commonly referred to as COVID-19 is perhaps the greatest threat to life and lifestyles around the world in more than a century. Although there is little global agreement on many issues related to the virus there is widespread agreement that the actual number of cases – both of those infected and of those who have died as a result of infection – is certainly much higher than official numbers suggest. The impact of the virus however has spread well beyond the realm of the medical also heavily impacting social cultural economic political and quotidian ways of living for nearly every human being on the planet. The two edited volumes in this set contribute to a broader understanding of the impact COVID-19 is having and will have on our understandings efforts and decisions of the future of global society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367740610

COVID-19Volume I: Global Pandemic Societal Responses Ideological Solutions The SARS-CoV-2 virus and the associated COVID-19 pandemic is perhaps the greatest threat to life and lifestyles the world has known in more than a century. The scholarship included here provides critical insights into the ethics and ideologies inequalities and changed social understandings that lie at the heart of this pandemic. This volume maps out the ways in which the pandemic has impacted (most often disproportionately) societies the successes and failures of means used to combat the virus and the considerations and future possibilities – both positive and negative – that lie ahead. While the pandemic has brought humanity together in some noteworthy ways it has also laid bare many of the systemic inequalities that lie at the foundation of our global society. This volume is a significant step toward better understanding these impacts. The work presented here represents a remarkable diversity and quality of impassioned scholarship and is a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to the pandemic. This volume and its companion COVID-19: Volume II: Social Consequences and Cultural Adaptations are the result of the collaboration of more than 50 of the leading social scientists from across five continents. The breadth and depth of the scholarship is matched only by the intellectual and global scope of the contributors themselves. The insights presented here have much to offer not just to an understanding of the ongoing world of COVID-19 but also to helping us (re-) build and better shape the world beyond. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367695156

COVID-19Volume II: Social Consequences and Cultural Adaptations The SARS-CoV-2 virus and the associated COVID-19 pandemic is perhaps the greatest threat to life and lifestyles the world has known in more than a century. The scholarship included here provides critical insights into the institutional responses communal consequences cultural adaptations and social politics that lie at the heart of this pandemic. This volume maps out the ways in which the pandemic has impacted (most often disproportionately) societies the successes and failures of means used to combat the virus and the considerations and future possibilities – both positive and negative –  that lie ahead. While the pandemic has brought humanity together in some noteworthy ways it has also laid bare many of the systemic inequalities that lie at the foundation of our global society. This volume is a significant step toward better understanding these impacts. The work presented here represents a remarkable diversity and quality of impassioned scholarship and is a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to the pandemic. This volume and its companion COVID-19: Volume I: Global Pandemic Societal Responses Ideological Solutions are the result of the collaboration of more than 50 of the leading social scientists from across five continents. The breadth and depth of the scholarship is matched only by the intellectual and global scope of the contributors themselves. The insights presented here have much to offer not just to an understanding of the ongoing world of COVID-19 but also to helping us (re-) build and better shape the world beyond. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367695125

Cowboys And CultivatorsThe Chinese Of Inner Mongolia This book is about Han Chinese who dared to cross over the Great Wall of China to make a life for themselves on the northern frontier. It compares family lives the economy and gender relations among Chinese herders and farmers of Inner Mongolia. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367158767

Cowrie Shells and Cowrie MoneyA Global History Originating in the sea especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea annulus) was transported to various parts of Afro-Eurasia in the prehistoric era and in many cases it was gradually transformed into a form of money in various societies for a long span of time. Yang provides a global examination of cowrie money within and beyond Afro-Eurasia from the archaeological period to the early twentieth century. By focusing on cowrie money in Indian Chinese Southeast Asian and West African societies and shell money in Pacific and North American societies Yang synthsises and illustrates the economic and cultural connections networks and interactions over a longue durée and in a cross-regional context. Analysing locally varied experiences of cowrie money from a global perspective Yang argued that cowrie money was the first global money that shaped Afro-Eurasian societies both individually and collectively. He proposes a paradigm of the cowrie money world that engages local regional transregional and global themes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367484316

CPHIMS Review GuidePreparing for Success in Healthcare Information and Management Systems Whether you're taking the CPHIMS exam or simply want the most current and comprehensive overview in healthcare information and management systems today - this completely revised and updated third edition has it all. But for those preparing for the CPHIMS exam this book is an ideal study partner. The content reflects the exam content outline covering healthcare and technology environments; systems analysis design selection implementation support maintenance testing evaluation privacy and security; and administration leadership management. Candidates can challenge themselves with the sample multiple choice questions at the end of the book. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781498772457

CPRT Second Edition Package Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) grounded in the attitudes and principles of Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) is based on the belief that a parent acting as an agent for change in place of a play therapist has potential for significant and lasting therapeutic gains. This newly expanded and revised edition of Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) describes training objectives essential skills and concepts taught in each session as well as the format for supervising parents’ play sessions. Transcripts of actual sessions demonstrate process and content in the 10 CPRT training sessions. Research demonstrating the effectiveness of CPRT on child and parent outcomes is presented in support of CPRT’s designation as an evidence-based treatment model. This second edition is updated to include six new chapters exploring the topics of cultural considerations for working with ethnically and racially diverse families neuroscience support for CPRT and adaptions for specific populations including parents of toddlers parents of preadolescents adoptive families and the teacher/student relationship. The authors’ expertise and experience results in a book that is essential reading for both students and professionals. By using this text and the accompanying treatment manual filial therapists will have a complete package for training parents in the CPRT model. This newly expanded and revised edition of the Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) Treatment Manual is the essential companion to the second edition of Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT). The second edition is updated to include four new CPRT treatment protocols and parent notebooks adapted for specific populations: parents of toddlers parents of preadolescents adoptive families and the teacher/student relationship along with the revised original CPRT protocol and parent notebook for ages 3−10.This manual provides the CPRT/filial therapist a comprehensive framework for conducting CPRT. Included are detailed outlines teaching aides activities and resources for each of the 10 sessions. The manual is divided into two major sections Therapist Protocol and Parent Notebook and contains a comprehensive CPRT Training Resources section along with an index to the accompanying Companion Website.　 The accompanying Companion Website contains all necessary and supplemental training materials in a format that allows for ease of reproduction and enhanced usability including the following: CPRT Protocol—Ages 3 to 10 and Parent Notebook Toddler Adapted CPRT Protocol and Parent Notebook Preadolescent Adapted CPRT Protocol and Parent Notebook Adoptive Families Adapted CPRT Protocol and Parent Notebook Teacher/Student Adapted Protocol and Teacher Notebook Therapist Study Guide Training Resources Teaching Aides and Supplemental Materials Marketing Materials AssessmentsDrawing on their extensive experience as professional play therapists and filial therapists Bratton and Landreth apply the principles of CCPT and CPRT in this easy-to-follow protocol for practitioners to successfully implement the evidence-based CPRT model. By using this manual and the accompanying Companion Website in conjunction with the CPRT text filial therapists will have a complete package for training parents in CCPT skills to act as therapeutic agents with their own children.     Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367422837

CPTED and Traditional Security Countermeasures150 Things You Should Know CTPED and Traditional Security Countermeasures: 150 Things You Should Know is a handy reference for both seasoned professionals and those just starting out in security and law enforcement.　 Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is a foundational concept to physical security and can be incorporated widely in security policies plans and procedures.　 It has proven effective over the many years insofar as building and campus design security architecture and creating an overall security culture in any workplace. The authors have collected a broad array of topics together garnered through their many years of real-world experience in the field. Security solutions that address a wide range of physical security challenges are presented in an easy to follow format. Security practitioners and law enforcement professionals alike will find practical tips to understand and manage their security program including access control target hardening command and control physical security protections and visitor management among a myriad of other topics. This will be a must-have reference for professionals looking for real-world recommendations for physical security solutions. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138501737

CR Manifolds and the Tangential Cauchy Riemann Complex CR Manifolds and the Tangential Cauchy Riemann Complex provides an elementary introduction to CR manifolds and the tangential Cauchy-Riemann Complex and presents some of the most important recent developments in the field. The first half of the book covers the basic definitions and background material concerning CR manifolds CR functions the tangential Cauchy-Riemann Complex and the Levi form. The second half of the book is devoted to two significant areas of current research. The first area is the holomorphic extension of CR functions. Both the analytic disc approach and the Fourier transform approach to this problem are presented. The second area of research is the integral kernal approach to the solvability of the tangential Cauchy-Riemann Complex. CR Manifolds and the Tangential Cauchy Riemann Complex will interest students and researchers in the field of several complex variable and partial differential equations. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367450526

Crónicas de América LatinaNarrativa de no-ficción Crónicas de América Latina: narrativa de no-ficción es la primera edición de una novedosa antología de crónicas diseñada para la enseñanza de español avanzado. Los textos fascinantes y accesibles permiten que los estudiantes se adentren en la compleja realidad contemporánea tanto política como social y cultural de América Latina mientras refuerzan la lectura la redacción y la conversación. Los ejercicios todos ellos diseñados a partir de los propios textos pretenden repasar problemas gramaticales y léxicos tradicionales con especial énfasis en aquellos que atañen a las variedades dialectales del español americano: por ejemplo el uso del pronombre ‘vos’. Este libro es un excelente material de lectura que puede usarse en clases de español como segunda lengua o en clases de español para hablantes de herencia tanto en clases de lengua (gramática o conversación) como de contenido (cultura). Dividido en nueve capítulos el material abarca temas cruciales tales como política identidad raza género inmigración violencia exilio medio ambiente gastronomía fútbol y música. Cada texto puede leerse de forma independiente lo que permite que los profesores seleccionen las lecturas según las particularidades de cada curso. Pensado en un principio para estudiantes de español esta antología es sobre todo una lectura indispensable para cualquier persona interesada en la zona que concentra el mayor número de hispanohablantes en el mundo. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138713017

Crack Cocaine UsersHigh Society and Low Life in South London Crack cocaine users have significant health problems and place a significant burden on social services the criminal justice system and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers professionals and the wider section of society they are the most poorly understood drug-using group and have the worst retention rate in prison drug programmes and community drug agencies. This book is about their addictions and the realities of their lives. Based on ethnographic research (observation and interviewing) conducted in south London it aims to highlight their day-to-day struggles as they attempt to survive in a violent and intimidating street drug scene while trying to make changes to their lives. The book unpacks the myths and stigma of their drug use highlighting their fragile position in society in an effort to better understand them. With the help of several key characters the book uses their words and experiences to take the reader on a journey through their crack addiction from a life in and out of crack houses their experiences with law enforcement and welfare agencies to their life aspirations. The findings have important policy implications and are relevant and accessible to academics and students in the field of criminology sociology psychology and research methods. The research is equally relevant for central and local government policymakers and frontline healthcare and drug agency staff. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415870504

Crack CocaineA Practical Treatment Approach For The Chemically Dependent First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138004818

Cracking in BuildingsBR292 2e Cracks are inevitable in virtually all types of construction because of the kind of materials we use the ways in which we use or misuse them and the service conditions that our buildings experience. Nevertheless cracks are often unsightly and to the uninitiated may be a sign of serious problems. Whether a crack is cause for concern or not of course depends on circumstances and whether subsequent action is needed depends on correct diagnosis of the nature of the problem that brought it about. This book first published in 1996 sets out basic information on the science of materials behaviour which is relevant to understanding how and why cracks occur. Given that understanding much can be done to avoid their occurrence and to diagnose their cause and repair them so that they do not recur. This second edition updates references and any matters where the intervening years have improved or changed knowledge. It is hoped that readers will find merit in this report in that it collects relevant but scattered information into one source treats cracking in buildings as a subject in its own right and provides a systematic approach to whatever is the reader’s role in the building business. Its content should therefore be of interest to all who own occupy design build and maintain buildings. Media > Books > Print Books IHS BRE Press 9781848064294

Cracking the Common CoreChoosing and Using Texts in Grades 6-12 This book guides teachers in grades 6-12 to strategically combine a variety of texts--including literature informational texts and digital sources--to meet their content-area goals and the demands of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). It presents clear-cut ways to analyze text complexity design challenging text sets and help students get the most out of what they read. Provided are practical instructional ideas for building background knowledge promoting engagement incorporating discussion and text-based writing and teaching research skills. Appendices offer sample unit plans for English language arts history/social studies and science classrooms. More than 20 reproducible coaching templates and other tools can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2"" x 11"" size. Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462513130

Cracking the Innovation CodeHow To Unlock The True Potential of Your Business To Grow Through New Products Author Dr Andy Wynn along with contributions from leaders of some of the biggest companies on the planet (including DuPont 3M Johnson Matthey and Imerys) finally reveals the secret of how you can unlock the potential in your business to grow. In the follow up to his book Transforming Technology into Profit Andy takes you on a journey that explains how the organisation and culture within your business impact your company’s ability to innovate. Using his "Three Tiers of Successful Innovation" Andy reveals how to clearly identify what aspects of your business are holding back growth and how to use that information to transform your business into one that facilitates growth by revitalising the structure and culture of your business to focus employee behaviours on adding profitable new revenue streams. Part sequel and part companion volume to his previous book Andy finally "cracks the code" on how to unleash your business’ ability to create and successfully commercialise new products. Written in the author’s trademark conversational style Cracking the Innovation Code offers a refreshingly practical and real-world view written by someone who has been there and done it and enhanced by valuable case studies and contributions from numerous senior executives who have made life-long careers out of leading innovation and with a passion for leading industrial manufacturing businesses. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367567118

Cracking the Intercollegiate General Surgery FRCS Viva 2eA Revision Guide Cracking the Intercollegiate General Surgery FRCS Viva: A Revision Guide 2e provides the framework and knowledge to pass the non-subspecialty sections of the FRCS (General Surgery) viva and clinical examination. This comprehensive and up to date revision text covers all essential topics in critical care emergency and general surgery as well as research papers basic statistics and data manipulation for the academic section.This essential revision guide provides you with the vital points for each topic presented in a concise structured manner and referenced where appropriate. It is essential reading for anyone preparing for the FRCS General Surgery exam. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367179427

Cracking the Intercollegiate General Surgery FRCS VivaA Revision Guide The FRCS examination is the last hurdle on the road to independent practice as a consultant surgeon in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The voce viva portion of the exam can be particularly challenging for candidates who must demonstrate not only their knowledge of various surgical topics but also their reasoning and decision-making abilities.Crack Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9780429102974

Cracks in the AllianceScience Technology and the Evolution of U.S.-Japan Relations Published in 1997. Providing an analysis of the science and technology policies of the United States and Japan this book shows how these policies have led to different market outcomes. It looks at the extent of unfair trade practised by Japan and its efforts to craft a global post-Cold War position for itself. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138612402

Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum 1897-1964 As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum (also known as the Beit al-Amani or Peace Memorial Museum) is widely known and familiar to Zanzibaris and visitors alike. Yet the complicated and compelling history behind its construction and collection has been overlooked by historians until now. Drawing on a rich and wide range of hitherto unexplored archival photographic architectural and material evidence this book is the first serious investigation of this remarkable institution. Although the museum was not opened until 1925 this book traces the longer history of colonial display which culminated in the establishment of the Zanzibar Museum. It reveals the complexity of colonial knowledge production in the changing political context of the twentieth century British Empire and explores the broad spectrum of people from diverse communities who shaped its existence as staff informants collectors and teachers. Through vivid narratives involving people objects and exhibits this book exposes the fractures contradictions and tensions in creating and maintaining a colonial museum and casts light on the conflicted character of the ’colonial mission’ in eastern Africa. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367598549

Cradling the ChrysalisTeaching and Learning Psychotherapy This book addresses the ethical and philosophical basis for the teaching/learning involved in becoming a psychotherapist. How can training prepare prospective psychotherapists counsellors and counselling psychologists for a task whose practitioners cannot even agree as to whether it is an art or a science an impersonal clinical interaction or a profoundly humane even 'spiritual' encounter? The authors believe they share with their students a passion about the possibilities inherent in this particular kind of conversation. Such a meeting demands a fully personal engagement and a profoundly ethical attitude towards the relationship with the Other; it is also potentially an important beginning in 'repairing the world'. The book explores the relative importance and emphasis of the structure content and process of psychotherapy training. Its thesis is that the teaching/learning takes place in the quality of the reciprocal meeting between the teacher and the learner. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782201496

Craft Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics 19th-20th Century Craft practice has a rich history and remains vibrant sustaining communities while negotiating cultures within local or international contexts. More than two centuries of industrialization have not extinguished handmade goods; rather the broader force of industrialization has redefined and continues to define the context of creation deployment and use of craft objects. With object study at the core this book brings together a collection of essays that address the past and present of craft production its use and meaning within a range of community settings from the Huron Wendat of colonial Quebec to the Girls’ Friendly Society of twentieth-century England. The making of handcrafted objects has and continues to flourish despite the powerful juggernaut of global industrialization whether inspired by a calculated refutation of industrial sameness an essential means to sustain a cultural community under threat or a rejection of the imposed definitions by a dominant culture. The broader effects of urbanizing imperial and globalizing projects shape the multiple contexts of interaction and resistance that can define craft ventures through place and time. By attending to the political histories of craft objects and their makers over the last few centuries these essays reveal the creative persistence of various hand mediums and the material debates they represented. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138547629

Craft and SpiritA Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies In Craft and Spirit Joseph Lichtenberg writes of the craft of exploratory psychotherapy by which he means the creative skill — even artistry — that mobilizes the spirit of inquiry in therapist and patient and sustains it over the course of psychotherapy.  He expatiates on this craft as it pertains to patients of our time — patients who typically bring to therapy backgrounds of insecure attachment and serious concerns about safety and retraumatization.  In each of ten chapters Lichtenberg formulates a different guideline for technique keyed to the broad domain of exploratory psychotherapies and are accompanied by numerous clinical illustrations. These guidelines seek to foster greater therapist involvement without compromising an openness to psychological exploration.  They seek to sensitize therapists to the two interlacing tracks of communication that unfold in treatment: those of verbal exchange and of enactive messages.   And they help guide therapist attention among interpenetrating domains of the patient’s subjectivity the therapist’s subjectivity and the intersubjective realm that emerges from their collaborative experience.  Fusing the humanist tradition of therapeutic inquiry with knowledge gained from recent infancy and child research Lichtenberg develops guidelines suitable to exploratory therapy with patients who communicate not only verbally but also through diverse affect states and altered cognitions.  Consistently illuminating on the parallels and disjunctions between caregiver–child and therapist–patient relationships Lichtenberg is clear about the adult-to-adult dimension of exploratory work in which “provision” is necessarily subordinate to “inquiry.”  Craft and Spirit is aimed equally at prospective patients therapists and analysts all of whom will be edified by this masterful demonstration of the ways in which a spirit of inquiry imbues the craft of psychotherapy in Lichtenberg’s words “with its liveliness of sustained purpose.” Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138005853

Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low CountriesWork Power and Representation In the half millennium of their existence guilds in the Low Countries played a highly significant role in shaping the societies of which they were a part. One key aspect that has been identified in recent historical research to explain the survival of the guilds for such a long time is the guilds' continued adaptability to changing circumstances. This idea of flexibility is the point of departure for the essays in this volume which sheds new light on the corporate system and identifies its various features and regional variances. The contributors explore the interrelations between economic organisations and political power in late medieval and early modern towns and address issues of gender religion and social welfare in the context of the guilds. This cohesive and focussed volume will provide a stimulus for renewed interest and further research in this area. It will appeal to scholars and students with an interest in early modern economic social and cultural history in particular but will also be valuable to those researching into political religious and gender history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138379114

Craft in Art TherapyDiverse Approaches to the Transformative Power of Craft Materials and Methods Craft in Art Therapy is the first book dedicated to illustrating the incorporation of craft materials and methods into art therapy theory and practice. Contributing authors provide examples of how they have used a range of crafts including pottery glass work textiles (sewing knitting crochet embroidery and quilting) paper (artist books altered books book binding origami and zines) leatherwork and Indian crafts like mendhi and kolam/rangoli in their own art and self-care and in individual group and community art therapy practice. The book explores the therapeutic benefits of a range of craft materials and media as well as craft’s potential to build community to support individuals in caring for themselves and each other and to play a valuable role in art therapy practice. Craft in Art Therapy demonstrates that when practiced in a culturally sensitive and socially conscious manner craft practices are more than therapeutic—they also hold transformational potential. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367343163

Craft Notes for AnimatorsA Perspective on a 21st Century Career If Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs represented the Animation industry’s infancy Ed Hooks thinks that the current production line of big-budget features is its artistically awkward adolescence. While a well-funded marketing machine can conceal structural flaws uneven performances and superfluous characters the importance of crafted storytelling will only grow in importance as animation becomes a broader more accessible art form. Craft Notes for Animators analyses specific films – including Frozen and Despicable Me â€“ to explain the secrets of creating truthful stories and believable characters. It is an essential primer for the for tomorrow’s industry leaders and animation artists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138854345

Craft of UsePost-Growth Fashion This book explores the ‘craft of use’ the cultivated ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments presenting them as an alternative dynamic experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector. Here Kate Fletcher provides a broad imagining of sustainability in fashion that gives attention to tending and wearing garments and favours their use as much as their creation. She offers a diversified view of fashion beyond the market and the market’s purpose and reveals fashion provision and expression in a world not dependent on continuous consumption. Framing design and use as a single whole the book uncovers a more contingent and time-dependent role for design in sustainability recognising that garments while sold as a product are lived as a process. Drawing from stories and portrait photography that document the ways in which members of the public from across three continents use their clothes and the work of seven international design teams seeking to amplify these use practices Craft of Use presents a changed social narrative for fashion borne out of ideas of satisfaction and interdependence of action knowledge and human agency that glimpses fashion post-growth. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138021013

Crafting an African Security ArchitectureAddressing Regional Peace and Conflict in the 21st Century The humanitarian crises caused by civil conflicts and wars in Africa are too great in scope for an adequate and effective continental response. The founding of the African Union and the drafting of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine the basis for collective action against genocide ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity makes this a critical time to reflect on how best to address regional conflicts. This book responds to new regional conflicts over health water land and food security in the world's poorest most socially fragmented continent. The work assesses African regional security arrangements and provides new policy recommendations for the future. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315574530

Crafting by ConceptsFiber Arts and Mathematics From the editors of the popular Making Mathematics with Needlework this book presents projects that highlight the relationship between types of needlework and mathematics. Chapters start with accessible overviews presenting the interplay between mathematical concepts and craft expressions. Following sections explain the mathematics in more detail and provide suggestions for classroom activities. Each chapter ends with specific crafting instructions. Types of needlework included are knitting crochet needlepoint cross-stitch quilting temari balls beading tatting and string art. Instructions are written as ordinary patterns so the formatting and language will be familiar to crafters. Media > Books > Print Books A K Peters/CRC Press 9781568814353

Crafting CollectivityAmerican Rainbow Gatherings and Alternative Forms of Community Every summer thousands of people assemble to live together to celebrate the Annual Gathering of the Rainbow Family. Participants establish temporary systems of water distribution and filtration sanitation health care and meals provided freely to all who gather and they develop sharing and trading systems recreational opportunities and educational experiences distinct to this creative social world. The Rainbow Family has invented itself as a unique modern culture without formal organization providing the necessities of life freely to all who attend. The Annual Gathering of the Rainbow Family has been operating for more than forty years as an experiment in liberty that demonstrates how material organization participation and cultural connection can reshape social relationships and transform individual lives. Grounded in sociological theory and research the book considers what kind of culture the material systems of Babylon reinforce and how society could facilitate the kind of social world and human welfare humans desire." Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781612057460

Crafting Contemporary Pagan Identities in a Catholic Society Contemporary western Paganism is now a global religious phenomenon with Pagans in many parts of the world sharing much in common - from a nature-revering worldview and lifestyle to a host of chants invocations ritual tools and magical practices. But there are also locally-specific differences. Local religious contexts landscapes histories traditions politics values and norms all impact on local Paganisms. This is nowhere more evident than in a strongly Catholic society where religion and culture are deeply entwined. Taking the Mediterranean society of Malta as a case study this book invites readers inside the world of a small hidden sub-culture. Showing what it is like being Pagan in a society where the vast majority of the population is Roman Catholic and Catholicism permeates every sphere of public and domestic social and political life Rountree reveals that Paganism here is a unique brew of indigenous and global influences. Pagans employ both creativity and borrowing in constructing identities within a cultural context characterized by antagonism as well as continuity. This book explores the intersections of religious and cultural identity the global and local Paganism and Christianity with insights grounded in rich ethnographic detail based on long-term fieldwork. Rountree makes invaluable comparisons with other studies of modern Pagans and their various worlds. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315574554

Crafting ConundrumsPuzzles and Patterns for the Bead Crochet Artist Designed for crafters puzzle lovers and pattern designers alike Crafting Conundrums: Puzzles and Patterns for the Bead Crochet Artist provides methods challenges and patterns that offer a springboard for creative exploration. All are illustrated with beautiful color diagrams and photographs. Experienced bead crochet crafters looking for a project may choose to skip ahead to the pattern pages and begin crocheting from an abundance of unique mathematically inspired designs. Those wishing to design their own patterns will find many useful tools template patterns and a new methodology for understanding how to do so even without using math. Puzzle lovers without previous knowledge of bead crochet will also find ample inspiration for learning the craft. The first part of the book describes the basic requirements and constraints of a bead crochet pattern and explains what makes designing in this medium so tricky. The authors present their new design framework and offer insight on how best to approach design choices and issues unique to bead crochet. The second part presents a series of bead crochet design challenges informed by colorful bits of mathematics including topology graph theory knot theory tessellations and wallpaper groups. Each chapter in this section begins with a design puzzle accompanied by an introduction to the mathematical idea that inspired it. The authors then discuss what made the challenge difficult present some of their solutions and describe the thinking and ideas behind their approach. The final part contains nearly 100 original bead crochet patterns including solutions to all the design challenges. This part also provides a tutorial on the fundamentals of bead crochet technique. Behind the deceptively simple and uniform arrangement of beads is a subtle geometry that produces compelling design challenges and fascinating mathematical structures. In color throughout Crafting Conundrums gives both math enthusiasts and crafters an innovative approach to creating bead crochet patterns while addressing a variety of mathematically inspired design questions. Supplementary materials including demo videos are available on the book’s CRC Press web page. Media > Books > Print Books A K Peters/CRC Press 9781466588486

Crafting Form-Based CodesResilient Design Policy and Regulation This book is for the well-meaning idealists – city planners urban designers municipalities and developers – who are frustrated working within the messy political environments of local democracies. It provides practical tools for crafting form-based rules that can facilitate effective communication and consensus building that are essential in today’s many regulatory cultures. It reviews some of the recent form-based codes and focuses on a lot-types approach to coding. It applies this approach to designing for the climate; it demonstrates that this approach can be used in deciphering the climatic responses of vernacular archetypes that have been evolved through generations and then coding them via simple coding tools. This book’s purpose is twofold: (a) to provide a theoretical framework that clarifies why working within dynamic legal systems in local democracies is a necessity today for practitioners of urban planning and design and how crafting dynamic rules may facilitate effective communication which is crucial within these cultures; and (b) to provide simple tools for crafting dynamic rules in form-based codes that can not only facilitate form-based consensus but also address issues of sustainability and response to the climatic properties. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815365020

Crafting ImmunityWorking Histories of Clinical Immunology Immunity is as old as illness itself yet historians have only just begun to take up the challenge of reconstructing the modern transformation of attempts to protect against disease. Crafting Immunity assembles in one volume the most recent efforts of an international group of scholars to place the diverse practices of immunity in their historical contexts. It is this diversity that provides the book with its greatest source of strength. Collectively the papers in this volume suggest that it was the craft-like small-scale and local conditions of clinical medicine that turned the immunity of individuals and populations into biomedical objects. That is to say the modern conception of immunity was at least as much the product of the work of healing as it was the systematic result of discoveries about the immune system. Working outside the narrow confines of laboratory histories Crafting Immunity is the first attempt to set the problems of immunity into a variety of social technological institutional and intellectual contexts. It will appeal not only to historians and sociologists of health but also to social and cultural historians interested in the biomedical creation of modern health regimens. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138265295

Crafting Patriotism for Global DominanceAmerica at the Olympics In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace. In so doing China treads the path blazed by the United States. For more than a century the U.S. has used the Olympic Games to construct national identity create communal memory and craft patriotic mythology. From opening parades where the American team refuses to dip its flag in order to signal American exceptionalism to the closing ceremonies where the U.S. media trumpet that their team owes its medals not to superior athleticism but to the nation’s peerless social and political systems Olympic Games have served as sites to bolster American nationalism. More than any other nation the United States has politicized its Olympic participation. In the process a host of myths about American superiority in global encounters has emerged through the Olympics. In memorializing and mythologizing their Olympic teams Americans have revealed the contours of the racial gender and class dynamics that animate their peculiar nationhood. These essays explore the history of expressions of American national identity in Olympic arenas. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138880429

Crafting Phenomenological Research Building off the success of its award-winning first edition the second edition of Crafting Phenomenological Research continues to be the leading resource for those interested in a concise introduction to phenomenological research in education and social sciences. Joining leading contemporary practitioners such as van Manen Giorgi and Dahlberg Vagle walks the reader through multiple approaches to designing and implementing phenomenological research including his post-intentional phenomenology which incorporates elements of post-structural thinking into traditional methods. Vagle provides readers with methodological tools to build their own phenomenological study addressing such issues as research design data gathering and analysis and writing. Replete with exercises for students resources for further research and examples of completed phenomenological studies this book affords the instructor an easy entrée into introducing phenomenology into courses on qualitative research social theory or educational research. New to this edition: An additional first chapter that outlines the historical background of phenomenological philosophy and methodology. A feature called "snapshots" that provides brief commentary and/or examples to illustrate concepts and ideas. Updated "resource digs" providing more examples with the addition of more international resources. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138042667

Crafting Preservation CriteriaThe National Register of Historic Places and American Historic Preservation In 1966 American historic preservation was transformed by the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act which created a National Register of Historic Places. Now comprising more than 1.4 million historic properties across the country the National Register is the official federal list of places in the United States thought to be worthy of preservation. One of the fundamental principles of the National Register is that every property is evaluated according to a standard set of criteria that provide the framework for understanding why a property is significant in American history. The origins of these criteria are important because they provide the threshold for consideration by a broad range of federal preservation programs from planning for continued adaptive use to eligibility for grants and inclusion in heritage tourism and educational programs. Crafting Preservation Criteria sets out these preservation criteria for students explaining how they got added to the equation and elucidating the test cases that allowed for their use. From artworks to churches from 'the fifty year rule' to 'the historic scene' students will learn how places have been historically evaluated to be placed on the National Register and how the criteria evolved over time. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415642569

Crafting Qualitative ResearchBeyond Positivist Traditions This book provides an overview of qualitative research models and their applications in organization and management studies. Focusing on the philosophical underpinnings and practical implications of diverse qualitative methods this comprehensive text offers a guided tour of the options available to qualitative researchers highlighting aspects of research design execution and analysis in each tradition. In clear readable prose the author offers insight into the ambiguities tensions and interconnections of diverse qualitative research traditions without resorting to oversimplification. The book’s four main sections include examples and applications specifically designed for the field of management. Each chapter is devoted to a specific methodology describing techniques and applications as well as current controversies and emerging issues. Summary boxes and practical examples will help the reader to navigate this terrain and generate research that is both relevant and of high scholarly quality. With its detailed and easy-to-understand coverage this will be the text of choice for students working with qualitative methods in organization studies consumer research public administration information systems and media and communication studies. Instructors teaching qualitative approaches in a research methods course and researchers wanting to acquaint themselves with non-positivist traditions will also find this a useful resource. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780765641595

Crafting Scholarship in the Behavioral and Social SciencesWriting Reviewing and Editing Crafting Scholarship helps readers improve their writing and publishing success in academia. Framed within the context of the editorial and peer review process the book explores writing editing and reviewing in academic publishing. As such it provides unique coverage of how successful writers work how they manage criticism and more. Examples from successful scholars provide helpful tips in writing articles grants books book chapters and reviews. Each chapter features tools that facilitate learning including Best Practices and Writer’s Resource boxes to help maximize success discussion questions and case studies to stimulate critical thinking and recommended readings to encourage self exploration. A Facebook page provides an opportunity for readers to post writing updates and for instructors to share materials. Highlights include: -Insights on working with journal boards reviewers and contributors drawn from the author’s 30 years of experience in editing journal articles and writing books. -Describes writing quantitative and qualitative reports theory and literature reviews books and chapters grants and book reviews. -Identifies common problems academics face in writing and publishing along with practical solutions. -Explores best practices in writing peer reviews responding to reviewers and editors and how to calculate and interpret acceptance rates and impact factors. -Addresses how to write each section of a journal article and select keywords that facilitate digital search engines to help potential readers find an article. -Includes examples of published work and tips on writing research syntheses using meta-analytic techniques or narrative analyses. -Examines the practices of successful writers the pros and cons of collaborations what publishers look for and managing criticism. -Reviews pertinent empirical literature on the core topics of writing reviewing and editing. Intended for graduate or advanced undergraduate courses in professional development writing in an academic field or research methods taught in psychology education human development and family studies sociology communication and other social sciences this practical guide also appeals to those interested in pursuing an academic career and new and seasoned researchers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138787841

Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect Fifth Edition stands alone among screenwriting books by emphasizing that human connection though often overlooked is as essential to writing effective screenplays as conflict. This ground-breaking book will show you how to advance and deepen your screenwriting skills increasing your ability to write richer more resonant short screenplays that will connect with your audience. Award-winning writer and director Claudia Hunter Johnson teaches you the all-important basics of dramatic technique and guides you through the challenging craft of writing short screenplays with carefully focused exercises of increasing length and complexity. In completing these exercises and applying Johnson’s techniques and insights to your own work you will learn how to think more deeply about the screenwriter’s purpose craft effective patterns of human change and strengthen your storytelling skills. This 20th Anniversary Edition features 11 short screenplays including Academy Award winning Barry Jenkins' (Moonlight If Beale Street Could Talk) luminous short film My Josephine and an accompanying companion website that features the completed films and additional screenplay examples. The book has also been expanded and updated to include two new award-winning screenplays Killer Kart and The Great Wall of Vicky Lynn. and a brand-new chapter exploring the use of genre in the short film. An absolute must-have resource for students of screenwriting. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367338190

Crafting SocietyEthnicity Class and Communication Theory The study of communication language and discourse is at once simple elegant and complex. Each of these areas is informed by "micro" subjective experiences of individuals and the "macro" processes of a culture. Communication itself is thoroughly modern yet it seeks anchorage in the traditions of the humanities and social sciences. All of this creates a significant challenge. In this monograph Ellis considers the study of communication as he discusses three key issues in communication theory: (1) the growing emphasis on meaning (2) the importance of a mediated culture and (3) the links between micro communication activities and macro social categories such as ethnicity and social class. In response to these three issues this book deals with the way people use language and communication to construct their world; this world is not constructed purely but is influenced by attitudes ideologies and biases. In the modern world the medium of communication has an impact on consciousness and society and Ellis shows how the media are responsible for some of the fault lines in society. The book also explores principles of medium theory and documents the impact of media on psychological and sociological phenomena. Finally work of Goffman Giddens and Randall Collins is extended to show how micro communication behaviors are implicated in and by social conditions. ADDITIONAL COPY FOR MAILER Expanded features: * The chapters work out a logic connecting real communication patterns with the broad principles upon which societies are explored. Thus the title "Crafting" Society--the crafting is purposefully active to indicate the dynamic processes involved in creating what we call society. Society and culture have their roots and empirical bases in communication; that is in the daily struggles of interaction. * Two chapters on two of the most important and controversial issues of the day--ethnicity and class. These two chapters are clear illustrations of the new theoretical principles discussed throughout the book. * A chapter on social class is very unique for a book devoted to communication processes. Communication theorists do not usually write about class even though it is a highly symbolic process and rooted in communication patterns. Class is a difficult concept in America since so few people other than sociologists care to talk about it. * A chapter on medium theory takes the bold step of experimenting a little by summarizing basic causal statements and propositions. This device underscores the goal of a theory which is to come to grips with testable statements. The focus is on medium theory and how the media influence consciousness and social structure. * A unique chapter takes up the issue of how communication processes are constitutive of social structures. It draws on work by Giddens and others to return to a concept of structure based on actions that produce and reproduce structure. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415515641

Crafting Stories for Virtual Reality We are witnessing a revolution in storytelling. Publications all over the world are increasingly using immersive storytelling—virtual reality augmented reality and mixed reality—to tell compelling stories. The aim of this book is to distill the lessons learned thus far into a useful guide for reporters filmmakers and writers interested in telling stories in this emerging medium. Examining ground-breaking work across industries this text explains in practical terms how storytellers can create their own powerful immersive experiences as new media and platforms emerge. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138296725

Crafting the Feedback Teachers Need and DeserveA Guide for Leaders Crafting the Feedback Teachers Need and Deserve illuminates an often overlooked aspect of educational leadership: providing quality written feedback. This resource offers context purpose and techniques on how to capture and write beneficial feedback. Proven in school districts Van Soelen’s strategies will accelerate improvement in classroom practice and result in teachers who crave feedback and use it to supervise themselves. Full of examples and complete with an assessment tool to gauge current practice this book shares insights into providing effective observation and feedback within any teacher evaluation system. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138950030

Crafting the WitchGendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England This book analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures occurring in Arthurian romance in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. In the earlier texts magic is predominantly a masculine pursuit garnering its user prestige and power but in the later texts magic becomes a primarily feminine activity one that marks its user as wicked and heretical. This project explores both the literary and the social motivations for this transformation seeking an answer to the question 'why did the witch become wicked?' Heidi Breuer traverses both the medieval and early modern periods and considers the way in which the representation of literary witches interacted with the culture at large ultimately arguing that a series of economic crises in the fourteenth century created a labour shortage met by women. As women moved into the previously male-dominated economy literary backlash came in the form of the witch and social backlash followed soon after in the form of Renaissance witch-hunting. The witch figure serves a similar function in modern American culture because late-industrial capitalism challenges gender conventions in similar ways as the economic crises of the medieval period. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415699570

Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth CenturyArtistry and Industry in Britain Over the course of the nineteenth century women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour. As they created objects and commodities that blurred the boundaries between domestic and fine art production they crafted subjectivities for themselves as creative workers. By bringing together work by scholars of literature painting music craft and the plastic arts this collection argues that the constructed and contested nature of the female artistic professional was a notable aspect of debates about aesthetic value and the impact of industrial technologies. All the essays in this volume set up a productive inter-art dialogue that complicates conventional binary divisions such as amateur and professional public and private artistry and industry in order to provide a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between gender artistic labour and creativity in the period. Ultimately how women faced the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they pursued vocations trades and professions in the literary marketplace and related art-industries reveals the different ideological positions surrounding the transition of women from industrious amateurism to professional artistry. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138276680

CraftwaysOn the Organization of Scholarly Work The one subject that serious students want most to know about other than their specialty is how academic life is lived and how scholarly work is carried out. Their curiosity is equally shared by those interested in how to improve the quality and quantity of their work. With few exceptions the time honored word-of-mouth approach is all there has been until now; how one works is rarely a subject seriously discussed in print.Craftways is intended to address these concerns and needs. Aaron Wildavsky has long been admired as one of the most productive political scientists of his generation. Repeated expressions of interest in his scholarly craft led him to gather together his essays on how he works. Included are chapters on how to read social science -"not always everyone's favorite pastime" - how to work with others on collaborative projects and how to improve one's academic writing. The question of time the most limited resource available to most scholars is addressed in an amusing chapter "The Organization of Time in Scholarly Activities Carried Out Under American Conditions in Resource-Rich Universities." He includes a section on interviewing focusing not only on the process but on the spirit of scholarly enterprise that should animate it.The last part of the book is purely personal emphasizing the familial and background variables that have made Wildavsky who he is and play a large part in how he goes about his work. This wise volume by a master of his craft should be of broad interest to students and faculty in the social sciences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521414

Craftwork as Problem SolvingEthnographic Studies of Design and Making This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of anthropologists researchers of craft and designer-makers to enumerate and explore the diversity and complexity of problem-solving tactics and strategies employed by craftspeople together with the key social cultural and environmental factors that give rise to particular ways of problem solving. Presenting rich textured ethnographic studies of craftspeople at work around the world Craftwork as Problem Solving examines the intelligent practices involved in solving a variety of problems and the ways in which these are perceived and evaluated both by makers and creators themselves and by the societies in which they work. With attention to local factors such as training regimes and formal education access to tools socialisation and cultural understanding budgetary constraints and market demands changing technologies and materials and political and economic regimes this book sheds fresh light on the multifarious forms of intelligence involved in design and making inventing and manufacturing and cultivating and producing. As such it will appeal to scholars of anthropology sociology and cultural geography as well as to craftspeople with interests in creativity skilful practice perception and ethnography. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815346548

Craig's Soil Mechanics Craig’s Soil Mechanics continues to evolve and remain the definitive text for civil engineering students worldwide. It covers fundamental soil mechanics and its application in applied geotechnical engineering from A to Z and at the right depth for an undergraduate civil engineer with sufficient extension material for supporting MSc level courses and with practical examples and digital tools to make it a useful reference work for practising engineers. This new edition now includes: Restructured chapters on foundations and earthworks the latter including new material on working platforms and collapse of underground cavities (sinkhole formation). New mobilised-stress-based deformation methods that can straightforwardly be used with both linear and non-linear soil stiffness models and field measurements of shear wave velocity for serviceability limit state design. Extended sets of correlations for making sensible first estimates of soil parameters adding deformation-based parameters for broader coverage than the Eighth Edition. Extended section on robust statistical selection of characteristic soil parameters. Greater use of consolidation theory throughout in determining whether actions processes and laboratory/in-situ tests are drained or undrained. Extended chapter on in-situ testing adding the Flat Dilatometer Test (DMT) and interpretation of consolidation parameters from CPTU and DMT testing. An updated section on pile load testing. Additional worked examples and end-of-chapter problems covering new material with fully worked solutions for lecturers. The electronic resources on the book’s companion website are developed further with the addition of two new spreadsheet numerical analysis tools and improvement of existing tools from the Eighth Edition. Using these readers can take real soil test data interpret its mechanical properties and apply these to a range of common geotechnical design problems at ultimate and serviceability limiting states. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138070066

Cranfield on Corporate Sustainability Business schools have a special contribution to make in developing globally responsible critical and independent-thinking future leaders and managers. In fact the Cranfield School of Management acknowledges this as one of its important responsibilities. Its core ideology is to transform the practice of learning and create leaders who action their knowledge and become stewards of the common good. Such thinking forms the basis of this book and its theme of developing responsible and ethical leaders for next-generation enterprises. These leaders will be passionate purposeful and responsible; their primary aim will be to make a difference in the lives of people and create sustainable value premised on sound ethical values. This book aims to provide a roadmap both for business students – the leaders of tomorrow – and for existing and engaged leaders who need support coaching and counselling to address the challenges of the sustainability agenda.  With contributions from more than thirty Cranfield faculty and associates across multiple management disciplines the book emphasizes the need for cross-disciplinarity when confronting sustainability dilemmas. Many corporate responsibility practitioners find themselves isolated from core business issues. Conversely many managers in traditional departments have little or no knowledge of what sustainability and corporate responsibility means to their day-to-day role. Today there is an urgent need for learning for conversation and for sustainability to become embedded throughout an organization's DNA.  Cranfield strives to prepare its students for a work milieu that is increasingly complex diverse technologically interconnected socially networked and where economic and political power shifts see emerging-market economies assuming significant global prominence. This makes for exciting challenges but also requires new mind-sets for the next generation of business men and women. Corporate responsibility and the tough ethical and governance choices managers have to grapple with where there are no easy answers means that business education must embrace the stakeholder model. Leaders need to be able to negotiate their way with confidence around multiple perspectives and conflicting and common interests of stakeholders such as employees and managers shareholders trade unions suppliers and civil society organisations. Business schools need to generate understanding of and sensitivity to this new and changing world of work. Today the challenge for business schools and business itself is to establish a new maxim: "the business of business is sustainable business".  Cranfield on Corporate Sustainability is designed to stimulate debate about what sustainable development means for business and therefore on what business schools across the globe should research teach and advise.  This unique book is a manifesto for a new holistic embedded approach to corporate sustainability management education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781906093822

Craniosynostosis Published in 1984 this book explores craniosynostosis providing a synthesis of diagnostic aspects and the therapeutic orientation derived from both the evolution of pathogenetic theory and the necessity to recognize and treat affected children as early as possible. Focusing on craniosynostosis in the first year of life the books has a practical clinical and applicative content and will be of use to the practicing physician as well as the specialist reader. Media > Books > Print Books Chapman & Hall 9780367232412

Crashing the Tea PartyMass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics The Tea Party has been the most high profile and controversial social movement in the US of recent times. But real analysis of the Tea Party remains slim - is it a genuine social movement or a topdown interest group created by the Republican Party and corporate funding? Crashing the Tea Party is based on first-hand observation of local Tea Party chapters and undertakes a critical journalistic and scholarly examination from the national and local level. Paul Street and Anthony DiMaggio provide a carefully documented account which challenges conventional wisdoms. Crashing the Tea Party fills the gap in public understanding about this particular social movement and how social movements in general relate today to the ideologies of left and right and the mass media. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781594519451

Crashworthiness of Composite Thin-Walled Structures FROM THE INTRODUCTIONVehicle crashworthiness has been improving in recent years with attention mainly directed towards reducing the impact of the crash on the passengers. Effort has been spent in experimental research and in establishing safe theoretical design criteria on the mechanics of crumpling providing to the engineers the ability to design vehicle structures so that the maximum amount of energy will dissipate while the material surrounding the passenger compartment is deformed thus protecting the people inside. During the last decade the attention given to crashworthiness and crash energy management has been centered on composite structures. The main advantages of fibre reinforced composite materials over more conventional isotropic materials are the very high specific strengths and specific stiffness which can be achieved. Moreover with composites the designer can vary the type of fibre matrix and fibre orientation to produce composites with proved material properties. Besides the perspective of reduced weight design flexibility and low fabrication costs composite materials offer a considerable potential for lightweight energy absorbing structures; these facts attract the attention of the automotive and aircraft industry owing to the increased use of composite materials in various applications such as frame rails used in the apron construction of a car body and the subfloor of an aircraft replacing the conventional materials used. Our monograph is intended to provide an introduction to this relatively new topic of structural crashworthiness for professional engineers. It will introduce them to terms and concepts of it and acquaint them with some sources of literature about it. We believe that our survey constitutes a reasonably well-balanced synopsis of the topic. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367400354

Crayfish in Europe as Alien Species From the third international workshop on the subject (U. of Florence 1997) come 18 papers reviewing the issue of alien crayfish decimating the relatively few native species in European freshwater environments. In a historical and taxonomic context the initial paper explains why such homogenizatio Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315140469

Crazy for DemocracyWomen in Grassroots Movements Crazy for Democracy vividly shows through the lives of six women in the United States and South Africa just what can be and is being accomplished to change our lives. At a time when we're depressed about democracy pessimistic about race relations and anxious about feminism Crazy for Democracy vividly shows through the lives of six women in the United States and South Africa just what can be and is being accomplished to change our lives. In building real social movements to achieve a safe environment win human rights and safeguard their homes these grassroots feminist leaders have been creating democratic institutions to achieve social justice for us all. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203760611

Crazy FunnyPopular Black Satire and The Method of Madness This book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections between suffering from racism and suffering from mental illness. Showing how an understanding of racism as a root cause of mental and emotional instability complicates the ways in which we think about racialized identity formation and the limits of socially accepted definitions of (in)sanity it concentrates on the unique ability of the genre of black satire to make knowable not only general qualities of mental illness that are so often feared or ignored but also how structures of racism contribute a specific dimension to how we understand the different ways in which people of color especially black people experience and integrate mental instability into their own understandings of subjecthood. Drawing on theories from ethnic studies popular culture studies cultural studies psychoanalysis and trauma theory to offer critical textual analyses of five different instances of new millennial black satire in television film and literature â€“ the television show Chappelle’s Show the Spike Lee film Bamboozled the novel The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty the novels Erasure and I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett and the television show Key & Peele – Crazy Funny presents an account of the ways in which contemporary black satire rejects the boundaries between sanity and insanity as a way to animate the varied dimensions of being a racialized subject in a racist society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138606487

Crazy Hope and Finite ExperienceFinal Essays of Paul Goodman From the publication of Growing Up Absurd in 1960 until his death in 1972 Paul Goodman had the ear of the young radicals of the New Left pouring forth books and articles on education technology decentralization and of course the war in Vietnam.  Yet Goodman saw himself primarily as an artist rather than a political thinker or sociologist and many of his books even during the 1960s were works of poetry drama and fiction.  He had also practiced as a psychotherapist and joined with Frederick Perls and Ralph Hefferkine in producing a new synthesis in psychological thought Gestalt therapy which has since become an international movement.  In an age of specialization few writers have taken on so braod a range of concerns. Crazy Hope and Finite Experience is the final summing up of the thought and life of a self-described "old-fashioned man of letters."  This book brings together for the first time five personal essays all written near the end of his life in which Goodman discusses his sense of the world and how he was "in" it his politics his spiritual and religious attitude his sexuality and his calling as a literary artist. For those already familiar with one or another aspect of his work Goodman's self-assessment will provide new insight into the credo that underlies his whole career.  For those learning about him for the first time it offers a vivid sense of the man and his perspective.  And for psychotherapists - especially Gestalt therapists - the book will fill in the picture of Goodman as a theorist whose work was crucial to the development of a new approach to therapy.    Media > Books > E-books Gestalt Press 9780203779743

CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology The CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology sets the standard against which all other references of this nature are measured. As such it is a major resource for both skilled professionals and novices to nanotechnology. The book examines the design application and utilization of devices techniques and technologies critical to research at the atomic molecular and macromolecular levels ranging from 1 to 100 nanometers. More than three dozen specific topics are examined including nanomaterials nanocatalysts nanoceramics nanocrystals carbon nanotubes drug delivery nanopolymers nanoparticles nanocoatings and nanomedicine. The material is presented in a concise manner and has been updated to reflect the latest applications and research findings. Entries are organized alphabetically making information easy to find. While coverage is comprehensive each topic is presented concisely with a wealth of illustrative material and an accompanying eBook providing full-color figures and images. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781466580343

CRC Desk Reference for Nutrition Following in the tradition of its popular predecessors the CRC Desk Reference for Nutrition Third Edition explains hundreds of terms commonly used in medicine food science metabolism physiology and nutrition. Thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect major advances over the past decade this reference lists entries alphabetically and cross-references them when multiple terms are used for the same definition. Each entry is followed either by a definition paragraph essay composition article or feature article. Many of the more complex entries are supported with figures or tables. New Material in the Third Edition Gut hormones and their functions Food intake recommendations New drugs with nutritional applications Novel discoveries of transport and messenger proteins Gene polymorphisms involved in nutritional responses A compilation of terms of interest to the nutritionist and non-nutritionist this book is an alphabetical list of medical terms drugs biochemical genetic and physiological terms relevant to understanding the need for and use of nutrients. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781439848449

CRC Desk Reference on Sports Nutrition The landscape of sports nutrition is dramatically altering as those in search of optimal performance are moving the field from haphazard alchemy to exact science. Currently thousands of products -- from ancient herbs and old standards to hormone extractions and test tube concoctions --compete for a place at the training table of both professional and amateur competitors as well as those non-athletes seeking some potent elixir of youth. Unfortunately getting straight and genuinely relevant information on these products can be a time consuming and frustrating challenge.The CRC Desk Reference on Sports Nutrition following in the tradition of authoritative CRC references will place in your hands the most comprehensive desk reference available on sports nutrition products.Intelligently organized each entry depending upon its prominence and importance is followed either by a definition paragraph essay composition article or feature article. Many of the more complex entries are supported with figures or tables. While the authors have adhered to the principles of scientific discipline they have also taken the effort to make the text highly accessible to anyone with an interest in sports nutrition. Extremely relevant the listings include important issues regarding exercise metabolism and performance recent products both legal and illegal as well as common dietary supplements and traditional herbs.Recent events make it clear that it is becoming more and more challenging for practitioners to adhere to the Hippocratic caveat of do no harm as supplements become more potent and potentially more dangerous. With its desk reference on sports nutrition CRC has taken the lead in helping to meet that challenge.Primary author and editor: Mark Kern PhD RD Department of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences San Diego State University. Editor-in-Chief of SCAN's PULSE (American Dietetic Association).Contributing authors: Yael Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367454159

CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference The CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference contains almost 30 000 concise ethnobotanical monographs of plant species characteristics and an inventory of claimed attributes and historical uses by cultures throughout the world-the most ambitious attempt to date to inventory plants on a global scale and match botanical information with historical and current uses.To obtain the same information about any species listed you would have to thumb through hundreds of herbal guides ethnobotanical manuals and regional field guides. Sources for this index include the three largest U.S. Government ethnobotany databases the U.S. National Park Service NPFlora plant inventory lists and 18 leading works on the subject. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315891842

CRC Handbook of Animal Models of Pulmonary DiseaseVolume I This two-volume handbook provides important information concerning the development implementation evaluation uses advantages and limitations of a wide variety of animal model of pulmonary disease. While the work focuses on stepwise procedures for inducing and quantifying disease additional emphasis is placed on each model's relationship to human counterparts and on comparisons with similar models of injury. Thus even the novice researcher will be able to more sharply define a particular research question find suitable animal models for study gain access to specialized techniques and evaluate results within the context of an up-to-date body of information about related forms of lung diseases. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315891866

CRC Handbook of Animal Models of Pulmonary DiseaseVolume II This two-volume handbook provides important information concerning the development implementation evaluation uses advantages and limitations of a wide variety of animal model of pulmonary disease. While the work focuses on stepwise procedures for inducing and quantifying disease additional emphasis is placed on each model's relationship to human counterparts and on comparisons with similar models of injury. Thus even the novice researcher will be able to more sharply define a particular research question find suitable animal models for study gain access to specialized techniques and evaluate results within the context of an up-to-date body of information about related forms of lung diseases. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315891873

CRC Handbook of Applied Thermodynamics This practical handbook features an overview of the importance of physical properties and thermodynamics; and the use of thermo-dynamics to predict the extent of reaction in proposed new chem-ical combinations. The use of special types of data and pre-diction methods to develop flowsheets for probing projects; and sources of critically evaluated data dividing the published works into three categories depending on quality are given. Methods of doing one's own critical evaluation of literature a list of known North American contract experimentalists with the types of data mea-sured by each methods for measuring equilibrium data and ther-modynamic concepts to carry out process opti-mization are also featured. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315891880

CRC Handbook of Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants This handbook is filled with over 50 illustrations and descriptions of approximately 250 plants which are used for herbal medicine. It includes the most current information available today on medicinal plants ranging from Abies spectabilis to Zizyphus vulgaris. The purpose of this handbook is to make available a reference for easy accurate identification of these herbs. Derived from India "Ayurveda" is the foundation stone of their ancient medical science. Approximately 80 percent of the population of India and other countries in the East continue to utilize this system of medicinal treatment. It is believed that the key to successful medication is the use of the correct herb. This is an indispensable resource for all physicians pharmacists drug collectors and those interested in the healing art. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315891897

CRC Handbook of Basic Tables for Chemical AnalysisData-Driven Methods and Interpretation Researchers in chemistry chemical engineering pharmaceutical science forensics and environmental science make routine use of chemical analysis but the information these researchers need is often scattered in different sources and difficult to access. The CRC Handbook of Basic Tables for Chemical Analysis: Data-Driven Methods and Interpretation Fourth Edition is a one-stop reference that presents updated data in a handy format specifically designed for use when reaching a decision point in designing an analysis or interpreting results. This new edition offers expanded coverage of calibration and uncertainty and continues to include the critical information scientists rely on to perform accurate analysis. Enhancements to the Fourth Edition: Compiles a huge array of useful and important data into a single convenient source Explanatory text provides context for data and guidelines on applications Coalesces information from several different fields Provides information on the most useful "wet" chemistry methods as well as instrumental techniques with an expanded discussion of laboratory safety Contains information of historical importance necessary to interpret the literature and understand current methodology. Unmatched in its coverage of the range of information scientists need in the lab this resource will be referred to again and again by practitioners who need quick easy access to the data that forms the basis for experimentation and analysis. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138089044

CRC Handbook of Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields The objective of this book is to present in a concise manner what is actually known at the present time about biological effects of time invariant low frequency and radio frequency (including microwave) electric and magnetic fields. In reviewing the vast amount of experimental data which have been obtained in recent years the authors tried to select those results that are in their opinion of major importance and of lasting value. In discussing mechanisms of interaction of electromagnetic fields with living matter they have tried to differentiate between what is clearly established what is suggested by available evidence without being convincingly proven and what is conjecture at the present time. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315891910

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics In a world with access to unlimited amounts of data how can users who need to make critical scientific and technical decisions find high quality reliable data? Today more than ever the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics remains a hallmark of quality. For over 100 years the Handbook has provided property data on chemical compounds and all physical particles that have been reported in the literature carefully reviewed by subject experts. Every year older collections are updated with the latest values and new areas will be added as science progresses.  All data are reviewed and evaluated by subject matter experts Chemical names and property units are standardized and structures are provided for most substances Over 380 property tables included Contains important information on data-related subjects such as chemical and laboratory safety and nomenclature Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367417246

CRC Handbook of ChromatographyAmino Acids and Amines Volume II First published in 1989 this book serves as an essential guide to the process of chromatography. Carefully compiled and arranged with an abundance of diagrams tables and references. This book serves as a useful resource for students of biochemistry and other practitioners in their respective fields. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367340308

CRC Handbook of ChromatographyAmino Acids and Amines Volume II These volumes provide a reference source of different gas chro-matographic liquid chromatographic or thin-layer chromatographic techniques for the qualitative determination of various therapeutic agents including antibiotics vitamins and hormones drugs of abuse in body fluids dosage forms or food stuffs. Over 5000 publi-cations were reviewed to prepare tables of chromatographic data for 800 compounds arranged alphabetically by generic drug name or by drug groups. A detailed summary of the extraction procedure de-scribed in each publication included in the table of a particular drug is also provided. This easy-to-read handbook is useful for se-lecting an appropriate chromatographic procedure for the determi-nation of a given compound according to the available facilities. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138596825

CRC Handbook of ChromatographyDrugs Volume III These volumes provide a reference source of different gas chro-matographic liquid chromatographic or thin-layer chromatographic techniques for the qualitative determination of various therapeutic agents including antibiotics vitamins and hormones drugs of abuse in body fluids dosage forms or food stuffs. Over 5000 publi-cations were reviewed to prepare tables of chromatographic data for 800 compounds arranged alphabetically by generic drug name or by drug groups. A detailed summary of the extraction procedure de-scribed in each publication included in the table of a particular drug is also provided. This easy-to-read handbook is useful for se-lecting an appropriate chromatographic procedure for the determi-nation of a given compound according to the available facilities. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138596856

CRC Handbook of ChromatographyDrugs Volume IV These volumes provide a reference source of different gas chro-matographic liquid chromatographic or thin-layer chromatographic techniques for the qualitative determination of various therapeutic agents including antibiotics vitamins and hormones drugs of abuse in body fluids dosage forms or food stuffs. Over 5000 publi-cations were reviewed to prepare tables of chromatographic data for 800 compounds arranged alphabetically by generic drug name or by drug groups. A detailed summary of the extraction procedure de-scribed in each publication included in the table of a particular drug is also provided. This easy-to-read handbook is useful for se-lecting an appropriate chromatographic procedure for the determi-nation of a given compound according to the available facilities. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315891934

CRC Handbook of ChromatographyDrugs Volume V These volumes provide a reference source of different gas chromatographic liquid chromatographic or thin-layer chromatographic techniques for the qualitative determination of various therapeutic agents including antibiotics vitamins and hormones drugs of abuse in body fluids dosage forms or food stuffs. Over 5000 publications were reviewed to prepare tables of chromatographic data for 800 compounds arranged alphabetically by generic drug name or by drug groups. A detailed summary of the extraction procedure described in each publication included in the table of a particular drug is also provided. This easy-to-read handbook is useful for selecting an appropriate chromatographic procedure for the determination of a given compound according to the available facilities. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315891927

CRC Handbook of ChromatographyDrugs Volume VI These volumes provide a reference source of different gas chro-matographic liquid chromatographic or thin-layer chromatographic techniques for the qualitative determination of various therapeutic agents including antibiotics vitamins and hormones drugs of abuse in body fluids dosage forms or food stuffs. Over 5000 publi-cations were reviewed to prepare tables of chromatographic data for 800 compounds arranged alphabetically by generic drug name or by drug groups. A detailed summary of the extraction procedure de-scribed in each publication included in the table of a particular drug is also provided. This easy-to-read handbook is useful for se-lecting an appropriate chromatographic procedure for the determi-nation of a given compound according to the available facilities. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315891941

CRC Handbook of ChromatographyVolume I: Peptides These volumes provide a reference source of different gas chromatographic liquid chromatographic or thin-layer chromatographic techniques for the qualitative determination of various therapeutic agents including antibiotics vitamins and hormones drugs of abuse in body fluids dosage forms or food stuffs. Over 5000 publications were reviewed to prepare tables of chromatographic data for 800 compounds arranged alphabetically by generic drug name or by drug groups. A detailed summary of the extraction procedure described in each publication included in the table of a particular drug is also provided. This easy-to-read handbook is useful for selecting an appropriate chromatographic procedure for the determination of a given compound according to the available facilities. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138596917

CRC Handbook of Dietary Fiber in Human Nutrition Dietary fiber is widely recognized as an essential element of good nutrition. In fact research on the use of fiber in food science and medicine is being conducted at an incredible pace. CRC Handbook of Dietary Fiber in Human Nutrition Third Edition explores the chemistry analytical methodologies physiological and biochemical aspects clinical and epidemiological studies and consumption patterns of dietary fiber.Featuring new chapters and tables in addition to updated sections the third edition of this popular book includes important information that has become available since the publication of the second edition.What's new in the Third Edition?o Definitions and consumption of dietary fiber from 1992-2000o A new chapter on the physical chemistry of dietary fibero Updated dietary fiber values for common foodso New table: Tartaric Acid Content of Foodso Coverage of non-plant food fibers such as chitin and chitosano An entire section devoted to the effect of whole grains cereal fiber and phytic acid on healtho Discussion of the interaction of fiber and phytochemicalsQuickly retrieve and understand current data with the book's concise easy-to-read tables and definitions. Covering all aspects of dietary fiber including chemistry and definitions analytical procedures and basic physiological functions the CRC Handbook of Dietary Fiber in Human Nutrition provides you with a unique collection of dietary fiber information unlike that found in any other book. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367397210

CRC Handbook of Electrical Filters Interest in filter theory and design has been growing with the telecommunications industry since the late nineteenth century. Now that telecommunications has become so critical to industry filter research has assumed even greater importance at companies and academic institutions around the world. The CRC Handbook of Electrical Filters fills in the gaps for engineers and scientists who need a basic introduction to the subject. Unlike the currently available textbooks which are filled with detailed highly technical analysis geared to the specialist this practical guide provides useful information for the non-specialist about the various types of filters their design and applications.The handbook covers approximation theory and methods and introduces CAD packages that perform approximation and synthesis for both analog and digital filters. Also included are design methods for LCR active-RC digital mechanical and switched capacitor (SC) filters. A thorough survey of current design trends rounds out this complete assessment of a key field of study. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781003069201

CRC Handbook of Enthalpy Data of Polymer-Solvent Systems The CRC Handbook of Enthalpy Data of Polymer-Solvent Systems presents data that is as essential to the production process design and use of polymers as it is to understanding the physical behavior and intermolecular interactions in polymer solutions and in developing thermodynamic polymer models. Providing an all-encompassing collection of current enthalpy data for all types of polymer solutions this handbook is a ready companion with Christian Wohlfarth’s previously published handbooks of thermodynamic data for copolymer solutions aqueous polymer solutions and polymer solutions at elevated pressures which contain only a small amount of enthalpic data in comparison to the data presented here. This volume contains 1770 data sets that include enthalpies of mixing and dilution for the entire concentration range as well as partial enthalpies of mixing and solution at infinite dilution. Special appendices allow scientists to access specific systems and data easily. The CRC Handbook of Enthalpy Data of Polymer-Solvent Systems is a practical one-stop resource that allows polymer chemists biochemists chemical engineers materials scientists and physical chemists involved in both industrial and laboratory processes to quickly retrieve relevant information as needed. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367453831

CRC Handbook of Food Drug and Cosmetic Excipients CRC Handbook of Food Drug and Cosmetic Excipients provides a comprehensive summary of toxicological issues regarding inactive ingredients in pharmaceutical products cosmetic products and food additives. Background information on regulations and labeling requirements for each type of product is provided and 77 articles critically review human and animal data pertinent to a variety of agents and makes judgments regarding the clinical relevance. The book also identifies at-risk populations such as neonates patients with renal failure and atopic patients. Inactive common pharmaceutical agents and/or foods containing certain ingredients are listed to help physicians counsel hypersensitive patients who must avoid products containing these excipients. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367402815

CRC Handbook of Foodborne Diseases of Biological Origin First published in 1983: This handbook provides an overview of different biological agents and important toxins that may cause diseases on ingestion with food or water. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367246709

CRC Handbook of Fundamental Spectroscopic Correlation Charts From forensics and security to pharmaceuticals and environmental applications spectroscopic detection is one of the most cost-effective methods for identifying chemical compounds in a wide range of disciplines. For spectroscopic information correlation charts are far more easily used than tables especially for scientists and students whose own areas of specialization may lie elsewhere. The CRC Handbook of Fundamental Spectroscopic Correlation Charts provides a collection of spectroscopic information and unique correlation charts for use in the interpretation of spectroscopic measurements. The handbook presents useful analysis and assignment of spectra and structural elucidation of organic and organometallic molecules. The correlation charts are compiled from an extensive search of spectroscopic literature and contain current detailed information that includes new results for many compounds. The handbook includes graphical data charts for nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the most useful nuclei as well as infrared and ultraviolet spectrophotometry. Because mass spectrometry data is not best represented graphically the data are presented in tabular form where mass spectrometry can be used for analyses and structural determinations in tandem with other techniques. In addition to presenting absorption bands and intensities for a variety of important functional groups and chemical families the book also discusses instrument calibration diagnostics common solvents fragmentation patterns several practical conversion tables and laboratory safety.Not intended to replace reference works that provide exhaustive spectral charts on specific compound classes this book fills the need for fundamental charts that are needed on a general day-to-day basis. The CRC Handbook of Fundamental Spectroscopic Correlation Charts is an ideal laboratory companion for students and professionals in academic industrial and government labs. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138410206

CRC Handbook of Ion Exchange Resins Volume VI The six-volume CRC Handbook of Ion Exchange Resins reviews the application of ion exchange resins to inorganic analytical chemistry. Extracted from over 6 000 original publications it presents the information in over 1 000 tables complemented by concise descriptions of analytical methods involving virtually all the elements of the periodic table. Also the ion exchange characteristics of the elements as well as other important information required by analysis using ion exchange resins are presented in separate tables. The methods that allow the multi-element analysis of complex matrices are emphasized. This work includes a general discussion of the theoretical instrumental and other principles underlying the various applications of ion exchange resins in inorganic analytical chemistry with special attention focused on techniques based on ion chromatography. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315140520

CRC Handbook of Laser Science and Technology Supplement 2Optical Materials In the CRC Handbook of Laser Science and Technology: Supplement 2 experts summarize the discovery and properties of new optical materials that have appeared since the publication of Volumes III-V. Included are the latest advances in optical crystals glasses and plastics laser host materials phase conjugation materials linear electrooptic materials nonlinear optical materials magnetooptic materials elastooptic materials photorefractive materials liquid crystals and thin film coatings. The book also includes expanded coverage of optical waveguide materials and new sections on optical liquids glass fiber lasers diamond optics and gradient index materials. Appendices include Designation of Russian Optical Glasses; Abbreviations Acronyms and Mineralogical or Common Names for Optical Materials; and Abbreviations for Methods of Preparing Optical Materials. Extensive tabulations of materials properties with references to the primary literature are provided throughout the supplement. The CRC Handbook of Laser Science and Technology: Supplement 2 represents the latest volume in the most comprehensive up-to-date listing of the properties of optical materials for lasers and laser systems making it an essential reference work for all scientists and engineers working in laser research and development. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781003067955

CRC Handbook of Lie Group Analysis of Differential Equations Volume ISymmetries Exact Solutions and Conservation Laws Today Lie group theoretical approach to differential equations has been extended to new situations and has become applicable to the majority of equations that frequently occur in applied sciences. Newly developed theoretical and computational methods are awaiting application. Students and applied scientists are expected to understand these methods. Volume 3 and the accompanying software allow readers to extend their knowledge of computational algebra.Written by the world's leading experts in the field this up-to-date sourcebook covers topics such as Lie-B lund conditional and non-classical symmetries approximate symmetry groups for equations with a small parameter group analysis of differential equations with distributions integro-differential equations recursions and symbolic software packages. The text provides an ideal introduction to the modern group analysis and addresses issues to both beginners and experienced researchers in the application of Lie group methods. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138401983

CRC Handbook of Local Area Network SoftwareConcepts and Technology Local Area Networks (LANs) play a larger role in our lives today than ever before. For example LANs provide us with the capability to realize automated banking services with instant credit checking and numerous other diverse access and manipulation services. Users and developers of LAN products must understand the architecture of the hardware and software mechanisms to effectively design and use such systems. Most gains in LAN productivity will come from future software developments in systems management and applications. This book provides an introduction to the technology associated with Local Area Networks emphasizing software aspects which have been secondary considerations to hardware in most existing texts. The book also provides a review of the technology needed to realize full service software products such as computer-aided design and manufacturing systems large publication systems and integrated data service networks and includes an exhaustive review of the products available today. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315892016

CRC Handbook of Management of Radiation Protection Programs Second Edition CRC Handbook of Management of Radiation Protection Programs 2nd Edition is unique in that it offers practical guidance for managing various aspects of radiation protection programs ranging from the daily operation of a health physics office to the preparation of radiation experts for court appearances as professional witnesses. The book also covers such topics as organization and management of nonionizing radiation safety programs (with special emphasis on laser safety programs) and management of radioactive waste personnel monitoring programs radiation accident victims internal exposure relative radiotoxicity and radiation therapy patients. Other chapters discuss handling radiation accidents and education and training requirements for radiation protection. Legal aspects covered in the book include the history of radiation court cases legal implications of record keeping and preparation for court appearances. CRC Handbook of Management of Radiation Protection Programs 2nd Edition will be a valuable reference resource for medical and health physicists industrial hygienists physicians nuclear engineers radiation protection regulators radiation emergency management agents radiation safety committees and managers of facilities using ionizing and nonionizing radiation sources. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781003067979

CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine AAP Prose Award Finalist 2018/19 For three decades this book has been acknowledged as the most respected scientific reference specifically devoted to marine mammal medicine and health. Written by approximately 100 contributors who are recognized globally as leaders in their respective fields the CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine Third Edition continues to serve as the essential guide for all practitioners involved with marine mammals including veterinarians technicians biological researchers students managers keepers curators and trainers. The 45 chapters provide essential information for the practitioner on pathology infectious diseases medical treatment anesthesia surgery husbandry health assessment species-specific medicine medically pertinent anatomy and physiology and global health concerns such as strandings oil spills and entanglements of marine mammals. Covers all aspects of marine mammal veterinary practice Written by internationally acknowledged experts Adds new chapters on Ophthalmology Dentistry Ethics Oil Spill Response Health Assessments Whale Entanglement Response Dive Response and Biotoxins Richly illustrated in color throughout the new edition including updated anatomical drawings and extensive photographs of ocular lesions Provides guidance to websites that regularly present updated information and images pertinent to current marine mammal medicine such as imaging and stranding network contacts Discusses ethics and animal welfare. The book guides the reader through the veterinary care of cetaceans pinnipeds manatees sea otters and polar bears. In addition to summaries of current knowledge chapters provide information on those digital resources and websites which present the latest information as it emerges in the field. The CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine Third Edition gives a call to action for scientists to experiment with new endeavors to engage and inspire current and future generations to care for marine mammals and the marine environment and work together to find solutions. As the most trusted reference for marine mammal conservation medicine and for marine mammal medical facilities around the world this book needs to be in your library. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781498796873

CRC Handbook of Materials ScienceMaterial Composites and Refractory Materials Published in 1974: The CRC Handbook of Materials Science provides a current and readily accessible guide to the physical properties of solid state and structural materials. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9780429290367

CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices "Let food be your medicine medicine your food."-Hippocrates 2400 B.C.When the "Father of Medicine" uttered those famous words spices were as important for medicine embalming preserving food and masking bad odors as they were for more mundane culinary matters. Author James A. Duke predicts that spices such as capsicum cinnamon garlic ginger onion and turmeric will assume relatively more medicinal importance again as the economic costs and knowledge of the side-effects of prescription pharmaceuticals increase. After all each spice contains thousands of useful phytochemicals. Pharmaceuticals usually contain only one or two.Discover the Science behind the FolkloreSpices are important medicines that have withstood the empirical tests of millennia. Nearly 5 000 years ago Charak the father of Ayurvedic medicine claimed that garlic lightens the blood reduces tumors and is an aphrodisiac tonic. Today scientists say it thins the blood prevents cancer and increases libido. For centuries people worldwide have used spices to cure a myriad of ailments and to preserve foods. Now science is proving that these spices may preserve us with their antioxidant and antiseptic activities. Organized by scientific name the CRC Handbook of Medicinal Spices provides the science behind the folklore of over 60 popular spices. For each spice it lists:Scientific nameCommon nameMedicinal activities and indicationsMultiple activitiesOther uses especially culinaryCultivationChemistryImportant phytochemical constituents and their activitiesThe handbook also includes market and import data culinary uses ecology and cultural information and discusses at length the use of spices as antiseptics and antioxidants. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367395766

CRC Handbook of Metal Etchants This publication presents cleaning and etching solutions their applications and results on inorganic materials. It is a comprehensive collection of etching and cleaning solutions in a single source. Chemical formulas are presented in one of three standard formats - general electrolytic or ionized gas formats - to insure inclusion of all necessary operational data as shown in references that accompany each numbered formula. The book describes other applications of specific solutions including their use on other metals or metallic compounds. Physical properties association of natural and man-made minerals and materials are shown in relationship to crystal structure special processing techniques and solid state devices and assemblies fabricated. This publication also presents a number of organic materials which are widely used in handling and general processing...waxes plastics and lacquers for example. It is useful to individuals involved in study development and processing of metals and metallic compounds. It is invaluable for readers from the college level to industrial R & D and full-scale device fabrication testing and sales. Scientific disciplines work areas and individuals with great interest include: chemistry physics metallurgy geology solid state ceramic and glass research libraries individuals dealing with chemical processing of inorganic materials societies and schools. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367403089

CRC Handbook of Modern Telecommunications Addressing the most dynamic areas of the ever-changing telecommunications landscape the second edition of the bestselling CRC Handbook of Modern Telecommunications once again brings together the top minds and industry pioneers in wireless communication networks protocols and devices. In addition to new discussions of radio frequency identification (RFID) and wireless sensor networks including cognitive radio networks this important reference systematically addresses network management and administration as well as network organization and governance topics that have evolved since the development of the first edition. Extensively updated and expanded this second edition provides new information on: Wireless sensor networks RFID Architectures Intelligent Support Systems Service delivery integration with the Internet Information life cycle and service level management Management of emerging technologies Web performance management Business intelligence and analytics The text details the latest in voice communication techniques advanced communication concepts network organization governance traffic management and emerging trends. This comprehensive handbook provides telecommunications professionals across all fields with ready access to the knowledge they require and arms them with the understanding of the role that evolving technologies will play in the development of the telecommunications systems of tomorrow. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138116535

CRC Handbook of Nuts Over one hundred of the world's most important species of nuts are systematically accounted in this informative handbook. The text defines nuts and discusses their economic and nutritional value. For easy reference; there is an illustrated account of each nut by species arranged alphabetically by scientific name. Each account includes the family name several colloquial names and paragraphs on uses folk medicine chemistry germplasm distribution ecol-ogy cultivation harvesting yields energy and biotic factors.Chapters Describe:UsesFolk medicineChemistryGermplasmDistributionEcologyCultivationHarvestingYields and economicsEnergyBiotic factors Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315892030

CRC Handbook of OligosaccharidesVolume 3 Chemical synthesis of oligosaccharides is important to organic chemistry because of the critical biological functions of carbohydrates. Unfortunately no handbook has been published on the subject...until now. CRC Handbook of Oligosaccharides is a series of three volumes that includes all oligosaccharides synthesized between 1960 and 1986. This allows oligosaccharides prepared in their free form to be presented as well as those produced in protected form. The series contains data regarding glycosylation reaction namely reaction conditions (solvent promoter temperature) the aglycon and the glycosyl donor used and the structure and physical data of the isolated product. For disaccharides the names of the reactants and the products are revealed while with trisaccharides and higher oligomers schematic figures provide a quick and easy way to access information concerning the entire process. These volumes will provide an important reference source for biochemists biologists and organic chemists. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315892047

CRC Handbook of Organic Analytical Reagents The Handbook of Organic Analytical Reagents 2nd Edition is an indispensable source book of physico-chemical properties preparation and analytical applications of the most commonly used organic reagents. Updated from the 1st Edition this volume includes data on 40 new reagents (such as ultra-high sensitive azo dyes fluorescent calcium indicators and chromogenic crown ethers and porphyrin reagents) a new Reagent Index listing reagents according to the elements to be assayed and completely updated references. Each entry contains information on synonyms sources and methods of synthesis analytical applications complexation reactions and the properties of complexes purification and purity of the reagent and other regeants with a related structure. The Handbook of Organic Analytical Reagents 2nd Edition is an invaluable bench-side reference for professional analytical chemists and graduate students. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367450212

CRC Handbook of Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology Third Edition - Two Volume Set The only combined organic photochemistry and photobiology handbook As spectroscopic synthetic and biological tools become more and more sophisticated photochemistry and photobiology are merging—making interdisciplinary research essential. Following in the footsteps of its bestselling predecessors the CRC Handbook of Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology Third Edition has evolved into a state-of-the-art collection on modern aspects of photochemistry and photobiology. A compilation 67 of topical reviews by leading experts this compilation provides cutting-edge information on the applications of photochemical and photobiological principles techniques and methodologies. New and updated topics in this edition include Industrial photochemistry Photocatalyic water splitting Photocatalysis Photostability of drugs Photochemistry in microreactors Photochemical key-steps in organic synthesis Photochirogenesis Photolabile protecting groups Solar photochemistry Computational photochemistry and photobiology Spin-center shift reactions Sustainable photochemistry Artificial photosynthetic systems Biology of UV-A radiation UV radiation and vitamin D Photodynamic drug delivery Photoimmunology Photodermatology Endogenous antioxidant photoprotection and its enhancement in human skin Phototoxicity of drugs Photodynamic approaches to water disinfection　 This high-quality and concise collection bridges traditional topics current trends and future directions to provide you with the most authoritative and complete resource available on the subject. The IUPAC glossary of photochemistry is included as a CD-ROM. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781439899335

CRC Handbook of Pesticides This new compilation focuses on 386 of the most commonly used pesticides recently registered by the EPA. The structural and molecular formulas are listed for each chemical along with its Chemical Abstracts Registry Number (CAS RN) and when available its number in the Merck Index (Eleventh Edition). This invaluable reference provides the various English and foreign chemical names trivial names synonyms and trade names for each pesticide. A handy chemical name index also presents this information in a readily accessible format. The pesticide's physical properties are summarized and data pertaining to the compound's acute toxicity in various species are given. This data has been drawn from the Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances. Finally for each of the pesticide chemicals there is a reference to the appropriate Section of the Code of Federal Regulations 40 CFR 180 where the various crop tolerances may be located. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315892078

CRC Handbook of Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Data of Aqueous Polymer Solutions A large amount of experimental data has been published since the debut of the original CRC Handbook of Thermodynamic Data of Aqueous Polymer Solutions. Incorporating new and updated material the CRC Handbook of Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Data of Aqueous Polymer Solutions provides a comprehensive collection of thermodynamic data of polymer solutions. It helps readers quickly retrieve necessary information from the literature and assists researchers in planning new measurements where data are missing. A valuable resource for the modern chemistry field the Handbook clearly details how measurements were conducted and methodically explains the nomenclature. It presents data essential for the production and use of polymers as well as for understanding the physical behavior and intermolecular interactions in polymer solutions. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138374737

CRC Handbook of Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Data of Copolymer Solutions Ten years after the debut of the expansive CRC Handbook of Thermodynamic Data of Copolymer Solutions The CRC Handbook of Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Data of Copolymer Solutions updates and expands the world’s first comprehensive source of this vital data. Author Christian Wohlfarth a chemical thermodynamicist specializing in phase equilibria of polymer and copolymer solutions and a respected contributor to the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics has gathered up-to-the-minute data from more than 500 newly published references. Fully committed to ensuring the reliability of the data the author included only results with published or personally communicated numerical values. With volumetric calormetric and various phase equilibrium data on more than 450 copolymers and 130 solvents this handbook furnishes:150 new vapor-liquid equilibrium datasets 50 new tables containing classical Henry’s coefficients 250 new liquid-liquid equilibrium datasets 350 new high-pressure fluid phase equilibrium 70 new PVT-properties datasets40 new enthalpic datasetsExpanded second osmotic virial coefficients data tableCarefully organized clearly presented and fully referenced The Handbook of Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Data of Copolymer Solutions will prove a cardinal contribution to the open literature and invaluable to anyone working with copolymers. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367383312

CRC Handbook of Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Data of Polymer Solutions at Elevated Pressures Thermodynamic data of polymer solutions are paramount for industrial and laboratory processes. These data also serve to understand the physical behavior of polymer solutions study intermolecular interactions and gain insights into the molecular nature of mixtures. Nearly a decade has passed since the release of a similar CRC Handbook and since then a large amount of new experimental data have been published which is now compiled in this book. The CRC Handbook of Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Data of Polymer Solutions at Elevated Pressures features nearly 500 newly published references containing approximately 175 new vapor-liquid equilibrium data sets 25 new liquid-liquid equilibrium data sets 540 new high-pressure fluid phase equilibrium data sets 60 new data sets describing PVT properties of polymers and 20 new data sets with densities or excess volumes. The book is a valuable resource for researchers specialists and engineers working in the fields of polymer science physical chemistry chemical engineering materials science biological science and technology and those developing computerized predictive packages. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781498703208

CRC Handbook of Plant Science in Agriculture First published in 1987 this two-volume set is an exhaustive compilation of the most recent data on economically important crops. Volume I presents information on genetics botany and growth of crop plants while Volume II covers the production of Crops and their utilization. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367252410

CRC Handbook of Plant Science in Agriculture First published in 1987 this two-volume set is an exhaustive compilation of the most recent data on economically important crops. Volume I presents information on genetics botany and growth of crop plants while Volume II covers the production of Crops and their utilization. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367251765

CRC Handbook of Solubility Parameters and Other Cohesion ParametersSecond Edition The CRC Handbook of Solubility Parameters and Other Cohesion Parameters Second Edition which includes 17 new sections and 40 new data tables incorporates information from a vast amount of material published over the last ten years.  The volume is based on a bibliography of 2 900 reports including 1 200 new citations. The detailed careful construction of the handbook develops the concept of solubility parameters from empirical thermodynamic and molecular points of view and demonstrates their application to liquid gas solid and polymer systems. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315140575

CRC Handbook of Symbiotic Cyanobacteria In one convenient source this ready reference brings together for the first time all the information available on various cyanobacterial symbioses/symbiotic cyanobacteria. Comprehensive data on structure physiology biochemistry and molecular biology of the cyanobiont in various cyanobacterial symbioses is included. Aplied aspects such as use of Azolla in rice cultivation and artificial symbioses are addressed along with a chapter dedicated to methodology. This informative new text is useful to researchers teachers and students. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315892085

CRC Handbook of Tables for Applied Engineering Science New tables in this edition cover lasers radiation cryogenics ultra-sonics semi-conductors high-vacuum techniques eutectic alloys and organic and inorganic surface coating. Another major addition is expansion of the sections on engineering materials and compos-ites with detailed indexing by name class and usage. The special Index of Properties allows ready comparisons with respect to single property whether physical chemical electrical radiant mechani-cal or thermal. The user of this book is assisted by a comprehensive index by cross references and by numerically keyed subject headings at the top of each page. Each table is self-explanatory with units abbreviations and symbols clearly defined and tabular material subdivided for easy reading. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315214092

CRC Handbook of Tables for Order Statistics from Inverse Gaussian Distributions with Applications First derived within the context of life-testing inverse Gaussian distribution has become one of the most important and widely employed distributions and is often used to model the lifetimes of components. It is also used as a model in many varied applications including fatigue analysis economic prediction analysis and the analysis of extreme events such as rainfall and flood levels. The interesting features and properties of this distribution make it an important and realistic model in a variety of problems across numerous disciplines.Because of the broad range of applications this handbook will be useful not only to members of the statistical community but will also appeal to applied scientists engineers econometricians and anyone who desires a thorough evaluation of this important topic. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367448158

CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering The CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering Second Edition is a fully updated version of this respected reference work with chapters written by leading experts. Its first part covers basic concepts equations and principles of thermodynamics heat transfer and fluid dynamics. Following that is detailed coverage of major application areas such as bioengineering energy-efficient building systems traditional and renewable energy sources food processing and aerospace heat transfer topics. The latest numerical and computational tools microscale and nanoscale engineering and new complex-structured materials are also presented. Designed for easy reference this new edition is a must-have volume for engineers and researchers around the globe. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781498715270

CRC Handbook of Thermodynamic Data of Polymer Solutions Three Volume Set Providing valuable insight on physical behavior of polymer solutions intermolecular interactions and the molecular nature of mixtures each volume in this one-of-a-kind handbook brings together reliable easy-to-use entries references tables examples and appendices on experimental data from hundreds of primary journal articles dissertations Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9780429188213

CRC Handbook of Thermodynamic Data of Polymer Solutions at Elevated Pressures This handbook provides the only complete collection of high-pressure thermodynamic data pertaining to polymer solutions at elevated pressures to date of all critical data for understanding the physical nature of these mixtures and applicable to a number of industrial and laboratory processes in polymer science physical chemistry chemical engineering and biotechnology. In response to the increasing commercial interest due to the physico-chemical properties of these solutions the CRC Handbook of Thermodynamic Data of Polymer Solutions at Elevated Pressures compiles information on experimental data from hundreds of primary journal articles dissertations and other papers into a single source entirely devoted to polymer solutions. The book contains data on vapor-liquid equilibria and gas solubilities liquid–liquid equilibria high-pressure fluid phase equilibria for polymer systems in supercritical fluids enthalpic and volumetric data and second virial coefficients all at elevated pressures. An excellent companion to the author’s previous publications the CRC Handbook of Thermodynamic Data of Copolymer Solutions and the CRC Handbook of Thermodynamic Data of Aqueous Polymer Solutions this handbook contains reliable easy-to-use entries references tables examples and appendices that provide students professors and researchers with a well-organized quick route to the data they need. The CRC Handbook of Thermodynamic Data of Polymer Solutions at Elevated Pressures is a staple resource for all university libraries as well as private laboratories particularly for researchers academics and engineers who handle polymer systems in supercritical fluids material science applications such as computerized predictive packages and chemical and biochemical processes such as synthesis and character Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367393304

CRC Handbook of Thermoelectrics Thermoelectrics is the science and technology associated with thermoelectric converters that is the generation of electrical power by the Seebeck effect and refrigeration by the Peltier effect. Thermoelectric generators are being used in increasing numbers to provide electrical power in medical military and deep space applications where combinations of their desirable properties outweigh their relatively high cost and low generating efficiency. In recent years there also has been an increase in the requirement for thermoelectric coolers (Peltier devices) for use in infrared detectors and in optical communications. Information on thermoelectrics is not readily available as it is widely scattered throughout the literature. The Handbook centralizes this information in a convenient format under a single cover.Sixty of the world's foremost authorities on thermoelectrics have contributed to this Handbook. It is comprised of fifty-five chapters a number of which contain previously unpublished material. The contents are arranged in eight sections: general principles and theoretical considerations material preparation measurement of thermoelectric properties thermoelectric materials thermoelectric generation generator applications thermoelectric refrigeration and applications of thermoelectric cooling.The CRC Handbook of Thermoelectrics has a broad-based scope. It will interest researchers technologists and manufacturers as well as students and the well-informed non-specialist reader. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315219691

CRC Handbook of Thermophysical and Thermochemical Data The CRC Handbook of Thermophysical and Thermochemical Data is an interactive software and handbook package that provides an invaluable source of reliable data embracing a wide range of properties of chemical substances mixtures and reacting systems. Use the handbook and software together to quickly and easily generate property values at any desired temperature pressure or mixture composition. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781003067719

CRC Handbook of Viruses Infecting Legumes This interesting handbook discusses 145 plant viruses in 27 groups and 31 unclassified viruses in naturally infected legumes. The viruses were observed in field infections of 281 species in 64 genera of the Leguminosae. The book presents information regarding resistance sources and resistance-breeding vectors seed transmission and host ranges. Measurements of virus properties are organized in tabular form for particle dimensions serological relationships nucleic acid percentages sedimentation coefficients of particles and nucleic acids molecular weights of nucleic acids and coat proteins optical density and buoyant density. Handbook of Viruses Infecting Legumes is unique in that it relates inclusion cytology to plant virus detection identification and classification. Light and electron micrographs illustrate morphology location and staining reactions of inclusions. Of the 27 groups that contain viruses infecting legumes in nature inclusions are diagnostic at the group level in 15 of these groups. Plant breeders diagnosticians plant virologists and students of plant virology will find this an indispensable guide to legume viruses. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315892092

CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook provides a convenient single-volume source for physical and chemical property data on a wide range of engineering materials. As with the first three editions this Fourth Edition contains information verified by major professional associations such as ASM International and the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). Patterned after the iconic CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics this edition also: Offers a more streamlined presentation organized by categories of traditional and advanced materials Converts chemical and physical property data from US customary units to SI units improving the handbook’s usefulness on a global scale Expands coverage to include the latest material property data on low-dimensional carbons two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials MAX phases and amorphous metals Featuring extensive references to contemporary research literature CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook Fourth Edition is an ideal starting point for scientists and engineers making selecting or evaluating materials. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781482216530

CRC Standard Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica Since the publication of this book’s bestselling predecessor Mathematica® has matured considerably and the computing power of desktop computers has increased greatly. The Mathematica® typesetting functionality has also become sufficiently robust that the final copy for this edition could be transformed directly from Mathematica R notebooks to LaTex input.Incorporating these aspects CRC Standard Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica® Third Edition is a virtual encyclopedia of curves and functions that depicts nearly all of the standard mathematical functions and geometrical figures in use today. The overall format of the book is largely unchanged from the previous edition with function definitions and their illustrations presented closely together.New to the Third Edition: A new chapter on Laplace transforms New curves and surfaces in almost every chapter Several chapters that have been reorganized Better graphical representations for curves and surfaces throughout A CD-ROM including the entire book in a set of interactive CDF (Computable Document Format) files The book presents a comprehensive collection of nearly 1 000 illustrations of curves and surfaces often used or encountered in mathematics graphics design science and engineering fields. One significant change with this edition is that instead of presenting a range of realizations for most functions this edition presents only one curve associated with each function. The graphic output of the Manipulate function is shown exactly as rendered in Mathematica with the exact parameters of the curve’s equation shown as part of the graphic display. This enables readers to gauge what a reasonable range of parameters might be while seeing the result of one particular choice of parameters. Media > Books > Print Books Chapman & Hall 9781482250213

CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulas Containing more than 6 000 entries CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulas 33rd Edition continues to provide essential formulas tables figures and detailed descriptions. The newest edition of this popular series also features many diagrams group tables and integrals that are not available online. This edition also incorporates important topics such as max plus algebra financial options pseudospectra and proof methods. Newly updated topics reflecting new results include couple analogues radar and significant equations of mathematics. New features of the 33rd edition include: Larger trim size five new topics and topics which have been modified to update results Provides practical ready-to-use information and covers important topics that are unfamiliar to many readers such as visual proofs and sequences Includes hard-to-find and more complete information than found in the Internet such as table of conformal mappings and integral tables Adds descriptions of new functions: Lambert prolate spheroidal and Weierstrass Even though the book has been updated it retains the same successful format of previous editions in that material is still presented in a multi-sectional format. Media > Books > Print Books Chapman & Hall 9781498777803

CRC Standard Probability and Statistics Tables and Formulae Whether you are a statistician engineer or businessperson you need statistics. You want to be able to easily reference tables find formulas and know how to use them so you can extract information from data without getting bogged down by advanced statistical methods. Your goal is to determine the appropriate statistical procedures and interpret the results. Standard Probability and Statistics: Tables and Formulae provides the tools you need to do just that. Logically organized and reaching far beyond a mere catalog a textual description accompanies each entry- most include an example. The topics addressed are directly applicable to modern business and engineering as well as to statistics including regression analysis ANOVA decision theory signal processing and control theory. The result is an accessible example-oriented handbook that supplies the basic principles the most commonly used values and the information to make them work for you. It is easy to fill a statistics reference with hundreds of pages of tables - sometimes for just one test. This handbook is much more. With topics ranging from classical statistics to modern applications Standard Probability and Statistics fills the need for an up-to-date authoritative statistics reference. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367399078

CRC Standard Probability and Statistics Tables and Formulae Student Edition Users of statistics in their professional lives and statistics students will welcome this concise easy-to-use reference for basic statistics and probability. It contains all of the standardized statistical tables and formulas typically needed plus material on basic statistics topics such as probability theory and distributions regression analysis of variance nonparametric statistics and statistical quality control.For each type of distribution the authors supply:? definitions? tables? relationships with other distributions including limiting forms? statistical parameters such as variance and generating functions? a list of common problems involving the distributionStandard Probability and Statistics: Tables and Formulae also includes discussion of common statistical problems and supplies examples that show readers how to use the tables and formulae to get the solutions they need. With this handy reference the focus can shift from rote learning and memorization to the concepts needed to use statistics efficiently and effectively. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138469587

CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous PlantsCommon Names Scientific Names Eponyms Synonyms and Etymology (5 Volume Set) "Following on the successes of two previous dictionary projects the CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names and the CRC World Dictionary of the Grasses Umberto Quattrocchi has undertaken this dictionary of economically important plants…. He has done for these plants what was so admirably done in his other works—brought the vast and scattered literature on plant names and in this case too their uses into coherent order so that the inquisitive scholar can get a foothold."—From the Foreword Donald H. Pfister Harvard University and Harvard University Herbaria Cambridge Massachusetts The CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names Scientific Names Eponyms Synonyms and Etymology provides the starting point for better access to data on plants used around the world in medicine food and cultural practices. The material found in the five volumes has been painstakingly gathered from papers of general interest reports and records taxonomic revisions field studies herbaria and herbarium collections notes monographs pamphlets botanical literature and literature tout court. It includes sources available at various natural history libraries floras and standard flora works local floras and local histories nomenclatural histories and the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.Much more than a dictionary the book provides the names of thousands of genera and species of economically important plants concise summaries of plant properties and appropriate observations about medicinal uses. Drawing from a tremendous range of primary and secondary sources it is an indispensable time-saving guide for all those involved with botany herbal medicine pharmacognosy toxicology medicinal and natural product chemistry and agriculture. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781420080445

CRC World Dictionary of PalmsCommon Names Scientific Names Eponyms Synonyms and Etymology (2 Volume Set) From the Foreword Umberto Quattrocchi has brought us some amazing and useful works through the various dictionaries that he has compiled. This time it is for two very important plant families the palms and the cycads that are synthesized here in these two volumes. Each entry is fascinating not just for the botany and full nomenclature of the plant species but for all the associated uses folklore and interactions with other organisms. ...These entries are fascinating glimpses of natural history. ... Botanists conservationists ethnobotanists anthropologists geographers bird watchers naturalists historians and those of many other disciplines will find these volumes a most valuable and useful resource. It is the sort of book that will be in frequent use in my library. ----- Professor Sir Ghillean Prance FRS VMH Former Director Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 　 Following the same format as Umberto Quattrocchi’s highly praised and well-used previous works The CRC World Dictionary of Palms: Common Names Scientific Names Eponyms Synonyms and Etymology brings together the vast and scattered literature on palms and cycads to provide better access to information on these economically important plants. Each genus and species has a detailed morphological description and includes a list of synonyms and vernacular names in many languages. Bibliographies accompany each entry which are comprehensive up-to-date and multi-lingual. The detailed information for every entry on habitats economic uses historical and biographical data botanical exploration and linguistics will be useful for any library involved with botany herbal medicine pharmacognosy medicinal and natural product chemistry ecology ethnobotany systematics general plant science agriculture or horticulture. Umberto Quattrocchi is the author of the bestselling CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names winner of the prestigious Hanbury Botanical Garden Award. His most recent multi-volume work CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants received strong praise as being "... an unparalleled starting place—a tool of first resort for any thoughtful researcher. Quattrocchi and CRC have delivered a dictionary like no other a learned finger pointing in the right direction." —John de la Parra Northeastern University Boston Massachusetts USA from Economic Botany Vol. 68 2014 Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781498782791

CRC World Dictionary of Plant NamesCommon Names Scientific Names Eponyms Synonyms and Etymology A reference covering over 22 000 genre of plants and thousands of species. Included are the botanical names synonyms homonyms and the vernacular and trade names of the commonly accepted generic names. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315140599

CRC World Dictionary of Plant NamesCommon Names Scientific Names Eponyms. Synonyms and Etymology This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants with the genera arranged alphabetically from R to Z. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367447502

CRC World Dictionary of Plant NmaesCommon Names Scientific Names Eponyms Synonyms and Etymology This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants with the genera arranged alphabetically from M to Q. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367447519

Create Compose Connect!Reading Writing and Learning with Digital Tools Find out how to incorporate digital tools into your English language arts class to improve students’ reading writing listening and speaking skills. Authors Jeremy Hyler and Troy Hicks show you that technology is not just about making a lesson engaging; it’s about helping students become effective creators and consumers of information in today’s fast-paced world. You’ll learn how to use mobile technologies to teach narrative informational and argument writing as well as visual literacy and multimodal research. Each chapter is filled with exciting lesson plans and tech tool suggestions that you can take back to your own classroom immediately. See Jeremy Hyler’s TEDx! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHtXIJvSSAA Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415733137

Create 2D Mobile Games with Corona SDKFor iOS and Android Corona SDK is one of the most powerful tools used to create games and apps for mobile devices. The market requires speed; new developers need to operate quickly and efficiently. Create 2D Mobile Games with Corona SDK gives you the tools needed to master Corona - even within the framework of professional constraints. A must-read guide this book gives you fast accurate tips to learn the programming language necessary to create games. Read it sequentially or as an FAQ and you will have the tools you need to create any base game before moving on to advanced topics. The tutorial-based format: Contains step-by-step directions complete with coding and screenshots Is filled with tutorials tips and links to useful online resources Includes a comprehensive companion website featuring online exercise files to practice coding full build samples from the text additional book details and more! Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138014091

Created from NAFTA: The Structure Function and Significance of the Treaty's Related InstitutionsThe Structure Function and Significance of The North American Free Trade Agreement involved much more than simple trade barrier reduction. This volume provides an in-depth examination and analysis of the structure functions and performance of the NAFTA institutions from their inception. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315292212

Creating 21st Century Abundance through Public Policy InnovationMoving Beyond Business as Usual One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century is the problem of how the public and private sectors can sustain economic development business growth social well-being and ecosystem health in the face of accelerating demand for water energy and food. "Business as usual" projections of scarcity in water energy and food predict a lack of these resources sufficient to sustain economic and business growth as well as an adequate standard of living worldwide. Developments in technology are well documented but this is the first book to explain the role of innovation in public policy and governance a topic which is frequently overlooked and often frustrates developments in technology and business. Without innovation in public policy and governance innovation in technology solutions will face persistent headwinds for adoption. The book showcases these innovations and creates a roadmap of what needs to change to drive economic development business growth social wellbeing and ecosystem health in the 21st century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781783537518

Creating 3D Game Art for the iPhone with UnityFeaturing modo and Blender pipelines Revolutionize your iPhone and iPad game development with Unity iOS a fully integrated professional application and powerful game engine which is quickly becoming the best solution for creating visually stunning games for Apple's iDevices easier and more fun for artists. From concept to completion you'll learn to create and animate using modo and Blender as well as creating a full level utilizing the powerful toolset in Unity iOS as it specifically relates to iPhone and iPad game development. Follow the creation of "Tater " a character from the author's personal game project "Dead Bang " as he's used to explain vital aspects of game development and content creation for the iOS platform. Creating 3D Game Art for the iPhone focuses on the key principles of game design and development by covering in-depth the iDevice hardware in conjunction with Unity iOS and how it relates to creating optimized game assets for the iDevices. Featuring Luxology's artist-friendly modo and Blender the free open-source 3D app along side Unity iOS optimize your game assets for the latest iDevices including iPhone 3GS iPhone 4 iPad and the iPod Touch. Learn to model characters and environment assets texture animate skinned characters and apply advanced lightmapping techniques using Beast in Unity iOS. In a clear motivating and entertaining style Wes McDermott offers captivating 3D imagery real-world observation and valuable tips and tricks all in one place - this book is an invaluable resource for any digital artist working to create games for the iPhone and iPad using Unity iOS. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138427396

Creating a Business There is more to setting up a successful business than just a good idea. Creating a Business examines concisely all the relevant aspects: the excitement and satisfaction that business entails the challenges that face the entrepreneur the risks that lie in wait. The textbook is organized around a practical example: a company setting out to launch a new line of clothing. Aspects of setting up a business including management marketing legislation and financial management are examined. Including pedagogical features such as end-of-chapter questions and illustrations Creating a Business will interest students of small business and entrepreneurship. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138154544

Creating a Classroom Culture That Supports the Common CoreTeaching Questioning Conversation Techniques and Other Essential Skills Is your classroom culture conducive to the expectations of the Common Core? Teaching content is not enough; students need a classroom structure and atmosphere that will help them learn key academic skills. This practical book will show you how to transform your classroom culture raise the level of rigor encourage higher-level questioning and critical thinking and promote academic discussions. You will also find out how to adjust your classroom management techniques so that students learn to regulate themselves while completing these higher-level tasks. Special Features in Each Chapter: Key Idea—a summary of the essential idea that will be addressed in the chapter Practical strategies—a variety of easy-to-implement ideas that you can try right away Connections to the Common Core State Standards—how the skills taught in this book will help students meet the standards Reflection Questions—thoughtful questions that will help teachers apply their learning to their own classrooms. These questions can be answered independently or used in book study groups. Extend Your Knowledge—creative ideas for extending your knowledge beyond the ideas in this book Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415732307

Creating a Coaching Culture for Managers in Your Organisation Creating a Coaching Culture for Managers in your Organisation is for managers leaders and coaches interested in extending the practice of coaching to achieve broader organisational outcomes. The book offers a practical approach on how to use coaching strategically to create a culture that supports change builds leadership capacity and achieves a high degree of alignment between the goals and aspirations of organisations and their staff. The authors provide rich case study examples of how coaching has been used in a range of organisations to build capacity leadership learning and support new ways of working. Taken together the chapters provide insight into how organisations can develop a culture that promotes engagement open and dialogic communication clarity of expectations and high performance. This valuable text is a timely contribution to current thinking on leadership management and organisation development. It will be of interest to managers leaders HR professionals and coaching professionals as well as students interested in coaching techniques counsellors and psychotherapists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415690225

Creating a Culturally Inclusive CampusA Guide to Supporting International Students Colleges and universities increasingly recruit international students yet may lack the systems to foster these students' academic success and identity as valued members of the campus community. Sharing case studies of students and examples of innovative initiatives this book explores strategies and key recommendations for universities to re-conceptualize their programs to better welcome and support international students. Emphasizing the relational aspect of academic and campus life the authors provide a framework that supports students from initial contact through graduation. Carefully researched and addressing issues of language engagement and culture Creating a Culturally Inclusive Campus offers universities innovative strategies for helping all students fulfull their academic goals while also contributing meaningfully to their school’s global mission. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415786744

Creating a Culture of IntegrityBusiness Ethics for the 21st Century For companies unethical business practices like bribery and corruption pose major business risks and can result in fines reputational damage lost business opportunity and – increasingly – criminal or civil charges.Organizations have responded to this critical governance issue with rigorous formal integrity and compliance frameworks to set out and enforce standards for ethical business practice. But companies also need to create an enduring culture of integrity that establishes doing the right thing as the cultural norm across the organization – and this requires more than compliance alone.Creating a Culture of Integrity identifies the key actions sustainability and compliance officers can take to foster this cultural shift within their organizations.This "one-stop" toolkit for embedding integrity also includes: inspiring best-practice case studies from companies who’ve implemented culture change with insights on how they deal with ethical dilemmas when these arise and; powerful arguments to help you make the business case for building a strong ethical culture around your compliance system. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781910174593

Creating a Culture of Predictable OutcomesHow Leadership Collaboration and Decision-Making Drive Architecture and Construction Creating a Culture of Predictable Outcomes demonstrates the importance of creating cultures in the design and construction industries grounded in sophisticated-caring leadership high-performing collaborative teams and master-level decision-making discipline informed by values to finally address massive inefficiencies waste and unpredictability. Barbara White Bryson offers specific guidance to industry stakeholders to succeed in achieving project-related predictable outcomes by focusing on culture rather than process. This includes selecting the right team members by hiring and firing bravely valuing psychological safety leading with values practicing respect and transparency fostering empowerment to make decisions at the right level at the right time and more. This book is a must-read for design and construction professionals who want to finally understand how to set goals and meet those goals for their clients as well as for their teams. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367894375

Creating a Freelance Career Creating a Freelance Career covers everything anyone needs to know about becoming a freelance writer graphic designer copy editor artist musician or any other creative occupation. It includes chapters on how to get started with your career and where to look for work how to write pitch or query letters how to work with contract employers and how to build and sustain your business. Lingo necessary for successfully navigating the freelance world is defined throughout. Author Jill L. Ferguson an experienced freelance professional and educator guides you through finding success in the gig economy discussing how to pursue freelancing with an entrepreneurial spirit. Creating a Freelance Career includes examples of what to do and what not to do when pursuing freelance projects and includes perspectives from additional real-life professionals who have found success in their fields. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138605787

Creating a Greater WholeA Project Manager’s Guide to Becoming a Leader Creating a Greater Whole unlocks the not-so-secret secrets of what aspiring managers need to become strong leaders. This information-rich easy to understand guide offers readers an immediate clear path to honing their leadership skills using the rigor and discipline of project management principles. Topics include stakeholder management collaborative communication multi-criteria decision making and conflict management. Reflective exercises in each chapter raise key questions for readers to craft their own development path. The process invites emerging leaders to draw from their past experiences recognize their intrinsic capabilities and identify specific skills to cultivate. Media > Books > Print Books Auerbach Publications 9781138064058

Creating a Language-Rich Math ClassStrategies and Activities for Building Conceptual Understanding What meanings do your students have for key mathematics concepts? What meanings do you wish them to have? Creating a Language-Rich Math Class offers practical approaches for developing conceptual understandings by connecting concrete pictorial verbal and symbolic representations. The focus is on making mathematics memorable instead of on memorizing. You’ll learn strategies for introducing students to math language that gives meaning to the terms and symbols they use everyday; for building flexibility and precision in students’ use of math language; and for structuring activities to make them more language-rich. Book Features: Detailed directions for sample games and activities for immediate classroom use; Investigations to Try and Questions for Reflection to assist in implementing these ideas into your practice; Graphic organizer for helping students first understand solve and defend their solutions to word problems; Blackline masters of game cards and puzzles (also available at http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138916296/) Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138916296

Creating a Lean and Green Business SystemTechniques for Improving Profits and Sustainability Things that are good for the planet are also good for business. Numerous studies from the likes of the Economist Intelligence Unit Harvard MIT Sloan and others indicate that organizations that commit to goals of zero waste zero harmful emissions and zero use of nonrenewable resources clearly outperform their competition.Like lean thinking greening your business is not just a ‘nice to have’; at least not anymore. It is now a key economic driver for many forward looking firms. This book is packed with case studies and examples that illustrate how leading firms use lean and green as simultaneous sources of inspiration in various sectors of industry - from automotive and retail to textile and brewing. Take Toyota as an example the holy grail of economic efficiency for decades. This book shows that Toyota tops the green chart too describing Toyota’s notion of Monozukuri: sustainable manufacturing.Creating a Lean and Green Business System: Techniques for Improving Profits and Sustainability offers opportunities for innovation that can simultaneously reduce dependence on natural resources and enhance global prosperity. It explores less understood aspects of lean and green – discussing their evolution independently as well as the opportunities that exist in their integration highlighting the importance of a cultural shift across the whole company.Outlining a systematic way to eliminate harmful waste while generating green value the book explains how to: Become economically successful and environmentally sustainable by adopting the lean and green business system model Adopt a systematic approach to become lean and green and develop your own roadmap to success Use the cutting edge tools techniques and methodologies developed by the authors Translate the techniques and culture that underpin lean into environmental improvements Creating a Lean and Green Business System: Techniques for Improving Profits and Sustainability supplies a new way of thinking that will allow you to boost improvement efforts and create a positively charged work environment – while contributing to the long-term well-being of the environment. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781466571129

Creating a Lean CultureTools to Sustain Lean Conversions Third Edition Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award The new edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any Lean transformation an ongoing success. It shows you how to implement a sustainable successful transformation by developing a culture that has your stakeholders throughout the organizational chart involved and invested in the outcome. It teaches you how to successfully navigate the politics in cross-functional process improvement projects and to engage executives in ways that are personally meaningful to them. If you are a leader at any level in an organization undergoing or considering a Lean transformation this is where you should start and finish … and start again.Read the Reviews:"This book became an instant classic in the literature of professional operations. In this third edition David Mann updates and expands his teaching with five additional years of valuable experience and expertise derived from his very active multi-industry consultancy. I have benefitted greatly from his writing and wholeheartedly recommend this book to be top-of-the desk of any serious Lean practitioner or performance transformation leader."— Raymond C. Floyd two-time Shingo Prize Winner President and CEO Plasco Energy Group"David Mann builds substantially on his seminal work on the Lean management system. The book is full of new insight and polishes the most important ideas about Lean management. The new chapter on engaging executive leadership alone is worth the price of the book."— Peter Ward Richard M. Ross Professor and Chair Department of Management Science Fisher College of Business The Ohio State University"This book has long been my ‘go-to’ guide on Lean management practices that help create a culture of continuous improvement and excellence. I have recommended the book to countless healthcare leaders who rave about how helpful it is in translating Lean principles into daily management behaviors. The healthcare examples make it even more relevant as a must read for any hospital leader who aims to move beyond Lean tools.."—Mark Graban author of Lean Hospitals co-author of Healthcare Kaizen and The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen"As more companies outside the manufacturing sector pursue Lean transformations Creating a Lean Culture is as critical a resource as ever. Breaking down silos and navigating tricky internecine politics remain a momentous challenge and Mann’s case-based insights are an invaluable tool."— Peg Pennington Executive Director Center for Operational Excellence Fisher College of Business The Ohio State University"David has once again taken the topics that trip us up and put structure and guidance around them. His new work on executive involvement is worth the price of the book all by itself. Many of us have struggled with this topic and David provides a path to success."— Elizabeth M. King Vice President Organizational Effectiveness ESCO Corporation New in the Third Edition: Contains new chapter on engaging executives in Lean initiatives Includes 21 new case studies Presents new examples from the healthcare and process industries Includes additional gemba worksheets for learning and teaching Lean Provides expanded coverage of Lean applications in complex cross functional value stream process improvement projects Watch David Mann discuss how the latest edition of Creating a Lean Culture can help you and your organization succeed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX7jrtV3cBA&feature=youtu.be Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781482243239

Creating a Lean R&D SystemLean Principles and Approaches for Pharmaceutical and Research-Based Organizations The ability to find and remove barriers between people and their systems in R&D can almost guarantee a doubling in performance and often delivers multiples of that. R&D teams that have smooth handoffs deliver 100 percent of the required knowledge at those handoffs. As a result such teams do not lose critical information have unexpected knowledge gaps appear in their projects or have uncoordinated knowledge transfers that waste minutes days and even months every year. Creating a Lean R&D System: Lean Principles and Approaches for Pharmaceutical and Research-Based Organizations lays out the logic of why Lean implementation isn’t strictly for manufacturing and describes why it can be just as effective in R&D organizations. Terence Barnhart former senior director of continuous improvement at Pfizer R&D describes the theoretical and physical underpinnings of creating a Lean transformation in any R&D organization as exemplified by the Lean transformation initiated within the R&D division of a global pharmaceutical company. Describing how to merge Lean principles with the cultural virtues inherent in R&D the book presents Lean approaches that can be easily applied in pharmaceutical and research-based organizations. It takes a strategic approach to solving two problems unique to the Lean field. The first is in noting the key distinctions between R&D and manufacturing and developing a Lean approach specific to the R&D environment. The second is that it proposes a systematic middle-out (merger/maneuver) strategy to help you initiate and sustain a Lean culture within your pharmaceutical R&D organization that will help you immediately engage all stakeholders involved. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781439800782

Creating a Learner-centred Primary ClassroomLearner-centered Strategic Teaching Creating a Learner-centred Primary Classroom is an essential resource to improve teaching practice examining the key elements that contribute to a learner-centred classroom and offering strategies to encourage children to take a shared role in their learning. Including case studies describing teachers’ methods for linking theory to practice this user-friendly photocopiable resource demonstrates how to: construct a learning community encourage collaborative learning share strategies for engaging individual learners provide a scaffold for strategic thinking in the classroom link assessment procedures to learning showcase the practice and outcomes of purposeful curriculum planning. Any teacher who wants to practically tailor their teaching practice to meet the needs of individual learners will find this an invaluable resource. Media > Books > Print Books David Fulton Publishers 9781138133754

Creating A Memory of Causal RelationshipsAn Integration of Empirical and Explanation-based Learning Methods This book presents a theory of learning new causal relationships by making use of perceived regularities in the environment general knowledge of causality and existing causal knowledge. Integrating ideas from the psychology of causation and machine learning the author introduces a new learning procedure called theory-driven learning that uses abstract knowledge of causality to guide the induction process. Known as OCCAM the system uses theory-driven learning when new experiences conform to common patterns of causal relationships empirical learning to learn from novel experiences and explanation-based learning when there is sufficient existing knowledge to explain why a new outcome occurred. Together these learning methods construct a hierarchical organized memory of causal relationships. As such OCCAM is the first learning system with the ability to acquire via empirical learning the background knowledge required for explanation-based learning. Please note: This program runs on common lisp. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138966918

Creating A Memory of Causal RelationshipsAn Integration of Empirical and Explanation-based Learning Methods This book presents a theory of learning new causal relationships by making use of perceived regularities in the environment general knowledge of causality and existing causal knowledge. Integrating ideas from the psychology of causation and machine learning the author introduces a new learning procedure called theory-driven learning that uses abstract knowledge of causality to guide the induction process. Known as OCCAM the system uses theory-driven learning when new experiences conform to common patterns of causal relationships empirical learning to learn from novel experiences and explanation-based learning when there is sufficient existing knowledge to explain why a new outcome occurred. Together these learning methods construct a hierarchical organized memory of causal relationships. As such OCCAM is the first learning system with the ability to acquire via empirical learning the background knowledge required for explanation-based learning. Please note: This program runs on common lisp. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9780203763049

Creating a Multivocal SelfAutoethnography as Method Showcasing a new methodology in language learning and identity research this carefully conceptualized innovative book explicates the use of autoethnography as a way of re-imagining one’s sense of linguistic and cultural identity. A key work for researchers and students in Applied Linguistics and Language Education it addresses fundamental aspects of research methodology and explores substantive issues relating to individual dimensions of multilingualism. Choi shows convincingly how the learning of a language is inseparable from one’s constant searching for a voice a place and a self in this world demonstrating the importance of interrogating what lies behind everyday life events and interactions—the political and ethical implications of the utterances thoughts actions and stories of the self and others. Themes of authenticity illegitimacy power relations perceptions of self/other cultural discourses and practices and related issues in multilingual identity development surface in the multi-modal narratives. Chapters on methodology woven through the book focus on the process of knowledge production approaches to writing narratives the messiness of research writing practices and the inseparability of writing and research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138189850

Creating a New Civilization Through Social Entrepreneurship Humanity is confronted with the gravest financial crisis and economic recession since the Great Depression. Political leaders national ministries of finance and central banks around the world are trying to prop up their countries' sinking economies and arrest a downward economic spiral by innovative financial rescue and bank bailout plans as well as economic stimulus and recovery packages. These measures are being taken to reestablish trust in the economy and to trigger an economic revival. Despite these efforts stagnation seems imminent as uncertainty leads businesses and consumers to place spending and investing decisions on hold.Social entrepreneurs are essential to the restoration of a sustainable planet and the improvement of lives of billions of people especially of those living in extreme poverty. Therefore social entrepreneurs deserve further recognition and support by the international community - by governments multinational companies and philanthropic organizations. Creating a New Civilization through Social Entrepreneurship highlights the global movement of social entrepreneurship and some of the leading organizations and individuals that are advancing this citizen sector movement. The volume presents examples of innovative people that are tackling major social problems and triggering systemic change throughout the world today. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521421

Creating a New Consensus on PopulationThe Politics of Reproductive Health Reproductive Rights and Women's Empowerment Population growth reproductive health and reproductive rights are amongst the most pressing issues facing governments and the international community. Since the world's governments agreed for the first time on far-reaching and enlightened population policies at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo a good deal of progress has been made on these issues but major challenges remain. This fully updated edition of Creating a New Consensus on Population charts international progress on efforts to address population and development reproductive health reproductive rights religion contraception and the empowerment of women. Historical coverage includes the lead up process to the ICPD the conference itself and the global consensus and the ICPD Programme of Action that resulted. The book then turns to how population issues have developed over the past decade and a half including follow-up and implementation at the international level by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and other UN agencies and organizations. Key international events are covered including the 1999 ICPD+5 Millennium Summit 2000 ICPD+10 and the 2005 MDG+5 as well as relevant regional events. The book also examines the reorientation of policies and programmes and implementation at national levels across the world. Crucially it looks at emerging issues and partnerships including the increasing role of NGOs women's groups youth groups foundations public-private partnerships and other non-state stakeholders. Written by Jyoti Shankar Singh former ICPD Executive Coordinator this is the definitive account of how the international community has engaged with population issues and policies and it offers insight into both the ongoing challenges as well as how an international consensus can be forged on crucial global issues. It is essential reading for all those involved in population health and development issues and policies world-wide. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315870472

Creating a Place For OurselvesLesbian Gay and Bisexual Community Histories Creating a Place For Ourselves is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines gay life in the United States before Stonewall and the gay liberation movement. Along with examining areas with large gay communities such as New York San Francisco and Fire Island the contributors also consider the thriving gay populations in cities like Detroit Buffalo Washington D.C. Birmingham and Flint demonstrating that gay communities are truly everywhere. Contributors: Brett Beemyn Nan Alamilla Boyd George Chauncey Madeline Davis Allen Drexel John Howard David Johnson Liz Kennedy Joan Nestle Esther Newton Tim Retzloff Marc Stein Roey Thorpe. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203699119

Creating a Psychoanalytic MindA psychoanalytic method and theory Bringing a fresh contemporary Freudian view to a number of current issues in psychoanalysis this book is about a psychoanalytic method that has been evolved by Fred Busch over the past 40 years called Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind. It is based on the essential curative process basic to most psychoanalytic theories - the need for a shift in the patient's relationship with their own mind. Busch shows that with the development of a psychoanalytic mind the patient can acquire the capacity to shift the inevitability of action to the possibility of reflection. Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind is derived from an increasing clarification of how the mind works that has led to certain paradigm changes in the psychoanalytic method. While the methods of understanding the human condition have evolved since Freud the means of bringing this understanding to patients in a way that is meaningful have not always followed. Throughout Fred Busch illustrates that while the analyst's expertise is crucial to the process the analyst's stance rather than mainly being an expert in the content of the patient's mind is primarily one of helping the patient to find his own mind. Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists interested in learning a theory and technique where psychoanalytic meaning and meaningfulness are integrated. It will enable professionals to work differently and more successfully with their patients. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415629058

Creating a Responsive Environment for People with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties This revised and updated second edition aims to enable teachers and care staff working with people with PMLD in any context to create a positive interactive environment for the people with whom they work. Using information from the latest research and from everyday practice the author discusses the different aspects of a responsive environment and suggests practical strategies that staff can use to create such an atmosphere. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138145023

Creating A Role Creating a Roleis the culmination of Stanislavski's masterful trilogy on the art of acting. An Actor Prepares focused on the inner training of an actor's imagination. Building a Characterdetailed how the actor's body and voice could be tuned for the great roles he might fill. This third volume examines the development of a character from the viewpoint of three widely contrasting plays: Griboyedov's Woe from Wit Shakespeare's Othello and Gogol's The Inspector General. Building on the first two books Stanislavski demonstrates how a fully realized character is born in three stages: "studying it; establishing the life of the role; putting it into physical form."Tracing the actor's process from the first reading to production he explores how to approach roles from inside and outside simultaneously. He shows how to recount the story in actor's terms how to create an inner life that will give substance to the author's words and how to search into one's own experiences to connect with the character's situation. Finally he speaks of the physical expression of the character in gestures sounds intonation and speech. Throughout a picture of a real artist at work emerges sometimes failing but always seeking truthful answers. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203056561

Creating a Sense of Place in School EnvironmentsHow Young Children Construct Place Attachment Creating a Sense of Place in School Environments guides its readers to the characteristics that tend to generate a sense of place through children’s vivid descriptions of their school and provides a body of critical information that can be employed to design a better school environment that can imprint cherished childhood memories. The childhood school environment calls for special attention regarding the sense of place it creates. The sense of place in childhood both affects children's current quality of life and frames their lasting world view. It is well known that children's cognitive development is closely related to their place attachment to their surroundings and that children’s adaptation to a given environment depends on how such place attachment can be created. Therefore it is natural that people’s identity in the world is the accumulation of their experience of place while in childhood. Cross-checking between the imprint of adults' memories of places in school and children’s current "lived experience" of their favorite school place confirmed that certain spatial configurations which the author herein refers to as "place generators" can generate positive attributes of physical settings that construct a sense of place and last as lifelong memories. It is an ideal read for academics students and professionals. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138339019

Creating a Space to GrowDeveloping your enabling environment outdoors Is your outdoor area working? Do you want to make changes but are not sure where to start? Creating a Space to Grow guides you through the process of changing and developing the outdoor environment of your early years setting to maximise the learning potential that these areas can offer. Packed full of strategies and ideas for enhancing outdoor areas this new edition has been updated with references to the revised Early Years Foundation Stage and features many new colour photographs to illustrate how settings have enhanced their outside space. 　 Aimed at all early years practitioners who are looking to fulfil the potential learning opportunities that a stimulating outdoor area can create this key text includes: Practical ‘real life’ case studies and examples from the Kent ‘Space to Grow’ project Step-by-step photocopiable prompt sheets that guide you through each stage and encourage the participation of your children A new section that includes updates from some of the Kent settings and new guidance on auditing and improving your outdoor space. 　 Focusing on the core values that highlight the importance and benefits of outdoor play this essential book will enable you to recognise the true value that outdoor spaces can have on a child’s overall development and wellbeing. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415825559

Creating a Speaking and Listening ClassroomIntegrating Talk for Learning at Key Stage 2 Providing children with opportunities to talk about their learning enables teachers to hear what children are thinking. Talking with one another allows children to question elaborate and reflect on a range of ideas. Classroom talk can be motivating and involving and helps children to think and learn. And yet it is difficult to organise such talk in a classroom. Children unaware of the importance of talk for learning may think of talk as �just chat� � and learning falls away as they slip into social talk. This book provides teachers with strategies and resources to enable whole classes to work together through the medium of talk. Creating a Speaking and Listening Classroom provides timely professional development for teachers. Based on a theoretical approach underpinned by classroom research this book offers classroom-tested strategies for engaging children in their own learning. Such strategies involve the direct teaching of speaking and listening. Activities in the book can ensure that children know how and why to support one another�s learning in whole-class and group work. The approach enables teachers to ensure that personalised learning programs are based on what children already think and know. The suggested strategies for teaching speaking and listening can enable children to use one another�s minds as a rich resource. This stimulating book will be of interest to professionals in primary education literacy co-ordinators and trainee primary teachers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138460195

Creating a Strategic Energy Reduction Plan This book outlines a simple and easy-to-follow process for auditing building operation to identify and reduce energy consumption. It explains the operational and cost-based opportunities assessing the current conditions analyzing the opportunities and reporting the findings and documenting the plan. The book discusses the different building components and systems and how they affect energy efficiency and describes the operational energy efficiencies that can be gained by implementing no cost changes or alternate maintenance activities already funded. Capital improvement opportunities and evaluating Return on Investment and life cycle replacement of equipment are also covered. Media > Books > Print Books Fairmont Press 9781482228847

Creating a Sustainable BrandA Guide to Growing the Sustainability Top Line Sustainable brands may have started as "doing less harm" and shaving costs off the bottom line. But brands today supported by over a decade of phenomenal changes in sustainability are looking for the holy grail of sustainable business – a fusion of products and branding that can actually drive sustainability and grow the business top line.Consumers have already joined the party. Just look at TOMS Patagonia Method Seventh Generation Dove and many more. What is missing isn’t the consumer but a better understanding of what fully-rounded consumers really want in their quest for a healthy fulfilling life.This guide by sustainable brand expert Henk Campher is the model for creating a sustainable brand that people can trust buy and above all advocate for. Campher cuts through the myths and noise to offer an experienced expert's 101 for creating an irresistible brand clearly setting out: what makes a product or service sustainable; the basic elements of sustainable branding strategy and a deep understanding of how consumers connect with a brand; an original model for assessing the sustainability of your brand and; a host of examples of sustainable brands drawing on the author's firsthand experience as part of the team at Edelman and Oxfam and founder of the Nelson Mandela initiated Proudly South African campaign.  Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781910174067

Creating a Sustainable EconomyAn Institutional and Evolutionary Approach to Environmental Policy This book is designed for those scholars students policy-makers – or just curious readers – who are looking for heterodox thinking on the issue of environmental economics and policy. Contributions to this book draw on multiple streams of institutional and evolutionary economics and help build an approach to environmental policy that radically diverges from mainstream prescriptions. Institutions and technologies – and not only markets – are at the heart of a systemic and dynamic analysis of those structural changes which are needed to create a sustainable economy. Actors for change – and their ability to influence politics and policy – are explicitly taken into consideration. These issues are analyzed from different viewpoints by contributors to the book: some focus on behavior and institutions others analyze the interaction of economic and technological dynamics; some provide sectoral case studies and others have the ambition to provide the reader with an overall picture. But all authors view environmental policy as a combination of actions that can trigger – and make viable – those structural changes which are needed to reach sustainability. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138808393

Creating A World EconomyMerchant Capital Colonialism And World Trade 1400-1825 This book delineates the systemic roles assumed by the various regions of the world and by European merchant capital and explains the tensions within intercultural commercial system that ensured its continued dynamism and eventual transformation into the current world economic system. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367153823

Creating an Anti-Racist Culture in the Early YearsAn Essential Guide for Practitioners At a time of growing evidence of racism across many countries and cultures Creating an Anti-Racist Culture in the Early Years will help those working with young children recognise racism name it for what it is and help their young pupils understand that difference is nothing to be feared. Drawing on both personal research and established theory Smidt includes examples of anti-racist practice from real life and in literature looks at how racism is acquired and cites examples of people who have spoken or acted against racism through the centuries. She emphasises how and why it is essential to develop multicultural education into anti-racist education and why it’s so important to go beyond the mere celebration of differences in cultures. This indispensable resource also addresses: What racism is and why it is so corrosive How to recognise and challenge it in an early years setting How to work with parents and carers to help them reassess their prejudices or unconscious bias How to create an anti-racist curriculum and culture through inclusion multiculturalism literature art and drama. Creating an Anti-Racist Culture in the Early Years is an indispensable resource for all early years practitioners and students of early childhood education who believe in creating more equitable opportunities for all of our young children. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367258122

Creating an Eco-Friendly Early Years SettingA Practical Guide This book offers a comprehensive guide to becoming a more eco-friendly setting from small steps that can be taken to reduce waste and improve efficiency to setting up partnerships. It illustrates how sustainable choices can become a natural part of every child’s education and how children parents and staff can all inspire sustainable behaviour across local communities and at national and international levels. Covering all aspects of practice including colleague and parental engagement the environment routines resources and teaching and learning the book helps readers and practitioners to embed a sustainable approach in day-to-day practice. It draws on recent research studies and stories of success and failure that can be adapted to fit everyone’s own journey towards a more sustainable world. The chapters address topics such as: plastics and their alternatives sustainable food sustainable resourcing transport and trips waste management. Drawing on the experiences of real nurseries and including a wide range of activities and lists of resources this is an essential read for practitioners leaders policymakers and all settings that want to help make sustainable choices a natural part of young children’s lives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138333703

Creating an Effective Couples Therapy Practice Most clinicians seek guidelines and indicators as to the effectiveness of their interventions with clients. Some may even be implementing evidence-based interventions and seek an in-depth understanding of their results. This book helps clinicians who provide couple’s or marriage therapy and counseling go from the ambiguous realm of "thinking" or "knowing" their effectiveness to being able to demonstrate it. It identifies effective strategies for common treatment concerns that connect to the successful outcomes of therapy. Here the process starts even before the couple enters therapy and goes beyond the final session. Dr. Losey discusses specific outcome measures and how they can be used in session so that the couple can assess their relationship and develop specific goals and interventions for treatment. The author also examines session notes pre-treatment change and developing quality post-treatment goals in his discussion of clinical effectiveness. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138780347

Creating an Effective Management SystemIntegrating Policy Deployment TWI and Kata "The decades of experience-based wisdom that Graupp Steward and Parsons share will set you on a new path to a more joyful organization and the tangible results it will produce." Rich Sheridan CEO Menlo Innovations; author of Joy Inc. and Chief Joy Officer "A fine book by skilled practitioners that integrates Kata and TWI with Strategy Deployment in pursuit of an integrated management system. Well done Skip Brad and Patrick." Pascal Dennis president Lean Pathways Inc.; author of Lean Production Simplified Andy & Me Andy & Me and the Hospital Getting the Right Things Done and The Remedy "In this practical and engaging book Patrick Graupp Skip Steward and Brad Parsons give a concise and extremely clear explanation of what systems thinking looks like in a healthcare setting. And they do so in a way that translates easily to any type of organization. Highly recommended!" Alan Robinson co-author of Ideas Are Free and The Idea-Driven Organization   Despite the vast library of knowledge on Lean tools and models the majority of Lean implementations fail to sustain themselves over time for lack of a functioning management system. In turn when organizations try to apply a prescribed one-size-fits-all management system they inevitably find that what works for others may not work quite as well in their unique situation. Putting the right pieces in the right places is the prime challenge for every organization and no two successful management systems will or should be the same. This book provides and examines core principles that must be in place for an organization to find what an effective management system should constitute for them. It outlines key elements and how they work together as a necessary system to achieve overall success. Based on their extensive experience with organizational development and hands-on leadership in policy deployment TWI and Kata the authors describe their own journey in helping organizations discover and develop systems that function like well-designed and smooth-running machines while capturing the humanistic aspects of the foundational skills that emphasize the inherent synergy of the system. Readers will learn to help their own organizations "connect the dots" between the various pieces of Lean methodology and effectively create their own management systems that ultimately fulfil customers’ needs and expectations. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781138594951

Creating an Excellent SchoolSome New Management Techniques Originally published in 1989. The pursuit of excellence is much discussed with reference to education but the question remains ’How can a school become excellent?’ This book demonstrates that excellence depends on good management which in turn depends not only on a clear understanding of good management theory but on the ability to translate theory into practice. The authors offer profound insights into three crucial areas of leadership: culture structure and public accountability. Drawing on areas outside education such as advertising and business they discuss many innovations that are already current - flexitime the vertical curriculum mastery learning community support - and depict ways in which these can be brought together into a total educational experience. More strikingly however they look ahead examining the potential changes to our concept of schooling: for instance those brought about by the growth of information technology. This book emphasises that at the heart of outstanding schooling are visionary leadership a clear sense of purpose and creatively conceived and flexible support structures. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138545274

Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England 1660–1830 Historians of the long eighteenth century have recently recognised that this period is central both to the history of cultural production and consumption and to the history of national and regional identity. Yet no book has as yet directly engaged with these two areas of interest at the same time. By uniting interest in the history of culture with the history of regional identity Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England 1660-1830 is of crucial importance to a wide range of historians and intervenes in a number of highly important historical and conceptual debates in a timely and provocative way. The book makes a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century studies. Not only do these essays demonstrate that in thinking about cultural production and consumption in the eighteenth century there are important continuities as well as changes that need to be considered but also they complicate the commonplace assumption of metropolitan-led cultural change and cultural innovation. Rather than the usual model of centre-periphery diffusion a number of contributions show that cultural change in the provinces was happening at the same time as in or in some cases even before London. The essays also indicate the complex relationship between cultural consumption and social status with some cultural forms being more inclusive than others. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315259048

Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European UnionThe European Heritage Label Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created communicated and governed via the new European Heritage Label scheme. Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted across ten countries at sites that have been awarded with the European Heritage Label the authors of the book approach heritage as an entangled social spatial temporal discursive narrative performative and embodied process. Recognising that heritage is inherently political and used by diverse actors as a tool for re-imagining communities identities and borders and for generating notions of inclusion and exclusion in Europe the book also considers the idea of Europe itself as a narrative. Chapters tackle issues such as multilevel governance of heritage; geopolitics of border-crossings and border-making; participation and non-participation; and embodiment and affective experience of heritage. Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union advances heritage studies with an interdisciplinary approach that utilises and combines theories and conceptualizations from critical geopolitics political studies EU and European studies cultural policy research and cultural studies. As such the volume will be of interest to scholars and students engaged in the study of heritage politics belonging the EU ideas and narratives of Europe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367148355

Creating and Implementing Public PolicyCross-sectoral debates In order to address major social policy problems governments need to break down sectoral barriers and create better working relationships between practitioners policymakers and researchers. Currently major blockages exist and stereotypes abound. Academics are seen as out-of-touch and unresponsive policymakers are perceived to be justifying policy decisions and the community sector seeks more funding without demonstrating efficacy. These stereotypes are born out of a lack of understanding of the work and practices that exist across these three sectors. Drawing on ground-breaking research and partnerships with contributions from senior public servants this book explores the competing demands of different actors involved in policy change. It challenges current debates assumptions and reflects a unique diversity of experiences. Combined with differing theoretical perspectives it provides a uniquely practical insight for those seeking to influence public policy. This innovative text provides essential reading for community sector practitioners academics and advanced level students in public policy social policy and public administration as well as for public service professionals. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367737559

Creating and Managing a CRM Platform for your Organisation More than ever organisations are facing a data avalanche from various sources be they in electronic or hard copy format. How an organisation manages this ever-increasingly important resource – data – can benefit or hinder its ability to achieve its objectives. Creating and Managing a CRM Platform for Your Organisation not only covers how the principles of data management including data quality and data security can be applied to an organisation’s customer relationship management (CRM) platform but also highlights how aspects of data management marketing and technology are needed to operate develop and manage a CRM platform in order to carry out tasks such as reporting and analysis developing data plans undertaking data audits data migrations and campaign mailings which will result in an organisation using data effectively in order to achieve its goals and objectives. The issues and topics covered apply to all organisations that use a CRM platform and the data it contains as part of their business activities regardless of the industry sector or size of the organisation. A comprehensive overview of the practices that can be effectively implemented when managing a CRM platform this book is essential reading for professionals involved in the administration of the CRM platform within their organisation and data management. Media > Books > Print Books Gower 9781138335806

Creating and Managing a Sustainable Sporting FutureIssues Pathways and Opportunities Creating and Managing a Sustainable Sporting Future contributes to a critical understanding of the challenges key stakeholders across the globe encounter as they seek to manage periods of transition brought about by policy change relating to the provision of sport and physical activity. The book uncovers the global challenges in terms of managing the re-orientation of stakeholder activities and organisational strategies in response to the aspirations for a wider range of outcomes through sport-based interventions and establishment of partnerships with non-sport sectors. It illuminates the increasingly erratic trajectory of sport development service providers as the environment within which sport organisations operate changes – through for example climate change demographic shifts changing features of local economies and alterations to the structures of local government and governance – and the responses of sport organisations to these new realities differ greatly depending on location institutional structures and leadership. The chapters highlight the changing social economic environmental and policy contexts within which sports organisations operate and explain the subsequent need for new approaches to partnership working physical activity re-scoping and integrated education programming. Showing that the international mandate of creating active lifestyles and subsequent re-orientation of stakeholders towards physical activity cannot only contribute to re-defining sport but also in identifying novel ways for building and managing a sustainable sporting future Creating and Managing a Sustainable Sporting Future is ideal for Sports scholars and particularly those working on Sport Policy and Sustainable sport development. This book was originally published as a special issue of Managing Sport and Leisure. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367369262

Creating and Managing the Democratic School Originally published in 1995. In securing the future of any democracy it is vital that the education service should provide an effective introduction to citizenship by means of a high quality and empowering curriculum in educational institutions organized and administered according to democratic principles. In this volume educators with a variety of backgrounds and experience gained in educational institutions in both Russia and western countries address the question of the conception justification and implementation of the idea of 'education for democracy'. This is the first publication to emerge from a collaboration of Russian and Western educators in recent times and is an enthralling account of education in countries with wide social political and historical differences yet having common ground to share over the creation and management of their school systems. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138545304

Creating and Marketing New Products and Services It’s no secret that some of the most successful companies such as 3M Procter & Gamble Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz are also known for their new product development strategies. Creating and Marketing New Products and Services teaches the key business and marketing principles needed to successfully design and launch new products and services in today’s global market. It begins by providing the foundation required to understand the role of new product development in the innovating organization.The book emphasizes marketing research techniques that can help firms identify the voice of the customer and incorporate these findings into their new product development process. It addresses the role of sustainability in innovation open innovation strategies and international co-development efforts of new products and services. Explaining how to manage the development and marketing of new products and services this book will teach you how to: Select a new product strategy that matches the needs of your organization Set up a disciplined process for new product development Define target market opportunities and search out high potential ideas Understand customer needs structure them and prioritize the needs to clearly define the benefits and values that your product will deliver Integrate marketing engineering R&D and production resources to design a high-quality product that satisfies customer needs and delivers value Forecast sales before market launch based on testing of the product and the marketing plan The concepts discussed in the book can help to boost innovation and improve the performance of any type of organization. Some of the concepts presented are generic and others must be modified for each application. Together they can lead to greater profitability and reduced risk in the new product development activities within your organization. Media > Books > Print Books Auerbach Publications 9781482203608

Creating and Re-Creating Corporate Entrepreneurial Culture Entrepreneurship is often considered only in the context of new venture creation small business issues and the profiles and personalities of individual entrepreneurs. The emphasis in Creating and Re-Creating Corporate Entrepreneurial Culture is very much on the 'corporate' it focuses on the creation and maintenance of an entrepreneurial management culture that accelerates growth and enhances effectiveness and competitiveness in large organizations. Alzira Salama explains what constitutes entrepreneurial behaviour how it is facilitated by organizational culture and why entrepreneurial corporate culture is fundamental to business success. She takes you through ways of identifying prevailing cultures and explains how cultures are reinforced or changed. Drawing on exemplary case studies from around the world she tells the stories both of successful and unsuccessful interventions made in response to the need to move on from bureaucratic or authoritarian cultures. These include specific instances where the context has been privatization merger and acquisition transition in the wider economy or a combination of any of these circumstances. This enlightening book will help managers and consultants business educators higher level students and those on executive programmes to understand the nature of an organization's culture why it is as it is whether it needs to change and how it might be changed. Alzira Salama offers real world examples of how to create or re-create an entrepreneurial culture together with tools that will enable corporations to achieve it. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138219328

Creating Better Cities with Children and YouthA Manual for Participation Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth is a practical manual on how to conceptualize structure and facilitate the participation of young people in the community development process. It is an important tool for urban planners municipal officials community development staff non-governmental organizations educators youth-serving agencies youth advocates and others who are involved in the community development process. It offers inspiration to all who believe in the value of community education and empowerment as a fundamental building block of a vibrant and resilient civil society and those who feel concern for young people and the quality of their lives. The manual's core ideas and methods have been field-tested in a wide range of urban settings in both developing and industrialized cities through the work of the UNESCO Growing Up in Cities project. Case studies from project sites help to demonstrate the methods in action and show how they can be customized to meet local needs. They provide lessons and insights to help ensure a successful project and highlight the universal applicability and value of young people's participation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138410794

Creating BodiesEating Disorders as Self-Destructive Survival Amid the welter of clinical studies memoirs and other death-defying tales of eating disorders we remain unclear about the relationships among trauma anorexia and bulimia and about the psychological pathways to recovery. Creating Bodies offers the gripping story of healing and transformation detailed in one woman's diaries. Hannah wrote 18 diaries between the ages of 14 and 32. In the excerpts reprinted herein we watch Hannah navigate violent adolescent friendships descend into anorexia and bulimia marry an abusive man struggle to recover memories of sexual abuse and finally to heal. And we learn of her interaction with Katie Gentile who analyzed her diaries and met with Hannah to discuss the latter's own understanding of the diaries and of the diary analysis. Through a close study of both the content and structure of Hannah's diaries Gentile shows how unspeakable embodied remnants of sexual trauma become symbolized and how within this process Hannah's bulimia functioned as both an act of self destruction and a lifesaving form of resistance. Anchored in relational psychoanalysis and critical feminist theory Creating Bodies provides a uniquely longitudinal account of the development of and ultimate recovery from an eating disorder fueled by childhood sexual abuse. An invaluable contribution to the literature on adolescent and adult eating disorders it is also a thoughtful meditation on how the act of writing deepens issues of relationality and over time promotes cure. Psychoanalysts will be intrigued by the rich process issues embedded in prose journals notes and letters - both close to and distinct from clinical process issues - that Gentile uses to understand Hannah's projects of self-destruction and reconstruction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138462090

Creating Built EnvironmentsBridging Knowledge and Practice Divides Built environments are complex emergent systemic and require contextual analysis. They should be understood before reconsidering how professionals and researchers of the built environment are educated and trained to reduce the gap between knowledge practice and real-world circumstances. There is an urgent need to rethink the role of policy makers researchers practitioners and laypeople in the construction renovation and reuse of the built environment in order to deal with numerous environmental/ecological economic/financial and social/ethical challenges of providing a habitat for current and future generations in a world of continual change. These challenges are too complex to be dealt with only by one discipline or profession. Combinations of different types of knowledge knowing in praxis and tacit knowledge are needed. This book presents and illustrates recent innovative contributions with case studies focusing on five strategic domains and the interrelations between them. These transdisciplinary contributions apply concepts methods and tools that facilitate convergence and concerted action between participants collaborating in policy definition and project implementation. The methods and tools include experiments in living-labs prototypes on site and virtual simulations as well as participatory approaches including citizen science the development of alternative scenarios and visioning plausible futures. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815385394

Creating Campus CulturesFostering Success among Racially Diverse Student Populations Many colleges and universities have not engaged in the critical self-examination of their campuses necessary for effectively serving racially diverse student populations. This timely edited collection provides insights into how campus cultures can and do shape the experiences and outcomes of their increasingly diverse college student populations. By cultivating values beliefs and assumptions that focus on including validating and creating equitable outcomes among diverse undergraduate students an institution can foster their success.While attention to campus climate is critical for gauging the nature of an institution’s culture and how students are experiencing the campus environment changes in climate alone will not lead to holistic and deep rooted institutional transformation. Moving beyond previous explorations of campus racial climates Creating Campus Cultures addresses the considerable institutionally embedded obstacles practitioners face as they attempt to transform entrenched institutional cultures to meet the needs of diverse student bodies. A broad range of chapters include voices of students new research practical experiences and application of frameworks that are conducive to success. This book will help student affairs and higher education administrators navigate this increasingly difficult terrain by providing practical advice on how to foster success among racial minority students and enact long-term holistic change at any institution. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415888202

Creating Capacity for Learning and Equity in SchoolsInstructional Adaptive and Transformational Leadership Creating Capacity for Learning and Equity in Schools provides a comprehensive guide for aspiring and practicing leaders to strengthen their capacity to create high levels of learning and equity. Chapters explore key theories and research provide resources for developing personal and organizational leadership capacity and guide leaders through a reflective process to help them link theory and practice. Hooper and Bernhardt’s model for excellence and equity provides a pathway for educators to create and sustain learning communities in schools. Exploring three leadership approaches—Instructional Adaptive and Transformational—this textbook prepares and develops leaders to engage school communities through effective instructional leadership data-informed decision-making and a vision for learning and equity for all. Special Features: Theory to Practice (T2P) Framework—A series of structured exercises help readers review and reflect on existing organizational practices and develop new action plans. Case Studies—Encourage individual reflection and collective discussion on key leadership scenarios. Examples in Action—Challenge readers to analyze new connections and leadership processes. A companion website—Includes additional resources and tools for instructors to facilitate activities in the classroom. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138950481

Creating Child Friendly CitiesReinstating Kids in the City Leading planning and geography authors present this comprehensive assessment of the extent to which the physical and social make up of Western cities accommodates and nourishes the needs of children and youth. Examining the areas of planning design social policy transport and housing Creating Child Friendly Cities outlines strengths and deficiencies in the processes that govern urban development and change from the perspective of children and youth. Issues explored include children's view of the city and why this is unique; the 'obesity epidemic': is it caused by cities?; the journey to school and children's transport needs generally. With illustrations and case studies Creating Child Friendly Cities presents planning professionals with a solid case for child-friendly cities and an action plan to create places for children to play. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415648974

Creating Church OnlineRitual Community and New Media Online churches are internet-based Christian communities pursuing worship discussion friendship support proselytization and other key religious goals through computer-mediated communication. Hundreds of thousands of people are now involved with online congregations generating new kinds of ritual leadership and community and new networks of global influence. Creating Church Online constructs a rich ethnographic account of the diverse cultures of online churches from virtual worlds to video streams. This book also outlines the history of online churchgoing from its origins in the 1980s to the present day and traces the major themes of academic and Christian debate around this topic. Applying some of the leading current theories in the study of religion media and culture to this data Tim Hutchings proposes a new model of religious design in contexts of mediatization and draws attention to digital networks transformative third spaces and terrains of existential vulnerability. Creating Church Online advances our understanding of the significance and impact of digital media in the religious and social lives of its users in search of new theoretical frameworks for digital religion. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367333454

Creating CitizensTeaching Civics and Current Events in the History Classroom Grades 6–9 Engage students in meaningful civic learning and encourage them to become active and informed citizens. With this essential book co-published by Routledge and MiddleWeb you will gain a variety of practical strategies for teaching civics and current events to your middle school students. Author and expert teacher Sarah Cooper takes you into her school and shares her classroom-tested methods and tools. Topics include: Fitting current events into an already-packed history curriculum Staying nonpartisan and fostering balanced discussions Helping students find their stake in the news Teaching civic literacy through primary sources then and now Encouraging students to invest in analytical writing Fostering student ownership of our classrooms through discussion and debate Cultivating citizenship through empathy and community engagement Throughout the book you’ll find student examples handouts and rubrics so that you can easily implement the ideas in your own classroom. By getting your students to think critically about current events you will help them become passionate writers thinkers and involved citizens. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138052871

Creating Collaborative AdvantageInnovation and Knowledge Creation in Regional Economies In the emerging new collaborative economic order innovation is achieved by an integrated process of collaboration between policymakers business and society. Often the focus for this collaboration is at a regional level. Creating Collaborative Advantage examines the trends in innovation policy that reflect this new thinking and regional focus. This book develops the view that collaboration is one of many ways of organising a competitive economy. It asks how when and where collaboration is a meaningful way of organisation. It explores collaboration at business level business networks between companies and a wider collaborative coalition between business and public authorities. It is not a manual a 'how to do it' because there is no single straightforward universal model to replace current orthodoxy on economic development but it will enable people to learn. The contributors to this unique book have been involved with the implementation of some of the most outstanding examples of collaborative approaches it therefore gives an outstanding picture of diversity inbuilt comparisons and contrast and debate between the cases. The co-authors give their understanding of these issues but the book tries to establish some common understandings and bring the concept of collaboration to a larger audience and to increase interest in a field which requires further exploration. Policy makers advisers and administrators at all levels of government those involved in research and development and business leaders and educators will find this book invaluable together with readers having an academic interest in the subject of innovation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138110243

Creating Comics as Journalism Memoir and Nonfiction This book provides student journalists artists designers creative writers and web producers with the tools and techniques they need to tell nonfiction stories visually and graphically. Weaving together history theory and practical advice seasoned nonfiction comics professors and scholars Randy Duncan Michael Ray Taylor and David Stoddard present a hands-on approach to teach readers from a range of backgrounds how to develop and create a graphic nonfiction story from start to finish. The book offers guidance on: -how to find stories and make use of appropriate facts and visuals; -nonfiction narrative techniques; -artist's tools and techniques; -print digital and multimedia production; -legal and ethical considerations. Interviews with well-known nonfiction comics creators and editors discuss best practices and offer readers inspiration to begin creating their own work and exercises at the end of each chapter encourage students to hone their skills. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415730082

Creating Communities for Addiction RecoveryThe Oxford House Model Learn to create a positive research/action alliance similar to that of DePaul University and the Oxford House communityThis book reviews important research conducted in a 13-year collaborative partnership between Oxford House (a community-based self-run residential substance abuse recovery program) and DePaul University. It also presents practical guidelines for developing effective action research collaborative programs that can cultivate and maintain mutually beneficial community/research partnerships.Creating Communities for Addiction Recovery: The Oxford House Model presents and examines: practical guidelines for developing effective action research collaboratives focusing on the development of trust respecting the personal experiences of the community members and the group commitment to serving the community validating findings with organization members and accountability the experiences and attitudes of Oxford House community members in light of their participation in the collaborative research projects described in the book the essentials of designing and creating an efficient and productive yet homey residential community environment for addicted persons the factors that make Oxford Houses in the United States and Australia “safe and sober” settings for persons in recovery the differential growth among self-governed substance abuse recovery homes for men and for women—with a focus on the impact of state loan programs and the utilization of technical assistance in relation to the expansion of women’s houses as compared with men’s the economic advantages of the Oxford House model as compared with other treatment and incarceration alternatives the roles of ethnicity and gender in substance abuse recovery the structural social support of Oxford House men—and the impact of parenthood on these men’s substance use patterns and recovery attempts the medical care (need and utilization) patterns of a substance abusing and recovering population how Oxford House’s African-American community functions as a source of abstinent social networks the sense of community among women and women with children living in Oxford Houses—with emphasis on how the presence of children impacts the household perspectives of leadership by women (some with children some without) affiliated with Oxford HousesThe information in this book shows that the rules of the game have changed. Substance abusers now can take charge of their own recovery in effective and efficient ways and practitioners can find low-cost housing options for their clients with substance abuse problems. As a part of your professional/teaching collection Creating Communities for Addiction Recovery can help you or your students take understand and make effective use of this rapidly evolving paradigm of community-based recovery. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315864488

Creating Communities in Early Years SettingsSupporting children and families Creating Communities in Early Years Settings encourages and supports all early years practitioners who work with children and their families within the Early Years Foundation Stage. Offering advice ideas and strategies for developing an early learning community this book provides clear guidance and real world examples that show how practitioners can provide an excellent inclusive service to meet the needs of young children and their families and help them to thrive. Debbie Chalmers presents innovative and practical ideas to promote progress development and inclusion while outlining potential pitfalls and explaining how to identify and cater for individual needs. Chapters cover key topics such as: the legal responsibilities of a setting inclusion parental participation and parent managed settings roles and duties of different staff within a setting effective and sensitive communication with colleagues and caregivers and managing transitions. Creating Communities in Early Years Settings is designed to support early years practitioners teachers teaching assistants nannies and childminders working with babies and children within the Early Years Foundation Stage. The book will also be of interest to students on early years childcare and education courses from level 2 upwards. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138917293

Creating ComponentsObject Oriented Concurrent and Distributed Computing in Java Concurrency is a powerful technique for developing efficient and lightning- fast software. For instance concurrency can be used in common applications such as online order processing to speed processing and ensure transaction reliability. However mastering concurrency is one of the greatest challenges for both new and veteran programmers. Software developers with all levels of experience can refer to Creating Components: Object Oriented Concurrent and Distributed Computing in Java to better understand how concurrency works more effectively deploy it in program components and reuse these components to improve program design quality and performance.This text introduces concurrent and component programming to students engineers and programmers who are familiar with Java and procedural and GUI programming. It helps them to understand and apply concurrency in Java component programming while exploring distributed program implementation Java threads objects interfaces exceptions component reuse and system design and management.By providing the fundamental concepts of object-oriented components and offering templates for distributed program components this valuable resource reveals how programmers can apply concurrency and components to solve complex problems. Media > Books > Print Books Auerbach Publications 9781138468542

Creating ConditionsThe making and remaking of a genetic syndrome Based on original ethnographic research with scientists clinicians and families this book examines Rett syndrome to illuminate more general issues concerning the construction and interpretation of diseases and syndromes. It derives from research with a specialist team of clinicians and scientists and a series of families referred with a potential diagnosis of Rett syndrome and documents the scientific clinical patient and family experiences over a three-year period. Although Rett syndrome itself is rare it is one of some 2 000 such syndromes and its genetic basis has recently been linked to the much broader Autism spectrum. From a sociological or anthropological point of view it is also of considerable interest as a clinical entity that is undergoing transformation in the light of recent post-genomic research. Traditionally such syndromes have been diagnosed clinically but increasingly genetic technologies are having an impact on the diagnosis description and classification of conditions. Rett Syndrome is thus a key exemplar of the implications of genetic medicine that are far-reaching and extend well beyond this particular syndrome. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138019928

Creating ConnectionA Relational-Cultural Approach with Couples Relational-Cultural Therapy (RCT) is developed to accurately address the relational experiences of persons in de-valued cultural groups. As a model it is ideal for work with couples: it encourages active participation in relationships fosters the well-being of everyone involved and acknowledges that we grow through and toward relationships throughout the lifespan. Part and parcel with relationships is the knowledge that whether intentionally or not we fail each other misunderstand each other and hurt each other causing an oftentimes enduring disconnect.  This book helps readers understand the pain of disconnect and to use RCT to heal relationships in a variety of settings including with heterosexual couples lesbian and gay couples and mixed race couples. Readers will note a blending of approaches (person-centered narrative systems and feminist theory) all used to change the cultural conditions that can contribute to problems: unequal sometimes abusive power arrangements marginalization of groups and rigid gender race and sexuality expectations. Readers will learn to help minimize economic and power disparities and encourage the growth of mutual empathy while looking at a variety of relational challenges such as parenting stepfamilies sexuality and illness. Polarities of “you vs. me” will be replaced with the healing concept of “us.” Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415817585

Creating Connections for Better SchoolsHow Leaders Enhance School Culture This book demonstrates that student achievement depends on school culture the one element of your school at the foundation of everything that happens there. School culture is the system of beliefs values and expectations that governs the feelings and actions of everybody there. This book shows how principals can build relationships and connections to enhance school culture. Practical and accessible this book provides guidelines which will show you how to:- communicate with teachers students and parents on a regular basis - be "visible" - recognize utilize and empower your faculty Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138173811

Creating Critical ClassroomsReading and Writing with an Edge This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy—in all its complexity. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world interrogate the relationship between language and power analyze popular culture and media understand how power relationships are socially constructed and consider actions that can be taken to promote social justice. By providing both a model for critical literacy instruction and many examples of how critical practices can be enacted in daily school life in elementary and middle school classrooms Creating Critical Classrooms meets a huge need for a practical theoretically based text on this topic. Pedagogical features in each chapter • Teacher-researcher Vignette • Theories that Inform Practice • Critical Literacy Chart • Thought Piece • Invitations for Disruption • Lingering Questions New in the Second Edition • End-of-chapter "Voices from the Field" • More upper elementary-grade examples • New text sets drawn from "Classroom Resources" • Streamlined restructured revised and updated throughout • Expanded Companion Website now includes annotated Classroom Resources; Text Sets; Resources by Chapter; Invitations for Students; Literacy Strategies; Additional Resources Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415737739

Creating Cultural MonstersSerial Murder in America Serial murderers generate an abundance of public interest media coverage and law enforcement attention yet after decades of studies serial murder researchers have been unable to answer the most important question: Why? Providing a unique and comprehensive exploration Creating Cultural Monsters: Serial Murder in America explains connections between American culture and the incidence of serial murder including reasons why most identified serial murderers are white male Americans. It describes the omnipresence of serial murder in American media and investigates what it would take to decrease its occurrence.Presenting empirically supported arguments that have the potential to revolutionize how serial murder is understood studied and investigated this volume:Places the serial murder phenomenon in a cultural context promoting qualitative understanding and the potential for reducing its frequencyIncludes an illustrated model that explains how people utilize cultural values to construct lines of action according to their cultural competenciesDemonstrates how the American cultural milieu fosters serial murder and the creation of white male serial murderersProvides a critique of the American mass media’s role in the development and notoriety of serial murderDescribes the framework on which the majority of definitions of serial murder are basedDrawn from years of dedicated research of Dr. Julie B. Wiest this volume presents a new approach to the study of U.S. serial murder offers important implications for law enforcement and mass media and forms a basis for future research on serial murder murder and violence in the U.S. and in other nations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367865870

Creating Curricula: Aims Knowledge and Control Knowledge has been a defining focus for the curriculum studies field. In the early part of the 21st century convincing arguments were mounted that knowledge needed to be ‘brought back in’ both to the curriculum of schools and to the attention of curriculum researchers. This book is a result of these arguments and what some regarded as a ‘crisis’ in curriculum study related to the growing emphasis on international comparisons between education systems. The book’s most important contribution is to build on seminal work in the sociology and philosophy of education in order to develop new foundations for curriculum study using the importance of ‘transactions’ as the context for understanding knowledge in the curriculum. The contributors build on this importance to suggest a rapprochement in the field around the idea of curriculum knowledge as both constructed and real. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Curriculum Journal. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367028824

Creating Curriculum in Early ChildhoodEnhanced Learning through Backward Design Creating Curriculum in Early Childhood explores the backward design model of curriculum development equipping readers with the tools and methods they need to effectively apply backward design in the early childhood classroom. Clear yet comprehensive chapters walk new and veteran educators through an effective method for curriculum design that promotes meeting standards through intentional teaching while engaging children in developmentally appropriate interest-based education focused on big ideas and conceptual understanding. Featuring desired results assessment methods and teaching techniques specific to birth to age eight this critical guide also includes practical tips for educators new to the method. Designed to help students and practitioners alike this powerful textbook combines early childhood philosophy and developmental research with highly practical descriptions rationales and examples for developing curricular units using backward design. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138570139

Creating Dialogue for TVScreenwriters Talk Television As entertaining as it is enlightening Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television presents interviews with five Hollywood professionals who talk about all things related to dialogue – from naturalistic style to the building of characters to swearing and dialect. Screenwriters/showrunners David Mandel (Curb Your Enthusiasm Veep) Jane Espenson (Buffy Battlestar Galactica Once Upon a Time) Robert Berens (Supernatural) Sheila Lawrence (Gilmore Girls Ugly Betty The Marvelous Mrs Maisel) and Doris Egan (Tru Calling House Reign) field a linguist’s inquiries about the craft of writing dialogue. This book is for anyone who has ever wondered what creative processes and attitudes lie behind the words they encounter when tuning into their favourite television show. It provides direct insights into Hollywood writers’ knowledge and opinions of how language is used in television narratives and in doing so shows how language awareness attitudes and the craft of using words are utilised to create popular TV series. The book will appeal to students and teachers in screenwriting creative writing and linguistics as well as lay readers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367139582

Creating Effective Community Partnerships for School ImprovementA Guide for School Leaders Creating Effective Partnerships for School Improvement places the school within the community which is composed of a number of key players including school leaders classroom teachers private foundations higher education institutions business and community based organizations and government agencies. This book encourages leaders to embrace this broader community of stakeholders and to focus on the often overlooked and underutilized college and university partnerships. Grounded in case study analysis of innovative programs and practices this book explores research-based strategies for educational leaders to implement in order to develop and sustain effective partnerships. Creating Effective Partnerships for School Improvement is an important text for aspiring and practicing administrators interested in creating effective partnerships for school improvement. Special Features: Reflective exercises and portfolio building activities help aspiring and practicing leaders make on-the-ground connections. Learning objectives key terms and additional resources further engage readers with the chapter content. Extensive appendices with sample activities evaluation plans meeting agendas promotional materials and budgets provide additional support to leaders. Alignment to the Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC) Standards. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415528962

Creating Effective Conference Abstracts and Posters in Biomedicine500 Tips for Success For most biomedical researchers and academics preparing conference abstracts and posters is an important part of professional life. With good preparation and practice all scientists can produce abstracts that act as effective ambassadors for their research. A well designed poster can help you to enhance your professional reputation in addition to communicating your data. This book aims to help you achieve these objectives. This book is designed for you to use when you are actually preparing a conference abstract or poster. It is intended to answer the most frequent questions and to help you avoid the most common problems and pitfalls. Just dip into any chapter and you will find a range of tips relevant to the abstract or poster you are preparing right now. As a researcher and academic you need to be able to disseminate and communicate your research work and findings. While many will view writing for peer-reviewed journals as the pinnacle of the academic communication hierarchy being able to write and present conference abstracts and posters is also extremely important. Taking your work to conferences allows you to meet experts from all around the world to exchange ideas in person and to network with potential employers and collaborators. 'This book is a gem of useful practical tips covering the entire process - from reading the abstract submission guidelines through to writing and laying out your poster and creating e-posters. If you are a novice this is the ideal book to guide you through every step. And even if you consider yourself an expert there is bound to be some useful information you can glean from the 500 or so tips. By reading this book in sequence or by dipping into relevant chapters you will have all the necessary help with preparing abstracts and posters right at your fingertips' - Catherine Dunbar in her Foreword. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315377827

Creating Emotionally Intelligent WorkspacesA Design Guide to Office Chemistry Emotions in the workplace have until recently been seen simply as a distraction. We often think of work as rational logical and non-emotional. But organisations are waking up to the key role of emotions and affect at work. Emotions influence how we make decisions how we relate with one another and how we make sense of our surroundings. Whilst organisations are slowly embracing the pivotal role of emotions designers and managers of workplaces have been struggling to keep up. New insights from hard sciences such as neuropsychology are presenting a radically different interpretation of emotions. Yet workplace designers and facilities managers still rely on measuring non-specific states such as satisfaction and stress. In this book we attempt to capture modern-day interpretations of emotion looking at emotion in terms of transactions and processes rather than simple cause and effect. We entertain the idea of an ‘emotionally intelligent building’ as an alternative to the much-hyped intelligent building. The assertion is that we should create environments that are emotionally intelligent. Rather than focusing on the aptitudes or shortcomings of individuals at work we should place closer attention on the office environment. It’s not that we are emotionally disabled – it’s the environment that disables us! The ability of you and me to interpret control and express emotions may not simply be a result of our own make-up. A radically different outlook considers how our workspace and workplace debilitates or enables our emotional understanding. In the modern workplace there are many innovations that can undermine our emotional intelligence such poorly implemented hot-desking or lean environments. Contrariwise there are key innovations such as Activity Based Working (ABW) that have the potential to enhance our emotional state. Through a series of unique case studies from around the world we investigate key concepts that can be used by designers and facilities managers alike. No longer should designers be asked to incorporate emotional elements as intangible un-costed ‘add-ons’. This book provides a shot in the arm for workplace design professionals pointing to a new way of thinking based on the emotional intelligence of the workplace. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138602472

Creating Employee ChampionsHow to Drive Business Success through Sustainability Engagement Training Disengaged employees cost companies billions in lost productivity and high turnover rates. Integrating sustainability into the soul of your business can unleash an "upward spiral" of engagement and turn your employees into sustainability champions.Making business sustainability part of the job description drives employees towards collaboration community and commitment. It transforms employees into authentic brand ambassadors and companies into movements. In addition companies that embed sustainability are better positioned to anticipate and adapt to changing market conditions.Creating Employee Champions offers a three-step method for sustainability engagement training and a paradigm shift in employee engagement and business sustainability. Use it to transplant NGO DNA into business DNA so you can inspire hearts and minds engage employees foster dynamic commitment to meet sustainability goals and equip employees to engage with external stakeholders. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781910174159

Creating ExcellenceManaging Corporate Culture Strategy and Change in the New Age Creating Excellence first published in 1984 proposes a rational yet visionary blend of approaches for a winning strategy-driven culture that can provide you and your company with the confidence that gets results. Based on a programme of six essential leadership skills – vision sensitivity insight versatility focus and patience – this step-by-step blueprint for organisational excellence shows the New Age Executive exactly how to: Know your firm’s capabilities – and make the most of them Motivate your people to peak performance Respond positivity to change from within and without Develop long-term goals and see them through And turn crisis into opportunity All these principles are illustrated with fascinating case studies of the most spectacular successes and failures in the history of American enterprise. In addition hands-on ‘exercises’ will enable you to test their application to the concerns of your own organisation. Whether you work for a small business or a vast conglomerate in a hot new industry or a mature stable environment Creative Excellence can help make you the most important corporate asset of the eighties – and beyond. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138479630

Creating FearNews and the Construction of Crisis The creative use of fear by news media and social control organizations has produced a "discurse of fear" - the awareness and expection that danger and risk are lurking everywhere. Case studies illustrates how certain organizations and social institutions benefit from the explotation of such fear construction. One social impact is a manipulated public empathy: We now have more "victims" than at any time in our prior history. Another more troubling resutl is the role we have ceded to law enforcement and punishment: we turn ever more readily to the state and formal control to protect us from what we fear. This book attempts through the marshalling of significant data to interrupt that vicious cycle of fear discourse. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521438

Creating Food FuturesTrade Ethics and the Environment A global transformation in food supply and consumption is placing our food security at risk. What changes need to be made to the ways we trade process and purchase our food if everyone in the world is going to have enough wholesome food to eat? Is there genuine scope for creating food futures that embrace considerations such as ecological sustainability and social equity as well as placing good food on the table - and making money? Drawing upon examples of innovative food chains in Europe Canada Africa and Latin America leading academics and practitioners challenge the idea that individuals are powerless in the face of global supply chains and the legal apparatus protecting them. The authors do not however underestimate the scale of the task at hand. They explore the tensions and dilemmas inherent in innovative practice - such as the ethics of mainstreaming balancing a variety of goals and the ways in which success is defined - as well as presenting success stories and explaining how they were achieved. Creating Food Futures provides you with inspiring examples of what is being done and thought-provoking suggestions for future work. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315574592

Creating Freshwater Wetlands Creating Freshwater Wetlands Second Edition clearly demonstrates the step-by-step processes required to restore or create freshwater wetlands. It presents practical advice on choosing sites getting help attracting and stocking wildlife selecting plants and wetland operation and maintenance. This is an excellent book on one of the most fascinating ecosystems on the planet. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367401177

Creating Future PeopleThe Ethics of Genetic Enhancement Creating Future People offers readers a fast-paced primer on how new genetic technologies will enable parents to influence the traits of their children including their intelligence moral capacities physical appearance and immune system. It deftly explains the science of gene editing and embryo selection and raises the central moral questions with colorful language and a brisk style. Jonathan Anomaly takes seriously the diversity of preferences parents have and the limits of public policy in regulating what could soon be a global market for reproductive technology. He argues that once embryo selection for complex traits happens it will change the moral landscape by altering the incentives parents face. All of us will take an interest in the traits everyone else selects and this will present coordination problems that previous writers on genetic enhancement have failed to consider. Anomaly navigates difficult ethical issues with vivid language and scientifically informed speculation about how genetic engineering will transform humanity. Key features: Offers clear explanations of scientific concepts; Explores important moral questions without academic jargon; Brings discoveries from different fields together to give us a sense of where humanity is headed. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367203122

Creating FuturesLeading Change Through Information Systems This title was first published in 2000:  This volume focuses on the influence of and additionally explores the value adding contribution of information systems and related technologies on the development of society and private and public sector enterprises. The chapters are stand-alone units representing the research work and thinking of the Cranfield School of Management. The initial chapters examine the impact of IS/IT on society and organizations. As the book progresses attention is then given to exploring the effects of IS/IT on individuals within the information arena and more broadly within varying walks of life. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138738584

Creating Games with Unity Substance Painter & MayaModels Textures Animation & Code This tutorial-based book allows readers to create a first-person game from start to finish using industry-standard (and free to student) tools of Unity Substance Painter and Maya. The first half of the book lays out the basics of using Maya and Substance Painter to create game-ready assets. This includes polygonal modeling UV layout and custom texture painting. The book then covers rigging and animation solutions to create assets to be placed in the game including animated first-person assets and motion-captured NPC animations. Finally readers can put it all together and build interactivity that allows the player to create a finished game using the assets built and animated earlier in the book. 　 •　　　　　　　　　　　　 Written by industry professionals with real-world experience in building assets and games •　　　　　　　　　　　　 Build a complete game from start to finish •　　　　　　　　　　　　 Learn what the pros use: construct all assets using the tools used at game studios across the world •　　　　　　　　　　　　 All software used are free to students •　　　　　　　　　　　　 When complete students will have a playable version of an FPS game 　 Jingtian Li is a graduate of China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts and New York’s School of Visual Arts where he earned an MFA in Computer Art. He currently is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. Adam Watkins is a 20-year veteran of 3D education. He holds an MFA in 3D Animation and a BFA in Theatre Arts from Utah State University. He currently is the Coordinator and Professor of the 3D Animation & Game Department at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. Kassandra Arevalo is an instructor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. She previously worked as an animator at Immersed Games. Matt Tovar is an industry veteran animator. He has worked at Naughty Dog Infinity Ward and Sony Interactive on such games as The Last of Us Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and most recently Marvel’s Avengers with Crystal Dynamics. He is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367506018

Creating Games with Unity and MayaHow to Develop Fun and Marketable 3D Games Unity brings you ever closer to the "author once deploy anywhere" dream. With its multiplatform capabilities you can target desktop web mobile devices and consoles using a single development engine. Little wonder that Unity has quickly become the #1 game engine out there. Mastering Unity is absolutely essential in an increasingly competitive games market where agility is expected yet until now practical tutorials were nearly impossible to find. Creating Games with Unity and Maya gives you with an end-to-end solution for Unity game development with Maya. Written by a twelve-year veteran of the 3D animation and games industry and professor of 3D animation this book takes you step-by-step through the process of developing an entire game from scratch-including coding art production and deployment. This accessible guide provides a "non-programmer" entry point to the world of game creation. Aspiring developers with little or no coding experience will learn character development in Maya scripts GUI interface and first- and third-person interactions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780240818818

Creating Games with Unreal Engine Substance Painter & MayaModels Textures Animation & Blueprint Description: This tutorial-based book allows readers to create a first-person game from start to finish using industry-standard (and free to student) tools of Maya Substance Painter and Unreal Engine. The first half of the book lays out the basics of using Maya and Substance Painter to create game-ready assets. This includes polygonal modeling UV layout and custom texture painting. Then the book covers rigging and animation solutions to create assets to be placed in the game including animated first-person assets and motion-captured NPC animations. Finally readers can put it all together and build interactivity that allows the player to create a finished game using the assets built and animated earlier in the book. • Written by industry professionals with real-world experience in building assets and games. • Build a complete game from start to finish. • Learn what the pros use: construct all assets using the tools used at industries across the world. • All software used are free to students. • When complete students will have a playable version of an FPS game. 　 Jing Tian Li is a graduate of China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts and New York’s School of Visual Arts where he earned an MFA in Computer Art. He currently is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. Kassandra Arevalo is an instructor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. She previously worked as an animator at Immersed Games. Matt Tovar is an industry veteran animator. He has worked at Naughty Dog Infinity Ward and Sony Interactive on such games as The Last of Us Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and most recently Marvel’s Avengers with Crystal Dynamics. He is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367512637

Creating Global Citizens and Responsible LeadershipA special theme issue of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship (Issue 49) The special edition of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship on Creating Global Citizens and Responsible Leadership begs many questions in its title. The eight papers and one Turning Point that make up this issue represent a truly global response to the debate and all approach the task of analysis and understanding from different perspectives and all tell different stories. Does the rise of the global citizen mean the demise or at least the transformation of the nation-state? Does global citizenship mean we place ourselves in the corporate giant hands of Amazon Google and Facebook and accept the growing diminishment in personal space? Or as the pieces in this special edition argue is global citizenship about some aspiration to higher goals of liberation global democracy enlightenment and concern for issues such as climate change poverty human rights and governance? The conclusion that can be reached from reading the nine papers that make up the Special Issue is that global citizenship is an aspirational goal which would if achieved correct international injustices and deal with issues such as poverty climate change and bad governance. Many of our national leaders are constantly fighting internecine tribal battles in their political parties or with their local electorates and have little time or space to raise their games to become globally responsible leaders. But as all these articles attest this is what is needed at this time in the history of humanity. Responsible leadership in government business or civil society is founded on (responsible) global citizenship which in turn rests on rethinking the global good society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781783530212

Creating Great PlacesEvidence-based Urban Design for Health and Wellbeing This book provides a bold vision and roadmap for creating great places. Imagining and designing urban environments where all people thrive is an extraordinary task and in this compelling narrative Cushing and Miller remind us that theory is a powerful starting point. Drawing on international research illustrated case studies personal experiences as well as fascinating examples from history and pop culture this practical book provides the reader with inspiration guidance and tools. The first section outlines six critical theories for contemporary urban design - affordance prospect-refuge personal space sense of place/genius loci place attachment and biophilic design. The second section using their innovative ‘theory-storming’ process demonstrates how designers can create great places that are inclusive sustainable and salutogenic. Creating Great Places is an insightful compelling and evidence-based resource for readers who want to design urban environments that inspire excite and positively transform people’s lives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367257460

Creating Great Visitor ExperiencesA Guide for Museums Parks Zoos Gardens & Libraries Museum and other non-profit professionals have begun to realize that the complete visitor experience is the key to repeat attendance successful fundraising and building audience loyalty. Taking lessons learned by successful experience-shapers in the for-profit world Stephanie Weaver distills this knowledge for museums and other organizations which depend on visitor satisfaction for success. Is your institution welcoming? Are the bathrooms clean? Does the staff communicate well? Are there enough places to sit? These practical matters may mean more to creating a loyal following than any exhibit or program the institution develops. Weaver breaks the visitor experience down to 8 steps and provides practical guidance to museums and related institutions on how to create optimal visitor experiences for each of them. In a workshop-like format she uses multiple examples exercises and resource links to walk the reader through the process. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315431413

Creating Healthy NeighborhoodsEvidence-Based Planning and Design Strategies Good housing. Easy transit. Food access. Green spaces. Gathering places. Everybody wants to live in a healthy neighborhood. Bridging the gap between research and practice it maps out ways for cities and towns to help their residents thrive in placed designed for living well approaching health from every side – physical mental and social. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781611901917

Creating Healthy WorkplacesStress Reduction Improved Well-being and Organizational Effectiveness The contributions in Creating Healthy Workplaces include a number of interventions that relate the efforts undertaken by researchers and organizations together to reduce stress and improve the mental and physical health of employees through positive change initiatives. Those working in the field of occupational stress have received criticism that too much emphasis has been placed on negative issues and that positive initiatives have been largely ignored. With the growing influence of the positive movement this book explores the implications of using a positive approach as opposed to a stress management one and compares the types of interventions they each require. From a positive perspective there is a need to understand the characteristics of healthy thriving and flourishing people and organizations. This book explores the implications of using a positive approach as opposed to a stress management one. Some of the interventions described in Creating Healthy Workplaces target individuals and their attitudes and behaviours others target workplace relationships work units and the wider organization. Outcomes such as reduced occurrences of smoking obesity depression elevated blood pressure accidents and workplace injuries presenteeism absence and staff turnover are reported. The factors associated with the success of these interventions are identified and advice is given as to how interested individuals and organizations might proceed to develop worksite interventions on their own. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409443100

Creating Heaven on EarthThe Psychology of Experiencing Immortality in Everyday Life The art of living the "good life" requires skilful attunement to the lovely presences in everyday life. Lodged in a psychoanalytic sensibility and drawing from ancient and modern religious and spiritual wisdom this book provides the details conceptual structures and inner meanings of a number of easily accessible everyday activities including gardening sport drinking coffee storytelling and listening to music. It also suggests how to best engage these activities to consecrate the ordinary in a way that points to experiential transcendence or what the author calls "glimpsing immortality" a core component of the art of living the "good life". Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782201786

Creating Heritage for Tourism What does ‘heritage’ mean in the twenty-first century? Traditional ideas of heritage involve places where objects landscapes people and ideas are venerated and reproduced over time as an inheritance for future generations. To speak of heritage is to speak of a relationship between the past the present and the future. However it is a past recreated for economic gain hence sectors such as culinary tourism ecotourism cultural tourism and film tourism have employed the heritage label to attract visitors.This interdisciplinary book furthers understanding on how heritage is socially constructed interpreted and experienced within different geographic and cultural contexts in both Western and non-Western settings. Subjects discussed include Welsh linguistic heritage tango mushroom tourism Turkish coffee literary tourism and the techniques employed to construct tourist accommodation. By focusing upon heritage creation in the context of tourism the book moves beyond traditional debates about ‘authentic heritage’ to focus on how something becomes heritage for use in the present.This timely volume will be of interest to students and researchers in tourism heritage studies geography museum studies and cultural studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367665913

Creating HeritageUnrecognised Pasts and Rejected Futures This book investigates the selection process of heritagisation to understand what specific pasts are being selected or rejected for representation who is selecting them how and to whom they are being represented and why they are being presented or dismissed in the ways that they are. Some aspects of our pasts are venerated and memorialised for a variety of reasons while others are forgotten or even hidden. This volume thus provides examples from across a spectrum. Some phenomena are well-suited to heritagisation such as animals memorialised for their bravery long past agricultural techniques and implements and impressive landscapes. However this book also deals with products (e.g. tobacco) historical periods (e.g. the Third Reich) and scientific techniques (e.g. genetic modification) with negative connotations that extend beyond their heritage attributes. This volume considers how the actors in the heritage industry admit valorise prioritise and rationalise historic resources as heritage products. These findings provide practical examples of how heritage institutions privilege frame and/or exclude a wide range of heritage items. They also contrast the invocations of sectional (local national or class based) and more cosmopolitan heritages and consider the extent to which innovation and change are or can be acknowledged within the heritage discourse. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815347927

Creating High Performance Classroom Groups First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315054155

Creating High Performance TeamsApplied Strategies and Tools for Managers and Team Members Creating High Performance Teams is an accessible and thorough new introduction to this key area of business education. Written by teams experts Ray Aldag and Loren Kuzuhara this book provides students with both a firm grounding in the key concepts of the field and the practical tools to become successful team managers and members. Built on a solid foundation of the most up to date research and theory chapters are packed with case studies real-world examples tasks and discussion questions while a companion website supports the book with a wealth of useful resources for students team members and instructors. Centered around an original model for high performance teams topics covered include: Building and developing effective teams Managing diversity Effective communication Team processes – meetings performance management Dealing with change and team problems Current issues – virtual teams globalization With its combined emphasis on principles and application interwoven with the tools topics and teams most relevant today Creating High Performance Teams is perfectly placed to equip upper-level undergraduate and MBA students with the knowledge and skills necessary to take on teams in any situation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415538411

Creating Images and the Psychology of Marketing Communication The purpose of Creating Images and the Psychology of Marketing Communication is to advance the understanding of the concept of image as it is applied to various areas of interest. It also serves to meet the growing interest in image-related studies by the public and academics and provides an innovative and holistic approach to the study of image. The text reflects the importance of brand leveraging as the sections cover in-depth discussion on cross-country and tourism images corporate and sponsorship images individual and celebrity images and cultural and social images. It provides a comprehensive and holistic look at the concept of image: the topics range from theories of image creative to other image studies on a country corporate and individual level. The sections cover the major topics currently being debated in image marketing and the psychology of communications. Several new and innovative concepts are also introduced in the book.Creating Images and the Psychology of Marketing Communication is intended for academics and scholars (including students) in the interdisciplinary fields of consumer psychology marketing and communication. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9780415647076

Creating Impact Through Future LearningThe High Impact Learning that Lasts (HILL) Model Organisations today operate in a fascinating world where change is constant fast and continues to accelerate. It is the combination of evolving developments such as technological advancements globalisation and new ways of communicating through multimedia technologies that drive us to reorganise how we live how we work how we create value and how we learn. These developments call for a Learning & Development policy and practice that supports professionals to be or become successful in this fascinating changing world. In other words: one of the core goals of Learning & Development is to support sustainable employability. Creating Impact through Future Learning introduces a model for High Impact Learning that Lasts (HILL) that is very much in synch with the demands of an agile organisation. The HILL model is about the learning of young adults professionals and experts. It is about the many possibilities to inspire and to support adults in their continuous learning and development process aiming to create value for today’s and tomorrow’s society. It is about how designers of learning programmes – be it L&D officers or teachers in vocational and higher education preparing adults for professional life – can take a step forward to build the future of learning. A new mindset is needed to create a real impact. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138577886

Creating Inclusive Knowledges There has been a growing interest in the role of arts and cultural practice in tackling perennial forms of social exclusion marginalization and oppression. Researchers and educators from different disciplines have been collaborating with community-based agencies and community groups to forge new ways to challenge these forms of exclusion. This volume discusses how various social actors work in interdisciplinary and cross-institutional ways to push an agenda that privileges those individuals and groups who experience and live at the front line of social inequality discrimination racism and oppression. For instance what new understandings are generated through creative interdisciplinary action oriented work and the implications for social action and transformation? How are community pedagogies constructed and communicated through arts-based research contemporary and innovative mediums such as creative performances arts technologies mixed-cultural practices and social media and networking? This collection of articles blurs the lines between cultural practice and knowledge production with the process and products coming in the forms of theories creative methodologies and a range of arts. Together these act as powerful pedagogical tools for engaging in social justice and transformative work. The contributions further highlight the multifaceted and diverse ways of creating and disseminating knowledge and the attempts to decenter text-based ways of communicating in hopes of sharing collaborative knowledge beyond the academy and engaging the ‘public’. This volume was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Inclusive Education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367892319

Creating Inclusive Writing Environments in the K-12 ClassroomReluctance Resistance and Strategies that Make a Difference Timely and accessible this book offers tangible strategies that will help teachers plan and sustain writing workshop experiences that are responsive to the needs of their specific students. Angela Stockman helps teachers understand why some writers may fail to meet their expectations and how to help all writers reach their fullest potential. Organized in three parts this book reframes common narratives about resistant writers empowers teachers to design lead and refine their workshop and provides a toolkit to do so. The appendices and eResources included provide teachers with instructions for mini-lessons and learning targets that support multimodal composition perfect for pre-service and in-service teachers. Media > Books > Print Books Eye on Education 9780367462864

Creating Innovative Products and ServicesThe FORTH Innovation Method Really new products and services are scarce yet the need for them is huge. That's why Innovation is an important managerial instrument - but many of us struggle with how to approach it. Gijs van Wulfen's Creating Innovative Products and Services is an essential read for anyone involved in new product or service design brand development new business development or organizational development because it 'unfuzzies' the front end of innovation with practical tools effective checklists and an inspiring innovation route map. Gijs van Wulfen explains how to: ¢ Build a committed ideation team compile a concrete innovation assignment and identify opportunities; ¢ Explore trends technology and potential customers then choose the most positive opportunities and customer insights to transfer to the next step - raise ideas; ¢ Develop twelve new promising innovative product or service concepts; ¢ Check the concepts in qualitative research among potential clients and improve them; ¢ Work the best into a tangible mini business case per product idea and present them for decision making and adoption in the regular stage gate development process. The effective 5-step FORTH method presented in this book will jump start your product and service innovations. The success of this practical approach is highlighted in a case study of one of the largest insurance companies in The Netherlands: Univé VGZ IZA Trias and is suitable for both business-to-consumer and business-to-business markets. Creating Innovative Products and Services has been written for directors managers advisors and innovation specialists in organisations who are responsible for or involved in product innovation. In it you will find practical guidance through every stage. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138269644

Creating InsecurityRealism Constructivism and US Security Policy In this absorbing book Anthony Lott develops a national security analysis that can be used to critique the policies of states. His approach combines realist thought common to traditional security studies and a version of 'political' constructivism common to critical security studies. While the focus on human security remains integral the 9/11 attacks on New York demonstrate the importance of national security traditionally defined. This book recognizes the importance of both components of security in a broader security dialogue. After building a theoretical understanding of security the work examines four disparate security issues that currently engage policy makers in the United States: the current discourse concerning ballistic missile defense the war on drugs in Colombia democratic challenges to economic globalization and the state response and the US-led war to oust Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. The book is designed for upper-division international relations courses in national security studies international politics and theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815388272

Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA documents the evolution of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) – a widely used open standard for structuring technical content. DITA has grown in popularity and features since its origins as an internal grammar for structuring technical documentation at IBM. This book introduces Lightweight DITA (LwDITA which should be read as "Lightweight DITA") as a proposed version of the DITA standard that reduces its dependence on complex Extensible Markup Language (XML) structures and simplifies its authoring experience. This volume aims to reconcile discrepancies and similarities in methods for authoring content in industry and academia and does so by reporting on DITA’s evolution through the lens of computational thinking which has been connected in scholarship and media to initiatives for learning to code and programming. Evia’s core argument is that if technical communicators are trained with principles of rhetorical problem solving and computational thinking they can create structured content in lightweight workflows with XML HTML5 and Markdown designed to reduce the learning curve associated with DITA and similar authoring methodologies. At the same time this book has the goal of making concepts of structured authoring and intelligent content easier to learn and teach in humanities-based writing and communication programs. This book is intended for practitioners and students interested in structured authoring or the DITA standard. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815393825

Creating International StudiesAngell Mitrany and the Liberal Tradition Through a critical evaluation of the works of Norman Angell and David Mitrany this book explores the liberal roots of the academic discipline of International Relations (IR). Ashworth argues that far from being the product of timeless realist truths IR’s origins are rooted in liberal attempts to reform international affairs. Norman Angell’s work represents the first attempt to develop a comprehensive 'new liberal' approach to the problem of global governance while David Mitrany’s exploration of the problems of international life led him to apply the left-liberal idea of functional government to global governance. Both writers demonstrated the extent to which early twentieth century liberal writers on international affairs had answered the critics of earlier nineteenth century liberal internationalists. The penultimate chapter argues that the realist-idealist 'Great Debate' never happened and that liberal scholars such as Angell and Mitrany have been unfairly dismissed as 'idealists.' The final chapter evaluates the writings of Angell and Mitrany and claims that the works of both authors can be criticised for theoretical weaknesses common to the liberal paradigm. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138277403

Creating Island Resorts This work studies tropical island resorts the people who live and work there and the tourists who visit them. The author includes but goes beyond the more commonly encountered marketing and economic analyses of resort destinations by examining social cultural mythical environmental organizational and political dimensions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415513579

Creating Knowledge Locations in CitiesInnovation and Integration Challenges Based on a clear and comprehensive literature review this book contains an analysis of five knowledge locations in Europe and one in South Korea. The case studies in the book cover several European countries (Ireland Finland Germany Spain The Netherlands). The cases are well grounded in the different contexts that these national settings provide which allows comparisons between them. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138792111

Creating Life from LifeBiotechnology and Science Fiction This book is a collection of essays by scientists historians philosophers of science and students. The essays meld biotechnology into science fiction stories and thereby open a conversation about the morality of what we may be one day and what it may mean to be human as our biotechnological endeavors continue to evolve. The biotechnology "revolution " launched on a global scale many decades ago has taken a direct course toward re-creating life. Yet there are still many choices to be made in shaping the future that it may one day make possible. The book motivates readers toward deep reflection and continual discourse which are essential if biotechnology is to evolve in ethical meaningful and sustainable ways. Media > Books > Print Books Pan Stanford Publishing 9789814463584

Creating Literacy Communities as Pathways to Student SuccessEquity and Access for Latina Students in STEM Creating Literacy Communities as Pathways to Student Success offers a model for using literacy as a pathway for secondary students to explore fields from which they are often systematically excluded. In particular this volume demonstrates how access for young Latina students to STEM related fields can be bolstered through engagement with mentors in writing and reading programs. Written for pre- and in-service teachers as well as scholars across disciplines this book aims to re-conceptualize the ways in which writing can best serve ethnically and linguistically diverse students especially girls. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367606732

Creating Meaningful Funeral Ceremonies First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138414983

Creating Meaningful Inquiry in Inclusive ClassroomsPractitioners' stories of research In recent years the concept of teachers as researchers in both special and mainstream school settings has become part of our everyday language. Whilst many educational practitioners will see the need for research within their setting many may not be familiar with the technical elements they believe are required. Creating Meaningful Inquiry in Inclusive Classrooms shows how practitioners can engage in a wide range of educational research and explores its value to the practice of teaching and learning. It introduces the Accessible Research Cycle (ARC) an understandable and meaningful framework for classroom and school-based inquiry for educators. This supports practitioner inquiry and validates the role of the practitioner as both practitioner and researcher. The book offers guidance to practitioners on how to use the ARC using familiar language with accompanying illustrative examples from inquiry carried out in special educational settings. It promotes meaningful participation within the inquiry process for all students. As the learner population in all schools is changing and becoming more complex the role of practitioners in exploring evidence-based educational solutions to meet the educational entitlement of children is essential. In supporting a research informed profession within education this book will empower practitioners to become the agents of change helping them to become reflective strategic investigative and inquiring practitioners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415676175

Creating Mixed Model Value StreamsPractical Lean Techniques for Building to Demand Second Edition Following in the footsteps of its bestselling predecessor Kevin J. Duggan an executive mentor and recognized authority on Lean and Operational Excellence draws on more than 10 years of experience and learning to provide Creating Mixed Model Value Streams Second Edition. This second edition takes a step-by-step approach to implementing Lean in complex environments and describes which Lean techniques to use when faced with difficult situations—including high product mix scheduling problems shared resources and unstable customer demand. In addition to a new section on handling shared resources to support mixed model production the second edition: Contains updates to sections on mixed model value streams Introduces new information on constructing product family matrices Expands on the concept of takt in mixed models Provides additional insights on existing mixed model concepts such as determining product family takt capability and heijunka (load level scheduling) Presents new concepts on sequencing work such as offset scheduling and sequenced first-in first-out (FIFO) lanes Illustrated with a case study based on actual experience as well as a CD with helpful tools the book walks readers through the reasoning the author has used with great success in practice. It delves beyond the basics of value stream mapping to explain how to create future states in a manufacturing environment characterized by multiple products varying cycle times and changing demand. Demonstrating advanced techniques for creating flow through shared resources it also considers the concept of a guaranteed turnaround time for the shared resource. The Accompanying CD Includes: Spreadsheet and tutorial for sorting products into families Spreadsheets for calculating equipment required and for determining the interval for Every Part Every Interval (EPEI) Samples of visual method sheets for standard work Case study value stream maps and mapping icons Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781439868430

Creating Modern AthensA Capital Between East and West Athens is a well-known destination for those interested in discovering the birthplace of Western civilization. Its ancient monuments have been the model for innumerable buildings and works of art all over the Western world. However the reality of modern Athens is much more complicated: the ancient monuments and neo-classical buildings are interlaced with winding streets Byzantine churches mosques and an oriental bazaar. These juxtapositions require explanation.This book explores the development of the city of Athens after the beginning of Greek independence in 1830. It presents the process of creation of a neo-classical capital in the place of a pre-existing town with the remains of a long history. An array of chapters examine the treatment of the pre-revolutionary town; its connection with the neo-classical city; the position of old churches in this antiquity-centred capital; and the factors that influenced the implementation of the projects for the new capital and their consequences for the city’s evolution. All this will be placed in its European context explaining how the construction of modern Athens relates heavily to the influence of the ‘great’ European capitals.This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in urban design urban geography and modern Greek history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367670504

Creating Motion Graphics with After EffectsEssential and Advanced Techniques After Effects CS5.5 Update: /tv.adobe.com/show/after-effects-cs55-new-creative-techniques/ Chris and Trish Meyer have created a series of videos demonstrating how to use their favorite new and enhanced features in After Effects CS5.5. Virtually all of these videos use exercise files from Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects (5th Edition for CS5) as their starting point extending the usefulness of this book for its owners. These videos may be viewed for free on AdobeTV.     * 5th Edition of best-selling After Effects book by renowned authors Trish and Chris Meyer covers the important updates in After Effects CS4 and CS5* Covers both essential and advanced techniques from basic layer manipulation and animation through keying motion tracking and color management* Companion DVD is packed with project files for version CS5 source materials and nearly 200 pages of bonus chapters Trish and Chris Meyer share over 17 years of hard-earned real-world film and video production experience inside this critically acclaimed text. More than a step-by-step review of the features in AE readers will learn how the program thinks so that they can realize their own visions more quickly and efficiently. This full-color book is packed with tips gotchas and sage advice that will help users thrive no matter what projects they might encounter. Creating Motion Graphics 5th Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the new features introduced in both After Effects CS4 and CS5. New chapters cover the revolutionary new Roto Brush feature as well as mocha and mocha shape. The 3D section has been expanded to include working with 3D effects such as Digieffects FreeForm plus workflows including Adobe Repoussé Vanishing Point Exchange and 3D model import using Adobe Photoshop Extended. The print version is also accompanied by a DVD that contains project files and source materials for all the techniques demonstrated in the book as well as nearly 200 pages of bonus chapters on subjects such as expressions scripting and effects. Subjects include: Animation Techniques; Layer Management; Modes Masks and Mattes; Mastering 3D Space; Text Animation; Effects & Presets; Painting and Rotoscoping; Parenting Nesting and Collapsing; Color Management and Video Essentials; Motion Tracking and Keying; Working with Audio; Integrating with 3D Applications; Puppet Tools; Expressions; Exporting and Rendering; and much more. Customers who buy an electronic version of the book can contact Alyssa Turner (Alyssa.Turner@taylorandfrancis.com) with their receipt and Focal Press will grant access to the companion files. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138452954

Creating Multicultural CitizensA Portrayal of Contemporary Indonesian Education Despite the largest-scale decentralisation of education since 1999 which broadly led to the marketisation of education it is not clear how school education responds to the multicultural realities of Indonesian society and ethno-religious conflicts. Creating Multicultural Citizens presents a comprehensive evaluation of contemporary education in the largest democratic Muslim country in the world focusing on the ways in which education prepares citizens for a multicultural society. It thoroughly examines the state-religion-community roles in the field of education in developing the Indonesian people. Using a qualitative ethnographic methodology the author presents six case studies of different schools including religious non-religious state and private schools in two different provinces in Indonesia. It particularly explores: Evolving but contested theories of multiculturalism and multicultural education; Education changes and reforms in post-Suharto Indonesia; Government policies for multicultural education and school curriculum; School leadership for education for diversity; Roles of religious education in schools in nurturing multicultural beliefs values and attitudes; Extra-curricular activities and tolerance; Students’ perspectives of multiculturalism and the ideal society; The promising development of a pesantren (Islamic boarding school in establishing multicultural education. It is the first book to explore how education in Indonesia helps contribute to the creation of tolerant and multicultural citizens and is essential reading for anyone involved in Indonesian education and international higher education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415787314

Creating Multi-sensory EnvironmentsPractical Ideas for Teaching and Learning The revised edition of this highly practical guide to creating and using multi-sensory environments is packed full of ideas for low-cost easy-to-assemble multi-sensory environments suitable for children of varying ages and abilities. Each creative learning environment is designed to be constructed in a classroom or school hall encouraging creative thinking and learning and the development of social and emotional skills. Each environment idea is accompanied by suggestions for use for children with special educational needs. Key features of the revised edition include: Ideas for creating sensory experiences that stimulate all the sensory channels – auditory visual kinaesthetic olfactory and gustatory Suggestions for extension or differentiation depending on student capability or time available A summary of the theory and background to multi-sensory learning to allow you to adapt the suggested scenarios according to the needs of individual learners Although these activities will be of particular value for children with special educational needs or sensory impairments they are more broadly designed to provide stimulating learning environments as promoted in the themes and principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage guidance. This is an invaluable resource for teachers and other professionals in education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138602892

Creating Nationality in Central Europe 1880-1950Modernity Violence and (Be) Longing in Upper Silesia In the immediate aftermath of the First World War Upper Silesia was the site of the largest formal exercise in self-determination in European history the 1921 Plebiscite. This asked the inhabitants of Europe’s second largest industrial region the deceptively straightforward question of whether they preferred to be Germans or Poles but spectacularly failed to clarify their national identity demonstrating instead the strength of transnational regionalist and sub-national allegiances and of allegiances other than nationality such as religion. As such Upper Silesia which was partitioned and re-partitioned between 1922 and 1945 and subjected to Czechization Germanization Polonization forced emigration expulsion and extermination illustrates the limits of nation-building projects and nation-building narratives imposed from outside. This book explores a range of topics related to nationality issues in Upper Silesia putting forward the results of extensive new research. It highlights the flaws at the heart of attempts to shape Europe as homogenously national polities and compares the fate of Upper Silesia with the many other European regions where similar problems occurred. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138567597

Creating Neighbourhoods and Places in the Built Environment This design primer examines the forces at work in the built environment and their impact on the form of buildings and their environments. The actions of a range of individuals and agencies and the interaction between them is examined exploring the competing interests which exist their interaction with physical and environmental forces and the uncertain results of both individual and corporate intervention. Media > Books > Print Books Taylor & Francis 9780367331689

Creating New FamiliesTherapeutic Approaches to Fostering Adoption and Kinship Care Creating New Families is intended to reflect the practice of the specialist multi-disciplinary Fostering and Adoption team in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic. The team is firmly rooted in an approach which values inter-disciplinary working for the contribution which the thinking of each discipline makes to the over Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367323998

Creating New StatesTheory and Practice of Secession Secession is the creation of a new independent state out of an existing state. This key volume examines the political social and legal processes of the practice of secession. Following an analysis of secessionist movements and their role in attempts at secession eight case studies are explored to illustrate peaceful violent sequential and recursive secessions. This is followed by a look at the theoretical approaches and a discussion that focuses on the economic causes. Normative theories of secession are discussed as well as the status of secession in legal theory and practice. The book systematizes our present knowledge of secessions in an accessible way to readers not familiar with the phenomenon and its consequences. It is ideal as a supplementary text to courses on contemporary political and social movements applied ethics and political philosophy international relations and international law state sovereignty and state formation. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315574622

Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development Ensure the success of your library’s cooperative collection development plan! This solidly researched book brings a fresh perspective to the practical problems of library resource sharing. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development offers shrewd advice and creative thinking on the political and administrative issues that often present obstacles. It will help you assess your library’s situation identify new opportunities and find powerful new ways to perform the essential tasks of archiving preservation and digitization.By making wise use of new technologies local libraries can offer international resources and services unimaginable just a few decades ago. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development shares the experiences of successful consortia all over the world including the US Eastern Europe the UK the nations of the Pacific Rim and South Asia. It examines the costs and benefits of regional national and international cooperatives and debates the varying uses of centered and decentralized models of resource sharing. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development offers practical advice for overcoming specific obstacles including: lengthy approval processes fixation on volume count instead of quality faculty and commercial resistance to reforming scholarly communications publishing monopolies and rising prices Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development defines the issues that need to be addressed by the library community to foster the advancement of cooperative collection development and suggests a series of steps that can be taken to ensure its future success and continued growth. It is an essential guide to the world of resource sharing. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315863528

Creating Organizational Advantage Creating Organizational Advantage presents a critical appraisal of fashions and fads in management theory. It exposes the strategic weaknesses of change programmes such as Total Quality Management and Business Process Re-Engineering and explains why so many companies fail to become 'market-led' or 'customer-focused'. An examination of global competitive forces and the internationalization pressures faced by companies provides insight into key strategic challenges as we approach the 21st century.Creating Organizational Advantage analyses: how globalization is forcing organizations to address their 'strategic sloppiness' why companies seek 'panacea' solutions to basic business problems the strategic dimensions of organizational change programmes the role of joint ventures and strategic alliances in compensating for shortfalls in core competencies.These key themes are integrated within a framework which proposes balanced solutions for organizational survival and strategic prosperity.Many of the ideas for the book came from the author's research consultancy and executive development experience with international organizations including:Bass Taverns British Steel BT Burmah Castrol Cadbury Schweppes CAMAS Coopers & Lybrand Coral ECC GPT Grace Dearborn Hitachi Kodak KPMG Lucas Aerospace Northern Telecom Philips Raychem Reed Elsevier Rolls-Royce plc Shell Chemicals Siemens-Nixdorf. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138441095

Creating Outstanding ClassroomsA whole-school approach This timely new book outlines a whole-school approach to embedding a sustainable model of teaching and learning that puts the learner at the heart of the system. It provides an entire framework for ensuring all students achieve above their expectations; incorporating school vision teacher professional development assessment models school culture leadership and management and core classroom practices. It takes what the current research suggests does – and does not – work and builds it into a practical approach that has been tried tested and proven to work. Each section incorporates the research a model of how this can be embedded across a school and then a training section that allows senior leaders in schools to teach the skill-set to others to ensure it can be embedded and reviewed. Covering all aspect of teaching and learning including curriculum design teacher practices assessment and leadership the book features: a clear planning framework that is easy to implement; subject based case studies to exemplify good practice; diagrams to clarify and consolidate information; training activities throughout each chapter also available to download at www.routledge.com/9780415831178. Designed to be used as a training tool for both new and established teachers this book is essential reading for senior leaders that want to equip their teachers with the skills and knowledge to create a school of outstanding classrooms. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415831178

Creating PC Video This book teaches readers how to put a working system together by showing them the equipment available to them and what it can do. Readers will learn how to create video products using the computer as an editing tool and how to refine sound and combine graphics with video. Information on web distribution is included.With the advent of the new digital camcorders developed by Panasonic and Sony in the new DV format professional quality video is available in consumer-level equipment. At the same time digital editing is now available for the PC using video capture cards in the $500-$1 000 price range and digital editing software in the $800-$1 200 range such as Adobe Premiere. This combination enables users such as the sophisticated amateur video maker the wedding or business presentation video maker and people working in multimedia for educational training or other presentation purposes to edit their own work and turn out competent professional-quality video. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138425989

Creating Powerful Brands This has long been the one book that students can rely on to get them thinking critically and strategically about branding. This new fourth edition is no exception. THE definitive introductory textbook for this crucial topic it is highly illustrated and comes packed with over 50 brand-new real examples of influential marketing campaigns. In this influential textbook de Chernatony McDonald and Wallace: Summarise the latest thinking and best practice in the domain of branding Show how branding theories are implemented in practice with all new real marketing campaignsBring the story up-to-date with a clear European focus Undergraduate business and marketing students studying brand management will find this an invaluable resource in their quest to understand how branding really works. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138440906

Creating Productive OrganizationsManual and Facilitator's Guide Creating Productive Organizations is an interactive manual that challenges and encourages readers to assess and develop a clear vision of their areas of competence and interest in order to enhance productivity. This facilitator's guide offers solutions and addresses the challenges associated with motivating team members. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9780429333064

Creating Public Value in PracticeAdvancing the Common Good in a Multi-Sector Shared-Power No-One-Wholly-in-Charge World Creating Public Value in Practice: Advancing the Common Good in a Multi-Sector Shared-Power No-One-Wholly-in-Charge World brings together a stellar cast of thinkers to explore issues of public and cross-sector decision-making within a framework of democratic civic engagement. It offers an integrative approach to understanding and applying the concepts of creating public value public values and the public sphere. It presents a framework and language for opening a constructive conversation on what governments businesses nonprofits and citizens can achieve in a democracy that honors a broad range of public values.　 Public officials scholars and citizens alike are engaged in an intense debate about the proper purpose role and size of government. In the midst of this debate is a growing concern that important public values are ignored by government reform efforts. This book explores the different definitions of public value and approaches to public value creation discernment measurement and assessment. The text helps clarify the issues and demonstrates how the meaning of public value is intimately related to how it is theorized operationalized and measured. The book examines the many alternatives for recognizing measuring and assessing public value and addresses the pros and cons of each approach. The result is a contribution to the ongoing dialogue about the virtues and limitations of a focus on the public sphere public values and how to create public value in the context of developing and implementing policies programs projects and plans that ideally boost confidence in public institutions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781482214604

Creating Reality in Factual TelevisionThe Frankenbite and Other Fakes Creating Reality in Factual Television analyzes the uneasy interaction between economics culture and professional ethics in reality and documentary television storytelling. Through the "frankenbite " an editorial tool that extracts and re-orders the salient elements or single words of a statement interview or exchange into a revealing confession or argument the book explores how and why editors manipulate truth in factual television. The author considers how the editing of documentary television is increasingly following reality television’s dictate to entertain instead of inform how the "real" and the "truth" fall victim to the demand to "tell entertaining stories " and how editors must compromise their professional ethics as a result. Drawing on interviews with 75 North American and European editors that explore their experiences and opinions of reality and documentary television practices and their views on their responsibilities and loyalties in the field Creating Reality in Factual Television illuminates the real and potential ethical dilemmas of editorial decision making the context in which decisions are made and how editors themselves validate the editing choices to themselves and others. Addressing a dramatic development in contemporary media ecology – the age of "alternative facts" – this book is a useful research tool for scholars and students of documentary film media literacy genre studies media ethics affect theory and audience perception. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367481100

Creating Regenerative Cities Large modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they take up only three percent of the world’s land surface their ecological footprints actually cover the entire globe. Humanity is building an urban future yet urban resource use is threatening the future of humanity and the natural world. To meet the aspirations of city people in both developing and developed countries bold new initiatives are needed. Modern cities are an astonishing human achievement. As centres of innovation they are humanity’s cultural playgrounds. Their communication and transport systems have developed a global reach. They are attractive to investors because they can offer a vast variety of services at comparatively low per-capita costs. But are they viable as ecological systems? The planning of new cities as well as the retrofit of existing cities needs to undergo a profound paradigm shift. Mere 'sustainable development' is not enough. To be compatible with natural systems cities need to move away from linear systems of resource use and learn to operate as closed-loop circular systems. To ensure their long-term future they need to develop an environmentally enhancing restorative relationship between themselves and the natural systems on which they still depend. Creating Regenerative Cities is a concise solution-oriented manual for creating regenerative urbanisation. A wide range of technical management and policy solutions already exist but implementation has been too slow and too little in large part because the kinds of holistic approaches needed are still unfamiliar to fragmented and process-driven urban policy making and governance. Herbert Girardet's 30 years’ experience as an ecologist thinker film maker and consultant working around the world has created this unique combination of tried and tested best practices and policies which outlines the fundamental shifts needed in the way we think about our cities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415724463

Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts 1800-1950 Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity this collection further greater understanding of religion as a critical element of modern children’s and young people’s history. It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that religion had a solely negative impact on nineteenth- and twentieth-century children or that ‘secularization’ is the only lens to apply to childhood and religion. Putting forth the argument that religion was an abiding influence among British world children throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries this volume places ‘religion’ at the center of analysis and discussion. At the same time it positions the religious factor within a broader social and cultural framework. The essays focus on the historical contexts in which religion was formative for children in various ‘British’ settings denoted as ‘Anglo’ or ‘colonial’ during the nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth centuries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367175627

Creating Safe and Supportive Learning EnvironmentsA Guide for Working with Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Questioning Youth and Families The importance of creating safe spaces for lesbian gay bisexual transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) students in the school environment cannot be overstated. It is one of the most prominent issues facing school professionals today and its success has lasting positive effects on the entire student body. Drawing on the expertise of researchers and practitioners Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments provides a comprehensive examination of the topics most relevant for school professionals. The first section lays out the theoretical foundation and background school professionals need to understand the social and political trends that impact LGBTQ individuals the development of sexual orientation and gender identity risk and resilience factors and the intersection of LGBTQ identity with other aspects of diversity. The second section explores topics critical for the development of safe supportive school environments including understanding legal and ethical mandates training school personnel addressing bullying and harassment and developing inclusive classrooms. Special topics related to counseling LGBTQ students supporting families of LGBTQ students becoming an ally and advocate in the schools and connecting with community resources are also covered.   CE credit is available to purchasers of this book at www.mensanapublications.com. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415819176

Creating Safe and Supportive Schools and Fostering Students' Mental Health Creating Safe and Supportive Schools and Fostering Students’ Mental Health provides pre- and in-service educators with the tools they need to prevent pre-empt handle and recover from threats to students’ mental health. School safety and fostering a supportive learning environment have always been issues fundamental to educators. Over the last decade teachers and administrators have been called on more than ever to cope with bullying suicide and violence in their schools. Handling every stage of this diverse set of obstacles can be unwieldy for teachers and administrators alike. Framed with interviews from experts on each of the topics and including practical and applicable examples this volume draws together the work of top-tier school psychologists into a text designed to work with existing school structures and curricula to make schools safer. A comprehensive and multi-faceted resource this book integrates leading research with the well-respected Framework for Safe and Successful Schools to help educators support school safety crisis management and students' mental health. Featuring interviews with: Dewey G. Cornell Frank DeAngelis Beth Doll Kevin Dwyer Katie Eklund Maurice J. Elias Michele Gay Ross W. Greene Rob Horner Jane Lazarus Richard Lieberman Troy Loker Melissa A. Louvar-Reeves Terry Molony Shamika Patton Donna Poland Scott Poland Eric Rossen Susan M. Swearer Ken Trump and Frank Zenere. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415737005

Creating Safe Environments for LGBT StudentsA Catholic Schools Perspective Make sure your Catholic school's LGBT students are getting the support they need Creating Safe Environments for LGBT Students is a comprehensive training guidebook for educators who are committed to diversity and the full inclusion of LGBT students in every aspect of the Catholic high school experience. Based on five years of pilot testing in Catholic schools this unique book emphasizes safe-staff training in integrating the Church's pastoral social and moral dimensions with the special needs of LGBT students. The book presents strategies and resources for building safer schools helpful materials for communicating with parents and general guidelines for developing and maintaining professional helping relationships with LGBT students. Based on a “training the trainer” model Creating Safe Environments for LGBT Students encourages the development of grassroots leadership within the school. This unique book promotes a positive framework for navigating the challenging landscape of the Catholic tradition and the LGBT experience as it helps to establish anti-harassment and anti-bullying protocols for school environments and models for developing LGBT student support groups and gay/straight student alliances. The book promotes role-play by students alumni teachers and parents—a hallmark of the ministry work and training methods of the Catholic Pastoral Committee on Sexual Minorities—and is flexible enough to allow each school's individual climate and culture to be respected.Creating Safe Environments for LGBT Students includes:* first-hand stories from students and teachers* realistic dynamic and creative role-play scenarios that explore various relationships between students teachers parents administrators and the school board* opening prayer and meditation rituals* a special foreword by Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton one of the few Catholic bishops to publicly affirm LGBT persons* an extensive bibliography and glossary regarding the experiences language culture and spirituality of LGBT youth* the latest research findings on at-risk behaviors of LGBT teenagers * training handouts that are easy to duplicate and use as transparencies* a manual log that can be used as a training diary* and much more!Creating Safe Environments for LGBT Students is an essential resource for faculty and staff members at Catholic high schools particularly school administrators chaplains campus ministers psychologists social workers and counselors. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138144361

Creating SanctuaryToward the Evolution of Sane Societies Revised Edition Creating Sanctuary is a description of a hospital-based program to treat adults who had been abused as children and the revolutionary knowledge about trauma and adversity that the program was based upon. This book focuses on the biological psychological and social aspects of trauma. Fifteen years later Dr. Sandra Bloom has updated this classic work to include the groundbreaking Adverse Childhood Experiences Study that came out in 1998 information about Epigenetics and new material about what we know about the brain and violence. This book is for courses in counseling social work and clinical psychology on mental health trauma and trauma theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415821094

Creating ScientistsTeaching and Assessing Science Practice for the NGSS Learn how to shift from teaching science content to teaching a more hands-on inquiry-based approach as required by the new Next Generation Science Standards. This practical book provides a clear research verified framework for building lessons that teach scientific process and practice abilities such as gathering and making sense of data constructing explanations designing experiments and communicating information. Creating Scientists features reproducible immediately deployable tools and handouts that you can use in the classroom to assess your students’ learning within the domains for the NGSS or any standards framework with focus on the integration of science practice with content. This book is an invaluable resource for educators seeking to build a "community of practice " where students discover ideas through well-taught hands-on authentic science experiences that foster an innate love for learning how the world works. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138237988

Creating Second LivesCommunity Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual This book aims to provide insights into how ‘second lives’ in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually semiotically and discursively specifically in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The book’s philosophy is multi-disciplinary and its goal is to explore the question of how we as gamers and residents of virtual worlds construct alternative online realities in a variety of ways. Of particular significance to this endeavour are conceptions of the body in cyberspace and of spatiality which manifests itself in ‘natural’ and built environments as well as the triad of space place and landscape. The contributors’ disciplinary backgrounds include media communication cultural and literary studies and they examine issues of reception and production identity community gender spatiality natural and built environments using a plethora of methodological approaches ranging from theoretical and philosophical contemplation through social semiotics to corpus-based discourse analysis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138243217

Creating SelvesIntellectual Property and the Narration of Culture The concept of creativity together with concerns over access to creativity and knowledge are currently the subject of international debate and unprecedented public attention particularly in the context of international developments in intellectual property laws. Not only are there significant developments at the legal level with increasing moves towards stronger and harmonized protection for intellectual property but also there is intense public interest in the concepts of creativity authorship personality and knowledge. In Creating Selves Johanna Gibson addresses strategic responses to intellectual property and suggests alternative models for encouraging rewarding and disseminating creative and innovative output which are built upon a critical analysis of and approach to the debate and to the concept of creativity itself. Drawing upon critical theories in authorship literature music the sciences and the arts Gibson suggests a radical re-consideration of the notion of creativity in the intellectual property debate and the means by which to encourage and sustain creativity in contemporary society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138264465

Creating Sensory SpacesThe Architecture of the Invisible Creating Sensory Spaces celebrates spaces enlivened with sensual richness and provides you with the knowledge and tools necessary to create them. Drawing on numerous built case studies in ten countries and illustrated with over 85 full color images the book presents a new framework for the design of sensory spaces including light color temperature smell sound and touch. Bridging across disciplines of architecture engineering phenomenology and perceptual psychology this book informs the design of buildings and neighborhoods that reclaim the role of the body and all the senses in creating memorable experiences of place and belonging. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138918771

Creating Smart Cities In cities around the world digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures to govern urban life to solve urban issues and to drive local and regional economies. While "smart city" advocates are keen to promote the benefits of smart urbanism – increased efficiency sustainability resilience competitiveness safety and security – critics point to the negative effects such as the production of technocratic governance the corporatization of urban services technological lock-ins privacy harms and vulnerability to cyberattack. This book through a range of international case studies suggests social political and practical interventions that would enable more equitable and just smart cities reaping the benefits of smart city initiatives while minimizing some of their perils. Included are case studies from Ireland the United States of America Colombia the Netherlands Singapore India and the United Kingdom. These chapters discuss a range of issues including political economy citizenship standards testbedding urban regeneration ethics surveillance privacy and cybersecurity. This book will be of interest to urban policymakers as well as researchers in Regional Studies and Urban Planning. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815396253

Creating Smart EnterprisesLeveraging Cloud Big Data Web Social Media Mobile and IoT Technologies "Vivek Kale's Creating Smart Enterprises goes smack-dab at the heart of harnessing technology for competing in today's chaotic digital era. Actually for him it's SMACT-dab: SMACT (Social media Mobile Analytics and big data Cloud computing and internet of Things) technologies. This book is required reading for those that want to stay relevant and win and optional for those that don't." —Peter Fingar Author of Cognitive Computing and business technology consultant Creating Smart Enterprises unravels the mystery of social media mobile analytics and big data cloud and Internet of Things (SMACT) computing and explains how it can transform the operating context of business enterprises. It provides a clear understanding of what SMACT really means what it can do for smart enterprises and application areas where it is practical to use them. All IT professionals who are involved with any aspect of a SMACT computing project will profit by using this book as a roadmap to make a more meaningful contribution to the success of their computing initiatives. This pragmatic book: Introduces the VUCA (volatility uncertainty complexity and ambiguity) business ecosystem confronted by the businesses today. Describes the challenges of defining business and IT strategies and of aligning them as well as their impact on enterprise governance. Provides a very wide treatment of the various components of SMACT computing including the Internet of Things (IoT) and its constituting technologies like RFID wireless networks sensors and wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This book addresses the key differentiator of SMACT computing environments and solutions that combine the power of an elastic infrastructure with analytics. The SMACT environment is cloud-based and inherently mobile. Information management processes can analyze and discern recurring patterns in colossal pools of operational and transactional data. Analytics big data and IoT computing leverage and transform these data patterns to help create successful smart enterprises. Media > Books > Print Books Auerbach Publications 9781498751285

Creating Smart-er Cities Drawing upon the smart experiences of "world class" cities in North America Canada and Europe this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based and market-dependent representations of knowledge production are now being replaced with a community of policy makers academic leaders corporate strategists and growth management alliances with the potential to liberate cities from the stagnation which they have previously been locked into by offering communities: the freedom to develop polices with the leadership and strategies capable of reaching beyond the idea of "creative slack"; a process of reinvention whereby cities become "smarter " in using intellectual capital to not only meet the efficiency requirements of wealth creation but to become centres of creative slack; the political leadership capable of not only being economically innovative or culturally creative but enterprising in opening-up reflexively absorbing and discursively shaping the democratic governance of such developments; the democratic governance to sustain such developments. Drawing together the critical insights from papers from a collection of leading international experts on the transition to smart cities this book proposes to do what has recently been asked of those responsible for creating Smarter Cities. That is: provide the definitional components critical insights and institutional means by which to get beyond the all too often self-congratulatory tone cities across the world strike when claiming to be smart and by focussing on the critical role master-plans and design codes play in supporting the sustainable development of communities. This book was published as a special issue of Urban Technology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138798441

Creating Social ValueA Guide for Leaders and Change Makers There is a new business landscape where companies are increasingly being judged on their ability to generate _social value_. But there is no off-the-shelf solution for the leaders and change makers in this new domain. Creating social value is a journey and each company must chart its own path through uncertain and complex terrain. We invite you to discover how the entrepreneurial leaders profiled in this book have become trailblazers using strategy and innovation to generate profits and social value simultaneously.Creating Social Value provides insights into the motivations and preoccupations of groundbreaking entrepreneurial leaders as they look to activate change not just within their companies but also in their sectors value chains and even through co-creating partnerships with their competitors. Such change requires fundamentally new styles of leadership and business design where companies seek to be generative rather than extractive.This book also bears witness to the emergence of new language to describe these innovative concepts. Working with and sharing ideas with social entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs inside the authors became aware of the building blocks of a new lexicon with the power to inspire and positively influence the culture of an organization. Many of the leaders included in this book have driven change by harnessing the power of language to reroute their company’s direction.For example The Campbell Soup Company has created _destination goals_ to describe the long-term vision of the company to nourish its customers employees and neighbours. Roshan has worked on _nation building_ creating physical infrastructure in Afghanistan a country decimated by war. UPS has worked to understand its impact on the planet building a _materiality matrix_ of the issues that matter to its stakeholders while working to create a culture that fosters social innovation and seeks to understand _constructive dissatisfaction_. Ford is redefining its mission imagining a different future in which it provides _mobility solutions_ rather than only manufacturing cars. Ford is working with Toyota to co-create technologies to combat climate change.This book sets out a manifesto for Social Value Creation which is defined as a strategy that combines a unique set of corporate assets (including innovation capacities marketing skills managerial acumen employee engagement scale) in collaboration with the assets of other sectors and firms to co-create breakthrough solutions to complex economic social and environmental issues that impact the sustainability of both business and society. Social innovation differs from corporate responsibility in two significant ways: it is strategic and it leverages a wide range of corporate assets and core competencies.Creating Social Value has been designed as a manual for change. It will be essential reading for business students entrepreneurs and all of those wishing to effect positive generative change in larger organizations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781906093990

Creating Sociological AwarenessCollective Images and Symbolic Representations In this volume the distinguished sociologist Anselm Strauss reflects on his self-professed lifelong intention to create sociological awareness in his readers and students. Strauss democratizes sociology by making sure that relativities of status power and wealth are acknowledged in the conduct of everyday life and by recognizing that all collective life is subject to negotiation rearrangement and reconstruction.Represented here are some ideas for which Strauss is best known. He addresses work leisure culture illness identity and policy. These disparate topics are linked by Strauss' "web of negotiation" by which organizational arrangements can be changed. The volume concludes with discussion about problems of method consultation and teaching affirming Strauss' commitment to passing along the sociological awareness reflected in this volume to a next generation.Squarely in the long tradition of the Chicago School of sociology the work of Anselm Strauss represents the very best thinking in modern sociological and psychological analysis. Those interested in the origins of his major conceptual frameworks will find this an essential volume. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412864398

Creating Solo Performance Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you – the performer – with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the page and in the performance space. 　 The creation of a solo show may be the most rewarding liberating and stressful challenge you will take on in your career. This book acts as your silent collaborator as you develop your performance by helpfully arranging exercises under the following headings: 　 Beginnings Creating character Generating material Using your performance space Technology Endings Collaboration 　 Exercises can be explored in sequence at random or according to your specific needs and interests as a performer. By enabling you to create a bespoke formula that best applies to your specific subject area of interest style and discipline this book will become an indispensable resource as you produce your solo show. 　 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415720007

Creating Spatial Information InfrastructuresTowards the Spatial Semantic Web Initiatives such as INSPIRE and the US DHS Geospatial Data Model are working to develop a rich set of standards that will create harmonized models and themes for the spatial information infrastructure. However this is only the first step. Semantically meaningful models must still be developed in order to stimulate interoperability. Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures (SII) presents solutions to the problems preventing the launch of a truly effective SII. Leading experts in SII development present a complete overview of SII including user and application needs theoretical and technological foundations and examples of realized working SII’s. The book includes semantic applications in each discussion and explains their importance to the future of geo-information standardization. Offering practical solutions to technical and nontechnical obstacles this book provides the tools needed to take the next step toward a working semantic web—one that will revolutionize the way the world accesses and utilizes spatial information. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367387419

Creating Special Effects for TV andVideo Creating Special Effects for TV and Video is a concise and practical introduction to the techniques used in television production. Now completely updated this third edition covers a wide range of special effects in a simple and practical form with clear illustrations and photographs that support the text.Creating Special Effects for TV and Video is a concise and practical introduction to the techniques used in television production. Now completely updated this third edition covers a wide range of special effects in a simple and practical form with clear illustrations and photographs that support the text.Bernard Wilkie now a freelance consultant director and writer spent 25 years creating special effects for BBC TV where he became manager of one of the largest and most specialised visual FX units in the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138426016

Creating Sustainable BioeconomiesThe bioscience revolution in Europe and Africa The growing global demand for food feed and bio-based renewable material is changing the conditions for agricultural production worldwide. At the same time revolutionary achievements in the field of biosciences are contributing to a transition whereby bio-based alternatives for energy and materials are becoming more competitive. Creating Sustainable Bioeconomies explores the prospects for biosciences and how its innovation has the potential to help countries in the North (Europe) and the South (Africa) to move towards resource efficient agriculture and sustainable bioeconomies. Throughout the book the situations of Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa will be compared and contrasted and opportunities for mutual learning and collaboration are explored. The chapters have been written by high profile authors and deal with a wide range of issues affecting the development of bioeconomies on both continents. This book compares and contrasts the situations of these two regions as they endeavour to develop knowledge based bioeconomies. This volume is suitable for those who are interested in ecological economics development economics and environmental economics. It also provides action plans assisting policy-makers in both areas to support the transition to knowledge based and sustainable bioeconomies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367870973

Creating TextsAn Introduction to the Study of Composition Creating Texts emphasises a practical approach to composition and enables students to understand what is involved in the creation of a text and to learn from the practice of other writers. Extensively rewritten and updated from Walter Nash's earlier volume Designs in Prose attention is paid to the general theory of composition in both traditional and original terms so that students are made familiar with the basic resources of composition in grammar and in the lexicon.The essence of every chapter is the discussion of examples of text sometimes devised by the authors but more often drawn from the work of authors writing in diverse styles of English. This practical approach is most evident in the final section of the book where detailed suggestions for projects and exercises reinforce the connection between theory and practice and encourage students to develop their creative sense and to adapt their style of writing to fit the particular audience and context. In addition this section is cross-referenced to the main text to allow students to consult easily the relevant chapter. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138437531

Creating the Built EnvironmentThe Practicalities of Designing Constructing and Owning Buildings We spend most of our lives in buildings and almost every building is unique. The purpose of this book is to explain what buildings are and to provide an integrated overview of how they are built and sustained.The book does not presume any specialist knowledge of buildings seeking instead to explain why the different groups involved in designing constructing managing and occupying them follow certain procedures. It is particularly concerned with the generation and circulation of information between these groups. In taking this view the book considers the recommendations of Sir Michael Latham's 1994 report Constructing the Team which called for better cohesion and communication between specialists in the construction industry. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138408890

Creating the Character CostumeTools Tips and Talks with Top Costumers and Cosplayers Many beginning and hobbyist costumers believe that professional costume/prop builders have unlimited and specialized resources with which to ply their craft. Actually the pros create things in much the same way that hobbyists do working as resourcefully and creatively as possible with a limited budget. Creating the Character Costume dives into these methods to showcase how to achieve expert looks with limited means and lots of creativity. Part One explores tools materials and construction methods. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138816114

Creating the Coding Generation in Primary SchoolsA Practical Guide for Cross-Curricular Teaching Creating the Coding Generation in Primary Schools sets out the what why and how of coding. Written by industry innovators and experts it shows how you can bring the world of coding to your primary school practice. It is packed with a range of inspirational ideas for the cross-curricular teaching of coding from demystifying algebra in maths to teaching music to designing digital storytelling as well as an insight into the global movement of free coding clubs for young people such as CoderDojo and Girls Learning Code. Key topics explored include: what we mean by ‘coding’ understanding and teaching computational thinking building pupils’ passion for and confidence with technologies artificial intelligence systems how gender impacts on coding STEM learning and Computer Science using Minecraft to improve pupil engagement fun projects using a Raspberry Pi. Designed to be read from cover to cover or dipped into for ideas and advice Creating the Coding Generation in Primary Schools offers all teachers a deeper knowledge and understanding of coding that will help them support and inspire the coding generation. It is cool to code! Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138681194

Creating the Conditions for Classroom ImprovementA Handbook of Staff Development Activities First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books David Fulton Publishers 9780203064702

Creating the Conditions for School ImprovementA Handbook of Staff Development Activities First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138146259

Creating the Conditions for Teaching and LearningA Handbook of Staff Development Activities First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books David Fulton Publishers 9781138162778

Creating the Curriculum Is there an ‘ideal’ primary school curriculum? Who should decide what the curriculum is? Should teachers have autonomy over how they teach? The curriculum is the heart of what teachers teach and learners learn: effective teaching is only possible with an effective curriculum. Yet in spite of its importance there has been a crisis in curriculum that has been caused in large part by governments assuming direct control over the curriculum assessment and increasingly pedagogy. Creating the Curriculum tackles this thorny issue head on challenging student and practising primary school teachers to think critically about past and present issues and to engage with a new wave of curriculum thinking and development. Considering curriculum construction and its impact on teaching and learning in the four countries of the UK key issues considered include: who should decide the curriculum its aims and its values the extent to which issues in primary education swing back and forth Subjects versus thematic organisation stages and phases progression breadth and balance prescription versus teacher autonomy the key features of effective classroom practice strategies for assessing the whole curriculum how language in the classroom influences curriculum design understanding curricula in the context of children’s social and personal circumstances creativity curriculum and the classroom. Illustrated throughout with strategies and case studies from the classroom Creating the Curriculum accessibly links the latest research and evidence with concrete examples of good practice. It is a timely exploration of what makes an effective and meanginful curriculum and how teachers can bring new relevance motivation and powerful values to what they teach. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415687706

Creating the Discipline of Knowledge Management In this book Dr. Michael Stankosky founder of the first doctoral program in knowledge management sets out to provide a rationale and solid research basis for establishing Knowledge Management (KM) as an academic discipline. While it is widely known that Knowledge is the driver of our knowledge economy Knowledge Management does not yet have the legitimacy that only rigorous academic research can provide. This book lays out the argument for KM as a separate academic discipline with its own body of knowledge (theoretical constructs) guiding principles and professional society. In creating an academic discipline there has to be a widely accepted theoretical construct arrived at by undergoing scholarly scientific investigation and accompanying rigor. This construct becomes the basis for an academic curriculum and proven methodologies for practice. Thus the chapters in this book bridge theory and practice providing guiding principles to those embarking on or evaluating the merits of a KM program. As a methodology itself for undertaking the development of a body of knowledge a KM Research Map was developed to guide scholars researchers and practitioners. This book presents this map and showcases cutting-edge scholarship already performed in this nascent field by including the dissertation results of eleven KM scholar/practitioners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138435360

Creating the Effective Primary School A key role for primary school leaders is to develop strategies for promoting and ensuring high quality learning. This practical and accessible handbook has been written by an experienced primary leader and will offer anyone seeking guidance on creating or maintaining a more effective primary school with a valuable and friendly resource. Extensive coverage in this book includes: using organisation and leadership to create a positive ethos developing good relationships and creating teams managing the curriculum and raising pupil achievement the role of targets and planning in raising achievement fostering successful teaching and good classroom management and relationships working with the inspection process performance management dealing effectively with stress and time management. Launching the new Kogan Page Primary Essentials series this book will be welcomed by any primary leader who is seeking to develop their pupil's and their school's strengths and expectations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138421752

Creating the Ethical AcademyA Systems Approach to Understanding Misconduct and Empowering Change For those who believe in the promise of higher education to shape a better future this may be a time of unprecedented despair. Stories of students regularly cheating in their classes admissions officers bending the rules for VIPs faculty fudging research data and presidents plagiarizing seem more rampant than ever before. If those associated with our institutions of higher learning cannot resist ethical corruption what hope do we have for an ethical society? In this edited volume higher education experts and scholars tackle the challenge of understanding why ethical misconduct occurs in the academy and how we can address it. The volume editor and contributing authors use a systems framework to analyze ethical challenges in common functional areas (e.g. testing and admissions teaching and learning research fundraising spectator sports and governance) highlighting that misconduct is shaped by both individuals and the contexts in which they work study and live. The volume argues compellingly for colleges and universities to make ethics a strategic institutional priority. Higher education researchers students and practitioners will find this volume and its application of empirical research real-life examples and illustrative case studies to be an inspiring and applicable read. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203840481

Creating the Future School This fascinating book is based on the changes to schooling that a five year-old Angelica will see in her lifetime. It is divided into two parts: the first describes how schools are viewed by society; the second considers practical responses that schools can make to keep up with change. Creating the Future School predicts that the career of teaching will change and the work of the professional educator will differ significantly from what has been the traditional teaching role in schools of the twentieth century. The book addresses principals senior members of school staff teachers governors and policy makers and aims to open up the reader's awareness to the profound shift in society and how society views its schools. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203132074

Creating the High Schools of Our ChoiceA Principal's Perspective on Making High School Reform a Reality This book provides strategies tools and examples to help high school principals achieve the goals put forward in the No Child Left Behind legislation. With its clear examples of best practices in leadership personalization and strategic use of data it will show you how to achieve your school's academic mission. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138472655

Creating the LawState Supreme Court Opinions and The Effect of Audiences Written opinions are the primary means by which judges communicate with external actors. These sentiments include the parties to the case itself but also more broadly journalists public officials lawyers other judges and increasingly the mass public. In Creating the Law Michael K. Romano and Todd A. Curry examine the extent to which judges tailor their language in order to avoid retribution during their retention and how institutional variations involving intra-chamber dynamics may influence the written word of a legal opinion. Using an extensive dataset that includes the text of all death penalty and education decisions issued by state supreme courts from 1995–2010 Romano and Curry are the first to examine the connection between retention incentives and language choices. They utilize text analysis techniques developed in the field of communications and apply them to the text of judicial decisions. In doing so they find that judges write with their audience in mind and emphasize duelling strategies of justification and persuasion in order to please diverse audiences that may be paying attention. Furthermore the process of drafting a majority opinion is a team exercise and when more individuals are involved in its crafting the product will reflect this complexity. This book gives students the tools for understanding how institutional variation affects judicial outcomes and shows how language relates to decision-making in the judiciary more specifically. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138616844

Creating the Pet-Friendly Hospital Animal Shelter or Petcare Business Transform your practice! Creating a "pet-friendly" hospital shelter or petcare business is a simple inexpensive path to improved efficiency increased staff safety happy pets and clients who feel a bond with your business. Learn how in this fun and fascinating DVD taken from a half-day seminar given by veterinarian and animal behaviorist Dr. Sophia Yin author of The Small Animal Veterinary Nerdbook and Low Stress Handling Restraint and Behavior Modification of Cats and Dogs. Many pets arrive at our hospitals shelters and at the groomer’s afraid and confused. Careless or unskilled handling of these animals often leads to negative consequences: dog and cat bites and scratches are the top cause of worker compensation claims in veterinary hospitals and shelters; "difficult" pets are time consuming to treat; clients lose confidence in petcare professionals they see struggling to control their pets; and worst of all hospital staff may unknowingly send animals away medically improved but behaviorally worse—more fearful of veterinary visits or even more fearful of people generally. But it doesn’t have to be this way! This seminar teaches you how to enhance your practice by making dogs and cats feel secure on the ride to the hospital in the waiting room in the exam room and during treatments. Learn to greet pets appropriately to handle them with finesse instead of force to recognize when they are fearful and about to bite and to understand what you inadvertently may be doing to increase their fear. You’ll also learn techniques to train animals to enjoy procedures they once feared. Through Dr. Yin’s seminar you’ll gain confidence in your handling skills credibility with your clients and a more caring connection with your patients. Media > Books > Print Books CattleDog Publishing 9780983789253

Creating the Practical Man of ModernityThe Reception of John Dewey’s Pedagogy in Mexico Focused on the appropriation of John Dewey’s ideas on progressive education in revolutionary Mexico this book reconsiders the interpretation and application of Dewey’s ideas in the world. Rodriguez examines the use of Dewey in Mexico’s state-building projects as a vantage point to assess the global impact of Dewey’s pedagogy. As these projects converged with Dewey’s desire to employ education as a tool for effective social change Rodriguez understands Dewey not just as a philosopher but as an integral part of the Americas’ progressive movement and era. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367194314

Creating the Productive WorkplacePlaces to Work Creatively The built environment affects our physical mental and social well-being. Here renowned professionals from practice and academia explore the evidence from basic research as well as case studies to test this belief. They show that many elements in the built environment contribute to establishing a milieu which helps people to be healthier and have the energy to concentrate while being free to be creative. The health and well-being agenda pervades society in many different ways but we spend much of our lives in buildings so they have an important role to play within this total picture. This demands us to embrace change and think beyond the conventional wisdom while retaining our respect for it. Creating the Productive Workplace shows how we need to balance the needs of people and the ever-increasing enabling technologies but also to take advantage of the healing powers of Nature and let them be part of environmental design. This book aims to lead to more human-centred ways of designing the built environment with deeper meaning and achieve healthier and more creative as well as more productive places to work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138963344

Creating the Social Venture Social entrepreneurship is a growing area and we frequently hear of new ventures committed to social change. In academia however social entrepreneurship has typically been taught as a ‘version’ of entrepreneurship ignoring the unique structure challenges and goals of the social venture. In their new book Coleman and Kariv draw on the latest theory and research to provide boundaries to the definition of social entrepreneurship discussing both what it is and what it is not. The book answers several key questions: Who are social entrepreneurs? What is the process for identifying and solving a social need? What are the differences between for-profit and not-for-profit social ventures? What is the role of innovation? How do we develop high performing firms? How do we measure success? The focus on context allows students to appreciate how social entrepreneurship develops and operates in different countries and cultures lending a global perspective to the book. Combined with rich pedagogy and a companion website it provides students with all the learning tools they need to grasp this important subject. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415844109

Creating the Ultimate Lean OfficeA Zero-Waste Environment with Process Automation This book introduces the challenges to apply current methodologies to create a lean office. It describes the system enhancement options that lean practitioner can employ in automating the newly created lean processes and explains each of the seven steps necessary for creating a lean office. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781138438392

Creating the Unequal CityThe Exclusionary Consequences of Everyday Routines in Berlin Cities can be seen as geographical imaginaries: places have meanings attributed so that they are perceived represented and interpreted in a particular way. We may therefore speak of cityness rather than 'the city': the city is always in the making. It cannot be grasped as a fixed structure in which people find their lives and is never stable through agents designing courses of interactions with geographical imaginations. This theoretical perspective on cities is currently reshaping the field of urban studies requiring new forms of theory comparisons and methods. Meanwhile mainstream urban studies approaches neighbourhoods as fixed social-spatial units producing effects on groups of residents. Yet they have not convincingly shown empirically that the neighbourhood is an entity generating effects rather than being the statistical aggregate where effects can be measured. This book challenges this common understanding and argues for an approach that sees neighbourhood effects as the outcome of processes of marginalisation and exclusion that find spatial expressions in the city elsewhere. It does so through a comparative study of an unusual kind: Sub-Saharan Africans second generation Turkish and Lebanese girls and alcohol and drug consumers some of them homeless arguably some of the most disadvantaged categories in the German capital Berlin in inner city neighbourhoods and middle class families in owner-occupied housing. This book analyses urban inequalities through the lens of the city in the making where neighbourhood comes to play a role at some times in some practices and at some moments but is not the point of departure. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367597252

Creating the Visitor-centered Museum What does the transformation to a visitor-centered approach do for a museum? How are museums made relevant to a broad range of visitors of varying ages identities and social classes? Does appealing to a larger audience force museums to “dumb down” their work? What internal changes are required? Based on a multi-year Kress Foundation–sponsored study of ten innovative American and European collections based museums recognized by their peers to be visitor centered Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson answer these key questions for the field. The book:• describes key institutions that have opened the doors to a wider range of visitors;• addresses the internal struggles to reorganize and democratize these institutions;• uses case studies interviews of key personnel Key Takeaways and additional resources to help museum professionals implement a visitor-centered approach in collections-based institutions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781629581910

Creating Theoretical Research Frameworks using Multiple MethodsInsight from ICT4D Investigations By now it is commonly accepted that investments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) can facilitate macroeconomic growth in developed countries. Research standards in ICT for development (ICT4D) are high and it is a basic expectation that a theoretically sound conceptual investigation should yield actionable results. An additional expectation is that an on-the-ground study conducted in each setting should add to the common body of knowledge based on theory. In other words one is expected to make a connection between the world of concepts and the world of reality. Middle-range theories and frameworks could help connect the case studies with grand theories by helping to create a theoretically sound and practically applicable research architecture of ICT4D. This book demonstrates how creative use of various data analysis methods (e.g. data mining [DM] data envelopment analysis [DEA] and structural equation modeling [SEM]) and conceptual frameworks (e.g. neoclassical growth accounting chaos and complexity theories) may be utilized for inductive and deductive purposes to develop and to test in step-by-step fashion theoretically sound frameworks for a large subset of ICT4D research questions. Specifically this book showcases the utilization of DM DEA and SEM for the following purposes: Identification of the relevant context-specific constructs (inductive application) Identification of the relationships between the constructs (inductive application) Development of a framework incorporating the constructs and relationships discovered (inductive application) Testing of the constructed framework (deductive application) The book takes a multi-theoretical perspective to economic development research. It starts with an overview of ICT4D. Next it covers such frameworks and theories as neoclassical growth accounting and the theory of complementarity complex systems and chaos theories and the product life cycle (PLC) theory. There are also nontechnical overviews of the DM and data analytic methods that can be used in this research. Also presented is evidence that human capital and investment capital are complementary and are reliable sources of economic growth. The book concludes with methodological frameworks to guide investment decisions and the formulation of strategic policy. Media > Books > Print Books Auerbach Publications 9781498779951

Creating Tropical YankeesSocial Science Textbooks and U.S. Ideological Control in Puerto Rico 1898-1908 First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138880108

Creating Unequal Futures?Rethinking poverty inequality and disadvantage 'This is an important and powerful book because of the rigour of the analysis the good sense of the innovative strategies for action by government business and civil society and the concern throughout for social justice.' - John Langmore Director UN Division for Social Policy and DevelopmentOne in six Australian kids live below the poverty line. Among the twenty-five leading industrialised countries Australia has the fifth highest child poverty rate. This is a useful if stark indicator of the extent of long-term disadvantage in this country.Creating Unequal Futures? brings together eight of Australia's leading social scientists to introduce the reader to the processes which create and sustain persistent patterns of poverty and disadvantage. Although the contributors use different approaches their research leads to a united call for a rethinking away from the prevailing 'gloom and doom' presentations of Australian material life. They signal pathways out of the dilemmas that bind people to poverty and disadvantage. If followed those pathways will guide us to a future characterised by less inequality. If ignored we may further entrench patterns of disadvantage and risk creating unequal futures for all Australians. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003115281

Creating Urban Agricultural SystemsAn Integrated Approach to Design Creating Urban Agriculture Systems provides you with background expertise and inspiration for designing with urban agriculture. It shows you how to grow food in buildings and cities operate growing systems and integrate them with natural cycles and existing infrastructures. It teaches you the essential environmental inputs and operational strategies of urban farms and inspires community and design tools for innovative operations and sustainable urban environments that produce fresh local food. Over 70 projects and 16 in-depth case studies of productive integrated systems located in North America Europe and Asia are organized by their emphasis on nutrient water and energy management farm operation community integration and design approaches so that you can see innovative strategies in action. Interviews with leading architecture firms including WORKac Kiss + Cathcart Weber Thompson CJ Lim/Studio 8 and SOA Architectes highlight the challenges and rewards you face when creating urban agriculture systems. Catalogs of growing and building systems a glossary bibliography and abstracts will help you find information fast. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415747936

Creating Valuable Business Strategies Creating Valuable Business Strategies will change existing mindsets about strategy. Here is an answer for the strategist who asks 'What should I do differently next Monday morning?'.The object of strategy is to create financial value and the offering-centred approach of Creating Valuable Business Strategies provides a novel and pragmatic framework for setting strategic direction: choosing which markets to contest and how.This book:* Identifies the individual offering as the fundamental unit of strategy--the choices that customers make regarding individual offerings are at the root of a company's financial success.* Provides an innovative and comprehensive approach to profitable business strategy--designing each offering and also the collection as a whole.* Explains that strategy is a task for all businesses with offerings even the smallest not just the giants.The book first sets the scene and makes the case that each value-adding offering needs a competitive strategy: it must have a winning competitive position and use one or more winning resources. It provides the reader with a rich classification of how an offering can be competitively positioned vis-à-vis rival offerings and customers. Winning resources and why offerings need them is discussed next. Corporate strategy i.e. the managing of the company’s whole collection of offerings is then examined. This is followed by a discussion of the implications for organizing and structuring for an offering-centred approach to strategy. Finally all the aspects of this new framework that may meet with resistance are explored.Creating Valuable Business Strategies is essential reading for anyone who is involved in designing tomorrow's offerings: from the backroom specialist to the CEO. It has a clear logical presentation with a focus on practical implementation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138159327

Creating Value 'Creating Value through Business Strategy' is the new edition of 'Creating Value: Shaping Tomorrow's Business' winner of the MCA price for best management in 1997. This new edition provides constructive guidelines to readers to open their minds to the challenges of creating value. It extends and updates the reasons for the choice of the individual offering as the strategy unit and intensifies and extends the challenges to standard approaches and conventional thinking. Updates to all the material from the first edition are included and new examples have been added throughout. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138470040

Creating Value with Big Data AnalyticsMaking Smarter Marketing Decisions Our newly digital world is generating an almost unimaginable amount of data about all of us. Such a vast amount of data is useless without plans and strategies that are designed to cope with its size and complexity and which enable organisations to leverage the information to create value. This book is a refreshingly practical yet theoretically sound roadmap to leveraging big data and analytics. Creating Value with Big Data Analytics provides a nuanced view of big data development arguing that big data in itself is not a revolution but an evolution of the increasing availability of data that has been observed in recent times. Building on the authors’ extensive academic and practical knowledge this book aims to provide managers and analysts with strategic directions and practical analytical solutions on how to create value from existing and new big data. By tying data and analytics to specific goals and processes for implementation this is a much-needed book that will be essential reading for students and specialists of data analytics marketing research and customer relationship management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138837973

Creating Verbatim Theatre from Oral Histories Offering a roadmap for practicing verbatim theatre (plays created from oral histories) this book outlines theatre processes through the lens of oral history and draws upon oral history scholarship to bring best practices from that discipline to theatre practitioners. This book opens with an overview of oral history and verbatim theatre considering the ways in which existing oral history debates can inform verbatim theatre processes and highlights necessary ethical considerations within each field which are especially prevalent when working with narrators from marginalised communities. It provides a step-by-step guide to creating plays from interviews and contains practical guidance for determining the scope of a theatre project: identifying narrators and conducting interviews developing a script from excerpts of interview transcripts and outlining a variety of ways to create verbatim theatre productions. By bringing together this explicit discussion of oral history in relationship to theatre based on personal testimonies the reader gains insight into each field and the close relationship between the two.  Supported by international case studies that cover a wide range of working methods and productions including The Laramie Project and Parramatta Girls this is the perfect guide for oral historians producing dramatic representations of the material they have sourced through interviews and for writers creating professional theatre productions community projects or student plays. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367181505

Creating Visual Effects in MayaFire Water Debris and Destruction Produce mind-blowing visual effects with Autodesk Maya. Gain the practical skills and knowledge you need to recreate phenomena critical to visual effects work including fire water smoke explosions and destruction as well as their integration with real-world film and video. In Creating Visual Effects in Maya Maya master Lee Lanier has combined the latest studio techniques with multi-chapter hands-on projects and professionally-vetted workflows to bolster your CG toolkit. Engaging full-color tutorials cover: Creating foliage fire and smoke with Paint Effects Growing Maya Fur and nHair on clothing characters and sets Replicating water smoke sparks swarms bubbles and debris with nParticles and nCloth Controlling scenes and simulations with expressions and MEL Python and PyMEL scripting Adding dust fog smoke rippling water and fireballs with Fluid Effects containers Creating damage with Effects presets deformers and animated textures Matchmoving and motion tracking with Maya and MatchMover Creating complex destruction by combining rigid bodies nParticles nCloth and Fluid Effects Setting up rendering and compositing mental ray render passes with Autodesk Composite Adobe After Effects and The Foundry Nuke The companion website (www.focalpress.com/cw/lanier) features a treasure trove of Maya MatchMover After Effects and Nuke project files image sequences texture bitmaps and MEL Python and PyMEL scripts allowing you to immediately apply the techniques taught in the book. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415834186

Creating Winning Bids 'Creating Winning Bids' sets out the key stages in the production of a winning bid. Based on tried and tested methods and using a simple step-by-step process it will improve your chances of success in what can otherwise seem a daunting and complex process. Distilling the author’s experience of over 25 years of bidding in the public and private sectors it is packed with practical tips about what your client really wants to see. Beginning with a concise look at how to find new opportunities for work it examines the various types of bid that can be made and includes invaluable explanations of the jargon used in the bidding process – from OJEU to PQQs. Illustrated throughout with useful diagrams and checklists and covering a range of procurement routes this guide will help anyone from the sole practitioner to the large firm with a dedicated bidding team to create practical and perfectly-tailored winning bids. Media > Books > Print Books RIBA Publishing 9781859464984

Creating Winning Classrooms This book offers teachers important insights into the emotional classroom climate necessary for successful and effective learning. Following from the first book Confident Classroom Leadership the authors present a range of ideas and understandings to support teachers in proactively building and sustaining an emotionally empowering classroom. The beliefs and behaviors that underpin and develop positive self-esteem and strong motivation in students are described in an accessible and informative format. This not only invites readers to reflect on their teaching style it also encourages them to comfortably integrate the strategies and ideas into their existing practice. As you would expect from two highly experienced practitioners the book is firmly based in the reality of today's busy classrooms. Media > Books > Print Books David Fulton Publishers 9781138175112

Creating Winning Grant ProposalsA Step-by-Step Guide Providing clear-cut steps for producing each section of a competitive grant proposal this hands-on book is filled with examples from actual RFPs and proposals practical tools and writing tips. Prominent educator and successful proposal writer Anne L. Rothstein shares a systematic process created over decades of experience in the field. She details how to: achieve group consensus around a project; identify likely funding sources; establish need; develop objectives; assemble a Master Project Table and other needed tables figures and charts; create an effective logic model; prepare an evaluation; put together a budget; tailor the proposal to meet the requirements of funders; and avoid common errors. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the book's 14 reproducible templates in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.  Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462539086

Creating Writers in the Primary ClassroomPractical Approaches to Inspire Teachers and their Pupils Teachers in English schools have now had ten years of prescriptive national literacy strategies and it is time for a new approach. This book encourages children from their early years to think of themselves as writers who have something to write and know how to write it. Creating Writers in the Primary Classroom offers an exciting and refreshing approach to teaching writing in the primary school with very practical suggestions to help build a community of writers in your school where everyone writes and loves writing. Building on the research of recent years and with whole-curriculum provision it shows teachers how to actively engage children in the writing process excite them about what they can achieve and help all children to think of themselves as writers. The book begins with a clear analysis of what real writers really need and has chapters on working outdoors using the very best of children’s literature drama and imaginative play as well as sounds and images. It also features a chapter on practical productive planning including two case studies that show the approaches in use at schools. Creating Writers in the Primary Classroom is packed with practical advice games and strategies for the classroom based on the authors’ successful experience as teachers and in-service providers. These new approaches will enable teachers to get their children up and moving experiencing what writers experience feeling what writers feel and most important of all writing how writers write. Media > Books > Print Books David Fulton Publishers 9781138358430

Creating WritersA Creative Writing Manual for Schools This unique and comprehensive text offers an original approach to teaching creative writing by exploring ideas giving advice and explaining workshop activities and has many contributors from some of today's most popular children's authors including: Jacqueline Wilson Roger McGough Philip Pullman Malorie Blackman and David Almond.Creating Writers is a practical writing manual for teachers to use with upper primary and lower secondary level pupils that covers poetry fiction and non-fiction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138419599

Creating YoknapatawphaReaders and Writers in Faulkner's Fiction Creating Yoknapatawpha is a study of the crucial interplay of reading and writing processes involved in constructing the textual environment of William Faulkner’s work and the nature and significance of the world created by these many forces. Yoknapatawpha County the author contends is the product of these mainly mental processes of construction at all levels and it is in the similar and even analogous situations that exist between readers and writers of and in the fiction that the dynamic of Faulkner’s work is most keenly discovered. The book discusses novels from throughout Faulkner’s career and uses elements of Bakhtinian and reader-response theory among others to explore its subject eschewing the limited focus both of strictly formal and more content-oriented approaches and demonstrating the need for readers and writers to work together whether harmoniously or otherwise. By examining the fictive nature of Yoknapatawpha and the requirement for everybody to participate fully in its creation we can establish useful bases for investigations into the ‘real world’ issues with which Faulkner is so concerned. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203960196

Creating Your Dream Elementary Classroom from the Inside OutA Practical Guide for Teachers What are the magic ingredients to a dream classroom and how can you create one for your own students? In this inspiring new book Becky Hunt shows you how to transform the elementary school classroom into a special place where students are excited to learn. You’ll gain practical strategies on key areas such as classroom environment community routines procedures expectations lessons and professionalism. You will discover how to: Design a classroom environment in which students feel safe happy and eager to learn; Arrange and facilitate regular class meetings so that students can express themselves freely without judgement; Maintain professionalism in and out of the workplace; Set guidelines rules and expectations that students will understand and respect; Construct a targeted lesson plan with a clear beginning middle and end; Approach each day with a positive attitude by managing health and wellness; And much more!　 Special features in each chapter include a "Tips from the Pros" section and "Reflect and Write" boxes to help you pause and apply the ideas as you go. There are also "Discussion Questions" and "Notes to Trainers and Mentors" so you can easily use the book for new teacher training induction book studies and PLCs. With the practical tools and heartwarming examples in this book you can have your own dream classroom starting today! Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138586611

Creating Your Lean Future StateHow to Move from Seeing to Doing Move beyond Value Stream Mapping and Create Your Lean Future In Creating Your Lean Future State: How to Move from Seeing to Doing Tom Luyster with Don Tapping details the implementation of lean after the creation of current and future state maps. This book is a follow-up to the successful Value Stream Management: Eight Steps to Planning Mapping and Sustaining Lean Improvements. It follows the case study of a manufacturing company that has already created a Future State Map with the authors showing step-by-step how to focus on key information visually manage product flow and level production. Get the benefits promised by your future state map and implement a lean system that will stick without backsliding. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781138438415

Creation Evolution and Meaning This book presents the case for belief in both creation and evolution at the same time as rejecting creationism. Issues of meaning supply the context of inquiry; the book defends the meaningfulness of language about God and also relates belief in both creation and evolution to the meaning of life. Meaning it claims can be found in consciously adopting the role of stewards of the planetary biosphere and thus of the fruits of creation. Distinctive features include a sustained case for a realist understanding of language about God; a contemporary defence of some of the arguments for belief in God and in creation; a sifting of different versions of Darwinism and their implications for religious belief; a Darwinian account of the relation of predation and other apparent evils to creation; a new presentation of the argument from the world's value to the purposiveness of evolution; and discussions of whether or not meaning itself evolves and of religious and secular bases for belief in stewardship. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315259017

Creation and EvolutionA Biosemiotic Approach The issues surrounding Darwin's theory of evolution as a function of the survival of the fittest have hardly abated since they were initially promulgated about 150 ago. The reason is clear: behind the theory of evolution is a doctrine of structure of organisms that can be explained only by fitting the adaptation to the external world. The older doctrines of creation have been at odds with evolutionism from the outset--sometimes utilizing straight theological arguments and at other times employing sophisticated scientific arguments. Into the breach steps Friedrich S. Rothschild a trained neurologist psychologist and physician. On the basis of his researches in comparative embryology Rothschild argues that the central nervous system of animals as well as humans conveys meaning just like language and not just a system aimed at adaptation to the external environment. His theory of biosemiotics introduces the concept of inner adaptation. This adaptation to the principal forces assign meaning to life. In monotheistic religions this force is called God. The issue of adaptation is therefore both external and internal related to growth of the person no less than the environment. This book is intended for those who are interested in life and its varied meanings to students of sociobiology and medicine as well as those concerned with humanities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521445

Creation and Returns of Social Capital The idea of a social capital research program has become increasingly significant within the social sciences. This collection of essays contributes to a theoretical integration as well as standardization of measurement instruments and co-ordination of empirical research on the significance of social capital. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138880092

Creation of a Conscious RobotMirror Image Cognition and Self-Awareness Present-day computers lack well-defined functions to accept various kinds of sensual information such as vision hearing and smelling (binding problem). Computers also lack any well-defined mechanisms to coordinate various behaviors in the presence of an object (conscious mechanism). This book serves as a breakthrough that opens a new world. Using the ideas presented in the book computer systems can be developed to conduct conscious activities like human beings. Human beings will be able to develop mechanisms in which machines will have their own feelings will behave according to their own consciousness and will continue to learn for their betterment. Media > Books > Print Books Pan Stanford Publishing 9789814364492

CreationLaw and Probability Published in 1999. How can we reconcile assumptions about the lawfulness of the universe with provision for chance events? Do the ‘laws of nature’ indicate what absolutely must happen or just what is most likely to happen? These are important questions for both science and theology and are explored here in the first in-depth coverage of an important but neglected topic. Including perspectives from prestigious contributions and published with the backing of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) Creation: Law and Probability employs the disciplines of history and philosophy as well as cosmology evolutionary biology and neuroscience in a fascinating dialogue of faith traditions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138612198

Creative Efficient and Effective Project Management Creative companies are distinguished by their ability to adapt and thrive in a dynamic changing economy. Their products and services stand out in the market and these companies’ ability to be agile and innovative is key to their success.Creative Efficient and Effective Project Management supplies an in-depth discussion of creativity and its relationship to project management. Specifically it explains how the tools and techniques of creativity can be used to enhance the five processes executed during a project: defining planning executing monitoring and controlling and closing.Establishing the groundwork for encouraging and sustaining creativity in your projects the book details the benefits of integrating creativity in projects. It discusses common and not so common tools and techniques for developing project management deliverables and identifies the challenges that can arise when using creativity in a project. It also details ten little-known facts that can help you overcome the obstacles that often prevent organizations from tapping into the power of creativity in their projects.Each chapter includes a checklist and a case study on the application of the concepts presented. The book also indicates where applicable how the topics of discussion relate to the Project Management Institute's (PMI®) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®).Creativity resides in everyone but for the most part remains untapped. In this book you will find thoughts tools and techniques that will enable you to tap into your team’s creative energy and direct it towards achieving your project goals and objectives. Media > Books > Print Books Auerbach Publications 9780367379339

Creative Activities for Group Therapy Leading a group is a delicate balancing act of tasks and dynamic group and individual factors and the group leader’s expertise and skill are fundamental to maintaining this balance. However no matter how competent and well-prepared the group leader is there can be situations that present challenges that are not easily addressed defy conventional interventions or call for a different approach. The material presented in this book is intended to give group leaders evidence-based creative and inspirational tools techniques intervention strategies and the like to address these dilemmas and difficult situations. They can also enhance members’ growth and development stimulate self-exploration assist to soothe and calm and deepen and broaden thoughts and feelings. The creative activities included were selected because they do not require specialized training are easy to implement do not follow a particular theoretical perspective and can be effective for both the individual and group as a whole. The major categories of expressive processes presented are fairy tales; drawing; writing; imagery and mindfulness; music; movement exercise dance drama and role play; and collage flats and scrapbooks. Each chapter will focus on one of these activities and is designed so that they can be completed in one session. The closing chapters will present applications for member’s concerns group level challenges and case examples of group dilemmas and suggested activities to address them. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415527064

Creative Ageing CitiesPlace Design with Older People in Asian Cities Ageing population and rapid urbanisation are the two major demographic shifts in today’s world. Architectural designs and urban policies have to deal with issues of an ever larger elderly population living in the cities especially in old urban neighbourhoods while also taking into consideration the evolving lifestyles and wellbeing of the diverse elderly demographic. Being able to continue living in these existing urban neighbourhoods would thus require necessary interventions both to adapt the changing needs of the ageing population and to improve the deteriorating environment for better liveability. Creative Ageing Cities discusses the participation and contribution of the ageing population as a positive and creative force towards urban design and place-making particularly in high-density urban contexts as observed in a collection of empirical cases found in rapidly ageing Asian cities. This book is the first to bring together multidisciplinary scholastic research on ageing and urban issues from across top six ageing cities in Asia: Singapore Seoul Tokyo Taipei Hong Kong and Shanghai. Through these case studies this book gives a good overview of diverse challenges and opportunities in the various Asian urban contexts and offers a new perspective of an ageing and urban design framework that emphasises multi-stakeholder collaboration inter-generational relations and the collective wisdom of older people as a source of creativity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367504205

Creative AnalysisArt creativity and clinical process Creative Analysis: Art Creativity and Clinical Process explores the dynamics of creativity in psychoanalytic treatment. It argues that the creative process of the analytic interaction is characterized by specific forms of feeling thinking and most importantly relating that result in the emergence of something new – therapeutic change. The artistic aspects of psychoanalysis and various features of creativity in analytic treatment are explored. 　Clinical examples are discussed at length. George Hagman presents a new model of the psychology of creativity and art that helps us to better understand the clinical process. The book explores and develops several important implications of Hagman’s main thesis: the psychodynamics of art the creativity of the brain aesthetic aspects of the treatment relationship the creativity of the analyst and analysand. Change in analysis is driven not just by the analyst’s interventions but the patient’s own motivation and capacity for self-transformation. This change is depicted here as a depth psychological process which explores the sources of the patient’s resistance to self-actualization and identifies hidden potential unrealized capacities and strengths. Creative Analysis: Art Creativity and Clinical Process reformulates psychoanalytic therapy as a form of art that can help patients realize their potential which may have been blocked inhibited denied or derailed. The book will be of interest to psychoanalysts psychotherapists graduates and students including the educated public interested in art. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415696272

Creative and Critical Projects in Classroom MusicFifty Years of Sound and Silence Creative and Critical Projects in Classroom Music is both a celebration and extension of John Paynter and Peter Aston’s groundbreaking work on creative classroom music Sound and Silence first published in 1970. Building on the central themes of the original work – the child as artist the role of musical imagination and creativity and the process of making music – the authors and contributors provide a contemporary response to the spirit and style of Sound and Silence. They offer reflections on the ideas and convictions underpinning Paynter and Aston’s work in light of scholarship developed during the intervening years. This critical work is accompanied by 16 creative classroom projects designed and enacted by contemporary practitioners raising questions about the nature and function of music in education and society. In summary this book aims to: Celebrate seminal work on musical creativity in the classroom. Promote the integration of practical critical and analytical writing and thinking around this key theme for music education. Contribute to initiating the next 50 years of thought in relation to music creativity in the classroom. Offering a unique combination of critical scholarship and practical application and published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Sound and Silence themes from Paynter and Aston’s work are here given fresh context that aims to inspire a new generation of innovative classroom practice and to challenge current ways of thinking about the music classroom. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367417727

Creative and Innovative Auditing Bringing creativity and innovation into all professions and types of auditing today this book meets the needs of auditing practices in the future. Recent criticisms of auditing practices by financial regulators the traditional ‘expectation gaps’ between auditors and auditees and the continuing advances in technology make it even more important today to motivate creativity and innovation in the professions of auditors be they internal external quality environmental social clinical and so on.In Creative and Innovative Auditing Jeffrey Ridley studies all auditing practices not just internal auditing using an innovation model he has developed through research which is applicable to all auditing organisations and professions. He shows how motivating innovation in auditing practices will address the needs of today and tomorrow’s auditing of governance risk management and control. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367880774

Creative Approaches to Improving ParticipationGiving learners a say Introducing creativity to the classroom is a concern for teachers governments and future employers around the world and there has been a drive to make experiences at school more exciting relevant challenging and dynamic for all young people ensuring they leave education able to contribute to the global creative economy. Creative Approaches to Improving Participation examines ways in which young people have been given a creative voice in the classroom and have actively participated in their own learning transforming classrooms curricula assessment structures and teaching practices. Promoting reflection on current ‘student-teacher-school’ relationships the contributions within this book illustrate how the active engagement of students can lead to greater motivation self-reliance and risk-taking skills essential for a successful post-school career. Through an exploration of students’ current inclusion in school life this book provides: a study of key issues and debates surrounding student participation ideas for increasing student participation and ‘personalised learning' case studies from a range of creative learning projects with analysis of their achievements guidance on the creation of active pedagogies practical suggestions for reflective practice. A practical accessible guide to creatively increasing students’ participation this book is valuable reading for all practising and trainee teachers school managers and school leaders working with young people in education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415576215

Creative Approaches to Physical EducationHelping Children to Achieve their True Potential Creative Approaches to Physical Education provides guidance on how to develop innovative new approaches to the delivery of each area of the National Curriculum for PE at Key Stages 2 and 3. The ideas have all been successfully developed in schools where every child has been encouraged to find success and to express themselves in new ways that surprise and delight teachers. Pupils feel ownership of their learning and pride in their achievements fostering interest creativity and motivation. Ideal for non-specialist and specialist PE teachers and trainee teachers alike this book: explores the PE curriculum in a much wider sense than traditional approaches allow covers the key areas of physical education such as games dance and gymnastics inspires us to look afresh at how we can exploit the learning potential of the outdoors shows how children use skills to express themselves creatively gives innovative suggestions for the use of ICT in PE teaching to encourage independent personalised leaning examines how physical education can be linked with other subjects in a creative way. Childhood obesity is a growing concern and there are worries that young people have few purposeful leisure interests. This book offers teachers and all those who work with young people alternative approaches and activities that allow young people to express their creative side through physical activity and discover active healthy interests that will last a lifetime. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138134799

Creative Approaches to Planning and Local DevelopmentInsights from Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe This book project highlights creative approaches to planning and local development. The dynamic complexity diversity and fluidity which characterize contemporary society represent challenges for planning and development endeavours. While research and policy work has extensively focused on large cities and on metropolitan regions there has been relatively little work on ‘smaller places’. This book shows that if these new challenges affect all places and regions small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs) are suffering many specific problems that call imperatively for the design and implementation of very imaginative creative approaches to planning and local development. What could enhance creativity in local development and planning? Is it possible to talk about creative capacity building at the level of a town that might release imaginative and innovative activities? Under what local and non-local conditions is creativity being initiated and flourishing? What are the major obstacles and in what way can these be contained in order to safeguard pockets of creative action? Interdisciplinary and with case studies from France Norway and other European countries this volume presents a wide range of approaches and territorial contexts of small cities and towns in which spatial dynamics and the consequences of the city-region for urban planning theory and practice in Europe are highlighted with a special focus on the challenges for - and understanding of - planning and development of SMSTs. It provides a significant body of critical comparative and contextual perspectives on the quest for urban sustainability and resilience in SMSTs therefore emphasizing collaborative and potentially innovative approaches that can be detected but also the shortcomings pitfalls and 'traps' that can lie behind the approaches aimed at concerting ecological economic and socio-cultural concerns and the discourses promoting them. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138588745

Creative Approaches to Poetry for the Primary Framework for Literacy "Creative Approaches to Poetry for the Primary Framework for Literacy supports teachers in planning teaching and most importantly enjoying poetry with their pupils. With an emphasis on creative cross curricular approaches the authors explore tried and tested methods of teaching poetry in an engaging and comprehensive manner. A carefully considered range of poems has been included in order to expand children's repertoires in a variety of poetic forms. Chapters cover: • how to develop a range of creative approaches to teaching poetry involving visualisation drama choral speaking performance discussion and writing • how to engage children from a variety of backgrounds and abilities in experiencing poetry in its many forms • integrating the teaching of poetry with all other areas of the curriculum including ICT and citizenship • effectively linking all work to the KS1 poetry units of the renewed Primary National Framework for Literacy • an innovative model that takes children on a journey beginning before they meet the poem through to becoming poets themselves. This accessible and user-friendly book includes informative case studies photographs and children's work to demonstrate alternative routes to working with poetry. It will prove an invaluable resource for all primary teachers seeking to employ progressive and effective strategies in the teaching of poetry." Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138472136

Creative Approaches to Teaching GrammarDeveloping your students as writers and readers Creative Approaches to Teaching Grammar is an easily accessible practical guide full of ideas to support teachers in making the learning of grammar a natural part of developing their students as writers and as readers. Written for those teaching years 5 6 7 and 8 the authors’ approach concentrates on the individual needs of students rather than of a year group as a whole. Split into two main sections the first looks at creative ways of exploring grammar and includes more than forty ideas that can be implemented into the classroom. This section can be used as a quick resource or the whole sequence can be followed to ensure students are investigating exploring and having fun with grammar. The second section includes an extensive glossary of terms to develop a full understanding of grammar which can be used to audit your own competences and highlight areas for further development.　 Creative ideas explored include: Being silly with grammar Favourite words Exploding sentences Writing for real audiences New punctuation marks and emoticons Sorting out confusing words Broadening active vocabulary Top ten spelling tips Flexing your vocabulary brain Redundancy in language Creative Approaches to Teaching Grammar is a truly practical guide that is a must read for anyone teaching grammar to years 5 6 7 and 8. With plenty of ideas to implement into the classroom it encourages students to take ownership of their own learning and progress. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138819290

Creative Approaches to Teaching Primary RE As an increasingly significant  aspect of primary teaching Creative Approaches to Teaching Primary RE is the essential companion to help bring creativity to life in the classroom. The text begins with a discussion of creative education and the value of Religious Education moving on to reflect on the cross-curricular nature of the subject exploring ways of introducing creativity to the classroom through the medium of Religious Education. Each chapter provides ideas and activities demonstrating how pedagogy and theory can be applied in practice within a school setting. The inclusion of case studies will help you consider how to develop creative approaches in all curriculum areas. This book invites you to ask questions such as:·        What is Creative Education?·        Why should RE be included in the ever-changing curriculum?·        How can I use Religious Education to generate a more creative environment in the classroom? Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138137998

Creative Arts and Play Therapy for Attachment Problems This book vividly shows how creative arts and play therapy can help children recover from experiences of disrupted or insecure attachment. Leading practitioners explore the impact of early relationship difficulties on children's emotions and behavior. Rich case material brings to life a range of therapeutic approaches that utilize art music movement drama creative writing and play. The volume covers ways to address attachment issues with individuals of different ages as well as their caregivers. Chapters clearly explain the various techniques and present applications for specific populations including complex trauma survivors. Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462523702

Creative Arts Marketing Creative Arts Marketing third edition is a long-awaited update of a classic and influential text. A ground-breaking book when first published it covers the core concepts of marketing and management as they apply to the arts and heritage industries with a depth that is still unrivalled. With an emphasis on global case studies practical examples and discussion questions and an author team that draws from rich and varied experiences in the arts management sector the book serves as a text for students as much as it is a practitioner's guide to industry best practice. Extensively revised to reflect the dramatic changes to this industry this edition integrates organizational and management subject matter reflecting the marketing function’s deeper involvement in broad organizational issues. This fully updated and revised third edition features: Audience diversity and audience development The impact of digital technologies on the industry An exploration of the increasingly complex relationship between public and private funding for the arts Ethics and sustainability issues for arts marketers Cultural policy changes in the industry Including a brand new companion website complete with materials for tutors and students for the first time the return of this important text will be welcomed by students tutors and professionals in the arts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138213760

Creative Arts With Older People With this insightful and intelligent book professionals can help institutionalized older adults express themselves creatively. One of only a few books on expressive arts for older people this unique new volume is ideal for professionals who provide art activities for residents in adult homes and retirement communities.Creative experience can facilitate the expression of ideas and feelings increase sensory stimulation improve self-esteem and improve social relationships. Creative Arts With Older People provides time-tested suggestions to stimulate the creative process among older adults resulting in numerous physical psychological and social benefits. The author an artist and a social worker describes dozens of activities that have proven effective in her many years of working with older people--painting movement poetry sculpting puppetry dramatic expression and more. She explains the goals and advantages of each activity includes a list of materials needed and details the step-by-step process for conducting each activity.Creative Arts With Older People is a practical and valuable book for activity directors in adult homes and adult health care units and workers in adult day care centers adult psychiatric facilities and senior centers. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315864112

Creative Arts-Based Group Therapy with AdolescentsTheory and Practice Creative Arts-Based Group Therapy with Adolescents provides principles for effective use of different arts-based approaches in adolescent group therapy grounding these principles in neuroscience and group process practice-based evidence. It includes chapters covering each of the main creative arts therapy modalities—art therapy bibliotherapy dance/movement therapy drama therapy music therapy and poetry/expressive writing therapy—written by respected contributors who are expert in the application of these modalities in the context of groups. These methods are uniquely effective for engaging adolescents and addressing many of the developmental familial and societal problems that they face. The text offers theory and guiding principle while also providing a comprehensive resource for group therapists of diverse disciplines who wish to incorporate creative arts-based methods into their practice with teens. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138572546

Creative Ballet TeachingTechnique and Artistry for the 21st Century Ballet Dancer How do teachers create a classroom environment that promotes collaborative and inquiry-based approaches to learning ballet? How do teachers impart the stylistic qualities of ballet while also supporting each dancer’s artistic instincts and development of a personal style? How does ballet technique education develop the versatility and creativity needed in the contemporary dance environment? Creative Ballet Teaching draws on the fields of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (L/BMA) dance pedagogy and somatic education to explore these questions. Sample lesson plans class exercises movement explorations and journal writing activities specifically designed for teachers bring these ideas into the studio and classroom. A complementary online manual Creative Ballet Learning provides students with tools for technical and artistic development self-assessment and reflection. Offering a practical exciting approach Creative Ballet Teaching is a must-read for those teaching and learning ballet. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138669710

Creative CampaigningPacs And The Presidential Selection Process This book provides a detailed analysis of the role of political action committees (PACs) in the presidential selection process and describes how candidates succeeded in their quest by using precandidacy PACs as shadow campaign organizations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367154523

Creative Career CoachingTheory into Practice Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is an innovative book for career development students and professionals aiming to creatively progress their coaching practice. Without losing sight of fundamental coaching values and practices it encourages career development professionals to adapt their practice by harnessing imagination intuition and critical reflection to engage clients. Hambly and Bomford consider the usefulness of creativity alongside traditional coaching models to reach "harder to help" groups. They consider a whole-brain approach to creativity emphasising the need for coaches to adapt their client-facing skills for individual cases. They work through how clients make career decisions how to use labour market information to motivate clients how to frame a creative coaching session using techniques such as metaphor visualisation and role play how to use practical tools and techniques to resolve a client’s individual needs and how to deliver on digital platforms. Combining the latest neuroscientific research with activities summaries and case studies  this book provides a practical skills-based approach to coaching. Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is the first book to summarise the Creative Career Coaching Model. It will be an indispensable resource for students of career development career coaching coaching psychology and advice and guidance courses. It will also be of interest to career coaches in practice seeking to enhance their skills. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138543591

Creative Character Design 2e Create compelling original characters using archetypes and design elements such as shadows and line with the tips and techniques found in this image-packed book. Bryan Tillman bridges the gap between the technique of drawing characters and the theory of good character design by using case studies examples of professional art and literary and pop culture references to teach you how to develop a character not just draw one. The book also features Character Model Sheets that will guide you through the creation of new and unique characters. Finally Bryan will break down established character archetypes to show you why and how the different aspects of good character design work. 　 Key Features: 　 Learn what makes a character unique and powerful through tools like character model sheets and case studies from established artists. Develop your abolity to use story and archetypes to create compelling new characters. See artwork by professional artists as examples of the techniques shown in the book Bridges the gap between the technique of drawing characters and the theory of good character design in a practical hands-on way - learn how to use story and archetypes to develop compelling new characters Based on a standing-room only presentation at Comic-Con 2009 in San Diego. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780815365396

Creative Cluster DevelopmentGovernance Place-Making and Entrepreneurship In recent decades the importance of creative cluster development has gained increasing recognition from national and regional governments. Governments have been investing in initiatives and urban development plans that aim to create or support localized creative industries. Our understanding of creative clusters is expanded with this insightful volume which looks at issues of governance place-making and entrepreneurship. In addition to its theoretical contributions the book also presents a rich range of international case studies including among others an analysis of coworking spaces in Toronto business park development in MediaCityUK and mediapark.brussels and public–private partnerships in Warsaw. Creative Cluster Development will be valuable reading for advanced students researchers and policymakers in urban planning regional studies economic geography innovation studies and the creative and cultural industries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367332747

Creative Crafts in Education Originally published in 1952 this title looks at how various creative crafts were taught in school and whether this had the ability to eventually transform our social environment. The author looks at craft education first in the primary years and then in adolescence she goes on to examine specific crafts in more detail. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138394513

Creative Dance and Movement in Groupwork This invaluable resource for teachers and therapists continues to explore the link between movement and emotions presented in the first edition of this innovative book. It provides 180 practical activities with a clear rationale for the use of creative dance and movement to enrich therapy or educational programmes. This book features session plans divided into warm-ups introductions to themes development of themes and warm-downs and explores many areas including developmental movement processes non-verbal communication and expression communication. In addition to thoroughly updating the content of the original edition this timely sourcebook includes new material on creative dance and dance movement psychotherapy added references throughout and updated resources to reflect the most current knowledge. Creative Dance and Movement in Groupwork will be an invaluable asset for group leaders wishing to enhance their practice as well as a starting point for those wishing to learn more about the field. It provides guidance and practical information that is suitable for working with clients of all ages and for those with a professional or practical interest in the educational health recreational or psychotherapeutic use of the arts this book may act as one of many guiding lights on your journey. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138605374

Creative DemobilisationPart 1 First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415868570

Creative Development in the Early Years Foundation Stage The Practical Guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage series will assist practitioners in the smooth and successful implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage. Each book gives clear and detailed explanations of each aspect of Learning and Development and encourages readers to consider each area within its broadest context to expand and develop their own knowledge and good practice. Practical ideas and activities for all age groups are offered along with a wealth of expertise of how elements from the practice guidance can be implemented within all early years settings. The books include suggestions for the innovative use of everyday ressources popular books and stories. The clear and practical information in this book will help practitioners in supporting and developing the natural curiosity of children helping them explore and express their own ideas through a variety of activities including music art and dance. The author explores the balance between the necessary freedoms of choice that creativity requires and the control which thoughtful practitioners must exert and offers ideas for building children's imaginations through play.   Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203609507

Creative DialogueTalk for Thinking in the Classroom Creative Dialogue is an essential guide to dialogic learning for every trainee and practising teacher. It presents practical ways of teaching children to be more thoughtful and creative and to learn more effectively through speaking and listening in school and at home. The book includes: practical ways to develop dialogic learning across the curriculum a guide to developing talk for thinking in the classroom more than 100 activities for stimulating talk with children of all ages and abilities advice on using dialogue to support assessment for learning ideas for developing listening skills and concentration. Written by a leading expert in teaching thinking Creative Dialogue is essential reading for all who wish to understand and develop dialogic learning in education today. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315881287

Creative Direction in a Digital WorldA Guide to Being a Modern Creative Director Creative Direction in a Digital World provides designers the tools they need to craft compelling digital experiences across screens devices and platforms.Readers will learn how to take a multi-disciplinary human-centered approach to digital creative direction that will help them uncover target audience insights concept more creative campaigns change consumer behavior and create more user friendly digital experiences.　 Divided into ten chapters. Each focuses on a different key aspect of the creative director's job from start to finish. Learn how to understand the client's biggest challenges and distill insights about the audience into creative strategies. Develop the skills needed to communicate your ideas to a skeptical client.　 Learn how to more effectively manage your creative team. And most importantly craft digital experiences that get results. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138847514

Creative DocumentaryTheory and Practice What does it mean to be a documentary filmmaker in today's world? How are new technologies changing documentary filmmaking? What new forms of documentary are emerging? Recent technological developments have made the making and distribution of documentary films easier and more widespread than ever before. Creative Documentary: Theory and Practice is an innovative and essential guide that comprehensively embraces these changing contexts and provides you with the ideas methods and critical understanding to support successful documentary making. It helps the aspiring 'total filmmaker' understand the contemporary contexts for production equipping you also with the understanding of creativity and visual storytelling you'll need to excel. Bridging the gap between theory and practice it outlines the contemporary institutional practical and financial contexts for production - always encouraging innovation and originality. Key features: Five sections covering creativity and creative documentary and the contemporary creative industries: strategies for developing documentary ideas; the art of documentary narrative; digital production methods; new documentary forms; distribution and financing. Provides a comprehensive overview of critical thought and techniques in digital documentary filmmaking. Authors and specialist contributors combine the experience knowledge and skills of academics and media professionals working in the industry. Practical case studies support analysis and reflection. Exercises checklists interviews with professionals and further reading materials accompany each chapter. A historical overview of world documentary. Creative Documentary: Theory and Practice is an essential guide for those engaged in the study and practice of documentary theory and making as well as key reading for those more broadly interested in video film and media theory and production. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781405874229

Creative Drama Groupwork for People with Learning Difficulties The revised second edition of this practical manual is filled with easy-to-follow exercises and activities designed to facilitate creative drama sessions for people with learning difficulties. The activities in this book bring together music theatre movement and storytelling to not only develop fun and engaging group sessions but to build confidence increase self-esteem and develop social and emotional awareness in group members. Highly sensitive to the range of learning needs and physical abilities of group members the activities have been created to be engaging for a broad range of individuals regardless of age and ability and can be adapted for use in a multitude of sectors such as education psychology and speech and language therapy. Key features of this edition include: • New chapters exploring mindfulness and the importance of reflection • Fully photocopiable resources including a session notes template to evaluate the impact of the creative drama group and collect useful data for the writing of reports • Activities organised around key elements of creative drama such as sensory work life skills role-play improvisation and de-roling With its wealth of guidance practical and adaptable activities and easy-to- follow structure this is an invaluable resource for anybody leading or supporting children young people and adults in creative drama. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138596948

Creative Drama in Groupwork This bestselling book is now updated with new material and more tried-and-tested ideas bringing it up-to-date with contemporary drama. 150 ideas for drama in one practical manual makes this a veritable treasure trove which will inspire everyone to run drama sessions creatively enjoyably and effectively. This book features advice on setting up a group defining and negotiating aims and objectives and how to ensure a successful session. It contains activities which encourage memory interaction concentration feedback and many other skills. It also includes games warm-ups and starters improvisation role-play visual dynamics and closures. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315172958

Creative EcologiesWhere Thinking Is a Proper Job The main question of our age is how we live our lives. As we struggle with this question we face others. How do we handle ideas and knowledge both our own and those of others? What relationship to ideas do we want? Whose ideas do we want to be surrounded by? Where do we want to think? Most choose or have the choice made for them according to what family colleagues and friends do and say and what we read about and a more or less rational calculation of the odds.Modern ecology results from the shift in thinking generated by quantum physics and systems theory from the old view based on reductionism mechanics and fixed quantities to a new view based on holistic systems where qualities are contingent on the observer and on each other. This perception changes how people treat ideas and facts certainties and uncertainties and affects both art and science. Worldwide it is part of the process of understanding the current crisis in the environment and the balance of economy creativity and control required in our response.The book's starting point is the growing role that information has played in industrial economies since the 1800s and especially in the last thirty years. It is an attempt to identify ecology of thinking and learning. It is also based on the need to escape from old industrial ways and become more attuned to how people actually borrow develop and share ideas. Throughout the book Howkins asks questions and offers signposts. He gives no guarantee that creative ecologies will be sustainable but shows what should be aimed for. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521452

Creative Economies Creative CommunitiesRethinking Place Policy and Practice Investigating how people and places are connected into the creative economy this volume takes a holistic view of the intersections between community policy and practice and how they are co-constituted. The role of the creative economy and broader cultural policy within community development is problematised and in a significant addition to work in this area the concept of ’place’ forms a key cross cutting theme. It brings together case studies from the European Union across urban rural and coastal areas along with examples from the developing world to explore tensions in universal and regionally-specific issues. Empirically-based and theoretically-informed this collection is of particular interest to academics postgraduates policy makers and practitioners within geography urban and regional studies cultural policy and the cultural/creative industries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138547315

Creative Economies in Post-Industrial CitiesManufacturing a (Different) Scene There has been much written on the new creative economy but most work focuses on the so-called 'creative class ' with lifestyle preferences that favor trendy new restaurants mountain biking and late night clubbing. This 'creative class ' flagship cultural destinations and other forms of commodity-driven cultural production now occupy a relatively uncritical place in the revitalization schemes of most cities up and down the urban hierarchy. In contrast this book focuses on small- to medium-size post-industrial cities in the US Canada and Europe that are trying to redress the effects of deindustrialization and economic decline through cultural economic regeneration. It examines how culture-infused economic opportunities are being incorporated into planning in distinct ways largely under the radar in many working class communities and considers to what extent places rooted in an industrial past are able to envisage a different economic future for themselves. It questions whether these visions replicate strategies employed in larger cities or put forth plans that better suit the unique histories and challenges of places that remain outside the global limelight. Exploring the intersection between a cultural and sustainable economy raises issues that are central to how urban regeneration is approached and neighborhood needs and assets are understood. Case studies in this book examine spaces and planning processes that hold the possibility of addressing inequality by forging new economic and social relationships and by embarking on more inclusive and collaborative experiments in culture-based economic development. These examples often focus on building upon the assets of existing residents and broadly define creativity and talent. They also acknowledge both the economic and non-monetary value of cultural practices. This book maintains a critical edge incorporating left critiques of mainstream creative economy theories and practices into empirical case studies that depart from standard cultural economy discourse. Structural barriers and unequal distributions of power make the search for viable urban development alternatives especially difficult for smaller post-industrial cities and risk derailing even creative grassroots initiatives. While acknowledging these obstacles this book moves beyond critique and focuses on how the growing economy surrounding culture the arts and ecological design can be harnessed and transformed to best benefit such cities and improve the quality of life for its residents. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138277083

Creative Engagement in Palliative CareNew Perspectives on User Involvement This book offers an extensive range of ideas and practical developing service users' creativity including songmaking drama dance creative writing music video and visual arts. It promotes innovation and encourages a fresh and enthusiastic approach to care that will appeal to anyone with a love of creative arts as a means of expression. The wide-ranging approach encompasses many different voices from patients artists and healthcare professionals. "Creative Engagement in Palliative Care" is highly recommended for all palliative health and social care professionals and volunteers including occupational therapists and art and music therapists. It is a wonderful resource for health and social care educators teachers and trainers and will be a immense source of inspiration for patients and their families.'This book is about user involvement. It is concerned with sharing knowledge and experience about user involvement in palliative care and making it more real for the future. In modern times the importance of 'end of life care' was highlighted by the pioneers of the voluntary hospice movement. They emphasised the importance of palliative care being based on an holistic approach that took account of all aspects of people's lives and deaths; medical social spiritual and material. More recently the work of the independent hospice movement has been complemented by the development and expansion of specialist palliative care in state provision. The aim has been to enable people to be able to 'do it their way' with a real sense of control and to be able to communicate their unique words voices and experience. This is and will always be a key potential of user involvement.' - Suzy Croft and Peter Beresford in the Preface. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315380049

Creative Engagements with Ecologies of PlaceGeopoetics Deep Mapping and Slow Residencies This book explores an exciting range of creative engagements with ecologies of place using geopoetics deep mapping and slow residency to propose broadly based collaborations in a form of ‘disciplinary agnosticism’. Providing a radical alternative to current notions of interdisciplinarity this book demonstrates the breadth of new creative approaches and attitudes that now challenge assumptions of the solitary genius and a culture of ‘possessive individualism’. Drawing upon a multiplicity of perspectives the book builds on a variety of differing creative approaches contrasting ways in which both visual art and the concept of the artist are shifting through engagement with ecologies of place. Through examples of specific established practices in the UK Australia and the USA and other emergent practices from across the world it provides the reader with a rich illustration of the ways in which ensemble creative undertakings are reactivating art’s relationship with place and transforming the role of the artist. This book will be of interest to artists art educators environmental activists cultural geographers place-based philosophers and postgraduate students and to all those concerned with the revival of place through creative work in the twenty-first century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367545758

Creative English Creative CurriculumNew Perspectives for Key Stage 2 Combining theory with practical examples Creative English Creative Curriculum will stimulate students and teachers to be adventurous and creative in their teaching while covering the mains strands of the Primary National Strategy for English: narrative non-fiction and poetry. This book: reflects the new emphases on speaking and listening contextualises recent changes to the English curriculum reviewing models of best practice provides practical examples and research evidence of creative approaches to the teaching of English considers the cross-curricular aspects in creating a thematic approach to teaching and learning. This book will appeal to both students and practising teachers in the primary school who either wish to implement creative approaches to their English teaching or are undertaking extended study for a Masters Degree.  Media > Books > E-books David Fulton Publishers 9781315824215

Creative Games in Groupwork Presented in a format that immediately allows you to see what materials are needed how much preparation is required and how each game is played this book presents practical resource material in an accessible format. Ideas include introduction mixing exercises games using gentle movement exuberant games puzzles brain teasers verbal games pen paper games and more. It includes a special outdoor selection and advice on how to make your group successful. It is ideal for scout and church leaders as well as occupational therapists activity organisers and social workers. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315172927

Creative GovernanceOpportunities for Fisheries in Europe Published in 1999 Creative Governance sets out to develop new ideas on the development of Fisheries in Europe. The scholarly and political attention for fisheries in general within Europe is predominantly focused on problems of controlling catch. In this book it is not the problems of harvesting which are taken as the starting point but opportunities in fisheries as a whole: catch processing market and consumption of fish and fish products. The discussion is broadened to include the management of fisheries from the perspective of governance rather than management or policy. Governance is a new and important concept currently being developed in several areas of social science in this book the governance concept is related to the creation of new opportunities of fisheries in Europe. The combination of these two approaches is not only important for fisheries (in Europe) but also to the governance of natural resources more generally where the shift from a problem to an opportunity and from a management or a governance approach might shed new light and stimulate new actions. The book is the product of close cooperation between scholars from biological geographical political science management studies and anthropological backgrounds. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138613492

Creative graduate pathways within and beyond the creative industries Examining pathways from creative education to work and preparation for these pathways within higher education programs in the light of long standing labour debates this book explores the creative launch experiences destinations and contributions of graduates emerging into an enormously diverse and heterogeneous creative workforce. Coming from university degree programs that tend to focus on the development of specialist creative disciplinary skills graduates emerge into the diverse workforce with fairly narrow career identities. With contributions ranging from quantitative analyses of large longitudinal data sets to in-depth qualitative cases the book aims to provide a range of studies that speak to the complexity found in creative careers. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education and Work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367075750

Creative Historical Thinking Creative Historical Thinking offers innovative approaches to thinking and writing about history. Author Michael J. Douma makes the case that history should be recognized as a subject intimately related to individual experience and positions its practice as an inherently creative endeavor. Douma describes the nature of creativity in historical thought illustrates his points with case studies and examples. He asserts history’s position as a collective and community-building exercise and argues for the importance of metaphor and other creative tools in communicating about history with people who may view the past in fundamentally different ways. A practical guide and an inspiring affirmation of the personal and communal value of history Creative Historical Thinking has much to offer to both current and aspiring historians.　　 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138048850

Creative ICT Promoting pupils' creativity when they use ICT this book also encourages learning across core as well as foundation subjects. It includes: flexible activities for pupils to refer to as they work through the activities; helpful examples of work so pupils know what to aim for; additional support sheets that can be used by the pupil of the teacher; departure points for integrated studies; extension activities that will encourage further creativity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138414549

Creative ImageryDiscoveries and inventions in Visualization Bringing together the results of experiments on discovery and invention in visualization conducted by the author over a three year period this book reports new findings on the generation of creative inventions and concepts using mental imagery and proposes a reconceptualization of the creative process.  Creative Imagery introduces the concept of “preinventive forms” and describes an approach to creative invention differing from those typically used in problem-solving studies. There are two unique features of this book. First it combines the experimental methods of cognitive science with the opportunity to explore and discover creative inventions in imagination. Second it provides readers with numerous opportunities to use the creative imagery techniques to develop their own inventions and conceptual discoveries.  This text is of particular interest to scientists working in the fields of experimental psychology cognitive psychology and cognitive science. The techniques for generating creative inventions will also be of interest to people working in engineering architectural design and the visual arts. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138990456

Creative ImaginationSTUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LITERATURE First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138875227

Creative Industries and Developing CountriesVoice Choice and Economic Growth Pushing the frontiers of the new development paradigm this book guides debates clarifies new themes and illustrates how the cultural resources of the developing world can become a new way of integrating into the global economy - helping to raise the voices of developing countries widening the range of creative choices and promoting cultural diversity and economic and human development. Mixing theory country case-studies and policy analysis this volume argues that developing countries can use their creative assets and energies as a source of economic growth - if they can better position themselves in the global economy turning on its head the polarized debate about commerce and culture to take a fresh look at some traditional activities whose intrinsic cultural value has for too long hidden their economic worth. It includes essays from economists lawyers and industry experts on global trade trends; digital-technology; film in West Africa; audio visuals in India; the music industry in Brazil and the Caribbean; the copyright industry in Arab countries and policy lessons from developed countries - including sources of finance subsidies and the role of incubators and intermediaries. Fresh and incisive this policy lead book on one of the world’s fastest growing sectors is an invaluable resource for to economists and policy-makers alike as well as those with an interest in industrial organization development policy evolutionary economics and the creative industries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415512466

Creative Industries and Innovation in EuropeConcepts Measures and Comparative Case Studies In recent years the study of creativity has shifted from analysis of culture as an end in itself to one of economic enhancement and its capability to generate wealth and promote economic development. Increasingly European cities and regions are using the arts to fuel wellbeing and reinvigorate economies after the comparative demise of more traditional industry and manufacturing. A growing literature is starting to highlight the innovation capacity of cultural and creative industries (CCIs) as they intersect the innovation processes of other manufacturing and services sectors with an innovative and creative output. Culture and creativity may be a strategic weapon to exit the present crisis and redefine an economic model of sustainable development. This book brings together a set of multidisciplinary contributions to investigate the kaleidoscope of European creativity focussing on CCIs and the innovations connected with them. The two main questions that this volume aims to address are: How can we identify map and define CCIs in Europe? And how do they contribute to innovation and sustainable growth? The volume is split into two parts. The first part deals with the definition measurement and mapping of the geography of European CCIs according to a local economic approach focussing on Italy Spain the UK Austria Denmark and France. This section surveys the different industrial typologies and spatial patterns which underline a significant dissimilarity between the North and the South of Europe mainly due to the difference between heritage-driven and technology-driven countries. The section concludes with a case study on a Japanese creative city. The second part collects some interesting cases of innovation generated in creative spaces such as cities of art or creative clusters and networks. This entails the study of innovations among creative and non-creative sectors (e.g. laser technologies in conservation of works of art and design networks in Italy) and across European and non-European countries (e.g. Spaghetti Western movies in the US or visual artists in New Zealand). Finally an innovation capacity of culture that can regenerate mature sectors (e.g. the French food supply chain and Swiss watch Valley) or combine the creative and green economics paradigms (e.g. the green creative cities in North Europe) is analyzed. This book will appeal to academics scholars and practitioners of urban and regional studies cultural and creative economics and managerial and organization studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138792197

Creative Industries and Urban DevelopmentCreative Cities in the 21st Century The concept of creative industries has developed considerable academic and policy momentum in the 21st century. There has been a connection identified between the rise of creative industries and the urbanisation of the world’s population particularly in relation to the significance of cities as sites of cultural production and consumption. Much of the work on creative industries and cities however has drawn upon 'imagined geographies' about the relationship between creativity and place. This collection draws together contributions that critically appraise recent urban cultural policy discourses as well as reflecting on the role of culture and creative industries in the future development of cities. This book is based on a special issue of The Information Society: An International Journal. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138841772

Creative Interventions in Grief and Loss TherapyWhen the Music Stops a Dream Dies Get the tools to help the grief that comes when a dream diesEvery person at one time or another suffers when his or her dreams are shattered. Creative Interventions in Grief and Loss Therapy: When the Music Stops a Dream Dies provides truly innovative approaches to therapeutically help individuals work through and survive grief and loss. Leading experts explore creative interventions for common yet emotionally devastating problems faced by those weathering the storms of grief after their dream has been destroyed. Therapists and counselors get the effective tools to creatively help people through the difficulties of dealing with death addiction trauma changes in life circumstances divorce heartbreak miscarriage co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder (COD) suicide adoption and issues with children.The chapters in this innovative volume cite existing research on specific grief and loss issues and illustrate a clinical application for each situation using various creative mediums such as music writing or ritual. Each approach can be expanded and modified with care by clinicians of all types to better help clients through the process. This resource is extensively referenced.Topics in Creative Interventions in Grief and Loss Therapy include: how storytelling journaling and correspondence can be used to process the experience of a counselor’s loss following the death of their client using psychodrama and the utilization of empty chair techniques to address addiction related grief and loss the use of rituals as an intervention to help clients trauma and loss during times of natural disasters the process of gatekeeping by counselor educators Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) as an approach to help student athletes deal with life after the sport a literary exercise to help clients work toward forgiveness after divorce using books songs and projects to assist clients experiencing grief after the death of their adolescent child creative strategies to aid clients through the grief and loss of love effective interventions to assist clients through loss from miscarriage using music videography visual arts literature drama play and altar-making in the grief process innovative interventions for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder suicide high risk factors—and a Pre-suicide Preparation Plan that mental health practitioners can implement creative intervention for the client who is adopted using super heroes and science fiction therapeutic storytelling for children in grief Creative Interventions in Grief and Loss Therapy: When the Music Stops a Dream Dies is a creative reaffirming resource perfect for mental health professionals therapists counselors social workers educators and students. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203837009

Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children A trusted bestselling resource this volume demonstrates a range of creative approaches for facilitating children's emotional reparation and recovery from trauma. Experts in play art music movement and drama therapy as well as bibliotherapy describe step-by-step strategies for working with children families and groups. Rich with case material and artwork the book is both practical and user-friendly. Specific types of stressful experiences include parental loss child abuse family violence bullying and mass trauma. Important developments in neurobiology self-regulation and resilience and posttraumatic growth are highlighted in this substantial revision.New to This Edition: Chapters on art therapy and EMDR body maps and dissociation sandtray play resiliency-based movement therapy work with clay mindfulness and stress reduction with music therapy. Updated and expanded discussions of trauma-informed therapy and the neurobiological basis for creative interventions. The chapter on mass violence has been extensively rewritten with new case material on the Sandy Hook school shooting. Media > Books > Print Books Guilford Press 9781462518166

Creative InvolvementA New Direction in China's Diplomacy With the enhancement of national strength China’s diplomacy has leapt onto a new high ground basically obtaining the status of a world power. Meanwhile it has also received a large amount of right and wrong mixed criticism and suggestions from different sides in the face of a sudden increase in opportunities pressures and conflicts. The "creative involvement" in this book is exactly proposed for the future of China’s diplomacy. In this book the author first defines the concept "creative involvement". Different from diplomatic theories in the traditional senses creative involvement is a kind of diplomatic thinking which encourages more active participation in international affairs and advocates creative solutions. Then the author makes case studies on some events and people which have been of typical significance in China’s diplomatic practices since the end of the Cold War expounding their innovations and limitations. In the third part the author turns to various supportive propositions ideas and theories concerning creative involvement and explains how they are applied to China’s future diplomatic practice. Lastly the author tries to set a number of scenarios discussing the possible entry points for creative involvement. Combining innovative theoretical idea with practical investigation this book will not only contribute to contemporary China diplomatic studies but also appeal to scholars and students of international relations studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367528560

Creative InvolvementThe Evolution of China's Global Role This book continues the "creative involvement" proposition put forward in Creative Involvement: A New Direction in China's Diplomacy with new cases and stories to enrich its content. It discusses China's global role and explores its root cause of formation development stages and future direction. The main conclusion is that this role is preliminary and incomplete and needs continuous learning and improvement; China standing on the global high ground needs not only hard power but also wisdom and creativity. On research methods and writing approach firstly this book follows the philosophy of "practice first" namely starting from historical experiences focusing on practical issues and exploring objectives and clues through case studies. Secondly the three parts in the book have different sub-themes but they are subject to the same thinking that is how does China advance toward a central role from the marginal edge of contemporary international system how to develop doctrines or practices for China’s involvement in world affairs and how to borrow the experiences of others to help China move forward on the global high ground. Combing innovative theoretical idea with practical investigation this book will not only contribute to contemporary China Diplomatic studies but also appeal to scholars and students of International Relation studies. People who are interested in the rise of China and global governance will also benefit from this book. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367528584

Creative InvolvementThe Transition of China's Diplomacy With the enhancement of national power China’s relationship with the outside world is evolving from simple follow-up and passive adaptation to strong participation proactive engagement and active leadership. That will not only bring about major changes in contemporary international relations and global pattern but also cause profound transition in China’s own diplomacy.This is the third book in the Creative Involvement trilogy with China’s diplomatic transition as the theme. In the first part it studies the political premises of the transition elaborating on the diplomatic policies in Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping era respectively. Also it elucidates the essence of China’s social transition and the social foundation of China’s diplomacy. In the second part this book examines the major issues of China’s diplomatic transition in terms of orientations layout objectives and investment. It believes that the creative involvement of China’s diplomacy into world affairs requires not only social transition adapting to the times but also retrospections on and improvement of China’s diplomatic mechanisms. This book will appeal to scholars and students in international relations studies especially those in East Asia and "Belt and Road" countries. Readers interested in global governance China’s diplomacy and the rise of China will also benefit from it. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367591083

Creative LabourMedia Work in Three Cultural Industries What is it like to work in the media? Are media jobs more ‘creative’ than those in other sectors? To answer these questions this book explores the creative industries using a combination of original research and a synthesis of existing studies. Through its close analysis of key issues - such as tensions between commerce and creativity the conditions and experiences of workers alienation autonomy self-realisation emotional and affective labour self-exploitation and how possible it might be to produce ‘good work’ - Creative Labour makes a major contribution to our understanding of the media of work and of social and cultural change. In addition the book undertakes an extensive exploration of the creative industries spanning numerous sectors including television music and journalism. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible account of life in the creative industries in the 21st century. It is a major piece of research and a valuable study aid for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of subjects including business and management studies sociology of work sociology of culture and media and communications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415677738

Creative Leadership Mining the Gold in Your Work Force "Migs Damiani has come up with a winner. Here is a book you can open to almost any page and get useful information. You can spend a few minutes reading a chapter and get some profound thinking and solid advice. Creative Leadership gives specific clear-cut directions not just for those who are in leadership positions but those who want to be more do more and have more. He ties it all together in an interesting and informative way and hits major points with bullet-like precision effectively using "nuggets" of information that you can use in your personal family and business life." Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138463639

Creative LeadershipContexts and Prospects There has never been a better time to study practice and experience creative leadership. In the fluid and turbulent economic and social environments of the 21st century creative leadership has become a cardinal force in the creation and evolution of adaptive organizations. In the last two decades organizational science has witnessed a rapid increase in the number of studies on the nature skills and processes of creative leadership. The resulting accumulated body of knowledge has remained for many years dispersed and fragmented across multiple strands of organizational research. This volume seeks to foster the cross-fertilization of scientific knowledge and insight by bringing together authoritative contributions from leading scholars whose work is located in different strands of creative leadership research. Creative Leadership: Contexts and Prospects builds upon a recently introduced multi-context framework that integrates metatheoretically three conceptualizations of creative leadership found in the extant literature: Facilitating employee creativity; Directing the materialization of a leader’s creative vision; and Integrating heterogeneous creative contributions. These three conceptualizations reflect essential differences in the enactment of creative leadership across various collaborative contexts of creative work and they underlie the intellectual efforts of different research strands.The collection of chapters in Creative Leadership: Contexts and Prospects offers the latest thinking on creative leadership in facilitative directive and integrative contexts and a stimulating set of ideas for crafting the next generation of nuanced theories and empirical studies in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367733636

Creative Learning for InclusionCreative approaches to meet special needs in the classroom Introducing creativity to the classroom is a concern for teachers governments and future employers around the world and there has been a drive to make experiences at school more exciting relevant challenging and dynamic for all young people ensuring they leave education able to contribute to the global creative economy. Creative Learning to Meet Special Needs shows teachers how to use creativity in the curriculum for key stages 2 and 3 to support the learning of pupils with special educational needs in a way which effectively engages them and leaves a lasting impact on their school experiences and later lives. Describing the different ways in which a creative approach can help pupils with SEN access the curriculum with activities and practical materials for teachers this book will explain: why creativity is central to making the curriculum accessible how to use personalised learning with pupils with SEN how to promote achievements and motivation through creative experiences how the curriculum can be extended and represented in innovative ways for pupils with SEN how to use interactive methods of teaching and alternative methods of communication. Providing case studies and examples of the ways in which teachers have delivered the curriculum creatively to pupils with special educational needs this book is an invaluable guide for all those involved in teaching and engaging young people with special needs. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415570817

Creative Learning in Digital and Virtual EnvironmentsOpportunities and Challenges of Technology-Enabled Learning and Creativity Originally published as a special issue of the Creativity Research Journal this volume gives a balanced and reflective account of the challenges and opportunities of technology-enabled creative learning in contemporary societies. Providing a current and updated account of the challenges posed by the Coronavirus to online education chapters more broadly offer conceptual reflections and empirically informed insights into the impact of technology on individual and collective creativity and learning. These thoughts are explored in relation to school achievement the development of digital educational resources online collaboration and virtual working. Further the book also considers how the creative use of technology poses risks to learning through the accidental or deliberate dissemination of misinformation and online manipulation of common societal values in the era of COVID-19. Creative Learning in Digital and Virtual Environments looks at the connection between creativity learning and school achievement and analyses the impact of virtual environments on creative expression. It will appeal to postgraduate students in the fields of creativity and learning as well as to students and academics involved with broader research in areas such as the role of technology in education e-Learning and distance education. 　 Vlad P. Glăveanu is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology and Counselling at Webster University Geneva Switzerland as well as Associate Professor II at the University of Bergen Norway. Ingunn Johanne Ness is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology University of Bergen Norway. Constance de Saint Laurent is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bologna Italy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367556754

Creative Learning in Higher EducationInternational Perspectives and Approaches This book provides higher education faculty and administrators a scholarly resource on the most salient aspects and emerging trends in creative learning in higher education today. International contributors explore ways to foster creativity in any student regardless of academic discipline or demographic characteristics and demonstrate that creativity is a skill all students can and should learn. Chapters analyzes how different countries and cultures implement creative learning exploring issues of instruction assessment and ultimately how these practices are transforming learning. This important book helps higher education professionals understand and cultivate creative learning across disciplines in any college and university setting. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138962361

Creative Learning in the Early YearsNurturing the Characteristics of Creativity Taking a fresh look at the role of creativity within the early years this accessible guide explores what is meant by creativity and considers how creative skills behaviours and thinking can be identified and fostered in the individual child. Underpinned by the latest research and policy chapters illustrate how creative attitudes can be adopted in all subject areas and opportunities for creativity maximised. Creative Learning in the Early Years acknowledges the power of creative processes in helping children reach their full potential in the early years and beyond. Photocopiable work tools enable the reader to plan observe assess and record progress as they develop playful and creative approaches whilst practical advice and demonstrable examples are easily integrated into existing practice. Topics addressed include: recognising and encouraging creative tendencies stimulating the child’s imagination developing adult creativity and self-awareness creating enabling environments and creative spaces using documentation and planning to inspire creativity. An exciting and accessible guide which encourages exploration experimentation reflection and development Creative Learning in the Early Years will support current and future early years practitioners as they discover the rich opportunities opened by creative practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138635401

Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic ProcessSensibility Engagement and Envisioning Contemporary psychoanalytic thinking about the interdependence of subjectivity and intersubjectivity has reenvisioned the analytic process and with it the very nature of creative and engaged psychoanalytic listening. Yet few systematic writings on psychoanalytic listening or technique provide comprehensive instruction that would prepare the analyst for the kind of analytic listening needed to participate imaginatively in this sort of intersubjective experience.Offering a short course in analytic listening Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process provides a guide for the clinical uses of imaginative literature. Outside the psychoanalytic literature extraordinary pieces of imaginative literature exist that provide the kind of experience in analytic listening that can guide clinicians in their work with patients. Certain works of fiction create textured sensory worlds in which complex characters possessing shifting states of consciousness live within fluid emotional atmospheres. In this book Fred Griffin demonstrates that by entering the worlds that original writers create in their texts the psychoanalytic therapist will learn to attend more closely to varying emotional states that generate nuanced multidimensional views of the analysand’s internal and relational worlds. He illustrates how these works capture more fully the sensory experience encountered by psychoanalysts when taking in what the patient communicates within the analytic space. Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process presents case material alongside selected passages from works of fiction written by a range of creative writers each of which stimulates analytic sensibility about this clinical experience. A conceptual framework is provided that makes these and other original works of fiction more accessible for these purposes. This book will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as professors and graduate students studying psychoanalysis and literature. It will also appeal to literary scholars and those teaching and practicing in the field of narrative medicine. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138890459

Creative MarginalityInnovation At The Intersections Of Social Sciences This book analyzes two processes: scientific specialization brings about the fragmentation of disciplines into narrow subfields; and as specialization reaches its natural limits innovative scholars will seek to recombine these fragments into hybrid fields. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367164539

Creative Mastery in Hypnosis and HypnoanalysisA Festschrift for Erika Fromm The scope of Erika Fromm's profound contributions to the clinical and research literature in hypnosis and related areas is reflected in this volume which consists of chapters written by those who have worked closely with the noted psychologist and/or have been significantly influenced by her. The subject matter presented here ranges from detailed accounts and personal observations relating to Fromm's distinguished career to some very new and valuable data on the psychophysiological correlates of hypnosis the phenomenology of self-hypnosis and an integrative model for short-term therapy. Several extensions of clinical technique for the treatment of trauma and severe psychopathology are also discussed. Professional therapists with an interest in personal growth self-awareness and creative mastery whether or not they already have an interest in hypnosis will derive significant benefits from this book. Readers who have previously eschewed hypnosis may find that this volume stimulates an interest that enriches their clinical practice and/or research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138966925

Creative Methods in Schema TherapyAdvances and Innovation in Clinical Practice Creative Methods in Schema Therapy captures current trends and developments in Schema Therapy in rich clinical detail with a vividness that inspires and equips the reader to integrate these new ways of working directly into their practice. It begins with creative adaptations to assessment and formulation including the integration of body methods to promote engagement and to bring about early emotional change. Other chapters introduce innovative methods to lift a formulation off the page and it goes on to bring to life new developments across all aspects of the ST change repertoire including limited reparenting imagery trauma processing chair work the therapy relationship empathic confrontation and endings. For the specialist there are chapters on working with forensic modes eating disorders and couples work. Finally the book includes chapters on the integration of key principles and techniques from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Emotion Focused Therapy and Compassionate Mind work into a core schema model. The book will appeal not only to full-fledged schema therapists but also to junior therapists and therapists from other modalities who are willing to enhance their ways of working. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815398820

Creative MilieuxHow Urban Design Nurtures Creative Clusters The so-called ‘creative industries’ are increasingly being presented as an important tool of urban regeneration and economic development. Until now research on the clustering of such activities has been limited to economics geography and urban policy. This book is the first to gather together emerging research in urban design and spatial planning that explores what characteristics of the built form of cities support the distinctive activity patterns of various creative industries and how and why they cluster together at a range of local scales. The book offers detailed case studies and comparative analyses of creative city neighbourhoods on five continents. Contributions examine urban forms building types and other qualities of place that attract and retain creative workers and foster creative production outlining a range of methodologies for studying them. Taken altogether Creative Milieux offers new insights for urban design practice and for its role in wider urban policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Urban Design. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138106666

Creative Morality Creative Morality is a philosophical study of moral dilemmas. Western moral thought has relied on two basic ethical perspectives - Utilitarianism and Kantianism - to resolve dilemmas. MacNiven argues that no real progress can be made with modern moral problems unless these tradtions are coherently synthesised. The book deals with diverse topics such as academic honesty medical confidentiality terrorism and euthanasia and the hypothetical dilemmas used are based on real life situations so that theory might be tested against reality. Yet the solutions are not definitive because as MacNiven demonstrates creativity is an intrinsic characteristic of moral thought. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415754958

Creative Motion Graphic Titling for Film Video and the WebDynamic Motion Graphic Title Design Captivate your audience and enhance your storytelling with this tutorial based 4-color cookbook featuring dozens of solutions to your titling needs. Each chapter includes case studies and interviews with the pros lending cutting insight and lessons learned that will have you creating inspired title sequences in no time.The book features genre-based tutorial sections with step by step instructions for creating effective horror comedy drama and suspense titling sequences. Tutorials for creating some of the most popular title sequences in blockbuster movies are included (Se7en The Sopranos 24 The Matrix). Other tutorials teach you how to effectively use sound and VFX in your titles and also included is instruction on editing your title sequence. These techniques as well as chapters on the essentials of typography allow you to apply these lessons to your title sequence regardless of whether it's for TV the web or digital signage.Also included is a DVD with sample clips as well as project files that allow you to refine the techniques you learned in the book. As an added bonus we've included 3 titling chapters from other Focal books with specific instructions on titling within certain software applications.Cover images provided by MK12 from The Alphabet Conspiracy. Learn more at www.MK12.com Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138452916

Creative Music CompositionThe Young Composer's Voice Creative Music Composition is designed to be an introductory textbook for music students. "Creative composition"-composing in your own style rather than in the style of a composer of the past-is embraced by music educators not only for composition students but for beginning performers and music educators and is often offered to all music students and non-music majors who wish to enhance their musical creativity. With 25 years of experience teaching fledgling composers the author tackles the key ingredients that make for successful composition including: stimulus to the musical imagination; discussion of a variety of current musical languages; analysis of many examples from contemporary scores; technical exercises; suggestions as to how to start a composition; structures; and examinations of works from particular genres. Wilkins covers several musical languages from folk and popular to serialism; analyses various rhythmic forms; suggests approaches for composing for a variety of instruments from traditional to electronic ones as well as for the human voice; addresses the nuts and bolts of score preparation; and offers career advice. For all composition students-and for music students in general-Creative Music Composition offers a clear and concise introduction that will enable them to reach their personal goals. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203036204

Creative Music Making Most musicians focus on learning technique (learning how to play an instrument) rather than on developing an individual unique voice. Creative Music Making focuses on the creative development of musicians from all levels of experience and in all styles of music. Based on the author's experience leading workshops for performers around the world the easy-to-follow exercises in this text will enable any musician--from beginner to professional--to improve creativity and self-expression. Creative Music Making will open the ears of all musicians vocalists or instrumentalists in classical popular or jazz styles to a world of new possibilities. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315538754

Creative Nightscapes and Time-LapsesYour Complete Guide to Conceptualizing Planning and Creating Composite Nightscapes and Time-Lapses Creative Nightscapes and Time-Lapses is your all-in-one guide to making spectacular multi-image nightscapes and time-lapses. Covering everything from conceptualization and planning to post-processing this book features innovative cookbook-style "recipes" for each composite nightscape and time-lapse project. Beginning with a review of the key fundamentals of astronomy and photography author Mike Shaw covers the latest methods for planning your night shooting sessions and how to set up your gear to get the best constituent images. The book precisely details how to combine images into 12 different varieties of state-of-the-art nightscape trophies each impossible to capture in a single image before demonstrating how to create stunning level and ramp time-lapses that transition fluidly from day to night. Each nightscape and time-lapse project category includes specific tips for (i) acquiring the constituent images; (ii) assembling them into the composite image or time-lapse; (iii) overcoming common obstacles and (iv) finding the best subjects. Providing examples of how to apply these techniques in the field through four detailed case studies including one three-night immersive retreat this book is the comprehensive guide to creating creative nightscapes and time-lapses. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138745452

Creative ParticipationResponsibility-Taking in the Political World Creative Participation presents the theory and practice of new innovative forms of political participation. Examples covered in the book include consumers engaging in political shopping capitalists building green developments UK Muslim youth campaigning on the internet Sicilian housewives taking on the Mafia young evangelical ministers becoming concerned with social change and vegetarians making political statements. The authors show how in these new campaigns individuals swarm like honeybees around particular issues causing those in power to sit up and take notice. This is the essential guide to the new politics of participation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781594517198

Creative Photoshop CS4Digital Illustration and Art Techniques If you are a digital artist illustrator cartoonist graphic artist designer or serious hobbyist looking for new and interesting ways to use Photoshop this is the book for you! You already know how to use Photoshop as an image editing tool; now challenge yourself and discover the more artistic aspects of the program with one of the world's best teachers by your side. In addition to four brand new chapters on real world projects this new edition of award-winning digital artist Derek Lea's bestselling Creative Photoshop contains several brand new features such as "What you'll learn in this chapter summaries so you can quickly find projects using the specific tools you'd like to focus on and supplementary information at the end of each chapter containing useful resources and additional gallery images to provide further study and inspiration. Project files for each chapter are also available for download for you to work with as you work through the book. The files can be accessed by clicking on the eResources tab on https://www.routledge.com/products/9780240521343. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138401082

Creative PlacemakingResearch Theory and Practice This book makes a significant contribution to the history of placemaking presenting grassroots to top-down practices and socially engaged situated artistic practices and artsled spatial inquiry that go beyond instrumentalising the arts for development. The book brings together a range of scholars to critique and deconstruct the notion of creative placemaking presenting diverse case studies from researcher practitioner funder and policymaker perspectives from across the globe. It opens with the creators of the 2010 White Paper that named and defined creative placemaking Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa Nicodemus who offer a cortically reflexive narrative on the founding of the sector and its development. This book looks at vernacular creativity in place a topic continued through the book with its focus on the practitioner and community-placed projects. It closes with a consideration of aesthetics metrics and from the editors a consideration of the next ten years for the sector.If creative placemaking is to contribute to places-in-the-making and encourage citizenled agency new conceptual frameworks and practical methodologies are required. This book joins theorists and practitioners in dialogue advocating for transdisciplinary resilient processes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367586935

Creative Planning for Library AdministrationLeadership for the Future In the seven chapters of this book first published in 1991 the topics of planning and creativity as they apply to the management of academic libraries are discussed fully with specific examples and detailed guidelines. Topics such as involving all members of the library staff in decision making and encouraging creativity in an unstable work environment are explored as are new developments like performance measures. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367420840

Creative Planning of Special Library Facilities Through its discussions on planning using space and selecting equipment and furnishings this book first published in 1988 provides guidance for those who have little or no experience in designing a facility for a special library - one that serves a corporation government agency non-profit organization professional society or a special subject-oriented library located in an academic institution or public library. Its text is stimulating yet sound and will serve not only librarians planning new facilities but also those involved in remodelling or renovating existing facilities. The appendices contain descriptions and layouts of four typical libraries each showing the result of careful creative planning. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367363055

Creative Play and Drama with Adults at Risk This hands-on manual offers a clear introduction to play and drama work for professionals working with adults at risk. Many adults feel nervous about drama and think that play is childish. Sue Jennings shows that by participating in play and drama people can make a difference to how they feel about themselves and the world around them. This book is suitable for professionals working with adults who are vulnerable for a number of different reasons: those who have addictions such as eating disorders drug and alcohol abuse or a history of violent relationships; adults with mental ill health; individuals and families with behavioural difficulties; people in forensic settings; those with multiple disabilities; learning impaired adults; people with strokes and other physical impairment often as a result of accidental injury. Material is chosen sensitively to enable confidence and creativity building and the development of communication skills. Photocopiable worksheets offer the professional activities that will encourage trust and collaboration; foster independence and choice maximise people's learning potential and stimulate everyone's imagination and creativity. Ideas are given for improvisation and movement as well as masks and myths. Cross-cultural perspectives are discussed together with boundaries for clinical groups. The importance of the healing potential of artistic expression is addressed throughout. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315168548

Creative Play Therapy with Adolescents and AdultsMoving from Helping to Healing This practical user-friendly manual shows mental health professionals how to implement play therapy with adolescents and adults and how to conceptualize client struggles using a wealth of creative approaches. Creative Play Therapy with Adolescents and Adults follows an accessible seven-stage process for professionals to address clients’ core needs and establish an empathic therapeutic relationship. The book charts the stages of play therapy and explores a range of expressive arts including art drama dance writing and sand play and the key materials needed for each. It also considers additional aspects of play therapy including resistance spirituality and self-care. Filled with techniques skills and case studies to help demystify complex client work the book outlines an easy-to-follow treatment protocol for healing and resolution. This book will be of interest to a wide range of mental health professionals working with adults and adolescents as it encourages a more creative career and lasting tangible progress in clients. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138615298

Creative Play with Children at Risk This second edition is fully updated with the latest good practice in play. Based on an understanding of 'Neuro-Dramatic-Play' the book shows that play is an essential part of children's healthy development and many children 'at risk' are those who are unable to play. It includes work with children with learning difficulties as well as those with developmental delay. The book includes current thinking on neuroscience and illustrates the importance of mindfulness in our work with children. Topics include: creating the safe space understanding and working with fear understanding and working with anger and rage new stories and worksheets cross cultural understanding of play dressing-up and enactment masks and puppets The book is written for teachers parents and therapists and all those who seek to enhance the lives of children. 　 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781909301818

Creative Positions in Adult Mental HealthOutside In-Inside Out This book presents cutting edge developments in Adult Mental Health through the presentation of creative and innovative applications of systemic theory to practice. The first section deconstructs the medical model with some of the current beliefs and practices shaping services whilst placing adult mental health in a wider social and political context. The second half of the book showcases good practice from the field. At either end of the volume "bookends" invite current clients and staff to write about their experiences with the aim of bringing a powerful personal context into the work. We intend to create a shift from third person objectivity to a first person experience as a political act which flows through the book. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781780491929

Creative Practice and Socioeconomic Crisis in the CaribbeanA path to sustainable growth Although the world is saturated with extraordinary methods innovation and technology the Caribbean seems to have been left behind in the sustainable growth of global development. While the majority of the world defines the Caribbean as "paradise " the reality of life for Afro-Caribbean culture is defined by an unrelenting hardship. This book comprehensively analyzes this phenomenon from a unique and intimate perspective in order to offer a viable pathway to sustainable growth. By examining the historic progression of the Caribbean region and the African culture within the author explores the relationship between creative practice and socioeconomic crisis and questions whether limited access to environments that facilitate original and conceptual ideas correlates with socioeconomic crisis. The outcomes and methods of analysis developed in this book are a useful tool for other cultures or organizations seeking to diffuse socioeconomic crisis and implement a pathway of sustainable growth. This innovative book will be of great interest to students and scholars of cultural and sustainability studies Caribbean and African Studies as well as Development and Sustainable Development Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367145316

Creative Practices for Visual ArtistsTime Space Process Contrary to popular belief the practice of art isn’t just a product of innate talent or artistic vision; artwork emerges from an intentionally constructed and maintained artistic practice. Developed from interviews with more than 75 mid-career artists Creative Practices for Visual Artists examines the methods and approaches highly successful artists use to stay creatively robust for a lifetime. Offering practical strategies and concrete solutions it also looks at the impacts of digital and social media as well as recent changes in the educational system that can hinder the formation of a strong artistic practice. Artist and educator Kenneth Steinbach addresses key issues such as: the role of embodied research and non-objective experimentation; reframing one's approach to studio time; forms of productive conflict; the positive role of anxiety; and the importance of failure for the artist. The book will be useful to students and emerging artists the instructors that teach them and established artists looking to develop stronger studio habits. The companion website www.creativepracticesbook.com provides links to artists' websites and further information. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138299207

Creative Problem Solving for ManagersDeveloping Skills for Decision Making and Innovation Stimulating and developing the creative potential of all members of an organisation is widely seen as contributing to performance and results. This prestigious textbook provides a complete overview of the creative problem-solving process and its relevance to modern managers in the private and public sectors. It introduces ideas skills and models to help students understand how creative thinking can aid problem solving and how different techniques may help people who have different thinking and learning styles. This updated fifth edition includes fresh case studies exercises and suggested reading alongside extensive diagrams and thought-provoking questions. A new chapter considers the use of heuristics in decision-making situations faced by managers and examines how aspects of creative problem solving can relate to such situations. It also introduces a complex in-tray exercise which demonstrates how the conflicting demands on an individual manager can be considered in practice. Supporting PowerPoint slides for lecturers are available for each chapter. Creative Problem Solving for Managers will continue to be an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying problem solving strategic management creativity and innovation management as well as managers looking to develop their decision-making abilities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138312388

Creative PsychotherapyApplying the principles of neurobiology to play and expressive arts-based practice Creative Psychotherapy brings together the expertise of leading authors and clinicians from around the world to synthesise what we understand about how the brain develops the neurological impact of trauma and the development of play. The authors explain how to use this information to plan developmentally appropriate interventions and guide creative counselling across the lifespan. The book includes a theoretical rationale for various creative media associated with particular stages of neural development and examines how creative approaches can be used with all client groups suffering from trauma. Using case studies and exemplar intervention plans the book presents ways in which creative activities can be used sequentially to support healing and development in young children adolescents and adults. Creative Psychotherapy will be of interest to mental health professionals working with children adolescents and adults including play and arts therapists counsellors family therapists psychologists social workers psychiatrists and teachers. It will also be a valuable resource for clinically oriented postgraduate students and therapists who work with victims of interpersonal trauma. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138900929

Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works Thomas H. Ogden is the winner of the 2004 International Journal of Psychoanalysis Award for the Most Important Paper of the year and the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize â€“ an international award for "outstanding achievement as a psychoanalytic clinician teacher and theoretician". Thomas Ogden is internationally recognized as one of the most creative analytic thinkers writing today. In this book he brings his original analytic ideas to life by means of his own method of closely reading major analytic works. He reads watershed papers in a way that does not simply cast new and discerning light on the works he is discussing but introduces his own thinking regarding the ideas being discussed in the texts. Ogden offers expanded understandings of some of the most fundamental concepts constituting psychoanalytic theory and practice. He does so by finding in each of the articles he discusses much that the author knew but did not know that he or she knew. An example of this is how Freud in his conception of the unconscious workings of mourning and melancholia was providing the foundation of a theory of unconscious internal object relations. Ogden goes on to provide further re-readings of classic material from the following key contributors to contemporary psychoanalysis: W. R. D. Fairbairn Donald Winnicott Wilfred Bion Hans Loewald Harold Searles. 　 This book is not simply a book of readings it is a book about reading about how to read in a way that readers actively rewrite what they are reading and in so doing makes the ideas truly their own. The concepts that Ogden develops in his readings provide a significant step in the reader’s expansion of his or her understanding of many of the ideas that lie at the cutting edge of contemporary psychoanalysis. It will be of particular interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who use a psychodynamic approach as well as professionals and academics with an interest in contemporary psychoanalysis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415698337

Creative Regions in Europe Creative and cultural industries broadly defined are now considered by many policy makers across Europe at the heart of their national innovation and economic development agenda. Similarly many European cities and regions have adopted policies to support and develop these industries and their local support infrastructures. However this policy-making agenda implicitly incorporates (and indeed often conflates) elements of cultural and creative industries the creative class and so on which are typically employed without due consideration of context. Thus a better understanding is required. To this end this book features eight research papers split evenly with regard to geographical focus between the UK and continental Europe (the latter covering Spain Germany France Luxemburg and Belgium individually and in combination). There is also a similar division in terms of those focusing primarily on the policy level (the chapters of Clifton and Macaulay Mould and Comunian Pareja-Eastaway and Pradel i Miquel Perrin) and those of the individual creative actor (the chapters of Alfken et al Bennett et al Wedemeier and Brown). This book was previously published as a special issue of European Planning Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138392496

Creative RegionsTechnology Culture and Knowledge Entrepreneurship This unique book focuses on regional creativity analysing the different factors that can affect creativity and innovation process within regions in the knowledge economy. Approaching creativity from technological organizational and regional viewpoints it attempts to break down the influence of oppositional approaches and take account of multi-level interactions in economy and policy. The variety of papers presented looks at: how regions can be creative and competitive how research and development is outsourced and the scientific knowledge and technology transferred what types of technology based cultural activities can operate the relevant financing and development of knowledge entrepreneurship. Whilst many of these aspects are driven by market forces Creative Regions demonstrates that the regional and national public sectors have a significant role to play and is essential reading on how to generate a competitive advantage for regions in the knowledge economy in the global market. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415541145

Creative Repetition and IntersubjectivityContemporary Freudian Explorations of Trauma Memory and Clinical Process Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity looks at contemporary Freudian and post-Freudian theory through an intersubjective lens. Bruce Reis offers views on how psychoanalytic conceptions from the last century uniquely manifest in the consulting rooms of this century – how analytic technique has radically evolved through developing Freud’s original insights into dreaming and hallucinosis; and how the presentation of today’s analysands calls for analyst’s use of themselves in unprecedented new ways. Taking up bedrock analytic concepts such as the death instinct repetition trauma and the place of speech and of silence Reis brings a diversely inspired twenty-first century analytic sensibility to his reworking of these concepts and illustrates them clinically in a process-oriented approach. Here the unconscious intersubjective relation takes on transformative power resulting in the analyst’s experience of hybridized chimerical monsters creative seizures reveries and intuitions that inform clinical realities outside of verbal or conscious discourse -- where change occurs in analysis. Drawing on an unusually broad selection of major international influences Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists across the schools of thought. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367261207

Creative Representations of Place Cultural geography and the social sciences have seen a rise in the use of creative methods with which to understand and represent everyday life and place. Conversely many artists are producing work that centres on ideas of place and space and utilising empirical research methods that have a resonance with geographers. This book contributes to the body of literature emerging from such creative approaches to place. Drawing together theory and practice from cultural geography anthropology and graphic design this book proposes an interdisciplinary geo/graphic process for interrogating and re/presenting everyday life and place. A diverse set of research projects highlights participatory and autoethnographic approaches to the research. The sites of the projects are varied encompassing the commercial space of grocery shops cafés and restaurants the private domestic space of the home and a Scottish World Heritage site. The theoretical context of each project highlights the transferability of the geo/graphic process with place being variously framed within discussions of food multi-culturalism and belonging; home collecting and meaningful possessions; and materiality memory and affect.Themes in the book will appeal to researchers working in the creative methods field. This book will also be essential supplementary reading for postgraduate students studying Cultural Geography Experimental Geographies Visual Anthropology Art and Design. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367588786

Creative Research in Economics Researchers are expected to produce original findings yet nobody explains how original contributions are conceived in economics. Recently there have been calls for more creativity in economic research yet there is no literature that explores creative research apart from collections of biographical essays. This book aims to address that gap exploring the process of conceiving and generating ideas for interesting and original research contributions in economics (and potentially other social sciences too). Creative Research in Economics serves both a practical and theoretical purpose. Theoretically it presents a unique way of thinking about the nature of problems and questions in economics and the role of social science researchers in society. As such it offers an interesting way to think about the philosophy of science and methodology in economics and how new ideas emerge in the discipline. Practically it develops techniques for finding interesting and original research contributions (as opposed to conventional data-gathering research). Whether you are a graduate student looking for that first interesting question a novice researcher in search of fresh avenues for research after your PhD or a seasoned academic looking to teach the philosophy and methodology of economics in more interesting ways you will find this book of great use. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138325197

Creative Research in MusicInformed Practice Innovation and Transcendence Creative Research in Music explores what it means to be an artistic researcher in music in the twenty-first century. The book delineates the myriad processes that underpin successful artistic research in music providing best practice exemplars ranging from Western classical art to local indigenous traditions and from small to large-scale multi-media and cross-cultural work formats. Drawing on the richness of creative research work at key institutions in South-East Asia and Australian this book examines the social political historical and cultural driving forces that spur and inspire excellence in creative research to extend and to cross boundaries to sustain our music industry to advocate for the importance of music in our world and to make it clear that music matters. In the chapters our authors present the ideas of informed practice innovation and transcendence from diverse international perspectives. Each of these three themes has an introductory section where the theme is explored and the chapters in that section introduced. Taken as a whole the book discusses how the themes in combination with reference to the authorial group are able to transform music pedagogy and performance for our global and complex world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367231354

Creative Response Activities for Children on the SpectrumA Therapeutic and Educational Memoir Creative Response Activities for Children on the Spectrum is a clear comprehensive and intuitive guide that offers a wide selection of hands-on interventions to be used in any therapeutic or educational setting with children who are ‘on the spectrum’. From drawing and writing poetry to skiing and skateboarding this book describes these and many other creative activities geared towards children with autistic features attention deficits hyperactivity paediatric bipolar disorder and other related conditions. This new resource provides an innovative blend of theory and illustrative case examples designed to help therapists and educators assess children’s needs formulate therapeutic and aesthetic interventions and analyze creative outcomes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138686618

Creative Safety Solutions In today's rapidly changing workplace safety and loss prevention professionals cannot always "go by the book" for the answers to new and unique problems and issues. When there is no tried-and-true solution to a problem safety and loss prevention professionals must think outside of the box of conventional solutions and develop new and creative solutions. Creative Safety Solutions Second Edition stimulates creative thinking by identifying some of the new programs new ideas and new solutions being tried by other professionals in the field. By thinking outside of the box the book will help you create new ways to improve the workplace. New Chapters in the Second Edition: It Is Your Safety Program-Empowering Employees in Safety Safety and Health Vision and Values Safety and Health Profession Impact of Safety and Health on Your Organization Human Resources and Safety and Health Does Happy = Safe? Circular Safety Management Injecting Creativity into Training Activities Combating Risk with Innovation Eliminate Boring from Your Safety Programs Critical and Creative Thinking in Safety and Health Achievement Is Addictive Lost but Not Forgotten Appendix: Injury and Illness Prevention Programs In this book safety expert Thomas Schneid has assembled a number of creative solutions that have been tried and tested and have worked for many organizations. These are not all of the great ideas and solutions developed in the safety and loss prevention area—all of the ideas have not already been used. These ideas are only the tip of the iceberg and the author challenges you to find new and better ways of doing your job within the safety and loss prevention function. These creative solutions to safety and loss prevention problems can help spur you to think about your activities and job duties and find new and creative ways of advancing the safety and loss prevention field. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781482216547

Creative ScienceAchieving the WOW Factor with 5-11 Year Olds Through a refreshing blend of theory and practice this book provides stimulating material to develop creative approaches to science in the classroom. It includes: a range of teaching approaches that relate directly to the topic under discussion examples of pupils' work that portray how theory can be translated into practice quick off-the-shelf example model lesson plans which can be adapted. User-friendly and clearly laid out this book is a core text for primary teachers NQTs and students who want to inject some creativity into their teaching and put that "WOW" factor back into their science lessons. Media > Books > Print Books David Fulton Publishers 9781138148031

Creative Scripts For Hypnotherapy First published in 1994 this book provides a selection of time-tested hypnotherapy scripts which aim to ease a variety of problems such as in the workplace concerning pain relief psychometric disorders fears and phobias self-discovery memory retrieval habit disorders ego strengthening and sexual difficulties. The volume also intends to assist with such problems of childhood as enuresis learning disabilities fears  night terrors and asthma while also suggesting a variety of induction and self-hypnosis techniques. Hunter offers an insightful commentary alongside each script which exhibits state-of-the-art research as well as an expanded reference section and annotated bibliography. Its spacious format enables therapists to take notes as required and alter the script to meet the varying personal needs of their patients. Case histories and in-depth information as to how and when to use a particular script is also included. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138130647

Creative Sequencing Techniques for Music ProductionA Practical Guide to Pro Tools Logic Digital Performer and Cubase Creative Sequencing Techniques for Music Production shows readers how to get the most out of four of the leading audio sequencers – Apple’s Logic Pro Avid’s Pro Tools MOTU’s Digital Performer and Steinberg’s Cubase and is the book for readers looking to build their skills in composition orchestration and mixing using software tools. With a focus on essential tools now part of the everyday creative process in a digital production environment author Andrea Pejrolo also covers the most recent and cutting-edge techniques including swipe-comping time-stretching and pitch correction.   First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780240522166

Creative States of MindPsychoanalysis and the Artist’s Process What is it like to be an artist? Drawing on interviews with professional artists this book takes the reader inside the creative process. The author an artist and a psychotherapist uses psychoanalytic theory to shed light on fundamental questions such as the origin of new ideas and the artist’s state of mind while working. Based on interviews with 33 professional artists who reflect on their experiences of creating new works of art as well as her own artistic practice Patricia Townsend traces the trajectory of the creative process from the artist’s first inkling or ‘pre-sense’ through to the completion of a work and its release to the public. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory particularly the work of Donald Winnicott Marion Milner and Christopher Bollas the book presents the artist’s process as a series of interconnected and overlapping stages in which there is a movement between the artist’s inner world the outer world of shared ‘reality’ and the spaces in-between. Creative States of Mind: Psychoanalysis and the Artist’s Process fills an important gap in the psychoanalytic theory of art by offering an account of the full trajectory of the artist’s process based on the evidence of artists themselves. It will be useful to artists who want to understand more about their own processes to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in their clinical work and to anyone who studies the creative process. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367146160

Creative Storytelling with Children at Risk This second edition is fully updated and addresses ways in which we can apply stories and storytelling with children who are troubled. Stories can empower children to take action and ask for help including help with changes and life-plans. 　Stories provide a secure structure with endings and closure. The book develops the following topics: Stories for assessment Stories for understanding emotions Stories for exploring the senses Stories for managing loss Stories for ritual and drama There are new and revised stories in particular addressing trauma and abuse. This book is written for all those people with the welfare of children as their priority. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781909301825

Creative StorytellingBuilding Community/Changing Lives Jack Zipes has reinvigorated storytelling as a successful and engaging tool for teachers and professional storytellers. Encouraging storytellers librarians and schoolteachers to be active in this magical process Zipes proposes an interactive storytelling that creates and strengthens a sense of community for students teachers and parents while extolling storytelling as animation subversion and self-discovery. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315021980

Creative Systems in Structural and Construction Engineering An examination of creative systems in structural and construction engineering taken from conference proceedings. Topics covered range from construction methods safety and quality to seismic response of structural elements and soils and pavement analysis. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315140612

Creative Teachers in Primary Schools Is creative teaching still possible in English schools? Can teachers maintain and promote their own interests and beliefs as well as deliver a prescribed National Curriculum? Originally published in 1995 this book explores creative teachers’ attempts to pursue their brand of teaching despite the changes. Peter Woods has discovered a range of strategies and adaptations to this end among such teachers including resisting change which runs counter to their own values; appropriating the National Curriculum within their own ethos; enhancing their role through the use of others; and enriching their work through the National Curriculum to provide quality learning experiences. If all else fails such teachers remove themselves from the system and take their creativity elsewhere. A strong theme of self-determination runs through these experiences. While acknowledging hard realities the book is ultimately optimistic and a tribute to the dedication and inspiration of primary teachers. The book makes an important contribution to educational theory showing a range of responses to intensification as well as providing many detailed examples of collaborative research methods. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367345594

Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education This edited volume explores how selected researchers students and academics name and frame creative teaching and learning as constructed through the rationalities practices relationships events objects and systems that are brought to educational sites and developed by learning communities. The concept of creative learning questions the starting-points and opens up the outcomes of curriculum and this frames creative teaching not only as a process of learning but as an agent of change. Within the book the various creativities that are valued by different stakeholders teaching and studying in the higher music sector are delineated and processes and understandings of creative teaching are articulated both generally in higher music education and specifically through their application within the design of individual modules. This focus makes the text relevant to scholars researchers and practitioners across many fields of music including those working in musicology composition performance music education and music psychology. The book contributes new perspectives on our understanding of the role of creative teaching and learning and processes in creative teaching across the domain of music learning in higher music education sectors. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138504998

Creative Teaching: English in the Early Years and Primary Classroom Presenting a range of exciting activities that support the development of creative English lessons within the existing structures of the Foundation Curriculum and the National Curriculum this book: is packed full of interactive and creative teaching strategies provides guidance on assessing creative work highlights opportunities for creative literacy activities across the curriculum covers ages 3-11. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138420526

Creative Teaching: History in the Primary Classroom Designed specifically for teachers with little subject knowledge or experience in history this book provides trainees with the confidence they need to teach primary history. Based on Curriculum 2000 the book provides valuable step-by-step guidance on how to create plan develop organize and assess high-quality teaching activities in primary history. This book: is full of teaching approaches practical ideas teaching activities real-life case studies and vignettes of good teaching practice; covers both conventional and modern approaches - such as drama role-play story telling music and dance; and explains how each approach can be adapted to suit all primary ages and abilities. Children with a range of learning needs and styles respond with enthusiasm to a wide variety of teaching approaches - and this book provides trainee teachers with that repertoire and variety. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138169456

Creative Teaching: Mathematics in the Primary Classroom This stimulating text shows how primary mathematics can be creative exciting and enjoyable. Offering teachers a dynamic and different perspective it enables them to see and teach in creative ways that will develop their pupil’s mathematical thinking potential. Creative Teaching: Mathematics in the Primary Classroom encourages students trainees and practicing teachers to envision and develop a classroom where children can take risks enjoy and experiment with mathematical thinking and discover and pursue their interests and talents in an imaginative yet purposeful way. This second edition contains key updates to reflect the changes to the primary curriculum and includes: new sections on: specialist teaching parental engagement and approaches to homework; creative classroom environments; working walls displays and outdoor settings; links to assessment speaking listening and learning theory; use of media film news and stories for creative learning; cross-curricula work. Featuring reflective tasks in every chapter this book will prove essential and inspiring reading for all trainee and practising teachers looking to develop their creative practice. Aimed at primary and early years trainee teachers NQTs and experienced teachers this is a timely publication for teachers and schools seeking to broaden their maths curriculum making it more creative and appealing to young minds. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415713863

Creative Teaching: Science in the Early Years and Primary Classroom Practical useful and informative this book provides ideas and suggestions on how to interpret and develop the primary science curriculum in an interesting and challenging way. Bringing together creative thinking and principles that still meet National Curriculum requirements the themes in the book encourage teachers to: teach science with creative curiosity value the unpredictable and unplanned thrive on a multiplicity of creative approaches viewpoints and conditions be creative with cross-curricular and ICT opportunities reflect on their own practice. For teachers new and old this book will make teaching and learning science fun by putting creativity and enjoyment firmly back onto the primary agenda. Media > Books > Print Books David Fulton Publishers 9781138151857

Creative TeachingAn Approach to the Achievement of Educational Objectives In their highly successful practical guide Developing a Curriculum Howard and Audrey Nicholls provided a basic guide to curriculum planning for both practising and prospective teachers. In this second volume originally published in 1975 some of the ideas outlined there at an elementary level are developed with the aim of encouraging and guiding the development of ‘custom built’ curricula. Grasping the fundamental ideas and concepts of curriculum development is one problem for teachers translating them into practice is another and this book will go a long way to solving both problems. The development of justifiable and purposeful curricula for the particular pupils he is teaching is a primary task for any teacher as is the modification of these curricula as circumstances and ideas change and the teacher forms his assessment of pupils’ needs and progress. The theoretical background to be taken into account when arriving at general curricular decisions is considered throughout and groups aids organisation records and assessment are all treated as essential items for the curriculum planner. Nor is the final problem which the theorists often neglect forgotten namely that of implementing modifications or innovations once the curriculum has been created. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815369035

Creative Themes for Groupwork and Personal Development Based around thirty themes this practical resource provides flexible and adaptable ideas for groupwork sessions. The themes in this book: can be adapted and developed to match the exact needs and interests of the participants; aim to generate and inspire group facilitators to think broadly and creatively and to feel confident in using the culture and history of their geographical area to enrich the work they do with participants; enable participants to explore develop and reflect upon their hidden unidentified or unacknowledged strengths transferable skills and knowledge; have a variety of alternative or additional ideas and many are accompanied by worksheets; and include colour television soaps touch mirrors maps weather and many more. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315171685

Creative Therapy in Challenging SituationsUnusual Interventions to Help Clients Creative Therapy in Challenging Situations introduces readers to the innovative approaches that therapists sometimes take when standardized paint-by-numbers routines don’t work. Each chapter presents the story of one or more difficult psychotherapy situations followed by the therapists’ descriptions of what they did and why as well as the outcome that resulted. The authors and their stories span a wide variety of theoretical approaches and contexts showing how clinicians can improvise beyond everyday scenarios and techniques. This collection of provocative instructive vignettes from well-known practitioners often generates “You said what?!” reactions while encouraging readers to think creatively in the moment in order to reach healthy innovative outcomes from the trickiest and most unexpected therapeutic scenarios. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367138103

Creative Thinking and Brainstorming Brainstorming is probably the best known of all the techniques available for creative problem solving. This book by one of the worlds foremost exponents of brainstorming begins by identifying the barriers to creative thinking and showing how they can be removed. It goes on to set out systematic procedures for organizing effective brainstorming sessions for evaluating the ideas produced and for introducing the brainstorming approach into an organization. This is a highly practical book illustrated throughout by examples drawn from the author's experience with nearly eight hundred groups of managers in four continents. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138433625

Creative Thinking And Problem Solving A practical new book for scientists engineers project leaders and others working in the technical fields. The book adds depth "how-to" and success to your creative thinking and problem solving.This book will allow you to sharpen your creative edge giving you better problem solving skills. Whether you are a scientist working on breakthrough research an engineer on the forefront of product development or a project manager forging teams to reach and exceed goals this new book gives you the fundamentals and advanced techniques of creative thinking to break new ground and reach higher levels of excellence. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315892108

Creative TruthStart & Build a Profitable Design Business Creative Truth is your playbook for starting building and enjoying a profitable design business. Whether you’re a solo freelancer working from home or a small group of creative entrepreneurs ready to get to the next level this is your roadmap to success. You’re the CEO CFO CTO Secretary Janitor Office Manager and everything in between. Finding a balance between running the business and doing great creative work is a constant struggle. From learning how to price your work and manage your time to setting up your business and defining your market Brad Weaver covers everything designers need to know to run a studio without losing heart. Highlights: • Real numbers real tools and best practices in a toolkit that you can start using immediately in your business. • A companion website that offers up-to-date resources articles tools and discussions allowing readers to continue learning as they grow. • Practical tips for getting clients being more profitable building your network managing your operations getting things done hiring help managing contractors and finding joy along the way. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138844896

Creative Ways to Learn EthicsAn Experiential Training Manual for Helping Professionals Creative Ways to Learn Ethics is an accessible easy-to-read guide that compiles a variety of ethics trainings to help professionals stimulate their minds relieve stress and increase engagement and memory retention. The book uses a range of experiential and thought-provoking approaches including contemplative exercises expressive arts games and media. Each chapter contains objectives detailed procedures adaptations for different audiences and handouts. Trainers educators clinicians and other mental health professionals can use these exercises in various settings and modify them to meet the needs of their clients. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138587977

Creative Web Design with Adobe Muse You’ve found your Muse; now learn how to create with it Creative Web Design with Adobe Muse is a step-by-step guide to creating fully-featured websites using Adobe Muse. Adobe Muse can be a complicated program and web design itself is no easy task although your clients might think so. This book takes you from the initial design and layout stage right up to helping you publish your beautifully designed and richly developed site. Each chapter covers a different section of the website and in turn introduces the tools and features of the program accompanied by useful tips and tricks that help you speed up your workflow. Follow along as a website is created from concept to execution and rich content such as slideshows galleries and social media are incorporated. See how each aspect of a website is created with Muse; watch as it’s published; and visit the final version after learning how it was made. If seeing a website created start to finish wasn’t enough this book also features: Tips on how to incorporate Photoshop into Muse A companion website that was created with Muse where you can get up-to-the-minute coverage on Muse and other tutorials to help you design the perfect website Through this perfect blend of instruction and inspiration you’ll be up and running with Adobe Muse in no time. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415811798

Creative Women of Korea: The Fifteenth Through the Twentieth CenturiesThe Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries This book introduces important contributions in the humanities by a select group of traditional and modern Korean women from the 15th through the 20th centuries. The literary and artistic works of these women are considered Korean classics and the featured artists and writers range from a queen to a courtesan to a Buddhist nun to unknown women of Korea. Although women's works were generally meant only to circulate among women these creative expressions have caught the attention of literary and artistic connoisseurs. By bringing them to light the book seeks to demonstrate how Korean women have tried to give their lives meaning over the ages through their very diverse yet common artistic responses to the details and drama of everyday life in Confucian Korea. The stories of these women and their work give us glimpses of their personal views on culture aesthetics history society politics morality and more. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315705378

Creative Workflow in LightroomThe photographer’s guide to managing developing and sharing your work Adobe’s Lightroom has emerged as a must-have software due to its powerful editing tools and time saving organizational capabilities but how you establish a personalized creative workflow that optimizes this technology your time and your art eludes most photographers. Jason Bradley award-winning photographer and Lightroom pro shares the answers to these questions in this practical and easy to follow guide that taps into the "how" and the "why" of a professional photographer’s creative workflow in Lightroom. Bradley will show you how all workflows can be simplified into three steps: establishing managing and rendering the file alongside stunning photographs and explanations from his own experiences. This book will not only teach you how to work within Lightroom but ultimately how to make Lightroom work for you. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415745024

Creative Working in the Knowledge Economy There is a growing interest in the knowledge economy and the new types of job and ways of working associated with it. This book analyses how a particular group – creative knowledge workers – carry out their jobs and learn within it. Using empirical research from advertising and software development in Europe Singapore and Japan it develops a new conceptual framework to analyse the complexities of creative knowledge work. Focussing uniquely on the human element of working in the knowledge economy it explores the real world of how people work in this emerging phenomenon and examines relationships between knowledge and creative dimensions to provide new frameworks for learning and working. It offers critical insights into how these workers apply their creative knowledge work capacities towards the production of innovative products and services as well as using their creative abilities and knowledge to fashion both digital and tangible goods in the knowledge economy. Adding significantly to the on-going debate around knowledge work and creativity this comprehensive examination will be of interest to researchers and educators in organisational learning management and HRM and to anyone involved in devising ways to develop and support workers in lifelong and flexible creative work practices. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138211391

Creative WritingA Workbook with Readings Creative Writing is a complete writing course that will jump-start your writing and guide you through your first steps towards publication. Suitable for use by students tutors writers’ groups or writers working alone this book offers: a practical and inspiring section on the creative process showing you how to stimulate your creativity and use your memory and experience in inventive ways in-depth coverage of the most popular forms of writing in extended sections on fiction poetry and life writing including biography and autobiography giving you practice in all three forms so that you might discover and develop your particular strengths a sensible up-to-date guide to going public to help you to edit your work to a professional standard and to identify and approach suitable publishers a distinctive collection of exciting exercises spread throughout the workbook to spark your imagination and increase your technical flexibility and control a substantial array of illuminating readings bringing together extracts from contemporary and classic writings in order to demonstrate a range of techniques that you can use or adapt in your own work. Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings presents a unique opportunity to benefit from the advice and experience of a team of published authors who have also taught successful writing courses at a wide range of institutions helping large numbers of new writers to develop their talents as well as their abilities to evaluate and polish their work to professional standards. These institutions include Lancaster University and the University of East Anglia renowned as consistent producers of published writers. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315811932

Creatively LeanHow to Get Out of Your Own Way and Drive Innovation Throughout Your Organization You know your organization needs creativity. Your improvement program is effective but you’re not making the real breakthroughs you were anticipating. Your employees struggle to create innovative change while you struggle with how to help them. Your lean advisors talk about a "different way of thinking " but how do you get there? In this unique and uplifting book Bella Englebach shows how the principles and tools of Creative Problem Solving drive deep and creative thinking when used with lean problem-solving approaches. In this book you will learn how you can encourage creative thinking how to support the creative thinking of your peers and employees and how to help everyone in your organization develop high-value insights to advance strategy. Amid a lean deployment Beth a mid-level manager is shocked to find that she has been assigned not one but two coaches. Linda is her lean thinking coach Carlo a coach in Creative Problem Solving. As Beth faces serious business challenges Linda and Carlo guide her to think deeply and creatively to solve problems and to become a strong lean thinking leader. You will follow her journey and see how Creative Problem Solving tools enhance lean thinking at every step. Creatively Lean is your roadmap to going beyond as a lean thinker and leader. Creatively Lean is more than a business novel. Appendices provide insight into the history of Creative Problem Solving tools for divergent and convergent thinking and tips on how to use Creative Problem Solving with A3 thinking. Use the book club questions to spur group discussion or for self-study. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9780367262105

Creativity Creativity whether lauded as the oil of the 21st century touted as a driver of international policy or mobilised by activities has been very much part of the zeitgeist of the last few decades. Offering the first accessible but conceptually sophisticated account of the critical geographies of creativity this title provides an entry point to the diverse ways in which creativity is conceptualized as a practice promise force concept and rhetoric. It proffers these critical geographies as the means to engage with the relations and tensions between a range of forms of arts and cultural production the cultural economy and vernacular mundane and everyday creative practices. Exploring a series of sites Creativity examines theoretical and conceptual questions around the social economic cultural political and pedagogic imperatives of the geographies of creativity using these geographies as a lens to cohere broader interdisciplinary debates. Central concepts cutting-edge research and methodological debates are made accessible with the use of inset boxes that present key ideas case studies and research. The text draws together interdisciplinary perspectives on creativity enabling scholars and students within and without Geography to understand and engage with the critical geographies of creativity their breadth and potential. The volume will prove essential reading for undergraduate and post-graduate students of creativity cultural geography the creative economy cultural industries and heritage. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138813441

Creativity Imagination LogicMeditations for the Eleventh Hour Originally published in 1973. This final collection of thought by founder of the New School for Social Research in New York Horace M. Kallen touches on topics from language to death and from freedom to value. The author’s treatise explores his understanding of logic and existence. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367420482

Creativity Innovation and EntrepreneurshipThe Only Way to Renew Your Organization People with ideas are dreamers. People who get things done are doers. One doer is worth eight dreamers. There are three kinds of people who make up an innovator. There are inventors (people who have new and unique ideas) problem solvers (people who have ideas about how to correct a previous error) and entrepreneurs (people who transform ideas into realities). Put them altogether they spell "innovator." Most innovative books today focus on ways to create new and unique ideas; some of them also address problem-solving but this is less than 10% of the methodologies that the innovator needs to master. The approaches used in this book transform an idea into reality or to put it another way deliver innovative products to make a profit for the organization and instill pride in its employees. This means that every step in the process needs to have innovation applied to it in order to meet the expectations and demands of today's sophisticated customer. This book is designed to help the reader and their organization complete the complex process of bringing a new product to market by presenting what is expected at each step in the cycle and providing step-by-step instructions on what to do at each specific step. In large to mid-sized organizations this book is designed to help each individual understand how they fit into the innovative cycle and explains why they should be more creative related to the work they do and more conscious of the contributions they can make. It emphasizes the importance of every individual contributing to the organization's innovative process. The book is designed to help the organization understand its Innovation Systems Cycle. In the early part of the cycle it focuses on weeding out projects that do not have the potential to produce value-added results to the stakeholders. By using the guidelines outlined in this book an organization can reduce its new project failure rate by as much as 50% which should result in almost doubling the organization’s new product output thereby increasing profits by as much as 15%. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781466582453

Creativity Innovation and the Cultural Economy This collection brings together international experts from different continents to examine creativity and innovation in the cultural economy. In doing so the collection provides a unique contemporary resource for researchers and advanced students. As a whole the collection addresses creativity and innovation in a broad organizational field of knowledge relationships and transactions. In considering key issues and debates from across this developing arena of the global knowledge economy the collection pursues an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses Management Geography Economics Sociology and Cultural Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415694506

Creativity Religion and Youth Cultures This book explores the rich intersection between faith religion and performing arts in culture-based youth groups. The co-constitutive identity-building work of music performance and drama for Samoan and Sudanese youth in church contexts has given rise to new considerations of diversity cultural identity and the religious practices and rituals that inform them. For these young people their culture-specific churches provide a safe if "imagined community" (Anderson 2006) in which they can express these emerging identities which move beyond simple framings like "multicultural" to explicitly include faith practices. These identities emerge in combination with popular cultural art forms like hip hop R-&-B and gospel music traditions and performance influences drawn from American British and European popular cultural forms (including fashion reality television social media gaming and online video-sharing). The book also examines the ways in which diasporic experiences are reshaping these cultural and gendered identities and locations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367348083

Creativity Spirituality and Mental HealthExploring Connections This book emphasizes the integral connections between imagination creativity and spirituality and their role in healing. First the author highlights the work of a neglected yet important psychoanalyst Marion Milner - a painter and undeclared mystic - expanding her work on creativity mysticism and mental health. Second she explores imagination and creativity as expressed in fostering hope and in spiritually-oriented therapies particularly for mood anxiety and eating disorders - offering practical application of studies in imagination and the arts. Raab Mayo concludes that both creativity and the potential for transcendence are inherent in the human psyche and can work as allies in the process of recovery from mental illness. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138251885

Creativity Technology and LearningTheory for Classroom Practice Creativity Technology and Learning provides a comprehensive introduction to theories and research on creativity in education and in particular to the role of digital-learning technologies in enabling creativity across classroom learning environments. Topical coverage includes play constructionism multimodal learning and project-/problem-based learning. Creativity is uniquely positioned throughout the book as an integral component of the educational process and also as a foundational aspect of self-actualization thriving communities and humane societies.Through in-depth empirically based discussions of the philosophical curricular and pedagogical elements of creativity Sullivan demonstrates how creativity can be fostered across the curriculum through the use of digital-learning technologies in design personal expression and problem-solving activities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138788831

Creativity Across DomainsFaces of the Muse Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse sorts through the sometimes-confusing theoretical diversity that domain specificity has spawned. It also brings together writers who have studied creative thinkers in different areas such as the various arts sciences and communication/leadership. Each contributor explains what is known about the cognitive processes ways of conceptualizing and solving problems personality and motivational attributes guiding metaphors and work habits or styles that best characterize creative people within the domain he or she has investigated. In addition this book features: *an examination of how creativity is similar and different in diverse domains; *chapters written by an expert on creativity in the domain about which he or she is writing; *a chapter on creativity in psychology which examines patterns of performance leading to creative eminence in different areas of psychology; and *a final chapter proposing a new theory of creativity--the Amusement Park Theoretical Model. This book appeals to creativity researchers and students of creativity; cognitive education social and developmental psychologists; and educated laypeople interested in exploring their own creativity. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138003880

Creativity and AdvertisingAffect Events and Process Creativity and Advertising develops novel ways to theorise advertising and creativity. Arguing that combinatory accounts of advertising based on representation textualism and reductionism are of limited value Andrew McStay suggests that advertising and creativity are better recognised in terms of the ‘event’. Drawing on a diverse set of philosophical influences including Scotus Spinoza Vico Kant Schiller James Dewey Schopenhauer Whitehead Bataille Heidegger and Deleuze the book posits a sensational process-based transgressive lived and embodied approach to thinking about media aesthetics creativity and our interaction with advertising. Elaborating an affective account of creativity McStay assesses creative advertising from Coke Evian Google Sony Uniqlo and Volkswagen among others and articulates the ways in which award-winning creative advertising may increasingly be read in terms of co-production playfulness ecological conceptions of media improvisation and immersion in fields and processes of corporeal affect. Philosophically wide-ranging yet grounded in robust understanding of industry practices the book will also be of use to scholars with an interest in aesthetics art design media performance philosophy and those with a general interest in creativity. Andrew McStay lectures at Bangor University and is author of Digital Advertising and The Mood of Information: A Critique of Online Behavioural Advertising and Deconstructing Privacy the latter forthcoming in 2014. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415519557

Creativity and Conflict ResolutionAlternative Pathways to Peace This book explores how creative ways of resolving social conflicts emerge evolve and subsequently come to be accepted or rejected in inter-group relations. Creativity and Conflict Resolution explores a subject with which political communities involved in social conflict have always grappled: creative ways of imagining and actualizing visions of conflict resolution. This is an ambitious question which concerns human communities at many different levels from families regional-independence movements and national governments to inter-state alliances. The author argues that unconventional viability lies at the heart of creativity for transcending seemingly intractable inter-communal conflicts. More specifically conflict resolution creativity is a social and epistemological process whereby actors involved in a given social conflict learn to formulate an unconventional resolution option or procedure. Demystifying the origin of unthinkable breakthroughs for conflict resolution and illuminating theories of creativity based on 17 international case studies this book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution peace and conflict studies human security and IR. Tatsushi Arai is an Associate Professor of Conflict Transformation at the SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont USA. He has a PhD in Conflict Resolution from George Mason University Washington DC and extensive practical experience in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415691512

Creativity and Creative Pedagogies in the Early and Primary Years Whilst recognition of the role and nature of creativity and interest in creative pedagogical practice has grown tensions persist at several levels particularly in accountability cultures where international comparisons of literacy numeracy and science frame shape and often limit policy practice and curricula. Responding to this context the book draws together the work of a number of eminent scholars of creativity and creative pedagogies. It offers diverse perspectives from Colombia Denmark England France Poland Hong Kong and the USA and highlights differences as well as similarities across cultural contexts. Individually and collectively the authors reveal both the complexities and the possibilities of creative pedagogies. While some focus more upon conceptual challenges others examine classroom practice both that of teachers and visiting artists and identify difficulties as well as potential possibilities. In offering hope as well as challenge creative approaches to learning are of interest to all educators. This book was originally published as a special issue of Education 3-13: International Journal of Primary Elementary and Early Years Education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367024017

Creativity and Critical Thinking What do we mean by creativity? What is the link between creativity and critical thinking? How can creativity and critical thinking be incorporated into classroom practice and what are the benefits for students? Creativity and critical thinking are central to effective teaching and learning and have a significant impact on students’ attainment engagement attendance and behaviour. This book draws on recent research and policy to provide teachers with a clear framework for understanding creativity and critical thinking and practically demonstrates how they can be incorporated into classroom practice. Bringing together an expert team of contributors with a wide-range of experience of bringing creative approaches into the classroom the book includes: an analysis of the issues associated with creativity and critical thinking clear guidance on how schools can develop dynamic thinking and creative learning strategies and use them with all learners advice on using external agencies to bring the creative perspective into schools case studies alongside examples of current activities and practice in schools links to resources and organisations who can offer support. Providing clear guidance on the underpinning theory and policy and drawing upon current initiatives in schools this book is essential reading for trainee and practising teachers that want to provide the best possible learning experience for their students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415692830

Creativity and Cultural Improvisation There is no prepared script for social and cultural life. People work it out as they go along. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation casts fresh anthropological eyes on the cultural sites of creativity that form part of our social matrix. The book explores the ways creative agency is attributed in the graphic and performing arts and in intellectual property law. It shows how the sources of creativity are embedded in social political and religious institutions examines the relationship between creativity and the perception and passage of time and reviews the creativity and improvisational quality of anthropological scholarship itself. Individual essays examine how the concept of creativity has changed in the history of modern social theory and question its applicability as a term of cross-cultural analysis. The contributors highlight the collaborative and political dimensions of creativity and thus challenge the idea that creativity arises only from individual talent and expression. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003135531

Creativity and Cultural Policy Creativity has become a popular buzzword in contemporary cultural policy yet the term remains poorly understood. In this collection cultural policy specialists together with experts on psychology creative enterprise and arts education consider how ‘creativity’ is defined in a variety of settings from ‘creative management’ to ‘creative labour’. The starting point of the book is to move beyond the notion that creativity is simply a product of extraordinary individuals and extraordinary thinking. In reality creativity draws together apparently contradictory thinking styles processes and purposes which extend well beyond the mythical figure of the solitary genius. This broad definition of creativity encompasses the contributions of managers entrepreneurs and intermediaries to the creative process as well as the creativity of consumers and schoolchildren. In turn this implies a broad definition of cultural policy taking in intellectual property law education policy and corporate governance as well as policies towards the arts and creative industries. This collection of articles offers new ways of thinking about creativity and about cultural policy. It will be of interest not only to students and practitioners of cultural policy but to anyone who is curious about the value and purpose of ‘creativity’ in contemporary culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of International Journal of Cultural Policy.  Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415697606

Creativity and Democracy in EducationPractices and politics of learning through the arts The struggle to establish more democratic education pedagogies has a long history in the politics of mainstream education. This book argues for the significance of the creative arts in the establishment of social justice in education using examples drawn from a selection of contemporary case studies including Japanese applied drama Palestinian teacher education and Room 13 children’s contemporary art. Jeff Adams and Allan Owens use their research in practice to explore creativity conceptually historically and metaphorically within a variety of UK and international contexts which are analysed using political and social theories of democratic and relational education. Each chapter discusses the relationship between models of democratic creativity and the cultural conditions in which they are practised with a focus on new critical pedagogies that have developed in response to neoliberalism and marketization in education. The book is structured throughout by the theories practices and the ideals that were once considered to be foundational for education: democratic citizenship and a just society.Creativity and Democracy in Education will be of key interest to postgraduate students researchers and academics in the field of education especially those interested in the arts and creativity democratic learning teacher education cultural and organisational studies and political theories of education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138103917

Creativity and Divergent ThinkingA Task-Specific Approach Do general-purpose creative-thinking skills -- skills like divergent thinking which is touted as an important component of creative thinking no matter what the task domain -- actually make much of a contribution to creative performance? Although much recent research argues against such domain-transcending skills -- including several new studies reported in this book -- the appeal of such general skills remains strong probably because of the theoretical economy and power such skills would provide. Divergent thinking in particular has had an incredible staying power. Despite its many flaws divergent thinking remains the most frequently used indicator of creativity in both creativity research and educational practice and divergent thinking theory has a strong hold on everyday conceptions of what it means to be creative. Reviewing the available research on divergent thinking this book presents a framework for understanding other major theories of creativity including Mednick's associative theory and a possible connectionist approach of creativity. It reports a series of studies (including the study that won APA's 1992 Berlyne Prize) that demonstrate the absence of effects of general creative-thinking skills across a range of creativity-relevant tasks but indicate that training in divergent thinking does in fact improve creative performance across diverse task domains. The book then ties these findings together with a multi-level theory in which a task-specific approach to creativity is strengthened by recasting some divergent-thinking concepts into domain- and task-specific forms. This book fills the gap between divergent-thinking theory and more recent modular conceptions of creativity. Rather than advocate that we simply discard divergent thinking -- an approach that hasn't worked or at least hasn't happened because of many attacks on its validity and usefulness -- this book shows how to separate what is useful in divergent-thinking theory and practice from what is not. It shows that divergent-thinking training can be valuable although often not for the reasons trainers think it works. And it offers specific suggestions about the kinds of creativity research most needed today. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138966932

Creativity and Education The author gives a lucid account of creativity and its educational context. He discusses the creative process the character of different kinds of creativity creative people developing creativity and the creative child at school to give his readers an understanding of the issues that home or school have to face in fostering a creative non-habit-bound child. The book should be particularly welcome to all concerned with education in view of the present stress on child-centred education and on the development of individual children’s abilities especially their powers of original thought and search to the full. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415753487

Creativity and Education in ChinaParadox and Possibilities for an Era of Accountability Published with Kappa Delta Pi Creativity and Education in China takes readers on a journey through research-supported ideas and practical examples of creative and innovative schooling within a changing regime. Analyzing the consequences of exam-centric accountability on the creative and critical capacities of Chinese students author Carol A. Mullen’s dynamic portrait of a country serves as both a cautionary tale and an inspiring example to emulate. Examining creative endeavors and breakthroughs within a competitive globalized educational landscape the chapters are organized around environmental and global issues impacting education expressions of creativity within pre-K–12 schools in China and creative innovation in higher education learning environments. Presenting captivating cases from the field the book offers novel approaches to fostering creativity as a natural integrated part of high-stakes education systems in Eastern and Western cultures alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138954564

Creativity and Feature WritingHow to Get Hundreds of New Ideas Every Day Creativity and Feature Writing explores how to generate ideas in feature writing. Using clear explanations examples and exercises experienced feature writer and teacher Ellie Levenson highlights how feature writers editors and bloggers can generate ideas and how to turn these into published paid for articles. A variety of approaches to idea generation are explored including getting feature ideas from: objects your own life and the lives of others the news and non-news articles including books leaflets the internet and any other printed matter press releases and from direct contact with charities and press officers new people new places and new experiences. The book draws on a range of tips from practicing journalists and editors and displays case studies of example features to chart ideas from conception to publication. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138799660

Creativity and Innovation for Managers Creativity and Innovation for Managers will appeal to any manager responsible for getting more out of a business. Creative thinking creative problem solving and creative idea generation have become essential business drivers. This book provides an excellent executive briefing for senior management to understand what business creativity is how it can benefit the company and how to get the most out of it. It looks at the pitfalls on the road to innovation and the ways to avoid them pulling together the experiences of key practitioners in the field both in the UK and the US. By concentrating on the essentials Creativity and Innovation In Brief is a waffle-free approach to creativity providing a quick action focused and accessible insight into a complex topic.It provides; - a practical approach to business creativity without the hype;- an agenda for making innovation happen in your business- a real world view. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138435445

Creativity and Innovation in Business and BeyondSocial Science Perspectives and Policy Implications In many modern economies creativity the essential prerequisite for innovation tends to be assumed or neglected while the catchphrase "innovation" dominates the field of business as the key to national performance and competitiveness. Creativity and Innovation in Business and Beyond illustrates the ways in which creativity spurs innovation and innovation enables creativity – not only in the realms of business and management where the innovation is regularly acknowledged and discussed but throughout the social sciences. With contributions from experts in fields as far-flung as policy history economics economic geography sociology law psychology social psychology and education in addition to business and management this volume explores the manifold avenues for creativity and innovation at many levels including nation region city institution organisation and team across a multitude of sectors and settings. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415648981

Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Teams Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Teams stemmed from a conference held at the Kellogg School of Management in June 2003 covering creativity and innovation in groups and organizations. Each chapter of the book is written by an expert and covers original theory about creative processes in organizations. The organization of the text reflects a longstanding notion that creativity in the world of work is a joint outcome of three interdependent forces--individual thinking group processes and organizational environment.Part I explores basic cognitive mechanisms that underlie creative thinking and includes chapters that discuss cognitive foundations of creativity a cognitive network model of creativity that explains how and why creative solutions form in the human mind and imports a ground-breaking concept of "creativity templates" to the study of creative idea generation in negotiation context. The second part is devoted to understanding how groups and teams in organizational settings produce creative ideas and implement innovations. Finally Part III contains three chapters that discuss the role of social organizational context in which creative endeavors take place.The book has a strong international mix of scholarship and includes clear business implications based on scientific research. It weds the disciplines of psychology cognition and business theory into one text. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9780415647083

Creativity and Innovation in Organizations This volume presents a distinctly multilevel perspective on creativity and innovation that considers individual-level team-level and firm-level factors. In illustrating these factors this volume presents both theoretical and practical implications to guide researchers and practitioners alike in the continued study and advancement of creativity and innovation in organizations. Chapter authors not only discuss the abilities personality and motivational attributes that contribute to employee creativity but they also address the impact of leadership and climate on creative performance in teams. Subsequently firm-level influences such as planning learning strategy and professions that influence the success of creative and innovative efforts are examined. With contributions from leading scholars around the globe this book offers a comprehensive review of creativity and innovation to assist researchers and practitioners in their quests to understand and improve organizational creativity and innovation. This is an essential resource for scholars researchers or graduate students interested in creativity innovation and organizational behavior. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138724150

Creativity and Innovation in OrganizationsCurrent Research and Recent Trends in Management This book reflects on the increasing variety of perspectives in organizational innovation research paying attention to the antecedents but also to the outcomes of innovation. Some chapters analyze the ‘dark side’ of innovation including the potential negative consequences of innovative behaviors or of defying the innovation maximization fallacy. Others explicitly consider affective responses after innovation efforts and assume that positive or negative effects rely on the context in which innovations occur and on the way in which people manage the process of innovation. Several contributions adopt the dialectic approach by considering the multiple pathways and mechanisms that could lead to innovation at organizations. Most of the chapters include the interaction of actors’ characteristics (from employees or teams) together with situational constraints from the task or the social context and outline the relevance of processes like team learning; motivation variables like basic need satisfaction; congruence of motives or meaningfulness at work; dynamics of communication networks; and affective variables. This edited collection offers a rich picture of current research and management trends in the field and contributes constructively toward promoting the dialectic perspective on creativity and innovation in the workplace. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367891411

Creativity and Leadership in Science Technology and Innovation Leadership is vital to creativity and successful innovation in groups and organizations; leadership is however seldom studied in the academic literature as a creativity driver. One reason for the lack of attention paid to leadership’s effect on creativity may be the common belief that creativity cannot and should not be managed. Creative individuals and groups are regarded as and indeed often are autonomous and self-driving. From this belief the erroneous conclusion is drawn that there is no need for leadership in creative environments and situations. The better conclusion proposed by this book is that leadership not only stimulates creativity but that such a leadership in the science technology and innovation fields should specifically possess at least two features: a) expertise in the field(s) and b) an ability to create support and encourage individuals groups and creative knowledge environments. A number of specialist authors in this volume offer original theoretical empirical and applied chapters that elucidate how to better organize and lead creative efforts in science technology and innovation. A number of important research questions are raised and answered including: What kinds of leaderships are needed at different levels of S&T organizations for a creative output? What social and cognitive abilities and skills are needed for leadership in creative environments? How does leadership vary with different phases of the creative process? This book offers concrete analysis of how leaders and managers can facilitate promote and organize for creative performance in science technology and in innovating organizations making it required reading for academic and industrial research leaders scientists and engineers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138203044

Creativity and Learning in Later LifeAn Ethnography of Museum Education Creativity and Learning in Later Life examines how processes such as ‘creativity’ and ‘inspiration’ are experienced by writers who engage with the visual arts and questions how age is perceived in relation to these processes. The author’s careful analysis challenges many of the assumptions on which museum education currently operates contributing to wider debates surrounding the value of arts and cultural heritage education.　 Containing detailed descriptions of museum tours viewers’ engagements with specific artworks and the processes of creative writing and editing that result from such encounters the book draws on a ground-breaking study to challenge the way in which the value of education and creative activity for older adult learners has been conceptualized in existing literature. It also demonstrates how learners adapt and subvert the intended pedagogies to suit their own needs and accommodate their ageing selves.　 Drawing on a spectrum of disciplines including education anthropology art history sociology museum studies and the practice and theory of creative writing this book will be of interest to academics postgraduate students and researchers in a range of fields as well museum practitioners creative writing teachers and those working in adult and community education settings. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367367893

Creativity and Learning in Secondary EnglishTeaching for a creative classroom Creativity in secondary English lessons today is a democratically conceived quality that all pupils are expected to achieve and a resource on which all are entitled to draw. But what exactly is creativity? And how does it relate to English? Creativity and Learning in Secondary English answers these questions and others by arguing for a version of creativity that sees it as an ordinary everyday part of successful classroom practice central to processes of meaning-making dialogic interaction and textual engagement. In this construction creativity is not just linked to learning; it is the driving force behind learning itself offering pupils the opportunity to transform their knowledge and understanding of the world around them. This book borrows from a range of theories about creativity and about learning while remaining largely practical in focus. It contains numerous examples for teachers of how to apply ideas about creativity in the classroom. In doing so it attempts to maintain the subject’s core identity while also keeping abreast of contemporary social pedagogical and technological developments. The result is a refreshing challenge to some of the more mundane approaches to English teaching on offer in an age focussed excessively on standardisation and teaching to tests. Practical applications of creativity include: Using picture books and graphic novels to stimulate multimodal responses Placing pupils in the role of the teacher Devising marketing campaigns for class novels Adopting experimental approaches to redrafting Encouraging ‘extreme’ forms of re-creative writing Focusing on how to ‘listen’ to texts Creating sound-scapes for poems Thought-provoking and provocative this textbook draws on current best practice in English teaching and will equip trainee and practising teachers with a wide range of strategies that will lead to greater creativity in the classroom. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415620703

Creativity and Limitation in Political CommunitiesSpinoza Schmitt and Ordering There is an inherent tension between popular and establishment powers in political communities. With anti-establishment sentiment on the rise across Western democracies exploring the underpinnings of this dualism and rethinking theories of political life within states is of paramount importance. By combining the theories of Carl Schmitt and Benedict Spinoza this book develops a framework of continuous reproduction whereby the two powers simultaneously hold one another in tension and supersede one another. In the same vein political communities are shown to be perpetually caught in a cycle of creativity/contestation derived primarily from Schmitt (the tragic groundlessness of politics) and limitation (derived primarily from Spinoza as a quasi-theological belief in the status quo). Providing a novel theoretical framework explaining the workings of democratic politics this book also offers a non-traditional reading of Spinoza and Schmitt. Whereas traditionally both have been treated as almost polar opposites here they are held in creative tension providing equally important building blocks for the proposed theory. By furthering their analysis the author creates a new theory of political action. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138747838

Creativity and Performance in Industrial Organization Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile this volume was originally published in 1968 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes or as a complete collection. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138863798

Creativity and Philosophy Creativity matters. We want people to be more creative and admire those who are. Yet creativity is deeply puzzling. Just what is it to be creative? Why is it valuable? Who or what can be creative and how? Creativity and Philosophy is an outstanding collection of specially commissioned chapters by leading philosophers who explore these problems and many more. It provides a comprehensive and creative picture of creativity including the following themes: creativity as a virtue imagination epistemic virtue moral virtue and personal vice; creativity with and without value the definition of creativity creative failures and suffering; creativity in nature divine creativity and human agency; naturalistic explanations of creativity and the extended mind; creativity in philosophy mathematics and logic and the role of heuristics; creativity in art morality and politics; individual and group creativity. A major feature of the collection is that it explores creativity not only from the perspective of art and aesthetics but also from a variety of philosophical disciplines including epistemology philosophy of mind philosophical psychology philosophy of science political philosophy and ethics. The volume is essential reading for anyone fascinated by creativity whether their interests lie in philosophy music art and visual studies literature psychology neuroscience management or education or they are simply intent on learning more about this vital human trait. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138827684

Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional PeopleThe work of Murray Jackson Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People tells the story of the lives of four exceptionally gifted individuals:　 Vincent van Gogh Vaslav Nijinsky José Saramago and John Nash.　 Previously unpublished chapters by Murray Jackson are set in a contextual framework by Jeanne Magagna revealing the wellspring of creativity in the subjects’ emotional experiences and delving into the nature of psychotic states which influence and impede the creative process. Jackson and Magagna aim to illustrate how psychoanalytic　thinking can be relevant　to people suffering from psychotic states of mind and provide understanding of the personalities of four exceptionally talented creative individuals. Present in the text are themes of loving and losing mourning and manic states creating as a process of repairing a sense of internal damage and the use of creativity to understand or run away from oneself. The book concludes with a glossary of useful psychoanalytic concepts. Creativity and Psychotic States in Exceptional People will be fascinating reading for psychiatrists psychotherapists and psychoanalysts other psychoanalytically informed professionals students and anyone interested in the relationship between creativity and psychosis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415703864

Creativity and Public Policy: Generating Super-optimum SolutionsGenerating Super-optimum Solutions This title was first published in 2000:  A history of the ideas behind public policy studies which can be defined as the study of the nature causes and effects of government decisions for dealing with social problems. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138719507

Creativity and SexualityA Kabbalistic Perspective Judaism openly recognizes as an integral part of human nature the enigmatic relationship between yetzer or physical desire and yetzirah or spiritual creativity. Creativity and Sexuality written as a fictional dialogue clearly delineates the psychic interdependence of these two drives as well as the integration of the concepts as they are defined by both Jewish mysticism and modern psychology.Mordechai Rotenberg is interested in the impact of religion on the psychology of everyday life. He was prompted to write Creativity and Sexuality by the popularity of writings that explore Jewish texts on the subject of sexuality from a historical or literary point of view but that do not hesitate to include psychological evaluations based on popular secondary psychological concepts. This work seeks to provide an accurate psychological analysis of sexuality and spirituality from a Jewish mystical perspective. As such it both reconstructs the interdisciplinary bridge between Judaism and psychology and deconstructs some exegetical traditions. The goal is to present new paradigmatic options which may help modern society struggle more efficiently with its sexuality. Ultimately the author sees physical desire and spiritual creativity as a regulative continuum. People learn how to spend the tremendous power of energy that the sexual yetzer produces not only on physical sex but on the spiritual yetzirah.In an introduction written especially for this new edition the author explains the continuing relevance of Creativity and Sexuality and the ongoing relationship between sexual desire and a healthy spiritual self-fulfillment. This volume will be of interest to students of Judaism psychology mysticism and sexuality. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521469

Creativity and SpaceLabour and the Restructuring of the German Advertising Industry Originally published in 2005. By examining the changing patterns of the German advertising industry from a spatial-economic perspective focusing on the rise of Hamburg as the country's new creative capital this book discusses the shifting relations between economic organization social relations and spatial structures in the post-industrial economy. It argues that it is the professional labour market which drives the organization and the spatial structure of knowledge-intensive activities. It does not however only imply the increasing importance of labour as a factor of production but also suggests an increasing uncertainty linked to the nature of knowledge - labour. Illustrated by in-depth empirical material the book brings together debates on reflexive modernization and individualization with those on embeddedness and on the role of business services in regional development. It concludes that it is the labour market of professionals which provides a regional and social anchoring of economic activities while at the same time pointing out the increasing importance of metropolitan regions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138619203

Creativity and Strategic Innovation ManagementDirections for Future Value in Changing Times Creativity and Strategic Innovation Management was the first book to integrate innovation management with both change management and creativity to form an innovative guide to survival in rapidly changing market conditions. Treating creativity as the process and innovation the result Goodman and Dingli emphasise the importance of a strategic approach to management through fostering creative processes. Revised and updated for a second edition this ground-breaking book now includes: A new section on contemporary themes in innovation management such as the use of social media and sustainability. More coverage of entrepreneurship ethics diversity issues and the legal aspects of technology and innovation management. More international cases and real life examples. The book is also supported by a range of new tutor support materials. This textbook is an ideal accompaniment to postgraduate courses on innovation management and creativity management. The focused approach by Goodman and Dingli also makes it useful as supplementary reading on a range of courses from management of technology to strategic management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138675100

Creativity and the Brain In Creativity and the Brain Kenneth Heilman explores the possible brain mechanisms which underlie creativity by reviewing the existing evidence and putting forward new ideas. On the way he discusses the relationships between creativity and intelligence brain anatomy neuropharmacology addiction handedness sex differences and mood states such as depression. He also addresses the effects of neurological disorders and aging as well as the influence of environmental factors such as tolerance and nurturing.The book will be of interest to neuroscientists psychologists psychiatrists neurologists and educators The engaging and succinct style of this book also make it appealing to students and researchers from a variety of disciplines who have an interest in understanding the brain mechanisms underlying creativity. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138006140

Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field centers on the mutually reinforcing relationship between erotic and creative energies. Erotic embodiment is given context within a contemporary model of clinical process based in analytic field theory and highlighting Winnicott. Dianne Elise uses clinical material to bring theory alive giving clinicians an explicit picture of how they might utilize the ideas presented. In a fascinating return to Freud’s emphasis on libido and Eros a creative mind is seen as located within a libidinal connection to the erotic body. The erotic is underscored as an important ingredient of the clinical situation—a lively spontaneity that partakes of the analyst’s as well as the patient’s creative self vitalizing the field of clinical engagement. A full formulation of the analytic field must include awareness of the centrality of the erotic in the maternal matrix in ongoing development and in the clinical setting. The erotic-aesthetic dimension of the mind potentiates the creative interplay of the analytic process. Written in an engaging and accessible style this original contribution makes complex theory available to psychoanalytic clinicians at all levels and to a wide range of readers while offering sophisticated theoretical and clinical innovations. Elise addresses the need to engage multiple aspects of erotic life while maintaining a reliable professional boundary. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138625426

Creativity and Writing SkillsFinding a Balance in the Primary Classroom Teachers trainees and learning support assistants will find this lively and accessible book combines creativity with skills teaching to stimulate and improve children's writing both at foundation and primary levels. Based on the concepts and objectives of the National Literacy Strategy (NLS) the content is well founded in experience research and classroom application. Special features include advice on planning linking to NLS objectives and selecting texts; demonstration scripts for teachers to use in the classroom; annotated extracts from quality literature to help children read as writers; practical advice on strategies to use in guided writing; and examples of children's work that show how to assess the children's writing and set 'next step' targets. The authors show how you can use drama techniques story stacks artifacts and scenarios to engage children in writing both in fiction and non-fiction right across the curriculum. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138420298

Creativity As an Exact Science This book discusses the principles of controlling thinking in the solution of inventive problems that are transposed to the organization of creative thinking in any sphere of human activity. It is aimed at the engineer and also comprehensible to people who do not work with technology. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367580360

Creativity as Co-TherapistThe Practitioner's Guide to the Art of Psychotherapy In Creativity as Co-Therapist experienced psychotherapist and creativity expert Lisa Mitchell bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and therapeutic application by teaching psychotherapists of all backgrounds to see therapy as their art form. Readers are guided through the five stages of the creative process to help them understand the complexities of approaching their work creatively and to effectively identify areas in which they tend to get stuck when working with clients.  Along the way workbook assignments case studies personal stories and hands-on art directives will inspire the reader to think outside the box and build the creative muscles that hold the key to enlivening their work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138852730

Creativity for a New Curriculum: 5-11 Creativity for a New Curriculum: 5-11 provides an account of what creativity really means in the context of children’s learning in the primary school and describes in practical terms what teachers can do to foster it. At a time of curriculum development and change it focuses on the opportunity to build a new curriculum that is inclusive of creativity and is fit for the twenty-first century. The value of fostering creative thinking and problem solving abilities in education is widely recognised for its capacity to confer an independence and ability to function effectively in life. As such encouraging children to be creative thinkers and problem solvers should be an integral part of everyday teaching and learning across all subjects. Building upon the research and practices of a group of educators studying creativity across the curriculum and coordinated by the author this book provides primary teachers and trainee teachers with easy to understand explanations of what creativity means in the context of the subjects of the curriculum for young children. It introduces ideas for how to nurture and support it and explores issues associated with fostering it such as assessment. Chapters cover areas including: A brief history of creativity and pedagogy including common misconceptions Strategies for creative learning as well as creative teaching Creativity in English Creativity in Mathematics Creativity in Science and Design and Technology Creativity in Art and Music Creativity in History and the Humanities Creativity in ICT International perspectives on creativity Creativity for a New Curriculum: 5-11 is an ideal source of information for teachers teacher trainers students on teaching programmes and anyone interested in developing opportunities for creativity across the primary school curriculum. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415617116

Creativity for Innovation Management Creativity for Innovation Management is a rigorous yet applied guide which illustrates what creativity is why it matters and how it can be developed at both individual and group levels. Unlike many technique-oriented books this book will combine theory and practice drawing on the latest research in psychology organizational behaviour innovation and entrepreneurship. This exciting new text outlines the necessary skills and competences for innovative and creative processes. It provides opportunities to explore these and also to develop them via a wide variety of activities linked to relevant tools and techniques as well as a range of case studies. By working through key competence areas at personal and then team levels students then have an opportunity to practice and enhance these skills. This will be complemented by online resources which will provide students with access to key tools and techniques plus activities to help develop their creativity. This textbook is ideal for students of innovation management and entrepreneurship as well as professionals in those industries that want to excel by developing and applying their own creativity at work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138641327

Creativity in Chinese ContextsSociocultural and Dispositional Analyses Examining creativity in Chinese societies from both a personal and contextual standpoint this ground-breaking book offers readers a unique insight into the Chinese mind. It provides a review of the nature origins and consequences of creativity deriving from empirical evidence in the Chinese context. Specifically the book unravels the conceptualization of creativity and its relationships with various demographic and dispositional factors in Chinese societies. The book proceeds to give readers an understanding of how creativity maintains reciprocal relationships with various forms of well-being. The content of the book brings together empirical evidence and theory grounded on Chinese societies to offer researchers and students a unique realistic view of the nature of creativity there. This book will be a must read for any researcher or practitioner interested in this fascinating topic. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138346833

Creativity In ContextUpdate To The Social Psychology Of Creativity Creativity in Context is an update of The Social Psychology of Creativity a classic text for researchers students and other interested readers. Creativity in Context incorporates extensive new material going far beyond the original to provide a comprehensive picture of how the motivation for creative behavior and creativity itself can be infl Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367315269

Creativity in Education and LearningA Guide for Teachers and Educators A study of creativity in the context of education an issue of great importance for teachers and students alike. It considers just how creativity "works" and how it can be encouraged. The book has an international and an historical sweep and features many examples. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138170155

Creativity in Human Evolution and Prehistory We live in a world surrounded by remarkable cultural achievements of human kind. Almost every day we hear of new innovations in technology in medicine and in the arts which remind us that humans are capable of remarkable creativity. But what is human creativity? The modern world provides a tiny fraction of cultural diversity and the evidence for human creativity far more can be seen by looking back into prehistory. The book examines how our understanding of human creativity can be extended by exploring this phenomenon during human evolution and prehistory. The book offers unique perspectives on the nature of human creativity from archaeologists who are concerned with long term patterns of cultural change and have access to quite different types of human behaviour than that which exists today. It asks whether humans are the only creative species or whether our extinct relatives such as Homo habilis and the Neanderthals also displayed creative thinking. It explores what we can learn about the nature of human creativity from cultural developments during prehistory such as changes in the manner in which the dead were buried monuments constructed and the natural world exploited. In doing so new light is thrown on these cultural developments and the behaviour of our prehistoric ancestors. By examining the nature of creativity during human evolution and prehistory these archaeologists supported by contributions from psychology computer science and social anthropology show that human creativity is a far more diverse and complex phenomena than simply flashes of genius by isolated individuals. Indeed they show that unless perspectives from prehistory are taken into account our understanding of human creativity will be limited and incomplete. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138007062

Creativity in Language TeachingPerspectives from Research and Practice Current comprehensive and authoritative this text gives language teachers and researchers both a set of conceptual tools with which to think and talk about creativity in language teaching and a wealth of practical advice about principles and practices that can be applied to making their lessons more creative. Providing an overview of the nature of creativity and its role in second language education it brings together twenty prominent language teachers and researchers with expertise in different aspects of creativity and teaching contexts to present a range of theories on both creative processes and how these processes lead to creative practices in language teaching. Unique in the field the book takes a broader and more critical look at the notion of creativity in language learning exploring its linguistic cognitive sociocultural and pedagogic dimensions. Structured in four sections— theoretical perspectives creativity in the classroom creativity in the curriculum and creativity in teacher development—each chapter is supplemented by Questions for Discussion and Suggestions for Further Research. Its accessible style makes the book relevant as both a course text and a resource for practicing teachers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138843653

Creativity in Later LifeBeyond Late Style This collection begins with two premises: that our understanding of the nature and forms of creativity in later life remains limited and that dialogue between specialists in gerontology the arts and humanities can produce the crucial new insights that are so obviously needed. Representing the outcome of ongoing dialogue across the disciplinary divide the contributions of this volume reflect anew on what we share and how we differ; creating new narratives so as to build an understanding of late-life creativity that goes far beyond the narrow confines of the pervasively received idea of ‘late style’. Creativity in Later Life encompasses a range of personal reflections and discussions of the boundaries of creativity including:Canonical artistic achievements to community art projectsNarratives of carers for those living with dementiaAnalyses of creative theoryThrough these insightful chapters the authors consequently offer an understanding of creativity in later life as varied socialised and - above all - located in the cultural and economic circumstances of the here and now.　This title will appeal to academics practitioners and students in the various gerontological arts and humanities fields; and to anyone with an interest in the nature of creativity in later life and the forms it takes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367582494

Creativity in Museum Practice With this book museum professionals can learn how to unleash creative potential throughout their institution. Drawing from a wide range of research on creativity as well as insights from today’s most creative museum leaders the authors present a set of practical principles about how museum workers at any level—not just those in “creative positions”—can make a place for creativity in their daily practice. Replete with creativity exercises and stories from the field the book guides readers in developing an internal culture of creative learning as well as delivering increased value to museum audiences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781611323085

Creativity in Peripheral PlacesRedefining the Creative Industries Creativity is said to be the fuel of the contemporary economy. Dynamic industries such as film music television and design have changed the fortunes of entire cities from Nashville to Los Angeles Barcelona to Brisbane and beyond. Yet creativity remains mercurial – it is at the heart of industrial innovation and can attract investment but it is also an intangible personal quality and experience. What exactly constitutes creativity? Drawing on examples as diverse as postcard design classical music landscape art tattooing Aboriginal hip-hop and rock sculpture this book seeks to explore and redefine creativity as both economic and cultural phenomenon. Creativity also has a peculiar geography. Beyond Hollywood creativity is evident in suburban rural and remote places – a quotidian vernacular eclectic enterprise. In seeking to redefine the creative industries this book brings together geographers historians sociologists cultural studies scholars and media/communications experts to explore creativity in diverse places outside major cities. These are places that are physically and/or metaphorically remote are small in population terms or which because of old industrial legacies are assumed by others to be unsophisticated or marginal in an imaginary geography of creativity. This book reveals the richness and depth the challenges and surprises of being creative beyond city limits. This book was originally published as a special issue of Australian Geographer. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138798281

Creativity in PsychotherapyReaching New Heights with Individuals Couples and Families Examine the dynamic role of creativity in therapy! Creativity in Psychotherapy: Reaching New Heights with Individuals Couples and Families examines the nature role and importance of creative thinking in counseling and therapy. Authors David K. Carson and Kent W. Becker combine extensive backgrounds in marriage and family therapy and counseling to give you a unique resource that fills a crucial gap in the therapy literature. The book explores various aspects of creative thinking personal characteristics of highly creative therapists creative techniques and interventions barriers to creative work and creativity development. Not designed as a “cookbook” for conducting therapy Creativity in Psychotherapy features practical techniques and interventions for conducting therapy with children adults couples and families. Creativity in Psychotherapy: Reaching New Heights with Individuals Couples and Families is a much-needed response to the need for a pragmatic approach that makes sense using methods techniques and applications based in respected established theoretical principles and empirical research. The book establishes a mind-set the therapist can use to work with clients in discovering creative solutions instead of viewing creative interventions as a grab bag of techniques. Creativity in Psychotherapy includes: a look at the various dimensions of creativity in counseling and psychotherapy an overview of the relationship between creativity and healthy functioning an examination of the connection between creativity and dysfunction a review of the role of creativity in supervision a survey of 142 therapists in the United States on the use of creativity in their practices in-depth discussions practical examples and illustrations “Creative Incubation” and “Break Out of The Box” exercises in each chapter! Creativity in Psychotherapy: Reaching New Heights with Individuals Couples and Families is well-suited for use as a primary or supplemental textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in marriage and family therapy psychotherapy and counseling and can easily be adapted for use in social work counselor education and clinical psychology courses. The book is an essential read for practicing psychotherapists family therapists counselors social workers psychologists and other human service professionals. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315809045

Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry What is it like to make television comedy? How do writers get their ideas made and how do commissioners and producers decide what to make? How do members of the comedy industry work with large broadcasters and production companies and what does it mean to be creative – and stay creative? Drawing on interviews with many key writers such as Sam Bain Paul Doolan Graham Linehan David Mitchell Simon Nye and Sue Teddern producers including Ash Atalla Lisa Clark Michelle Farr Ali McPhail Jon Plowman and Adam Tandy and commissioners the BBC’s Shane Allen Channel 4’s Nerys Evans and Sky’s Lucy Lumsden Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry explores the creative processes that lead to successful programme-making. With detailed discussion of the processes by which series such as People Just Do Nothing and After Hours came to our screens this book examines how members of the comedy industry maintain careers manage failure develop their craft and stay creative. Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry is essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in comedy studies television production and the creative/media industries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367595975

Creativity in the ClassroomSchools of Curious Delight Creativity in the Classroom sixth edition helps teachers link creativity research and theory to the everyday activities of classroom teaching. This foundational textbook is relevant for any course dealing wholly or partially with creativity and teaching. The sixth edition has been revised and updated throughout informed by cutting-edge research on neurobiology curiosity and imaginative play questioning and motivation particularly the relationships among creativity intrinsic motivation and motivation to learn. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138228825

Creativity in the Primary Curriculum Are you striving to establish a more creative and imaginative classroom? Are you interested in: the generosity of creativity; creative conjecture; being an advocate for creativity; welcoming the unexpected the unpredictable and the unconventional; taking risks; learning which leads to new or original thinking which is of value? If so this completely updated new edition of a classic text will show you how to achieve these ideals. The book is written in a clear and practical way by leading researchers and practitioners offering help and advice on the planning and implementation of effective creative teaching and learning and providing examples of best practice through a rigorous theoretical rationale. A hallmark of the book is its exploration of creativity through curriculum subjects. It builds on this in its first and last chapters by addressing key cross-curricular themes that thread their way throughout the book. Throughout there is an emphasis on critical and reflective practice. New to this edition are: three entirely new chapters on drama music and geography; an update of the introduction to account for advances in creativity research policy and practice; a new final chapter identifying cross-curricular themes; greater attention to international dimensions and examples. In this second edition the authors are drawn from six universities which between them produce some of the best education research internationally and some of the best teacher education. The authors also come from leading national and international organisations such as the National Gallery in London and the Geographical Association. Creaivity for the Primary Curriculum is a core text for both training and practicing Primary teachers who wish to maintain high standards when approaching their teaching. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415675475

Creativity in the Schizophrenia SpectrumA Special Issue of the creativity Research Journal The articles in this special issue seek to re-examine the relationship between creativity and the schizophrenia spectrum of disorders in the wake of recent research and theorizing. They revisit both empirical and conceptual findings and issues regarding connections between the schizophrenia spectrum of disorders: schizotypy psychotic-like traits and creativity. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138151093

Creativity in Times of ConstraintA Practitioner's Companion in Mental Health and Social Care Contemporary practices in mental health (and social care) are increasingly characterized by approaches that overly simplify social political and psychological concerns. The persistence and ubiquity of models designated to tackle diagnoses through focused technologies serve to minimize the human encounter in all its relational and systemic complexity. Practice becomes a technological activity instead of one concerned with the unique creative potential in meeting with others in therapy. With the growth of privatized mental health services many practitioners are facing a plethora of "Must Do's" that focus on measurable outcomes with clear goals and cost effective treatments. Yet in practice such apparent clarity of purpose often leads to bureaucratic clutter and risk aversion instead of clearing the decks for creativity. The focus of this book is how the practitioner or therapist can navigate around current practices in order to avoid falling into the rapids of quick fix solutions whilst staying afloat to find realistic outcomes to human dilemmas that are brought to us. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782202011

Creativity Poster The poster is available with a thin Plastic Film Coating to protect against dust and grime fading due to light exposure and oil from finger marks. We encourage our customers to protect their posters with this product. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781897363744

Creativity ResearchAn Inter-Disciplinary and Multi-Disciplinary Research Handbook Compared to its ‘cousin’ innovation academic research on creativity has been less well covered in journals and books. This is despite the fact that creativity has a profound role in many different subject disciplines. This book is a unique collection of some of the latest research from a range of leading creativity researchers. Providing a clear understanding of the main concepts this book: Introduces creativity from an inter-disciplinary perspective Discusses the environmental determinants of creativity development Explores creativity research in the differing disciplines of business music and education Creativity Research will be of interest and importance to researchers across a variety of subject disciplines as well as students and practitioners of creativity innovation and organizational behaviour amongst others. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138206137

Creatve Demoblstn Pt2 Ils 183 First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415863728

Creciendo LibreManual para Sobrevivientes de la Violencia Doméstica Help your Spanish-speaking clients break the pattern of abuse! A workbook for your Spanish-speaking clients! Battered women often become so frightened isolated and self-doubting that they don’t realize that they are being victimized. They may minimize the seriousness of the abuse and make excuses for the abuser. The checklists questionnaires and personal stories in Creciendo Libre can provide the shock of recognition they need to be able to say “This is wrong. It has to end.” Combining psychological insight with practical safety information Creciendo Libre helps the reader to understand - and end - the vicious cycle of wooing tension violence and remorse that characterizes all levels of domestic violence. It outlines a series of steps abused women can take to ensure their emotional and physical safety. Creciendo Libre offers both practical and psychological resources including: lists of abusive behaviors from ridiculing family members to physical violence common rationalizations for abuse used by both victims and perpetrator detailed discussions of protection orders and other legal matters detailed preparations and safety precautions that may make leaving less dangerous advice on what to take with you when you leave guidelines for establishing safe relationships in the future Creciendo Libre provides readers with a straightforward action-oriented approach to the problem of domestic violence. A companion volume available separately A Therapist’s Guide to Growing Free (available in English only) offers therapists a comprehensive outline of the issues tasks and goals involved in treatment with victims and survivors. Rompe el patrón del abuso - de una manera segura! Mujeres abusadas muchas veces llegan a temer aislarse y a auto dudarse al punto que no logran reconocer que estan siendo victimizadas. Ellas podran minimizar la Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138462830

Credibility in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Military News Elizabethan and early Stuart England saw the prevailing medium for transmitting military news shift from public ritual through private letters to public newspapers. This study is based on an examination of hundreds of manuscript news letters printed pamphlets and corantos and news diaries which are in holdings in the US and the UK. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138663695

Credit Consumers and the LawAfter the global storm Consumer law particularly consumer credit law is characterised by increasingly complex regulation in Western economies. Reacting to the Global Financial Crisis governments in the UK the EU Australia New Zealand and the United States have adopted new laws dealing with consumer credit responsible lending consumer guarantees and unfair contracts. Drawing together authors from all of these jurisdictions this book analyses and evaluates these initiatives and makes predictions as to their likely success and possible flaws. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138358959

Credit and Collateral Collateral - generally defined as an asset used to provide security for a lender's loan - is an important feature of credit contracts and all the available evidence suggests that its use is getting more pervasive. This informative book builds upon recent research into this topic. Sena analyses three case-studies that revolve around the impact that financial constraints have on economic outcomes. In the first case-study the relationship between firms’ technical efficiency and increasing financial pressure is explored. The author then goes on to show in the second case study that under specific circumstances increasing financial pressure and increasing product market competition can jointly have a positive impact on firms’ technical efficiency while not being true for all types of firms. In the third case she analyses the impact that finance constraints have on women’s start-ups. Unique and revealing this is the first book to deal so extensively with the topic of collateral and as such is a valuable reference to postgraduates and professionals in the fields of macroeconomics monetary and business economics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138807006

Credit and Consumer Society The language of credit and debt is almost ubiquitous in daily life. In advanced modern societies financial institutions and other organizations have become increasingly active in lending money to consumers and consumers apparently more than willing to take advantage. This groundbreaking new book offers an analysis of this important phenomenon arguing that we have entered an era in which credit and debt are sanctioned delivered and collected through new cultural and economic mechanisms. Written in an accessible and straightforward style the book takes a multi-disciplinary approach examining consumer credit and debt in both societal and economic contexts. It explores key topics such as: the historical context of credit and debt current theories of a consumer-centred society the credit industry attempts at government regulation. Credit and Consumer Society establishes the wider analysis of consumer credit and debt as a discipline in its own right. It is important reading for students and researchers in business and management finance public policy and sociology as well as for policy makers and consumer groups working directly in this field. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203935989

Credit and CreedA Critical Legal Theory of Money Money is a legal institution with principal economic and sociological consequences. Money is a debt because that is how it is conceptualised and comes into existence: as circulating credit – if viewed from the creditor’s perspective – or from the debtor’s viewpoint as debt. This book presents a legal theory of money based on the concept of dematerialised property. It describes the money creation or money supply process for cash and for bank money and looks at modern forms of money such as cryptocurrencies. It also shows why mainstream economics presupposes but avoids an analysis of money by effectively eliminating money from the microeconomic market model and declaring it as merely a neutral medium of exchange and unit of account. The book explains that money rather brings about and influences substantially the exchange or transaction it is supposed to facilitate only as a neutral medium. As the most liquid of all assets money enables financialisation monetisation and commodification in the economy. The central role of the banks in the money creation process and in the economy and their strengthened position after the bank rescue measures in the wake of the financial crisis 2008-9 are also discussed. Providing a rigorous analysis of the most salient legal issues regarding money this book will appeal to legal theorists economists and anyone working in commercial or banking law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367181031

Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century EnglandAn Economic History of Debtors’ Prisons Throughout the eighteenth century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. This apparently illogical system where debtors were kept away from their places of work remained popular with creditors into the nineteenth century even as Britain witnessed industrialisation market growth and the increasing sophistication of commerce as the debtors’ prisons proved surprisingly effective. Due to insufficient early modern currency almost every exchange was reliant upon the use of credit based upon personal reputation rather than defined collateral making the lives of traders inherently precarious as they struggled to extract payments based on little more than promises. This book shows how traders turned to debtors’ prisons to give those promises defined consequences the system functioning as a tool of coercive contract enforcement rather than oppression of the poor. Credit and Debt demonstrates for the first time the fundamental contribution of debt imprisonment to the early modern economy and reveals how traders made use of existing institutions to alleviate the instabilities of commerce in the context of unprecedented market growth. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in economic history and early modern British history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367137113

Credit and PowerThe Paradox at the Heart of the British National Debt This book reveals the surprising role that credit money created ex nihilo by financiers played in raising the British government’s war loans between 1793 and 1815. Using often overlooked contemporary objections to the National Debt a startling paradox is revealed as it is shown how the government’s ostensible creditors had in fact very little "real" money to lend and were instead often reliant for their own solvency upon the very government they were lending to. By following the careers of unsuccessful loan-contractors who went bankrupt lending to the government to the triumphant career of the House of Rothschild; who successfully "exported" the British system of war-financing abroad with the coming of peace the symbiotic relationship that existed between the British government and their ostensible creditors is revealed. Also highlighted is the power granted to the (technically bankrupt) Bank of England over credit and the money supply an unprecedented and highly influential development that filled many contemporaries with horror. This is a tale of bankruptcy stock market manipulation bribery and institutional corruption that continues to exert its influence today and will be of interest to anyone interested in government financing debt and the origins of modern finance. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367333614

Credit And Socioeconomic Change In Colonial MexicoLoans And Mortgages In Guadalajara 1720-1820 This book based on a study of the credit market in Nueva Galicia during 1720–1820 reveals a number of the social characteristics of colonial Mexico including social status the role of women the church ethnicity and the complexity of the family network in economic affairs. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367169428

Credit Cooperatives in IndiaPast Present and Future Credit cooperatives in India make up one of the largest rural financial systems in the world. Playing a vital role in dispensing credit in largely agricultural areas they are also the weakest link in the formal credit delivery system. This book provides a valuable case study of the traditional banking system in this developing economy exploring the reasons for the poor performance of credit cooperatives in India and suggesting measures to revitalise them. Although this sector has grown along with the micro-credit sector to provide finance for the poor and the less creditworthy borrowers financing development still remains a major problem in the developing world. However the financial health of credit cooperatives in India has been a matter of perennial concern. The author argues that cooperatives hold great promise for financial inclusion if the financial position of the cooperatives can be consolidated. Providing a detailed analysis of the historical evolution of cooperatives in India the book establishes the link between different segments of this institutional system and their performance in a commercial sense to show that cooperatives occupy an important place in India’s financial edifice as they play a key role in the multi-agency framework for rural credit delivery. As such the analysis provides a valuable reference for scholars of economics Asian economics and finance. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415533638

Credit Default Swap Markets in the Global EconomyAn Empirical Analysis This book provides a comprehensive overview for various segments of the global credit default swap (CDS) markets touching upon how they were affected by the recent financial turmoil. The book uses empirical analysis on credit default swap markets applying advanced econometric methodologies to the time series data. It covers not only well-studied sovereign credit default swap markets but also sector credit default swap indices (i.e. CDS index for the banking sector) and corporate credit default swap indices (i.e. Markit iTraxx Japan CDS index) which have not been fully examined by the previous literature. The book also investigates causality and co-movement among several credit default swap markets or between CDS and other financial markets. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367504212

Credit Management First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an Informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315574745

Credit Rating GovernanceGlobal Credit Gatekeepers Credit rating agencies play an essential role in the modern financial system and are relied on by creditors and investors on the market. In the recent financial crisis their power and reliability were often questioned yet a simple rating downgrade could threaten to bankrupt a whole country. This book examines the governance of credit rating agencies as expressed by their ability to fairly ethically and consistently assign higher rates to issuers having lesser default risks. However factors such as the drive for increased revenue and market share the inadequate business model the inadequate methodology of assessing risk opacity and inadequate internal monitoring have all been identified as critical governance failures for credit agencies. This book explores these issues and proposes some potential solutions and improvements.This will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of corporate finance finance financial economics risk management investment management and banking. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367870393

Credit to the CommunityCommunity Reinvestment and Fair Lending Policy in the United States This book provides the most comprehensive examination of community reinvestment and fair lending problems and policies currently available. It outlines the history of lending discrimination and redlining in U.S. mortgage and small business lending markets and documents the persistence of such problems today. The author explains the role that government has played in developing banking and credit markets in the United States from the creation of Alexander Hamilton's First Bank of the United States to the ongoing support government provides through the subsidization of secondary markets and through maintenance of critical regulatory infrastructure. Immergluck takes issue with those calling for deregulation of financial services - especially in the arena of fair lending and consumer protection - and gives new voice to rationales for social contract policies such as the Community Reinvestment Act. He provides new long-term analysis of the failure of federal bank regulators to enforce the CRA and also shows how increased community activism and media attention have led to sporadic periods of stronger CRA enforcement. Finally he recommends a number of policy changes that are needed to modernize the nation's fair lending and community reinvestment laws and make them more relevant for the 21st century. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315498133

Creep and Long-Term Strength of Metals Creep and Creep Rupture of Metals is devoted to the fundamental description of the phenomenon of creep which occurs widely in high-temperature deformation of metals. Special attention is paid to the analysis of long-term strength which characterizes the stress at which the metal does not fail after a predetermined time. The author details experimental and theoretical results obtained by Soviet and Russian scientists that are absent in currently available publications and demonstrates analytical methods and approaches to achieve long term strength in Metals. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367572419

Creep in Timber Structures This book brings together up to date information from research and practice about the interaction between moisture changes and mechanical loading which may lead to excessive deflections or joint movements in timber structures. It has important applications in timber engineering and consequences for national and international structural codes of practice. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367449278

Creeping Bentgrass Management Creeping bentgrass is considered the premier turfgrass species grown on golf courses and there is a growing demand for an understanding of its maintenance and management practices. Still the only comprehensive reference on the subject Creeping Bentgrass Management Second Edition helps you identify the factors that contribute to summer bentgrass decline and guides you in selecting the best approaches for stress and pest management. This full-color book delves into all aspects of modern approaches to creeping bentgrass management on golf courses. It describes the nature of mechanical physiological and environmental stresses and how they influence growth and management of creeping bentgrass. The book covers the selection of creeping bentgrass cultivars; cultural practices including mowing irrigation and topdressing; the deleterious effects of organic and inorganic layers in golf greens; and ways to limit injury due to mechanical or physical stresses. It also discusses recent advances in the management of selected diseases and soil-related maladies of creeping bentgrass—from Pythium-incited root dysfunction to dollar spot yellow tuft and blue-green algae. The focus is on common disease symptoms predisposing conditions hosts and cultural and chemical management strategies. Advances in biological disease control are also reviewed. The book offers practical guidance in selecting and using fungicides herbicides and plant growth regulators. It also discusses the use of non-selective herbicides and fumigants for the renovation of creeping bentgrass and outlines strategies for dealing with selected invertebrate pests. Throughout color photographs help you identify diseases and stresses that may be affecting your own golf course. Fully revised and updated this second edition of a bestseller features three new chapters new photographs and expanded information about diseases. Drawing on the author’s more than thirty years of experience and research it brings together a wealth of information on how to optimize creeping bentgrass health and performance. What’s New in This Edition Three new chapters covering the nature of fungicides abiotic maladies and selected invertebrate pests An expanded section on disease—double the length of the first edition Updated chapters that reflect the latest developments in creeping bentgrass management More extensive discussion of annual bluegrass problems and their management More than 100 new photos Tips from Dr. Dernoeden Watch these videos to get Dr. Dernoeden’s tips on how to control dollar spot disease and crabgrass and how to identify fairy ring. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138076907

Cremona Groups and the Icosahedron Cremona Groups and the Icosahedron focuses on the Cremona groups of ranks 2 and 3 and describes the beautiful appearances of the icosahedral group A5 in them. The book surveys known facts about surfaces with an action of A5 explores A5-equivariant geometry of the quintic del Pezzo threefold V5 and gives a proof of its A5-birational rigidity. The authors explicitly describe many interesting A5-invariant subvarieties of V5 including A5-orbits low-degree curves invariant anticanonical K3 surfaces and a mildly singular surface of general type that is a degree five cover of the diagonal Clebsch cubic surface. They also present two birational selfmaps of V5 that commute with A5-action and use them to determine the whole group of A5-birational automorphisms. As a result of this study they produce three non-conjugate icosahedral subgroups in the Cremona group of rank 3 one of them arising from the threefold V5. This book presents up-to-date tools for studying birational geometry of higher-dimensional varieties. In particular it provides readers with a deep understanding of the biregular and birational geometry of V5. Media > Books > Print Books Chapman & Hall 9781482251593

Creo Parametric 2.0 Tutorial and Multimedia DVD The eleven lessons in this tutorial introduce you to the design capabilities of Creo Parametric 2.0. The tutorial covers the major concepts and frequently used commands required to advance from a novice to an intermediate user level. Major topics include part and assembly creation and creation of engineering drawings. Also illustrated are the major functions that make Creo Parametric a parametric solid modeler. These topics are further demonstrated in the video files that come with every book. Although the commands are presented in a click-by-click manner an effort has been made in addition to showing/illustrating the command usage to explain why certain commands are being used and the relation of feature selection and construction to the overall part design philosophy. Simply knowing where commands can be found is only half the battle. As is pointed out numerous times in the text creating useful and effective models of parts and assemblies requires advance planning and forethought. Moreover since error recovery is an important skill considerable time is spent exploring the created models. In fact some errors are intentionally induced so that users will become comfortable with the “debugging” phase of model creation. At the end of each lesson is a short quiz reviewing the new topics covered in that chapter. Following the quiz are several simple "exercise" parts that can be created using new commands taught in that lesson. In addition to these an ongoing project throughout the book is also included. This project consists of several parts that are introduced with the early lessons and finally assembled at the end. Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781585038152

Creo Parametric 3.0 Advanced Tutorial The purpose of Creo Parametric 3.0 Advanced Tutorial is to introduce you to some of the more advanced features commands and functions in Creo Parametric. Each lesson concentrates on a few of the major topics and the text attempts to explain the “why’s” of the commands in addition to a concise step-by-step description of new command sequences. This book is suitable for a second course in Creo Parametric and for users who understand the features already covered in Roger Toogood’s Creo Parametric Tutorial. The style and approach of the previous tutorial have been maintained from the previous book and the text picks up right were the last tutorial left off. The material covered in this tutorial represents an overview of what is felt to be the most commonly used and important functions. These include customization of the working environment advanced feature creation (sweeps round sets draft and tweaks UDF’s patterns and family tables) layers Pro/PROGRAM and advanced drawing and assembly functions. Creo Parametric 3.0 Advanced Tutorial consists of eight lessons. A continuing theme throughout the lessons is the creation of parts for a medium-sized modeling project. The project consists of a small three-wheeled utility cart. Project parts are given at the end of each lesson that utilize functions presented earlier in that lesson. Final assembly is performed in the last lesson. Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781585039852

Creo Parametric 3.0 Tutorial The eleven lessons in this tutorial introduce you to the design capabilities of Creo Parametric 3.0. The tutorial covers the major concepts and frequently used commands required to advance from a novice to an intermediate user level. Major topics include part and assembly creation and creation of engineering drawings. Also illustrated are the major functions that make Creo Parametric a parametric solid modeler. Although the commands are presented in a click-by-click manner an effort has been made in addition to showing/illustrating the command usage to explain why certain commands are being used and the relation of feature selection and construction to the overall part design philosophy. Simply knowing where commands can be found is only half the battle. As is pointed out numerous times in the text creating useful and effective models of parts and assemblies requires advance planning and forethought. Moreover since error recovery is an important skill considerable time is spent exploring the created models. In fact some errors are intentionally induced so that users will become comfortable with the “debugging” phase of model creation. At the end of each lesson is a short quiz reviewing the new topics covered in that chapter. Following the quiz are several simple "exercise" parts that can be created using new commands taught in that lesson. In addition to these an ongoing project throughout the book is also included. This project consists of several parts that are introduced with the early lessons and finally assembled at the end. Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781585039487

Creo Parametric 4.0 Advanced Tutorial The purpose of Creo Parametric 4.0 Advanced Tutorial is to introduce you to some of the more advanced features commands and functions in Creo Parametric. Each lesson concentrates on a few of the major topics and the text attempts to explain the “why’s” of the commands in addition to a concise step-by-step description of new command sequences. This book is suitable for a second course in Creo Parametric and for users who understand the features already covered in Roger Toogood’s Creo Parametric Tutorial. The style and approach of the previous tutorial have been maintained from the previous book and the text picks up right were the last tutorial left off. The material covered in this tutorial represents an overview of what is felt to be the most commonly used and important functions. These include customization of the working environment advanced feature creation (sweeps round sets draft and tweaks UDF’s patterns and family tables) layers Pro/PROGRAM and advanced drawing and assembly functions. Creo Parametric 4.0 Advanced Tutorial consists of eight lessons. A continuing theme throughout the lessons is the creation of parts for a medium-sized modeling project. The project consists of a small three-wheeled utility cart. Project parts are given at the end of each lesson that utilize functions presented earlier in that lesson. Final assembly is performed in the last lesson. Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781630570972

Creo Parametric 4.0 Tutorial The eleven lessons in this tutorial introduce you to the design capabilities of Creo Parametric 4.0. The tutorial covers the major concepts and frequently used commands required to advance from a novice to an intermediate user level. Major topics include part and assembly creation and creation of engineering drawings. Also illustrated are the major functions that make Creo Parametric a parametric solid modeler. Although the commands are presented in a click-by-click manner an effort has been made in addition to showing/illustrating the command usage to explain why certain commands are being used and the relation of feature selection and construction to the overall part design philosophy. Simply knowing where commands can be found is only half the battle. As is pointed out numerous times in the text creating useful and effective models of parts and assemblies requires advance planning and forethought. Moreover since error recovery is an important skill considerable time is spent exploring the created models. In fact some errors are intentionally induced so that users will become comfortable with the “debugging” phase of model creation. At the end of each lesson is a short quiz reviewing the new topics covered in that chapter. Following the quiz are several simple "exercise" parts that can be created using new commands taught in that lesson. In addition to these an ongoing project throughout the book is also included. This project consists of several parts that are introduced with the early lessons and finally assembled at the end. Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781630570910

Creo Parametric 5.0 Advanced Tutorial The purpose of Creo Parametric 5.0 Advanced Tutorial is to introduce you to some of the more advanced features commands and functions in Creo Parametric. Each lesson concentrates on a few of the major topics and the text attempts to explain the “why’s” of the commands in addition to a concise step-by-step description of new command sequences. This book is suitable for a second course in Creo Parametric and for users who understand the features already covered in Roger Toogood’s Creo Parametric Tutorial. The style and approach of the previous tutorial have been maintained from the previous book and the text picks up right where the last tutorial left off. The material covered in this tutorial represents an overview of what is felt to be the most commonly used and important functions. These include customization of the working environment advanced feature creation (sweeps round sets draft and tweaks UDFs patterns and family tables) layers Pro/PROGRAM and advanced drawing and assembly functions. Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781630572105

Creo Parametric 5.0 Tutorial The eleven lessons in this tutorial introduce you to the design capabilities of Creo Parametric 5.0. The tutorial covers the major concepts and frequently used commands required to advance from a novice to an intermediate user level. Major topics include part and assembly creation and creation of engineering drawings. Also illustrated are the major functions that make Creo Parametric a parametric solid modeler. Although the commands are presented in a click-by-click manner an effort has been made in addition to showing/illustrating the command usage to explain why certain commands are being used and the relation of feature selection and construction to the overall part design philosophy. Simply knowing where commands can be found is only half the battle. As is pointed out numerous times in the text creating useful and effective models of parts and assemblies requires advance planning and forethought.   Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781630572075

Creo Parametric 6.0 Advanced Tutorial Creo Parametric 6.0 Advanced Tutorial introduces you to some of the more advanced features commands and functions in Creo Parametric. Each lesson concentrates on a few of the major topics and the text attempts to explain the “why’s” of the commands in addition to a concise step-by-step description of new command sequences. This book is suitable for a second course in Creo Parametric and for users who understand the features already covered in the author's Creo Parametric Tutorial. The style and approach of the previous tutorial have been maintained from the previous book and the text picks up right where the last tutorial left off. The material covered in this tutorial represents an overview of what is felt to be the most commonly used and important functions. These include customization of the working environment advanced feature creation (sweeps round sets draft and tweaks UDFs patterns and family tables) layers Pro/PROGRAM and advanced drawing and assembly functions. Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781630572853

Creo Parametric 6.0 Tutorial The eleven lessons in this tutorial introduce you to the design capabilities of Creo Parametric 6.0. The tutorial covers the major concepts and frequently used commands required to advance from a novice to an intermediate user level. Major topics include part and assembly creation and creation of engineering drawings. Also illustrated are the major functions that make Creo Parametric a parametric solid modeler. Although the commands are presented in a click-by-click manner an effort has been made in addition to showing/illustrating the command usage to explain why certain commands are being used and the relation of feature selection and construction to the overall part design philosophy. Simply knowing where commands can be found is only half the battle. As is pointed out numerous times in the text creating useful and effective models of parts and assemblies requires advance planning and forethought.   Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781630572914

Creo Parametric 7.0 Advanced Tutorial The purpose of Creo Parametric 7.0 Advanced Tutorial is to introduce you to some of the more advanced features commands and functions in Creo Parametric. Each lesson concentrates on a few of the major topics and the text attempts to explain the "why’s" of the commands in addition to a concise step-by-step description of new command sequences.This book is suitable for a second course in Creo Parametric and for users who understand the features already covered in Roger Toogood’s Creo Parametric Tutorial. The style and approach of the previous tutorial have been maintained from the previous book and the text picks up right where the last tutorial left off.The material covered in this tutorial represents an overview of what is felt to be the most commonly used and important functions. These include customization of the working environment advanced feature creation (sweeps round sets draft and tweaks UDFs patterns and family tables) layers Pro/PROGRAM and advanced drawing and assembly functions.Creo Parametric 7.0 Advanced Tutorial consists of eight lessons. A continuing theme throughout the lessons is the creation of parts for a medium-sized modeling project. The project consists of a small three-wheeled utility cart. Project parts are given at the end of each lesson that utilize functions presented earlier in that lesson. Final assembly is performed in the last lesson. Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781630573782

Creo Parametric 7.0 Tutorial The eleven lessons in this tutorial introduce you to the design capabilities of Creo Parametric 7.0. The tutorial covers the major concepts and frequently used commands required to advance from a novice to an intermediate user level. Major topics include part and assembly creation and creation of engineering drawings. Also illustrated are the major functions that make Creo Parametric a parametric solid modeler. Although the commands are presented in a click-by-click manner an effort has been made in addition to showing/illustrating the command usage to explain why certain commands are being used and the relation of feature selection and construction to the overall part design philosophy. Simply knowing where commands can be found is only half the battle. As is pointed out numerous times in the text creating useful and effective models of parts and assemblies requires advance planning and forethought. Moreover since error recovery is an important skill considerable time is spent exploring the created models. In fact some errors are intentionally induced so that users will become comfortable with the “debugging” phase of model creation. At the end of each lesson is a short quiz reviewing the new topics covered in that chapter. Following the quiz are several simple "exercise" parts that can be created using new commands taught in that lesson. In addition to these an ongoing project throughout the book is also included. This project consists of several parts that are introduced with the early lessons and finally assembled at the end. This book has been written specifically with students in mind. Typically students enter their first CAD course with a broad range of abilities both in spatial visualization and computer skills. The approach taken here is meant to allow accessibility to persons of all levels. These lessons therefore were written for new users with no previous experience with CAD although some familiarity with computers is assumed. Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781630573737

Creo Simulate 3.0 Tutorial Creo Simulate 3.0 Tutorial introduces new users to finite element analysis using Creo Simulate and how it can be used to analyze a variety of problems. The tutorial lessons cover the major concepts and frequently used commands required to progress from a novice to an intermediate user level. The commands are presented in a click-by-click manner using simple examples and exercises that illustrate a broad range of the analysis types that can be performed. In addition to showing the command usage the text will explain why certain commands are being used and where appropriate the relation of commands to the overall Finite Element Analysis (FEA) philosophy are explained. Moreover since error analysis is an important skill considerable time is spent exploring the created models so that users will become comfortable with the “debugging” phase of modeling. This textbook is written for first-time FEA users in general and Creo Simulate users in particular. After a brief introduction to finite element modeling the tutorial introduces the major concepts behind the use of Creo Simulate to perform Finite Element Analysis of parts. These include: modes of operation element types design studies (analysis sensitivity studies organization) and the major steps for setting up a model (materials loads constraints analysis type) studying convergence of the solution and viewing the results. Both 2D and 3D problems are treated.   Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781585039876

Creo Simulate 4.0 Tutorial Creo Simulate 4.0 Tutorial introduces new users to finite element analysis using Creo Simulate and how it can be used to analyze a variety of problems. The tutorial lessons cover the major concepts and frequently used commands required to progress from a novice to an intermediate user level. The commands are presented in a click-by-click manner using simple examples and exercises that illustrate a broad range of the analysis types that can be performed. In addition to showing the command usage the text will explain why certain commands are being used and where appropriate the relation of commands to the overall Finite Element Analysis (FEA) philosophy are explained. Moreover since error analysis is an important skill considerable time is spent exploring the created models so that users will become comfortable with the “debugging” phase of modeling. This textbook is written for first-time FEA users in general and Creo Simulate users in particular. After a brief introduction to finite element modeling the tutorial introduces the major concepts behind the use of Creo Simulate to perform Finite Element Analysis of parts. These include: modes of operation element types design studies (analysis sensitivity studies organization) and the major steps for setting up a model (materials loads constraints analysis type) studying convergence of the solution and viewing the results. Both 2D and 3D problems are covered. This tutorial deals exclusively with operation in integrated mode with Creo Parametric. It is suitable for use with both Releases 4.0 of Creo Simulate. Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781630570934

Creo Simulate 5.0 Tutorial Creo Simulate 5.0 Tutorial introduces new users to finite element analysis using Creo Simulate and how it can be used to analyze a variety of problems. The tutorial lessons cover the major concepts and frequently used commands required to progress from a novice to an intermediate user level. The commands are presented in a click-by-click manner using simple examples and exercises that illustrate a broad range of the analysis types that can be performed. In addition to showing the command usage the text will explain why certain commands are being used and where appropriate the relation of commands to the overall Finite Element Analysis (FEA) philosophy are explained. Moreover since error analysis is an important skill considerable time is spent exploring the created models so that users will become comfortable with the “debugging” phase of modeling. Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781630572082

Creo Simulate 6.0 Tutorial Creo Simulate 6.0 Tutorial introduces new users to finite element analysis using Creo Simulate and how it can be used to analyze a variety of problems. The tutorial lessons cover the major concepts and frequently used commands required to progress from a novice to an intermediate user level. The commands are presented in a click-by-click manner using simple examples and exercises that illustrate a broad range of the analysis types that can be performed. In addition to showing the command usage the text will explain why certain commands are being used and where appropriate the relation of commands to the overall Finite Element Analysis (FEA) philosophy are explained. Moreover since error analysis is an important skill considerable time is spent exploring the created models so that users will become comfortable with the “debugging” phase of modeling.   Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781630572969

Creo Simulate 7.0 Tutorial Creo Simulate 7.0 Tutorial introduces new users to finite element analysis using Creo Simulate and how it can be used to analyze a variety of problems. The tutorial lessons cover the major concepts and frequently used commands required to progress from a novice to an intermediate user level. The commands are presented in a click-by-click manner using simple examples and exercises that illustrate a broad range of the analysis types that can be performed. In addition to showing the command usage the text will explain why certain commands are being used and where appropriate the relation of commands to the overall Finite Element Analysis (FEA) philosophy are explained. Moreover since error analysis is an important skill considerable time is spent exploring the created models so that users will become comfortable with the "debugging" phase of modeling.This textbook is written for first-time FEA users in general and Creo Simulate users in particular. After a brief introduction to finite element modeling the tutorial introduces the major concepts behind the use of Creo Simulate to perform Finite Element Analysis of parts. These include modes of operation element types design studies (analysis sensitivity studies organization) and the major steps for setting up a model (materials loads constraints analysis type) studying convergence of the solution and viewing the results. Both 2D and 3D problems are covered.This tutorial deals exclusively with operation in integrated mode with Creo Parametric. It is suitable for use with both Releases 7.0 of Creo Simulate. Media > Books > Print Books SDC Publications 9781630573829

Creole GentlemenThe Maryland Elite 1691-1776 Examining the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland Burnard traces the development of this elite from a hard-living profit-driven merchant-planter class in the seventeenth century to a more genteel class of plantation owners in the eighteenth century. This study innovatively compares these men to their counterparts elsewhere in the British Empire including absentee Caribbean landowners and East Indian nabobs illustrating their place in the Atlantic economic network. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315023427

CreolizationHistory Ethnography Theory Social scientists have used the term "Creolization" to evoke cultural fusion and the emergence of new cultures across the globe. However the term has been under-theorized and tends to be used as a simple synonym for "mixture" or "hybridity." In this volume by contrast renowned scholars give the term historical and theoretical specificity by examining the very different domains and circumstances in which the process takes place. Elucidating the concept in this way not only uncovers a remarkable history it also re-opens the term for new theoretical use. It illuminates an ill-understood idea explores how the term has operated and signified in different disciplines times and places and indicates new areas of study for a dynamic and fascinating process. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315431338

Crespar Findings (1994-1999)In Memory of John H. Hollifield. A Special Double Issue of the journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk This double issue presents summaries of the scholarly and practical-reform accomplishments of the first five years of the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR). This bold five-year initiative addressed several of the problems that most directly challenge the values and practical aspirations of modern democracies. The included articles emphasize how CRESPAR has focused on the schools in many of America's most challenging communities. It has both helped local schools improve themselves and advanced the nation's research base. This issue was written in commemoration of the life and work of John Henry Hollifield Jr. founding coeditor. For 28 years Hollifield served as an editor and administrator at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Social Organization of Schools. When JESPAR was just an idea Hollifield was one of the people who most strongly advocated its development. He had a ready smile a fine editorial touch and a relentless will to produce each excellent issue. This issue summarizing much of the research from CRESPAR's first five years is presented by the full team of authors in his loving memory. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9780203764916

Cretaceous Fossils of South-Central AfricaAn Illustrated Guide This book serves as an introduction to the Cretaceous geology and palaeontology of south-central Africa covering the whole of Southern and Eastern Africa and Angola. Fifty two plates illustrate almost 1000 species and provide a field guide to the macrofossils of the subcontinent. The book will be of value to field geologists students and non-specialists with an interest in the natural world. A bibliography of the Cretaceous palaeontology and stratigraphy of the subcontinent is provided. Features: Provides a concise account of the Cretaceous geology for 13 African regions Includes beautiful illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography Fossils are presented in stratigraphical order allowing easy determination of the age deposits. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138336520

CretomaniaModern Desires for the Minoan Past Since its rediscovery in the early 20th century through spectacular finds such as those by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos Minoan Crete has captured the imagination not only of archaeologists but also of a wider public. This is shown among other things by its appearance and uses in a variety of modern cultural practices: from the innovative dances of Sergei Diaghilev and Ted Shawn to public and vernacular architecture psychoanalysis literature sculpture fashion designs and even neo-pagan movements to mention a few examples.Cretomania is the first volume entirely devoted to such modern responses to (and uses of) the Minoan past. Although not an exhaustive and systematic study of the reception of Minoan Crete it offers a wide range of intriguing examples and represents an original contribution to a thus far underexplored aspect of Minoan studies: the remarkable effects of Minoan Crete beyond the narrow boundaries of recondite archaeological research.The volume is organised in three main sections: the first deals with the conscious unconscious and coincidental allusions to Minoan Crete in modern architecture and also discusses archaeological reconstructions; the second presents examples from the visual and performing arts (as well as other cultural practices) illustrating how Minoan Crete has been enlisted to explore and challenge questions of Orientalism religion sexuality and gender relations; the third focuses on literature and shows how the distant Minoan past has been used to interrogate critically more recent Greek history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367881481

Crew Resource ManagementCritical Essays Crew Resource Management (CRM) training was first introduced in the late 1970s as a means to combating an increased number of accidents in which poor teamwork in the cockpit was a significant contributing factor. Since then CRM training has expanded beyond the cockpit for example to cabin crews maintenance crews health care teams nuclear power teams and offshore oil teams. Not only has CRM expanded across communities it has also drawn from a host of theories from multiple disciplines and evolved through a number of generations. Furthermore a host of methodologies and tools have been developed that have allowed the community to better study and measure its effect on team performance and ultimately safety. Lacking however is a forum in which researchers and practitioners alike can turn to in order to understand where CRM has come from and where it is going. This volume part of the 'Critical Essays on Human Factors in Aviation' series proposes to do just that by providing a selection of readings which depicts the past present and future of CRM research and training. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315258997

Crewe: Railway Town Company and People 1840–1914 This is an important contribution to the new urban history describing and analysing one of the best examples of a company town in nineteenth-century Europe. This archetypal railway town was built on a green-field site by a railway company in 1842-3. It was a major junction an administrative centre and an important manufacturing centre. Thus it provides an ideal arena in which to study the relationship between company and people and the effects of this claustrophobic association on emerging economic and social structure and politics in the era of large-scale development and modernisation in Europe and America. Dianne Drummond applies the full range of modern urban-historical approaches in this work. It is a shining example of the ways in which new techniques in research analysis and comparison can redraw the best-known histories. It will be essential reading for urban historians. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315258980

Cricket Literature and CultureSymbolising the Nation Destabilising Empire In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the mid 1980s. Examining newspaper accounts instructional books fiction poetry and the work of editors anthologists and historians Bateman elaborates the ways in which a long tradition of literary discourse produced cricket's cultural status and meaning. His critique of writing about cricket leads to the rediscovery of little-known texts and the reinterpretation of well-known works by authors as diverse as Neville Cardus James Joyce the Great War poets and C.L.R. James. Beginning with mid-eighteenth century accounts of cricket that provide essential background Bateman examines the literary evolution of cricket writing against the backdrop of key historical moments such as the Great War the 1926 General Strike and the rise of Communism. Several case studies show that cricket simultaneously asserted English ideals and created anxiety about imperialism while cricket's distinctively colonial aesthetic is highlighted through Bateman's examination of the discourse surrounding colonial cricket tours and cricketers like Prince Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji of India and Sir Learie Constantine of Trinidad. Featuring an extensive bibliography Bateman's book shows that while the discourse surrounding cricket was key to its status as a symbol of nation and empire the embodied practice of the sport served to destabilise its established cultural meaning in the colonial and postcolonial contexts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138261969

Cricket Migration and Diasporic Communities Ever since different communities began processes of global migration sport has been an integral feature in how we conceptualise and experience the notion of being part of a diaspora. Sport provides diasporic communities with a powerful means for creating transnational ties but also shapes ideas of their ethnic and racial identities. In spite of this theories of diaspora have been applied sparingly to sporting discourses. Despite W.G. Grace’s claim that cricket advances civilisation by promoting a common bond binding together peoples of vastly different backgrounds to this day cricket operates strict symbolic boundaries; defining those who do and equally do not belong. C.L.R. James’ now famous metaphor of looking ‘beyond the boundary’ captures the belief that to fully understand the significance of cricket and the sport’s roles in changing and shaping society one must consider the wider social and political contexts within which the game is played. Contributions to this volume do just that. Cricket acts as their point of departure but the way in which ideas of power representation and inequality are ‘played out’ is unique in each. This book was published as a special issue of Identities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138086456

Cricket Race and the 2007 World Cup Cricket has been subject to a number of changes over the last twenty years. We can no longer talk of a sport particular to an out-dated English way of life. Cricket has become global and has to exist within the global environment. Primarily the world game has become commercialised. This collection of essays assesses the developments within major playing nations between the World Cups. Do we now live in a world where commercialism is the primary factor in determining sports or are wider historical prejudices still evident? Seeking to answer these questions Cricket Race & the 2007 World Cup focuses on racial and ethnic tensions and their place in the new globalized cricketing environment. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315879017

Cricket and EmpireThe 1932-33 Bodyline Tour of Australia A great depression worsening Anglo-Australian relations the declining British Empire and the challenge from an Australia striving to find a national identity are the context which explain bodyline and its repercussions. Bodyline was a watershed in the history of cricket and politics were publicly seen as part of sport. This book offers a radical reappraisal of bodyline which challenges the official interpretations of the events and places them in a unique social and political context. . Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138990463

Cricket and EnglandA Cultural and Social History of Cricket in England between the Wars Looking at the inter-war period this work explores the relationship between cricket and English social and cultural values. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203044636

Cricket in Colonial India 1780 – 1947 This is an exacting social history of Indian cricket between 1780 and 1947. It considers cricket as a derivative sport creatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations.  Majumdar argues that cricket was a means to cross class barriers and had a healthy following even outside the aristocracy and upper middle classes well over a century ago. Indeed in some ways the democratization of the sport anticipated the democratization of the Indian polity itself. Boria Majumdar reveals the appropriation assimilation and subversion of cricketing ideals in colonial and post-colonial India for nationalist ends. He exposes a sport rooted in the contingencies of the colonial and post-colonial context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. Cricket to put it simply is much more than a ‘game’ for Indians. This study describes how the genealogy of their intense engagement with cricket stretches back over a century. It is concerned not only with the game but also with the end of cricket as a mere sport with Indian cricket’s commercial revolution in the 1930s with ideals and idealism and their relative unimportance with the decline of morality for reasons of realpolitik and with the denunciation once and for all of the view that sport and politics do not mix.    This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport  Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138883512

Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game 1945-2017 Cricket is an enduring paradox. On the one hand it symbolises much that is outmoded: imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural aristocratic Englishness. On the other it endures as a global game and does so by skilful adaptation trading partly on its mythic past and partly on its capacity to repackage itself. This ambitious new history recounts the politics of cricket around the world since the Second World War examining key cultural and political themes including decolonisation racism gender globalisation corruption and commercialisation. Part One looks at the transformation of cricket cultures in the ten territories of the former British Empire in the years immediately after 1945 a time when decolonisation and the search for national identity touched every cricket playing region in the world. Part Two focuses on globalisation and the game’s evolution as an international sport analysing: social change and the Ashes; the campaigns for new cricket formats; the development of the women’s game; the new breed of coach; the limits to the game’s global expansion; and the rise of India as the world’s leading cricket power. Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game 1945-2017 is fascinating reading for anybody interested in the contemporary history of sport. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367186111

Crim Just & Soc Recon Ils 203 First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415863841

Crime Crime films have since the earliest days of cinema been popular with audiences industry and critics alike and encompassed a diverse range of subjects styles and themes. The genre provides a range of pleasures for the spectator from taking on the role of the detective in the pursuit of clues in the ‘whodunit’ to the more illicit thrills of identification with an anti hero. In the many incarnations of the crime film such as the gangster film noir political and detective thrillers the genre explores the anxieties of different historical moments. Sarah Casey Benyahia provides an overview of the development of the crime film and examines the key theories and ideas involved in the study of the genre. These include; the investigative structure and narration of the crime film the aesthetics of violence and issues of representation and ideology. These areas are explored through contemporary and classic Hollywood and European cinema with case studies on the history of the genre the role of the detective the 'family crime' film and the conspiracy thriller. Crime provides a broad framework to the study of the genre through the introduction of narrative genre and audience theories as well as detailed analysis of specific films. Films discussed include: Scarface (1932) Mildred Pierce (1945) Dirty Harry (1971) The Parallax View (1974) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Mystic River (2002) Hidden (2005) Gone Baby Gone (2007) Zodiac (2007) The Millennium Trilogy (2009) The Secret in Their Eyes (2010) Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415581417

Crime Abuse and the Elderly This book examines and analyses the experiences of older people as both victims and perpetrators of crime. Drawing upon a wealth of research from British and North American sources the authors detail the historical experience of the elderly as victims the extent of present-day criminal victimisation in the home and institutions the social theories which attempt to explain that experience and the types of resolution available.The book also addresses the experiences of elderly people in the criminal justice process - the offences to which they are prone and the implications for penal policy of an increase in the elderly penal population.Crime Abuse and the Elderly breaks new ground in its focus on the experiences of elderly people as criminal victims in private space its insistence on a proper engagement of criminology with crimes involving older people and in its argument that much so-called abuse can be explained criminologically and should be dealt with by the criminal justice system rather than by treatment and welfare agencies. It will be essential reading for students academics and professionals concerned with the experiences of the elderly. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843924371

Crime Bodies and SpaceTowards an Ethical Approach to Urban Policies in the Information Age With cities increasingly following rigid rules for designing out crime and producing spaces under surveillance this book asks how information shapes bodies space and ultimately policymaking. In recent years public spaces have changed in Western countries with the urban realm becoming an ever-more monitored privatised homogeneous and aseptic space that has lost its character uniqueness and diversity in the name of ‘security’. This underpins precise moral and political choices in terms of what a space should be how it can be used and by whom. These choices generate material consequences concerning urban inequality and freedom or otherwise of movement. Based on ethnographic and autoethnographic explorations in London’s ‘criminal’ spaces this book illustrates how rules policies and moral values far from being abstract concepts are in fact material. Outlining the basis of a new urban information ethics the book both exposes and challenges how moral values and predefined categories are applied to and materially shape the movement of bodies in urban space with regard to crime and security policies. Drawing on Gilbert Simondon’s information theory and a wide range of work in urban studies geography and planning as well as in surveillance studies object-oriented ontology and contemporary theoretical work on both materiality and affect the book provides a radically new perspective on urban space in general and crime and security in particular. This book uses a balanced mix of theoretical concepts and empirical study to bring theory and practice together in an intertwining of ethnography and autoethnography.This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of urban studies urban geography sociology surveillance studies legal theory socio-legal studies planning law environmental law and land law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367075996

Crime Community and Locale: The Northern Ireland Communities Crime SurveyThe Northern Ireland Communities Crime Survey This title was first published in 2000:  This text reports on the findings of the Communities Crime Survey a communities-based survey carried out within Northern Ireland. The survey asked a number of questions beyond the usual remit of local crime surveys in order to explore more fully a whole range of issues relating to the experience of living in a society where more obvious manifestations of conflict are beginning to recede and other more mundane but still important issues relating to crime and policing are coming to the fore. The book aims to go behind the headlines of violence and political conflict to examine how people in a range of communities in Northern Ireland experience a whole range of factors relating to crime policing and the general experience of living within their particular communities. The process of change is far from over in Northern Ireland and this book indicates how some of the central issues that must be resolved are perceived by a range of ordinary people in various urban and rural communities in religiously segregated and integrated communities and those with different levels of income and social infrastructure. The experiences and attitudes gathered are important in understanding how the process of change and development in this society might be advanced and what lessons might be offered to elsewhere. The survey ultimately concludes that Northern Ireland is neither a homogeneous entity nor a society that is simply divided on religious and/or political grounds. Rather it is a society that is divided by religion and politics but also by a number of other variables including geography gender age socio-economic class and ethnic origin all of which in part influence people's experiences and attitudes towards crime and policing. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138729711

Crime Community and Morality Political leaders and the popular press tell us that society is in the grip of a moral crisis. ‘Where have our values gone?’ our newspapers scream at us. ‘Benefit scroungers’ ‘greedy bankers’ ‘intrusive journalists’ ‘have-a-go rioters’ political scandals and criminals of all shapes and sizes are continually cited as evidence that we live in a modern-day Gomorrah. Criminologists have studied this in several ways including: media representations of crime mass incarceration hooliganism and the exercise of power and control through communities. What criminologists have not studied is the place of morality in shaping public debate about understanding crime and how this then shapes crime control strategies. Rather than dismiss statements about community breakdown ‘broken society’ and irresponsibility as ideological self-justificatory rhetoric what happens when we take these claims seriously? What do they tell us about the causes of crime? How do they shape the crime control agenda? How else might we begin to understand and explain the relationship between crime and society? Navigating between criminological concerns about control and governance and social theories about culture and identity this book explores what is meant by crime community and morality and puts this meaning to the test. Discussion of a new theory of rule-breaking combined with an analysis of how our justice system is becoming maladapted makes this essential reading for criminologists around the globe as well as those general readers interested in the causes of crime. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138120310

Crime Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain 1700-1850 Modern criminal courts are characteristically the domain of lawyers with trials conducted in an environment of formality and solemnity where facts are found and legal rules are impartially applied to administer justice. Recent historical scholarship has shown that in England lawyers only began to appear in ordinary criminal trials during the eighteenth century however and earlier trials often took place in an atmosphere of noise and disorder where the behaviour of the crowd - significant body language meaningful looks and audible comment - could influence decisively the decisions of jurors and judges. This collection of essays considers this transition from early scenes of popular participation to the much more orderly and professional legal proceedings typical of the nineteenth century and links this with another important shift the mushroom growth of popular news and comment about trials and punishments which occurred from the later seventeenth century. It hypothesizes that the popular participation which had been a feature of courtroom proceedings before the mid-eighteenth century was not stifled by ’lawyerization’ but rather partly relocated to the ’public sphere’ of the press partly because of some changes connected with the work of the lawyers. Ranging from the early 1700s to the mid-nineteenth century and taking account of criminal justice proceedings in Scotland as well as England the essays consider whether pamphlets newspapers ballads and crime fiction provided material for critical perceptions of criminal justice proceedings or alternatively helped to convey the official ’majesty’ intended to legitimize the law. In so doing the volume opens up fascinating vistas upon the cultural history of Britain’s legal system over the ’long eighteenth century'. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409418030

Crime Criminal Justice and Masculinities This volume features the leading contemporary articles that are part of or related to the 'new masculinities' approach in this sphere. These comprise an impressive range of theoretical and empirical work including important cultural and ethnographic analyses. They emphasise the relationship between masculinities the causes and patterns of most criminal offending and victimisation and the broader workings of the wider criminal justice system of policing (public and private) criminal courts corrections and prisons. All of the material has been selected from flagship international journals and was produced by a global mix of male and female researchers with diverse disciplinary backgrounds. These scholars share the view that masculinities are plural socially constructed reproduced in the collective social practices of different men and embedded in institutional and occupational settings. Furthermore masculinities are intricately linked with social struggles for power that occur between men and women and different men. Crime criminal justice and their cultural representation are key terrain for these masculine contests and are always overlain with issues such as social class age race/ethnicity and sexuality. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315095295

Crime Desire and Law's UnconsciousLaw Literature and Culture Sexual desire and the possible dangers associated with its more extreme manifestations  provokes strong albeit often contradictory reactions. Such reactions are a well-known stimulant of creative juridical and scholarly activity and the texts of law literature and academic criticism respond to it in ways that suggest both of revulsion and fascination. But how are we to understand such responses and what can they tell us about the relationship between law and its‘others’? Exploring these questions in the context of HIV transmission on-street sexual exploitation and erotic asphyxiation this book draws on psychoanalytic theory in order to understand the motivations behind legal literary and cultural constructions of sexual offences their perpetrators and victims. Its analysis of these constructions in a diverse range of sources - including appeal judgments in England & Wales and North America criminal trials and their reporting visual and linguistic cultures and both modern and ‘classical’ literature – will be of great interest to legal theorists and socio-legal scholars as well as those with relevant concerns in the fields of literature and cultural studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138100237

Crime Disorder and Community Safety This book provides an analytic overview and assessment of the changing nature of crime prevention disorder and community safety in contemporary society. Bringing together nine original articles from leading national and international authorities on these issues the book examines recent developments in relation to a number of specific groups - the disadvantaged the socially excluded youth women and ethnic minorities. Topics covered include:* the increase in local authority responsibility for crime control and community safety* the development of inter-agency alliances* the changing nature of policing * the passing of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203470992

Crime Drugs and Social TheoryA Phenomenological Approach Do criminal cultures generate drug use? Crime Drugs and Social Theory critiques conventional academic and policy thinking concerning the relationship between urban deprivation crime and drug use. Chris Allen outlines an innovative constructionist phenomenological perspective to explore these relationships in a new light. He discusses how people living in deprived urban areas develop ’natural attitudes’ towards activities such as crime and drug use that are prevalent in the social worlds they inhabit and shows that this produces forms of articulation such as ’I don’t know why I take drugs’ ’I just take them’ and ’drugs come naturally to me’. He then draws on his constructionist phenomenology to help understand the ’natural attitude’ towards crime and drugs that emerge from conditions of urban deprivation as well as the non-reasoned forms of articulation that emerge from this attitude. The book argues that understanding the conditions in which drug users deviate from their ’natural attitude’ can help effective intervention in the lives of drug users. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138257214

Crime Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England Whilst the actual origins of English consumer culture are a source of much debate it is clear that the nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in retailing and consumption. Mass production of goods improved transport facilities and more sophisticated sales techniques brought consumerism to the masses on a scale previously unimaginable. Yet with this new consumerism came new problems and challenges. Focusing on retailing in nineteenth-century Britain this book traces the expansion of commodity culture and a mass consumer orientated market and explores the wider social and cultural implications this had for society. Using trial records advertisements newspaper reports literature and popular ballads it analyses the rise criticism and entrenchment of consumerism by looking at retail changes around the period 1800-1880 and society's responses to them. By viewing this in the context of what had gone before Professor Whitlock emphasizes the key role women played in this evolution and argues that the dazzling new world of consumption had beginnings that predate the later English French and American department store cultures. It also challenges the view that women were helpless consumers manipulated by merchants' use of colour light and display into excessive purchases or even driven by their desires into acts of theft. With its interdisciplinary approach drawing on social and economic history gender studies cultural studies and the history of crime this study asks fascinating questions regarding the nature of consumer culture and how society reacts to the challenges this creates. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138251427

Crime Harm and Consumerism This book offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on the relationship between crime harm and consumer culture. Although consumer culture has been addressed across the social sciences it has yet to be fully explored in criminology. The editors bring together an impressive list of authors with original ideas and a fresh perspective to this field. The collection first introduces the reader to three sets of ideas which will be especially useful to students and researchers piecing together theoretical frameworks for their studies. New concepts such as pseudo-pacification the materialist libertine and the commodification of abstinence can be used as foundation stones for new explanatory criminological analyses in the 21st century. The collection then moves on to present case studies based on rigorous empirical work in the fields of consumption and debt ‘outlaw’ gangs illegal drug markets gambling the mentality that drives investment fraudsters and the relationship between social media and state surveillance. These case studies showcase the strength of the research skills and knowledge these scholars offer to the field of criminology. Written in a clear and direct style this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology sociology cultural studies social theory and those interested in learning about the effects of consumer culture in modern society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138388628

Crime Inequality and Power Crime Inequality and Power challenges the dominant definitions of crime and the criminal through its uniquely comparative approach. In this book Eileen Leonard analyzes multiple forms of criminal behavior in the United States including violence sexual assault theft and drug law violations whilst also asking readers to consider the parallels between crimes that are rarely thought comparable. Leonard’s juxtaposition of familiar street crimes such as car theft alongside large-scale corporate theft vividly exposes profound inequalities in the way crime is defined and the treatment it receives within the criminal justice system. Leonard’s analysis also reveals the underlying inequalities of race class and gender which enable the perpetuation of such crimes as well as calling into question the reality of fundamental American ideals of fairness and equal justice. Moreover the book questions whether current policies that punish street crime excessively while minimizing the crimes of the powerful fail to keep the public safe. A broader consideration of crime and the inequalities that underlie it offers a fresh opportunity to rethink public policies and enduring issues of crime and criminal justice. Challenging the many persistent inequalities in the perception of and response to crime this critique of American crime and punishment will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as scholars in the fields of criminology sociology and law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138820562

Crime Inequality and the State Why has crime dropped while imprisonment grows? This well-edited volume of ground-breaking articles explores criminal justice policy in light of recent research on changing patterns of crime and criminal careers. Highlighting the role of conservative social and political theory in giving rise to criminal justice policies this innovative book focuses on such policies as ‘three strikes (two in the UK) and you’re out’ mandatory sentencing and widespread incarceration of drug offenders. It highlights the costs - in both money and opportunity - of increased prison expansion and explores factors such as: labour market dynamics the rise of a ‘prison industry’ the boost prisons provide to economies of underdeveloped regions the spreading political disenfranchisement of the disadvantaged it has produced. Throughout this book hard facts and figures are accompanied by the faces and voices of the individuals and families whose lives hang in the balance. This volume an essential resource for students policy makers and researchers of criminology criminal justice social policy and criminal law uses a compelling inter-play of theoretical works and powerful empirical research to present vivid portraits of individual life experiences. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003060581

Crime Institutional Knowledge and PowerThe Rich Criminological Legacy of Richard Ericson Criminology lost a world leader with the untimely death of Richard Ericson in 2007. Ericson was one of the most prolific influential and widely cited criminologists of his generation producing monumental and pathbreaking works on how the criminal justice system and other key institutions attempt to control crime manage risk and produce security. This volume edited by three of Professor Ericson's colleagues and co-authors presents a sampling of Ericson's acclaimed work on such topics as juvenile justice policing the courts the media the insurance industry and national security. The book is required reading for scholars interested in understanding the dynamics of crime risk and security and for those eager to learn more about one of the field's most important and innovative researchers and scholars. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780754629832

Crime Justice and Public Order in Old Regime FranceThe Sénéchaussées of Libourne and Bazas 1696-1789 This title first published in 1984 is a case study of crime and criminal justice in rural southwestern France in the last century of the Old Regime. Based on extensive research in criminal court records often the only documentary evidence of the poor and illiterate the study is a valuable addition both to our knowledge of Old Regime society and to our understanding of its judicial institutions. Rural Old Regime France seethed with violence. Assault homicide and a violence of speech occurred frequently at all levels of society. The author’s finding that royal fiscal and judicial officials were recurring targets of this violence additionally contributes to our understanding of the revolutionary events ending the Old Regime. This system providing in principle for judicial torture and corporal and capital punishments for relatively minor crimes has long epitomized much that was wrong with pre-revolutionary France. But the law in principle is not the law in practice and the author finds that both local and appeals courts seldom decreed such measures. This book will be of interest to students of history and criminology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138943582

Crime Justice and Social Media How is social media changing contemporary understandings of crime and injustice and what contribution can it make to justice-seeking? Abuse on social media often involves betrayals of trust and invasions of privacy that range from the public circulation of intimate photographs to mass campaigns of public abuse and harassment using platforms such as Facebook Twitter 8chan and Reddit – forms of abuse that disproportionately target women and children. Crime Justice and Social Media argues that online abuse is not discontinuous with established patterns of inequality but rather intersects with and amplifies them. Embedded within social media platforms are inducements to abuse and harass other users who are rarely provided with the tools to protect themselves or interrupt the abuse of others. There is a relationship between the values that shape the technological design and administration of social media and those that inform the use of abuse and harassment to exclude and marginalise diverse participants in public life. Drawing on original qualitative research this book is essential reading for students and scholars in the fields of cyber-crime media and crime cultural criminology and gender and crime. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138919679

Crime Justice and Society in Scotland Crime Justice and Society in Scotland is an edited collection of chapters from leading experts that builds and expands upon the success of the 2010 publication Criminal Justice in Scotland to offer a comprehensive and critical overview of Scottish criminal justice and its relation to wider social inequalities and social justice. This new volume considers criminal justice in the context of the Scottish politics and the recent referendum on independence and it includes a discussion of the complex relationships between criminal justice and devolution nationalism and nation building. There are new chapters on research and policy sectarianism gangs victims and justice organised crime and crimes of the powerful in Scotland as well as chapters reflecting on the use of electronic monitoring desistance and practice and major changes in the structure of Scottish policing.　 Comprehensive and topical this book is essential reading for academics and students in the fields of criminal justice criminology law social science and social policy. It will also be of interest to practitioners researchers policymakers civil servants and politicians. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138924031

Crime Justice and the Media Crime Justice and the Media examines and analyses the relationship between the media and crime criminals and the criminal justice system. This expanded and fully updated third edition considers how crime and criminals have been portrayed by the media throughout history applying different theoretical perspectives to the way crime criminals and justice are reported. It also includes a new chapter that looks at the influence of film and the cinema on crime and justice. The third edition of Crime Justice and the Media focuses on the media representation of a range of different areas of crime and criminal justice including: new media technology e.g. social network sites; moral panics over specific crimes and criminals e.g. youth crime cybercrime paedophilia; media portrayal of victims of crime and criminals; how the media represent criminal justice agencies e.g. the police and prison service. This book offers a clear accessible and comprehensive analysis of theoretical thinking on the relationship between the media crime and criminal justice and a detailed examination of how crime criminals and others involved in the criminal justice process are portrayed by the media. With exercises questions and further reading in every chapter this book encourages students to engage with and respond to the material presented thereby developing a deeper understanding of the links between the media and criminality. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138362253

Crime Law and Justice in New Zealand Crime Law and Justice in New Zealand examines the recent crime trends and the social political and legal changes in New Zealand from the end of the twentieth century to the present. Serving as the only New Zealand–specific criminal justice text this book takes a direct look at what is unique about the country’s criminal justice system and recent crime trends. Crime rates peaked in the early 1990s and have fallen since. Newbold considers why this happened through factors such as economy ethnic composition changing cultural trends and legislative developments in policing and criminal justice. He unpacks various types of crime separately—violent crime property crime drug crime gang crime organised crime etc.—and examines each in terms of the various complex factors affecting it using illustrative examples from recent high-profile cases. The cover photo for Crime Law and Justice in New Zealand was taken by Jono Rotman. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138192416

Crime Law and Popular Culture in Europe 1500-1900 This book explores the relationship between crime law and popular culture in Europe from the sixteenth century onwards. How was crime understood and dealt with by ordinary people and to what degree did they resort to or reject the official law and criminal justice system as a means of dealing with different forms of criminal activity? Overall the volume will serve to illuminate how experiences of and attitudes to crime and the law may have corresponded or differed in different locations and contexts as well as contributing to a wider understanding of popular culture and consciousness in early modern and modern Europe. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843925651

Crime Law and SocietySelected Essays Malcolm Feeley’s work is well-known to scholars around the world and has influenced two generations of criminologists and legal scholars. He has written extensively on crime and the legal process and has published numerous articles in law history social science and philosophy journals; two of his books The Process is the Punishment and Court Reform on Trials have won awards. This volume brings together many of his better-known articles and essays as well as some of his lesser-known but nevertheless important contributions all of which share the common theme of the value of the rule of law albeit a more sophisticated concept than is commonly embraced. The selections also reveal the full range of his interests and the way in which his research interests have developed. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409466215

Crime Media and Culture Working broadly from the perspective of cultural criminology Crime Media and Culture engages with theories and debates about the nature of media-audience relations examines representations of crime and justice in news media and fiction and considers the growing significance of digital technologies and social media. The book discusses the multiple effects media representations of crime have on audiences but also the ways media portrayals of crime and disorder influence government policy and lawmaking. It also considers the processes by which certain stories are selected for their newsworthiness. Also examined are the theoretical conceptual and methodological underpinnings of cultural criminology and its subfields of visual criminology and narrative criminology. Drawing on case studies and empirical examples from the increasingly blurred worlds of reality and entertainment the dynamics of crime media and culture are illuminated across a range of chapters covering topics that include: moral panics/folk devils and trial by media; fear of crime; cop shows and courtroom dramas; female criminality and child-on-child killing; serial killers; surveillance new media and policing; organized crime and state crime. Crime Media and Culture will be an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in criminology and media studies. The book will also prove useful for lecturers and academic researchers wishing to explore the intersections of crime media and cultural inquiry. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138946002

Crime Policing and PlaceEssays in Environmental Criminology First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138867031

Crime Policy and the MediaThe Shaping of Criminal Justice 1989-2010 Media clamour on issues relating to crime justice and civil liberties has never been more insistent. Whether it is the murder of James Bulger or detaining terrorist suspects for long periods without trial mediated comment has grown immeasurably over the last twenty years. So how does it interact with and shape policy in these fields? How do the politicians both respond to and try to manipulate the media which permeates our society and culture? Crime Policy and the Media is the first academic text to map the relationship between a rapidly changing media and policymaking in criminal justice. Spanning the period 1989-2010 it examines a number of case studies – terrorism drugs sentencing policing and public protection amongst others – and interrogates key policy-makers (including six former Home Secretaries a former Lord Chief Justice Attorney-General senior police officers government advisers and leading commentators) about the impact of the media on their thinking and practice. Bolstered by content and framing analysis it argues that especially in the last decade fear of media criticism and the Daily Mail effect has restricted the policymaking agenda in crime and justice concluding that the expanding influence of the Internet and Web 2.0 has begun to undermine some of the ways in which agencies such as the police have gained and held a presentational advantage. Written by a former BBC Home Affairs Correspondent with unrivalled access to the highest reaches of policy-making it is both academically rigorous and accessible and will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners in media and criminal justice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415672320

Crime Protest Community and Police in Nineteenth-Century Britain This study first published in 1982 is concerned with the nature of crime in nineteenth-century Britain and explores the response of the community and the police authorities. Each chapter is linked by common themes and questions and the topics described in detail range from popular forms of rural crime and protest through crime in industrial and urban communities to a study of the vagrant. The author pays special attention to the relationship between illegal activities and protest and emphasizes the context and complexity of official crime rates and of many forms of criminal behaviour. This title will be of interest to students of history and criminology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138943292

Crime Punishment and Disease in a Relativistic Universe In Crime Punishment and Disease Antony Flew makes clear both the meaning and the implications carried by the application of the expression "mental disease." He aims to discourage its use in conditions that provide the victims of such diseases with an excuse for failing to perform what would have been their imperative duties had they enjoyed good mental health. Flew attacks the gross over-extensions of the notion of mental disease on both sides of the Atlantic. He defends human dignity and responsibility against the suggestion that we are all or most of us "sick sick sick." In particular he challenges the paternalist pretensions of people who claim a right to control and manipulate others because they are allegedly sick and consequently not responsible for what they do.In a typical ordinary disease Flew notes it is the patient who complains of the disease rather than someone else who complains about the patient. But those who claim that some crime or all crime is symptomatic of mental disease and those who identify disorders such as attention/deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as conditions requiring psychiatric attention are taking the disfavored behavior rather than the distress of their patients as the warrant for supposedly medical interventions. They should instead first consider how what they propose to call mental disease does and does not resemble syphilis measles and other communicable diseases.Flew sees his work as complementary to Thomas Szasz's. He applies a philosophical perspective to problems Szasz discusses as a psychiatrist. This work will be of particular interest to students of philosophy and politics in that it relates modern discussion of mental illness to the Plato of The Republic. Flew also takes note in this context of Samuel Butler's Erewhon. This work will be of direct relevance to criminologists as well as those interested in social welfare philosophy of education and new developments in psychiatry. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521506

Crime Risk and InsecurityLaw and Order in Everyday Life and Political Discourse This book presents new empirical and conceptual work on the questions of fear anxiety risk and trust - both as problems of everyday living and as key themes in the culture and politics of contemporary Western societies. The volume includes contributions from distinguished social researchers from Britain the United States Germany and Italy and will be of interest to academics and students in the areas of criminology and sociology. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203389492

Crime Risk and Justice Crime control has risen rapidly up the social and political agendas to become a central feature of western societies. As inequalities in society have increased so the actual and perceived risks of crime and other social ills have grown rapidly for all sections of society. Crime has become a central issue to governments and no longer just a technical operation of law enforcement and adjudication. This book is concerned with issues arising from these developments. Top criminologists from Britain the USA and Australia explore the links between crime and risk through a range of themes from the depiction of crime in the media to the dilemmas of policing to the new punitiveness of criminal justice systems and the custodial warehousing of the poor and excluded. Crime Risk and Justice will be of interest to students academics and practitioners with an interest in crime and crime control and the place they have in modern society. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843924197

Crime Social Control and Human RightsFrom Moral Panics to States of Denial Essays in Honour of Stanley Cohen The work of Stanley Cohen over four decades has come to acquire a classical status in the fields of criminology sociology and human rights. His writing research teaching and practical engagement in these fields have been at once rigorously analytical and intellectually inspiring. It amounts to a unique contribution immensely varied yet with several unifying themes and it has made and continues to make a lasting impact around the world. His work thus has a protean character and scope which transcend time and place.This book of essays in Stanley Cohen's honour aims to build on and reflect some of his many-sided contributions. It contains chapters by some of the world's leading thinkers as well as the rising generation of scholars and practitioners whose approach has been shaped in significant respects by his own. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843925583

Crime Truth and Justice This book is concerned to analyse the production of criminological knowledge with particular reference to one of the most important institutions in the western world involved in this -the official inquiry. The core focus of this book is thus to investigate the structures and processes of official discourse and the ways in which this produces knowledge on crime and justice - a much neglected topic in comparison to the attention that has been played to the role of the media in this process. The mechanisms that produce official discourse vary according to different jurisdiction but some clear themes nevertheless emerge. Media > Books > Print Books Willan 9781138001930

Crime Victims and JusticeEssays on Principles and Practice Victims of crime are still marginalized in criminal law practice even though an increasingly large number of legislatures have introduced reforms on their behalf. This collection of papers from some of the leading experts in the field sets out to provide a better understanding of the problems associated with restorative justice with the aim of improving criminal law in the area. Questions asked include whether retribution may be plausibly reinterpreted as restoration by offenders on behalf of victims?; the relationship between criminal law and tort law; and issues relating to the rights of victims. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138264052

Crime Violence and Global Warming Crime Violence and Global Warming introduces the many connections between climate change and criminal activity. Conflict over natural resources can escalate to state and non-state actors resulting in wars asymmetrical warfare and terrorism. Crank and Jacoby apply criminological theory to each aspect of this complicated web helping readers to evaluate conflicting claims about global warming and to analyze evidence of the current and potential impact of climate change on conflict and crime. Beginning with an overview of the science of global warming the authors move on to the links between climate change scarce resources and crime. Their approach takes in the full scope of causes and consequences present and future in the United States and throughout the world. The book concludes by looking ahead at the problem of forecasting future security implications if global warming continues or accelerates. This fresh approach to the criminology of climate change challenges readers to examine all sides of this controversial question and to formulate their own analysis of our planet’s future. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780323265096

Crime Violence and Minority Youths This title was first published in 2000:  Mainstream criminology has devoted little attention to minority perspectives in crime and violence. Criminologists who have examined minority perspectives have addressed the issue in a cursory manner providing only brief summaries of the propositions of the perspective. This book provides a comprehensive examination of one minority perspective on crime: the colonial model. Specifically the book discusses how the colonial model applies to African and Hispanic Americans and what the perspective adds to mainstream theorizing. It further discusses the limitations of the perspective revises the perspective to improve theoretical validity and subjects the revised perspective to empirical validation. Preliminary findings suggest that the colonial model is more effective in explaining African American delinquency. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138703247

Crime Violence and Security in the Caribbean Security challenges pose significant hardship for citizens of Caribbean nations. Public safety is threatened by　high rates of crime – especially violent crime – in much of the region the plague of the illicit drug trade transnational organized crime gangs the current global proliferation of crimes of terrorism and related violent extremism and radicalization.　The situation diminishes morale among the youth their education and their future and operates as a major push factor.　　 Yet surprisingly there has been a scarcity of scholarly work that addresses these conditions.　 This interdisciplinary volume succinctly responds to the gap in criminological and security studies on the Caribbean by drawing attention to the understudied nexus of crime violence and security that is so pervasive in the region and the ways in which underdevelopment re/creates environments for insecurity. The book is organized in three parts: Part one encompasses conceptualizations of crime violence and punishment.　　 Part two takes up country cases on crime and security.　 Part three addresses issues of regional security both public and private. This timely volume will be valuable reading for scholars students practitioners and policy makers who share a critical interest in the scope impact and inter-relationality of crime violence and in/security in the region. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367372729

Crime Violence and the State in Latin America In this succinct text Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna Samir Kassab explore the linkage between weak institutions and government policies designed to combat drug trafficking organized crime and violence in Latin America. Using quantitative analysis to examine criminal violence and publicly available survey data from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) to conduct regression analysis individual case studies on Colombia Mexico El Salvador and Nicaragua highlight the major challenges that governments face and how they have responded to various security issues. Rosen and Kassab later turn their attention to the role of external criminal actors in the region and offer policy recommendations and lessons learned. Questions explored include: What are the major trends in organized crime in this country? How has organized crime evolved over time? Who are the major criminal actors? How has state fragility contributed to organized crime and violence (and vice versa)? What has been the government’s response to drug trafficking and organized crime? Have such policies contributed to violence? Crime Violence and the State in Latin America is suitable to both undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice international relations political science comparative politics international political economy organized crime drug trafficking and violence. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367529468

Crime and Community in Reformation ScotlandNegotiating Power in a Burgh Society Based on church and state records from the burgh of Aberdeen this study explores the deeper social meaning behind petty crime during the Reformation. Falconer argues that an analysis of both criminal behaviour and law enforcement provides a unique view into the workings of an early modern urban Scottish community. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138664630

Crime and Corruption in OrganizationsWhy It Occurs and What To Do About It Although increasing attention has been paid to it there are no signs that crime and corruption in organizations is decreasing so if you're a manager or government policy maker and your mandate is to reduce crime and corruption where do you start? The international authors of this book fill a critical need to address such a prevalent and costly topic with a detailed analysis of the risks associated with crime and corruption in organizations. They examine the causes and consequences and the choices we face in our efforts to eradicate these social maladies. They focus on the risks to individuals and organizations surrounding criminal and corrupt acts with an emphasis on the psychological behavioral and organizational factors supporting such behaviors. Finally they explore the phenomenon of crime and corruption across a diverse array of organizational settings (ranging from public to private for-profit to non-profit) and occupational categories (e.g. police officers physicians accountants and academicians). The constant barrage of scandals publicized by the media demands 'front burner' attention dedicated to stemming this tide. Accordingly this book turns to prominent researchers employing their talents to produce more ethical organizations. The result is the most up-to-date thinking on both classic (e.g. cognitive moral development) and novel (e.g. moral attentiveness) approaches to crime and corruption as well as scientifically-grounded approaches to reducing illicit behavior in organizations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138381056

Crime and Crime ReductionThe importance of group processes The problems associated with groups that commit crime are well known and notoriously complex. However there are many questions that we still cannot answer with certainty. This book seeks to deepen understanding of the group processes involved in crime and the treatment of offenders’ thoughts and behaviour. Together the chapters in this volume address the following questions: Are people more likely to commit crime because of the influence of their group? Does group membership cause people to become criminals or does the group merely foster people’s pre-existing criminal inclinations? How does group membership exert such a strong hold on people so that some risk imprisonment or even death rather than relinquish their membership? The contributors to Crime and Crime Reduction consider the social psychological influences of groups and specific forms of group crime such as street and prison gangs terrorism organized criminal networks and group sexual offending. The book also addresses important questions about the role of groups in treating offenders and why existing group membership should be considered when treating offenders. Group criminal activity is a key area of study for researchers and for students of Forensic Psychology and Criminology courses. This book will therefore be of interest to students scholars and law enforcement practitioners who want to understand the group processes involved in crime and its reduction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138685284

Crime and Criminal Justice Crime and Criminal Justice provides students with a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the study of criminology by taking an interdisciplinary approach to explaining criminal behaviour and criminal justice. The book is divided into two parts which address the two essential bases that form the discipline of criminology. Part One describes discusses and evaluates a range of theoretical approaches that have offered explanations for crime drawing upon contributions from the disciplines of sociology psychology and biology. It then goes on to apply these theories to specific forms of criminality. Part Two offers an accessible but detailed review of the major philosophical aims and sociological theories of punishment and examines the main areas of the contemporary criminal justice system – including the police the courts and judiciary prisons and more recent approaches to punishment. Presenting a clear and thorough review of theoretical thinking on crime and of the context and current workings of the criminal justice system this book provides students with an excellent grounding in the study of criminology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415581523

Crime and Criminal Justice in America Crime and Criminal Justice in America Third Edition addresses the major controversial issues in U.S. policing courts and the correctional system. This book features unique graphics and contemporary data and research developed by Joycelyn Pollock criminologist and University Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice Texas State University. The text’s question-and-answer model promotes a critical thinking process for students new to criminal justice encouraging student engagement and the application of learned skills through end-of-chapter exercises. Timely comprehensive and visually stimulating Crime and Criminal Justice in America Third Edition is the go-to text for introductory criminal justice students and educators. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780323290692

Crime and CriminalityA multidisciplinary approach The question of ‘why’ and ‘how’ certain individuals are drawn towards behaving in a way that contravenes the ‘Law of the Land’ is not an easy one to address. Researchers from various different fields have nevertheless attempted to develop theoretical explanations for the existence of different types of crime and why some individuals commit such acts. Crime and Criminality draws on criminology sociology psychology and neuroscience to offer a balanced perspective of crime the criminal and criminality. Coverage includes: a comprehensive discussion of theoretical approaches to criminal behaviour including biological social and ‘rational choice’ approaches; an analysis of legal and social definitions of crime and how these definitions influence the way specific behaviours are labelled as criminal; an examination of different types of crime and criminals from delinquents to ‘psychopaths’ and sex offenders; an exploration of different ways in which crime is predicted including risk assessment and offender profiling and an overview of investigative techniques. Addressing a broad range of topics and offering a synthesis of competing theoretical explanations of criminality this book is essential reading for students taking courses in criminology criminal psychology criminal behaviour forensic psychology and psychological criminology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138888623

Crime and CultureAn Historical Perspective Scholarly interest in the history of crime has grown dramatically in recent years and because scholars associated with this work have relied on a broad social definition of crime which includes acts that are against the law as well as acts of social banditry and political rebellion crime history has become a major aspect not only of social history but also of cultural as well as legal studies. This collection explores how the history of crime provides a way to study time place and culture. Adopting an international and interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the historical discourses of crime in Europe and the United States from the sixteenth to the late twentieth century these original works provide new approaches to understanding the meaning of crime in modern western culture and underscore the new importance given to crime and criminal events in historical studies. Written by both well-known historians and younger scholars from across the globe the essays reveal that there are important continuities in the history of crime and its representations in modern culture despite particularities of time and place. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138378315

Crime and Custom in Savage Society Crime and Custom in Savage Society represents Bronislaw Malinowski's major discussion of the relationship between law and society. Throughout his career he constructed a coherent science of anthropology one modeled on the highest standards of practice and theory. Methodology steps forward as a core element of the refashioned anthropology one that stipulates the manner in which anthropological data should be acquired. Malinowski's choice of law was not inevitable but neither was it unmotivated. Anyone interested in understanding the social structure and organization of societies cannot avoid dealing with the concept of "law " even if it is to deny its presence. Law and anthropology have shown a natural affinity for one another sharing a beneficial history of using the methods and viewpoints of one to inform and advance the other. The best lesson Malinowski provides us with comes in the last paragraphs of Crime and Custom in Savage Society: "The true problem is not to study how human life submits to rules; the real problem is how the rules become adapted to life." On that question he has left us richly inspired to continue the quest. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412849784

Crime and Custom in Savage Society[1926/1940] This volume discusses aspects of small scale societies including the study of the mental processes as well as indigenous economics and law. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315013237

Crime and Deviance in Cyberspace This volume presents the reader with an interesting and at times provocative selection of contemporary thinking about cybercrimes and their regulation. The contributions cover the years 2002-2007 during which period internet service delivery speeds increased a thousand-fold from 56kb to 56mb per second. When combined with advances in networked technology these faster internet speeds not only made new digital environments more easily accessible but they also helped give birth to a completely new generation of purely internet-related cybercrimes ranging from spamming phishing and other automated frauds to automated crimes against the integrity of the systems and their content. In order to understand these developments the volume introduces new cybercrime viewpoints and issues but also a critical edge supported by some of the new research that is beginning to challenge and surpass the hitherto journalistically-driven news stories that were once the sole source of information about cybercrimes. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315095325

Crime and EconomicsAn Introduction Crime and Economics provides the first comprehensive and accessible text to address the economics of crime within the study of crime and criminology. The economics of crime is an area of growing activity and concern increasingly influential both to the study of crime and criminal justice and to the formulation of crime reduction and criminal justice policy. As well as providing an overview of the relationship between economics and crime this book poses key questions such as: What is the impact of the labour market and poverty on crime? Can society decrease criminal activity from a basis of economic disincentives? What forms of crime reduction and methods of reducing re-offending are most cost beneficial? Can illicit organised crime and illicit drug markets be understood better through the application of economic analysis?For those interested in economic methods but without previous economic training this book also provides an accessible overview of key areas such as cost-benefit analysis econometrics and the debate around how to estimate the costs of crime. This book will be key reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of criminology and economics and those working in the criminal justice system including practitioners managers and policy makers. Media > Books > Print Books Willan 9781843928423

Crime and Empire 1840 - 1940 This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its overarching theme is the transformation and convergence of criminal justice systems during a period that saw a broad shift from legal pluralism to the hegemony of state law in the European world and beyond. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843925804

Crime and Environment Originally published in 1981. This book unifies the diverse literature on the role of environmental factors in the uneven distribution of crime in society and provides an assessment of the validity of environmental explanations and their utility. It analyses and assesses the major work done by researchers in Britain America and elsewhere. The extent of the differences between communities is reviewed from a number of perspectives. Offences are examined by location nature and seriousness. Offenders are located in their environment and variations according to sex age race social class and recidivism are considered. The risks of victimisation also reflect environmental differences and need to be set in the context of wider community perceptions fears and attitudes to crime. The role of the community in the distribution of justice is also discussed. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367136123

Crime and Fear in Public PlacesTowards Safe Inclusive and Sustainable Cities The Open Access version of this book available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429352775 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place. A public place whatever its nature—a park a mall a train platform or a street corner—is where people pass by meet each other and at times become a victim of crime. With this book we submit that crime and safety in public places are not issues that can be easily dealt with within the boundaries of a single discipline. The book aims to illustrate the complexity of patterns of crime and fear in public places with examples of studies on these topics contextualized in different cities and countries around the world. This is achieved by tackling five cross-cutting themes: the nature of the city’s environment as a backdrop for crime and fear; the dynamics of individuals’ daily routines and their transit safety; the safety perceptions experienced by those who are most in fear in public places; the metrics of crime and fear; and finally examples of current practices in promoting safety. All these original chapters contribute to our quest for safer more inclusive resilient equitable and sustainable cities and human settlements aligned to the Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367371289

Crime and Globalization This collection spans two decades of cutting-edge thinking on globalization and crime. The selected articles confront criminological with interdisciplinary perspectives from sociology political science and economics and demonstrate how globalization has changed manifestations of crime and decisively re-shaped the criminological imagination as well as criminology’s theories concepts and methodologies. The specially written introduction provides an innovative framework for insights into the manifestations of globalising crime such as urban development in Mumbai human rights talk of Brazilian gangs gemstone mining in Madagascar and the ’crimes of exclusion’ in the US and Darfur. This volume is ideal for both lecturers and students as it brings together influential foundational writings with in-depth studies from the best authors in the field and from all parts of the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780754628057

Crime and Inequality This book examines key relationships between material circumstances and crime and analyzes the areas of social policy â€“ in particular social security and labour market policy – that are most important in terms of dealing with inequality at the lower end of the income hierarchy. It seeks to explain why inequality is linked to offending behaviour and the evidence underpinning explanations for this and looks in detail at the relationship between offending and anti-social behaviour and its management through social policy interventions. Crime and Inequality draws upon both criminological and social policy approaches to understand this vital relationship moving beyond criminological approaches which often fail to analyse the way the state attempts to manage poor material circumstance offending and anti-social behaviour through social policy. The main aims of the book are threefold: to draw upon the disciplines of both criminology and social policy to understand the relationship between crime and inequality;  to provide an in-depth analysis of those aspects of social policy that have a bearing on the context management and punishment of offending behaviour;  to examine government crime and anti-social behaviour policies in the context of social security and labour market policies and to identify the tensions that have resulted from attempts to address social justice issues while also making individuals responsible for their actions. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781315880747

Crime and Insecurity Concerns over insecurity and questions of safety have become central issues in social and political debates across Europe and the western world. Crucial changes have followed as a result such as a redefinition of the role of the state in relation to policing - a central theme of this book - and an explosion in the growth of private policing.These developments have in their turn heightened feelings of insecurity and safety particularly where populations have become increasingly mobile and societies more socially fragmented culturally diverse and economically fragmented. Responses to insecurity now increasingly inform decisions made by governments organisations and ordinary people in their social interactions.This book makes a key contribution to an understanding of these developments approaching the subject from a range of perspectives across several different disciplines. The three parts of the book look at broader theoretical and thematic issues then at cross-national and pan-European developments and debates in European governance and finally explore specific examples of local issues of community safety and the broader implications these have. Leading figures in the field draw upon criminological legal social and political theory to shed new light on what has become one of the most intractable problems facing western societies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415627597

Crime and Intelligence AnalysisAn Integrated Real-Time Approach Crime and Intelligence Analysis: An Integrated Real-Time Approach covers everything crime analysts and tactical analysts need to know to be successful. Providing an overview of the criminal justice system as well as the more fundamental areas of crime analysis the book will enable students and law enforcement personnel to better understand criminal behavior learn the basics of conducting temporal analysis of crime patterns use spatial analysis to better understand crime apply research methods to crime analysis and more successfully evaluate data and information to help predict criminal offending and solve criminal cases. Criminal justice and police academy students will learn how to be skilled and credible crime analysts who play a critical role in the daily operations of law enforcement. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781498751728

Crime and Justice in the Trump Era Crime and Justice in the Trump Era documents the impact of Trump administration policies on (1) violence against women (2) the treatment of persons of color (3) corporate and environmental crime (both domestic and international) and (4) federal crime control policy. First the book examines how the policies of Donald Trump’s administration have affected the rights and safety of female Americans—in particular violence against women including sexual assault. The book then goes on to explore President Trump’s very public stances devaluing people of color—whether they reside within the nation’s borders or are seeking entry into the United States. Next the collection evaluates the collateral costs attached to the ongoing campaign to reduce regulations that protect consumers workers and the environment. Likewise the valuing America’s narrow self-interests may also have effects internationally where crime and violence may be tied to Trump’s promotion of White nationalism toleration of human rights violations and denial of climate change. Lastly criminal justice policies are examined both in the early stages of Trump’s presidency which were marked by his get-tough rhetoric along with the more recent support for the First Step Act. The authors represent different perspectives in the discipline—critical/feminist and mainstream criminologists quantitative and qualitative scholars and students of both street and white-collar crime. Taken together this book reflects a variety of criminological voices and advances immeasurably our understanding of the Trump administration’s influence on crime and justice in America. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Victims & Offenders: An International Journal of Evidence-based Research Policy and Practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367902407

Crime and Justice since 1750 This book provides a comprehensive introductory text for students taking courses in crime and criminal justice history. It covers all of the key historical topics central to an understanding of the current criminal justice system including the development of the police the courts and the mechanisms of punishment (from the gallows to the prison). The role of the victim in the criminal justice system changing perceptions of criminals long-term trends in violent crime and the rise of surveillance society also receive detailed analysis. In addressing each of these issues and developments the authors draw on the latest research in this rapidly expanding field to explore a range of historiographical and criminological debates. This new edition continues its exploration of criminal justice history right through to the present day and discusses recent events in the criminal justice world. Each chapter now ends with a ‘Modern parallels’ section - a detailed case study providing historical analysis pertinent to a specific contemporary issue in the field of criminal justice and drawing parallels between historical context and modern phenomenon. Each chapter also includes a ‘Key questions’ section which guides the reader towards appropriate sources for further study. The authors draw on their in-depth knowledge and provide an accessible and lively guide for those approaching the subject for the first time or those wishing to deepen their knowledge. This makes the book essential reading for those teaching or studying modules on criminal justice policing and youth justice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415708562

Crime and Local Television NewsDramatic Breaking and Live From the Scene This volume offers an analysis of crime coverage on local television exploring the nature of local television news and the ongoing appeal of crime stories. Drawing on the perspectives of media studies psychology sociology and criminology authors Jeremy H. Lipschultz and Michael L. Hilt focus on live local television coverage of crime and examine its irresistibility to viewers and its impact on society's perceptions of itself. They place local television news in its theoretical and historical contexts and consider it through the lens of legal ethical racial aging and technological concerns. In its comprehensive examination of how local television newsrooms around the country address coverage of crime this compelling work discusses such controversial issues as the use of crime coverage to build ratings and considers new models for reform of local TV newscasts. The volume includes national survey data from news managers and content analyses from late night newscasts in a range of markets and integrates the theory and practice of local television news into the discussion. Lipschultz and Hilt also project the future of local television news and predict the impact of social and technological changes on news. As a provocative look at the factors and forces shaping local news and crime coverage Crime and Local Television News makes an important contribution to the discussions taking place in broadcast journalism mass communication media and society and theory and research courses. It will also interest all who consider the impact of local news content and coverage. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781410606587

Crime and MediaA Reader This engaging and timely collection gathers together for the first time key and classic readings in the ever-expanding area of crime and media. Comprizing a carefully distilled selection of the most important contributions to the field Crime and Media: A Reader tackles a wide range of issues including: understanding media; researching media; crime newsworthiness and news; crime entertainment and creativity; effects influence and moral panic; and cybercrime surveillance and risk. Specially devized introductory and linking sections contextualize each reading and evaluate its contribution to the field both individually and in relation to competing approaches and debates. This book provides a single source around which criminology media and cultural studies modules can be structured an invaluable revision and consultation guide for students and an extremely useful resource for scholars writing and researching across a wide range of relevant fields. Accessible yet challenging and packed with additional pedagogical devices Crime and Media: A Reader will be an invaluable resource for students and academics studying crime media culture surveillance and control. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780367809195

Crime and Networks This innovative collection of original essays showcases the use of social networks in the analysis and understanding of various forms of crime. More than any other past research endeavor the seventeen chapters in this book apply to criminology the many conceptual and methodological options from social network analysis. Crime and Networks is the only book of its kind that looks at the use of networks in understanding crime and can be used for advanced undergraduate and beginner’s graduate level courses in criminal justice and criminology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415710503

Crime and Personality When Crime and Personality was first published in 1964 J.A.C. Brown writing in the New Statesman commented: ‘There can be no doubt of the importance of Professor Eysenck’s book on the nature and treatment of criminal behaviour.’ This third edition originally published in 1977 had been completely revised and brought up to date and although the major theory linking personality and crime has been retained many of the details have been changed in conformity with recent research of the time. The book presents a theory concerning the personality of criminals and offers evidence to show that these personality features characterising criminals are based on genetic foundations. It is argued that criminality as a whole is not exclusively based on environmental factors as has so often been suggested but has a strong biological basis. A good deal of evidence is reviewed showing that there are many data supporting this view from studies of identical and fraternal twins adopted children and comparisons between criminals and non-criminals both in the Western world and in Communist countries. Professor Eysenck suggests that important consequences follow from such an attempt to redress the one-sided emphasis on environmental factors which had been so characteristic of the previous fifty years and some of these consequences are described in detail. He further suggests that only proper understanding of the psychological factors making for antisocial behaviour will help in reversing the increasing burden that criminality places upon society. The book also takes issue with political arguments of the time regarding the origins of criminality and shows that criminals behind the Iron Curtain show the same personality characteristics as do criminals in Western countries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415842174

Crime and PlanningBuilding Socially Sustainable Communities The form and layout of a built environment has a significant influence on crime by creating opportunities for it and in turn shaping community crime patterns. Effective urban planners and designers will consider crime when making planning and design decisions. A co-publication with the American Planning Association  Crime and Planning: Building Socially Sustainable Communities presents a comprehensive discussion of the interconnections between urban planning criminal victimization and crime prevention. An introduction into the main concerns at the intersection of criminology and community planning the book first provides an overview of crime patterns. It then explores major issues within planning and their impact on crime. Critical topics discussed include connectivity mixed-use developments land use and zoning transit-oriented design and pedestrian trails greenways and parks. The remaining chapters explore: Crime prevention theories Crime prevention as a central component of sustainability How to incorporate social sustainability and planning guidelines into local planning decisions Policy discussion of issues such as zoning How tools such as smart growth and form-based codes relate to crime and crime prevention Examples of how planning decisions can impact crime patterns in both a residential and retail setting and what has already worked in real-world communities As communities continue to grapple with foreclosure sprawl and infill/redevelopment a sound understanding of how the built environment impacts crime is of increasing importance. This book provides planners with the tools and knowledge necessary to minimize the impact of crime on communities with the goal of creating socially sustainable communities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781439871669

Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome Punishment was an integral element of the Roman justice system and as controversial as it is today. Bauman examines the mechanics of the administering of punishment and the philosophical beliefs from which attitudes to penalty were born. The emphasis is placed on crimes against the public during the Republic and Principate with less discussion of either civil cases or issues. Special reference is made to changes in attitudes concerning the death penalty. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415692540

Crime and Punishment in BritainThe Penal System in Theory Law and Practice This book first published in 1965 describes the British penal system as it existed in the 1960s. It describes how the system defined accounted for and disposed of offenders. As an early work in criminology it focuses on differences between and changes in the views held by legislators lawyers philosophers and the man in the street on the topic of crime and punishment. Walker is interested in the extent to which their views reflect the facts established and the theories propounded by psychologists anthropologists and sociologists.The confusion between criminologists and penal reformers was initially encouraged by criminologists themselves many of whom were penal reformers. Strictly speaking penal reform according to Walker was a spare-time occupation for criminologists just as canvassing for votes is an ancillary task for political scientists. The difference is that the criminologist's spare-time occupation is more likely to take a ""moral"" form and when it does so it is more likely to interfere with what should be purely criminological thoughts.The machinery of justice involves the interaction of human beings in their roles of victim offender policeman judge supervisor or custodian and there must be a place for human sympathy in the understanding and still more in the treatment of individual offenders. This book is concerned with the efficiency of the system as a means to these ends. One of the main reasons why penal institutions have continued to develop more slowly than other social services is that they are a constant battlefield between emotions and prejudices. This is a great empirical study; against which the policy-maker and criminologist can measure progress or regression in British criminals and punishments. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521483

Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture Today questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture Claire Valier argues that criminal justice is a key site for the negotiation of new collective identities and modes of belonging. Exploring both popular cultural forms and changes in crime policies and criminal law Valier elaborates new forms of critical engagement with the politics of crime and punishment. In doing so the book discusses:· Teletechnologies punishment and new collectivities· The cultural politics of victims rights· Discourses on foreigners crime and diaspora· Terror the death penalty and the spectacle of violence.Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture makes a timely and important contribution to debate on the possibilities of justice in the media age. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138008595

Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture Today questions about how and why societies punish are deeply emotive and hotly contested. In Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture Claire Grant argues that criminal justice is a key site for the negotiation of new collective identities and modes of belonging. Exploring both popular cultural forms and changes in crime policies and criminal law  Grant elaborates on new forms of critical engagement with the politics of crime and punishment. In doing so the book discusses: teletechnologies punishment and new collectivities the cultural politics of victims rights discourses on foreigners crime and diaspora terror the death penalty and the spectacle of violence. Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Culture makes a timely and important contribution to debate on the possibilities of justice in the media age. This book is essential reading for undergraduates postgraduates and researchers interested in the area of crime and punishment. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203759196

Crime and Punishment in Early Modern GermanyCourts and Adjudicatory Practices in Frankfurt am Main 1562–1696 Frankfurt am Main in common with other imperial German cities enjoyed a large degree of legal autonomy during the early modern period and produced a unique and rich body of criminal archives. In particular Frankfurt’s Strafenbuch which records all criminal sentences between 1562 and 1696 provides a fascinating insight into contemporary penal trends. Drawing on this and other rich resources Dr. Boes reveals shifting and fluid attitudes towards crime and punishment and how these were conditioned by issues of gender class and social standing within the city’s establishment. She attributes a significant role in this process to the steady proliferation of municipal advocates jurists trained in Roman Law who wielded growing legal and penal prerogatives. Over the course of the book it is demonstrated how the courts took an increasingly hard line with select groups of people accused of criminal behavior and the open manner with which advocates exercised cultural religious racial gender and sexual-orientation repressions. Parallel with this however is identified a trend of marked leniency towards soldiers who enjoyed an increasingly privileged place within the judicial system. In light of this discrepancy between the treatment of civilians and soldiers the advocates’ actions highlight the emergence and spread of a distinct military judicial culture and Frankfurt’s city council’s contribution to the quasi-militarization of a civilian court. By highlighting the polarized and changing ways the courts dealt with civilian and military criminals a fuller picture is presented not just of Frankfurt’s sentencing and penal practices but of broader attitudes within early modern Germany to issues of social position and cultural identity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138379756

Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth? Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138878235

Crime And Punishment In EnglandAn Introductory History This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138141162

Crime and Punishment in Indonesia Indonesia’s criminal law system faces major challenges. Despite the country’s transition to democracy both the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code are badly out of date the former only superficially changed since colonial times and the latter remaining as it was under Soeharto’s authoritarian New Order regime. Law enforcement officers and judges are widely seen as corrupt or incompetent and new laws including new Islamic laws passed at the regional level often contradict the Criminal Code and national statutes including human rights laws. This book based on extensive original research by leading scholars in the field provides an overall assessment of the state of criminal law law enforcement and penal policy in Indonesia considers in depth a wide range of specific areas of criminal law and discusses recent efforts at reform and their prospects for success. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138317383

Crime and Punishment in Soviet OfficialdomCombating Corruption in the Soviet Elite 1965-90 This study of official corruption and the politics of anti-corruption campaigns offers a comprehensive empirical comparative and theoretical analysis of this phenomenon as both system and symptom. It highlights the structure impact and function of political elite corruption from 1965-1990. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315486659

Crime and Punishment: Critical Essays in Legal Philosophy5-Volume Set Crime and punishment are emotive issues which raise important and challenging questions. Can punishment be justified? If so then what purpose does it have? Which practices best cohere with this purpose? These and many other questions are addressed by this series of five volumes which bring together classic articles written by leading international figures in the field. Each volume is organized thematically with a general introduction to provide an accessible overview of the latest research. The essays selected for inclusion are seminal works published in English and the series constitutes an invaluable reference resource for libraries students researchers and practitioners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409451266

Crime and Regulation This volume brings together key articles in the burgeoning field of regulation. The collection is interdisciplinary in keeping with study of regulation itself yet the book arranges and explores these articles to make the bewildering array of issues and concepts that comprise the study of regulation comprehensible to a criminological audience. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of criminology and criminal justice as well as those concerned with reducing the crimes and harms of the powerful. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815388289

Crime and Security The pursuit of security is now central to the development of public policy and a driving force behind the spread of private policing. Just as new theoretical frameworks are needed to deal with the increasing tendency of crime control policies to focus on risk reduction new forms of governance are also required to deal with the rapid growth of the private security industry. This volume brings together a wide range of contributions from leading scholars in the field and includes international and comparative perspectives on the challenges posed by the rise of the 'security society'. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315095318

Crime and Social Control in Central-Eastern EuropeA Guide to Theory and Practice First published in 1997. This work provides a criminological introduction to the current situation of criminal justice systems in the politically changing Central-Eastern Europe after 1989. It explores concrete problems which the countries are facing such as the release of political prisoners and those sentenced excessively under the communist regime. The concluding part illuminates the case studies in the previous sections from the point of view of their possible interaction into a cohesive and coherent criminological discipline. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138611603

Crime and Social Organization This tenth volume in the Advances in Criminological Theory series is dedicated to the work of Albert J. Reiss Jr. It focuses on the relationship between crime and social organization that is so central to his work. This focus rejects a view of crime solely as the action of atomistic individuals and sees the criminal justice system as inseparable from its social political and organizational context. This perspective has had a resurgence in recent years and this volume brings together some of the most important scholars who have contributed to these developments. Articles examine the social organization of crime itself the context of crime and the response to crime. The concept of co-offending originally developed by Reiss is explored both as a way of improving understanding of juvenile offending and as a framework for understanding patterns of criminal organization across crime types and the relationship of criminal to licit organization. Other articles recast social disorganization theory in light of recent theoretical and empirical developments. They argue for a version of control theory that incorporates internal contextual and state-focused dimensions. Organizational actors both as offenders and as governmental agencies responding to crime are explored. Building from Reiss's groundbreaking work on policing a group of articles on policing examine organizational change through reorganization the adoption of strategies such as community policing and the increased use of empirical evidence complicated by routines organizational culture and political constraints. Taken together these works develop new connections between dimensions of social organization and renew the social organization perspective on crime and criminal justice. Contributors include: Diane Vaughan Joan McCord Kevin P. Conway Elin Waring Felton Earls Beat Mohler Peter Manning Stephen Mastrofski Lawrence Sherman David Weisburd Robert Sampson David F. Greenberg Margaret Kelley Robin Tamarelli and Jeremy Travis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508682

Crime and Social Policy Crime and Social Policy discusses the criminal justice system in England and Wales in an accessible and engaging manner. This title guides students through the system's complexities reviewing its history highlighting current problems and offering recommendations as to where and how it can be improved. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138156272

Crime and Society Much of a society’s resources are devoted to dealing with or preparing for the possibility of crime. The dominance of concerns about crime also hint at the broader implications that offending has for many different facets of society. They suggest that rather than being an outlawed subset of social activity crime is an integrated aspect of societal processes. This book reviews some of the direct and indirect social impacts of criminality proposing that this is worthwhile not just in terms of understanding crime but also because of how it elucidates more general social considerations. A range of studies that examine the interactions between crime and society are brought together drawing on a wide range of countries and cultures including India Israel Nigeria Turkey and the USA as well as the UK and Ireland. They include contributions from many different social science disciplines which taken together demonstrate that the implicit and direct impact of crime is very widespread indeed. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367588373

Crime and Society in England 1750–1900 Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century Crime and Society in England 1750–1900 explores the developments in policing the courts and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. Through a consideration of the difficulty of defining crime the book presents criminal behaviour as being intrinsically tied to historical context and uses this theory as the basis for its examination of crime within English society during this period. In this fifth edition Professor Emsley explores the most recent research including the increased focus on ethnicity gender and cultural representations of crime allowing students to gain a broader view of modern English society. Divided thematically the book’s coverage includes: the varying perceptions of crime across different social groups crime in the workplace the concepts of a ‘criminal class’ and ‘professional criminals’ the developments in the courts the police and the prosecution of criminals. Thoroughly updated to address key questions surrounding crime and society in this period and fully equipped with illustrations tables and charts to further highlight important aspects Crime and Society in England 1750–1900 is the ideal introduction for students of modern crime. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138941762

Crime and Society in Twentieth Century England  Crime and Society in Twentieth-Century England traces the broad pattern of criminal offending over a hundred year period that experienced unprecedented levels of upheaval and change. This period included two world wars the end of the British Empire significant shifts in both gender relations and ethnic mix and a decline in the power of the economy.  In this new textbook Professor Clive Emsley provides an up-to-date assessment of changes in attitudes to crime as well as of the developments in policing in the courts and in penal sanctions over the course of the century. He explores the impact of growing gender equality and ethnic diversity on crime and criminal justice and looks at the way in which crime became increasingly central to political agendas in the last third of the century. Written in a clear and accessible manner the book examines:     Perceptions of crime and criminality across the century    Varieties of offending from murder to benefit fraud    The role of the media in constructing and reinforcing the understanding of crime and the criminal    The decline and demise of corporal and capital punishment    The shift from largely progressive to more punitive penal practice  The first serious attempt to explore the history of crime and criminal justice in twentieth-century England this book will be an invaluable introduction to the student and interested general reader alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781405859028

Crime and SocietyReadings in History and Theory First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138175822

Crime and Terrorism RiskStudies in Criminology and Criminal Justice Crime and Terrorism Risk is a collection of original essays and articles that presents a broad overview of the issues related to the assessment and management of risk in the new security age. These original articles show how researchers experts and the public are beginning to think about crime and terrorism issues in terms of a new risk paradigm that emphasizes establishing a balance between threat and resources in developing prevention and response strategies.   Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203894477

Crime and the Development of Modern SocietyPatterns of Criminality in Nineteenth Century Germany and France Originally published in 1976. This study deals with crime as social history in Germany and France during the nineteenth century. It establishes the broad statistical patterns of crime over the century so that the crime phenomenon can be analysed in the light of the other main trends of economic and social life. One basic concern is the relationship between crime and economic condition. The second main issue is to establish whether specifically rural and urban patterns of crime can be isolated. The third main concern is to establish whether any relationship existed between patterns of delinquency and the social upheaval which accompanied industrialisation and urbanisation. These three main issues continue as important questions in considering modern day crime. Nineteenth century Germany and France provide an excellent context in which to examine them because of the substantial urbanisation and industrialisation which occurred between 1830 and 1914. As well as providing an important contribution to the history of nineteenth century society this book also indicates important lessons for the contemporary world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367139322

Crime and the Fascist State 1850–1940 By studying the development of Italy's penal system Pires Marques provides valuable insights into the wider political culture of European society. Focusing on the rise of fascism in Spain and Portugal as well as Italy he examines the role of religious economic and political factors in the making of penal laws. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138662223

Crime and the Life Course In recent years the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology most textbooks give it only cursory treatment. Crime and the Lifecourse: An Introduction by Michael L. Benson provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory on the life-course approach to crime. The book emphasizes a conceptual understanding of this approach. A special feature is the integration of qualitative and quantitative research on criminal life histories. This book: provides an overview of the life course approach and describes the major concepts and issues in lifecourse theory as it applies to criminology reviews evidence on biological and genetic influences on crime reviews research on the role of the family in crime and juvenile delinquency provides a detailed discussion of the criminological lifecourse theories of Moffitt Hagan Sampson and Laub and others discusses the connections between youthful crime and adult outcomes in education occupation and marriage presents an application of the lifecourse approach to white-collar crime discusses how macro sociological and historical developments have influenced the shape of the lifecourse in American society as it relates to patterns in crime. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415994934

Crime and the NationPrison and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia. 1786-1800 Crime and the Nation explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when these two enterprises went hand in hand. The 1780s and '90s witnessed a spirited public debate on crime and punishment that produced a new kind of fiction and a new kind of prison. The world's first penitentiary-style prison opened at Philadelphia in 1790. At the same time jurists reformers and fiction writers found new uses for the criminal. Suddenly he was fascinating he was edifying to the community he was worth displaying and reforming. In a young nation whose very origins were perceived as criminal yet clearly necessary and ultimately redeemable crime emerged as an essential-and controversial-component of national identity. Crime and the Nation explores the nature of that identity and the origins of America's unique and enduring love affair with crime and crime fiction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138880115

Crime and the Rise of Modern AmericaA History from 1865–1941 In Crime and the Rise of Modern America Kristofer Allerfeldt studies the crimes criminals and law enforcement that contributed to a uniquely American system of crime and punishment from the end of the Civil War to the eve of World War II to understand how the rapidly-changing technology of transportation media and incarceration affected the criminal underworld. In ten thematic chapters Crime and the Rise of Modern America turns to the outlaws of the iconic West and the illegal distilleries of Prohibition the turn-of-the-century immigrants and the conmen who preyed on the people of the Promised Land to examine how crime and America both changed defining each other. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203830321

Crime Control Politics and Policy This book reviews concepts information and points of view that help to explain the context and constraints of the criminal justice system. The chapters summarize developments in public policy and crime control and interweave themes central to the discussion: the impact of ideology the role of the media and the politicization of crime and criminal justice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138415706

Crime Control and Community Community-based crime control has become one of the principal policy responses to crime and disorder across western societies and is regarded now as one of the keys to successful crime prevention and reduction. The aim of this book is to bring together findings from case studies of community-based crime control in England as a means of examining the prospects for this approach its evolving relationship with criminal justice and social policies and to assess the lessons internationally that can be drawn from this in the theory research methods politics and practice of crime control.At the same time the book advances an important new conceptual framework for understanding community-based crime control focusing on an understanding of the diversity of control and preventative strategies the locally particular conditions in which they are conducted and the degree of choices open to local political actors involved in their conduct. Understanding diversity in this way is central to drawing lessons about the transferability of crime control theory and practice from one social context to another avoiding the naïve emulation of practices in different contexts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415627559

Crime Control As IndustryTowards Gulags Western Style Crime Control As Industry translated into many languages is a modern classic of criminology and sociology. Nils Christie one of the leading criminologists of his era argues that crime control rather than crime itself is the real danger for our future. Prison populations especially in Russia and America have grown at an increasingly rapid rate and show no signs of slowing. Christie argues that this vast and growing population is the equivalent of a modern gulag run by a rapacious industry both public and private with vested interests in incarceration. Pain and confinement are products like any other with a potentially limitless supply of resources. Widely hailed as a classic account of crime and restorative justice Crime Control As Industry's prophetic insights and proposed solutions are essential reading for anyone interested in crime and the global penal system. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by David Garland. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138690127

Crime Fiction and the Law This book opens up a range of important perspectives on law and violence by considering the ways in which their relationship is formulated in literature television and film. Employing critical legal theory to address the relationship between crime fiction law and justice it considers a range of topics including: the relationship between crime fiction legal reasoning and critique; questions surrounding the relationship between law and justice; gender issues; the legal political and social impacts of fictional representations of crime and justice; post-colonial perspectives on crime fiction; as well as the impact of law itself on the crime fiction’s development. Introducing a new sub-field of legal and literary research this book will be of enormous interest to scholars in critical cultural and socio-legal studies as well as to others in criminology as well as in literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138624337

Crime Fiction IIA Comprehensive Bibliography 1749-1990; A Completely Revised and Updated Edition The previous edition of this massive reference work was praised by everyone who reviewed it and it was featured on Booklist's list of the Best Books of the 1980s. Now expanded and updated through 1990 this unparalleled work has two new features. The first is a roster of more than 4 000 films including silents and foreign-language movies based on literary works and listing movie title studio year director screenwriter and author. The second new feature in this completely revised edition is a bibliographical listing of individual short stories from more than 4 000 story collections. The only comprehensive work in the field this volume covers books published in English the world over from Australia to Singapore to Canada. It provides the author title U.S. and British publisher and date for all volumes (except anthologies) intended for adults or featuring an adult protagonist organized alphabetically by author. A special section features 4 500 series characters and the stories in which they appear; another identifies more than 340 settings and offers extensive lists of books featuring those settings. Indexes are provided to titles settings series characters movies movie directors and screenwriters. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315057774

Crime II A new title from Routledge Crime II is an essential successor to the editor’s earlier collection published to acclaim in 2002. Bean’s Crime (978-0-415-25264-5) (2002) was the first comprehensive anthology of the field’s canonical and cutting-edge research and this new four-volume assembly of major works now takes full account of the many important developments that have taken place since its appearance. For example in many jurisdictions crime prevention has become a more dominant theme. The reduction in crime rates alongside a similar fall in the extent of drug abuse has also required a reappraisal of many earlier theories of the links with crime and selected social factors. Crime II reflects these and other changes as well as anticipating those not yet fully formulated in the academy. With a full index together with a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context Crime II is an indispensable work of reference. Alongside its predecessor it is destined to be valued by scholars students and researchers as a vital research resource. * * * Philip Bean is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the University of Loughborough and was formerly Director of the Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice. He was president of the British Society of Criminology (1996 to 1999) and from 2000 to 2006 he was an Associate of the General Medical Council. Bean is the author of many essential Routledge books including Drugs and Crime 4th edn. (forthcoming 2014). His other publications include Madness and Crime (Willan 2007) and Legalising Drugs (Policy Press 2010). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138015043

Crime In Context This book aims to explore one of the most obvious areas of discontent in post-Fordist societies the ever-intrusive fear and reality of crime. It provides an analysis that explains the varieties of actually occurring behaviours which certainly are very firmly defined by their victims as crime. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367157982

Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750 Still the only general survey of the topic available this widely-used exploration of the incidence causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws a vivid light on the times. It uses court archives to capture vividly the everyday lives of people who would otherwise have left little mark on the historical record. This new edition - fully updated throughout - incorporates new thinking on many issues including gender and crime; changes in punishment; and literary perspectives on crime. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138136809

Crime in England 1688-1815 Crime in England 1688-1815 covers the ‘long’ eighteenth century a period which saw huge and far-reaching changes in criminal justice history. These changes included the introduction of transportation overseas as an alternative to the death penalty the growth of the magistracy the birth of professional policing increasingly harsh sentencing of those who offended against property-owners and the rapid expansion of the popular press which fuelled debate and interest in all matters criminal. Utilising both primary and secondary source material this book discusses a number of topics such as punishment detection of offenders gender and the criminal justice system and crime in contemporaneous popular culture and literature. This book is designed for both the criminal justice history/criminology undergraduate and the general reader with a lively and immediately approachable style. The use of carefully selected case studies is designed to show how the study of criminal justice history can be used to illuminate modern-day criminological debate and discourse. It includes a brief review of past and current literature on the topic of crime in eighteenth-century England and Wales and also emphasises why knowledge of the history of crime and criminal justice is important to present-day criminologists. Together with its companion volumes it will provide an invaluable aid to both students of criminal justice history and criminology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138922389

Crime in England 1815-1880Experiencing the criminal justice system Crime in England 1815-1880 provides a unique insight into views on crime and criminality and the operation of the criminal justice system in England from the early to the late nineteenth century. This book examines the perceived problem and causes of crime views about offenders and the consequences of these views for the treatment of offenders in the criminal justice system. The book explores the perceived causes of criminality as well as concerns about particular groups of offenders such as the 'criminal classes' and the 'habitual offender' the female offender and the juvenile criminal. It also considers the development of policing the systems of capital punishment and the transportation of offenders overseas as well as the evolution of both local and convict prison systems. The discussion primarily investigates those who were drawn into the criminal justice system and the attitudes towards and mechanisms to address crime and offenders. The book draws together original research by the author to locate these broader developments and provides detailed case studies illuminating the lives of those who experienced the criminal justice system and how these changes were experienced in provincial England. With an emphasis on the penal system and case studies on offenders' lives and on provincial criminal justice this book will be useful to academics and students interested in criminal justice history and penology as well as being of interest to the general reader. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781843929536

Crime in England 1880-1945The rough and the criminal the policed and the incarcerated This book is an ambitious attempt to map the main changes in the criminal justice system in the Victorian period through to the twentieth century. Chapters include an examination of the growth and experience of imprisonment policing and probation services; the recording of crime in official statistics and in public memory; and the possibilities of research created by new electronic and on-line sources; an exploration of time space and place on crime and the growth internationalisation and science-led approach of crime control methods in this period. Unusually the book presents these issues in a way which illustrates the sources of data that informs modern crime history and discusses how criminologists and historians produce theories of crime history. Consequently there are a series of interesting and lively debates of a thematic nature which will engage historians criminologists and research methods specialists as well as the undergraduates and school students that like the author are fascinated by crime history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781843929475

Crime in England1550-1800 This volume first published in 1977 brings together eleven studies of crime and the administration of the criminal law in England during the early modern period. They represent a variety of approaches – legal historical and sociological – to the study of historical crime. The initial essay in this study which is written from a legal standpoint is the first coordinated account of the structure of criminal law administration in this formative period. It is followed by investigations into the nature and incidence of crime court appearance and punishment separate studies of witchcraft infanticide and poaching and an account of conditions in eighteenth-century Newgate. This book will be of particular interest to students of criminology and history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138942783

Crime in Europe First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138415911

Crime in Medieval Europe1200-1550 What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black Death? From Aberdeen to Cracow and from Stockholm to Sardinia Trevor Dean ranges widely throughout medieval Europe in this exiting and innovative history of lawlessness and criminal justice. Drawing on the real-life stories of ordinary men and women who often found themselves at the sharp end of the law he shows how it was often one rule for the rich and another for the poor in a tangled web of judicial corruption. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138148956

Crime in Scotland 1660-1960The Violent North? Scotland has often been regarded throughout history as "the violent north" but how true is this statement? Does Scotland deserve to be defined thus and upon what foundations is this definition based? This book examines the history of crime in Scotland questioning the labelling of Scotland as home to a violent culture and examining changes in violent behaviour over time the role of religion on violence how gender impacted on violence and how the level of Scottish violence fares when compared to incidents of violence throughout the rest of the UK. This book offers a ground-breaking contribution to the historiography of Scottish crime. Not only does the piece illuminate for the first time the nature and incidence of Scottish criminality over the course of some three hundred years but it also employs a more integrated analysis of gender than has hitherto been evident. This book sheds light on whether the stereotypical label given to Scotland as 'the violent north' is appropriate or in any way accurate and it further contributes to our understanding of not only Scottish society but of the history of crime and punishment in the British Isles and beyond. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781843929451

Crime in the Digital AgeControlling Telecommunications and Cyberspace Illegalities Willie Sutton a notorious American bank robber of fifty years ago was once asked why he persisted in robbing banks. "Because that's where the money is " he is said to have replied. The theory that crime follows opportunity has become established wisdom in criminology; opportunity reduction has become one of the fundamental principles of crime prevention."The enormous benefits of telecommunications are not without cost." It could be argued that this quotation from Crime in the Digital Age is a dramatic understatement. Grabosky and Smith advise us that the criminal opportunities which accompany these newest technological changes include: illegal interception of telecommunications; electronic vandalism and terrorism; theft of telecommunications services; telecommunications piracy; transmission of pornographic and other offensive material; telemarketing fraud; electronic funds transfer crime; electronic money laundering; and finally telecommunications in furtherance of other criminal conspiracies.However although digitization has facilitated a great deal of criminal activity the authors suggest that technology also provides the means to prevent and detect such crimes. Moreover the varied nature of these crimes defies a single policy solution. Grabosky and Smith take us through this electronic minefield and discuss the issues facing Australia as well as the international community and law enforcement agencies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521490

Crime in the Professions This title was first published in 2002: This text critically examines the nature and extent of crime and deviance in the professions and how it should be dealt with. Looking in particular at the crimes committed by professionals such as doctors accountants and nurses the book offers some innovative solutions to preventing and controlling professional crime. Containing 16 chapters written by some of Australia's leading scholars in the fields of professional regulation and crime control the book examines the increasing professionalization of the workforce and the changes in the way in which professionals carry out their work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138741799

Crime Justice Society in Colonial Sri Lanka This book explores the aspects of the history of crime in Sri Lanka during British colonial rule. It attempts to place crime within its economic political social and cultural settings to contribute to an understanding of modern South Asia. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003062356

Crime LinkageTheory Research and Practice The increasing portrayal of forensic investigative techniques in the popular media—CSI for example has resulted in criminals becoming "forensically aware" and more careful about leaving behind physical evidence at a crime scene. This presents law enforcement with a significant problem: how can they detect serial offenders if they cannot rely on physical forensic evidence? One solution comes from psychology. A growing body of research has amassed in the area of behavioral consistency and the detection of serial offenders. A number of innovations are taking place in the field that have important implications for the practice of crime linkage and its use by police and the courts. Crime Linkage: Theory Research and Practice assembles this research and discusses its practical use.Topics include:Theoretical explanations for how when and why we may (or may not) see similarities in a person’s crime scene behaviorConsistency and distinctiveness in sexual offendingAn overview of crime linkage research conducted to dateThe use of crime linkage in the United Kingdom South Africa and the United StatesNew directions for research and practice including linking across crime types to expand the suspect poolThe range of statistical methods used in research of crime linkage principlesThe book represents a collaboration of researchers and practitioners from across the globe who are recognized as experts in the area of behavioral consistency and detection of serial offenders. They provide a comprehensive and informative text on the psychological and criminological theories underpinning crime linkage how it is used in practice the challenges practitioners face and current innovations that will shape the future of crime linkage research and practice.

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Crime of NumbersThe Role of Statistics in the Armenian Question (1878-1918) Statistics have played an important role in the recognition of the Armenian question on the international landscape as well as its "definitive solution" resulting in the Armenian genocide. The importance of statistics first surfaced at the Congress of Berlin in 1878 where differences in the approach toward numbers between the Armenian and the Ottoman Empire and the role of statistics within the Ottoman state apparatus became an issue. At that international gathering the Armenian question was considered part of the "Eastern Question" paradigm of Western diplomacy. It would soon become a code word for the question of "civilization" itself.Those administering the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire perceived the Armenian issue not only through ethnic and religious perspectives but also through statistics. As Dundar shows statistics became the vehicle through which the Ottoman state apparatus was forced to include non-Muslim populations of the Empire in the state apparatuses and local councils. This occurred long before the Armenian question surfaced. The aim of Ottoman reforms was to ensure that all communities participated in the affairs of the state and that such participation was proportionate to their numbers. Through its role in these reforms statistics emerged as a constant matter of debate in the Armenian question.As a result of the Armenian genocide the statistical record has become quite sensitive. Today accounting for the numbers of Armenians murdered in 1915 usually means calculating the number of Armenians who were massacred or died of other causes such as disease hunger exhaustion and the like during deportations or immediately after. This is a work of brilliant archival history and imaginatively uses social statistics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508699

Crime Online Crime Online is concerned to explore the dual capacity of the Internet to pervert and to democratize: it offers its users freedom democracy and communication with people around the world while at the same time generating anxieties concerning its potential to corrupt vulnerable minds and facilitate heinous crimes. This book provides a highly authoritative account and analysis of key issues within the rapidly burgeoning field of cybercrime. Drawing upon a range of internationally known experts in the field and representing several different disciplines Crime Online focuses on different constructions and manifestations of cybercrime and diverse responses to its regulation. It will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in one of the most exciting and fast moving areas of crime policing and legislation. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843925828

Crime Opportunity TheoriesRoutine Activity Rational Choice and their Variants Opportunity theories of crime seek to explain the occurrence of crime rather than simply the existence of criminal dispositions. They emphasize the fundamental element in the criminal act of opportunity: how this arises how it is perceived evaluated and acted on by those with criminal dispositions. This volume brings together influential research articles on opportunity theories of crime by leading theorists such as Cohen and Felson on routine activity theory and Clarke and Cornish on the bounded rational choice perspective. The articles also include more recent theoretical developments and studies of situational crime prevention of specific twenty-first century crimes. These articles attest to the sheer volume as well to as the richness and the variety of work designed to reduce crime that has forever changed the face of criminology and criminal justice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780754629702

Crime Prevention This book provides a concise and up-to-date account of crime prevention theory practice and research in a form designed to be accessible and interesting to both students and practitioners. Readers will be equipped to think in an informed and critical way about what has been and might be done in practice to prevent crime at local and national levels. What is distinctive in the approach is the emphasis on crime reduction mechanisms how they may be activated and the intended and unintended patterns of outcome produced. Each of chapters two to five takes this as its organizing principle. The key aim is to clearly convey ideas arguments and evidence as simply as possible whilst doing justice to the material available. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781315820071

Crime Prevention Migration Control and Surveillance PracticesWelfare Bureaucracy as Mobility Deterrent EU expansion has stoked fears that criminals from the East may abuse freedom of movement to exploit the benefit systems of richer states. This book examines the way in which physical state borders are increasingly being replaced by internal border controls in the form of state bureaucracies as a means of regulating westward migration. The work examines the postmodern effect of globalisation and how ontological anxieties contribute to securitisation and social sorting in Western countries. It discusses the changes in control societies and how targeted surveillance as a geopolitical tool leads to new digitalised mechanisms of population selection. The book presents a casestudy of Roma migrants in the UK to examine the coping strategies adopted by those targeted. The book also critically evaluates the limitations of digitalised bureaucratic systems and the dangers of reliance on virtual data and selection methods. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367586249

Crime Prevention Policies in Comparative Perspective This book brings together a collection of leading international experts to explore the lessons learnt through implementation and the future directions of crime prevention policies. Through a comparative analysis of developments in crime prevention policies across a number of European countries contributors address questions such as: How has 'the preventive turn' in crime control policies been implemented in various different countries and what have its implications been? What lessons have been learnt over the ensuing years and what are the major trends influencing the direction of development? What does the future hold for crime prevention and community safety? Contributors explore and assess the different models adopted and the shifting emphasis accorded to differing strategies over time. The book also seeks to compare and contrast different approaches as well as the nature and extent of policy transfer between jurisdictions and the internationalisation of key ideas strategies and theories of crime prevention and community safety. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843927259

Crime Prevention Through Housing Design This book provides specific guidance for architects planners and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighbourhood has different problems which require unique solutions the process which leads to the solutions will be the same. This book provides specific guidance for architects planners and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighbourhood has different problems which require unique solutions the process which leads to the solutions will be the same.The first three chapters review the various theories of crime prevention through design and abstract from them a series of six key principles which can be applied to all housing projects. The remaining five chapters outline the practical application of these principles in the assessment design and construction processes.The text of this book has been compiled and updated from two educational packages produced by the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies and the Safe Neighbourhoods Unit. These were Safe as Houses (1988) and Safer Neighbourhoods (1989). Videos produced as part of those educational packages are available for use with this book. Media > Books > Print Books Taylor & Francis 9781138432871

Crime PreventionApproaches Practices and Evaluations Crime Prevention: Approaches Practices and Evaluations Tenth Edition meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging evidence-based impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance. This edition examines the entire gamut of prevention from physical design to developmental prevention to identifying high-risk individuals to situational initiatives to partnerships and beyond. Strategies include primary prevention measures designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance; secondary prevention measures directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance; and tertiary prevention measures to deal with persons who have already committed crimes. In this book Lab offers a thorough and well-rounded discussion of the many sides of the crime prevention debate in clear and accessible language including the latest research concerning space syntax physical environment and crime neighborhood crime prevention programs community policing crime in schools and electronic monitoring and home confinement. This book is essential for undergraduates studying criminal justice criminology and sociology in the US and globally. Online resources include an instructor’s manual test bank and lecture slides for faculty and a wide array of resources for students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138390256

Crime PreventionInternational Perspectives Issues and Trends This text presents an international approach to the study of crime prevention. It offers an expansive overview of crime prevention initiatives and how they are applied across a wide range of themes and infractions from conventional to non-conventional forms of crime. Based on a review of the literature this is the first text to offer a broad yet comprehensive examination of how and why crime prevention has gained considerable traction as an alternative to conventional criminal justice practices of crime control in developed countries and to provide a cross-sectional view of how crime prevention has been applied and how effective such initiatives have been. Crime Prevention: International Perspectives Issues and Trends is suitable for undergraduate students in criminology and criminal justice programs as well as for graduates and undergraduates in special topics courses. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367595500

Crime PreventionTheory and Practice Second Edition In Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice Second Edition Dr. Schneider has updated every chapter in this reliable text using the latest research the most recently published articles and books and feedback from professors and students using the first edition. Providing an introduction to dominant approaches key concepts theories and research the book supplies concrete advice on planning implementing and evaluating a crime prevention plan. This edition includes a new chapter applying crime prevention through social development principles to adolescents and young adults. This chapter is a recognition of the disproportionate rate of offending by adolescents and young adults as well as the distinctive risk factors faced by these groups. It also emphasizes the unique nature of applying social problem-solving solutions to adolescents and young adults who have been in formal contact with the criminal justice system. The focus is on recidivism prevention an often-ignored but critical aspect of crime prevention. Laying out a systematic blueprint for a successful crime prevention project the book also updates the extant literature on crime prevention—in particular the addition of research that has been published since the first edition of this book. Updated case studies reflecting new data present real examples of crime prevention programs and organizations and illustrate the conceptual theoretical and empirical elements of the book. Learning objectives discussion questions and exercises facilitate learning and retention and a companion website provides ancillary material for students and professors. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367738679

Crime Reduction and Community Safety This book analyses Labour's policies of local crime control from 1997 through to 2006. Picking up on the Conservative legacy it follows the establishment of local crime and disorder reduction partnerships and tracks developments from Labour's attempts to subject them to a centrally-imposed performance management regime through to the emergence of a strong neighbourhoods agenda combined with the imposition of a largely enforcement-oriented attack on anti-social behaviour. It also explores Labour's attempts to address the causes of crime through a policy agenda that has crystallised around themes of social exclusion social capital community cohesion and civil renewal; and that operates through an architecture that aspires to be joined up centrally and locally and neighbourhood-based. The main focus of the book is upon the unfolding of Labour's 'third way' political project from the centre downwards but the limitations of this project are exposed through an exploration of a number of key themes. These include Labour's dependence upon the different translations of local practitioners with whom it engages in a discursive politics of crime reduction versus community safety and through whom the conceptual and practical weaknesses of evidence-based practice performance management and joined-up government are revealed. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843924364

Crime Reduction and Problem-oriented Policing Problem-oriented policing has been one of the most significant new approaches to policing and crime reduction in recent years and in the UK significant funding was provided to a variety of projects adopting a problem solving methodology in both policing and crime prevention and reduction partnerships as part of the government's Crime Reduction Programme. This book aims to draw upon the main findings of this initiative to provide an overview of the government's Targeted Policing Initiative as a whole to describe findings about the adoption of a problem solving approach and to indicate what was learned from efforts to address the specific problems targeted in the evaluated initiatives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415627610

Crime Scene DocumentationPreserving the Evidence and the Growing Role of 3D Laser Scanning When a criminal act or vehicle crash occurs most often a local law enforcement agency responds and is responsible for both investigating the scene and for documenting it. It is critical that scene evidence is collected and recorded efficiently as the scene can quickly change. The sooner evidence can be collected reviewed and analyzed the better an understanding investigators will have as to how and why the incident occurred. Crime Scene Documentation: Preserving the evidence and the growing role of 3D laser scanning demonstrates at length the value of laser scanning through the use of numerous case studies of investigators who have utilized various 3D technologies and laser scanning to document scenes. Thorough and accurate scene documentation is an essential function at a science and proves particularly valuable in courtroom presentations to help jurors understand a crime or accident’s likely chain of events. The more advanced a scene documentation method is the better it can be utilized to capture details that will lead to optimal scene diagramming. Currently 3D laser scanning is the most advanced method of scene documentation available capturing detailed and realistic digital scans—capturing scenes in their entirety—and yielding a permanent representation of the scene for study and analysis at any time even years after a crime scene has vanished. The book explains current technology the latest advances and how to best utilize the technology. Case examples come from various applications from tools to programs can help crash scene investigators understand how scanning can improve scene documentation provide better and more evidence details and build more credible diagrams that possibly may be used in court presentations to help support a case. Key Features: Describes 3Dscene recording methods in use and how well they work Outlines the variables and inherent challenges associated with documenting crime and crash scenes Illustrates the positive and dramatic impact of having a well-documented scene particularly in the courtroom Explores how 3D laser scanning has vastly changed the way and extent to which crime and crash scenes can be captured accurately and completely and subsequently analyzed Explains how laser scanning is highly flexible and presents strategies to integrate it into other crime scene incident recording techniques and technologies 　 Crime Scene Documentation details the many benefits of 3D laser scanning technology relative to its reliability and accuracy as well as the multiple case scenarios in which it can be used. The book serves as an invaluable resource to crime scene technicians investigators and reconstructionists on the best ways to document a crime or crash scene. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367652302

Crime Scene ForensicsA Scientific Method Approach Bridging the gap between practical crime scene investigation and scientific theory Crime Scene Forensics: A Scientific Method Approach maintains that crime scene investigations are intensely intellectual exercises that marry scientific and investigative processes. Success in this field requires experience creative thinking logic and the correct application of the science and the scientific method. Emphasizing the necessary thought processes for applying science to the investigation this text covers: The general scene investigation process including definitions and philosophy as well as hands-on considerations Archiving the crime scene through photography sketching and video Managing the crime scene investigation—the glue that holds the investigation together Searching the crime scene—the logical byproduct of archiving and management Impression/pattern evidence including fingerprints bloodstains footwear impressions and tire track impressions The biological crime scene and recognizing collecting and preserving biological evidence including forensic entomology and evidence found at bioweapon scenes The fundamental principles of evidence as expressed by the Principle of Divisible Matter and the Locard Exchange Principle: every touch leaves a trace Trace evidence including glass paint and soil Shooting incident scenes with discussion of bullet paths and gunshot residue The final section examines fire scenes quality assurance issues and methods for collecting and preserving various evidence types not covered in other chapters. The delicate balance among logic science and investigative activity must be understood in order to successfully work a crime scene. Enhanced by more than 200 color images this volume provides investigators and students with the tools to grasp these critical concepts paving an expeditious path to the truth. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781439859957

Crime Scene Investigation Crime Scene Investigation offers an innovative approach to learning about crime scene investigation taking the reader from the first response on the crime scene to documenting crime scene evidence and preparing evidence for courtroom presentation. It includes topics not normally covered in other texts such as forensic anthropology and pathology arson and explosives and the electronic crime scene. Numerous photographs and illustrations complement text material and a chapter-by-chapter fictional narrative also provides the reader with a qualitative dimension of the crime scene experience. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781455775408

Crime Scene Investigation Case StudiesStep by Step from the Crime Scene to the Courtroom This text offers an innovative approach to learning about crime scene investigation taking the reader from the first response on the crime scene to documenting crime scene evidence and preparing evidence for courtroom presentation. It includes topics not normally covered in other texts such as forensic anthropology and pathology arson and explosives and the electronic crime scene. Numerous photographs and illustrations complement text material. A chapter-by-chapter fictional narrative also provides the reader with a qualitative dimension of the crime scene experience. Crime Scene Investigation is further enhanced by the contributions of such recognized forensic scholars as William Bass and Arthur Bohannon. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781455731237

Crime Scene Investigation Procedural Guide Those tasked with investigating crime scenes come from a variety of backgrounds and varying levels of experience. Crime Scene Investigation Procedural Guide gives the novice investigator the procedures for almost any crime scene imaginable while providing the seasoned pro a ready reference for crimes occurring even under the most unusual of circumstances. Designed as a stand-alone text or as a companion to Ross Gardner’s Practical Crime Scene Investigation the book details the precise steps that need to be taken when processing and analyzing a crime scene. Using a bulleted format for quick easy access the authors provide hands-on concise instruction in a style friendly to a range of professionals. Topics discussed in this practical manual include: Preparation for response initial response scene management and scene evaluation/analysis Scene photography videography sketching and search and processing procedures Steps to be taken prior to releasing the scene Response documentation processing and collection of evidence for specific crimes against persons and property Evaluation processing collection and preservation of all items of evidence encountered at the scene including friction ridge evidence two- and three-dimensional impression evidence and trace and biological evidence Bloodstain pattern documentation and shooting incident documentation Appendices include direction on working with potential blood-borne pathogens and worksheets for documenting and evaluating the scene and processing various types of evidence. A supplemental CD is included with downloadable forms for crime scene investigations. Adherence to the instructions provided in this guide will help ensure investigators that vital evidence is properly documented and preserved. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781466557543

Crime Scene Processing and Investigation Workbook The work of a crime scene investigator requires stellar organizational skills and razor-sharp attention to detail. Developing these skills is best achieved through hands-on training simulating actual case events. Crime Scene Processing and Investigation Workbook takes students from the classroom to the field and into the lab to explore a range of scenarios they will likely encounter on the job. Exercises presented in this practical handbook include assessing the scene crime scene photography and mapping fingerprint evidence documentation impression-casting bloodstain pattern recognition and advanced techniques for scene processing. The book also examines the actions of the initial responding officer highlights special scene considerations and describes the role of crime scene analysis and reconstruction. Designed to complement Gardner‘s Practical Crime Scene Processing and Investigation this manual uses a consistent format throughout to ensure assimilation. Each chapter begins with a list of key terms and provides learning outcomes that describe the goal of the chapter. Tasks are then broken down into specific segments with objectives necessary materials and a concept overview provided to promote heightened focus on salient points in the chapter. Post-lab questions enable students to test their grasp of the material and sample worksheets are provided that can be duplicated and used in actual case scenarios. By practicing the techniques described in this manual students will be ready when they encounter them for the first time on the job. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138426832

Crime Scene Processing and Investigation Workbook Second Edition Crime Scene Processing and Investigation Workbook Second Edition is the only workbook which directly supports and cross-references methodology and terminology presented in Ross Gardner and Donna Krouskup’s perennial best-seller Practical Crime Scene Processing and Investigations Third Edition. The workbook serves as supporting material offering hands-on activities to supplement theories and methodologies within the text as well as updated activities to support the new material presented in the Third Edition. As the number of forensic academic programs within the United States continue to grow—and the textbook continues to be a go-to standard in the field—the workbook remains an invaluable reference for academics forensic training providers and law enforcement training programs. The detailed Instructor’s Manual (IM) lends itself not only to experts who have utilized these procedures before but also to the novice and student who may be introduced to these topics in a classroom setting for the first time. The workbook conducts over 30 activities with detailed instructions concept overviews and reflective post-lab questions. Crime Scene Processing and Investigation Workbook Second Edition continues to stand as the best workbook on the market addressing foundational principles in a hands-on manner while directly correlating to the concepts addressed in the Gardner and Krouskup textbook. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138491489

Crime Scene Processing and Laboratory Workbook The most important part of a CSI‘s (crime scene investigator) job is accurate documentation of properly collected evidence. Documentation tells the story of the crime and can ultimately prove a suspect guilty. Through an array of specific exercises and actual document templates used in practice Crime Scene Processing and Laboratory Workbook teaches students the proper physical evidence collection and processing techniques which will enable them to master the skills necessary to become a proficient CSI. Building on prior knowledge and facilitating hands-on experience this laboratory manual allows students to practice the methods procedures and techniques associated with forensic science crime scene investigation documentation and evidence handling. What makes this lab manual unique is that it follows a single hypothetical case to show each of the investigative techniques in the context of a real crime. Highlighting the skills and equipment needed for each assignment the text presents over twenty separate exercises that alternate between investigating physical evidence specific to the crime scene and evidence specific to the laboratory. The book also provides useful forms including the laboratory submission request that duplicate real-world experience and demonstrate how to properly collect record and submit evidence. This volume is a useful companion to Gardner‘s Practical Crime Scene Processing and Investigation and Fisher‘s Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation. The exercises are designed to be completed with or without the help of a partner or as a member of a team. The appendices contain supplemental forms and numbered tent cards that can be used during the exercises along with other additional material such as a glossary and instructions on how to accurately write reports.

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Crime Scene Reconstruction Dynamics Biomechanics and Engineering Analysis Crime scene reconstruction is a field long dominated by those with backgrounds in chemistry biology and forensic pathology. But questions related to the trajectory of a bullet the breaking of a body falling down a staircase or the force with which a baseball bat is swung are within the province of mechanical engineering. In fact many concepts in mechanical engineering apply directly to the analysis of crime scenes as statics dynamics mechanics of materials fluids hermodynamics biomechanics and engineering analysis all play a part in crime scene analysis. This book melds the disciplines of crime scene reconstruction and engineering for an interdisciplinary approach to answer common crime scene questions. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781439879818

Crime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases Individuals who perpetrate murder sometimes pose or reposition victims weapons and evidence to make it look like events happened in a different way than what actually transpired. Until now there has been scarce literature published on crime scene staging.Crime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases is the first book to look at this practice providing a methodology of identifying analyzing synthesizing and evaluating the evidence of each case by learning to marry the physical evidence to the behavioral evidence.The book begins with the history of crime scene staging and includes many case examples that illustrate how when and why criminals stage crime scenes. The characteristics of crime scene stagers and their victims are examined along with the intent of crime scene staging and dynamics of the staged crime scene. In addition coverage of forensic victimology explores the reasons why a person might become a victim and why based on this staging may be performed.The book emphasizes the importance of recognizing behavioral red flags which are often present in staged crime scenes. These indicators can be commonly overlooked by investigators when they focus only on the physical evidence of a crime scene. Early detection crime scene analysis and crime scene reconstruction of the staged crime scene are each supported—by the full body of literature and latest published research on staging as well as by proven real-world field-based methodologies.The book identifies and describes various types of crime scene staging behavioral patterns presenting the complications and challenges that crime scene staging presents for investigators. This book will be an invaluable tool for forensic scientists investigators homicide detectives and law enforcement to understand all aspects of crime scene staging dynamics. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781498711180

Crime Scene Unit ManagementA Path Forward Crime Scene Unit Management: A Path Forward is a must-have resource for anyone involved with forensic investigations and the search for evidence at the crime scene. The book provides standards for how to manage a crime scene so that evidence is collected and preserved without errors and includes guidelines for how to implement the standards and set up regional training programs for smaller jurisdictions with tighter budgets. Key features include examples checklists and flow charts for evidence handling and routing. CSIs fire investigators homicide investigators accident investigators police executives and students of forensic science will benefit from this thorough approach to how the crime scene—and the personnel charged with tending to the evidence—should be managed. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780323243247

Crime Science This book provides an introduction to crime science setting out its essentials. It provides a major statement of the nature and aspirations of crime science and presents a series of case studies providing examples in different settings of the approach in action ranging from preventing crime within correctional institutions to the use of techniques such as DNA fast tracking for burglary. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843925842

Crime:Analyt Appraisal Ils 201 First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415863827

Crimean War First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315063737

Crime-free Housing in the 21st Century This book sets out to investigate the relationship between crime and the design and planning of housing and to produce practical recommendations to help architects and planners to reduce crime. It builds upon and updates research originally published in Crime Free Housing (1991) providing an easily accessible high quality and well presented account of crime and housing layout. The recommendations of this book focus on ways of reducing four different types of crime through better design: burglary - a strategy to discourage people trying to break into houses car crime - a strategy for providing a safe place to park cars theft around the home - a strategy for protecting the front of house items in gardens sheds and garages safe criminal damage - a strategy to minimize malicious damage to property. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138176256

CrimeLocal and Global Crime: Local and Global and its sister text Criminal Justice: Local and Global are two new teaching texts that aim to equip the reader with a critical understanding of the globally contested nature of 'crime' and 'justice'. Through an examination of key concepts and criminological approaches the books illuminate the different ways in which crime is constructed conceived and controlled. International case studies are used to demonstrate how 'crime' and 'justice' are historically and geographically located in terms of the global/local context and how processes of criminalisation and punishment are mediated in contemporary societies. Crime: Local and Global covers the way local events (such as prostitution) have wider aspects than previously thought. Links with people traffickers international organised crime and violence cannot be ignored any longer. Each crime or area of activity selected within this text has a global reach and is made ever more possible due to the way globalisation has opened up markets both legitimate and illegitimate. The book's approach and scope emphasises that we can no longer view 'crime' as something which occurs within certain jurisdictions at certain times and in particular places. For example the chapter on cybercrime highlights the 'illegal' acts that can be perpetrated by second lifers anywhere in the world but are they a crime? Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781315880716

Crimes against History Crimes against History takes a global approach to the extreme forms of censorship to which history and historians have been subjected through the ages. The book opens by considering the varieties of censorship from suppression dismissal and defamation to persecution and murder. Part I "Kill switch " tells the tragic story of how the censorship of history has sometimes turned into deadly crimes against history with chapters looking at topics such as historians and archivists being killed for political reasons attacks by political leaders on historians iconoclastic breaks with the past and fake news. Part II "Fragile freedom " reverses the perspective and examines how the censorship of history has backfired. Chapters consider the subversive power of historical analogies and resistance to the censorship of history. The book also contains a "Provisional memorial for history producers killed for political reasons (from ancient times until 2017)". It is a double tribute: to the history producers who were killed and to those who mustered the courage to resist the blows of censorship.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138574229

Crimes Against HumanityClimate Change and Trump's Legacy of Planetary Destruction The author is a sociologist who has written extensively on human rights and recently on climate change. In her new book she develops the idea that protecting everyone’s human rights and slowing planetary warming are the same goals. It is now clear that the leader of the richest most powerful country in the world – United States President Donald J. Trump - has set the trigger of destruction by exempting the United States from the international treaty that aims to give the entire planet some reprieve from warming. That is all countries of the world have entered into an agreement to end reliance on fossil fuels except the United States which withdrew at the outset of the Trump Administration. Regardless of the US position in the future the country’s emissions are so very extremely high they will continue to wreck havoc on the entire world. While Blau maintains that President Trump has committed a crime against Humanity even beyond his tenure the book sets the stage for a human rights approach to climate change for the future. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138312685

Crimes Against NatureEnvironmental Criminology and Ecological Justice Crimes Against Nature provides a systematic account and analysis of the key concerns of green criminology written by one of the leading authorities in the field. The book draws upon the disciplines of environmental studies environmental sociology and environmental management as well as criminology and socio-legal studies and draws upon a wide range of examples of crimes against the environment – ranging from toxic waste logging wildlife smuggling bio-piracy the use and transport of ozone depleting substances through to illegal logging and fishing water pollution and animal abuse. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 sets out theoretical approaches and perspectives on the subject; Part 2 explores the (national and international) dimensions of environmental crime and the explanations for it; Part 3 deals with the range of responses to environmental crime - environmental law enforcement regulation environmental crime prevention and the role of global institutions and movements. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781315880723

Crimes Against the Environment Crimes Against the Environment explains the seriousness of the threat posed by pollution its roots how it has evolved how it differs across the planet and how society has endeavored to create and enforce laws directed at its control. Rebovich and Curtis begin with an overview of hazardous waste the industries that produce toxins available methods of waste treatment and the legal environment of environmental crime. They examine the forces driving criminal behavior and the methods offenders adopt as well as protections against polluters and their effectiveness. The book concludes with an examination of environmental justice in the United States and globally and looks ahead to the future of crime control and prevention in this arena. Case studies and discussion questions offer further perspective on these challenging issues of environmental integrity. This text serves undergraduate or early-stage graduate students majoring in criminal justice environmental science sociology and political science and could also serve as a resource for professionals in environment-related occupations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781498754866

Crimes Against The StateFrom Treason to Terrorism In the post-2001 context of economic and political conflict this book presents a timely and detailed examination of the role of the criminal law in the protection of the existing order from political dissent and destabilization. It reviews offences such as rebellion treason mutiny espionage sedition terrorism riot and unlawful assembly in the UK US Canada and Australia from a comparative perspective and investigates leading cases in their historical and political contexts. Also examining the impact on human rights and civil liberties this book covers a neglected area of English-derived law and will encourage debate about crimes against states and governments. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138260351

Crimes and Mathdemeanors A collection of short detective stories for young adults who are interested in applying high school level mathematics and physics to solving mysteries. The main character is Ravi a 14-year-old math genius who helps the local police solve cases. Each chapter is a detective story with a mathematical puzzle at its core that Ravi is able to solve. The author invites the reader to solve the case on his or her own and then explains the mathematics used to find the solution to the puzzle. Illustrated by Karl H. Hofmann Media > Books > Print Books A K Peters/CRC Press 9781138442368

Crimes of Globalization This book addresses immensely consequential crimes in the world today that to date have been almost wholly neglected by students of crime and criminal justice: crimes of globalization. This term refers to the hugely harmful consequences of the policies and practices of international financial institutions – principally in the global South. A case is made for characterizing these policies and practices specifically as crime. Although there is now a substantial criminological literature on transnational crimes crimes of states and state-corporate crimes crimes of globalization intersect with but are not synonymous with these crimes. Identifying specific reasons why students of crime and criminal justice should have an interest in this topic this text also identifies underlying assumptions defines key terms and situates crimes of globalization within the criminological enterprise. The authors also define crimes of globalization and review the literature to date on the topic; review the current forms of crimes of globalization; outline an integrated theory of crimes of globalization; and identify the challenges of controlling the international financial institutions that perpetrate crimes of globalization including the role of an emerging Global Justice Movement. The authors of this book have published widely on white collar crime crimes of states state-corporate crime and related topics. This book will be essential reading for academics and students of crime and criminal justice who the authors argue need to attend to emerging forms of crime that arise specifically out of the conditions of globalization in our increasingly globalized rapidly changing world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415856317

Crimes of MobilityCriminal Law and the Regulation of Immigration Winner of the 2014 British Society of Criminology Book Prize This book examines the role of criminal law in the enforcement of immigration controls over the last two decades in Britain. The criminalization of immigration status has historically served functions of exclusion and control against those who defy the state’s powers over its territory and population. In the last two decades the powers to exclude and punish have been enhanced by the expansion of the catalogue of immigration offences and their more systematic enforcement. This book is the first in-depth analysis on criminal offences in Britain and presents original empirical material about the use of criminal powers against suspected immigration wrongdoers. Based on interviews with practitioners and staff at the UK Border Agency and data from court cases involving immigration defendants it examines prosecution decision making and the proceedings before the criminal justice system. Crimes of Mobility critically analyses the criminalization of immigration status and more generally the functions of the criminal law in immigration enforcement from a legal and normative perspective. It will be of interest to academics and research students working on criminology criminal law criminal justice socio-legal studies migration and refugee studies and human rights as well as criminal law and immigration practitioners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415839228

Crimes of State Past and PresentGovernment-Sponsored Atrocities and International Legal Responses War Crimes and acts of genocide are as old as history itself but particularly during the 20th century. Yet what are war crimes and acts of genocide? And why did it take the world so long to define these crimes and develop legal institutions to bring to justice individuals and nations responsible such crimes? Part of the answer lies in the nature of the major wars fought in the 20th century and in the changing nature of warfare itself. This study looks at war crimes committed during the Second World War in the USSR Yugoslavia Germany and efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice. This led to successful postwar efforts to define and outlaw such crimes and more recently the creation of two international courts to bring war criminals to justice. This did not prevent the commitment of war crimes and acts of genocide throughout the world particularly in Asia and Africa. And while efforts to bring war criminals to justice has been enhanced by the work of these courts the problems associated with civil wars command responsibility and other issues have created new challenges for the international legal community in terms of the successful adjudication of such crimes. This book was based on a special issue of Nationalities Papers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415509008

Crimes of StyleUrban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality First published in 1993 Crimes of Style investigates the politics of culture and crime through an in-depth case study of graffiti in Denver and the official response to it. Focusing on the most prevalent form of graffiti writing in Denver the book provides a detailed consideration of the social and cultural circumstances that surround its creation. It explores the national and international development and reception of hip hop graffiti that provided the context in which Denver’s hip hop graffiti emerged. It also examines the reaction of Denver’s corporate and political community highlighting the establishment of campaigns to criminalise it and identifying both Denver’s graffiti scene and the response to it as interwoven with broader cultural processes. Most significantly the book puts forward the circumstances surrounding the phenomenal growth of and subsequent attempts to suppress hip hop graffiti as indicative of injustice and inequality within the United States. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367750169

Crimes of the PowerfulAn Introduction As politicians and the media perpetuate the stereotype of the "common criminal " crimes committed by the powerful remain for the most part invisible or are reframed as a "bad decision" or a "rare mistake." This is a topic that remains marginalized within the field of criminology and criminal justice yet crimes of the powerful cause more harm perpetuate more inequalities and result in more victimization than street crimes. Crimes of the Powerful: An introduction is the first textbook to bring together and show the symbiotic relationships between the related fields of state crime white-collar crime corporate crime financial crime organized crime and environmental crime. Dawn L. Rothe and David Kauzlarich introduce the many types of crimes methodological issues associated with research theoretical relevance and issues surrounding regulations and social controls for crimes of the powerful. Themes covered include: media culture and the Hollywoodization of crimes of the powerful; theoretical understanding and the study of the crimes of the powerful; a typology of crimes of the powerful with examples and case studies; victims of the crimes of the powerful; the regulation and resistance of elite crime. An ideal introductory text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students taking modules on the crimes of the powerful white-collar crime state crime and green criminology this text includes chapter summaries activities and discussion questions and lists of additional resources including films websites and additional readings. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138797949

Crime-Terror Alliances and the StateEthnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security This book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate. "Unholy alliances" is a term used to describe hybrid trans-border militant and criminal networks that pose serious threats to security in Europe and elsewhere. Identity networks provide the basis for militant organizations using violent strategies – insurgency and terrorism – for political objectives. To gain funds and weapons militant networks may establish criminal enterprises or align with existing trans-border criminal and financial networks. This book extends the concept of unholy alliances to include the trans-state criminal syndicates that arise in failed and dysfunctional states exemplified by Serbia and Bulgaria during their post-Communist transitions. To deal with this complex and unconventional subject the authors develop a theoretical framework that looks at four kinds of factors conditioning the interaction between the political and the criminal: trans-state identity networks armed conflict the balance of market opportunities and constraints and the role of unstable and corrupt states. The volume also examines actors at two levels of analysis: the structure and activities of militant (and/or criminal) networks and the policies of state actors that shape and reshape the interaction of opportunities and constraints. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism insurgency transnational crime war and conflict studies and IR in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415657785

Crime-Terror Nexus in South AsiaStates Security and Non-State Actors This book examines the crime-terror nexus in South Asia focusing in particular on the activities of non-state actors that operate out of Pakistan and challenges the conventional wisdom that the Pakistan Taleban (TTP) and Al-Qaeda are Pakistan’s most serious security threats. Much research has focused on the policies of India and Pakistan towards Kashmir. But surprisingly little attention has been paid to several notable Pakistan-based non-state actors who are increasingly operating on their own and who have the potential to greatly inhibit if not derail the peace process there. These groups blur the line between terrorism and organized crime with serious implications for policy in the region. India and Pakistan can engage in confidence-building measures but if criminal actors such as Lashkar-i-Taiba (LeT) and D-Company cannot effectively be controlled a lack of trust between both sides will remain. Although the role of regular military forces is not to be discounted many of the non-state actors in Indian-Held Kashmir such as LeT are not confined by the same restraints as state forces thus allowing them engage in more violent actions without fear of reprisal. In order for lawmakers security personnel and others to develop sound comprehensive policies these forces and their potential to undermine political initiatives must be fully appreciated. This book explores the dynamics of the relationship between Pakistan D-Company and LeT and how it affects strategic thought decision-making and security interests in the region and explains the triangular relationships between states terrorist groups and organized criminal syndicates in general and in India and Pakistan in particular. This book will of much interest to students of South Asian politics terrorism organised crime war and conflict studies and Security Studies in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415724036

Criminal Abuse of Women and ChildrenAn International Perspective The abuse of women and children transcends geographical boundaries as well as economic cultural religious political and social divisions. Comprised of the work of more than 20 academics and practitioners from around the world Criminal Abuse of Women and Children documents the atrocities that have been committed against these victims from ancient to modern times. It examines the causes of such abuse and provides a global survey of what forms of abuse exist and how cases are handled in various parts of the world.International Experts Survey Patterns of Abuse Following an introduction to the historical antecedents and theoretical explanations of criminal abuse the contributors review efforts at control and prevention. They focus on informal control mechanisms religious intervention and the criminal justice system and highlighting the limitations that are inherent in these attempts. The remainder of the text consists mainly of case studies covering the various facets of abuse in numerous countries in Europe Asia Africa the Middle East and the Americas. The contributors also explore the role of community policing and supply a critical assessment of how American police practices may contribute to the continued victimization of women and children.A Call to Action to End the Scourge of VictimizationA comprehensive analysis of the worldwide problem of the exploitation of women and children the book elevates this topic to a subject worthy of academic discourse. It underlines the need for concerted global action and intervention at the national regional and local level. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367864323

Criminal AccusationPolitical Rationales and Socio-Legal Practices Accusing someone of committing a crime arrests everyday social relations and unfurls processes that decide on who to admit to criminal justice networks. Accusation demarcates specific subjects as the criminally accused who then face courtroom trials and possible punishment. It inaugurates a crime’s historical journey into being with sanctioned accusers successfully making criminal allegations against accused persons in the presence of authorized juridical agents. Given this decisive role in the production of criminal identities it is surprising that criminal accusation has received relatively short shrift in sociological socio-legal and criminological discourses. In this book George Pavlich redresses this oversight by framing a socio-legal field directed to political rationales and practices of criminal accusation. The focus of its interrogation is the truth-telling powers of an accusatory lore that creates subjects within the confines of socially authorized spaces. And in this respect the book has two overarching aims in mind. First it names and analyses powers of criminal accusation – its history rationales rites and effects – as an enduring gateway to criminal justice. Second the book evaluates the prospects for limiting and/or changing apparatuses of criminal accusation. By understanding their powers might it be possible to decrease the number who enter criminal justice’s gates? This question opens debate on the subject of the book’s final section: the prospects for more inclusive accusative grammars that do not as a reflex turn to exclusionary visions of crime and vengeful segregated corrective or risk-orientated punishment. Highlighting how expansive criminal justice systems are populated by accusatorial powers and how it might be possible to recalibrate the lore that feeds them this ground-breaking analysis will be of considerable interest to scholars working in socio-legal research studies critical criminology social theory postcolonial studies and critical legal theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367185633

Criminal Behavior Criminal Behavior explores crime as a developmental process from birth through early adulthood. It further examines the role that legal political and criminal justice systems play in the development of criminal behavior. Criminal Behavior: takes into account biological genetic developmental familial social educational cultural political and economic factors correlated with crime; references actual cases and events to serve as examples of the principles introduced; critically examines the roles of the criminal and juvenile justice systems and methods of punishment in the development of and response to criminal behavior; explores the effects of crime on victims and looks at correlations between crimes and victim characteristics and behaviors; examines the role of childhood and adolescent behavioral and mental health disorders in the development of criminal behavior; and investigates the differences between criminals and the rest of society and the differences and similarities between and among criminals. Chock-full of personal anecdotes this engaging text is unique in that it combines the experience of Doug Bernstein a clinical psychologist and a successful textbook author and Elaine Cassel a practicing attorney who regularly teaches psychology and law. Organized around five dimensions related to the causes characteristics and consequences of crime the book summarizes the programs that research suggest offer the best hope for doing a better job of dealing with crime in the 21st century. The authors argue that prevention is the key to dealing with crime and present comprehensive suggestions for crime prevention. The new edition features the latest criminal statistics available as well as the most current research on the causes and correlations of crime and violence. Other highlights include: discussion of the latest brain-imaging research in psychopathy - how psychopaths' brains are different from "normal" brains; the latest on gang activities and how their venues have migrated to suburban and rural areas; terrorism and its roots; Internet crimes especially sexual predator crimes; the latest research on how media violence especially violent interactive video games  contributes to criminal behavior; the examination of drug and mental health courts as alternatives to punishment; and recent Supreme Court rulings eliminating the death penalty for juveniles and the mentally retarded. Intended as a textbook for upper-level courses on criminal behavior psychology and law and developmental psychopathology taught in departments of psychology criminology criminal justice law and sociology and/or criminal justice training academies. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138003958

Criminal Behavior Crime Statistics suggest that Americans are not a notably law-abiding people. With some 13 million felonies reported every year it is not surprising that few topics engage public attention and imagination more compellingly than the dynamics of criminal behavior. Volume and ubiquity alone might suggest the psychology of criminal behavior is well understood and there exists an integrated body of explanatory theory and empirical evidence. But in fact only fragmentary and incomplete accounts have thus far appeared. Criminal Behavior is virtually unique in providing a comprehensive psychological paradigm that fits across variant species of crime while meeting the requirements of science and the needs of law enforcement and administration of justice in controlling criminal behavior.The authors begin this remarkable text by outlining a model for criminal behavior based not on abnormal psychology but on the tenets of social learning theory. They illuminate the processes by which criminal activity is initiated and repeated including personal constructs stimulus determinants and behavioral repertoires. They define four process elements that interact in precipitating criminal behavior-inclination opportunity expectation of reward expectation of impunity. They show how these process elements are regulated and confined by a series of complex and variable boundary conditions in specific criminal offenses. Conceptual methodological and operational constraints on the study of criminal behavior are defined and statistically and behavioral science data bearing upon larceny and homicide two crimes at diametric extremes are examined in detail.Pallone and Hennessy locate and define those psychological variables that render comprehensible the process whereby formally criminal acts are construed as possible and desirable by individual actors and show how those actors self-select psychosocial environments that facilitate or at least do not impede the commission of crime. They identify and explain the phenomenon of 'tinderbox violence.'Its comprehensive perspective and balanced consideration of competing viewpoints make Criminal Behavior an ideal text for students and teachers of criminology and of the psychology of criminal behavior. It is also a pioneering work for psychologists sociologists criminologists and law-enforcement official. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521513

Criminal Behaviour from School to the WorkplaceUntangling the Complex Relations Between Employment Education and Crime This volume focuses on the complex relation between offending and the transition from school to the workplace: how employment and education are related to breaking the law and getting in contact with the criminal justice system. The contributors report results from several large scale and sophisticated studies conducted in the Netherlands that gathered rich data on employment education and criminal behaviour. Each of the studies focuses on a particular period during the life course and particular risk categories. Taken together they contribute to our understanding of how getting out of school getting into a job and doing illegal things are intertwined over the life-course and how these relations differ with age and gender. The background of this volume is our interest in the often-studied relation between offending and employment or more generally between offending and the transition from school to work including dropping out part-time work and joblessness. The available literature casts little doubt that employment and education are indeed related to less crime and offending. However this relation is much more complex than it appears at first hand. The volume is primarily aimed at researchers and students in the fields of criminology sociology and economics. However it may also be of use for non-academic professionals in particular policy makers and practitioners in the field of criminal justice probation/rehabilitation and youth/schools. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138933682

Criminal Behaviour in ContextSpace Place and Desistance from Crime This book examines the extent to which criminal desistance â€“  'the change process involved in the ending of criminal behaviour' –  is affected by personal and social circumstances which are place specific. Grounded in criminological spatial analysis as well as more general social scientific investigations of the role of space and place in contemporary social economic and cultural life it examines why large numbers of prisoners in the United States and the United Kingdom appear to be drawn from –  and after release return to – certain urban neighbourhoods. In doing so Criminal Behaviour in Context assesses the effect of this unique life course experience on the pathways and choices open to ex-prisoners who attempt to give up crime. Including new data on the geographical distribution of offenders interviews with serving prisoners and drawing on theories about social context identity and subjectivity it discusses the implications of the evidence and arguments presented for prisoner reintegration policy and practice. Media > Books > Print Books Willan 9780415627627

Criminal Bodies in the WestIconography and Life after Death This book explores the cultural meanings of the criminal body in the west through historical and multidisciplinary frameworks examining both how the criminal corpse was viewed as a repository of power and how it held significant cultural meaning as material relic. Authors situate the criminal body at different historical junctures to examine ways in which the criminal corpse was displayed and managed for social political magical and medicinal powers and purposes. They explain how this legacy persists in significant ways in the contemporary west primarily through the commodification of criminal bodies in popular and public displays. The role of notorious criminal bodies in contemporary culture also reverberates in political and scientific realms in which criminal bodies often carry symbolic meanings related to ambivalence over interpretations of death. Drawing on examples from history as well as more contemporary criminal bodies the book will be of interest to those studying death and criminology and show how the criminal body can retain an iconic status in the collective memory of the living. This book was originally published as a special issue of Mortality. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367334277

Criminal CapitalViolence Corruption and Class in Industrial India Criminal Capital explores the relationship between neoliberalism criminality and the reshaping of class in modern India. It discusses how the political vocabularies of urban industrial workers reflect the processes by which power is distributed across the region. Based upon field research among a ‘casualised’ workforce in the industrial city of Jamshedpur the book examines the links between the decline of employment security and criminality in trade unions corporations and the state. The volume compares popular discourses of corruption against the ethnography of local labour politics business enterprise and debt collection and shows how corruption and criminality consolidate class power in industrial environments. Using an interdisciplinary ethnographic approach this study interrogates the relationship between capitalism corruption violence and labour politics in contemporary Indian society. An important intervention in the study of Indian political economy this work will be of interest to scholars and researchers of Indian politics social anthropology economics labour relations and criminology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780815376644

Criminal CircumstanceA Dynamic Multi-Contextual Criminal Opportunity Theory The main objective of this book is to propose an alternative criminal opportunity theory. The authors build upon social control and routine activities to develop a dynamic multi-contextual criminal opportunity theory. Emphasizing the importance of contextual explanations of criminal acts they propose two levels of analysis: individual and environmental. At each level the theory pivots on three broad organizing constructs--offenders motivated to commit criminal acts targets such as persons or property suitable as objects of criminal acts and the presence or absence of individuals or other defensive mechanisms capable of serving as guardians against criminal acts. Crime is profoundly real possessing qualities that make its occurrence and prevention pressing and persistent matters for individuals and societies. Theory in contrast is seen as highly abstract and removed from the seriousness of "real life." Theory almost seems to be a peculiar sport of an academic class. The practically minded even some academic criminologists are often perplexed by the seeming obsession some scholars have with theory which after all is nothing more than an explanation of facts. The practically minded seeing a compelling need to identify the crucial factors that could be used to predict and prevent crime wonder why anyone would invest precious time and energy into speculating about the abstract underlying details of why crime occurs when and where it does.The authors contend that every intervention prevention and policy is based on some theoretical explanation of the causes of human behavior. The improvement of interventions preventions and policies is thus directly related to the improvement of theoretical understandings of the abstract underlying details of the causes of crime. The development of explanations of events when properly done is a crucial component to understanding and possibly improving the "real world." This work does just that. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203794364

Criminal Courts The social organization of criminal courts is the theme of this collection of articles. The volume provides contributions to three levels of social organization in criminal courts: (1) the macro-level involving external economic political and social forces (Joachim J. Savelsberg; Raymond Michalowski; Mary E. Vogel; John Hagan and Ron Levi); (2) the meso-level consisting of formal structures informal cultural norms and supporting agencies in an interlocking organizational network (Malcolm M. Feeley; Lawrence Mohr; Jo Dixon; Jeffrey T. Ulmer and John H. Kramer) and (3) the micro-level consisting of interactional orders that emerge from the social discourses and categorizations in multiple layers of bargaining and negotiation processes (Lisa Frohmann; Aaron Kupchik; Michael McConville and Chester Mirsky; Bankole A. Cole). An editorial introduction ties these levels together relating them to a Weberian sociology of law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138622012

Criminal Defence at Police StationsA Comparative and Empirical Study Criminal defence at the investigative stage has attracted growing attention due to the shifting focus of the criminal process onto pre-trial stages and the recent European regulations adopted in this area. Increasingly justice practitioners and legislators across the EU have begun to realise that ‘the trial takes place at the police station’. This book provides a comprehensive legal empirical and contextual analysis of criminal defence at the investigative stage from a comparative perspective. It is a socio-legal study of criminal defence practice which draws upon original empirical material from England and Wales and the Netherlands. Based on extensive interviews with lawyers and extended periods of observation the book contrasts the encountered reality of criminal defence with the model role of a lawyer at the investigative stage derived from European norms. It places the practice of criminal defence within the broader context of procedural traditions contemporary criminal justice policies and lawyers’ occupational cultures. Criminal Defence at Police Stations questions the determinative role of procedural traditions in shaping criminal defence practice at the investigative stage. The book will be of interest for criminal law and justice practitioners as well as for academics focusing on criminal justice criminology socio-legal studies legal psychology and human rights. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367178055

Criminal Defense-Based Forensic Social Work This book draws upon the Colorado Model of Criminal Defense-Based Forensic Social Work – a holistic client-centered collaborative approach that uses a trauma-informed care framework – to outline the numerous roles and skills of a forensic social worker. The comprehensive developmentally informed model employs a past (e.g. mitigation themes and life history compilation) present (e.g. client contact and current functioning support) and future (e.g. reentry services) framework to provide mitigation narratives for defendants and to create a comprehensive approach to service. The text starts with an overview of practice standards ethical considerations and legal frameworks. Next chapters examine the unique roles that a forensic social worker must take on and the skills they need to possess. These include using clinical interventions with clients in nonclinical settings working with clients of different identities and backgrounds assisting with reentry planning for incarcerated clients and collaborating with experts outside of the defense team. Finally the authors provide strategies for practitioners to engage in their own self-care.　 Interwoven with four case studies using the Colorado Model this book will be valuable reading for graduate schools of social work law school programs which have clinics or direct practice components to legal studies  and at defender agencies who contract with or employ social workers on staff. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138221543

Criminal DismembermentForensic and Investigative Analysis Criminal Dismemberment is the first book to examine dismemberment as a phenomenon in the context of criminal acts. While the number of such dismemberment cases in any given country is often small the notion of dismemberment captures the imagination often leading many to question the motivations as to why anyone would perpetrate such an unnatural act. The act of dismemberment in its original form referred to cutting tearing pulling wrenching or otherwise separating the limbs from a living being as a form a capital punishment. In today’s society it has become associated most frequently with the criminal act of sectioning the remains of the dead in an attempt to conceal the death and dispose of the remains or make the process of identification of the deceased more difficult to achieve. Drawing on expertise from leading forensic anthropologists pathologists and forensic materials engineers the book brings together much of the literature on criminal dismemberment—viewing it from the investigative forensic and social science perspectives. Key features include: Psychological analysis of the perpetrator Detailed examination of case studies anonymized from recent investigations Difficulties encountered in a dismemberment investigation Tool mark analysis including knives and saws accompanied by over 120 detailed full-color illustrations and photographs Serves as a unique and useful resource in the investigation of dismembered human remains The diverse backgrounds of the contributors offers a thorough account of such topics as the history of dismemberment the forensic pathology in such cases the importance of developing a common vocabulary in terminology used the legal admissibility in dismemberment cases. As such Criminal Dismemberment will serve as a comprehensive reference for students and practitioners alike. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781482236286

Criminal Enterprise This is a study of agency in the field of criminal liability considering the respective roles of individuals and organisations and the allocation of criminal responsibility to these different kinds of actor. The issue of criminal responsibility which is informed by both the sociological analysis of conduct and by ethical considerations of responsibility provides an important and revealing focus for discussion. Criminal Enterprise analyses criminal responsibility through three main types of organisation: corporate actors in the field of business activity states and governments and delinquent or criminal organisations; each of which is of contemporary significance. This analysis focuses on three particular issues: the theory of individual and corporate (or organisational) responsibility the attribution of legal personality as a particular form of identity in theory and across jurisdictions and legal orders the internal practice and operation of complex organisations and corporate actors and how an understanding of this sociology of organisations should be used in the construction of legal agency in the field of criminal law. Media > Books > Print Books Willan 9781138001954

Criminal Enterprise Investigation Many cities towns and municipalities across the United States have criminal organizations operating within their jurisdictions. This book gives the investigator a guide to probing evaluating and analyzing local criminal organizations with the goal of disrupting and dismantling criminal operations. Subjects covered include investigative field techniques identification of enterprise vulnerabilities and an in-depth look into FBI task forces. Intended for law enforcement and other criminal justice professionals Criminal Enterprise Investigation provides readers with a critical "how to" guide to overcoming criminal enterprise in their communities. Features:Provides step-by-step guide to dismantling criminal organizationsIncludes real-life examples of successful investigationsCovers a wide range of criminal groups including domestic terrorists drug cartels gangs white-collar criminals and robbery and extortion ringsFor those working to combat criminal organizations this book is an essential guide to best practices. Criminal Enterprise Investigation provides the theory techniques and real-world examples necessary to overcome criminal activity for those of any level of expertise from seasoned criminal justice professionals to those just beginning their careers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367877033

Criminal Evidence Criminal Evidence is a respected and trusted introduction to the rules of criminal evidence for criminal justice students and professionals. The first half of this book follows the Federal Rules of Evidence in its explanation of how evidence is collected preserved and presented in criminal court. The second half provides a selection of relevant criminal court cases that reinforce these basics and contextualize how these rules are currently practiced. This text offers readers a practical understanding of how concepts of evidence operate to convict the guilty and acquit the innocent. Part of the John C. Klotter Justice Administration Legal Series this thirteenth edition provides many updates including new references to recent Supreme Court cases such as the decision on same-sex marriage and a current version of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Student aids include chapter outlines key terms and concepts lists a table of cases cited and online case study questions and glossary. Teacher resources include an instructor’s guide test bank and PowerPoint slides. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138289055

Criminal Financial InvestigationsThe Use of Forensic Accounting Techniques and Indirect Methods of Proof Second Edition Understanding the financial motivations behind white collar crime is often the key to the apprehension and successful prosecution of these individuals. Now in its second edition Criminal Financial Investigations: The Use of Forensic Accounting Techniques and Indirect Methods of Proof provides direct instruction on the "how to" aspects of criminal financial investigations taking readers through the different approaches used in gathering evidence and demonstrating how to present circumstantial evidence to a judge or jury in a simple and convincing manner. Simplifying how the financial pieces fit together this text: Presents the logic and reasoning involved in constructing a financial criminal investigation Describes the requirements for legal acceptance of forensic accounting investigations Includes relevant examples of the step-by-step processes involved in financial investigations Explores the pitfalls—and how to avoid them—in financial investigating Contains two investigations with step-by-step procedures from initial inquiry to case completion—for use as term or topical assignments or to promote class discussion New Chapters in the Second Edition: What Is a Financial Investigation? Indirect Methods in Tax Investigations Unique Aspects of Criminal Tax Investigations Innovative Applications Written by a former Special Agent with the Criminal Investigation Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service this volume sets out a successful methodology enabling readers to identify pursue and successfully prosecute financial white collar crime. 　 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781466562622

Criminal FuturesPredictive Policing and Everyday Police Work This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted prevention measures. Based on three years of field research in Germany and Switzerland this book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of how the police produce and act upon criminal futures as part of their everyday work practices. The authors argue that predictive policing must not be analyzed as an isolated technological artifact but as part of a larger sociotechnical system that is embedded in organizational structures and occupational cultures. The book highlights how for crime prediction software to come to matter and play a role in more efficient and targeted police work several translation processes are needed to align human and nonhuman actors across different divisions of police work. Police work is a key function for the production and maintenance of public order but it can also discriminate exclude and violate civil liberties and human rights. When criminal futures come into being in the form of algorithmically produced risk estimates this can have wide-ranging consequences. Building on empirical findings the book presents a number of practical recommendations for the prudent use of algorithmic analysis tools in police work that will speak to the protection of civil liberties and human rights as much as they will speak to the professional needs of police organizations. An accessible and compelling read this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology sociology and cultural studies as well as to police practitioners and civil liberties advocates in addition to all those who are interested in how to implement reasonable forms of data-driven policing. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367349264

Criminal Identities and Consumer CultureCrime Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissm This book offers the first in-depth investigation into the relationship between today's criminal identities and consumer culture. Using unique data taken from criminals locked in areas of permanent recession the book aims to uncover feelings and attitudes towards a variety of criminal activities investigating the incorporation of hearts and minds into consumer culture's surrogate social world and highlighting the relationship between the lived identities of active criminals and the socio-economic climate of instability and anxiety that permeates post-industrial Britain. This book will be of interest to undergraduates postgraduates researchers and lecturers in all fields within the social sciences but especially criminology sociology social policy politics and anthropology. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843925866

Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the AmericasThe Gangs and Cartels Wage War In recent years the south-western border of the United States has come under increasing pressure from the activities of Mexican narco-insurgents. These insurgents have developed rapidly from beginnings as nebulous gangs into networked cartels that have exposed the porosity of the border. These cartels declare no allegiance to any nation and are engaging in asymmetrical warfare against sovereign states throughout Mexico and in Central America. Within such states de facto political control is shifting to the cartels in the ‘areas of impunity’ that have emerged. This book addresses these concerns and focuses on the criminal insurgencies being waged by the gangs and cartels. It is divided into sections on theory Mexico and the Americas and contains a number of introductory essays pertaining to this premier security threat to the United States and her allies in the region. Topics covered include criminal and spiritual insurgency cartel weapons corruption feral cities Los Zetas politicized gangs and threat analysis in Central America. This book will be a valuable resource to scholars in the fields of regional security criminal justice and American Studies. It will be of great benefit to military and civil policymakers and practitioners in the areas of law enforcement and counternarcotics. This book was published as a special issue of Small Wars and Insurgencies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415533751

Criminal Investigation Criminal investigators need broad knowledge of such topics as criminal law criminal procedure and investigative techniques. The best resource for these professionals will distill the needed information into one practical volume. Written in an accessible style the fourth edition of Criminal Investigation maintains the same reader friendly approach that made its predecessors so popular with students professionals and practitioners. Beginning with an overview of the history of criminal investigation the book explores current investigative practices and the legal issues that constrain or guide them. It discusses the wide range of sources of information available including the internet individuals state and local sources and federal agencies and commissions. Next the book discusses other investigative techniques including interviewing and interrogation informants surveillance and undercover operations. A chapter on report writing provides explicit instructions on how to capture the most critical information needed in an investigation. Additional chapters cover the crime scene investigation and the crime laboratory. The remainder of the book delves into the specific investigative protocols for individual crimes including sex offenses homicide mass and serial murder assault and robbery property crimes cybercrime and narcotics. Concluding chapters focus on the police/prosecutor relationship and investigative trends. Each chapter includes a summary a list of key terms and review questions so that readers can test their assimilation of the material. Clear and concise this book is an essential resource for every criminal investigator’s toolbox. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781439882184

Criminal Investigation of Sex Trafficking in America Human trafficking is the third largest business for organized crime worldwide next to illegal weapons trading and drugs. Written by well-respected criminal justice scholars this book examines the criminal investigation of sex trafficking. Providing a multidisciplinary exploration of this topic the authors discuss:International and national perspectives and the history of sex trafficking in AmericaEffective ways to train law enforcement in investigationsMajor federal and state laws most applicable in sex trafficking investigationsThe sexual exploitation of American children and those brought in from foreign countriesInterrogation of sex-trafficking suspectsCrime scene examination and physical evidenceThe role and responsibilities of prosecutorsEffective ways to develop and maintain a multiagency task force Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367867294

Criminal InvestigationA Method for Reconstructing the Past A classic in the field Criminal Investigation: A Method for Reconstructing the Past Eighth Edition presents the fundamentals of criminal investigation and provides a sound method for reconstructing a crime based on three major sources of information: people physical evidence and records. By breaking information sources into these three major components the book provides a logical approach that helps students remember and achieve mastery of these essentials. More than a simplistic introductory text yet written in an easy-to-read user-friendly format it offers a broad treatment of criminal investigation. Updated and streamlined since the prior edition the text covers the foundations and principles of criminal investigation analysis of specific crimes and explores special topics including enterprise crime arson and explosives computers and technological crime increasing threats and emerging crime and terrorism and urban disorder. This discussion of contemporary and future criminal activity teaches students facts about the present as well as the skills to stay current in a rapidly changing field. This book is indispensable for core courses in criminal investigation. Chapters include a variety of helpful charts tables and illustrations as well as discussion questions that provide focus on the most important points. A glossary provides definitions for terms that have specialized meanings and an online companion site offers an array of resources for both students and instructors. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138903289

Criminal InvestigationAn Introduction to Principles and Practice Criminal investigation has a high profile in the media and has attracted widespread interest. Within the police it has been a rapidly developing field. Important scientific and technological developments have had a considerable impact on practice and significant steps have been taken in the direction of professionalizing the whole process of investigation. Within police studies criminal investigation has now emerged as an important sub-discipline. Criminal Investigation provides an authoritative and highly readable introduction to the subject from somebody ideally placed to write about it focusing on how police practitioners carry out investigations. It looks systematically at the purpose and role of criminal investigation; the legal policy and organizational context in which criminal investigation takes place; the evidence and information that criminal investigators seek; the process and methods of criminal investigation; the knowledge techniques and decision making abilities that practitioners require to carry out criminal investigations; how and why it is that some crimes are solved and some are not; the supervision of criminal investigation; and a review of some of the key contemporary issues that have a bearing on criminal investigation. Criminal Investigation will be essential reading for both policing practitioners (student police officers as well as officers taking higher levels of CPD within the police service) and students taking courses in criminal investigation forensic sciences and investigation police studies and police science and other courses where a knowledge of criminal investigation is required. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781315880730

Criminal Justice Mental Health and the Politics of Risk Criminal Justice Mental Health and the Politics of Risk addresses the important issues which lie at the forefront of decision making and policy in criminal justice and health care. The book brings together several perpectives from a number of distinguished academic lawyers criminologists psychologists and psychiatrists. It is multi-disciplinary in its approach and is jointly edited by a lawyer a criminologist and a psychologist - all of whom have expertise and experience in this field. The book is written in the light of the current emphasis on risk assessment and management as well as the recent government proposals to reform mental health law and detain dangerous and severely personality disordered individuals. It provides a theoretical overview for academics and students in the fields of medical law mental health law criminal justice psychology sociology criminology and psychiatry. In addition the book's highly topical and pragmatic approach will appeal to numerous professionals and practitioners Media > Books > Print Books Routledge-Cavendish 9781138162907

Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods Third Edition is an accessible and engaging text that offers balanced coverage of a full range of contemporary research methods. Filled with gritty criminal justice and criminology examples including policing corrections evaluation research forensics feminist studies juvenile justice crime theory and criminal justice theory this new edition demonstrates how research is relevant to the field and what tools are needed to actually conduct that research. Kraska Brent and Neuman write in a pedagogically friendly style yet without sacrificing rigor offering balanced coverage of qualitative quantitative and mixed methods. With its exploration of the thinking behind science and its cutting-edge content the text goes beyond the nuts and bolts to teach students how to competently critique as well as create research-based knowledge. This book is suitable for undergraduate and early graduate students in US and global Criminology Criminal Justice and Justice Studies programs as well as for senior scholars concerned with incorporating the latest mixed-methods approaches into their research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367133948

Criminal Justice and Political Cultures As crime increasingly crosses national boundaries and international co-operation takes firmer shape so the development of ideas and policy on the control of crime has become an increasingly international and transnational affair. These developments call attention not just to the many points of convergence in the languages and practices of crime control but also to their persistent differences. This book is concerned both with the very specific issue of 'policy transfer' within the crime control arena and with the issues raised by a more broadly conceptualized idea of comparative policy analysis. The contributions in the book examine the different ways in which ostensibly similar vocabularies policies and practices are taken up and applied in the distinct settings they encounter. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843924395

Criminal Justice and PrivatisationKey Issues and Debates Over the past few years opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown especially in areas related to criminal justice. Privatisation has existed within the British criminal justice system at least since the early 1990s but the privatisation of the Probation Service in 2014 was a significant landmark in this process and signalled a larger programme of privatisation to come. Criminal Justice and Privatisation works to examine the impact of privatisation on the criminal justice system and to explore the potential effects of privatising other areas including the police and the security industry. By including chapters from practitioners and academics alike the book offers an expansive overview of the criminal justice system as well as observations of the effect of privatisation at ground level. By also exploring the way the private companies are paid how they operate and what private companies do this book offers an insight into and the future of privatisation within the public sector. Written in a clear and direct style this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology sociology cultural studies social theory and those interested in learning about the effects of privatisation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138330948

Criminal Justice and Public Health The criminal justice system now serves as the chief provider of health care services to a significant portion of society. This includes the provision of physical and mental health care for offender populations who require substantial health care resources. To date little is known or understood with regard to how these services and programs are being delivered. This book addresses the gaps in our knowledge by presenting a range of studies detailing the daily practices that occur in places where criminal justice and public health systems intersect. This includes an assessment of sheriff agency emergency communication systems a study of problem behaviours and health using a juvenile sample the challenge of treating mentally ill prison inmates with note of important gender differences the impact of case management on justice systems and a review of substance abuse cessation programs among pregnant women currently serving probation and parole sentences. Also included is a policy piece in which the authors call for an integrated model that is neither criminological nor public health specific. These readings provide a range of empirical examples that highlight important successes and challenges facing the criminal justice and public health systems. They suggest that integration and partnerships represent the most efficacious means to reduce critical social problems such as violence poor health and criminality. This book was originally published as a special issue of Criminal Justice Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138086463

Criminal Justice and Regulation RevisitedEssays in Honour of Peter Grabosky This volume brings together leading researchers to celebrate the significant contributions of Peter Grabosky to the field of Criminology and in particular his work developing and adapting regulatory theory to the study of policing and security. Over the past three decades his path-breaking theoretical and empirical research has contributed to a burgeoning literature on the myriad ways regulatory systems drive state and non-state interactions in an effort to control crime. This collection of essays showcases Grabosky’s pioneering treatment of key regulatory concepts as they relate to such interactions and illustrate how his work has been instrumental in shaping contemporary scholarship and practice around the governance of security. Revisiting the work of a key figure in the field this book will be of interest to criminologists sociologists socio-legal studies and those engaged with security and policy studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138042032

Criminal Justice During the Long Eighteenth CenturyTheatre Representation and Emotion This book applies three overlapping bodies of work to generate fresh approaches to the study of criminal justice in England and Ireland between 1660 and 1850. First crime and justice are interpreted as elements of the "public sphere" of opinion about government. Second "performativity" and speech act theory are considered in the context of the Anglo-Irish criminal trial which was transformed over the course of this period from an unmediated exchange between victim and accused to a fully lawyerized performance. Thirdly the authors apply recent scholarship on the history of emotions particularly relating to the constitution of "emotional communities" and changes in "emotional regimes". Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367583927

Criminal Justice EthicsCultivating the moral imagination It is essential for those employed within the justice system to be able to competently and confidently work at the borders between ethics and the law. Criminal Justice Ethics offers a fresh new approach to considering ethical issues in a criminal justice context. Rather than simply offering a range of ethical dilemmas specific to various justice professionals it provides extensive discussion of how individuals develop their 'moral imaginations' using ethical perspectives and practices both as citizens of the world and as practitioners of justice. Starting from a consideration of the major ethical theories this book sets the framework for an expansive discussion of ethics by moving from theory to consider the just society and the role of the justice professional within it. Each chapter provides detailed analysis of relevant ethical issues and activities to engage students with the content as well as review questions which can be used for revision or examination. This book will help students to: understand the various theoretical approaches to ethics apply these understandings to issues in society and the justice process assist in developing the ability to investigate discuss and analyse current ethical issues in criminal justice appreciate the diverse nature of ethical systems across cultures outline strategies for detecting and resolving ethical dilemmas. Rich with examples and ethical dilemmas from a broad range of contexts this book's multicultural approach will appeal not only to criminal justice educators but also to academics students and practitioners approaching criminal justice from sociological psychological or philosophical perspectives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138776975

Criminal Justice in America Roscoe Pound believed that unless the criminal justice system maintains stability while adapting to change it will either fossilize or be subject to the whims of public opinion. In Criminal Justice in America Pound recognizes the dangers law faces when it does not keep pace with societal change. When the home neighborhood and religion are no longer capable of social control increased conflicts arise laws proliferate and new menaces wrought by technology drugs and juvenile delinquency flourish. Where Pound saw the influence of the motion pictures as part of the "multiplication of the agencies of menace " today we might cite television and the Internet. His point still holds true: The "old machinery" cannot meet the evolving needs of society.  In Criminal Justice in America Pound points out that one aspect of the criminal justice problem is a rigid mechanical approach that resists change. The other dimension of the problem is that change when it comes will result from the pressure of public opinion. Justice suffers when the public is moved by the oldest of public feelings vengeance. This can result in citizens taking the law into their own hands--from tax evasion to mob lynchings--as well as in altering the judicial system--from sensationalizing trials to producing wrongful convictions.  Ron Christenson in his new introduction discusses the evolution of Roscoe Pound's career and thought. Pound's theories on jurisprudence were remarkably prescient. They continue to gain resonance as crimes become more and more sensationalized by the media.Criminal Justice in America is a fascinating study that should be read by legal scholars and professionals sociologists political theorists and philosophers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521520

Criminal Justice in Hong Kong Containing a wealth of archival material and statistical data on crime and criminal justice Criminal Justice in Hong Kong presents a detailed evaluation of Hong Kong’s criminal justice system both past and present. Exploring the justice system and the perceptions of popular culture this book demonstrates how the current criminal justice system has been influenced and shaped over time by Hong Kong’s historical position between ‘East’ and ‘West’. Jones and Vagg’s examination of the justice system not only takes into account geographical changes like the erection of the border with communist China in 1950 but also insists that any deep understanding of the current system requires a dialogue with the rich and complex narratives of Hong Kong’s history. It explores a range of questions including: How were Hong Kong's criminal justice institutions and practices formed? What has been its experience of law and order? How has Hong Kong's status as between 'East' and 'West' affected its social political and legal institutions? Careful and detailed this analysis of one of the most economically successful politically stable and safe yet frequently misrepresented cities is a valuable addition to the bookshelves of all undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Asian law.   Media > Books > E-books Routledge-Cavendish 9781843148210

Criminal Justice in International Society This book adopts a critical criminological approach to analyze the production representation and role of crime in the emerging international order. It analyzes the role of power and its influence on the dynamics of criminalization at an international level facilitating an examination of the geopolitics of international criminal justice. Such an approach to crime is well-developed in domestic criminology; however this critical approach is yet to be used to explore the relationship between power crime and justice in an international setting. This book brings together contrasting opinions on how courts prosecutors judges NGOs and other bodies act to reflexively produce the social reality of international justice. In doing this it bridges the gaps between the fields of sociology criminology international relations political science and international law to explore the problems and prospects of international criminal justice and illustrate the role of crime and criminalization in a complex evolving and contested international society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415628303

Criminal Justice in Scotland Published in 1999. Scottish criminal law and procedure are very different from their counterparts elsewhere in the United Kingdom. This book is the first socio-legal account of the Scottish criminal justice process and its constituent institutions. Its aims are: to explain the operation of the various elements which make up the ‘system’; to summarise the considerable volume of relevant Scottish research; and to locate this knowledge within contemporary theorising about criminal justice. To this end the editors commissioned a team of experts to write chapters on the various stages of institutions of the Scottish criminal justice process. Given Scotland’s broad social and cultural similarities to the rest of the United Kingdom the book also provides a useful comparative perspective which should help to discourage the tendency towards overly ethnocentric theorising south of the border. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138612617

Criminal Justice in Scotland The existence of the separate criminal jurisdiction in Scotland is ignored by most criminological texts purporting to consider crime and criminal justice in 'Britain' or the 'UK'. This book offers a critically-informed analysis and understanding of crime and criminal justice in contemporary Scotland. It considers key areas of criminal justice policy making in Scotland; in particular the extent to which criminal justice in Scotland is increasingly divergent from other UK jurisdictions as well as pressures that may lead to convergences in particular areas for instance in relation to trends in youth justice and penal policy. The book considers the extent to which Scottish crime and criminal justice is being affected both by devolution as well as the wider pressures resulting from globalization Europeanisation and new patterns of migration.While the book has a Scottish focus it also offers new ways of thinking about criminal justice – relating these issues to wider social divisions and inequalities in contemporary Scottish and UK society. It extends the ‘gaze’ and analysis of criminology by exploring issues such as environmental crime urban disorder and the new urbanism as well as crimes of the rich and powerful and corporate crime giving it a relevance and resonance far beyond Scotland.Criminal Justice in Scotland will be an essential text for students in Scotland taking courses in criminology sociology social policy social sciences law and police sciences as well as criminal justice practitioners and policy makers in Scotland. It will also be an essential source for students of comparative criminology elsewhere and academics wishing to take Scotland into account in thinking about criminal justice in the UK. Media > Books > Print Books Willan 9781843927853

Criminal Justice InternshipsTheory Into Practice Criminal Justice Internships: Theory into Practice 9th Edition guides the student instructor and internship site supervisor through the entire internship process offering advice and information for use at the internship site as well as for pre-planning and assessment activities. With more and more programs offering or requiring internships as a graduation requirement McBride offers students a means of enhancing their credentials and gaining a foothold in a competitive job market. Students learn basics such as choosing an internship site at either a public agency or a private firm résumé writing techniques effective use of social networks interviewing skills and the importance of setting and developing goals and assessing progress. The book also serves as a reference tool for professors and supervisory personnel who assist and supervise students during their internships. Divided into four sections—Pre-internship Considerations Professional Concerns Role of the Organization and Assessment and Career Planning—this book offers resources to enrich the experience of the student and lay the foundation for future professional success. Suitable for all Criminal Justice Justice Studies and Pre-law undergraduate programs Criminal Justice Internships is useful as well in Social Sciences programs with a service-learning component. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138231665

Criminal Justice Policy and PlanningPlanned Change Unlike other textbooks on the subject Criminal Justice Policy and Planning: Planned Change Fifth Edition presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. Welsh and Harris detail a simple yet sophisticated seven-stage model which offers students and practitioners a full account of program and policy development from beginning to end. The authors thoughtfully discuss the steps: analyzing a problem; setting goals and objectives; designing the program or policy; action planning; implementing and monitoring; evaluating outcomes; and reassessing and reviewing. Within these steps students focus on performing essential procedures such as conducting a systems analysis specifying an impact model identifying target populations making cost projections collecting monitoring data and performing evaluations. In reviewing these steps and procedures students can develop a full appreciation for the challenges inherent in the process and understand the tools that they require to meet those challenges. To provide for a greater understanding of the material the text uses a wide array of real-life case studies and examples of programs and policies. Examples include policies such as Restorative Justice Justice Reinvestment Stop-and-Frisk and the Brady Act and programs such as drug courts community-based violence prevention and halfway houses. By examining the successes and failures of various innovations the authors demonstrate both the ability of rational planning to make successful improvements and the tendency of unplanned change to result in undesirable outcomes. The result is a powerful argument for the use of logic deliberation and collaboration in criminal justice innovations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780323298858

Criminal Justice Politics and WomenThe Aftermath of Legally Mandated Change Experts provide important insights on the intent and subsequent outcome of legislated change at the national and local levels in the area of criminal justice and women. Here is a revealing examination of the impact of judicial and legislative changes on the treatment of female victims and offenders in the areas of corrections domestic violence sexual assault and prostitution look at actual case studies demonstrates that the condition of women’s lives will not be changed merely by going to court or getting a new law. This is an enlightening book for readers who may believe that discrimination can be eliminated through legal changes alone. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315860114

Criminal Justice Procedure Criminal Justice Procedure gives clear guidance on the most common questions faced by today's law enforcement offering fresh look at 21st century pre-trial protocol. Unlike other case books this newly revised edition eschews legal theory in favor of the practical know-how needed to not to parse but apply criminal law. Emphasis has been placed on just exactly how practitioners should conduct hot-button procedures such as airport and border searches. Moreover the book also addresses the often dire implications of deviating from proper practice - how a false step can translate into a violation of individual rights or the inability to successfully prosecute the guilty. This edition has been specifically designed for CJ undergraduate programs (rather than higher-level law schools) and completely reorganized for a more logical flow of topics. Moreover it is newly focused on the most crucial practical applications of the law in the CJ context. There is also added emphasis on the Fourth Fifth and Sixth Amendments. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781455730483

Criminal Justice Research in an Era of Mass Mobility We live in an era of mass mobility where governments remain committed to closing borders engaging with securitisation discourses and restrictive immigration policies which in turn nurture xenophobia and racism. It is within this wider context of social and political unrest that the contributors of this collection reflect on their experiences of conducting criminological research. This collection focuses on the challenges of doing research on the intersections between criminal justice and immigration control choosing and changing methodologies while juggling the disciplinary and interdisciplinary requirements of the work’s audience. From research design to fieldwork to writing-up this book captures every part of the research process drawing on a range of topics such as migration control immigrant detention and border policing. It also reflects on more neglected areas such as the interpersonal and institutional contexts of research and the ontological and epistemological assumptions embedded within data analysis methods. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the major developments in current research in this field how and why they occur and with what consequences. This book seeks to shake off the phantom of undisturbed research settings by bringing to the fore the researchers' involvement in the research process and its products. An interdisciplinary collection it can be used as a reference not just for those interested in the criminology of mobility but also as a learning tool for anyone conducting research on a highly charged topic in contemporary policy and politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138284128

Criminal Justice Research MethodsTheory and Practice Second Edition The study of research methodologies can be daunting to many students due to complex terminology mathematical formulas and lack of practical examples. Now in its second edition Criminal Justice Research Methods: Theory and Practice offers a straightforward easy-to-understand text that clarifies this complex subject matter keeping perplexing research language and associated complexities to a minimum and ensuring that students get a practical grasp of this essential topic. The authors discuss scientific inquiry establishing a framework for thinking about and understanding the nature of research. They examine various types of research methods in the broad categories of quantitative qualitative and evaluation designs and provide coverage of analytical and experimental research designs. The book also examines survey methods survey instruments and questionnaires including wording organization and pretesting. It describes the fundamental characteristics of the qualitative approach setting the stage for an in-depth discussion of the participant observation and case study methods of research. Other topics include ethical standards of conduct topic selection literature review and guidelines for writing a research report or grand proposal. The second edition features updated examples reworked exercises additional discussion points and new research-in-action sections. Defining a clear approach to the study of research the book enables student experiencing their initial exposure to this subject to be fundamentally prepared to be proficient researchers in criminal justice and criminology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138465381

Criminal Justice Research: Inspiration Influence and IdeationInspiration Influence and Ideation This title was first published in 2002: A collection of criminal justice researchers select a number of books documents papers and such like that they believe to be important and influential in the field of criminal justice research. Each author has written a description and critique of the selected item and have discussed the impact of each of them with regards to formulating or developing their own research. The authors also speculate onb the direction they believe the area in question might be expected to develop in the first 10-15 years of the 21st century. The definition of crimnal justice in this book is a broad one and that is reflected in the combination of criminologists psychologists sociologists and experts on social and public administration. In all the book attempts to examine the inspirations influences and thought processes which underpin criminal justice research efforts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138704510

Criminal Justice Theory Volume 26Explanations and Effects Criminal Justice Theory: Explanations and Effects undertakes a systematic study of theories of the criminal justice system which historically have received very little attention from scholars. This is a glaring omission given the risk of mass imprisonment the increasing presence of police in inner-city communities and the emergence of new policy initiatives aimed at improving the quality and effectiveness of the administration of justice. Fortunately however a number of disparate theoretical works have appeared that seek to provide insight into the nature and impact of criminal justice. Based on 13 original essays by influential scholars this volume pulls together the most significant of these perspectives thus creating a state-of-the-art assessment of contemporary criminal justice theory. Criminal justice theory can be divided into two main categories. The first includes works that seek to explain the operation of the criminal justice system. Most of these contributions have grappled with the core reality of American criminal justice: its rising embrace of punitiveness and the growth of mass imprisonment. The second category focuses on works that identify theories that have often guided efforts to reduce crime. The issue here focuses mainly on the effects of certain theoretically guided criminal justice interventions. The current volume is thus organized into these two categories: explanations and effects. The result is an innovative and comprehensive book that not only serves researchers by advancing scholarship but also is appropriate for advanced undergraduate or graduate classroom use. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367860776

Criminal Justice TheoryAn Introduction Criminal Justice Theory examines the theoretical foundations of criminal justice in the modern era whilst also considering legal philosophy and ethics explaining criminal behaviour and discussing policing the court process and penology in the context of contemporary socio-economic debates. Throughout the book a realist theoretical thread acts as a guide interlinking concepts of social progress conflict and cerebral models of criminal justice whilst also recognizing our collusion in the creation of an increasingly pervasive culture of socio-control which now characterizes contemporary society. The complex theoretical issues tackled in this book are addressed in an accessible style making this a relevant and comprehensive introduction to criminal justice theory for students on a wide range of undergraduate criminal justice modules. It is also a helpful guide for those commencing postgraduate studies in the disciplines of criminal justice criminology and law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415490979

Criminal Justice TheoryExplaining the Nature and Behavior of Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Theory Second Edition is the first and only text edited by U.S. criminal justice educators on the theoretical foundations of criminal justice not criminological theory. This new edition includes entirely new chapters as well as revisions to all others with an eye to accessibility and coherence for upper division undergraduate and beginning graduate students in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415715195

Criminal JusticeAn Introduction This revised and expanded third edition offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the criminal justice system of England and Wales. Starting with an overview of the main theories of the causes of crime this book explores and discusses the operation of the main criminal justice agencies including the police probation and prison services and the legal and youth justice systems. This book offers a lively and critical discussion of some of the main themes in criminal justice from policy-making and crime control to diversity and discrimination to the global dimensions of criminal justice including organized crime and the role of the EU. Key updates to this new edition include: increased discussion of the measurement prevention and detection of crime; a revised chapter on the police which discusses the principle of policing by consent police methods power and governance as well as the abuse of power; further discussion of pressing contemporary issues in criminal justice such as privatization multi-agency working and community-based criminal justice policy; a brand new chapter on victims of crime key developments in criminal justice policy and the response of the criminal justice system. This accessible text is essential reading for students taking introductory courses in criminology and criminal justice. A wide range of useful features includes review questions lists of further reading timelines of key events and a glossary of key terms. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138931169

Criminal JusticeLocal and Global Criminal Justice: Local and Global and its sister text Crime: Local and Global are two new teaching texts that aim to equip the reader with a critical understanding of the globally contested nature of 'crime' and'justice'. Through an examination of key concepts and criminological approaches the books illuminate the different ways in which crime is constructed conceived and controlled. International case studies are used to demonstrate how 'crime' and 'justice' are historically and geographically located in terms of the global/local context and how processes of criminalisation and punishment are mediated in contemporary societies. Criminal Justice: Local and Global covers the way the 'local' can be widened out to look at international transnational and supranational aspects of justice. This means that issues such as corporate crime and human rights can be discussed in a comparative and critical way examining the possibility for example of an International Criminal Court cross-national jurisdictions of regulation and control (such as Interpol) and so on. Each chapter covers a different area of regulation punishment and process. Unlike previous texts the book's approach will be an innovative approach to widen 'justice' to encompass considerations beyond simple local jurisdictions. The book will take instances of 'justice' in one jurisdiction and use global examples to illustrate how ambiguous the concept of 'justice' can be. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9780203722688

Criminal JusticeRetribution vs. Restoration There are nearly two million inmates in America today. Are there better alternatives to incarceration? Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration presents new answers and unconventional suggestions addressing America’s overcrowded prisons and jails high recidivism rates and weakened family and community relationships with ex-prisoners. Experts in the field discuss the benefits and failures of America’s criminal justice system at various times in history and today then explore possibilities to improve on that system. This groundbreaking book introduces encouraging therapeutic approaches to criminal justice that include treatment rehabilitation and the direct involvement the victims the families and the communities. Criminal Justice looks at America’s over-reliance on punishment and retribution as the means of responding to prevalent social problems and examines the justice system’s tendency to incarcerate—rather than treat—minority mentally ill poor and drug-dependent offenders. The authors—who are all active in some field of criminal justice—argue for a restorative model of correction that is more humane to both offenders and victims. This model opens up dialogue between offenders and their victims families and communities by promoting hallmark programs including victim offender mediation conferencing peacemaking circles restitution and community projects and services. Criminal Justice includes such intriguing topics as: the social costs and moral economy of incarceration drug policy—should drug users be incarcerated or rehabilitated? the potential of restorative justice—a first-hand account from a prison inmate restorative justice and faith communities the practice and efficacy of restorative justice the path from fury to forgiveness—the emotions of the mother of a murdered child strategies for creating safe and just communities women in prison—their special needs both during incarceration and after re-entry social work and criminal justice—how they work together grassroots advocacy for criminal justice reform—a look back over the last 30 years by the founders of CURE (Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants) This book’s foundation rests on the Biblical concepts of restoration healing forgiveness reconciliation and responsibility. Criminal Justice: Retribution vs Restoration is an eye-opening look at the negative effects of our current system of blame and punishment and offers hope for better more humane methods in the future. This holistic empowering and strengths-based perspective offers insight and suggestions that are valuable for students social workers policymakers and criminal justice professionals. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203046944

Criminal Law In order to fully grasp criminal law concepts students must go beyond mere rote memorization of the penal code and attempt to understand where the laws originate from and how they have developed. Criminal Law Second Edition blends legal and moral reasoning in the examination of crimes and explores the history relating to jurisprudence and roots of criminal law. It fosters discussions of controversial issues and delivers abridged case law decisions that target the essence of appellate rulings. Grounded in the model penal code making the text national in scope this volume examines: Why the criminal codes originated and the moral religious spiritual and human influences that led to our present system How crimes are described in the modern criminal justice model The two essential elements necessary for criminal culpability: actus reus (the act committed or omitted) and mens rea (the mind and intent of the actor) Offenses against the body resulting in death including murder manslaughter felony murder and negligent homicide Nonterminal criminal conduct against the body including robbery kidnapping false imprisonment assault and hate crimes Sexual assault rape necrophilia incest and child molestation Property offenses such as larceny/theft bribery forgery and embezzlement Crimes against the home including burglary trespass arson and vandalism The book also examines controversial public morality issues such as prostitution drug legalization obscenity and pornography. The final two chapters discuss inchoate offenses where the criminal act has not been completed and various criminal defenses such as legal insanity entrapment coercion self-defense and mistake of fact or law. Important keywords introduce each chapter and discussion questions and suggested readings appear at the end of each chapter prompting lively debate and further inquiry into a fascinating subject area that continues to evolve. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138374515

Criminal Law Criminal Law Eleventh Edition a classic introduction to criminal law for criminal justice students combines the best features of a casebook and a textbook. Its success over numerous editions both at community colleges as well as in four-year college criminal justice programs is proof this text works as an authoritative source on criminal law as well as a teaching text that communicates with students. The book covers substantive criminal law and explores its principles sources distinctions and limitations. Definitions and elements of crimes are explained and defenses to crimes are thoroughly analyzed. Each chapter offers guidance to help students understand what is important including chapter outlines key terms learning objectives Legal News boxes that highlight current criminal law issues and Quick Checks that cue the reader to stop and answer a question or two concerning the material just covered. Unique Exploring Case Law boxes offer guidance in using the accompanying cases which are provided on the book’s website. A robust collection of instructor support materials addresses teaching and learning issues Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780323353977

Criminal Law This textbook covers the Criminal Law option of the A-level law syllabus and provides an ideal introduction for anybody coming to the subject for the first time.  Criminal Law covers all A-level syllabuses/specification requirements and is written by the principal examiner and principal assistant examiner in Criminal Law for one of the major examination boards. It contains extensive case illustration and a range of examination related questions and activities. There is a special focus on key skills and on the new synoptic assessment syllabus requirements.  This fully updated third edition builds upon the success of the first two editions. It: provides coverage of OCR and AQA specifications is endorsed by OCR for use with the Criminal Law option includes new OCR synoptic assessment source materials (for use in examinations in June 2005) with additional guidance discusses new legislation and cases including Sexual Offences Act 2003 Andrews Bollom G and R Rowland Safi and others Weller Z.   Media > Books > Print Books Willan 9781138142596

Criminal Law Criminal Law Twelfth Edition a classic introduction to criminal law for criminal justice students combines the best features of a casebook and a textbook. Its success over numerous editions both at community colleges as well as in four-year college criminal justice programs is proof this text works as an authoritative source on criminal law as well as a teaching text that communicates with students. The book covers substantive criminal law and explores its principles sources distinctions and limitations. Definitions and elements of crimes are explained and defenses to crimes are thoroughly analyzed. Each chapter offers guidance to help students understand what is important including chapter outlines key terms learning objectives Legal News boxes that highlight current criminal law issues and Quick Checks that cue the reader to stop and answer a question or two concerning the material just covered. Unique Exploring Case Law boxes offer guidance in using the accompanying cases which are provided on the book’s website and in Part II of this textbook. A robust collection of instructor support materials addresses teaching and learning issues. Updated with all the newest relevant law this book is appropriate for undergraduate students in criminal law and related courses. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367460549

Criminal Law This title was first published in 2000:  This volume includes essays on the theory and practice of criminal law. Many of the essays are interdisciplinary reflecting the influence of developments in philosophy sociology and psychology on the concept of criminality. Cross-cultural issues are also raised and considered. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138730434

Criminal Law Key Facts Key Cases: Criminal Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Criminal Law module with ease. This book explains the facts and associated case law for: the important concepts of actus reus mens rea and strict liability the main fatal and non-fatal offences against the person a wide range of property offences general defences the topics of participation and inchoate offences   Key Facts Key Cases is the essential series for anyone studying law at LLB postgraduate and conversion courses. The series provides the　simplest and most effective way to absorb and retain all of the material essential for passing your exams. Each chapter includes: diagrams at the start of chapters to summarise key points structured headings and numbered points to allow for clear recall of the essential points charts and tables to break down more complex information Chapters are also supported by a Key Cases section which provides the simplest and most effective way to absorb and　memorise essential cases needed for exam success. Essential and leading cases are explained The style layout and explanations are user friendly　 Cases are broken down into key components by use of a clear system of symbols for quick and easy visual recognition Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415833257

Criminal Law Procedure and Evidence Constitutional principles are the foundation upon which substantive criminal law criminal procedure law and evidence laws rely. The concepts of due process legality specificity notice equality and fairness are intrinsic to these three disciplines and a firm understanding of their implications is necessary for a thorough comprehension of the topic. Criminal Law Procedure and Evidence examines the tensions produced by balancing the ideals of individual liberty embodied in the Constitution against society‘s need to enforce criminal laws as a means of achieving social control order and safety. Relying on his first-hand experience as a law enforcement official and criminal defense attorney the author presents issues that highlight the difficulties in applying constitutional principles to specific criminal justice situations. Each chapter of the text contains a realistic problem in the form of a fact pattern that focuses on one or more of the classic criminal justice issues to which readers can relate. These problems are presented from both the point of view of citizens caught up in a police investigation and from the perspective of police officers attempting to enforce the law within the framework of constitutional protections. Concepts discussed include Probable cause Search and seizure stop and frisk and the exclusionary rule Confessions and Miranda warnings The right to counsel Lineups Standards of proof Proportionate sentencing The right to confront accusers Providing a complete view of American legal principles the book addresses distinct issues as well as the overlays and connections between the issues. It presents as a cohesive whole the interrelationships between constitutional principles statutory criminal laws procedural law and common law evidentiary doctrines.

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Criminal Law and Human Rights The significance of fundamental individual rights to substantive criminal law criminal procedure law and sentencing law is undeniable for anyone who is familiar with the criminal justice system. The fourteen essays selected for this volume portray and discuss the meaning and rationale of those human rights that are most relevant to that system. They have been chosen for their high quality timeless approach and general attention to issues that are of universal interest and thus not too closely related to the technicalities of a specific criminal justice system. In combination with the introduction to this volume the essays cover almost the entire criminal justice system and offer a general overview as well as an in-depth examination of criminal law and human rights. As a result this volume is essential for researchers lecturers and students concerned with the tensions and harmonies between the values the criminal justice system and human rights respectively serve. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409460985

Criminal Law and Policy in the European Union This book takes stock of the development of EU criminal law from the establishment of the ECSC to the first European Union criminal law directives passed after the Lisbon Treaty. The work considers criminal offences established at EU level the effects of EU law on national criminalization the emerging body of EU criminal procedural law and the increasing recognition of defense rights as EU rights.  Limits to the legal effects of EU-level rules require them to be examined in the light of Member State practice. Implementing measures are not always appropriate and may balance interests under national law the rights of criminal defendants and the need for EU-wide approximation. The proliferation of EU criminal law has led to an explicit albeit underdeveloped EU criminal policy This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of EU Law and Criminal Law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138843400

Criminal Law and PrecrimeLegal Studies in Canadian Punishment and Surveillance in Anticipation of Criminal Guilt In Philip K. Dick’s short story Minority Report the institution of Precrime punishes people with imprisonment for crimes they would have committed had they not been prevented. With Dick’s allegorical inspiration the authors of Criminal Law and Precrime: Legal Studies in Canadian Punishment and Surveillance in Anticipation of Criminal Guilt posit that recent developments in Canadian law indicate a trend toward imposing punitive measures at increasingly earlier stages of the prosecutorial process. The result is a potentially new field of criminal management that could be characterized as "precrime"—particularly the use of the law as a technology of surveillance and prevention since "terror" became a justification for intervention. The authors note that as risk management logics (based in actuarial sciences) have shifted to precautionary ones (based in administrative sciences) the law has responded by developing techniques in the arena of criminal regulation in light of the "war on terror": the need to ensure security the proliferation of digital data and the development of drones social networking and cloud storage to gather personal data. The authors view shifts in criminal investigation; the substantive criminal law of sexual expression conduct and work; and civil forfeiture as emblematic of precrime populism. The unifying theme of these techniques is that they occur prior to state-identified crime arise out of a precautionary philosophy and seek to presume (or circumvent) criminality. The book is a provocative read for scholars and students in criminal law policing and surveillance as well as for those interested in how areas of law such as immigration health and anti-terrorism are mobilizing the logics of risk and surveillance in new ways that emphasize precaution. The authors invite legal scholars to place the analytical lens of precrime on criminal and regulatory practices in Canada as well as other Western nations across the globe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367902780

Criminal Law for CriminologistsPrinciples and Theory in Criminal Justice Criminal Law for Criminologists uses theoretical and practical research to bridge the gap between ‘the law in the books’ (criminal law doctrine) and ‘the law in action’ (criminal justice process). It introduces the key policies and principles that drive criminal law in England and then explains the law itself in terms of relevant statute and case law. Starting with an outline of the basic principles and theories of criminal law and criminal justice the author goes on to discuss: Criminal law and criminal justice in historical perspective General principles of criminal law including actus reus and mens rea Specific types of criminal offence including property homicide sexual public order and drug offences An overview of defences to crime An appendix outlining essential legal skills. In examining the links between the worlds of criminal law and criminal justice Criminal Law for Criminologists brings a fresh perspective to this field of research. Written in a clear and direct style this book will be essential reading for students of criminology criminal justice law cultural studies social theory and those interested in gaining an introduction to criminal law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138606913

Criminal Law Reform and Transitional JusticeHuman Rights Perspectives for Sudan Sudan has been undergoing profound changes characterized by an uncertain transition from conflict to post-conflict society and the separation of the country in the midst of ongoing human rights concerns. This book examines the nature policy aspects and interrelationship of Sudanese criminal law and law reform in this context situating developments in the broader debate of international human rights rule of law and transitional justice. For the first time Sudanese national regional and international experts and practitioners are brought together to share experiences combining a range of legal and policy perspectives. The book provides valuable lessons on how relevant standards and experiences can be used to inform criminal law reform in Sudan. It also considers what broader lessons can be drawn for reform initiatives in other societies facing similar challenges. This includes the type of violations that need to be addressed in reforms as a prerequisite for enhanced human rights protection challenges experienced in this regard and the contribution of civil society in this process. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138272231

Criminal Law Statutes 2012-2013 ‘Focused content layout and price - Routledge competes and wins in relation to all of these factors’ - Craig Lind University of Sussex UK  ‘The best value and best format books on the market.’ - Ed Bates Southampton University UK   Routledge Student Statutes present all the legislation students need in one easy-to-use volume. Developed in response to feedback from lecturers and students this book offer a fully up-to-date comprehensive and clearly presented collection of legislation - ideal for LLB and GDL course and exam use.  Routledge Student Statutes are:    • Exam Friendly: un-annotated and conforming to exam regulations   • Tailored to fit your course: 80% of lecturers we surveyed agree that Routledge Student Statutes match their course and cover the relevant legislation   • Trustworthy: Routledge Student Statutes are compiled by subject experts updated annually and have been developed to meet student needs through extensive market research   • Easy to use: a clear text design comprehensive table of contents multiple indexes and highlighted amendments to the law make these books the most student-friendly Statutes on the market    Competitively Priced: Routledge Student Statutes offer content and usability rated as good or better than our major competitor but at a more competitive price   • Supported by a Companion Website: presenting scenario questions for interpreting Statutes annotated web links and multiple-choice questions these resources are designed to help students to be confident and prepared. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415633826

Criminal Lawcards 2012-2013 Routledge Lawcards are your complete pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify understand and commit to memory the salient points of each area of the law shouldn’t you make Routledge Lawcards your essential revision companions? Fully updated and revised with all the most important recent legal developments Routledge Lawcards are packed with features: Revision checklists help you to consolidate the key issues within each topic Colour coded highlighting really makes cases and legislation stand out Full tables of cases and legislation make for easy reference Boxed case notes pick out the cases that are most likely to come up in exams Diagrams and flowcharts clarify and condense complex and important topics '...an excellent starting point for any enthusiastic reviser. The books are concise and get right down to the nitty-gritty of each topic.' - Lex Magazine Routledge Lawcards are supported by a Companion Website offering: Flashcard glossaries allowing you to test your understanding of key terms and definitions Multiple Choice Questions to test and consolidate your revision of each chapter Advice and tips to help you better plan your revision and prepare for your exams Titles in the Series: Commercial Law; Company Law; Constitutional Law; Contract Law; Criminal Law; Employment Law; English Legal System; European Union Law; Evidence; Equity and Trusts; Family Law; Human Rights; Intellectual Property Law; Jurisprudence; Land Law; Tort Law Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415683333

Criminal Legal Doctrine First published in 1997 this volume examines questions of legal doctrine which have never been far from the study of crime. It has not always been able to keep the doctrinal aspects of law clearly in sight. There is always the pressure to turn to philosophy for the consideration of questions of moral and legal responsibility and to criminology and psychology for the analysis of action. The essays collected in this book turn again to questions of doctrine and consider the dogmatic order of law as the basis of the understanding of crime. It is the general argument of this book that without an understanding of the dogmatic order of the legal subject of crime there will only ever be answers to questions that have never been appropriately asked. Loosely collected around questions of institution judgement and address these essays bring modern historical doctrinal and cultural scholarship to bear on the practices of legal doctrine. Their aim is to offer an account of criminal law as a practice that institutes judges and addresses the legal subject through a range of practices and knowledges. These range from the disciplinary knowledges of mental health to the cultural knowledges of femininity and female desire. They include the technical demands of law writing and court room procedure as well as symbolic powers of imagining corporate crime. These all are returned to the practical question of the production of knowledge through legal doctrine. These essays address a set of questions that have lain dormant in legal scholarship for much of the post-1945 era. In a time when the authority of law is being reconsidered at its foundations it is appropriate too to reconsider the means and manner of the transmission of criminal law. Without an understanding of the formation of criminal law it is hardly surprising that questions of law reform raise such confusion. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138331440

Criminal Legalities in the Global SouthCultural Dynamics Political Tensions and Institutional Practices This edited volume presents the work of academics from the Global South and explores from local and regional settings how the legal order and people’s perceptions of it translates into an understanding of what constitutes "criminal" behaviors or activities. This book aims to address the gap between criminal law in theory and practice in the Global South by assembling 11 chapters from established and emerging scholars from various underrepresented regions of the world. Drawing on research from Singapore the Philippines Peru Indonesia India the Dominican Republic Burma Brazil Bangladesh and Argentina this book explores a range of issues that straddle the line between social deviance and legal crimes in such societies including extramarital affairs gender-based violence gambling LGBT issues and corruption. Issues of inclusivity versus exclusivity modernity versus tradition globalization of capital versus cultural revivalism are explored. The contributions critically analyze the role politics and institutions play in shaping these issues. There is an urgent need for empirical studies and new theoretical approaches that can capture the complexity of crime phenomena that occur in the Global South. This book will provide essential material to facilitate the development of new approaches more suitable to understanding the social phenomena related to crime in these societies. This book will make an important contribution in the development of Southern criminology. It will be of interest to students and researchers of criminology and sociology engaged in studies of sentencing and punishment theories of crime law and practice and postcolonialism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138625631

Criminal Liability for Non-Aggressive Death The crime of manslaughter exists as a 'catch-all offence' to punish those who are blameworthy in causing the death of another but whose culpability falls short of that required for murder. Manslaughter is an extremely broad offence and it has a difficult task in ensuring that all those who warrant punishment for 'non-aggressive' deaths are convicted. Simultaneously it should not be too broad in covering those who do not warrant punishment for such deaths. There is little consistency in whether a particular dangerous activity leads to liability for a specific offence or for the generic offence of manslaughter when death is caused. This book examines the current law and includes a variety of perspectives on the subject with chapters on specific modes of killing as well as issues that permeate all areas. The first half of the book deals with issues such as how any special offences for non-aggressive death should relate to a hierarchy of homicide offences. The second half deals with issues specific to different activities which may or may not justify the creation of specific homicide offences. The book includes a comparative chapter on Australian law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367603458

Criminal Major Case ManagementPersons of Interest Priority Assessment Tool (POIPAT) In high-profile investigations when the suspect pool is very large resources are unduly strained unless the pool can be narrowed down to the most likely offenders. The Persons of Interest Priority Assessment Tool (POIPAT) provides an objective and consistent means of establishing a priority ranking of suspects or persons of interest in any investigation. Created and used correctly the tool can determine if any suspect/POI should be considered a high medium or low investigative priority saving time and resources and potentially saving additional victims. Criminal Major Case Management: Persons of Interest Priority Assessment Tool (POIPAT) describes how to set up a POIPAT system for any investigation where there are numerous POIs and limited resources. Using the unsolved Jack the Ripper mystery as a sample case study it walks readers through the steps of creating and using the POIPAT system. The book begins by providing an overview of offender profiling and the basic considerations for developing elements for a POIPAT. It explains the Element Weighting Chart (EWC) and discusses how many points each element should be weighted based on its level of importance. The author describes how to determine what point totals constitute a high medium or low priority so that police managers can know how best to direct their resources. He also discusses tracking how POIs are eliminated through an elimination coding system thereby avoiding potential duplication and allowing investigators to hone in on the person most likely to have committed the crime. Finally the book uses the POIPAT system to draw conclusions about some of the best-known suspects who were most likely to have been the real Jack the Ripper. Seeing how the technique is used in a real case investigators will discover how to effectively create unique POIPATs for their own cases. The included CD-ROM contains a template that can be modified for any type of investigation and a number of additional tools and guides. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781439898611

Criminal Markets and Mafia Proceeds This book estimates the proceeds of crime and mafia revenues for different criminal markets such as sexual exploitation drugs illicit cigarettes loan sharking extortion racketeering counterfeiting illicit firearms illegal gambling and illicit waste management. It is the first time that scholars have adopted detailed methodologies to ensure the highest reliability and validity of the estimation. Overall estimated proceeds of crime amount to € 22.8 billion: 1.5% of the Italian GDP. Of this up to € 10.7 billion (0.7 of the GDP) may be attributable to the Italian mafias. These figures are considerably lower than the ones most frequently circulated on the news without any details about their methodology which were defined by a UN study as "gross overestimates". Far from underestimating criminal revenues the results of this study bring the issue of the proceeds of crime to an empirically-based debate providing support for improved future estimates and more effective policies.The volume’s contributions were inspired by a project awarded by the Italian Ministry of Interior to Transcrime which produced the first report on mafia investments (www.investimentioc.it). This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Crime. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367739119

Criminal Networks and Law EnforcementGlobal Perspectives On Illegal Enterprise This collection presents an analysis of illicit networks and discusses implications for law enforcement and crime prevention. The contributors draw on a range of methodologies and apply them to diverse international criminological settings from illegal fishing in the Indo-Pacific to ‘money mule’ networks in the Netherlands. Using a variety of examples the book elucidates how and why criminals form networks of cooperation and how they can be disrupted. It is expected to be of interest to those who study criminology or criminal law as well as law enforcement practitioners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815386001

Criminal on the RoadA Study of Serious Motoring Offences and Those Who Commit Them Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile this volume was originally published in 1964 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes or as a complete collection. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138861381

Criminal Procedure and Sentencing Criminal Procedure and Sentencing provides a comprehensive engaging and up-to-date guide to each step of criminal procedure from the arrest of the suspect through to trial sentencing and appeals. Taking a strong practical focus throughout it covers all aspects of the process of the criminal courts. The ninth edition has been fully revised and significantly expanded to include more information about the workings of the criminal courts of England and Wales. The supporting website offers readers access to regular updates to the law and also a comprehensive set of web links and advice on additional reading and research for those seeking to engage in critical evaluation of the criminal justice system. This is an ideal text for anyone studying the criminal justice system at a professional or academic level. The author’s authoritative yet engaging writing style brings the subject to life and helps to explain complex issues in an easy-to-understand way. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815376637

Criminal ProsperityDrug Trafficking Money Laundering and Financial Crisis after the Cold War Drug trafficking is the most visible part of the profits of organized crime which have grown considerably since the end of the cold war. The mirror of history shows us the impact of the drug trade in the colonization of Asia. The post cold war geopolitical context reproduces elements of the past with new opportunities for drug trafficking in the globalization process as can be seen in the example of China and the lasting impunity in terms of money laundering. With the growing role of offshore locations in the global financial system criminal prosperity has even affected the economic stability of some countries. This book presents a new and heterodox interpretation of the post cold war financial crisis by focusing on the unexplored dimension of illicit actors. The Mexican crisis of 1994 and its 'tequila effect' is analyzed as a model of a 'cocaine effect' from the local laundering of profits from the sale of drugs in the US. The Japanese crisis of the 1990s is put in relation to the economic influence of the Yakuza on the real estate bubble which had the effect of postponing necessary market adjustments. And the Thai crisis of 1997 is analyzed in the light of massive money laundering of institutional and criminal networks whose undeclared profits represent about 10% of GDP. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138878914

Criminal Psychology This thoroughly updated and revised new edition provides an essential overview of a full range of psychological contributions to the understanding of crime and the processes of dealing with offenders and helping their victims. From the cognitive developmental and social processes that influence a diverse range of crimes including burglary fraud rape and murder to the challenges faced by the police and courts in investigating crime or securing reliable testimony the text is packed with pedagogical features that bring this fascinating subject to life. These include boxes highlighting key topics or issues around research methods further reading and suggested essay titles. Also including chapters on rehabilitation in prisons and the psychology of victims the text examines hot topics such as gang membership and terrorism as well as discussing how psychology may better understand criminals and criminal behaviour in the future. It builds to a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field. It will be ideal for students across psychology criminology and socio-legal studies and law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415714815

Criminal Psychology This book provides an accessible introduction to the increasingly popular subject of criminal psychology. It explores the application of psychology to understanding the crime phenomenon criminal behaviour solving crimes the court process and punishment rehabilitation. It will be an invaluable resource for anybody taking courses in this field in particular students taking the criminal psychology/forensic psychology components of the main A-level psychology specifications. The book is fully in line with the new A-level specifications being taught from September 2009. Each chapter includes case studies keystudies evaluations and a range of discussion questions. Apart from providing in depth and up-to-date knowledge on criminal psychology the book is equally up-to-date on trends and issues in criminal justice today. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9780203721902

Criminal Punishment and Human Rights: Convenient Morality This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifi cations for criminal punishment. Using interdisciplinary discourse analysis it exposes certain paradoxes that underpin the ‘International Bill of Human Rights’ academic commentaries on human rights law and the global human rights monitoring regime in relation to the aims of punishment in domestic penal systems. It argues that human rights discourse owing to its theoretical kinship with Kantian philosophy embodies a paradoxical commitment to human dignity on the one hand and retributive punishment on the other. Further it sustains the split between criminal justice and social justice which results in a sociologically ill-informed understanding of punishment. Human rights discourse plays a paradoxical role vis-à-vis the punitive power of the state as it seeks to counter criminalisation in some areas and backs the introduction of new criminal offences – and longer prison sentences – in others. The underlying priorities it is argued have been shaped by a number of historical circumstances. Drawing on archival material the study demonstrates that the international penal discourse produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century laid greater emphasis on offender rehabilitation and was more attentive to the social context of crime than is the case with the modern human rights discourse. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367660468

Criminal RecidivismExplanation prediction and prevention Criminal Recidivism intends to fill a gap in the criminological psychology literature by examining the processes underlying persistent criminal careers. This book aims to investigate criminal recidivism and why how and for how long an individual continues to commit crimes whilst also reviewing knowledge about risk assessment and the role of psychopathy (including neurocriminological factors) in encouraging recidivism. It also focuses on the recidivism of sex offenders and on what works in reducing reoffending. At an empirical level this book attempts to explain criminal persistence and recidivism using longitudinal data from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD). At a psycho-criminological level it joins together quantitative and qualitative analyses making its content a practical guide to explain predict and intervene to reduce the risk of criminal recidivism. The authors present quantitative analyses of criminal careers as well as qualitative life histories of chronic offenders in order to bring home the reality and consequences of a life of crime. The book is aimed not only at advanced students and academics in psychology criminology probation studies social sciences psychiatry sociology political science and penology but also at decision makers policy officials and practitioners within the realm of crime intervention and prevention and also at forensic experts judges and lawyers. Media > Books > Print Books Willan 9781843927068

Criminal Resistance?The Politics of Kidnapping Oil Workers Crude oil extraction in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria generates 96% of all foreign earnings and 85% of state revenues making it crucial to the survival of the Nigerian state. Several generations of state neglect corruption and mismanagement have ensured that the Delta region is one of the most socio-economically and politically deprived in the country. By the late 1990s there was a frightening proliferation of armed gangs and insurgent groups. Illegal oil bunkering pipeline vandalism disruption of oil production activities riots and demonstrations intensified and in 2003 insurgents began kidnapping oil workers at a frenetic pace. In late 2005 an uber-insurgent movement 'organization' was formed in Nigeria. Christened the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) it operates as an amorphous multifaceted amalgam of insurgent groups with an unprecedented clinical precision in execution of intents. By focussing on kidnappings that are putatively connected to the struggle for emancipating the Niger Delta Oriola makes the case for analysing MEND as a social movement organization rather than a terrorist or criminal gang by showing how political processes shape kidnappings in the Delta. The use of violent repertoires of contention has not garnered sufficient attention in the social movement literature despite the fact that that around the world many similar groups are adopting violent tactics without necessarily eschewing non-violent techniques. Based on multi-actor research including interviews and focus group discussions with community members military authorities 42 ex-insurgents directly involved in illegal oil bunkering and kidnapping and official email statements from 'Jomo Gbomo' the spokesperson of MEND this book will be of interest to sociologists political scientists and peace and security studies scholars. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815362159

Criminal Responsibility and Partial Excuses Publsihed in 1998 this book examines the relationship between responsibility and criminal liability through an analysis of provocation and related criminal defences. It begins by identifying fundamental questions about the role of justifications and excuses in the criminal law as they emerge from the discussion of philosophical theories of responsibility. Following an outline of the distinction between murder and manslaughter and its history the basic doctrinal issues relating to the nature and rationale of provocation and other partial defences are then identified and discussed in depth together with the circumstances under which these defences can be raised. Although the analysis focuses for the most part on English law the references to other legal systems which are included in the work add an important comparative perspective to the discussion of the issues. The book should be of special interest to criminal lawyers legal theorists and students interested in comparative criminal law and jurisprudence. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138613454

Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Aggression Since the Nuremberg trial the crime of aggression has been considered one of the gravest international crimes. However since the 1940s no defendants have been charged with this crime with some states actively opposing the notion of punishing aggression. The option of trying an individual for aggression is expressly included in the statute of the International Criminal Court. In 2010 the Assembly of States Parties adopted a definition of the crime of aggression and conditions of the exercise of jurisdiction over this crime by the Court. The Assembly also agreed that the decision on including the crime of aggression within the Court’s jurisdiction would be made in 2017 at the earliest. It is still internationally debatable whether the criminalisation of aggression is an outcome to strive for or whether its abandonment is more preferable. In Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Aggression Patrycja Grzebyk explores the scope of criminal responsibility of individuals for crimes of aggression and asks why those responsible for aggression are not brought to justice. The book first works to identify the legal norms that define and delegalise aggression before moving to determine the basis and scope for the criminalisation of aggression. The book then goes on to identify the key risks and difficulties inherent in trials for aggression. Following a string of awards in Poland including the Manfred Lachs Prize for the best first book on public international law this cutting investigation of aggression is now deservedly made available to the wider world. In its extensive analysis of international trials on aggression and its synthesis of legal political and historical rhetoric this book offers broad and striking insight into the criminal responsibility of individuals on a world stage. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138935105

Criminal Theory and International Human Rights Law The development of an international human rights jurisprudence on criminalization is in its relative infancy. Nonetheless systematic examination of international decisions on acts engaging the criminal law reveals an emerging human rights approach to the acceptability or not of criminalization. This book provides an in-depth characterization of the reasoning and principles that underpin those decisions. The work builds upon and adds value to existing literature by bringing together two fields of study – international human rights law and criminal theory â€“ that usually receive separate treatment. It provides an in-depth analysis of human rights criminalization jurisprudence and presents a systematic identification of underlying reasoning and concepts that influence international human rights decisions on criminalization. The work thus advances both fields independently as well as providing an example of inter-(sub)disciplinary analysis. The book will be a valuable resource for academics and students working in the areas of International Human Rights Law Criminal Law and Moral Philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367182274

'Criminal' Tribes of Punjab One of the important projects launched by the British government in the late 19th century was the preparation of a detailed census of the demographic profile of the Indian population across the country. Unable to understand the cultural pluralism that characterizes Indian unity in variety the census was riddled with problems of definition and cate Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780367176556

Criminal Visions Media representations of law and order are matters of keen public interest and have been the subject of intense debate amongst those with an interest in the media crime and criminal justice. Despite being an increasingly high profile subject few publications address this subject head on. This book aims to meet this need by bringing together an important range of papers from leading researchers in the field addressing issues of fictional factual and hybrid representations in the media -the so called 'docu-dramas' and 'faction'. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843924401

Criminalising Medical MalpracticeA Comparative Perspective The criminalisation of healthcare malpractice has become a highly topical and somewhat controversial question in recent years. Studies have demonstrated that in England and Wales the trend towards holding healthcare professionals to account for malpractice is rapidly growing abolishing the deference doctors enjoyed decades ago. The changing attitude of judges to claims for clinical negligence has been well documented. The role of the criminal process in England and Wales has been less fully analysed with the criminal law playing a very limited role until recently in the regulation of poor healthcare practice. In contrast in France the criminal process has for a long time been invoked more readily to respond to cases of healthcare malpractice which involved even mere errors. This book compares English and French criminal law responses to healthcare malpractice and considers what lessons the French model can provide for potential reform in England and elsewhere. The book takes the HIV-contaminated blood episode as a primary example of the different approaches France and England have in dealing with healthcare malpractice. Kazarian emphasises the impact of rules of substantive criminal law and criminal procedure on the way in which healthcare malpractice is criminalised in a given country. This book explores the key lessons to be drawn on whether the criminal process is an appropriate means to respond to instances of healthcare malpractice. It proposes that features of French criminal law and criminal procedure might be useful to counteract healthcare malpractice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138297562

Criminalising Social PolicyAnti-social Behaviour and Welfare in a De-civilised Society Recent legislative and policy developments in contemporary Britain have ushered in a new approach to criminal justice. The focus on criminal dispositions and welfarism has given way to a strategy which now involves the management of social exclusion dysfunctional and anti-social families and situational crime prevention leading to what has been widely characterized as the 'criminalisation of social policy' - and evidenced most recently by the anti-social behaviour and respect agendas. This book is concerned to explore analyse and explain these developments. It seeks at the same time to situate the study of anti-social behaviour and response to it in the wider context of changes in the industrial and social structure social polarization and inequality and the changing role of the welfare state in present-day society. This book will be essential reading for students taking courses in criminology sociology criminal justice social policy and related subjects. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843925408

Criminalising the Purchase of SexLessons from Sweden In an attempt to abolish prostitution Sweden criminalised the purchase of sex in 1999 while simultaneously decriminalising its sale. In so doing it set itself apart from other European states promoting itself as the pioneer of a radical approach to prostitution. What has come to be referred to as ‘the Swedish model’ has been enormously influential and has since been adopted and proposed by other countries. This book establishes the outcomes of this law – and the law’s justifying narratives – for the dynamics of Swedish sex work and upon the lives of sex workers. Drawing on recent fieldwork undertaken in Sweden over several years including qualitative interviewing and participant observation Jay Levy argues that far from being a law to be emulated the Swedish model has had many detrimental impacts and has failed to demonstrably decrease levels of prostitution. Criminalising the Purchase of Sex: Lessons from Sweden utilises a wealth of respondent testimony and secondary research to redress the current lack of primary academic research and to contribute to academic discussion on this politically-charged and internationally relevant topic. This original and timely work will be of interest to sex worker rights organisations policy makers and politicians as well as researchers academics and students across a number of related disciplines including law sociology criminology human geography and gender studies.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138659803

Criminalistics Laboratory ManualThe Basics of Forensic Investigation The Criminalistics Laboratory Manual: The Basics of Forensic Investigation provides students with little to no prior knowledge of forensic science with a practical crime scene processing experience. The manual starts with an original crime scene narrative setting up the crime students are to solve. This narrative is picked up in each of the forensic science lab activities tying each forensic discipline together to show the integrated workings of a real crime lab. After the completion of all of the exercises the student will be able to solve the homicide based on forensic evidence. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781455731404

Criminality and Criminal Justice in Contemporary PolandSociopolitical Perspectives Criminality has accompanied social life from the outset. It has appeared at every stage of the development of every community regardless of organisation form of government or period in history. This work presents the views of criminologists from Central Europe on the phenomenon of criminality as a component of social and political reality. Despite the far advanced homogenisation of culture and the coming together of the countries that make up the European Union criminality is not easily captured by statistics and simple comparisons. There can be huge variation not only on crime reporting systems and information on convicts but also on definitions of the same crimes and their formulations in the criminal codes of the individual European countries. This book fills a gap in the English-language criminological literature on the causes and determinants of criminality in Central Europe. Poland as the largest country in the region whose political post-war path has been similar to the other countries in this part of Europe is subject to an exhaustive and original look at criminality as part of the political and social reality. The authors offer a contribution to the debate in the social and criminal policy of the state over the problems of criminality and how to control it. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472451842

Criminalizing DissentThe Liberal State and the Problem of Legitimacy While liberal-democratic states like America Britain and Australia claim to value freedom of expression and the right to dissent they have always actually criminalized dissent. This disposition has worsened since 9/11 and the 2008 Great Recession. This ground-breaking study shows that just as dissent involves far more than protest marches so too liberal-democratic states have expanded the criminalization of dissent. Drawing on political and social theorists like Arendt Bourdieu and Isin the book offers a new way of thinking about politics dissent and its criminalization relationally. Using case studies like the Occupy movement selective refusal by Israeli soldiers urban squatters democratic education and violence by anti-Apartheid activists the book highlights the many forms dissent takes along with the many ways liberal-democratic states criminalize it. The book highlights the mix of fear and delusion in play when states privilege security to protect an imagined ‘political order’ from difference and disagreement.The book makes a major contribution to political theory legal studies and sociology. Linking legal political and normative studies in new ways Watts shows that ultimately liberal-democracies rely more on sovereignty and the capacity for coercion and declarations of legal ‘states of exception’ than on liberal-democratic principles. In a time marked by a deepening crisis of democracy the book argues dissent is increasingly valuable. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367670610

Criminals and Terrorists in PartnershipUnholy Alliance The nexus between terrorism and organised crime consists of a strategic alliance between two non-state actors who are able to exploit illegal markets threaten the security of individuals and influence policy-making on a global level. Recent Europol reports have pointed towards the importance of studying the links between organised crime and terrorist groups and have underlined that the nature and extent of these connections have seldom been addressed from an academic perspective. Considering the danger that both organised crime and terrorism currently pose to the world the collusion between these two phenomena is of urgent contemporary interest. Basing itself on geographical case-studies this book contributes to the existing literature in three ways: by enriching the empirical knowledge on the nature of the crime-terror nexus and its evolution; by exploring the impact of the nexus within different economic political and societal contexts; and by expanding on its theoretical conceptualization. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Crime. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138098893

Criminal-States and Criminal-Soldiers The United States and her allies have found themselves plunged into ‘a war over [humanity’s] future social and political organization’ with criminal challengers to the nation-state form. These new wars are currently being fought globally with Al Qaeda in Iraq with shifting coalitions of criminal gangs insurgents and Jihadi groups and throughout the Americas with the Maras (the first group of 3rd GEN Gangs to emerge). More new wars are poised to develop and the on-going ones are far from over with more attacks upon the homelands of the US and her allies expected. This cutting edge book looks initially at the theoretical and legal side of criminal-state and criminal-soldier emergence and growth before focusing on criminal-states and criminal-soldiers themselves with particular attention paid to Al Qaeda Hizballah Mara Salvatrucha (MS 13) Caliphate and Mahdi concerns Islamic Fundamentalist Use of Beheadings Criminalization of Russian State Security Nuclear Materials Trafficking and Outlaw Private Security Firms. With the contributions from international experts this book makes for critical reading for political scientists and criminal justice students and researchers policy makers and military and law enforcement practitioners. This book was previously published as a special issue of Global Crime. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315879314

Criminological ControversiesA Methodological Primer A lucid text addressed to students and scholars this book explores some of the key controversies that have stimulated the scientific study of crime: disputes about the connections between gender class and crime; policing; the criminality of our cities; the role of peer groups in the causes of crime; and links between drugs and crime. In pursuing Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367315276

Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime Fourth Edition is the only text to look at the array of mainstream and unconventional explanations for crime as they relate to racial and ethnic populations. Each chapter begins with a historical review of each theoretical perspective and how its original formulation and more recent derivatives account for racial or ethnic differences in offending. Included in each chapter is a review of relevant empirical tests that have investigated the value of that theory. The theoretical paradigms include those based on religion biology social disorganization/strain subculture labeling conflict social control colonial feminism and race-centered perspectives. Gabbidon considers which perspectives have shown the most promise in explaining the relationships between race/ethnicity and crime. Ideal for courses in either crime theory or race and crime this text is used in Criminology and Sociology programs in the US as well as in the UK and Canada. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367332334

Criminological Skills and Research for BeginnersA Student's Guide Criminological Skills and Research for Beginners is a comprehensive and engaging guide to research methods in Criminology and the skills required for academic success. Written specifically for undergraduate students and novice researchers this book has been designed as a lively and accessible guide to planning conducting and reporting research in the subject. It emphasises practical skills required in studying Criminology the importance of criminological research and places related methodology firmly in the context of students’ broader study of the discipline before moving on to provide a detailed guide to the actual processes of research. It is common for Criminology undergraduates to feel intimidated at the prospect of conducting their own research and these students typically struggle to see the relevance of research methods to their own studies. This book speaks directly to the needs of such students and includes contemporary examples and case studies that bring a topic that is often thought of as dry to life providing a thorough and accessible practical guide that students can return to at each stage of their research all the way through to their dissertation. This book covers: an examination of the theoretical political and ethical debates in criminological research; a complete guide to planning criminological research assisting student researchers in identifying their research questions choosing their research methods and critiquing the available literature; guidance on the practicalities and processes of collecting data; a discussion of the process of analysing data and writing up research. New to the second edition is a brand new section on research skills in Criminology including detailed coverage of writing skills referencing dissertations and research reports presentation skills and revision. The book also offers additional coverage of the politics of criminological research and the presentation of official crime statistics. Including an extensive glossary and an integrated companion website with extra examples exercises and videos to further develop students’ understanding this book is essential reading for any undergraduate on a Criminological Research Methods or Research Skills course or for anyone in need of practical guidance on any or all of the various stages involved in conducting thorough and effective criminological research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138041431

Criminological TheoriesIntroduction and Evaluation In Criminological Theories the noted criminologist Ronald Akers provides thorough description discussion and appraisal of the leading theories of crime/delinquent behavior and law/criminal justice - the origin and history of each theory and its contemporary developments and adherents.Akers offers a clear explanation of each theory (the central concepts and hypotheses of each theory as well as critical criteria for evaluating each theory in terms of its empirical validity).Researchers and librarians as well as general readers will find this book a very useful tool and will applaud its clear and understandable exposition of abstract concepts. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315062723

Criminological TheoryAssessing Philosophical Assumptions Criminologists can benefit from questioning the underlying assumptions upon which they rest their work. Philosophy has the ability to clarify our thoughts inform us of why we think about things the way we do solve contradictions in our thinking we never knew existed and even dissolve some dichotomies we thought were cast in stone. One of those dichotomies is free will vs. determinism. Criminology must reckon with both free will and agency as posited by some theories and determinism as posited by others—including the ever more influential fields of genetics and biosocial criminology. Criminological Theory: Assessing Philosophical Assumptions examines philosophical concepts such as these in the context of important criminological theories or issues that are foundational but not generally considered in the literature on this topic. The uniqueness of this treatment of criminological theory is that rather than reporting what this person or that has said about a particular theory Walsh exposes the philosophical assumptions underlying the theory. Students and scholars learn to clarify their own biases and better analyze the implications of a broad range of theories of crime and justice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781455777648

Criminology Comprehensive and accessible Tim Newburn’s bestselling　Criminology　provides an introduction to the fundamental themes concepts theories methods and events that underpin the subject and form the basis for all undergraduate degree courses and modules　in Criminology and Criminal Justice. This third edition includes: A new chapter on politics reflecting the ever increasing coverage of political influence and decision making on criminology courses New and updated crime data and analysis of trends plus new content on recent events such as the Volkswagen scandal the latest developments on historic child abuse as well as extended coverage throughout of the English riots A fully revised and updated companion website including exam review and multiple choice questions a live Twitter feed from the author providing links to media and academic coverage of events related to the concepts covered in the book together with links to a dedicated textbook Facebook page Fully updated to reflect recent developments in the field and extensively illustrated this authoritative text written by a leading criminologist and experienced lecturer is essential reading for all students of Criminology and related fields. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138643130

Criminology Civilisation and the New World Order Expertly authored by the co-editor of the best-selling text Cultural Criminology Unleashed this book re-examines criminology in a global context. Wide-ranging and up-to-date it covers the topics of colonialism and post-colonialism genocide state control  the impact of September 11th and the post-9/11 world. Exploring the relationship between a modern discipline and modernity it reworks the history and composition of criminology in light of September 11th and the prevalence of genocide in modernity. Analizing statistics anthropology and the everyday assumptions of criminology's history this text addresses the political and scholarly grip on the territorial state and the absence of a global criminology. Rejecting the prevalent belief that September 11th and the responses it evoked were exceptions that either destroyed or revealed the absence of global legal order the author argues that in fact they confirm the nature of the world order of modernity. A compelling and topical volume this is a must read for anyone interested or studying in the areas of criminology and criminal justice. Media > Books > E-books Routledge-Cavendish 9781843146100

Criminology and ClimateInsurance Finance and the Regulation of Harmscapes This book explores the role of the insurance industry in contributing to and responding to the harms that climate change has brought and will bring either directly or indirectly. The Anthropocene signifies a new role for humankind: we are the only species that has become a driving force in the planetary system. What might criminology be in the Anthropocene? What does the Anthropocene suggest for future theory and practice of criminology? Criminology and Climate as part of Routledge’s Criminology at the Edge Series seeks to contribute to this research agenda by exploring differing vantage points relevant to thinking within criminology. Contemporary societies are presented with myriad intersecting and interacting climate-related harms at multiple scales. Criminology and Climate brings attention to the finance sector with a particular focus on the insurance industry as one of its most significant components in both generating and responding to new climate ‘harmscapes’. Bringing together thought leaders from a variety of disciplines this book considers what finance and insurance have done and might still do as ‘fulcrum institutions’ to contribute to the realisation of safe and just planetary spaces. An accessible and compelling read this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology sociology law and environmental studies and provides readers with a basis to analyse the challenges and opportunities for the finance sector and in particular the insurance industry in the regulation of climate harms. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367192303

Criminology and Criminal Justice in RussiaPast Legacies and Present Challenges Though criminology took root in Russia in the early 1800s and has gone through various stages of maturation—paralleling developments of the discipline in Europe and North America over the last two centuries—its contributions and presence in the field is hardly noticeable in the English-speaking world. The objective of this book is by no means to fill that void but rather to bring together the recent developments in Russia keeping in context its rich history of criminological legacies traditions and its current experiences and growth since the restructuring of Soviet Union. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367588687

Criminology and Criminal JusticeA Study Guide A broad and comprehensive guide to the study of criminology and criminal justice at undergraduate level this book is essential reading for new students. Assuming no prior knowledge it offers an essential overview to key themes and issues brings together theory with practice and provides useful hints and suggestions for developing the skills required to see you on your way throughout your degree. Features of the book include: A detailed discussion of the study of criminology and criminal justice in Higher Education An overview of theories of crime and deviance A discussion as to why and how we punish offenders An exploration of the criminal justice system in England and Wales A guide to criminological research and the methods and concepts involved Examples of original sources in criminology including key websites Tips and advice on skills in criminology and criminal justice including referencing and the presentation of written work A full glossary of key terms. The new edition has been fully revised and updated and includes a new chapter on theories and explanations of punishment. Each chapter includes a series of ‘Taking It Further’ exercises to encourage well-developed essays and critical thinking. They culminate in a final chapter offering guidelines as to how these exercises might be answered. This book is indispensable for the criminology undergraduate and a benchmark for academic success. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138233126

Criminology and Democratic Politics Criminology and Democratic Politics brings together a range of international leading experts to consider the relationship between criminology and democratic politics. How does criminology relate to democratic politics? What has been the impact of criminology on crime and justice? How can we make sense of the uses non-uses and abuses of criminology? Such questions are far from new but in recent times they have moved to the centre of debate in criminology in different parts of the world. The chapters in Criminology and Democratic Politics aim to contribute to this global debate. Chapters cover a range of themes such as punishment knowledge and penal politics; crime fear and the media; democratic politics and the uses of criminological knowledge; and the public role of criminology. An accessible and compelling read this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology sociology and politics and all those interested in how criminology relates to democratic politics in modern times. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367421175

Criminology and the Anthropocene The Anthropocene signals a new age in Earth’s history a human age where we are revealed as a powerful force shaping planetary systems. What might criminology be in the Anthropocene? What does the Anthropocene suggest for future theory and practice of criminology? This book seeks to contribute to this research agenda by examining contrasting and interrogating different vantage points aspects and thinking within criminology. Bringing together a range of multidisciplinary chapters at the cutting edge of thinking and environmental rethinking in criminology this book explores a mix of key intractable problems of the Anthropocene including climate change and overexploitation of natural resources that cause environmental insecurities; crime and corruption; related human insecurity and fortressed spaces; and the rise of new risks and social harms. Of interest to scholars in the fields of criminology sociology and environmental studies this book provides readers with a basis for analysing the challenges of and possible approaches to the Anthropocene at all levels (local national regional and international) and discusses the future(s) of criminology for improving social policies and practices. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138688230

Criminology and WarTransgressing the Borders It is widely observed that the study of war has been paid limited attention within criminology. This is intellectually curious given that acts of war have occurred persistently throughout history and perpetuate criminal acts victimisation and human rights violations on a scale unprecedented with domestic levels of crime. However there are authoritative voices within criminology who have been studying war from the borders of the discipline. This book contains a selection of criminological authors who have been authoritatively engaged in studying criminology and war. Following an introduction that ‘places war within criminology’ the collection is arranged across three themed sections including: Theorising War Law and Crime; Linking War and Criminal Justice; and War Sexual Violence and Visual Trauma. Each chapter takes substantive topics within criminology and victimology (i.e. corporate crime history imprisonment criminal justice sexual violence trauma security and crime control to name but a few) and invites the reader to engage in critical discussions relating to wars both past and present. The chapters within this collection are theoretically rich empirically diverse and come together to create the first authoritative published collection of original essays specifically dedicated to criminology and war. Students and researchers alike interested in war critical criminology and victimology will find this an accessible study companion that centres the disparate criminological attention to war into one comprehensive collection. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138288652

Criminology in BriefUnderstanding Crime and Criminal Justice This book offers a short and accessible introduction to criminology. Written in a clear and direct style criminological theories are made more accessible for undergraduates and the workings of the criminal justice system are explained. Students will learn not only how the criminal justice system works but also how it does not work. Beyond introducing students to the basics the book provides a persuasive argument that the criminal justice system we have in the United States comes nowhere close to our ideals for justice doing little good in terms of crime control while doing great harm to minorities and the poor. Engaging and far-ranging this text offers a condensed approach to the key themes and debates surrounding crime and justice and covers definitions and measurements of crime criminological theories crime typologies and contemporary issues in the criminal justice system. It includes chapters on: Criminological Methods and Data Biological Psychological and Classical Theories of Crime Sociological Theories of Crime Patterns of Crime The Police The Courts Corrections and the American Prison System Written by an experienced textbook author this book offers a critical approach to the subjects discussed and draws on topical examples such as Black Lives Matter the militarization of the police plea bargaining and the War on Drugs. It is essential reading for Criminology courses within a Sociology Major and will also be of interest to Criminal Justice majors law students policymakers and informed citizens. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367321635

Criminology Theory and TerrorismNew Applications and Approaches Although there has been an increase in research on terrorism across the social and behavioural sciences in the past few decades until recently most of this work has originated from political science psychology or economics. Therefore our focus in this book on criminological conceptual frameworks and empirical studies that engage terrorism and responses to it is unique. We include a distinguished group of researchers that offer their distinctive insights into criminological perspectives on terrorism. The contributors focus on criminological perspectives that have rarely if ever been previously applied to the study of terrorism. This includes a range of perspectives from rational choice to social disorganization; from strain to routine activities theory. This volume will advance understanding of terrorism by taking advantage of criminological contributions and at the same time will serve as a useful update to the criminologists and their students already working in this area. It would also be a helpful introduction to those criminologists and their students who would like to be more engaged in this important area of research. This book was originally published as a special issue of Terrorism and Political Violence. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138085619

Criminology TheorySelected Classic Readings This highly acclaimed criminology text presents an up-to-date review of rational choice theories including deterrence shaming and routine activities. It also incorporates current examples of deterrence research regarding domestic violence drunk driving and capital punishment and features thought-provoking discussion of the relativity of crime. The authors explore the crime problem its context and causes of crime. The organization of the text reflects the fact that the etiology of crime must be at the heart of criminology. It examines contemporary efforts to redefine crime by focusing on family violence hate crimes white-collar misconduct with violent consequences and other forms of human behavior often neglected by criminologists. Extensive discussion of evolving laws is included and while the prevalence of the scientific method in the field of criminology is highlighted the impact of ideology on explanations of crime is the cornerstone of the book. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138136410

Criminology: The Basics Criminology is a discipline that is constituted by its subject matter rather than being bound by an agreed set of concepts or way of thinking. This fully updated third edition of Criminology: The Basics is a lively and engaging guide to this compelling and complex subject. Topics covered include: the history and development of criminology myths about crime and offenders the search for criminological explanation victims of crime and state crime crime prevention cybercrime and the future of crime control criminology and intersectionality This edition also includes new sections on genocide terrorism cultural victimology and Westo-centric thinking. Concise and accessible this book utilises chapter summaries exercise questions and lists of further reading to provide a perfect introduction to this subject. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138803442

CriminologyA Sociological Introduction Comprehensive critical and accessible Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an authoritative overview of the study of criminology from early theoretical perspectives to pressing contemporary issues such as the globalisation of crime crimes against the environment terrorism and cybercrime. Authored by an internationally renowned and experienced group of authors in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex this is a truly international criminology text that delves into areas that other texts may only reference. It includes substantive chapters on the following topics: • Histories of crime; • Theoretical approaches to crime and the issue of social change; • Victims and victimisation; • Crime emotion and social psychology; • Drugs alcohol health and crime; • Criminal justice and the sociology of punishment; • Green criminology; • Crime and the media; • Terrorism state crime and human rights. The new edition fuses global perspectives in criminology from the contexts of post-Brexit Britain and America in the age of Trump and from the Global South. It contains new chapters on cybercrime; crimes of the powerful; organised crime; life-course approaches to understanding delinquency and desistance; and futures of crime control and criminology. Each chapter includes a series of critical thinking questions suggestions for further study and a list of useful websites and resources. The book also contains a glossary of the criminological terms and concepts used in the book. It is the perfect text for students looking for a broad critical and international introduction to criminology and it is essential reading for those looking to expand their ‘criminological imagination’. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138566262

CriminologyConnecting Theory Research and Practice Connections among theory research and practice are the heart and soul of criminology. This book offers a comprehensive and balanced introduction to criminology demonstrating the value of understanding the relationships between criminological theory research and practice in the study of crime and criminal behavior. Utilising a range of case studies and thought-provoking features it encourages students to think critically and provides a foundation for understanding criminology as a systematic theoretically grounded science. It includes: A comprehensive overview of crime in American society including the nature and meaning of crime and American criminal law as well as the scientific study of crime A concise straightforward and practical approach to the study of the American criminal justice system and its various components including individual chapters on police courts and corrections An overview of criminological theory including classical biological psychological and sociological approaches A survey of typologies of criminological behavior including interpersonal violent crimes property crime public order crime organized and white collar crime state crime environmental harm and cybercrime Concluding thoughts exploring challenges facing criminal justice policy and the future of criminological theory. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes brand new chapters on corrections courts criminal law law enforcement and technology and cybercrime. It is packed with useful and instructive features such as themed boxed case studies in every chapter critical thinking questions lists of further reading and links to e-resources. A companion website includes PowerPoint slides for lecturers links to useful resources and lists of further reading. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138888692

CriminologyExplaining Crime and Its Context How do societies define crime and how should it be punished or prevented? Which is a more criminal act causing a death by dumping toxic material or by shooting a victim with a gun? Are criminals born or made? Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context Tenth Edition offers a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and sociology with a thorough exposure to a range of theories about crime contrasting their logic and assumptions but also highlighting efforts to integrate and blend these frameworks. In this tenth edition the authors have incorporated new directions that have gained traction in the field while remaining faithful to their criminological heritage. Among the themes in this work are the relativity of crime (its changing definition) with abundant examples historical roots of criminology and the lessons they have provided and the strength and challenges of applying the scientific method. This revision offers new coverage of the growing problem of mental health and crime a more tightly focused discussion of crime statistics more global examples and new material on human trafficking and on youth violence. Brown and Esbensen improve on this engaging and challenging introduction to the theory of crime and punishment which is already perhaps the best criminology text available for undergraduates today. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138601796

CriminologyTheory and context Criminology: theory and context third edition expands upon the ideas presented in previous editions while introducing new material on critical theory feminism masculinities cultural criminology and postmodernism.  The text has been thoroughly updated throughout to reflect key perspectives in contemporary criminological theory.  Relevant updates include discussions on New Labour’s criminal justice and penal policies in its third term in office and the latest developments in criminal justice and the politics of law and order in the UK and US.  This edition revisits societal and cultural influences that have shaped the discipline and invites the reader to re-examine the phenomena of crime and deviance.  Criminology: theory and context third edition is presented in a logical structure and adopts an accessible framework.  The text is essential reading for students of criminology criminological theory and criminal justice and will also be of key interest to those studying sociology law and the wider social sciences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138134379

Crises Conflict and DisabilityEnsuring Equality People with disabilities are among the most adversely affected during conflict situations or when natural disasters strike. They experience higher mortality rates have fewer available resources and less access to help especially in refugee camps as well as in post-disaster environments. Already subject to severe discrimination in many societies people with disabilities are often overlooked during emergency evacuation relief recovery and rebuilding efforts. Countries party to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities must take all necessary measures to ensure the protection and safety of people with disabilities during situations of armed conflict humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters. Such aid should be designed to support preparedness response recovery and rebuilding. This book includes perspectives from around the globe and explores the implications at the policy programme and personal level discussing issues such as: How can national laws policies and regulations provide guidance methods and strategies to integrate and coordinate inclusive emergency management? What should people with disabilities know in order to be prepared for emergency situations? What lessons have we learned from past experiences? What are the current shortfalls (physical and cultural) that put people with disabilities at risk during emergencies and what can be done to improve these situations (e.g. through new technologies and disaster planning)? How does disability affect people’s experiences as refugees and other displaced situations; what programmes and best practices are in place to protect and promote their rights during their period of displacement? How must disabled people with disabilities be factored in to the resettlement and rebuilding process; does an opportunity for ensuring universal access exist in the rebuilding process? What is the impact of disasters and conflicts on such special populations as disabled women disabled children and those with intellectual disabilities? Spotlighting a pressing issue that has long been neglected in emergency planning fields this innovative book discusses how to meet the needs of people with disabilities in crises and conflict situations. It is an important reference for all those working in or researching disability and inclusion and emergency and disaster management both in developed and developing countries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138960305

Crises and Cycles in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias This book investigates from the perspective of the major economic dictionaries the notions of economic crisis and cycles. It gives an extensive summary of a number of significant entries on this subject with an introductory essay to each entry placing them (and the dictionary to which they belong) in their context giving some details on the author of the dictionary entry and assessing the entry’s (and its author’s) contribution. The broad picture (including the history of these encyclopedic tools) is examined in the introductory essays. Extra resources may be accessed at the author's personal website: http://www.danielebesomi.ch/dictionaries/crises_in_dictionaries/index.html   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138807235

Crises in Childbirth - Why Mothers SurviveA Systems-Based Competencies Approach Parts 1&2 Written Examination Revision Guide This work includes Foreword by Phillip J S Steer Professor of Obstetrics Faculty of Medicine Imperial College London. It includes Introduction by Gwyneth Lewis National Clinical Lead for Maternal Health and Maternity Services Department of Health England and Director of the UK Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths. 'The reductions in maternal mortality over the last half century are an eloquent testimony to the value of the technical expertise in life support that anaesthetists bring to the management of labour complications. Many direct causes of maternal death have been substantially reduced as a result of anaesthetic innovations ranging from advances in regional anaesthesia to the panoply of techniques used in intensive care. This book is essential reading.' - Phillip J Steer in his Foreword. Offering a unique insight into real cases this book covers the physiology pharmacology and organisational factors involved in previous maternal deaths highlighting key lessons to be learnt. This practical guide provides an ideal introduction for new anaesthetists and up-to-date information for senior practitioners particularly those who cover labour wards. It is also invaluable for anaesthetic nurses obstetricians and midwives. 'For more than 50 years the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the UK have collected together invaluable information about why mothers die in pregnancy and childbirth. For the first time ever this unique book collects together all the valuable lessons into one volume. Experts in their fields provide a physiological pharmacological and evidence based commentary on the events of each death. The overall result pays homage to the value of collecting together lessons from the past and we hope will help people avoid repetition of these situations in the future.' - Daryl Dob Anita Holdcroft and Griselda Cooper in the Preface. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315383392

Crises in Europe in the Transatlantic ContextEconomic and Political Appraisals The adoption and management of the common currency has led the Eurozone to a critical point. This book analyzes in an interdisciplinary way the fundamental causes of distress making sure to relate economic issues to the social and political aspects of the problem. The book explores the reasons why the Eurozone has fallen into a policy trap as well as what Europe did and should do to exit the crisis and why this is proving to be so difficult. The book also considers what role the United States has played and could play to help foster a solution for the Eurozone.The main topics explored are the complex nature of the crisis the short circuit between policies and the given institutional architecture the controversial role of Germany and the importance of an active role of the US. The book brings together a transatlantic group of scholars in order to offer an interdisciplinary analysis of the deep causes of the Eurozone distress. The authors recognize that the Eurozone countries have contrasting situations and interests and face different problems with complex consequences for the vexed question of national sovereignty within the EU; and pay attention to the social and political consequences of the economic and financial distress and of the perceived strain of the common currency. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367668983

Crises in RussiaContemporary Management Policy and Practice From A Historical Perspective This unique book explores the problems of the national crisis management system in Russia a country undergoing political social and economic transition and one which is also prone to natural and man-made disasters. In detailing policy institutional and legal issues and illustrating a number of case studies the authors offer new ways of resolving the effects of disasters as well as increasing resilience by improving our understanding of the risks and vulnerabilities. In the book six chapters offer case studies of various types of disaster written in a unique collaboration between Russian scientists Russian policy makers and Swedish scholars. Other chapters relate the role of mass media in Russian society and policy development. Taken together the book details changes in a crisis management system policy and approach in a country that has undergone rapid fundamental political economic and social change. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138279100

Crises In The BalkansViews From The Participants This book explores the causes and consequences of chronic conflicts in the Balkans. It assesses the likelihood of a region-wide conflagration and examines the carnage in Bosnia the looming crisis over Kosovo and the tension between Greece and Albania. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367166816

Crises in the Contemporary Persian Gulf This work addresses the main strategic issues in today's Persian Gulf a region that could easily produce a crisis that would encourage international political and economic involvement. Topics discussed include: strategic balances modernization internal stability and weapons of mass destruction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138990470

Crises in the Post‐Soviet SpaceFrom the dissolution of the Soviet Union to the conflict in Ukraine The breakup of the Soviet Union led to the creation of new states and territorial conflicts of different levels of intensity. Scrutinising the post‐Soviet period this volume offers explanations for both the frequency and the intensity of crises in the region. This book argues that the societies which emerged in the post-Soviet space share characteristic features and that the instability and conflict-prone nature of the Soviet Union’s successor states can be explained by analysing the post-independence history of the region and linking it to the emergence of overlapping economic political and violent crises (called 'Intersecting Crises Phenomena’). Transformation itself is shown to be a decisive process and while acknowledging specific national and regional characteristics and differences the authors demonstrate its shared impact. This comparison across countries and over time presents patterns of crisis and crisis management common to all the successor states. It disentangles the process highlighting the multifaceted features of post-Soviet crises and draws upon the concept of crisis to determine the tipping points of post-Soviet development. Especially useful for scholars and students dealing with the Soviet successor states this book should also prove interesting to those researching in the fields of communist and post‐communist Studies Eurasian politics international relations and peace and conflict studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815377245

Crises of Global Economies and the Future of CapitalismReviving Marxian Crisis Theory Recent events in the global financial markets and macro economies have served as a strong reminder for a need of a coherent theory of capitalist crisis and analysis. This book helps to fill the gap with well-grounded alternative articulations of the forces which move today's economic dynamics how they interact and how ideas of foundational figures in economic theory can be used to make sense of the current predicament. The book presents a comprehensive collection of reflections on the origins dynamics and implications of the interlinked crises of the U.S. and global economies. The book is a thoughtful collaboration between Japanese heterodox economists of the Japan Society of Political Economy (JSPE) and non-Japanese scholars. It provides a unique immersion in different sophisticated approaches to political economy and to the crisis. The book illustrates with the understanding of Marx's crisis theory and how it can serve as a powerful framework for analyzing the contemporary sub-prime world crisis. The book explains the subprime loan crisis as a crisis in a specific phase of the capitalist world system and concludes that it is a structural one which destroys the existing capital accumulation regime. It pays attention to structural changes and to how these changes beget profound and controversial consequences. The result is a must-read - one which truly contributes to the resurgence of radical analyses of the political economy free from the market optimism of the main-stream economics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415705882

Crisis Austerity and New Frameworks for Teaching and LearningA Pedagogy of Hope for Contemporary Greek Education This book attempts to examine the educational consequences of the recent social and economic situation in Greece and it explores—on a general level—new possibilities for teaching and learning at times of national crisis. Using Greece as an exemplary case Maria Chalari demonstrates how the relationship between neo-liberalism and education is especially salient during difficult times; it also demonstrates the effect of this relationship on teachers’ day-to-day experiences. By attending to yet moving beyond the negative implications of socio-economic crisis this volume aims to present core educational values of the current era as well as the crucial issues that may become opportunities for reflection and change. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367728694

Crisis Controversy and the Future of Religious Education Crisis Controversy and the Future of Religious Education sets out to provide a much-needed critical examination of recent writings that consider and respond to the crisis in religious education and more widely to a crisis in non-confessional forms of religious education wherever practised. The book is critical wide-ranging and provocative giving attention to a range of responses some limited to the particular situation of religious education in England and some of wider application for example that of the role and significance of human rights and that of the relevance of religious studies and theology to religious education. It engages with a variety of positions and with recent influential reports that make recommendations on the future direction of religious education. Constructively it defends both confessional and non-confessional religious education and endorses the existing right of parental withdrawal. Controversially it concludes that the case for including non-religious worldviews in religious education and for the introduction of a statutory ‘objective’ national religious education curriculum for all schools are both unconvincing on educational philosophical and evidential grounds. Timely and captivating this book is a must-read for religious and theological educators RE advisers classroom teachers student teachers and those interested in the field of religious education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367373382

Crisis Disaster and RiskInstitutional Response and Emergence This book explores the interactions of theories of risk with natural disasters health crises and crises in the areas of science and technology. Using organizational frameworks developed exclusively by the author it provides a series of best practices and lessons related to each of the emergency and crisis situations covered. These lessons will assist students and practitioners engaged in learning about and reacting to crises to better respond to them. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780765624215

Crisis Movement Management: Globalising Dynamics Globalised neo-liberalism has produced multiple crises – social ecological political. In the past crises of global order have generated large-scale social transformations and the current crises likewise hold a transformative promise. Social movements become a crucial barometer in signalling both the demise and rise of political formations and programs. Elite strategies framed as crisis management create their own disordering side-effects. Experiments in movement strategy gain greater significance as do contending elite efforts at repressing managing or displacing the fall-out. In this book we investigate both movements and management in the face of crisis taking crisis and unanticipated consequences as a normal state-of-play. The book enquires into the winners and losers from crisis and investigates the movement-management nexus as it unfolds in particular localities as well as in broader contexts. The book deals with some of the most pressing conflicts of our time and produces a range of theoretical insights: the ubiquity of crisis is seen as not only a hallmark of social life but a way into a different kind of social analysis. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138951150

Crisis & Response First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138869974

Crisis and Change in the British and Dutch Prison ServicesUnderstanding Crisis-Reform Processes What happens when incidents result in a policy sector losing its legitimacy? When a malfunctioning policy sector receives so much negative public attention that it has to fight for its survival? This study describes three such cases in detail within the British and Dutch Prison Services examining the incidents the negative response of the media and Members of Parliament to these incidents and the way in which policy-makers tried to deal with the crises. This book establishes under which conditions such crises led to reform. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367603151

Crisis and Change in the Venetian Economy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries The decline of Venice remains one of the classic episodes in the economic development of modern Europe. Its contrasts are familiar enough: the wealthiest commercial power in fifteenth-century Europe the strongest western colonial power in the eastern Mediterranean found its principal fame three centuries later in carnival and the arts. This metamorphosis from commercial hegemony to fashionable pleasure and landed wealth was however a complex process. It resulted not so much from the Portuguese voyages of discovery at the beginning of the sixteenth century as from increasing Dutch adn English competition at its end and from industrial competition chiefly from beyond the Mediterranean. Several of the Articles Dr Pullan has chosen to illustrate these changes are made available in English for the first time and two have been revised for this book. Four deal with the fortunes of entrepot trade and shipbuilding which had furnished the basis of Venetian wealth adn influence in the Middle Ages; four others expamine the new fields of enterprise which Venice explored in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and which helped to compensate for the decline in traditional activities. This classic book was first published in 1968. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138861695

Crisis And Change In World Politics This book is an effort to overcome the major obstacle to a creative system orientation in world politics—a dearth of knowledge about system-level change. It involves the study of international crisis and its role in change. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367160609

Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's MarginsCreating Exotic Iceland Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland provides a fresh look at the current politics of identity in Europe using a crisis at the margins of Europe to shed light on the continued embeddedness of coloniality in everyday aspirations and identities. Examining Iceland’s response to its collapse into bankruptcy in 2008 the author explores the way in which the country sought to brand itself as an exotic tourist destination. With attention to the nation’s aspirations rooted in the late 19th century of belonging as part of Europe rather than being classified with colonized countries the book examines the engagement with ideas of otherness across and within Europe as European discourses continue to be based on racialized ideas of ‘civilized’ people. With its focus on coloniality at a time of crisis this volume contributes to our understanding of how racism endures in the present and the significance of nationalistic sentiments in a world of precariousness. Anchored in part in personal narrative this critical analysis of coloniality racism whiteness and national identities will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in national identity-making European politics and race in a world characterised by crisis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367582043

Crisis and Commitmentthe Life History of a French Social Movement Using ethnographic field data from the Larzac plateau in Southern France Alexander and Sonia Alland document one of the longest and most successful popular protests in modern French history - the Larzac movement. More than a record of events the book describes the transformation from the early 1970s of rural defiance into a symbol of left-wing action for France and the world. This revised edition examines the activities of the movement since 1995 including the demonstrations at the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organisation the 'great hamburger war' against McDonalds and the broadening of the movement to embrace struggles elsewhere such as the anti-nuclear protests in French Polynesia. Particular attention is paid to the charismatic Jose Bove who has become the figurehead and focus of the campaign during this period.This account will be of particular interest to anthropologists and historians of contemporary France and Europe as well as students of protest and social movements and of contemporary politics in general Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315080161

Crisis and Conflict in Han China 104 BC to AD 9 This book first published in 1974 studies the historical development of China during the Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9) a time of great intellectual religious and political change. The struggle between Reformists and Modernists is analysed using texts contemporary to the time and this struggle was a key point in Chinese history leading as it did to enormous change including to economics and foreign policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138316591

Crisis and CritiqueOn the Fragile Foundations of Social Life Fragility is a condition that inhabits the foundations of social life. It remains mostly unnoticed until something breaks and dislocates the sense of completion. In such moments of rupture the social world reveals the stuff of which it is made and how it actually works; it opens itself to question. Based on this claim this book reconsiders the place of the notions of crisis and critique as fundamental means to grasp the fragile condition of the social and challenges the normalization and dissolution of these ‘concepts’ in contemporary social theory. It draws on fundamental insights from Hegel Marx and Adorno as to recover the importance of the critique of concepts for the critique of society and engages in a series of studies on the work of Habermas Koselleck Arendt and Foucault as to consider anew the relationship of crisis and critique as immanent to the political and economic forms of modernity. Moving from crisis to critique and from critique to crisis the book shows that fragility is a price to be paid for accepting the relational constitution of the social world as a human domain without secure foundations but also for wishing to break free from all attempts at giving closure to social life as an identity without question. This book will engage students of sociology political theory and social philosophy alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138393011

Crisis and Disaster Management for Sport Crisis and Disaster Management for Sport is the first book to introduce key concepts and best practice in crisis and disaster management in sport and international sports events.  The book draws from multiple disciplines to provide insight into the issues and challenges involved in planning for and managing crises and disasters in the context of sport. With an initial focus on sports event and venue resilience the book also explores social community and individual resilience within sport and examines concepts and issues such as fandom risk perception crowd control and management crisis communication and reputational risk and the growing challenges posed by climate change. The book includes real-world case studies as well as disaster management-related simulation and scenario-building exercises and looks ahead to what might be the most significant threats in future to the safe and sustainable management of sport. With the devastating impacts of COVID-19 illustrating the central importance of resilience and proper preparation for crises and disasters this book is an essential read for all researchers students practitioners and policy-makers working in sport tourism entertainment leisure and critical event studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138364592

Crisis and Emergency Management in the ArcticNavigating Complex Environments This book sheds light on the management challenges of crisis and emergency response in an arctic environment. It explores how the complexity of the operational environment impacts on the risk of operations and addresses a need for tailor-made emergency response mechanisms. Through case studies of the arctic environment the book illustrates how factors such as nature geography demographics and infrastructure increase the complexity of crises in the Arctic and present a significant danger to life and health the environment and values in challenging Arctic waters. The case studies lay a special focus on contextual factors including conflicting interests and different stakeholder groups as well as the institutional platforms influencing crisis response and emergency management. They also explore the implications for the managerial roles the mode of operations and the structuring of the organizations responsible for the emergency response. The necessity to facilitate cooperation across organizations and borders and a need for organizational flexibility in large scale operations are also emphasized. Written in an accessible style this book will make for a useful resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of disaster and emergency management as well as for professionals involved in emergency services. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367140557

Crisis and Emergency ManagementTheory and Practice Second Edition More than 12 years have passed since the publication of the first edition of Crisis and Emergency Management. During that time numerous disasters—from 9/11 to massive earthquakes in Iran and China to the giant Asian Tsunami Hurricane Katrina and the Fukushima Tsunami and ensuing nuclear meltdown—have changed the way we manage catastrophic events. With contributions from leading experts this second edition features 40 new chapters that address recent worldwide crises and what we have learned from emergency responses to them. See What’s New in the Second Edition: Up-to-date concepts theories and practices Analysis of recent disasters and their effect on emergency management Policy and managerial lessons Suggestions for capacity building in crisis and emergency management The book covers a wide range of international issues using critical empirical and quantitative analyses. It discusses various approaches to topics such as resolving political tension and terrorism issues the potential use of biological weapons and the role of public relations in crisis. The author offers insight into organizational and community resiliency development; a "surprise management" theory in practice for upgrading the knowledge and skills in managing crises and governing emergencies; and better and more effective organizational political social and managerial coordination in the processes. He presents case studies that enhance and advance the future theory and practice of crisis and emergency management while at the same time providing practical advice that can be put to use immediately. Managing crises and governing emergencies in such an age of challenges demands a different kind of knowledge skills and attitudes that were not available yesterday. This book gives you valuable information with applications at the macro micro organizational and interorganizational levels preparing you for emergency management in an increasingly globalized and uncertain world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780849385131

Crisis and Hope in American Education This book evaluates the educational system of the United States from schools for the young up to universities and various forms of adult education. It is not confined to the evaluation of intellectual achievement. Rather it tries to arrive at some judgment as to whether schools help people acquire the degree of maturity necessary for participation in the work of a nation called upon to assume world responsibilities.Education rightly conceived is the process by which a growing person according to his individual capacity is prepared to understand himself his place in society his relation to the universe and to act upon this understanding. A nation to whatever extent it can afford to do so should help future generations to strive for such achievements. But although this obligation is generally accepted by the American citizen its practical requirements are still not fully understood.A classic soon after its original publication this book is timelier today than ever. The author convincingly articulates the view that all our efforts at raising the intellectual and moral standards in our high schools are doomed to failure unless we boldly pair the right subject with the right talent. He demonstrates how we can achieve this without rejecting the precious heritage that is our tradition of free secondary schooling for all who can profit by it: his goal is nothing less than the creative combination of quality and justice in education.Ulich's prescriptions for education are bold and prac1/4tical. The boldness is best characterized by his contro1/4versial suggestion that the emotional sphere serves as the means of unifying the highly diverse American society. We see the influence of modern theory and its disenchantment with the merely intellectual theory as a basis for understanding communication and meaning. The institution that Ulich proposes is an "ideal" one but it is described in considerable detail. Its buildings facilities curriculum and informal programs are designed to provide shared emotional experiences while retaining the need for intellectual differentiation. 1/4 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521544

Crisis and HopeThe Educational Hopscotch of Latin America This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education by inviting the reader to understand the complexities heterogenetics nightmares dreams crisis and promises of education in the region. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138966963

Crisis and Institutional Change in Regional Integration Comparative regional integration has met with increasing interest over the last twenty years with the emergence or reinforcing of new regional dynamics in the EU NAFTA MERCOSUR and ASEAN. This volume systematically and comparatively analyses the reasons for regional integration and stalemate in European Latin American and Asian regional integration. It examines whether regional integration systems change in crisis periods or more precisely in periods of economic crises and why they change in different directions. Based on a neo-institutionalist research framework and rigorously comparative research design the individual chapters analyse why financial and economic crises lead to more or less integrated systems and which factors lead to these institutional changes. Specifically it addresses institutional change in regional integration schemes power relations between member states and the institutions in different policy domains and change in individual or collective citizens’ attitudes towards regional integration. Adopting an actor-centred approach the book highlights which regional integration schemes are influenced by economic and financial crises and how to explain this. This text will be of key interest to scholars students and policy specialists in regional integration European Politics International Relations and Latin American and Asian studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138488144

Crisis and MigrationCritical Perspectives Crisis and migration have a long association in popular and policy discourse as well as in social scientific analysis. Despite the emergence of more nuanced and even celebratory accounts of mobility in recent years there remains a persistent emphasis on migration being either a symptom or a cause of crisis. Moreover in the context of a recent series of headline-hitting and politically controversial situations terms like ‘migration crisis’ and ‘crisis migration’ are acquiring increasing currency among policy-makers and academics. Crisis and Migration provides fresh perspectives on this routine association critically examining a series of politically controversial situations around the world. Drawing on first-hand research into the Arab uprisings conflict and famine in the Horn of Africa cartel violence in Latin America the global economic crisis and immigration ‘crises’ from East Asia to Southern Africa to Europe the book’s contributors situate a set of contemporary crises within longer histories of social change and human mobility showing the importance of treating crisis and migration as contextualised processes rather than isolated events. By exploring how migration and crisis articulate as lived experiences and political constructs the book brings migration from the margins to the centre of discussions of social transformation and crisis; illuminates the acute politicisation and diverse spatialisations of crisis–migration relationships; and urges a nuanced cautious and critical approach to associations of crisis and migration. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138647008

Crisis and OpportunityEnvironment and development in Africa Winner of the Prix Pierre Chauleur of the French Academie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer Until some way is found of dealing with Africa's catastrophic environmental crises none of the continent's other problems will find a long-term solution. Yet there is hope and Crisis and Opportunity sets out a programme for dealing with the problems successfully. Written in a clear and engaging style the book shows how environmental management can be achieved and institutionalized from within Africa rather than through interference from the West by implementing National Environmental Action Plans (NEAPS). Aware of the urgency of the problems Francois Falloux and Lee Talbot offer practical guidelines based on direct experience and incorporate a great range of relevant case studies and examples. Their book will be of enormous importance to the governments local communities and development agencies confronting the issues and may mark a milestone if recovery in Africa is to take place. Francois Falloux is Senior Environmental Advisor Africa Region at the World Bank. Dr Lee M Talbot is a former Director-General of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Originally published in 1993 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415846844

Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700 This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History' on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at teh end of the Middle Ages to the influence of war on London Merchant class at the end of the seventeenth century. This book was first published in 1972.  Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415860406

Crisis and Promise in the CaribbeanPolitics and Convergence The Caribbean is made up of a complex enigmatic region characterised by great disparities in size population geography history language religion race and politics. This is a region in which harmony and discord work in tandem trying to link economic logic with political logic. This book is a useful tool not only for those specialists and students of regionalism but for all those putting their hands to the task of nation-building and those interested in the development processes of small states and economies. At the same time this book is a comprehensive historical record especially highlighting hindrances to development in this region. This study raises two important issues: the ’political imperative of convergence’ and the need for ’appropriate correcting mechanisms’ that align the needs of the local with the regional. It is a volume that underlines the need for a change in strategy and makes proposals as to how to go about making those changes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138571938

Crisis and Reform in Eastern Europe Communism in Eastern Europe is in crisis. Its dimensions are social and economic; its manifestation is political. This volume a collection of essays by leading authorities describes the symptoms of the crisis diagnoses the causes of the malady and offers alternative scenarios for therapy.A unique dimension of this collection is its avoidance of one-dimensional explanations. The contributors approach the subject from very different angles and start from very distinct sociopolitical premises. The volume includes original accounts of unexplored aspects of East European communism as well as classic interpretations of the economic crisis and social stagnation that characterize the area. Contributions not only examine the sociopolitical behavior of the ruling apparatus but also analyze its strategies political culture and the opposition.Both the professional and the general reader seeking more information about Eastern Europe will find this volume an extensive in-depth portrait of the current situation in what many observers predict may develop into the major area of tension in post-World War II Europe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508705

Crisis And Reform In Socialist Economies In contrasting the economic developments in the Soviet Union in Poland Cuba Yugoslavia Hungary and China this book evaluates the pressures and constraints of systemic changes in different types of socialist economies. . Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367163761

Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth Century BankingExploring the History and Archives of Banking at Times of Political and Social Stress Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth Century Banking explores the behaviour of banks at times of war revolution civil war social turmoil and reconstruction. Analysing the history and archives of banks it discovers examples of how banking is affected by political and social upheavals; how banks may influence the outcome of such events; how banking has recovered from periods of intense political and social stress; and how the archives of banks provide remarkable testimony to events in the wider world. By examining the setting of different banking markets in the last century up to and including the transformation of Eastern and South Eastern Europe in the 1990s this book marks a new direction for international discussion and research. Contributors include senior historians and archivists from Europe and the United States. Contributions include papers on Russia and foreign banks 1917-30; depression and crisis in Central Europe in the 1930s; Civil War in Spain; post-war reconstruction in banking in Germany and the Far East; and crisis and renewal in South East Europe. The papers published in this collection were first presented at the twelfth Annual Conference of the European Association for Banking History held in Ljubljana Slovenia in May 2001 and hosted by the Bank of Slovenia and the Nova Ljubljanska Banka. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138258532

Crisis and Social Mobilization in Contemporary SpainThe 15M Movement The year 2011 marked the emergence of a series of mobilizations of the indignant that spread like wildfire around the world—from the Arab Spring to Europe and soon afterwards to Occupy Wall Street the Spanish 15M was pivotal to the transnational diffusion of protest. This volume analyzes the features that turned the 15M into a beacon for international mobilization and those that garnered it unprecedented domestic support surpassing historic socio-economic and politico-ideological fractures in Spain. It also delves into its gradual demise and its profound impact on the emergence of political "offsprings" that portray themselves as heirs to the 15M spirit such as Podemos. This book sheds new light on the 15M phenomenon providing an international perspective that rejects cultural economic and even political reductionism. Including insights from sociologists and political scientists from around the world it explores themes such as identity emotion cultural resources the media and the relationship between social movements regional institutions and the state. Each chapter reflects on the impact and legacy of the 15M movement as well as the important questions it raises about the current theoretical framework for social movements in Spain and beyond. Crisis and Social Mobilization in Contemporary Spain: The 15M Movement is a fascinating read for all students and scholars with interests in political sociology and social movements. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367229719

Crisis and Terror in the Horn of AfricaAutopsy of Democracy Human Rights and Freedom Contemporary social life in the Horn of Africa is generally a state-orchestrated experience that terrorizes the majority of the people. This collection of carefully selected essays explores the different aspects of the current crisis in the Horn region of Africa where to marginalized indigenous groups the crisis materializes itself as social experiences of terror. The result is a far-reaching and important book which critically examines a state terror manifested in the violation of human rights democracy justice and freedom. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138264007

Crisis and Transformation in China's Hong Kong Hong Kong has undergone sweeping transformation since its return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. This is a multidisciplinary assessment of the new regime and key issues challenges crises and opportunities confronting the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315498652

Crisis and Transition in Italian Politics Since 1989 Italian politics has witnessed changes that have placed it under an international spotlight. This analysis looks at this period of Italian politics through the prism of the changes of the early 1990s. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315036823

Crisis Banking in the EastThe History of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of London India and China 1853–93 The Chartered Mercantile Bank is one of the constituent banks of the huge Hongkong and Shanghai bank. This study charts its first 40 years as one of the pioneering banks of the Far East. The Chartered Mercantile became the leading exchange bank in India and South East Asia whilst always retaining its head office in the pivotal London market. Based upon meticulous research using a particularly rich set of banking archives the book describes the complex political and financial circumstances on the subcontinent during the bank's early years and introduces the personalities in the Indian business and London banking worlds who guided the infant institution. The volatility of local markets is analysed with portraits of the banks and merchant houses which did not survive the many financial crises in the East also included. This book will do much to remedy the lack of existing research into international finance and Eastern banking in particular in the 19th century. It provides an inside view of the workings of an Eastern bank - the nature of its business methods of payment and exchange recruitment and career patterns of staff and includes valuable new material on the role of European bankers in an eastern setting. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138267473

Crisis CommunicationCase Studies and Lessons Learned from International Disasters Crisis Communication is an in-depth examination of recent tragedies and natural disasters that have occurred around the globe. The book covers three types of incidents: natural catastrophes accidents and terror attacks. It focuses on the communication aspect of each incident and provides accounts from people handling the event. Each chapter offers a detailed description of the event and supplementary facts and illustrations from a variety of sources. With a focus on critical communication elements and lessons learned Brataas offers valuable advice - based on personal experience with natural disasters accidents and terror attacks - on some of the most effective ways to prepare for and deal with a crisis. Topics range from interview situations and social media to victim support and active shooter events. This book will be invaluable to those working in public relations and communications as well as to those working with human resources and general management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781498751346

Crisis CommunicationManaging Stakeholder Relationships Crises come in many shapes and sizes including media blunders social media activism extortion product tampering security issues natural disasters accidents and negligence – just to name a few. For organizations crises are pervasive challenging and catastrophic as well as opportunities for organizations to thrive and emerge stronger. Despite the proliferation of research and books related to crisis communication the voice that is often lost is that of the stakeholder. Yet as both a public relations and management function stakeholders are central to the success and failure of organizations responding to and managing crises in a cross-platform and global environment. This core textbook provides a comprehensive and research-driven introduction to crisis communication critical factors influencing crisis response and what we know about predicting stakeholder responses to crises. Incorporated into each chapter are global case studies ethical challenges and practitioner considerations. Online resources include an extensive set of multimedia materials ranging from podcast mini-lectures to in-class exercises and simulation-based activities for skills development (https://audralawson.com/resources/crisis-communication-managing-stakeholder-relationships/). Demonstrating the connection between theory decision-making and strategy development in a crisis context this is a vital text for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Communications Public Relations Marketing and Strategic Management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138346246

Crisis CommunicationsA Casebook Approach Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach presents case studies of organizational corporate and individual crises and analyzes the communication responses to these situations. Demonstrating how professionals prepare for and respond to crises as well as how they develop communications plans this essential text explores crucial issues concerning communication with the news media employees and consumers in times of crisis. Author Kathleen Fearn-Banks addresses how to choose the best possible words to convey a message the best method for delivering the message and the precise and most appropriate audience in addition to illustrating how to avoid potential mismanagement. The fifth edition of Crisis Communications includes updated cases that provide wider coverage of international crises and media technologies. It includes a new section on social media in crisis communication scenarios and includes additional comments from social media experts throughout various chapters. New case studies include "Police Departments and Community Trust " "The Oso Mudslide in Washington " "School Shootings: Communications To and For Children " and two additional international case studies - "Ebola Strikes Liberia: Firestone Strikes Ebola" and "Nut Rage and Korean Airlines." Previous case studies no longer in this edition can be found on the book’s companion website which also includes the Instructor’s Manual with exercises in crisis responses guidelines for crisis manual preparation and other teaching tools: www.routledge.com/cw/fearn-banks. Looking at both classic and modern cases in real-world situations Crisis Communications provides students with real-world perspectives and insights for professional responses to crises. It is intended for use in crisis communications crisis management and PR case studies courses. Also available for use with this text is the Student Workbook to Accompany Crisis Communications providing additional discussion questions activities key terms case exercises and further content for each chapter. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138923744

Crisis CommunicationTheory and Practice Crises happen. When they do organizations must learn to effectively communicate with their internal and external stakeholders as well as the public in order to salvage their reputation and achieve long-term positive effects. Ineffective communication during times of crisis can indelibly stain an organization’s reputation in the eyes of both the public and the members of the organization. The subject of crisis communication has evolved from a public relations paradigm of reactive image control to an examination of both internal and external communication which requires proactive as well as reactive planning. There are many challenges in this text for crisis communication involves more than case analysis; students must examine theories and then apply these principles. This text prepares students by: Providing a theoretical framework for understanding crisis communication Examining the recommendations of academics and practitioners Reviewing cases that required efficient communication during crises Describing the steps and stages for crisis communication planning Crisis Communication is a highly readable blend of theory and practice that provides students with a solid foundation for effective crisis communication. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315705361

Crisis Counseling Intervention and Prevention in the Schools Since the first edition was published in 1988 the role of crisis intervention and prevention has become central to mental health professionals working in the schools. Disasters such as hurricane Katrina terrorist attacks both in this country and around the world and various school shootings have greatly increased school crisis research and policy development. This book is designed for an introductory graduate course taken by students in school psychology school counseling and school social work. Section I provides a crisis response overview section II deals with crises for children and adolescents and section III covers crises that manifest in adolescence. Discussions of the 16 most prevalent types of crises are covered in sections II and III and include their characteristics causes interventions and preventive programs. All chapters will be updated six heavily revised or totally rewritten by new authors and two new chapters (chapters 8 & 19) have been added. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415807715

Crisis Counseling For A Quality SchoolA Family Perspective The theory of crisis counselling put forward in this book is applied to the following situations: drug and alcohol abuse; depression and suicide; physical and sexual abuse; social and discipline problems; lateness; encopresis and enuresis; fear teariness inactivity fury and impulsiveness; violence and conflicts; children of divorced and foster families; loss and grief; war and disasters; parents in crisis; homelessness crack kids and AIDS children; and defiance inter-racial tensions and cross-cultural conflicts. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203768020

Crisis Education and Service Program DesignsA Guide for Administrators Educators and Clinical Trainers Crisis Education and Service Program Designs is a guide for educators administrators and clinical trainers who may otherwise feel ill-prepared for the complex tasks of teaching program development supervision and consultation in the crisis-care arena. The book provides a framework for more systematic inclusion of crisis content in health and human-service programs. Readers will find that this book fills the current gaps in knowledge and training and fosters a more holistic practice by all human-service professionals. It shows how effective leadership training and timely support contribute to crisis workers’ effective practice with people in crisis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415888998

Crisis Elections New Contenders and Government FormationBreaking the Mould in Southern Europe The parliamentary elections of 2015–16 in Greece Spain and Portugal had extraordinary consequences bringing repeat elections unprecedented processes of government formation and uncharted government outcomes. Greece formed a coalition of radical left and radical right and Portugal its first government supported by the communist party while Spain took ten months to get a government. These developments are especially astonishing in three states which in previous decades were a byword for democratic stability. After the transitions following the fall of their dictatorships in the 1970s Greece Spain and Portugal established bipolar electoral competition and predictable patterns of government formation. But more recently all three countries have been in the frontline of the economic crisis and austerity implementation triggering electoral realignments and turning the radical left into a major player. This volume offers essential understanding of the political destabilisation of Southern Europe. It includes detailed analyses of all five ‘crisis elections’ and of Greece’s bailout referendum. It also provides studies of the five ‘new contender’ parties (SYRIZA Podemos Ciudadanos the Bloco Esquerda and the Portuguese Communist Party) which played a key role in government formation for the first time. The chapters originally published as a special issue in South European Society and Politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367892548

Crisis In AfricaBattleground Of East And West This book deals with some of the causes and effects of the east-west confrontation in African lands and among people deprived too long of their resources and rights. It presents the aims of the leading contestants in the contemporary struggle for presence position and power in Africa. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367165215

Crisis In Central AmericaRegional Dynamics And U.s. Policy In The 1980s Crisis in Central America examines the development of various aspects of U.S. policy toward Central America. It analyses external pressures on Central American countries and regional dynamics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367164096

Crisis in Europe 1560 - 1660 (Routledge Revivals) Past and Present began publication in 1952. It has established itself as one of the leading historical journals publishing in lively and readable form a wide variety of scholarly and original articles. Much important work by English and foreign scholars on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries first appeared in the form of articles in the journal. Originally published in 1965 this collection brings together a broad selection of these articles which have much common ground in the questions they discuss. Together they cover many aspects of crisis and change in most European countries – in society government economics religion and education. The book will be welcomed by all interested in this much debated period. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415694773

Crisis in Higher EducationA Customer-Focused Resource Management Resolution While many students parents educators and organizations who hire their graduates hold US universities in high regard the cost of higher education has risen much faster than the rate of inflation. High costs in turn have severely limited access to higher education for large portions of the US population or caused graduates and those who fall short of graduation to face substantial student loan debt. This book examines the root causes of these underlying problems and offers a comprehensive easy-to-understand high-impact solution. The book identifies actions that improve higher education outcomes including lower tuition costs better access for student from low and middle income homes faster throughput fewer dropouts and better job opportunities for graduates. It links a real and implementable solution to the underlying problems and their root causes. Upon finishing this book readers should understand why the performance of higher education needs to improve and have solid ideas about how to fix it. The book focuses on public universities but the ideas discussed are also applicable to private for-profit and not-for-profit universities. The writing style is simple and direct. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138032538

Crisis in SociologyThe Need for Darwin Crisis in Sociology presents a compelling portrait of sociology's current troubles and proposes a controversial remedy. In the authors' view sociology's crisis has deep roots traceable to the over-ambitious sweep of the discipline's founders. Generations of sociologists have failed to focus effectively on the tasks necessary to build a social science. The authors see sociology's most disabling flaw in the failure to discover even a single general law or principle. This makes it impossible to systematically organize empirical observations guide inquiry by suggesting falsifiable hypotheses or form the core of a genuinely cumulative body of knowledge. Absent such a theoretical tool sociology can aspire to little more than an amorphous mass of hunches and disconnected facts. The condition engenders confusion and unproductive debate. It invites fragmentation and predation by applied social disciplines such as business administration criminal justice social work and urban studies. Even more dangerous are incursions by prestigious social sciences and by branches of evolutionary biology that constitute the frontier of the current revolution in behavioral science. Lopreato and Crippen argue that unless sociology takes into account central developments in evolutionary science it will not survive as an academic discipline. Crisis in Sociology argues that participation in the "new social science " exemplified by thriving new fields such as evolutionary psychology will help to build a vigorous scientific sociology. The authors analyze research on such subjects as sex roles social stratification and ethnic conflict showing how otherwise disconnected features of the sociological landscape can in fact contribute to a theoretically coherent and cumulative body of knowledge. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521551

Crisis in Soviet Agriculture This book first published in 1984 analyses the institutions and decision-making processes that determined agricultural production in the Soviet Union. It addresses the crisis in Soviet agriculture of the early 1980s examining the problems of low productivity adverse natural conditions and an underdeveloped infrastructure. The book’s analysis of the ‘crisis’ focuses on the growing gap between demand and supply of agricultural produce and the pressures on the government to alleviate the food shortages. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367356637

Crisis in the Caucasus: Russia Georgia and the West This collection of essays by a series of academic specialists examines the crisis stemming from the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 from a range of standpoints. The chapters probe the geopolitical and strategic dimensions of the crisis as well as the longer term military and diplomatic implications for Europe and the central Asian region. The collection will be of major importance to students of Russia and Eastern Europe military analysts as well as journalists and politicians concerned with what some observers have termed a "new cold war" between Russia and the West. This book was published as a special issue of Small Wars and Insurgencies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415641180

Crisis in the Curriculum This collection of papers surveys key aspects of the curriculum investigates the present situation and discusses what improvements need to be made. It is contributed by teachers educational advisers and researchers and ranges across a variety of different institutional teaching settings and a variety of different subject areas. The approach is empirical rather than theoretical and the book is divided into three sections covering content methods and evaluation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138008366

Crisis in the European Monetary UnionA Core-Periphery Perspective After decades of economic integration and EU enlargement the economic geography of Europe has shifted with new peripheries emerging and the core showing signs of fragmentation. This book examines the paths of the core and peripheral countries with a focus on their diverse productive capabilities and their interdependence.Crisis in the European Monetary Union: A Core-Periphery Perspective provides a new framework for analysing the economic crisis that has shaken the Eurozone countries. Its analysis goes beyond the short-term to study the medium and long-term relations between ‘core’ countries (particularly Germany) and Southern European ‘peripheral’ countries. The authors argue that long-term sustainability means assigning the state a key role in guiding investment which in turn implies industrial policies geared towards diversifying innovating and strengthening the economic structures of peripheral countries to help them thrive.Offering a fresh angle on the European crisis this volume will appeal to students academics and policymakers interested in the past present and future construction of Europe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367878627

Crisis in the Nordic Nations and BeyondAt the Intersection of Environment Finance and Multiculturalism With discourses of ’crisis’ and ’disaster’ featuring strongly in contemporary discourses on contemporary society this book brings together critical perspectives from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the idea of ’crisis’ as inherently related to power dynamics and the formation of different subjectivities and identities within the Nordic countries and globally. This volume emphasizes the importance of investigating the interrelationship of three crises - social economic and environmental - as these address the interlinked surfaces of the same reality and it examines the negative connotations of the notion of crisis whilst also raising the question of when and why something becomes identified as crisis and for whom. With chapters on media representations of crisis and the global context of crisis discourses the crisis of national identities and their mobilization in response and environmental crisis as well as the interrelationship between the social and the environmental and the different positioning of individuals in relation to power this volume offers an understanding of crisis as a multivocal symbol of the present. As such it will appeal to scholars of sociology anthropology history cultural studies literature and political science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367599959

Crisis Intervention in Residential TreatmentThe Clinical Innovations of Fritz Redl All settings where disturbed children spend time such as camps or residential schools are periodically faced with crisis situations. Methods for dealing with these crises and for counseling the children involved are continually needed. Crisis Intervention in Residential Treatment is both a demonstration of how essential Fritz Redl’s treatment concepts remain today and a tribute to his genius. The authors bring order and reason to the quest for better ways to understand and respond to confrontation and aggression in residential treatment settings. They provide practical and successful strategies to cope with these situations and prevent them from occurring. By exploring and expanding some of Redl’s most important theories and practices the authors encourage a new generation of child care workers to find the same stimulation and satisfaction in his work as his original followers found. The contributors each deeply affected and influenced in his or her own way by Redl provide not only a moving tribute to a great child care worker and innovator but also a rejuvenation of some of the most valued ideas in the field.Sharing Redl’s concern for daily practice with very difficult youngsters this understanding book focuses on the action setting and the development of theory from practice not the application of theory to practice. By concentrating on such topics as the use of life space interviewing aggression and counter-aggression in staff and the contrast of interpersonal and ecological perspectives with current “get tough” approaches Crisis Intervention in Residential Treatment is an eminently useful guide for everyone dealing with children in group settings. Psychiatrists psychologists social workers teachers and residential personnel will all learn effective ways of coping with and preventing crisis situations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138966970

Crisis Intervention Verbatim First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Taylor & Francis 9781315803098

Crisis Management and Emergency PlanningPreparing for Today's Challenges Emergency managers and officials have seen a tremendous increase in the planning responsibilities placed on their shoulders over the last decade. Crisis Management and Emergency Planning: Preparing for Today's Challenges supplies time-tested insights to help communities and organizations become better prepared to cope with natural and manmade disasters and their impacts on the areas they serve.Author and editor Michael J. Fagel PhD CEM has more than three decades of experience in emergency management and emergency operations. He has been an on-site responder to such disaster events as the Oklahoma City Bombing and the site of the World Trade Center in the aftermath of 9/11. He is an experienced professor trainer professional and consultant and has pretty much seen it all.The book delves into this experience to present advanced emergency management and response concepts to disasters not often covered in other publications. It includes coverage of planning and preparedness public health considerations vulnerability and impact assessments hospital management and planning sporting venue emergency planning and community preparedness including volunteer management.Contributions from leading professionals in the field focus on broad responses across the spectrum of public health emergency management and mass casualty situations. The book provides detailed must-read planning and response instruction on a variety of events identifying long-term solutions for situations where a community or organization must operate outside its normal daily operational windows.This book has been selected as the 2014 ASIS Book of the Year. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781466555051

Crisis Management Beyond the Humanitarian-Development Nexus In addressing humanitarian crises the international community has long understood the need to extend beyond providing immediate relief and to engage with long-term recovery activities and the prevention of similar crises in the future. However this continuum from short-term relief to rehabilitation and development has often proved difficult to achieve. This book aims to shed light on the continuum of humanitarian crisis management particularly from the viewpoint of major bilateral donors and agencies. Focusing on cases of armed conflicts and disasters the authors describe the evolution of approaches and lessons learnt in practice when moving from emergency relief to recovery and prevention of future crises. Drawing on an extensive research project conducted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute this book compares how a range of international organizations bilateral cooperation agencies NGOs and research institutes have approached the continuum in international humanitarian crisis management. The book draws on six humanitarian crises case studies each resulting from armed conflict or natural disasters: Timor-Leste South Sudan the Syrian crisis Hurricane Mitch in Honduras the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia and Typhoon Yolanda. The book concludes by proposing a common conceptual framework designed to appeal to different stakeholders involved in crisis management. Following on from the World Humanitarian Summit where a new way of working on the humanitarian-development nexus was highlighted as one of five major priority trends this book is a timely contribution to the debate which should interest researchers of humanitarian studies conflict and peace studies and disaster risk-management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367504991

Crisis Management Challenges in Kaliningrad Crisis Management Challenges in Kaliningrad captures the evolving nature of the types of crises faced by a society as it transforms and evolves. Once the westernmost bastion of the Soviet Union and now the westernmost part of the Russian Federation the Kaliningrad Oblast remains cut off from direct land communication with mainland Russia and provides a condensed real-life laboratory in which to observe changing political technological and economic priorities in Post-Soviet society. Expert contributors from the region chart the tensions problems and opportunities created by the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 and examine the change in status and situation of the Kaliningrad Oblast. By looking at a selection of economic environmental and social crises a historical link between the Soviet and Post-Soviet eras is formed and rigorously examined. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409470748

Crisis Management in the Power IndustryAn Inside Story This book originally published in 1995 is a study of crisis management in the electricity supply industry during the 20th century. The full implications of the vulnerability of the industry are examined with special reference to past industrial action. The authors were well placed to know how close the industry came on more than one occasion to disaster. In the wake of privatisation challenging and controversial questions are asked which are of fundamental importance to the economy quality of life and political stability of the country. An account is also given of the past structure technology and industrial relations of the industry. This volume is an excellent case-study for students of post war politics public sector management and industrial relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138306158

Crisis Management in the Tourism Industry The tourism industry is arguably one of the most important sources of income and foreign exchange and is growing rapidly. However national and international crises have huge negative economic consequences. Crisis Management in the Tourism Industry aims to illustrate the theories and actions that can be taken to better understand consumer economic and environmental reaction in order for the businesses involved to be more prepared for such events. Now in its second edition this text has been fully revised and extended to include recent events such as Bali SARS and international terrorism expanding sections such as:* Terrorism and criminal activities* Risk perceptions and the influencing variables* The stakeholder concepts* Analysis methods- visibility of advantages/disadvantages of methods* Marketing instruments and best practicesWritten by one of the world’s leading experts from the World Tourism Organisation the book has global coverage and presents international up-to-date case studies and examples from countries such as the UK Australia and USA. The book provides discussion of:* The influential effect of the mass media How crises effect the purchase decision process Destination branding/image and its manipulation Preventative crises management and strategiesCrisis Management in the Tourism Industry is an essential guide to explaining how the tourism industry can prepare and succeed in the face of the effects of crises. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138139800

Crisis Management in the Tourism IndustryBeating the Odds? An important challenge facing tourism is the anticipation of the threat of crises precipitated by natural and people-made catastrophes and being adequately prepared for them. Despite an increase in research on this issue there is still a considerable lack of clarity on the impacts of crises on the tourism industry. Illustrated by a range of international case studies this book provides a systematic and conceptual approach to questions such as how tourism businesses prepare for and react to crisis which measures are taken and what impact they have and which strategies can be employed to overcome them. By discussing analyzing and synthesizing the literature on crisis management the authors question how business can become more proactive in preparing and dealing with crises in the tourism industry. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315258881

Crisis Management of Chronic PollutionContaminated Soil and Human Health Crisis Management of Chronic Pollution: Contaminated Soil and Human Health deals with a long term pollution problem generated by the former use of organochlorine pesticides. Through a case study of the chlordecone pollution in the French West Indies the authors illustrate a global and systemic mobilization of research institutions and public services. This "management model" together with its major results the approach and lessons to be learned could be useful to other situations. This book gathers all the works that have been carried out over the last ten years or more and links them to decision makers’ actions and stakeholders’ expectations. This reference fills a gap in the literature on chronic pollution. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367658373

Crisis Management StrategyCompetition and Change in Modern Enterprises Crisis Management Strategy first published in 1993 is an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of crisis management in modern enterprises. Simon Booth examines the conventional approaches followed by many firms in the face of change and crisis. He warns of the dangers of theories which oversimplify the causes of crisis and their possible solutions and which overlook the individual nature of each firm and its environment. Instead a dynamic new vision of crisis management is offered which takes into account different kinds of crisis demanding diverse solutions. The key role of leadership is also evaluated in relation to both internally and externally generated crises. Drawing on case studies of leading firms facing crisis solutions in a variety of environments this truly international volume will provide valuable insight into the experience of crisis risk and uncertainty. This title will be of interest to students of business. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138183735

Crisis NegotiationsManaging Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections Crisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement and Corrections the sixth edition is an invaluable resource for mitigating managing or responding to high risk negotiation incidents. This revision includes the current research on negotiating high-risk incidents in the classroom and the field. It includes an applied analysis of the value of psychopathology to high-risk perpetrators. It refines the "empirical eclecticism" introduced in the fourth edition to provide a conceptual basis for crisis negotiations. The authors include summary bullet points at the end of each chapter for easy reference when negotiators are in the field and a review of the literature since the last edition appeared. Their discussion of the strategic planning process involved in high-risk negotiation incidents focuses clearly on the critical questions negotiators need to ask themselves about any high-risk incident and provides a practical approach to the psychology of individuals that engage in high-risk incidents. Known as "the bible" to experienced professionals in the field this sixth edition of Crisis Negotiations is vital for practitioners as well as for criminology criminal justice or psychology courses in crisis management applied psychology and special operations in law enforcement and corrections. Instructors will find it well supported by ancillary materials including discussion questions slide presentations and a test bank as well as case studies and self-assessment quizzes for students making it easy to develop a first-time course or to integrate it into an existing course. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138585522

Crisis of Global Sustainability This concise and informative text provides a critical history of the concept of sustainability and the various institutional measures taken to promote implement and enforce sustainable development proposing new organizational solutions to deal with the crisis of sustainability. Crisis of Global Sustainability provides for the first time a compact insider description of the evolution and impact of the Club of Rome a global think tank that produced a groundbreaking 1972 study "The Limits to Growth" which highlighted the dangers of unrestrained economic growth and possible collapse of global economy during the first decades of the 21st century. With recent research confirming the validity of these concerns Kanninen asks whether our overarching concept of thinking on world development today should continue to be "global sustainability" which implies that we still have enough time to make adjustments in our future policies and action. Or should the main paradigm of our thinking shift to "global survivability" a concept that stresses the absolute necessity of immediate and drastic change both in institutions and policies? Many environmentalists green politicians and think tanks are speaking today more loudly than ever about the necessity for a major policy institutional and paradigm change and this work is essential reading for students and scholars alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415694179

Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered Thirty-five years after its initial publication Harold Cruse's "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual " remains a foundational work in Afro-American Studies and American Cultural Studies. Published during a highly contentious moment in Afro-American political life "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual" was one of the very few texts that treated Afro-American intellectuals as intellectually significant. The essays contained in Harold Cruse's "The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Reconsidered" are collectively a testimony to the continuing significance of this polemical call to arms for black intellectuals. Each scholar featured in this book has chosen to discuss specific arguments made by Cruse. While some have utilized Cruse's arguments to launch broader discussions of various issues pertaining to Afro-American intellectuals and others have contributed discussions on intellectual issues completely ignored by Cruse all hope to pay homage to a thinker worthy of continual reconsideration. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138990487

Crisis On The Rio GrandePoverty Unemployment And Economic Development On The Texas-mexico Border With the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) looming large and imminent this book explores the socio-economic fabric of the U.S.-Mexico border region as a measure of NAFTA's future. It presents the social and economic history of the Lower Rio Grande Valley on the Texas-Mexico border. . Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367166649

Crisis Resolution: Presidential Decision Making In The Mayaguez And Korean Confrontations This book examines two crises that occurred during the Ford administration—the Mayaguez incident and the murder of two U.S. Army officers in the Korean demilitarized zone. It presents an authoritative view of how each department functioned internally and externally during the crises. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367167516

Crisis Services and Hospital CrisesMental Health at a Turning Point First published in 1999. This text examines the impasse in the development of alternatives to hospitals drawing on the experience of both crisis service users and providers and evidence of the effectiveness of such services. The book concludes that crisis services are preferred by users are usually more cost effective and often more clinically effective than acute admissions wards. It offers a number of policy suggestions to advance the role of crisis services including monitoring evaluation and development centres or programmes being established on a national basis and joint training between crisis service and hospitals. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138611658

Crisis SpacesStructures Struggles and Solidarity in Southern Europe The financial malaise that has affected the Eurozone countries of southern Europe – Spain Portugal Italy and in its most extreme case Greece – has been analysed using mainly macroeconomic and financial explanations. This book shifts the emphasis from macroeconomics to the relationship between uneven geographical development financialisation and politics. It deconstructs the myth that debt both public and private in Southern Europe is the sole outcome of the spendthrift ways of Greece Spain Italy and Portugal offering a fresh perspective on the material social and ideological parameters of the economic crisis and the spaces where it unfolded. Featuring a range of case examples that complement and expand the main discussion Crisis Spaces will appeal to students and scholars of human geography economics regional development political science cultural studies and social movements studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367360139

Crisis SystemA critical realist and environmental critique of economics and the economy This book throws light onto the nature and causes of three different but strongly interconnected crises in contemporary societies worldwide: an economic crisis an ecological crisis and a normative (moral and political) crisis. These crises are reflected in the profoundly inequitable distribution of wealth resources and life opportunities around the world. If we follow the causal roots of these crises we are led back to an inherent dynamic in the capitalist economic system itself discursively expressed as neoclassical mainstream economics. For instance by conflating human needs with market demand mainstream economics disregards the needs of those who do not have sufficient purchasing power as well as any needs that cannot be quantified or monetised in some way. Mainstream economics also ignores the notion of natural limits. Furthermore it seems that everything that is quantifiable is potentially for sale and this results in the substitution of nature indigenous cultural traditions and various life forms with commodities and ‘human capital’. The latter is defined as the skills instrumental for continual economic growth. Besides critiquing the academic discipline of economics this book also points to a number of dysfunctional and crisis-prone structures and practices of substantive economic life. It will be of interest to students and scholars working in philosophy economics and environmental studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415818742

CRISP Cognitive Rehabilitation Independent Speech Programme 'CRISP' is a computer based speech rehabilitation tool designed to support Speech & Language Therapists between sessions with their patients. It is aimed at adults with speech and language deficit following an acquired brain injury and will help to overcome the lack of opportunity that patients often have to practice their speech in a busy hospital or empty household. It has been designed to overcome some of the psychosocial barriers to practising speech which can restrict improvement. This can include unwillingness to attempt speaking because of embarrassment regarding speech deficit or other people word finding and filling gaps for the patient. The therapist can select the most appropriate programme according to ability from over 20 available and then set up the task for the patient to practice in their own home. The patient listens to the word practises and then record pronouncing the word.  They can then play back their recording to make a comparison. Designed so that all possible combination of words are included: a range of syllables from 1 through to 5 syllables; includes words where the stress in on the first syllable at the end syllable or the middle syllables. It has palatal fricatives labionasal labiodental labio dental fricatives diphthongs semi vowels alveolar fricatives alveola plosives labial plosives velar plosives combinations. The word and sound type are of various complexities. Age: Adult CD Rom + instruction booklet (please note a headset with microphone is required to use this programme) James Japp is a chartered occupational psychologist specialising in clinical neuro-psychology and a medico-legal expert on the assessment of brain-injured clients. For many years he has been at the forefront of developing vocational rehabilitation programmes for early intervention and return to work for individuals with acquired brain injury. James is consultant psychologist at The Papworth Trust and Clinical Director at Neuropsychologist UK an organisation which promotes good practice in returning brain-injured clients to employment. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780863888649

Criteria for CompetenceControversies in the Conceptualization and Assessment of Children's Abilities One of developmental psychology's central concerns is the identification of specific "milestones" which indicate what children are typically capable of doing at different ages. Work of this kind has a substantial impact on the way parents educators and service-oriented professionals deal with children; and therefore one might expect that developmentalists would have come to some general agreement in regard to the ways they assess children's abilities. However as this volume demonstrates the field appears to suffer from a serious lack of consensus in this area. Based on the premise that identifying relevant issues is a necessary step toward progress this book addresses a number of vital topics such as: How could research into fundamental areas (such as the age at which children first acquire a sense of self or learn to reason transitively) repeatedly yield wildly diverse results? Why do experts who hold to radically different views appear to be so unruffled by this same divergence of professional opinion? and Are there grounds for hope that this divergence of professional opinion is on the wane? Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138966994

Critica MusicaEssays in Honour of Paul Brainard First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138990494

Critical and Creative Research Methodologies in Social Work Social work research is concerned with complex social issues closely connected to communities of people who are marginalized and oppressed. This volume develops critical and creative research methodologies that place questions of social justice at their centre and take innovative approaches to collecting analysing interpreting and presenting research data. The first section of the book examines textual data produced from an array of methodologies focused on the spoken and/or written word. These approaches allow those who are often silenced to speak by providing space and time to capture memory and meanings that may not come to light in a time driven structured research method like an interview or a questionnaire. The second section of the book discusses visual methods including an examination of historical artefacts like photographs and objects and participant engagement with art specifically clay sculpture and drawings. Both sets of methods examine the concept of ’time’ that is how we understand time as in our past memories how we develop relationships and knowledge over time. These creative and critical methods provide new insights into ways of undertaking social research in social work which captures the complexity of social experiences problems and meanings that are more often than not embedded in time and place. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138494350

Critical and Cultural InteractionismInsights from Sociology and Criminology One of the longest standing traditions in sociology interactionism is concerned with studying human interaction and showing how society to a large part is constituted by patterns of interaction. In spite of the work of figures such as Robert E. Park Everett C. Hughes Erving Goffman Herbert Blumer Norman K. Denzin and Gary Alan Fine interactionism – perhaps owing to its association with the perspective of symbolic interactionism – remains something of an odd man out in mainstream sociology. This book seeks to rectify this apparent neglect by bringing together critical social theories and microsociological approaches to research thus revealing the critical and cultural potentials in interactionism – the chapters arguing that far from being oriented towards the status quo interactionism in fact contains a critical and cultural edge. Presenting the latest work from some of the leading figures in interactionist thought to show recent developments in the field and offer an overview of some of the most potent and prominent ideas within critical and cultural criminology Critical and Cultural Interactionism will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in interactionism social theory research methods and criminology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367671426

Critical And Effective HistoriesFoucault's Methods and Historical Sociology First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138152182

Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises Economic and financial crises have become perennial features of today’s global economy. Macroeconomic theories of crisis including the global crisis that unfolded in 2008 emphasize the role of financial deregulation; capital flow imbalances; and growing debt fueled by income and wealth inequality. These approaches tend to be divorced from feminist thinking which analyzes broader distributional dynamics transmitted through structural channels and government policy responses with an emphasis on gender race class and ethnicity. This volume brings together innovative thinking from heterodox macroeconomists and feminist economists to explore the causes consequences and ramifications of economic crises. By doing so it highlights aspects of the economy that are frequently overlooked or ignored such as the impact of crises on the vast amount of unpaid work which women perform relative to men. The collection of international studies assembled here takes an innovative approach to analyzing a range of issues from the subprime mortgage crisis to the gendered effects of austerity to the role of the International Monetary Fund in governing an unstable global economy. In so doing it looks beyond causes and consequences and points to new directions for macroeconomic and financial policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Feminist Economics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138886377

Critical and Rare Earth ElementsRecovery from Secondary Resources This book is aimed to compile the distribution of rare earth elements in various resources with their processing from secondary resources. It includes details of various processes developed for extraction of rare earth elements from varied raw materials ranging from e-wastes tailings process wastes and residues. It emphasizes importance of processing of the secondary resources to assist environmental remediation of such untreated wastes and get finished products. It covers all aspects of rare metals and rare earth metals in one volume covering extraction separation and recycling of secondary resources for extraction of these metals along with relevant case studies. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367086473

Critical Animal and Media StudiesCommunication for Nonhuman Animal Advocacy This book aims to put the speciesism debate and the treatment of non-human animals on the agenda of critical media studies and to put media studies on the agenda of animal ethics researchers. Contributors examine the convergence of media and animal ethics from theoretical philosophical discursive social constructionist and political economic perspectives. The book is divided into three sections: foundations representation and responsibility outlining the different disciplinary approaches’ application to media studies and covering how non-human animals and the relationship between humans and non-humans are represented by the mass media concluding with suggestions for how the media as a major producer of cultural norms and values related to non-human animals and how we treat them might improve such representations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138597976

Critical Animal GeographiesPolitics intersections and hierarchies in a multispecies world Critical Animal Geographies provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies exploring the spatial political and ethical dimensions of animals’ lived experience and human-animal encounters. It works toward a more radical politics and theory directed at the shifting boundary between human and animal. Chapters draw together feminist political-economic post-humanist anarchist postcolonial and critical race literatures with original case studies in order to see how efforts by some humans to control and order life – human and not – violate constrain and impinge upon others. Central to all chapters is a commitment to grappling with the stakes – violence death life autonomy – of human-animal encounters. Equally the work in the collection addresses head-on the dominant forces shaping and dependent on these encounters: capitalism racism colonialism and so on. In doing so the book pushes readers to confront how human-animal relations are mixed up with overlapping axes of power and exploitation including gender race class and species. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138634701

Critical AnthropologyFoundational Works Critical anthropology has had a major influence on the discipline shifting it away from concepts of bounded societies with evolutionary trajectories to complex analyses of interconnected economic political and social processes. This book brings together some of critical anthropology’s most influential writings collecting classic articles and spirited rebuttals by major scholars such as Eric Wolf Marshall Sahlins Sidney Mintz Andre Gunder Frank and Michael Taussig. Editor Stephen Nugent positions these key debates originally published in the journal Critique of Anthropology with new introductions that detail the lasting influence of these articles on anthropology over four decades showing how critical anthropology is relevant today more than ever. An ideal supplementary text this book is a rich exploration of intellectual history that will continue to shape anthropology for decades to come. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781611321784

Critical Appraisal for FCEM The ability to read a paper judge its quality the importance of its results and make a decision about whether to change practice based on the information given is a core skill for all doctors. To be able to do this quickly and efficiently is without a doubt a skill needed by all time-pressured emergency doctors and one which is tested in the Fellowship of the College of Emergency Medicine (FCEM) examination. Critical Appraisal for FCEM is the essential revision source for all those who want to pass the critical appraisal section of this exam. It is also required reading for those who want to incorporate evidence-based medicine into their everyday clinical practice. Features: Helps you become truly competent in critical appraisal Provides information in "Spod’s Corner " which helps you reach the next level and excel Prepares you for the Critical Topic Review Contains two fictional practice papers to test and practise your knowledge With its relaxed conversational style—yet crammed with essential information key tips and advice—this book is indispensable for all those wanting to achieve success in their FCEM and MCEM examinations. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781444186482

Critical Appraisal from Papers to PatientA Practical Guide Having an understanding of critical appraisal and evidence-based medicine is a prerequisite to being an effective clinician. However critical appraisal is often taught by people not involved in day-to-day clinical care meaning the clinical relevance is not always brought to the fore. This book takes a different approach. It is written by clinicians for clinicians. It takes the reader step by step through the process so that any journal article can be easily read evidence evaluated and the results - and their reliability - truly understood. By integrating this with knowledge of local skills and resources and patient preference the reader will be able to apply the best possible care that his or her patients deserve. This accessible book is suitable for undergraduates and postgraduates of all medical specialties nursing paramedics pharmacists and all allied health professions. It is the ideal reference for anyone needing help writing a clinical topic review reviewing a paper in a journal club or preparing for a critical appraisal exam. But most importantly it is essential for those who wish to practice medicine in the best possible way for their patients using the best evidence tailored to the individual. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781482230451

Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature This book is one of the first collections on a neglected field in American literature: that written by and about the working-class. Examining literature from the 1850s to the present contributors use a wide variety of critical approaches expanding readers’ understanding of the critical lenses that can be applied to working-class literature. Drawing upon theories of media studies postcolonial studies cultural geography and masculinity studies the essays consider slave narratives contemporary poetry and fiction Depression-era newspaper plays and ethnic American literature. Depicting the ways that working-class writers render the lives the volume explores the question of what difference class makes and how it intersects with gender race ethnicity and geographical location. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138849709

Critical Approaches to CareUnderstanding Caring Relations Identities and Cultures What does ‘care’ mean in contemporary society? How are caring relationships practised in different contexts? What resources do individuals and collectives draw upon in order to care for care with and care about themselves and others? How do such relationships and practices relate to broader social processes? Care shapes people’s everyday lives and relationships and caring relations and practices influence the economies of different societies. This interdisciplinary book takes a nuanced and context-sensitive approach to exploring caring relationships identities and practices within and across a variety of cultural familial geographical and institutional arenas. Grounded in rich empirical research and discussing key theoretical policy and practice debates it provides important yet often neglected international and cross-cultural perspectives. It is divided into four sections covering: caring within educational institutions; caring amongst communities and networks; caring and families; and caring across the life-course. Contributing to broader theoretical philosophical and moral debates associated with the ethics of care citizenship justice relationality and entanglements of power Critical Approaches to Care is an important work for students and academics studying caring and care work in the fields of health and social care sociology social policy anthropology education human geography and politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138781788

Critical Approaches to ComicsTheories and Methods Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books graphic novels and other sequential art. The authors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics including fandom genre intertextuality adaptation gender narrative formalism visual culture and much more. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical methods for studying comics Critical Approaches to Comics is the ideal textbook for a variety of courses in comics studies. Contributors: Henry Jenkins   David Berona  Joseph Witek Randy Duncan Marc Singer Pascal Lefevre  Andrei Molotiu Jeff McLaughlin Amy Kiste Nyberg Christopher Murray Mark Rogers Ian Gordon Stanford Carpenter Matthew J. Smith Brad J. Ricca Peter Coogan Leonard Rifas   Jennifer K. Stuller Ana Merino Mel Gibson Jeffrey A. Brown Brian Swafford Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415885553

Critical Approaches to Creative Writing What is creative writing? In Critical Approaches to Creative Writing Graeme Harper draws on both creative and critical knowledge to look at what creative writing is and how it can be better understood. Harper explores how to critically consider creative writing in progress while also tutoring the reader on how to improve their own final results. Throughout the book Harper explains the nature of ‘creative exposition’ where creative writing is closely and directly examined in practice as well as through its final results. This book aims to empower you to develop your own critical approaches so that you can consider any creative writing situations you face develop creative exposition that can be applied to writing problems provide you with more creative choices and assist you in building your creative writing strengths. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138931558

Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic connecting children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies. Following the lead of historians like Mark Kurlansky Jeffrey Pilcher and Massimo Montanari who use food as a fundamental node for understanding history the essays in this volume present food as a multivalent signifier in children’s literature and make a strong argument for its central place in literature and literary theory. Written by some of the most respected scholars in the field the essays between these covers tackle texts from the nineteenth century (Rudyard Kipling’s Kim) to the contemporary (Dave Pilkey’s Captain Underpants series) the U.S. multicultural (Asian-American) to the international (Ireland Brazil Mexico). Spanning genres such as picture books chapter books popular media and children’s cookbooks contributors utilize a variety of approaches including archival research cultural studies formalism gender studies post-colonialism post-structuralism race studies structuralism and theology. Innovative and wide-ranging Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature provides us with a critical opportunity to puzzle out the significance of food in children’s literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415808910

Critical Approaches to International Criminal LawAn Introduction Drawing on the critical legal tradition the collection of international scholars gathered in this volume analyse the complicities and limitations of International Criminal Law. This area of law has recently experienced a significant surge in scholarship and public debate; individual criminal accountability is now firmly entrenched in both international law and the international consciousness as a necessary mechanism of responsibility. Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law: An Introduction shifts the debate towards that which has so far been missing from the mainstream discussion: the possible injustices exclusions and biases of International Criminal Law. This collection of essays is the first dedicated to the topic of critical approaches to international criminal law. It will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of international criminal law international law international legal theory criminal law and criminology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138659766

Critical Approaches to Life Writing Methods in Qualitative Research Life writing projects have become part of the expanding field of qualitative research methods in recent years and advances in critical approaches are reshaping methodological pathways. Critical Approaches to Life Writing Methods in Qualitative Research gives researchers and students looking for a brief compendium to guide their methodological thinking a concise and working overview of how to approach and carry out different forms of life writing. This practical book re-invigorates the conversation about the possibilities and innovative directions qualitative researchers can take when engaged in various forms of life writing such as biography autobiography autoethnography life history and oral history. It equips the reader with the tools to carry out life writing projects from start to finish including choosing a topic or subject examining lives as living data understanding the role of documents and artifacts learning to tell the story and finally writing/performing/displaying through the voice of the life writer. The authors also address the ways a researcher can begin a project work through the issues they might face along the journey and arrive at a shareable product. With its focus on the plurality of life writing methodologies Critical Approaches to Life Writing Methods in Qualitative Research occupies a distinct place in qualitative research scholarship and offers practical exercises to guide the researcher. Examples include exploring authorial voice practical applications of reflexivity exercises the relationship between the narrator and participants navigating the use of public and private archives understanding the processes of collaborative inquiry and collaborative writing and writing for various audiences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138642997

Critical Approaches to Questions in Qualitative Research Learning how to formulate questions that examine the power relations between the researcher and participants is at the heart of critical approaches. This book provides a comprehensive overview and treatment of critical approaches to questions in qualitative research. It also examines questions as tools for strategic thinking and decision making at all stages of the qualitative research process. Written using examples from research and teaching it situates constructing and formulating questions as a critical aspect of qualitative research that encourages learning to interrogate and inquire against the grain. The authors illustrate the ways in which different research questions necessitate different methodological choices framing questions for research interviewing and analysis—suggesting some questions that can guide the writing process. With exercises sample questions and outlines for planning research this book assists qualitative researchers with creating more effective questions including formulating questions to guide reflexivity meant to confront prevailing assumptions and therefore dismantle and uncover omissions and invisibilities. This book stands out among other qualitative research methods books in its focus on critical approaches to questions as the driver of the research imagination. Utilising a number of examples there is also a focused discussion of how to arrive at research questions align interview questions with those research questions actively construct questions to guide the data analysis process and use further types of questions to guide the writing process. The examples the authors employ include questions drawn from qualitative approaches to phenomenology ethnography life writing feminist research and participatory action research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138642973

Critical Approaches to Science and Philosophy This collection of essays written on four continents by scientists philosophers and humanists was initially presented to Karl R. Popper on his sixtieth birthday as a token of critical admiration and in recognition of his work. But the volume also stands on its own as a remarkable series of statements utilizing Popper's critical vision in the study of philosophy proper logic mathematics science as method and theory and finally to the study of society and history. What is remarkable is that Popper worked in all of these areas not in a cursory or discursive way but with the utmost clarity and rigor.. The core position of this volume and its contributors is that the progress of knowledge is not a linear accumulation of definitive acquisitions but a zigzagging process in which counterexamples and unfavorable evidence ruin generalizations and prompt the invention of more comprehensive and sometimes deeper generalizations to be criticized in their turn. A critical approach to problems procedures and results in every field of inquiry is therefore a necessary condition for the continuance of progress.The title of this volume then is in a sense an homage to Popper's critical rationalism and critical empiricism. The essays are a tribute to his unceasing and uncompromising quest not for final certainty but for closer truth and increased clarity. Among the contributors are outstanding figures in philosophy and the exact sciences in their own right including Herbert Feigl R. M. Hare J.O. Wisdom Nicholas Rescher David Bohm Paul K. Feyerabend F. A. Hayek and Adolf Grunbaum. Social science contributions include Hans Albert on social science and moral philosophy W. B. Gallie on the critical philosophy of history Pieter Geyl on The Open Society and its Enemies and George H. Nadel on the philosophy of History. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521568

Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia Central Asia remains on the periphery both spatially and in people’s imaginations. When the region does attract international attention it is often related to security issues including terrorism ethnic conflict and drug trafficking. This book brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplines including geography anthropology sociology and political science to discuss how citizens and governments within Central Asia think about and practise security. The authors explore how governments use fears of instability to bolster their rule and how securitized populations cope with (and resist) being labelled threats through strategies that are rarely associated with security including marriage and changing their appearance. This collection examines a wide range of security issues including Islamic extremism small arms interethnic relations and border regions. While coverage of the region often departs from preconceived notions of the region as dangerous obscure and volatile the chapters in this book all place emphasis on the way local people understand security and harmony in their daily lives.This book will be of interest to students and researchers of Central Asian Studies as well as Security Studies and Political Science. The chapters were originally published in the journal Central Asian Survey. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367664206

Critical Approaches to SecurityAn Introduction to Theories and Methods Focusing on critical approaches to security this new textbook offers readers both an overview of the key theoretical perspectives and a variety of methodological techniques.  With a careful explication of core concepts in each chapter and an introduction that traces the development of critical approaches to security this textbook will encourage all those who engage with it to develop a curiosity about the study and practices of security politics. Challenging the assumptions of conventional theories and approaches unsettling that which was previously taken for granted – these are among the ways in which such a curiosity works. Through its attention to the fact that and the ways in which security matters in global politics this work will both pioneer new ways of studying security and acknowledge the noteworthy scholarship without which it could not have been thought. This textbook will be essential reading to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of critical security studies and highly recommended to students of traditional security studies International Relations and Politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415680165

Critical Approaches to Teaching the High School NovelReinterpreting Canonical Literature This edited collection will turn a critical spotlight on the set of texts that has constituted the high school canon of literature for decades. By employing a set of fresh vibrant critical lenses—such as youth studies and disabilities studies— that are often unfamiliar to advanced students and scholars of secondary English this book provides divergent approaches to traditional readings and pedagogical practices surrounding these familiar works. By introducing and applying these interpretive frames to the field of secondary English education this book demonstrates that there is more to say about these texts ways to productively problematize them and to reconfigure how they may be read and used in the classroom. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367584344

Critical Approaches to TV and Film Set Design The analysis of scenic design in film and television is often neglected with visual design elements relegated to part of the mise-en-scène in cinema or simply as "wallpaper" in television. Critical Approaches to TV and Film Set Design positions itself from the audience perspective to explore how we watch TV and film and how set design enhances and influences the viewing experience. By using semiotics history and narratology and adding concepts drawn from art architecture and theatre Geraint D’Arcy reworks the key concepts of set design. Looking at the impact of production design on how the viewer reads film and television these updated theories can be applied more flexibly and extensively in academic criticism. D’Arcy creates a new theoretical approach representing a significant expansion of the field and filling the remaining gaps. This book is ideal for anyone interested in understanding how we can read and interpret design in film and television and should be the primary point of reference for those studying TV and film set design. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138636507

Critical Art PedagogyFoundations for Postmodern Art Education First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138967007

Critical Articulations of Hope from the Margins of Arts EducationInternational Perspectives and Practices Critical Articulations of Hope from the Margins of Arts Education presents perspectives on arts education from marginalized contexts and communities around the world. The contributors of this collection are educators researchers and artists who have devoted their research and practice to exploring how to utilize arts education to work toward justice equity sustainability and hope when communities or groups of people are faced with most challenging and arduous situations.This book depicts hardships and struggles including forced migration; institutionalized discrimination; economic ecological and cultural oppression; hatred; prejudice and violence. However it also celebrates the strength of individuals and communities who strive to make a difference and work towards fair and just cultures and communities. The book proposes that participation in the arts is a basic human right and that diverse cultures and the arts are an integral aspect of healthy lives and societies. Building on long traditions of arts education for social justice critical pedagogy and the pedagogy of hope it facilitates international dialogue and explores how the theory and practice for arts education can be furthered by including insights emerging from practices evolving as sensitive to marginal conditions.Critical Articulations of Hope from the Margins of Arts Education will be of great interest to academics researchers and postgraduate students of the arts arts education and education. It will also appeal to arts educators community artists sociologists cultural workers and teacher training faculty and in service-learning and other pedagogy-related courses. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367585488

Critical Autoethnography and Intercultural LearningEmerging Voices Critical Autoethnography and Intercultural Learning shows how critical autoethnographic writing in a field such as intercultural education can help inform and change existing research paradigms. Engaging story-telling and insightful analysis from emerging scholars of diverse backgrounds and communities shows the impact of lived experience on teaching and learning. Different areas of intercultural learning are considered including language education; student and teacher mobilities; Indigenous education; backpacker tourism; and religious learning. The book provides a worked example of how critical autoethnography can help shift thinking within any discipline and reflects critically upon the multidimensional nature of migrant teacher and learner identities. This book will be essential reading for upper-level students of qualitative research methods and on international education courses including language education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367234768

Critical AutoethnographyIntersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life Second Edition examines the development of the field of critical autoethnography through the lens of social identity. Contributors situate interpersonal and intercultural experiences of gender race ethnicity ability citizenship sexuality and spirituality within larger systems of power oppression and privilege. Approachable and accessible narratives highlight intersectional experiences of marginalization and interrogate social injustices. The book is divided into three sections: Complexities of Identity Performance Relationships in Diverse Contexts and Pathways to Culturally Authentic Selves. Each thematic section includes provocative stories that critically engage personal and cultural narratives through a lens of difference. The chapters in the book highlight both unique and ubiquitous extraordinary and common experiences in the interior lives of people who are Othered because of at least two overlapping identities. The contributors offer first person accounts to suggest critical responses and alternatives to injustice. The book also includes sectional summaries and discussion questions to facilitate dialogue and self-reflection. It is an excellent resource for undergraduate students graduate students educators and scholars who are interested in autoethnography interpersonal and intercultural communication qualitative studies personal narrative cultural studies and performance studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367353032

Critical Border StudiesBroadening and Deepening the 'Lines in the Sand' Agenda This edited collection formalises Critical Border Studies (CBS) as a distinctive approach within the interdisciplinary border studies literature. Although CBS represents a heterogeneous assemblage of thought the hallmark of the approach is a basic dissatisfaction with the ‘Line in the Sand’ metaphor as an unexamined starting point for the study of borders. A headline feature of each contribution gathered here is a concerted effort to decentre the border. By ‘decentring’ we mean an effort to problematise the border not as taken-for-granted entity but precisely as a site of investigation. On this view the border is not something that straightforwardly presents itself in an unmediated way. It is never simply ‘present’ nor fully established nor obviously accessible. Rather it is manifold and in a constant state of becoming. Empirically contributors examine the changing nature of the border in a range of cases including: the Arctic Circle; German-Dutch borderlands; the India-Pakistan region; and the Mediterranean Sea. Theoretically chapters draw on a range of critical thinkers in support of a new paradigm for border research. The volume will be of particular interest to border studies scholars in anthropology human geography international relations and political science. Critical Border Studies was published as a special issue of Geopolitics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415843249

Critical BrandingPostcolonial Studies and the Market Critical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market provides an original answer to what Sarah Brouillette has called postcolonial studies’ ‘longstanding materialist challenge’ illuminating the relationship between what is often broadly called ‘the market’ and the practice and positionality of postcolonial critics and their field  postcolonial studies. After much attention has been paid to the status of literary writers in markets and after a range of sweeping attacks against the field for its alleged ‘complicity’ with capitalism this study takes the crucial step of systematically exploring the engagement of postcolonial critics in market practice substituting an automatic sense of accusation (Dirlik) dread (Westall; Brouillette) rage (Young; Williams) or irony (Huggan; Ponzanesi; Mendes) with a nuanced exploration and critique. Bringing together concepts from business studies postcolonial studies queer studies and literary and cultural studies in an informed way Critical Branding sets on a thorough theoretical footing a range of categories that while increasingly current remain surprisingly obscure such as the market market forces and branding. It also provides new concepts with which to think the market as a dimension of practice such as brand narratives brand acts and brand politics. At a time when the marketisation of the university system and the resulting effects on academics are much on our minds Critical Branding is a timely contribution that explores how diversely postcolonial studies and the market intersect for better and for worse. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367503444

Critical BuddhismEngaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought In the late 1980s and early 1990s the relative calm world of Japanese Buddhist scholarship was thrown into chaos with the publication of several works by Buddhist scholars Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro dedicated to the promotion of something they called Critical Buddhism (hihan bukkyo). In their quest to re-establish a "true" - rational ethical and humanist - form of East Asian Buddhism the Critical Buddhists undertook a radical deconstruction of historical and contemporary East Asian Buddhism particularly Zen. While their controversial work has received some attention in English-language scholarship this is the first book-length treatment of Critical Buddhism as both a philosophical and religious movement where the lines between scholarship and practice blur. Providing a critical and constructive analysis of Critical Buddhism particularly the epistemological categories of critica and topica this book examines contemporary theories of knowledge and ethics in order to situate Critical Buddhism within modern Japanese and Buddhist thought as well as in relation to current trends in contemporary Western thought. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138254756

Critical Care Assessment by Midwives Over the last ten years pregnancy has not only become more complicated for many women but the traditional provision of general intensive care units has been reduced. To bridge this gap critical care units usually staffed by midwives have been set up in many maternity units. This textbook is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this emerging area of practice. Critical Care Assessment by Midwives also notably sets out a template for assessment of women that will enable early identification of deteriorating health. Serious illness can arise subsequent to an emergency a pre-existing illness or a complication of pregnancy but can also occur in the context of what appears to be a low risk pregnancy. For this reason all midwives need to be skilled in assessment that facilitates timely appropriate referrals and saves lives.　 It covers: ABCDE assessment tailored for midwives; assessment of cardiac conditions; aassessment of respiratory conditions; assessment of neurological conditions; pre-eclampsia; haemorrhage; shock including hypovolaemia sepsis and anaphylaxis; haemodynamic monitoring; fluid  replacement and balance; ketoacidosis hypoglycaemia and sickle cell crisis. Covering the context of care relevant pathophysiology signs and symptoms specific assessment in detail relevant drugs assessment of the fetus summaries of management psychosocial support and the specific professional responsibilities of the midwife this is an essential guide for all midwives and midwifery students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138740259

Critical Care Management for Laboratory Mice and Rats For critical care of laboratory rodents there is a scarcity of sources for comprehensive feasible and response-oriented information on clinical interventions specific to spontaneous and induced models of disease. With the more complex cases that need critical care management many treatment approaches to veterinary emergencies cannot be applied directly to the laboratory rodent. The first text of its kind devoted to the challenges of critical care management for laboratory rodents Critical Care Management for Laboratory Mice and Rats provides a specialized resource for all veterinary husbandry technical and research professionals who utilize rodent models for biomedical research.The book covers the varied approaches to laboratory rodent patient care health assessments characteristics of specific disease models monitoring and scoring of disease parameters and humane interventions. Giving primary consideration to preservation of animal health and welfare the text also considers how best to balance welfare with the achievement of proposed scientific objectives. Organized into five chapters this full-color book covers the following topics: General Approaches for Critical Care Critical Care Management for Laboratory Mice Critical Care Management for Laboratory Rats Special Considerations for Critical Care Management in Laboratory Rodents Resources and Additional Information The author provides treatment guidelines with the expectation that they will be applied with apt professional judgment allowing for further modification of clinical recommendations for improved patient-based care and welfare for research animals. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780849324994

Critical Care Nursing in Resource Limited Environments All hospitals have critically ill patients and their management depends upon the resources available. In many low income countries critically ill patients may be admitted to a critical care unit; however many are nursed on wards due to a lack of critical care beds or simply die before they reach the hospital. This book provides guidance on the unique situations for nurses working in these challenging environments while considering ethical decision-making providing appropriate services and the types of patients admitted. Topics covered include: working in a resource limited environment; cultural awareness and international agendas; provision and access to healthcare services; ethical considerations in the context of resource limited environments; best practice and knowledge regarding rehabilitation pain management managing a major incident; relevant research concerning resource limited environments. Critical Care Nursing in Resource Limited Environments prepares readers to consider how best to utilise their skills and deliver safe patient care within a resource limited context. Each easy-to-read chapter provides core knowledge and relevant research as well as useful ideas and solutions with further reading sections to signpost readers to key international resources. This text provides practical ideas for nurses working in critical care and defence nursing and acute areas in resource limited environments. It can also be used to support educational courses and pre-deployment training for nurses hoping to work in Global Health. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138093515

Critical ChainA Business Novel This fast-paced business novel does for project management what The Goal and It's Not Luck have done for production and marketing. Goldratt‘s novels have traditionally slain sacred cows and delivered new ways of looking at processes which seem like common sense once you read them. Critical Chain is no exception. In perhaps Eli‘s most readable book yet two of the established principles of project management the engineering estimate and project milestones are found wanting and dismissed and other established principles are up for scrutiny - as Goldratt once more applies his Theory of Constraints. The approach is radical yet clear understandable and logical. New techniques are introduced and Project Buffers Feeding Buffers Limit Multitasking Improved Communications and Correct Measurements make them work. Goldratt even handles the complicated statistics of dispersed variability versus accumulated variability so deftly you won‘t even be aware of learning about them - they ll just seem like more common sense! Critical Chain is critical reading for anyone who deals with projects. If you use block diagrams drawings or charts to keep track of your activities you are managing a project - and this book is for you. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138461079

Critical Communication StudiesEssays on Communication History and Theory in America The development of communication studies has been a lively process of adoption and integration of theoretical constructs from Pragmatism Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Critical Communication Studies describes the intellectual and professional forces that have shaped research interests and formed alliances in the pursuit of particular goals. Hanno Hardt reflects on the need to come to terms with the role of history in academic work and locates the intellectual history within the context of competing social theories. The book provides a substantive foundation for understanding the field and will be a major text in all courses dealing with communication history and theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138143944

Critical Community PsychologyCritical Action and Social Change This accessible textbook draws upon progressions in academic political and global arenas to provide a comprehensive overview of practical issues in psychological work across a diverse range of community settings. Interest in community psychology and its potential as a distinctive approach is growing and evolving in parallel with societal and policy changes. Thoroughly revised and updated this new edition covers crucial issues including decolonial approaches migration social justice and the environmental crisis. It has a new chapter on archive research working with data policy analysis and development to reflect the continuously developing global nature of community psychology. Key features include: Sections and chapters organised around thinking acting and reflecting Case examples and reflections of community psychology in action Discussion points and ideas for exercises that can be undertaken by the reader in order to extend critical understanding Aiming to provide readers with not only the theories values and principles of community psychology but also with the practical guidance that will underpin their community psychological work this is the ideal resource for any student of community social and clinical psychology social work community practice and people working in community-based professions and applied settings. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138364127

Critical Company Law The second edition of Critical Company Law provides a framework in which to understand how the company functions in society and a thorough grounding in modern legal doctrine. It shows how modern company law is shaped by a multi-layered history of politics ideology economics and power. Through the lens of political economic theory the book shows how the company becomes the mechanism through which the state makes political choices about distributing societies’ wealth and through which it responds to economic crises. The current law reflects an economy marked by a disjuncture between the low profits of the productive economy and the high profits of the finance economy. Critical Company Law examines areas of company law to show how they reflect a fragile economy inexorably drawn to social and economic inequality and short-termism. These include: • The Doctrine of Separate Corporate Personality • Groups of Companies and Tort Liabilities • Company Formation and the Constitution • Directors’ Duties and Authority • Corporate Capacity • Shares and Shareholders • Raising and Maintaining Capital • Minority Protection In this uniquely hybrid book the legal topics are treated with detail and clarity providing an engaging introduction to the key topics required for a student of company law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415538824

Critical Content Analysis of Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureReframing Perspective In this book the authors describe their strategies for critically reading global and multicultural literature and the range of procedures they use for critical analyses. They also reflect on how these research strategies can inform classrooms and children as readers. Critical content analysis offers researchers a methodology for examining representations of power and position in global and multicultural children’s and adolescent literature. This methodology highlights the critical as locating power in social practices by understanding uncovering and transforming conditions of inequity. Importantly it also provides insights into specific global and multicultural books significant within classrooms as well as strategies that teachers can use to engage students in critical literacy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138120099

Critical Content Analysis of Visual Images in Books for Young PeopleReading Images Extending the discussion of critical content analysis to the visual realm of picturebooks and graphic novels this book provides a clear research methodology for understanding and analyzing visual imagery. Offering strategies for "reading" illustrations in global and multicultural literature chapter authors explore and bring together critical theory and social semiotics while demonstrating how visual analysis can be used to uncover and analyze power ideologies inequity and resistance in picturebooks and graphic novels. This volume covers a diverse range of texts and types of books and offers tools and procedures for interpreting visual images to enhance the understandings of researchers teachers and students as they engage with the visual culture that fills our world. These methods are significant not only to becoming a critical reader of literature but to also becoming a critical reader of visual images in everyday life. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138387065

Critical Conversations in Philosophy of Education Critical Conversations in Philosophy of Education presents a series of conversations expressing many of the multiple voices that currently constitute the field of philosophy of education. Philosophy of education as a discipline has undergone several turns--the once marginal perspectives of the various feminisms critical Marxism and poststructuralist postmodernist and cultural theory have gained ground alongside those of Anglo-analytic and pragmatic thought. Just as Western philosophers in general are coming to terms with the "end of philosophy" pronouncement implicit in postmodernism so too are philosophers of education faced with similar challenges--challenges to long-held moral political aesthetic and epistemological commitments. The contributors take up these challenges through a dialogical structure expressing differing positions without engaging in destructive critique. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315021430

Critical Cosmopolitanism in Diverse Students’ LivesUniversal and Restricted Expressions Based on a qualitative meta-analysis of data from five studies conducted with secondary and college students this book explores the multiple ways in which sources of cosmopolitan agency exist in their lives. Grounded in a framework of critical cosmopolitanism this book examines how students’ identities develop in new contexts and how their perceptions of themselves change. With a focus on native-born international immigrant and refugee students Oikonomidoy discusses the ways in which students express their cosmopolitan orientations and interact in cross-cultural settings and offers insights for scholars and teacher educators. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367585310

Critical CraftTechnology Globalization and Capitalism From Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which examine what defines and makes ‘craft’ in a wide variety of practices from around the world. Challenging the conventional understanding of craft as a survival a revival or something that resists capitalism the book turns instead to the designers DIY enthusiasts traditional artisans and technical programmers who consider their labor to be craft in order to comprehend how they make sense of it. The authors’ ethnographic studies focus on the individuals and communities who claim a practice as their own bypassing the question of craft survival to ask how and why activities termed craft are mobilized and reproduced. Moving beyond regional studies of heritage artisanship the authors suggest that ideas of craft are by definition part of a larger cosmopolitan dialogue of power and identity. By paying careful attention to these sometimes conflicting voices this collection shows that there is great flexibility in terms of which activities are labelled ‘craft’. In fact there are many related ideas of craft and these shape distinct engagements with materials people and the economy. Case studies from countries including Mexico Nigeria India Taiwan the Philippines and France draw together evidence based on linguistics microsociology and participant observation to explore the shifting terrain on which those engaged in craft are operating. What emerges is a fascinating picture which shows how claims about craft are an integral part of contemporary global change. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472594853

Critical Criminology This book sets to explore the key issues and future prospects facing critical criminology bringing together a set of leading authorities in the field from the UK Australasia and the USA. A key concern of the book is to review the possibilities and strategies of pursuing critical criminological scholarship in the context of an increasingly dominant administrative criminology paradigm reflected in the rise of neo-liberalism a 'governmentalised' criminology of risk crime control and situational crime prevention. Media > Books > E-books Willan 9781843924418

Critical Criminology Critical Criminology is now a well-established—if heterogeneous and contentious—field of study. The work of critical criminologists supports numerous international journals regional organizations and global conferences. As the field continues to flourish as never before this new title from Routledge edited by two distinguished scholars meets the need for an authoritative one-stop reference work to make sense of the wide range of approaches theories and concepts that have informed Critical Criminology. In four volumes the collection assembles the best and most influential empirical theoretical and political contributions made by critical criminologists from around the world with special attention to new directions in the field—such as cultural criminology masculinities studies and feminist criminologies. The gathered works cover not only the history of Critical Criminology and cutting-edge theories but also explore a variety of research methods used by leading scholars in the field and the rich data generated by their rigorous empirical work. With a full index together with a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editors which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context Critical Criminology is an essential work of reference. The collection will be particularly useful as a database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar—and sometimes overlooked—texts. For researchers students and policy-makers it is an essential one-stop research and pedagogic resource. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415660761

Critical Criminology (Routledge Revivals) First published in 1975 this collection of essays expands upon the themes and ideas developed in the editors’ previous work the visionary and groundbreaking text: The New Criminology. Directed at orthodox criminology this is a partisan work written by a group of criminologists committed to a social transformation: a transformation to a society that does not criminalize deviance. Included are American contributions particularly from the School of Criminology at Berkeley represented by Hermann and Julia Schwendinger and Tony Platt together with essays by Richard Quinney and William Chambliss. From Britain Geoff Pearson considers deviancy theory as ‘misfit sociology’ and Paul Hirst attacks deviancy theory from an Althusserian Marxist position. The editors contribute a detailed introductory essay extending the position developed in The New Criminology and two other pieces which attempt to continue the task of translating criminology from its traditional correctionalist stance to a commitment to socialist diversity and a crime-free set of social arrangements. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415519939

Critical Currents and SuperconductivityFerromagnetism Coexistence in High-Tc Oxides The book comprises six chapters which deal with the critical currents and the ferromagnetism-superconductivity coexistence in high-Tc oxides. It begins by gathering key data for superconducting state and the fundamental properties of the conventional superconductors followed by a recap of the basic theories of superconductivity. It then discusses the differences introduced by the structural anisotropy on the Ginzburg-Landau approach and the Lawrence-Doniach model before addressing the dynamics of vortices and the ferromagnetism-superconductivity coexistence in high-Tc oxides and provides an outline of the pinning phenomena of vortices in these materials in particular the pinning of vortices by the spins. It elucidates the methods to improve the properties of superconducting materials for industrial applications. This optimization aims at obtaining critical temperatures and densities of critical currents at the maximum level possible. Whereas the primary objective is the basic mechanisms pushing the superconductivity towards high temperatures the secondary objective is to achieve a better understanding of the vortices pinning. This book is targeted at researchers and graduate students of fundamental and engineering sciences. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781498775106

Critical Curriculum StudiesEducation Consciousness and the Politics of Knowing A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2012! Critical Curriculum Studies offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students’ understanding of the world around them. Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory critical educational studies and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching for social justice to argue for a transformative curriculum that challenges existing inequity in social educational and economic relations. Making use of the work of important scholars such as Freire Vygotsky Hartsock Harding and others Critical Curriculum Studies argues that we must understand the relationship between the curriculum and the types of consciousness we carry out into the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415877121

Critical Democratic Education and LGBTQ-Inclusive CurriculumOpportunities and Constraints This book illustrates the relationship between politics and the ways in which lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer (LGBTQ) issues are taught in schools. This book examines relationships between society schools and LGBTQ inclusion in order to understand perennial issues related to critical democratic education and how schools are responding to generational shifts in ideology. By conducting a case study comparison of California and Utah Camicia provides an in-depth view of the politically and culturally different landscapes that shape LGBTQ curriculum in schools. This book will synthesize and extend theoretical frameworks to describe analyze and interpret the shifting landscapes in public education as they relate to LGBTQ issues in schools. Through queer theory and democratic education theory Camicia offers recommendations to public schools and teacher educators about socially just ways to create inclusive LGBTQ curriculum. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367540982

Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory The Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory clearly and accessibly explains the major theoretical approaches now deployed in the study of the moving image as well as defining key theoretical terms.This dictionary provides readers with the conceptual apparatus to understand the often daunting language and terminology of screen studies. Entries include: *audience * Homi K. Bhabha * black cinema * the body * children and media * commodification * cop shows * deep focus * Umberto Eco * the gaze * Donna Haraway * bell hooks * infotainment * master narrative * medical dramas * morpheme * myth * panopticon * pastiche * pleasure * real time * social realism * sponsorship * sport on television * subliminal * third cinema * virtual realityConsultant Editors:David Black USA William Urricchio University of Utrecht The Netherlands Gill Branston Cardiff University UK Elayne Rapping USA Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138007079

Critical Disability Studies and the Disabled ChildUnsettling Distinctions This book examines the relationship between contemporary cultural representations of disabled children on the one hand and disability as a personal experience of internalised oppression on the other. In focalising this debate through an exploration of the politically and emotionally charged figure of the disabled child Harriet Cooper raises questions both about what it means to ‘speak for’ the other and about what resistance means when one is unknowingly invested in one’s own abjection. Drawing on both the author’s personal experience of growing up with a physical impairment and on a range of critical theories and cultural objects – from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel The Secret Garden to Judith Butler’s work on injurious speech – the book theorises the making of disabled and ‘rehabilitated’ subjectivities. With a conceptual framework informed by both psychoanalysis and critical disability studies it investigates the ways in which cultural anxieties about disability come to be embodied and lived by the disabled child. Posing new questions for disability studies and for identity politics about the relationships between lived experiences cultural representations and dominant discourses – and demonstrating a new approach to the concept of ‘internalised oppression’ – this book will be of interest to scholars and students of disability studies medical humanities sociology and psychosocial studies as well as to those with an interest in identity politics more generally. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367183066

Critical Discourse AnalysisThe Critical Study of Language Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period Critical Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the development of this popular field.  The book is divided into seven sections covering the following themes:  language in relation to ideology and powerdiscourse in processes of social and cultural change dialectics of discourse dialectical relations between discourse and other moments of social lifemethodology of critical discourse analysis research analysis of political discourse discourse in globalisation and ‘transition’ critical language awareness in education  The new edition has been extensively revised and enlarged to include a total of twenty two papers. It will be of value to researchers in the subject and should prove essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in Linguistics and other areas of social science.    Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138357235

Critical Discourse Studies and/in CommunicationTheories Methodologies and Pedagogies at the Intersections This book argues for an inherent connection between Critical Discourse Studies and Communication Studies. The volume begins with a comprehensive introduction that documents the shift towards Critical Discourse Studies in the study of socio-discursive phenomena as well as its implications in terms of theories methodologies and objects of study within and beyond Communication. The diverse selection of case studies further demonstrates the possibilities located at the intersection of Communication and Critical Discourse Studies ultimately providing solid ground for a firmer cross-fertilization between the two. The chapters as a whole provide an insightful state of the art of the kinds of research that emerge when we consider the traversing trajectories of Critical Discourse Studies and Communication advancing our understanding of self-reflexivity journalism production and social media discourses of neurodiversity the environment autism advocacy and national memory. They also provide promising emergent venues that speak to the value and the need of interdisciplinary theory building. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Review of Communication. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367505561

Critical Discourses of Old Age and Telecare Technologies This book makes an enquiry into policies surrounding old age and telecare. It contextualises telecare within the wider history of health and social care in England to build the case that there are grand narratives of old age embedded in policies. Divided into four sections the book covers: • Connecting old age with telecare • A general review of old age and telecare • A critical enquiry into discourses and the identity of old age • Conclusions and future directions. The author highlights the manifestation of old age discourses in care policies how they have been perpetuated yet also transformed in the context of telecare and what this means about older people. The book will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of gerontology sociology old age studies philosophy social policy health and social care policy information systems and critical theoreticians Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367465124

Critical Discourses of the Fantastic 1712-1831 Challenging literary histories that locate the emergence of fantastic literature in the Romantic period David Sandner shows that tales of wonder and imagination were extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century. Sandner engages contemporary critical definitions and defenses of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century fantastic literature demonstrating that a century of debate and experimentation preceded the Romantic's interest in the creative imagination. In 'The Fairy Way of Writing ' Joseph Addison first defines the literary use of the supernatural in a 'modern' and 'rational' age. Other writers like Richard Hurd James Beattie Samuel Johnson James Percy and Walter Scott influence the shape of the fantastic by defining and describing the modern fantastic in relation to a fabulous and primitive past. As the genre of the 'purely imaginary ' Sandner argues the fantastic functions as a discourse of the sublime imagination albeit a contested discourse that threatens to disrupt any attempt to ground the sublime in the realistic or sympathetic imagination. His readings of works by authors such as Ann Radcliffe William Beckford Horace Walpole Mary Shelley Walter Scott and James Hogg not only redefine the antecedents of the fantastic but also offer a convincing account of how and why the fantastic came to be marginalized in the wake of the Enlightenment. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138261426

Critical DispositionsEvidence and Expertise in Education Set against the current proliferation of global "difference" and economic realignment Critical Dispositions explores the notions of "evidence" and "expertise" in times of material scarcity. Both have come to the forefront of national and international debate in education as "evidence" and "evidence-based" research and pedagogical practices continue as major trends in educational policy. Author Greg Dimitriadis maintains this debate is best understood as part of a broader rise in professional and managerial discourses in various aspects of educational research and practice. Each aims to control and contain some aspect of research and practice in ways that are increasingly specific and targeted. As demonstrated through examples from critical intellectuals and artists outside the field of education this current proliferation of specific autonomous fields of inquiry and practice marks a much deeper ambivalence about our contemporary moment and how we understand it. Following Bourdieu and other theorists Dimitriadis argues that educational researchers and practitioners today must be increasingly self-reflexive about the positions they take up in various fields of inquiry what they allow us to see and to understand what they blind us to. This kind of self-reflexivity however is becoming increasingly difficult today as material demands and dislocations are forcing educators to occupy particular fields in more specific ways. Unpacking this tension and offering alternative "thinking tools" is at the core of this volume. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415885652

Critical Economic MethodologyA Personal Odyssey Lawrence Boland takes issue with both economic methodologists and practicing economists. He argues that there has been too much 'methodology for methodology's sake' and that mainstream economics might benefit by using methodology to take a critical look at economic theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415514989

Critical Education Challenging and complex questions around inequality and power have been persistent within modern systems of education since their inception. But in the last four or five decades the vibrant field of critical education has developed and grown in response to such issues. Specifically education scholars adopting a critical approach seek to interrogate how social economic cultural linguistic racial sexual and other forms of difference intersect and play out within school policy and classroom practices. Additionally such scholars have shed light on the ways in which education can transform schools and society to be more just and radically democratic. The learned editors of this landmark Routledge Major Work collection argue that the field of critical education has become central within educational research. Most teacher-training programmes include courses that examine both the problems of inequality in education and also how teachers and scholars can work to ameliorate those same problems. Moreover the reach of critical educational research policy and practice is now truly international. The influence of these perspectives in Brazil and throughout Latin America in part due to the work of Paulo Freire is particularly striking. Powerful currents of critical education can also be found in Europe Asia and Africa. For example entire states within India have based their efforts in school reform and the interruption of educationally driven inequalities around the principles of critical pedagogic and curricular traditions arguments and practices that have been enunciated in the literature. Another example can be found in China where Beijing Normal University—which has the most influential school of education in China—has established a research centre in the name of the lead editor of this collection to document and spread the national and international influences of critical education. With the established and growing potency and influence of critical education across national borders this new Routledge title answers the need for an authoritative reference work to enable users to map and make sense of critical approaches to education. The volumes focus on both historical antecedents in the field (including key works produced before the term ‘critical education’ gained wide currency but which anticipate approaches now included under that rubric) as well as what might be considered foundational or guiding texts that broke new theoretical or political ground in their time. They also address crucial controversies and contradictions while bringing together some of the sharpest and most insightful pieces of contemporary critical education scholarship and points towards significant new directions in the field. Supplemented with a full index and general and volume introductions newly written by the editors which situate the collected materials in their historical and intellectual context Critical Education is certain to be appreciated by scholars students and researchers as a vital reference and pedagogic resource. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415687034

Critical ELT in ActionFoundations Promises Praxis Uniquely bridging theory and practice this text introduces and overviews the various domains associated with the term critical pedagogy in the field of TESOL/ELT. Critical pedagogy addresses concepts values curriculum instructional and associated practices involved in language teaching for social justice.  Bringing  critical pedagogy to classroom practitioners in a practical and comprehensible way the text is designed to help teachers get started on critically grounded work in their own teaching. Features• Textbook extracts offer direct and quick illustration of what this perspective might look like in practice• Coverage of feminist and anti-racist pedagogies; sexual identity oppression and pedagogy;  peace and environmental education; and critical English as a foreign language—and their implications for second-language teaching  • Historical background• Theoretical background on language and learning• Consideration of applicability of critical/radical educational concepts and traditions to non-Western cultural contexts • A focus on issues of compromise and resistance This original timely and informative text is ideal for any course on methods and approaches in TESOL. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415883498

Critical Encounters with Immersive Storytelling A uniquely interdisciplinary look at storytelling in digital analogue and hybridised contexts this book traces different ways stories are experienced in our contemporary mediascape. It uses an engaging range of current examples to explore interactive and immersive narratives. Critical Encounters with Immersive Storytelling considers exciting new forms of storytelling that are emerging in contemporary popular culture. Here immersion is being facilitated in a variety of ways and in a multitude of contexts from 3D cinema to street games from immersive theatre plays to built environments such as theme parks as well as in a multitude of digital formats. The book explores diverse modes and practices of immersive storytelling discussing what is gained and lost in each of these ‘genres’. Building on notions of experience and immersion it suggests a framework within which we might begin to understand the quality of being immersed. It also explores the practical and ethical aspects of this exciting and evolving terrain. This accessible and lively study will be of great interest to students and researchers of media studies digital culture games studies extended reality experience design and storytelling. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367151621

Critical Energy Issues In Asia And The PacificThe Next Twenty Years This book is the outgrowth of various research programs carried out within the Energy Project of the Resource Systems Institute of the East-West Center. It provides an understanding of some of the major energy issues faced by the policy makers of the nations of Asia and the Pacific. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367168841

Critical Environmental Politics The aim of this book is to review central concepts in the study of environmental politics and to open up new questions problems and research agendas in the field. The volume does so by drawing on a wide range of approaches from critical theory to poststructuralism and spanning disciplines including international relations geography sociology history philosophy anthropology and political science. The 28 chapters cover a range of global and local studies illustrations and cases. These range from the Cochabamba conference in Bolivia to climate camps in the UK; UN summits in Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg to climate migrants from Pacific islands; forests in Indonesia to Dutch energy governance reform; indigenous communities in Namibia to oil extraction in the Niger Delta; survivalist militias in the USA to Maasai tribesmen in Kenya. Rather than following a regional or issue-based (e.g. water forests pollution etc) structure the volume is organised in terms of key concepts in the field including those which have been central to the social sciences for a long time (such as citizenship commodification consumption feminism justice movements science security the state summits and technology); those which have been at the heart of environmental politics for many years (including biodiversity climate change conservation eco-centrism limits localism resources sacrifice and sustainability); and many which have been introduced to these literatures and debates more recently (biopolitics governance governmentality hybridity posthumanism risk and vulnerability). Features and benefits of the book: Explains the most important concepts and theories in environmental politics. Reviews the core ideas behind crucial debates in environmental politics. Highlights the key thinkers – both classic and contemporary – for studying environmental politics. Provides original perspectives on the critical potential of the concepts for future research agendas as well as for the practice of environmental politics. Each chapter is written by leading international authors in their field. This exciting new volume will be essential textbook reading for all students of environmental politics as well as provocatively presenting the field in a different light for more established researchers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415631228

Critical Essays in Music Education This volume of essays references traditional and contemporary thought on theory and practice in music education for all age groups from the very young to the elderly. The material spans a broad range of subject areas from history and philosophy to art and music and addresses issues such as curriculum pedagogy assessment and evaluation as well as current issues in technology and performance standards. Written by leading researchers and educators from diverse countries and cultures this selection of previously published articles research studies and book chapters is representative of the most frequently discussed and debated topics in the profession. This volume which documents the importance of lifelong learning is an indispensable reference work for specialists in the field of music education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780754629429

Critical Essays in Sport ManagementExploring and Achieving a Paradigm Shift This collection of essays written by a number of respected sport management scholars addresses many of the challenges and issues facing today's sport management academic programs. It is intended to begin a professional and scholarly discussion to identify the best or at least the most logical paths to follow for sport management programs and the industry with which they are so closely aligned. Contributors invited to participate based on their recognized areas of expertise address specific topics using their own unique voices and writing styles. In the ebook version essays link to video introductions by the authors and to online discussion forums where readers can respond to the issues presented in the essays. From the Preface: The field of sport management stands at an academic crossroads; the essays in this book address the following and other emerging questions: Should our successful field of study continue to model other disciplines and perpetuate their successes as well as their shortcomings or should we determine our own specific model for academic success? How are we doing in preparing future sport managers to perform in the industry and on the global stage? Where do we belong in the scheme of academe? The book's goal is to generate discussion among sport management professors industry professionals who serve as adjunct faculty and participate on sport management program advisory boards doctoral students who intend to teach in sport management programs and others who explore and critique higher education in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781934432266

Critical Essays on European Theatre Performance Practice: 4-Volume Set This series of four volumes brings together the best and most significant scholarship published on European performance practice over the last half century. The featured articles and book chapters provide a significant introduction to many of the major past and current developments in the field and emphasise acting performance spaces staging and audiences from the Middle Ages to the present day. The volume editors have selected articles that most usefully represent performance practice within their own specialist period and have complemented their strong focus on British theatre by including European material and references. This representative cross-section of articles book chapters and records serves as a useful reference point for those wishing to investigate or teach the many and varied facets of performance practice in Europe from medieval times up until the present day. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409419150

Critical Essays on George Eliot This title first published in 1970 consists of essays on the individual tales and novels of George Eliot with two general essays that discuss the novels as a whole and cuts across the individual works. The primary concern of these studies is to see what the limits of George Eliot’s greatness are to consider the purpose and end of the technical brilliance and to attend to what she has to say to us across a century of change and developing historical and psychological consciousness. This book will be of interest to students of literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138126343

Critical Essays on Henry James First published in 1993. Including essays by T.S. Eliot Ezra Pound and H.G. Wells this is an anthology of critical thought about Henry James designed to give scholars and students of James' work access to material that they would otherwise have difficulty finding. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138611504

Critical Essays on Roman Literature First published in 1962 and 1963 these two volumes bridge the gap between the study of classics and the study of literature and attempt to reconcile the two disciplines. The collection of essays offers a critical examination of Latin literature and aims to stimulate critical discussion of a selection of Latin poets. This experimental and ground-breaking set will be of particular interest to students of Roman Literature Classics and Poetry. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138686984

Critical Essays on Roman LiteratureElegy and Lyric First published in 1962 this book is the first of two volumes which bridge the gap between the study of classics and the study of literature and attempt to reconcile the two disciplines. Focusing on elegy and lyric this collection of essays offers a critical examination of Latin literature and aims to stimulate critical discussion of a selection of Latin poets. This experimental and ground-breaking book will be of particular interest to students of Roman Literature Classics and Poetry. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138686885

Critical Essays on Roman LiteratureSatire First published in 1963 this book is the second of two volumes which bridge the gap between the study of classics and the study of literature and attempt to reconcile the two disciplines. Focusing on satire this collection of essays offers a critical examination of Latin literature and aims to stimulate critical discussion of a selection of Latin poets. This experimental and ground-breaking book will be of particular interest to students of Roman Literature Classics and Poetry. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138686908

Critical Essays on Shakespeare's A Lover's ComplaintSuffering Ecstasy Despite the outpour of interpretations from critics of all schools on Shakespeare's dramatic works and other poetic works A Lover's Complaint has been almost totally ignored by criticism. This collection of essays is designed to bring to the poem the attention it deserves for its beauty its aesthetic psychological and conceptual complexity and its representation of its cultural moment. A series of readings of A Lover's Complaint particularly engaging with issues of psychoanalysis and gender the volume cumulatively builds a detailed picture of the poem its reception and its critical neglect. The essays in the volume by leading Shakespeareans open up this important text before scholars and together generate the long-overdue critical conversation about the many intriguing facets of the poem. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138249264

Critical EssaysCollected Papers Volume 1 Gilbert Ryle was one of the most important and controversial philosophers of the Twentieth century. Long unavailable Critical Essays: Collected Papers Volume 1 includes many of Ryle’s most important and thought-provoking papers. This volume contains 20 critical essays on the history of philosophy with writing on Plato Locke and Hume as well as important chapters on Russell and Wittgenstein. It also includes three essays on phenomenology including Ryle’s famous review of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time first published in 1928. Although Ryle believed phenomenology ‘will end in self-ruinous subjectivism or in a windy mysticism’ his review also acknowledged that Heidegger was a thinker of great originality and importance. While surveying the developments in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic Ryle sets out his own conception of the philosophers’ role against that of his predecessors and contemporaries. Together with the second volume of Ryle’s collected papers Collected Papers Volume 2 and the new edition of The Concept of Mind all published by Routledge these outstanding essays represent the very best of Ryle’s work. Each volume contains a substantial introduction by Julia Tanney and both are essential reading for any student of twentieth-century philosophies of mind and language. Gilbert Ryle (1900 -1976) was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysics and Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford an editor of Mind and a president of the Aristotelian Society. Julia Tanney is Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent and has held visiting positions at the University of Picardie and Paris-Sorbonne. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138146525

Critical EssaysGay and Lesbian Writers of Color This pioneering work is the first book to systematically explore the literature of gay and lesbian writers of color in the United States. Critical Essays challenges the marginalization and tokenization of gay men and lesbians of color in the dominant academic discourses by focusing exclusively on the imaginative work of representative Native-American Asian-American Latino(a) and African-American gay and lesbian writers. As the first book offering a scholarly assessment of ethnic gay and lesbian writing in the U.S. Critical Essays simultaneously defies ethnic and mainstream homophobia as well as straight and gay/lesbian racism. This deliberate counter to the dominant white discourse of gay and lesbian literature offers a lively contribution to the debate on the intersections of race ethnicity gender/sexuality and class in American literature. A wide range of critical approaches including historical readings cultural analysis and deconstructive criticism is employed to the works of such major literary figures as Audre Lorde James Baldwin John Rechy Paula Gunn Allen and Gloria Anzaldúa. These thought-provoking chapters disrupt the complacent notion of a unified gay/lesbian community by questioning the presumed similarities of persons who share sexual identity. Some of the specific topics explored in Critical Essays include: post-coloniality and gay/lesbian identities emerging Asian-American gay and lesbian writers redefining the Harlem Renaissance from gay perspectives contemporary African-American gay male performance art relocating the gay FilipinoThis groundbreaking volume will be of immense interest to undergraduate graduate and advanced scholars in Gay and Lesbian studies Women’s studies African-American studies Asian-American studies Latino(a) studies and Native-American studies. It will also serve students and scholars as a valuable introduction to the diversity of authors that comprise twentieth-century American literature. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315876832

Critical Ethics of Care in Social WorkTransforming the Politics and Practices of Caring This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. As such it enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens. The editors and contributors to the book argue that care has the potential to interrogate relationships of power and to be a tool for radical political analysis for an emerging critical social work that is concerned with human rights and social justice. The book brings a critical ethics of care into the realm of theory and practice in social work. Informed by critical theory feminism intersectionality and post-colonialism the book interrogates the concept of care in a wide range of social work settings. It examines care in the context of social neglect interdisciplinary perspectives the responsibilisation agenda in social work and the ongoing debate about care and justice. It situates care in the settings of mental health homelessness elder care child protection asylum seekers and humanitarian aid. It further demonstrates what can be learnt about care from the post-colonial margins Aboriginal societies LGBTI communities and disability politics. It demonstrates ways of transforming the politics and practices of care through the work of feminist mothers caring practices by men meditations on love rethinking self-care extending care to the natural environment and the principles informing cross-species care. The book will be invaluable to social workers human service practitioners and managers who are involved in the practice of delivering care and it will assist them to challenge the punitive and hurtful strategies of neoliberal rationalisation. The critical theoretical focus of the book has significance beyond social work including nursing psychology medicine allied health and criminal justice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367152161

Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on Medical Travel By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel this important book uses critical perspectives to understand inequalities in healthcare access and delivery including gender class and ethnicity and explore how these are negotiated. In this key text Vindrola- Padros presents a comprehensive overview of the work carried out on this topic to date highlights the gaps that remain and suggests strategies for enriching medical travel research in the future. Drawing from the author’s research on internal medical travel to access pediatric oncology treatment in Buenos Aires Argentina and other research from across the globe this book presents four dimensions of medical travel that can be explored through a critical (im)mobilities lens: infrastructures differential mobility empowerments culture and affective dimensions of care and travel. Vindrola-Padros encourages the reader to critically explore processes of medical travel by considering the structures that shape travel individual capacities for travel the role emotions play in decisions and experiences of movement and service delivery and the ways in which culture(s) influence both travel and care. This book will be important reading for scholars across medical sociology anthropology and critical health studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367371593

Critical Ethnography in Educational ResearchA Theoretical and Practical Guide Ethnographic methods are becoming increasingly prevalent in contemporary educational research. Critical Ethnography in Educational Research provides both a technical theoretical guide to advanced ethnography--focusing on such concepts as primary data collection and system relationships--and a very practical guide for researchers interested in conducting actual studies. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315021263

Critical Event Studies Within events management events are commonly categorised within two axes size and content. Along the size axis events range between the small scale and local through major events which garner greater media interest to internationally significant hallmark and mega events such as the Edinburgh Festival and the Tour de France. Content is frequently divided into three forms – culture sport or business. However such frameworks overlook and depoliticise a significant variety of events those more accurately construed as protest.This book brings together new research and theories from around the world and across sociology leisure studies politics and cultural studies to develop a new critical pedagogy and critical theory of events. It is the first research monograph that deals explicitly with the concept of critical event studies (CES) the idea that it is impossible to explore and understand events without understanding the wider social cultural and political contexts. It addresses questions such as can the occupation and reclamation of specific spaces by activists be understood as events within its framework? And is the activity of activists in these spaces a leisure activity? If those and other similar activities can be read as events and leisure what does admitting them into the scope of events management and leisure studies mean for our understanding of them and how the study of events management is to be conceptualised?  This title will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students on events management and related courses and scholars interested in understanding the ways in which events are constructed by the social the cultural and the political. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138915145

Critical Events in Teaching & Learning This volume describes and analyses exceptional educational events – periods of particularly effective teaching representing ultimates in teacher and pupil educational experience. The events themselves are reconstructed in the book through teacher and pupil voices and through documentation. A model of ‘critical event’ is derived from the study which might serve as a possible framework for understanding other such occurrences in schools. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415750998

Critical Explorations of Young Adult LiteratureIdentifying and Critiquing the Canon Recognizing the determination of a canon as an ongoing process of discussion and debate which helps us to better understand the concept of meaningful and important literature this edited collection turns a critical spotlight on young adult literature (YAL) to explore some of the most read taught and discussed books of our time. By considering the unique criteria which might underpin the classification of a YAL canon this text raises critical questions of what it means to define canonicity and designate certain books as belonging to the YAL canon. Moving beyond ideas of what is taught or featured in textbooks the volume emphasizes the role of adolescents’ choice the influence of popular culture and above all the multiplicity of ways in which literature might be interpreted and reflected in the lives of young readers. Chapters examine an array of texts through varied critical lenses offer detailed literary analyses and divergent interpretations and consider how themes might be explored in pedagogical contexts. By articulating the ways in which teachers and young readers may have traditionally interpreted YAL this volume will extend debate on canonicity and counter dominant narratives that posit YAL texts as undeserving of canonical status. This text will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students academics professionals and libraries in the field of young adult literature fiction literacy children’s literacy and feminist studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367339326

Critical Feminism and Critical EducationAn Interdisciplinary Approach to Teacher Education Challenging the current state of public education and teacher preparation this book argues for a re-imagination of teacher education through a critical feminist and critical education perspective. Offering a rich discussion of the promise and pedagogy of self-reflexivity and testimonio which emerges from critical feminism this book brings together theory and practice in critical feminism critical education and testimonio to serve as a platform in which to reconceptualize the philosophy of traditional teacher education arguing that too many programs prepare teachers who often preserve rather than challenge the status quo. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815381891

Critical FictionsNerval's "Les Illumines" "Nerval's ""Les Illumines"" (1852) has often been seen as a problem text and as a strange supplement to his masterpieces ""Les Chimeres"" ""Les Filles du feu"" and ""Aurelia"". In this first book-length study in English or French of ""Les Illumines"" Meryl Tyers argues that it is a complex work of art in its own right and that its originality has been obscured by the tangled publishing history of its individual narratives. Tyers re-examines that history and provides a complete documentary basis for critical discussion of the work. She also traces the critical response from the earliest reviews through to the scholarly editions and studies of the present day. Tyers's own critical reading pays particular attention to 'La Bibliotheque de mon oncle' Nerval's intriguing preface. By investigating in detail those fragmentary structures and varying themes that may at first make the unity of ""Les Illumines"" seem elusive she is able to show that subtle integrative mechanisms are at work in a volume that deserves to be placed among the highest achievements of this incomparable poet." Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781351198912

Critical Flicker FusionPsychoanalysis at the Movies The premise of this book is that films like other works of the imagination may be elucidated by applying methods derived from psychoanalysis and that doing so will result in a deeper and richer appreciation of the film's meaning. The book explores a number of feature films that lend themselves particularly well to this process. Both in his introduction and throughout the text the author comments on the method and discusses continuities similarities and differences among the films. The book is structured according to the central themes of the films including time and death love and lust secrets and human identity. Some of the films are relevant to more than one of these thematic elements. The introductory essay explores the themes their representation in the films and the ways in which they may be elucidated by a psychoanalytically informed critique. Brief paragraphs between the sections of the book facilitate the transitions. In an appendix there are three essays titled 'Mise-en-scene ' 'Whatever Flames Upon the Night ' and 'Mad Doctors.' Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782204787

Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual Heritage This book explains how designing playing and modifying computer games and understanding the theory behind them can strengthen the area of digital humanities. This book aims to help digital humanities scholars understand both the issues and also advantages of game design as well as encouraging them to extend the field of computer game studies particularly in their teaching and research in the field of virtual heritage. By looking at re-occurring issues in the design playtesting and interface of serious games and game-based learning for cultural heritage and interactive history this book highlights the importance of visualisation and self-learning in game studies and how this can intersect with digital humanities. It also asks whether such theoretical concepts can be applied to practical learning situations. It will be of particular interest to those who wish to investigate how games and virtual environments can be used in teaching and research to critique issues and topics in the humanities particularly in virtual heritage and interactive history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472422903

Critical Genre AnalysisInvestigating interdiscursive performance in professional practice Genre theory has focused primarily on the analysis of generic constructs with increasing attention to and emphasis on the contexts in which such genres are produced interpreted and used to achieve objectives often giving the impression as if producing genres is an end in itself rather than a means to an end. The result of this focus is that there has been very little attention paid to the ultimate outcomes of these genre-based discursive activities which are more appropriately viewed as academic institutional organizational and professional actions and practices which are invariably non-discursive though often achieved through discursive means. It was this objective in mind that the book develops an approach to a more critical and deeper understanding of interdiscursive professional voices and actions. Critical Genre Analysis as a theory of discursive performance is thus an attempt to be as objective as possible rigorous in analytical endeavour using a multiperspective and multidimensional methodological framework taking into account interdiscursive aspects of genre construction to make it increasingly explanatory to demystify discursive performance in a range of professional contexts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367410605

Critical Geographies of CyclingHistory Political Economy and Culture Examining cycling from a range of geographical perspectives this book uses historical and contemporary case studies to look at the history politics economy and culture of cycling. Pursuing a post-structural position in viewing understandings of the bicycle as contingent upon time and place author Glen Norcliffe argues for the need for widespread processes such as gendered use of the bicycle the Cyclists’ Rights Movement and the globalization of bicycle-making to be interpreted in different ways in different settings. With this in mind the essays in the book are divided into two sections: relational aspects are examined as Spaces of Cycling which treats technological development innovation and the location of production and trade of cycles while Places of Cycling interprets specific sites of consumption - the streets of the city in the cycling clubs among men and women and at the trade show. Written from a geographer’s integrative perspective to offer a broad understanding of cycling this book will also be of interest to other social scientists in urban studies cultural studies technology and society sociology history and environmental planning. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138547261

Critical Geographies of SportSpace Power and Sport in Global Perspective Sport is a geographic phenomenon. The physical and organizational infrastructure of sport occupies a prominent place in our society. This important book takes an explicitly spatial approach to sport bringing together research in geography sport studies and related disciplines to articulate a critical approach to ‘sports geography’. Critical Geographies of Sport illustrates this approach by engaging directly with a variety of theoretical traditions as well as the latest research methods. Each chapter showcases the merits of a geographic approach to the study of sport – ranging from football to running horseracing and professional wrestling. Including cases from Asia Africa the Middle East Europe and the Americas the book highlights the ways that space and power are produced through sport and its concomitant infrastructures agencies and networks. Holding these power relations at the center of its analysis it considers sport as a unique lens onto our understanding of space. Truly global in its perspective it is fascinating reading for any student or scholar with an interest in sport and politics sport and society or human geography. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138541450

Critical Geopolitics and Regional (Re)ConfigurationsInterregionalism and Transnationalism Between Latin America and Europe This book seeks to develop our understanding of the contemporary geopolitical reconfigurations of two regions of the world system with high cultural affinity and traditional close relations: Latin America and Europe. Relations between Latin America and Europe have been interpreted generally in the social sciences as synonyms of interstate relations. However although States remain the most important actor in the geopolitical scene they have been deeply reconfigured in recent decades impacted by transnational dynamics politics and spaces. This book highlights interregional relations and transnational dynamics between Latin America and Europe from a critical geopolitics perspective promoting a new look for interregional relations which encompasses international cooperation and development global policies borders inequalities and social movements. It brings attention to the relevance of interregionalism in the current geopolitical reconfiguration of the world system but also argues for systematic inclusion of relevant new social actors and imaginaries in this traditional sphere of states. These social actors particularly social movements and practices of contestation are developing not only "international" bonds but a new "transnational" field where networks defy traditional territorial orders.This volume seeks to generate a new discussion among scholars of geopolitics international relations social theory and social movement studies by encouraging a development of an interregional and transnational perspective of the two regions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367728441

Critical Geopolitics of the Polar RegionsAn Inter-American Perspective Focusing on both Polar Regions this book provides a comprehensive understanding of political processes related to the rapidly changing Arctic and Antarctic where the environmental impacts of human activities are extremely visible. Environmental changes in the Arctic and the Antarctic are increasingly seen as barometers of the global impact of human activities while newly arising economic opportunities in both Polar Regions prompt predictions that they will be the site of future conflicts. This book maps and analyses the different actors involved in the politics of the Polar Regions to explain why similar patterns of interpretation of such major issues have become dominant in practical popular and formal geopolitical discourses. Disentangling the politics the author illustrates how the ordering principles have evolved explains recent dynamics in political processes and provides the groundwork needed to better forecast future trends. By focusing on the Americas the only continent that borders both Polar Regions the author shows how geographic proximity inspires interaction and cooperation among state and non-state actors in very different ways. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of political science political geography international relations global governance and cultural studies. It will have an international appeal particularly in the Americas and other countries with growing interests in the Polar Regions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138485815

Critical Gerontology Comes of AgeAdvances in Research and Theory for a New Century Critical Gerontology Comes of Age reflects on how baby boomers caretakers and health professionals are perceiving and adapting to historical social political and cultural changes that call into question prior assumptions about aging and life progression. Through an exploration of earlier and later-life stages and the dynamic changes in intergenerational relations  chapter authors reexamine the research methods and scope of critical gerontology a multidisciplinary field that speaks to the experiences of life in the 21st century. Topics include Medicare privatization of home care incarceration outreach to LGTBQ elders migration and chronic illness. Grounded in innovative research and case studies this volume reflects multiple perspectives and is accessible to lay readers advanced undergraduates and graduate students and professionals in many fields. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138630284

Critical Global SemioticsUnderstanding Sustainable Transformational Citizenship Critical Global Semiotics: Understanding Sustainable Transformational Citizenship incorporates powerful unifying frameworks which make explicit a developing global consciousness. It explores transdisciplinary ‘common wealth’ through focus on multimodality media and metaphor testing two universally applicable humanitarian frameworks: critical realism (CR) and systemic functional semiotics (SFS). Every day global citizens encounter an overwhelming host of genres and sub-genres emergent semantic triangles evolving semiotic trinity. Embodying philosophy incorporating active engagement this book addresses the political economy and cultural politics of diverse domains. Challenging daily drama and performative dharma  24 analysts from 13 countries present current issues in Anthropology Architecture Dance Feminism Film Health Law Management Medicine Music Politics Pharmaceuticals Sociology Sustainability Education and Urban Development. The book’s integrative unifying foundations will be of interest to researchers academics and post-graduate students in the fields of linguistics semiotics and critical realist philosophy as well as to policy makers curriculum developers and civil society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367076986

Critical Happiness Studies This volume draws together the work of a diverse range of thinkers and researchers to address the question of happiness critically using a wide variety of theoretical and empirical methodologies. Broadening the discussion beyond what might be considered highly individual and insular conceptualizations of happiness often based on purely positivist approaches to the subject authors raise questions about the nature of individual and collective anxieties that might underpin the current emphasis on happiness and the ideological or governmental ends that may be served by the framing of happiness in psychology and economics. With attention to how individuals understand and pursue happiness in their daily lives Critical Happiness Studies highlights different theoretical paradigms that demonstrate the role of power in producing specific conceptualizations of happiness and consequently how they frame individual self-understanding or subjectivities and (re)shape political problems. The collection makes available critical theoretical and methodological resources for addressing a powerful set of cultural political and scientific discourses that have loomed large since the closing decade of the 20th century. A call for the establishment of a body of work in critical happiness studies this book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities interested in the age-old problem of happiness. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138304437

Critical Historical Archaeology How can we use the past to make sense of the issues and problems that concern us in the present? Mark Leone the leading critical theorist in historical archaeology urges archaeologists to view their discipline as an activist pursuit. This volume is partly his autobiographical reflection on a thirty five year career part a collection of Leone’s classic writings on Annapolis Williamsburg Shakertown St. Mary’s and other key sites and part a synthesis of his current thinking on how historical archaeology can engage the cultural and political issues of our time. Critical Historical Archaeology is an important summary of the work and thinking of one of our most thoughtful influential archaeologists. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315431215

Critical Histories of AccountingSinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline’s academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises such as the audit failures that spawned Sarbanes-Oxley and the world-wide recession. Certain contemporary issues have long histories such as the difficulties encountered by women to break the glass ceiling in public accounting and the suffering of indigenous peoples under the imperialistic yoke. Other episodes in accounting’s long history are seemingly more divorced from the present but in reality they all have contemporary significance. Slavery in the New World for example although abolished more than a century ago is still rampant in parts of the world albeit less formally. Critical accounting historians feel it a duty to harken to the "suppressed voices" of the past those groups of people who had no access to an accounting record – women persons of color indigenous populations alienated proletarians victims of governmental incompetence and graft and many voiceless others. Critical Histories of Accounting: Sinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era draws on the foremost work in this developing literature both that authored by the co-editors of this volume and that written by others. Editors Richard K. Fleischman Warwick N. Funnell and Steve Walker have written extensively about "the dark side of accounting " gauging the complicity of those performing accounting functions in episodes in human history that are at worst evil and at best reprehensible. The editors have also hand-selected a series of historical and contemporary episodes that have been critically investigated by the wider accounting history community preceded by a thorough introduction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138959828

Critical Hospital Social Work Practice Critical Hospital Social Work Practice sheds light on the fast-paced high pressure role of the hospital social worker. At a time of public concern over the state of the NHS and the needs of a growing older population the hospital social worker’s job is more important than ever. Yet it is poorly understood and often overlooked by policy makers managers and other professionals. Employing social theory to make sense of the contemporary context of health and social care this book highlights the vital role played by social workers in planning complex hospital discharges. It provides an in-depth account of the activities of a typical hospital social work team in the UK drawn from rigorous ethnographic fieldwork and contrasts this with research evidence on hospital social work practices around the world. The author points towards exciting new directions for health-related social work and social work’s potential to develop critical gerontological practice. This book will be useful to social work students and practitioners working in hospital settings and with older people in general. It will also be of significant value to policy makers and academics who are interested in developing innovative approaches to meeting the needs of the ageing population. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367203849

Critical Humanist PerspectivesThe Integrational Turn in Philosophy of Language and Communication The present book is a collection of scholarly reflections on the theme of humanism from an integrational linguistic perspective. It studies humanist thought in relation to the philosophy of language and communication underpinning it and considers the question whether being a ‘humanist’ binds one to a particular view of language. The contributions to this volume explore whether integrational linguistics being informed by a non-mainstream semiology and adopting a lay linguistic perspective can provide better answers to contentious ontological and epistemological questions concerning the humanist project – questions having to do with the self reason authenticity creativity free agency knowledge and human communication. The humanist perspectives adopted by the contributors to this volume are critical insofar as they start from semiological assumptions that challenge received notions within mainstream linguistics such as the belief that languages are fixed-codes of some kind that communication serves the purpose of thought transfer and that languages are prerequisites for communication. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367410711

Critical Humanities from IndiaContexts Issues Futures The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally addressed the questions of what is proper to man rights of man crimes against humanity human creativity and action human reflection and performance human utterance and artefact. The university as a philosophical-political institution transmits this humanist account. This European humanistic legacy which is little more than Christian anthropology barely received any questioning from cultures that faced colonialism. In such a context this volume attempts to unravel the ‘barely secularized heritage’ of Europe (Derrida’s phrase) and its fatal consequences in other cultures. The task of Critical Humanities is to explore the ways in which the question of being human (along with non-human others) today from heterogeneous cultural ‘backgrounds’ can be undertaken. The future of the humanities teaching and research is contingent upon the risky task of configuring cultural difference from non-European locations. Such a task is inescapable and urgently needed when tectonic cultural upheavals have begun to show devastating effect on planetary coexistence today. It is precisely in such a context that this collection of essays on critical humanities affirms ‘without alibi’ the urgency of collective reflection and innovative research across the traditional disciplinary and institutional borders and communication systems on the one hand and Asian African and European cultural formations on the other. Critical Humanities are at one level little more than communities on the verge (critical) but whose centuries long survival and resilient creations of cultural (and /as natural) habitats are of deeply enduring significance to affirm the biocultural diversities of living that compose the planet.Topical and timely this book will be useful to scholars researchers and teachers of cultural theory literary studies philosophy cultural geography legal studies sociology history performance studies environmental studies caste and communalism studies postcolonial theory India studies and education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780367735104

Critical Image Configurations: The Work of Georges Didi-HubermanThe Work of Georges Didi-Huberman This book illuminates a variety of the key themes and positions that are developed in the work of art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman one of the most influential image-theorists of our time. Beginning with a translated exchange on the politics of images between Jacques Rancière and Georges Didi-Huberman the volume further contains a translation of Didi-Huberman’s essay on Georges Bataille’s writings on art. The articles in this book explore the influence of Theodor Adorno and Aby Warburg on Didi-Huberman’s work the relationship between ‘image’ and ‘people' his insights on witnessing and memory the theme of phasmids and his reflections on aura pathos and the imagination. Taken as a whole the book will give readers an insight into the rich and expansive work of Didi-Huberman beyond the books that are currently available in English. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367199791

Critical Imaginations in International Relations This exciting new text brings together in one volume an overview of the many reflections on how we might address the problems and limitations of a state-centred approach in the discipline of International Relations (IR). The book is structured into chapters on key concepts with each providing an introduction to the concept for those new to the field of critical politics – including undergraduate and postgraduate students – as well as drawing connections between concepts and thinkers that will be provocative and illuminating for more established researchers in the field. They give an overview of core ideas associated with the concept; the critical potential of the concept; and key thinkers linked to the concept seeking to address the following questions: How has the concept traditionally been understood? How has the concept come to be understood in critical thinking? How is the concept used in interrogating the limits of state centrism? What different possibilities for engaging with international relations have been envisioned through the concept? Why are such possibilities for alternative thinking about international relations important? What are some key articles and volumes related to the concept which readers can go for further research? Drawing together some of the key thinkers in the field of critical International Relations and including both established and emerging academics located in Asia Europe Latin America and North America this book is a key resource for students and scholars alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138823204

Critical Incident Management Most businesses are aware of the danger posed by malicious network intruders and other internal and external security threats. Unfortunately in many cases the actions they have taken to secure people information and infrastructure from outside attacks are inefficient or incomplete. Responding to security threats and incidents requires a competent mixture of risk management security policies and procedures security auditing incident response legal and law enforcement issues and privacy. Critical Incident Management presents an expert overview of the elements that organizations need to address in order to prepare for and respond to network and information security violations. Written in a concise practical style that emphasizes key points this guide focuses on the establishment of policies and actions that prevent the loss of critical information or damage to infrastructure.CTOs CFOs Chief Legal Officers and senior IT managers can rely on this book to develop plans that thwart critical security incidents. And if such incidents do occur these executives will have a reference to help put the people and procedures in place to contain the damage and get back to business. Media > Books > Print Books Auerbach Publications 9780367394943

Critical Incident ManagementA Complete Response Guide Second Edition Terrorism threats and increased school and workplace violence have always generated headlines but in recent years the response to these events has received heightened media scrutiny. Critical Incident Management: A Complete Resource Guide Second Edition provides evidence-based tested and proven methodologies applicable to a host of scenarios that may be encountered in the public and private sector. Filled with tactical direction designed to prevent contain manage and resolve emergencies and critical incidents efficiently and effectively this volume explores: The phases of a critical incident response and tasks that must be implemented to stabilize the scene Leadership style and techniques required to manage a critical incident successfully The National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS) Guidelines for responding to hazardous materials and weapons of mass destruction incidents Critical incident stress management for responders Maintaining continuity of business and delivery of products or services in the face of a crisis Roles of high-level personnel in setting policy and direction for the response and recovery efforts Augmented by Seven Critical Tasks™ that have been the industry standard for emergency management and response the book guides readers through every aspect of a critical incident: from taking initial scene command to managing resources to resolution and finally to recovery and mitigation from the incident. The authors’ company BowMac Educational Services Inc. presently conducts five courses certified by the Department of Homeland Security. These hands-on "Simulation Based" Courses will prepare your personnel to handle any unexpected scenario. For additional information contact: 585-624-9500 or johnmcnall@bowmac.com. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781439874547

Critical Incident Stress And Trauma In The WorkplaceRecognition... Response... Recovery This text was developed as a manual for those employed in the emergency services ESP those who deal with victims of trauma in the workplace work in school systems or acute psychiatric settings provide assistance to ESP or who are employed in other settings where persons may experience trauma. The book can also be used by mental health workers as they conduct workshops or provide debriefings where trauma has occured.Visit www.geraldlewis.com for more information. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138415195

Critical Incident Stress Management in Aviation Critical incident stress management (CISM) is now a well-established method in crisis intervention and one that is clearly needed within aviation. However there are many peculiarities in this branch of CISM which require thorough consideration. People working in high-reliability environments need to be sensitive to others' reactions to critical stress. They are the normal reactions of normal people in abnormal situations. However to ensure this a proper programme must be put in place based on a scientific and standardized approach. This book describes the various methods and elements of the CISM model as well as their interventions. It also investigates the benefits of CISM on the individual level and on an organisational strategic level. It details CISM training and courses and features a case study based on the Ãœberlingen accident of 2002. Critical Incident Stress Management in Aviation will be of direct relevance to human factors experts safety managers ATCOs and air navigation service providers though there is also much that will be of interest to aviation physicians psychologists and airport/airline managers. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315575001

Critical Incidents in JournalismPivotal Moments Reshaping Journalism around the World This edited collection examines critical incidents journalists have faced across different media contexts exploring how journalists and other key actors negotiate various aspects of their work. Ranging from the Rwandan genocide to the News of the World hacking scandal in the UK this book defines a critical incident as an event that has led journalists to reconsider their routines roles and rules. Combining theoretical and practical analysis the contributors offer a discussion of the key events that journalists cover such as political turmoil or natural disasters as well as events that directly involve and affect journalists. Featuring case studies from countries including Australia Germany Brazil Kenya and the Philippines the book explores the discourses that critical events have generated how journalists and other stakeholders have responded to them and how they have reshaped (or are reshaping) journalistic norms and practices. The book also proposes a roadmap for studying such pivotal moments in journalism. This one-of-a-kind collection is a valuable resource for students and scholars across journalism studies disciplines from journalism history to sociology of news to digital journalism and political communication. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367895341

Critical Incidents in Teaching (Classic Edition)Developing professional judgement What are the ‘instincts’ of a good teacher? Can they be taught? Good teachers use good techniques and routines but techniques and routines alone do not produce good teaching. The real art of teaching lies in teachers' professional judgement because in teaching there is seldom one "right answer". This combination of experience flexibility informed opinion and constant self-monitoring is not easy to acquire but in this re-released classic edition of Critical Incidents in Teaching – in print since 1993 and which includes a new introduction from the author - David Tripp shows how teachers can draw on their own classroom experience to develop it. In this practical and unique guide the author offers a range of strategies for approaching critical incidents and gives advice on how to develop a critical incident file. Illustrated with numerous classroom examples for discussion and reflection Critical Incidents in Teaching is for everyone concerned with the development of professionalism in teaching. Although aimed at teachers who want to improve their own practice and pass on their expertise to others it is also part of David’s long term agenda to improve the public status of teaching and to encourage more inductive research in education; he sees classrooms as situations to be explained rather than as places in which to apply theories developed in other disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415686273

Critical Indigenous Rights Studies The field of ‘critical indigenous rights studies’ is a complex one that benefits from an interdisciplinary perspective and a realist (as opposed to an idealised) approach to indigenous peoples. This book draws on sociology of law anthropology political sciences and legal sciences in order to address emerging issues in the study of indigenous rights and identify directions for future research. The first part of the volume investigates how changing identities and cultures impact rights protection analysing how policies on development and land and processes such as migration interrelate with the mobilisation of identities and the realisation of rights. In the second part new approaches related to indigenous peoples’ rights are scrutinised as to their potential and relevance. They include addressing legal tensions from an indigenous peoples’ rights perspective creating space for counter-narratives on international law and designing new instruments. Throughout the text case studies with wide geographical scope are presented ranging from Latin America (the book’s focus) to Egypt Rwanda and Scandinavia. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367481353

Critical Infrastructure Protection Risk Management and ResilienceA Policy Perspective Critical Infrastructure Protection and Risk Management covers the history of risk assessment crtical infrastructure protection and the various structures that make up the homeland security enterprise. The authors examine risk assessment in the public and private sectors the evolution of laws and regulations and the policy challenges facing the 16 critical infrastructure sectors. The book will take a comprehensive look at the issues surrounding risk assessment and the challenges facing decision makers who must make risk assessment choices. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781498734905

Critical Infrastructure System Security and Resiliency Security protections for critical infrastructure nodes are intended to minimize the risks resulting from an initiating event whether it is an intentional malevolent act or a natural hazard. With an emphasis on protecting an infrastructure's ability to perform its mission or function Critical Infrastructure System Security and Resiliency presents a practical methodology for developing an effective protection system that can either prevent undesired events or mitigate the consequences of such events. Developed at Sandia National Labs the authors’ analytical approach and methodology enables decision-makers and security experts to perform and utilize risk assessments in a manner that extends beyond the theoretical to practical application. These protocols leverage expertise in modeling dependencies—optimizing system resiliency for effective physical protection system design and consequence mitigation. The book begins by focusing on the design of protection strategies to enhance the robustness of the infrastructure components. The authors present risk assessment tools and necessary metrics to offer guidance to decision-makers in applying sometimes limited resources to reduce risk and ensure operational resiliency. Our critical infrastructure is vast and made up of many component parts. In many cases it may not be practical or affordable to secure every infrastructure node. For years experts—as a part of the risk assessment process—have tried to better identify and distinguish higher from lower risks through risk segmentation. In the second section of the book the authors present examples to distinguish between high and low risks and corresponding protection measures. In some cases protection measures do not prevent undesired events from occurring. In others protection of all infrastructure components is not feasible. As such this section describes how to evaluate and design resilience in these unique scenarios to manage costs while most effectively ensuring infrastructure system protection. With insight from the authors’ decades of experience this book provides a high-level practical analytical framework that public and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure can use to better understand and evaluate infrastructure security strategies and policies. Strengthening the entire homeland security enterprise the book presents a significant contribution to the science of critical infrastructure protection and resilience. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781466557505

Critical InfrastructureHomeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Fourth Edition This edition of Critical Infrastructure presents a culmination of ongoing research and real-work experience building upon previous editions. Since the first edition of this work the domain has seen significant evolutions in terms of operational needs environmental challenges and threats – both emerging and evolving. This work expands upon the previous works and maintains its focus on those efforts vital to securing the safety and security of populations. The world continues to see a shift from a force-protection model to one more focused on resilience. This process has been exacerbated and challenged as societies face increased instability in weather and arguably climate a destabilized geopolitical situation and continuing economic instability. Various levels—ranging from international oversight to individual actions—continue to work towards new approaches and tools that can assist in meeting this challenge. This work keeps pace with the key changes that have occurred since previous editions and continues to provide insight into emerging and potential issues. Expanding from historical research major areas of interest such as climate change regulatory oversight and internal capacity building are explored. This work provides a reference for those that are working to prepare themselves and their organizations for challenges likely to arise over the next decade. In keeping with the fast-changing nature of this field Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Fourth Edition has been completely revised and fully updated to reflect this shift in focus and to incorporate the latest developments. Presents an overview of some of the emerging challenges and conflicts between the public and private sector; Continues to build the case for organizations to adopt an intelligence-driven and adaptive approach to protecting infrastructure; Presents a unique and new perspective of re-examining baseline requirements against a range of shifting factors taking a balanced approach between risk-based planning and consequence management; Expands upon the issue of internal and lone-wolf threats that pose additional challenges to a system that continues to focus largely on external threats; and An enhanced and improved view of interdependencies in an increasingly inter-connected and network-enabled world. Preparing for the challenges of increasingly unstable threat and operating environments will pose challenges at all levels. Those involved in ensuring that critical infrastructure protection and assurance efforts function effectively and efficiently—whether as government regulators business operators clients of various infrastructure sectors or those seeking to maintain an accountable system – will find insights into less-explored aspects of this challenging field. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138057791

Critical Infrastructures ResiliencePolicy and Engineering Principles This text offers comprehensive and principled yet practical guidelines to critical infrastructures resilience. Extreme events and stresses including those that may be unprecedented but are no longer surprising have disproportionate effects on critical infrastructures and hence on communities cities and megaregions. Critical infrastructures include buildings and bridges dams levees and sea walls as well as power plants and chemical factories besides lifeline networks such as multimodal transportation power grids communication and water or wastewater. The growing interconnectedness of natural-built-human systems causes cascading infrastructure failures and necessitates simultaneous recovery. This text explores the new paradigm centered on the concept of resilience by approaching the challenges posed by globalization climate change and growing urbanization on critical infrastructures and key resources through the combination of policy and engineering perspectives. It identifies solutions that are scientifically credible data driven and sound in engineering principles while concurrently informed by and supportive of social and policy imperatives. Critical Infrastructures Resilience will be of interest to students of engineering and policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781498758635

Critical Inquiry and Problem Solving in Physical EducationWorking with Students in Schools Critical inquiry critical thinking and problem-solving are key concepts in contemporary physical education. But how do physical educators actually do critical inquiry and critical thinking? Critical Inquiry and Problem-Solving in Physical Education explains the principles and assumptions underpinning these concepts and provides detailed examples of how they can be used in the teaching of physical education for different age groups and in a range of different contexts. Topics covered include: sport education and critical thinking dance as critical inquiry media analysis understanding cultural perspectives student-led research and curriculum reflective coaching practice. The authors are teachers teacher educators policymakers and academics. Each shares a commitment to the notion that school students can do more than learn to move in physical education classes. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315016085

Critical InquiryThe Process of Argument This informative book is a necessary companion for anyone seeking to uncover the secret of successful persuasion: to organize construct and communicate arguments. It is at once comprehensive and accessible an authoritative guide to logical thinking and effective communication. First the text defines the nature and uses of argument explaining how to read argument carefully. Such analysis then requires the student to reconstruct arguments in his or her own words. Finally the reader is taught how to create a critical reasoned response thus constructing his or her own argument. To increase its accessibility and expand its range of application Critical Inquiry uses (in addition to textual examples) advertisements from print media as 'texts'  for applying its principles to subjects outside the traditional mode of academic presentation. Throughout carefully selected reading questions and exercises pace the reader and ensure that the material is securely grasped and successfully applied. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367097257

Critical International Relations Critical approaches to International Relations are now central to both current scholarship and contemporary teaching. Indeed in the last decade or so serious work that embraces traditions including among others the postcolonial poststructuralist psychoanalytic feminist deconstructive genealogical and interpretive has moved decisively from the periphery to centre stage. Moreover Critical International Relations increasingly draws on critical approaches in other disciplines such as Human Geography Literary Studies Performance Studies and the visual arts as well as Critical Historiography and Critical Legal Studies. To help users navigate and make sense of such an enormous growing—and ever more complex—corpus of scholarship Routledge is pleased to announce this new four-volume collection edited by Jenny Edkins. Critical International Relations answers the need for a one-stop reference resource to enable scholars and students readily to acquaint themselves with key themes and contributions that typify the use of critical approaches to International Relations in diverse temporal and geographical locations. Much more than a historical survey of the field or a simple assembly of works that may be regarded as ‘canonical’ the editor has brought together an innovative compilation of materials to reflect the vibrancy and excitement of Critical International Relations. And in addition to those relatively new to the field who will especially benefit from this enterprise the collection will also be welcomed by established researchers from across the disciplinary spectrum who are currently engaged in critical work on topics related to International Relations. Volume I sets the scene. The materials gathered here explore how the space for a Critical International Relations was opened by early scholars; the theoretical and philosophical resources on which the field draws; and the methods and methodology it employs. Volumes II and III meanwhile bring together the major works by scholars of Critical International Relations and those from cognate disciplines. The selections exemplify the approach demonstrate the significance and specificity of Critical International Relations and show how its assumptions and methods translate in practice into challenging and highly policy-relevant outputs. Finally Volume IV includes sections on questions of pedagogy interdisciplinarity and the responsibility of scholars in relation to the growing dominance of Critical International Relations. The collection is supplemented with a full index and also includes a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor. It will be appreciated by scholars students and researchers as a vital reference and pedagogic resource. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415671163

Critical International Relations Theories in East AsiaRelationality Subjectivity and Pragmatism What do we study when we study International Relations (IR)? This book interrogates the meanings of the established ontology and subjectivity embedded in the discourse of "Western" and "non-Western" IR. We are predisposed to see a nation-state as a unified entity everlasting and moving towards a particular end. This leads us to say for example "Japan is threatened by the possible Chinese attack’ without questioning what "Japan" and "China" mean in this context. This book tries to locate and unearth the consistent structure and system of the world with a particular focus on subjectivity and temporality in IR that captures the way in which we conceive and misconceive the world. The contributors reveal the extent to which contemporary IR discourses are a part of the culture of linear progress and pre-given autonomous sovereign individuals. Our targets of inquiry therefore inevitably include not only "Western" IR but "non-Western" discourses as well. The contributors focus on the fluid identities of contemporary world affairs with special attention to temporality and strive to develop a new approach to understanding the contemporary world and the meanings of world affairs. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367661991

Critical Intersex To date intersex studies has not received the scholarly attention it deserves as research in this area has been centred around certain key questions scholars and geographical regions. Exploring previously neglected territories this book broadens the scope of intersex studies whilst adopting perspectives that turn the gaze of the liberal humanist scientific outlook upon itself in order to reconfigure debates about rights autonomy and subjectivity and challenges the accepted paradigms of intersex identity politics. Presenting the latest theoretical and empirical research from an international group of experts this is a truly interdisciplinary volume containing critical approaches from both the humanities and social sciences. With its contributions to sociology anthropology medicine law history cultural studies psychology and psychoanalysis Critical Intersex will appeal to scholars and clinical practitioners alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367603007

Critical Interventions in the Ethics of HealthcareChallenging the Principle of Autonomy in Bioethics Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare argues that traditional modes of bioethics are proving incommensurable with burgeoning biotechnologies and consequently emerging subjectivities. Drawn from diverse disciplines this volume works toward a new mode of discourse in bioethics offering a critique of the current norms and constraints under which Western healthcare operates. The contributions imagine new less paternalistic terms by which bioethics might proceed - terms that do not resort to exclusively Western models of liberal humanism or to the logic of neoliberal economies. It is argued that in this way we can begin to develop an ethical vocabulary that does justice to the challenges of our age. Bringing together theorists practitioners and clinicians to present a wide variety of related disciplinary concerns and perspectives on bioethics this volume challenges the underlying assumptions that continue to hold sway in the ethics of medicine and health sciences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138267688

Critical Issues in Air Transport Economics and Business This book offers material for strategic thinking featuring contributions from key figures in Europe the US and Asia. The focus of the book expands from economic to legal issues bankruptcy and safety and security. The carefully selected papers offer a thorough and structured analysis of major current developments in the air transport industry. Fully up to date topics covered include competitive strength capacity utilisation and risk. The most likely future scenarios are more or less known. Only the timeframe remains uncertain. The speed at which the various market players in the air transport chain will implement their strategies remains the key question. This depends on a whole range of exogenous and endogenous variables as this book aspires to demonstrate. As both an overview of the current issues affecting the industry and as a cohesive set of strategic documents therefore this collection will prove invaluable for policy makers and researchers alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138880788

Critical Issues In American ArtA Book Of Readings This anthology of essays on different critical approaches and methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of American art and artists is designed for students and teachers in American art history and American studies programs. It contains twenty selections from academic journals on American art from colonial times to 1940. Mary Ann Calo provides an introduction to the anthology explaining its purpose and organization and each selection has a brief introduction about its main focus and scholarly approach. These case studies show the diversity of scholarly thinking about interpreting American works of art which should be useful for teachers and comprehensible and interesting for students.This anthology contains twenty articles on American art from colonial times to 1940. The selections are mainly from academic journals and aim to provide the student and teacher with different critical approaches and methodologies for the analysis and interpretation of American art and artists. Mary Ann Calo's preface to the anthology explains its purpose and organization and each article will have a brief introduction about its main focus and scholarly approach.This text meets the need in American art history studies for an anthology of essays on critical approaches and methodologies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367094942

Critical Issues in China's Growth and Development In approximately two decades China has transformed from a stagnant socialist economy to one that is vibrant and largely market-oriented. Given China's size rapid economic growth and her increasing importance as an economic and political power the country's growth and development have aroused major interest among academics and policymakers worldwide. Written by a distinguished group of economists this volume offers insight and in-depth analysis of a wide range of issues related to China's growth and development from the role of higher education in the country's economic growth to socioeconomic issues such as stock market manipulation and rural-urban migration. The contributors are established scholars in the field and their research methodologies are at the frontier of modern analytical economics including economic dynamics and computable general equilibrium analysis. The volume will be of interest to students and researchers in the areas of Chinese economic studies finance and international economics international business and transitional economy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815388326

Critical Issues in Contemporary ChinaUnity Stability and Development Critical Issues in Contemporary China: Unity Stability and Development comprehensively examines key problems crucial to understanding modern-day China. Organized around three interrelated themes of unity stability and development each chapter explores distinct issues and debate their significance for China domestically and for Beijing’s engagement with the wider world. While presenting contending explanatory approaches contributors advance arguments to further critical discussion on selected topics. Main issues analysed include: political change military transformation legal reforms economic development energy security environmental degradation food security and safety demographic trends migration and urbanization labour unrest health and education social inequalities ethnic conflicts Hong Kong’s integration cross-Strait relations. Given its thorough and up-to-date assessment of major political social and economic challenges facing China this fully revised and substantially expanded new edition is an essential read for any student of Chinese Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138917354

Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan This new and fully updated second edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdisciplinary textbook written by leading specialists on contemporary Japan. Students will gain the analytical insights and information necessary to assess the challenges that confront the Japanese people policymakers and private and public-sector institutions in Japan today. Featuring a comprehensive analysis of key debates and issues confronting Japan issues covered include: A rapidly aging society and changing employment system Nuclear and renewable energy policy Gender discrimination Immigration and ethnic minorities Post-3/11 tsunami earthquake and nuclear meltdown developments Sino-Japanese relations An essential reference work for students of contemporary Japan it is also an invaluable source for a variety of courses including comparative politics anthropology public policy and international relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815352068

Critical Issues in Democratic SchoolingCurriculum Teaching and Socio-Political Realities Focusing on a wide range of critical issues this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the linkage of different educational ideas policies and practices to a commitment for democratic schooling. Informed by significant interdisciplinary research as well as by his own extensive professional experiences as a teacher professor department chair and dean Teitelbaum examines contemporary concerns related to three broad areas: 1) teaching and teacher education; 2) curriculum studies; and 3) multiculturalism and social justice. His approach is to integrate the current and the historical the practical and the theoretical the technical and the socio-political and the personal and the structural. With this volume Teitelbaum considers how schools should be organized and funded what they should teach and to whom the role that teachers students and parents should play in school life and the need and prospects for schools and teacher education programs that foster meaningful learning critical reflection and social justice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367900526

Critical Issues in Early LiteracyResearch and Pedagogy This volume adds in important ways to understanding the power and complexity of the forces in the lives of children that impact their literacy learning. The critical issues presented emerge from interpretivist research and thinking practices that are constructivist in nature. The chapters by researchers teacher researchers teacher educators and teachers are antidotes to the present political context in which political agendas are being used to define literacy literacy teaching and learning and literacy research in narrow ways. Providing a rich source of information about how young children come to know reading and writing as a tool of communication in a range of social and cultural contexts this book:*presents current research and thinking in the field;*documents research that is currently being ignored by many who make decisions about children’s learning;*values who children are and what they bring with them to school;*provides a useful tool for advocacy and for social action toward improving education in ways that can make a difference in the lives of young children; and*raises thoughtful issues for discussion. Critical Issues in Early Literacy is essential reading for early childhood teachers and prospective teachers for teacher educators for literacy researchers (including teacher researchers) for special educators for those working with English-language and foreign-language learners and for early childhood education administrators advocates and policy makers. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003064480

Critical Issues in Ecotourism Critical Issues in Ecotourism seeks to shake the current stagnant literature on the subject of ecotourism out of a state of complacency. Drawing upon emerging insights provided by pre-eminent scholars in the field it identifies and comprehensively addresses current critical issues. Accessible to both academic and non-academic audiences it provides the reader with the following:* A critical direct and hard hitting analysis of the real issues that apply to the field of ecotourism*Contributions from prominent international scholars that address issues of relevance to a diverse and international readership* Dissemination of the scholarly works of social and natural science addressing this field* A collection of works by outstanding international scholars in a comprehensively planned and integrated bookIncorporating rigorous scientific insights in specialised fields of research for example identifying and protecting critical habits where tourists engage with endangered species Critical Issues in Ecotourism is an important and ground breaking contribution set to expose the increasingly mythologized field of ecotourism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138136793

Critical Issues in Foreign Language Instruction First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138966987

Critical Issues in Global Sport Management The social cultural and economic significance of sport has never been more evident than it is today. Adopting a critical management perspective this book examines the most important themes and challenges in global sport management. From match-fixing doping bribery and corruption to corporate social responsibility governance and new media it helps students researchers and practitioners to understand the changing face of the global sport industry. Written by leading international sport management experts Critical Issues in Global Sport Management includes twenty chapters and real-life case studies from around the world. It examines contemporary governance and management issues as well as the ethical challenges faced by the global sport industry including questions of integrity and accountability in recent drug scandals that have been widely reported and debated. This book deals with such questions and many more highlighting the fact that the global sport system is in urgent need of new and innovative solutions to these ongoing problems. Based on cutting-edge research from the US UK Australia Europe and beyond this book will add depth and currency to any course in sport management sport business sport development or sport events. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138911239

Critical Issues in Homeland SecurityA Casebook Critical Issues in Homeland Security: A Casebook encourages analytical and careful examination of practical homeland security problems through the presentation of contemporary cases involving major state or national events. Case studies demonstrate the complexity of challenges within the domain of homeland security policy and administration. Editors James D. Ramsay and Linda Kiltz carefully curated fourteen cases all from top scholars and practitioners to cover a broad range of legal policy and operational challenges within the field of homeland security. Timely and interesting cases on such issues as arctic security the use of drones in targeted killings cyber security and the emergency management lessons of the 2010 Haiti earthquake give students a deeper understanding of the relationship between the theories and the practices of homeland security. Discussion questions at the end of each case and an online instructor's manual make Critical Issues in Homeland Security an even more effective learning tool for any homeland security program. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780813348278

Critical Issues in International Financial Reform Critical Issues in International Financial Reform addresses weaknesses of the current international financial system and potential beneficial reforms. The focus is on the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean but the authors also take into account relevant lessons from the experience of Canada a country highly integrated into world and hemispheric trade and financial markets.Critical Issues offers a new perspective on a discussion too often dominated by interest groups that take strong even rigid positions on issues with limited understanding of the technical aspects of the issues and little concern for the interests of the developing world. Its chapters have been written by experts in the economic political and social aspects of the international financial integration of developing countries. Financial crises and their associated social and economic traumas are the most apparent symptom that something is amiss in the process of world economic integration. But there are also broader questions about the nature and magnitude of the benefits and costs of increased international capital flows for different groups of countries in the developing and developed worlds. For example even in the absence of turbulence is it optimal for all participants that capital movements be as free as possible? Does capital inflow discourage domestic savings to a degree that should cause worry? Are some types of flows inherently more beneficial than others--for instance direct investment flows versus flows into host stock markets? How can the instability of capital movements best be curtailed? These questions concern the contributors to this volume.This volume demonstrates that the evolution of the world financial system its various problems and what is or is not done about them require an understanding of the links among financial economic and political variables. Critical Issues in International Financial Reform is an important contribution to this debate and will be of value to researchers in economic policy history and international politics.Albert Berry is professor of economics at the University of Toronto and research director of the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean. Gustavo Indart is special lecturer of economics and the coordinator of the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of Toronto. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508712

Critical Issues in Organizations (RLE: Organizations) This collection highlights a number of directions in which organization theory could develop. It also argues the need for an historical analysis of the sociology of organizations. Other issues discussed are the ideological stance of contemporary organization theory and the limiting framework that tends to ignore the wider social context in which organizations exist. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138990500

Critical Issues in Peace and Education This collection asks theorists and educational practitioners from around the world influenced by the schools of feminist pedagogy critical pedagogy anti-racist or postcolonial pedagogy and gay and lesbian pedagogy to reflect upon the possibilities of articulating a "curriculum of difference" that critically examines the cross-cultural issues of peace and education that are at the forefront of global education issues today. Contributors examine the conceptualizations of peace and education within between and across cultures through the conceptualization of pedagogical possibilities that create an openness toward the horizons of the other within communal formations of difference permeating the public sphere. They take up new ways of questions related to globalization difference community identity peace democracy sexuality ethics conflict politics feminism technology language rights cultural politics Marxism and deconstruction that have a vast literary history in and outside the area of "education." This volume makes a significant contribution to the question of difference and its quintessential role in peace education for the new millennium. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138021839

Critical issues in Plant Health50 years of research in African agriculture Plant health covers topics such as the safe handling and movement of germplasm and seed as well as the range of biotic threats faced by crops and the ways they can be managed to optimise yields and ensure safety and quality in crop production. These threats include viral bacterial and fungal diseases as well as the impact of insect pests and weeds. This collection summarises 50 years of research on plant health by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to improve the health of crops in Africa. The first part of the book reviews general issues such as pest and disease surveillance and the range of viruses affecting key African crops. Part 2 summarises key research on improving the health of major crops such as cassava maize yams and cocoyams bananas and plantains legumes vegetables and tree fruits. The final part of the book discusses ways of improving integrated pest management of insect pests diseases and weeds in sub-Saharan Africa. Media > Books > E-books Life Science (Burleigh Dodds) 9780429275555

Critical Issues in School-based Mental HealthEvidence-based Research Practice and Interventions A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of 2017! School-based mental health professionals intervene daily to address a variety of student mental health concerns. From challenges that arise in the educational context to those carried over from home from managing daily care to handling emergent traumatic events they must be prepared for an extremely varied work life. While some of the most common issues recur with such frequency that they may seem straightforward to address others crop up with changing student populations. Each chapter in this volume addresses a different key topic giving current and future professionals an overview of the most recent scholarship on the topic and then outlining evidence-based interventions. With chapters on learning disabilities substance abuse bullying internalizing and externalizing behaviors trauma LGBT youth and more this book prepares school-based mental health professionals to face some of the most difficult common and politicized issues affecting students today. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138025011

Critical Issues in Training Special Education TeachersA Special Issue of exceptionality First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315045979

Critical Issues In U.s. Health Reform This book provides a thorough and careful examination of fate of public programs and specialty providers academic health centers and graduate medical education related issues in U.S. health reform. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367166748

Critical Issues in Youth Work Management This valuable textbook communicates the complexities and controversies at the heart of youth work management exploring key issues in a critical fashion. Written by a team of experienced youth work lecturers the chapters cover topics such as planning evaluation and supervision whilst acknowledging the changing structures of integrated services and the impact of public service reform. Divided into three sections it covers: Historical and theoretical context Critical practice issues including leadership policy constraints planning and accountability Managing in different settings for instance integrated services and the voluntary sector. Aimed at both youth work students studying for their professional qualification as well as practicing managers Critical Issues in Youth Work Management encourages critical thinking about what management in youth work is and what it can be. It includes reflective questions and further reading and case studies are integrated throughout. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415594356

Critical Issues on Violence Against WomenInternational Perspectives and Promising Strategies Violence against women is a global problem and despite a wealth of knowledge and inspiring action around the globe it continues unabated. Bringing together the very best in international scholarship with a rich variety of pedagogical features this innovative new textbook on violence against women is specifically designed to provoke debate interrogate assumptions and encourage critical thinking about this global issue. This book presents a range of critical reflections on the strengths and limitations of responses to violent crimes against women and how they have evolved to date. Each section is introduced with an overview of a particular topic by an expert in the field followed by thoughtful reflections by researchers practitioners or advocates that incorporate new research findings a new initiative or innovative ideas for reform. Themes covered include: advances in measurement of violence against women justice system responses to intimate partner violence and sexual assault victim crisis and advocacy behaviour change programs for abusers and prevention of violence against women. Each section is supplemented with learning objectives critical thinking questions and lists of further reading and resources to encourage discussion and to help students to appreciate the contested nature of policy. The innovative structure will bring debate alive in the classroom or seminar and makes the book perfect reading for courses on violence against women gender and crime victimology and crime prevention. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415856256

Critical JourneysThe Making of Anthropologists Through an 'ethnography of ethnographers' this volume explores the varied ways in which anthropologists become and remain attracted to the discipline. The contributors reflect on the initial preconceptions assumptions and expectations of themselves as young anthropologists and on the ways in which early decisions are made about fieldwork and about the selection of field locations. They question how fieldworkers come to understand what anthropology is both as a profession and as a personal experience through their commitments in the field in academic departments and in contexts where their 'specialist knowledge' is called upon and applied. They discuss the nature of reflexivity that emerges out of anthropological practices and the ways in which this reflexivity affects ethnographic practices. Providing reflections on fieldwork in such diverse places as Alaska Melanesia New York and India the volume critically reflects on the field as a culturally constructed site with blurred boundaries that allow the personal and the professional to permeate each other. It addresses the 'politics of location' that shape the anthropologists' involvement in 'the field' in teaching rooms in development projects and in activist engagements. The journeys described extend beyond 'the field' and into inter-disciplinary projects commissions colleges and personal spheres. These original and critical contributions provide fascinating insights into the relationship between anthropologists and the nature of the discipline. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138262638

Critical Language Awareness The proliferation of language awareness has now led to a need for a reassessment of the nature and functions of language awareness. This accessible collection of essays addresses that need in developing a more rigorous and critical theoretical underpinning for what language awareness is and should do. In particular it argues that there needs to be a greater awareness of the social and political issues and the context within which language awareness work is set. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138150102

Critical LeadershipLeader-Follower Dynamics in a Public Organization Critical approaches to leadership studies have sought to challenge the normative position of leadership as residing solely within the formal leader and have gone as far as to undermine the traditionally held assumption of leadership as a "real" phenomenon. The book offers a critical account of the nature of leadership and management in modern organizations. Specifically it examines the forces that affect the influence relationships between leaders and followers in public sector organizational settings and thus how these relationships inform social influence processes. Although the book focuses on the case of a public sector organization in the UK the findings are placed in the context of both leadership theory and research across the globe and the dissemination of 'new public management' worldwide. By acknowledging the criticisms concerning the weaknesses of conventional or mainstream leadership study and through the adoption of a critical perspective Critical Leadership provides a deep and rich interpretation of the empirical material on leadership thus making an outstanding contribution to the current literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138700062

Critical Legal Positivism This profound and scholarly treatise develops a critical version of legal positivism as the basis for modern legal scholarship. Departing from the formalism of Hart and Kelsen and blending the European tradition of Weber Habermas and Foucault with the Anglo-American contributions of Dworkin and MacCormick Tuori presents the normative and practical faces of law as a multilayered phenomenon within which there is an important role for critical legal dogmatics in furthering law's self-understanding and coherence. Its themes also resonate with importance for the development of the European legal system. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138246539

Critical Legal Theory Critical Legal Theory has conventionally been traced to the social political and philosophical movements of the 1960s and before that to the early-twentieth-century ‘realist’ critique of modern jurisprudence. In truth however its origins go back to classical and pre-modern thought and to their acknowledgement of the centrality of law in attempts to conceive of the good life or the just polity—a centrality that is moreover also discernible in the recent gravitation of a number of contemporary philosophers and theorists (such as Habermas Derrida Agamben Luhmann Latour) towards law. Against the ‘restricted’ and ‘conservative’ character of modern jurisprudence Critical Legal Theory constitutes a return to this more general interest in law and legality. Exceeding (if not exploding) the limits of jurisprudence it has moreover drawn upon the most ancient and most contemporary traditions of critical thought in order to pursue new ways of understanding living and imagining the law. Critical Legal Theory is now an established—if heterogeneous and controversial—field of study represented by numerous international journals regional organizations and global conferences. As the field continues to flourish as never before this new title in Routledge’s Major Works series Critical Concepts in Law meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature. Indeed it is a landmark collection of Critical Legal Theory’s principal sources orientations movements and themes. The first volume in the collection (‘Critical Legal Origins’) illuminates the foundations of Critical Legal Theory in contemporary continental thought as well as providing an account of its institutional history. Volume II (‘Critical Legal Orientations’) meanwhile examines the ways in which Critical Legal Theory has addressed and problematized conventional jurisprudential ideas about law drawing upon the insights of philosophy as well as other disciplines. Volume III (‘Critical Legal Movements’) assembles the best and most influential research to provide an overview of the movements that characterize the field. The scholarship assembled in the final volume (‘Critical Legal Themes’) brings together the key work to explore a range of substantial themes with which Critical Legal Theorists have engaged. Supplemented with a full index and comprehensive introductions newly written by the editors which situate the collected material in the context of more general theoretical traditions as well as in critical relation to jurisprudence Critical Legal Theory is destined to be valued by scholars students and researchers as a vital resource. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415486736

Critical Limb Ischemia Covering both noninvasive and surgical treatment alternatives Critical Limb Ischemia defines practical guidelines for a multidisciplinary approach to critical limb ischemia and follows a step-by-step description of the latest techniques.Topics covered include:Balloon angioplasty and stenting Cryoplasty Pharmacotherapy Topical therapies combined with hyperbolic oxygen treatment Endovascular techniques Strategies for leg revascularizationThe book provides vascular surgeons general and interventional cardiologists interventionalists radiologists podiatrists and endocrinologists a valuable resource for daily practice. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367385514

Critical Literacies and Young LearnersConnecting Classroom Practice to the Common Core Many pre-service and beginning early childhood teachers question if critical literacy is do-able with young children particularly in the current top-down educational climate. Critical Literacies and Young Learners shows how it is possible even in the context of the mandates and pressures so many teachers experience and honors the sophisticated and complex social theorists that young children are. Featuring a mix of groundbreaking work by iconic researchers and teachers and original contributions by emerging scholars and educators in the field the text illustrates a range of approaches to doing critical literacy with young children and at the same time addresses the Common Core Standards. Part I provides several orienting frameworks on critical literacy giving specific attention to its relationship to the Common Core Standards. Part II features chapters describing critical literacy in practice grouped in 4 thematic clusters: using texts from popular culture and everyday life; focusing on issues-oriented texts and cultural identity; functional linguistic analysis of texts; interdisciplinary that engage young learners in critical social action projects. Part III addresses the micro-political contexts of teaching critical literacy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415743228

Critical Literacy Schooling and Social JusticeThe Selected Works of Allan Luke In the World Library of Educationalists series international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books key articles salient research findings major theoretical and/or practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands of their work and see their contribution to the development of a field as well as the development of the field itself. Allan Luke’s work on critical literacy schooling and equity has influenced the fields of literacy education teacher education educational sociology and policy for over three decades. This volume brings together Allan Luke’s key writings on literacy and schooling. Chapters cover a range of topics and theories including the development and application of a social and cultural analysis of literacy education and schooling; a primer on literacy as a social construction; classroom-based case studies of literacy teaching and learning; major theoretical and philosophic essays; practical programmatic work on school reform and enabling curriculum policies; and classroom approaches to teaching critical literacy and multiliteracies.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138294714

Critical Literacy Across the K-6 Curriculum Through stories from kindergarten to sixth grade classrooms where students and teachers have attempted to put a critical edge on their teaching this book shows critical literacy in action across the curriculum. Readers see students and teachers together using critical literacy discourse to frame conversations in ways that engage students in examining the meaning of the texts they read and acting on local and global social issues that emerge. Drawing on multiple perspectives such as cross-curricular explorations multimedia and child-centered inquiry pedagogies the text features a theoretical toolkit; demonstrations from across the content areas including art music and media literacy; integration of technology; and attention to how critical literacy can inform decisions about standards and assessment. Annotated booklists examples of students’ work Reflection Questions Try This (practical classroom strategies) and Resource Boxes can be used to encourage and support engaging in critical literacy work in different areas of the curriculum. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138188495

Critical Literacy and Urban YouthPedagogies of Access Dissent and Liberation Critical Literacy and Urban Youth offers an interrogation of critical theory developed from the author’s work with young people in classrooms neighborhoods and institutions of power. Through cases an articulated process and a theory of literacy education and social change Morrell extends the conversation among literacy educators about what constitutes critical literacy while also examining implications for practice in secondary and postsecondary American educational contexts. This book is distinguished by its weaving together of theory and practice. Morrell begins by arguing for a broader definition of the "critical" in critical literacy – one that encapsulates the entire Western philosophical tradition as well as several important "Othered" traditions ranging from postcolonialism to the African-American tradition. Next he looks at four cases of critical literacy pedagogy with urban youth: teaching popular culture in a high school English classroom; conducting community-based critical research; engaging in cyber-activism; and doing critical media literacy education. Lastly he returns to theory first considering two areas of critical literacy pedagogy that are still relatively unexplored: the importance of critical reading and writing in constituting and reconstituting the self and critical writing that is not just about coming to a critical understanding of the world but that plays an explicit and self-referential role in changing the world. Morrell concludes by outlining a grounded theory of critical literacy pedagogy and considering its implications for literacy research teacher education classroom practice and advocacy work for social change. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203937914

Critical Literacy for Information Professionals This edited collection explores critical literacy theory and provides practical guidance to how it can be taught and applied in libraries. The approach taken in critical literacy is not to read texts in isolation but to develop an understanding of the cultural ideological and sociolinguistic contexts in which they are created and read. The book introduces critical literacy concepts in ways that are accessible to readers who are new to the subject while also appealing to those with greater knowledge by exploring critical literacy from a range of theoretical perspectives and linking these ideas to current debates in information studies. Critical Literacy for Information Professionals also contains a series of practically-focussed case studies that describe tools or approaches that librarians have used to engage users in critical literacy. Drawing on examples from across library sectors including schools public libraries universities workplaces and healthcare these illustrate how critical literacy can be applied across a variety of library settings including online and new media environments. Contributed to by international experts from across library sectors the book covers topics including: radical information literacy as an approach to critical literacy education critical literacy and mature students physical and digital disability access in libraries teaching critical literacy skills in a multicultural multilingual school community teaching media literacy developing critical literacy skills in an online environment new media and critical literacy. Readership: The book will be essential reading for librarians information professionals and managers in all sectors students of library and information science school and higher education teachers and researchers Media > Books > Print Books Facet Publishing 9781783300822

Critical LiteracyWhat Every American Needs to Know In Critical Literacy Eugene F. Provenzo Jr. challenges E. D. Hirsch's assumptions about culture and education. Calling for a broader and more democratic vision than Hirsch Provenzo critiques Hirsch's legacy up through the current conservative educational agenda for education which he argues denies not only the United States' diversity but its democratic traditions of democratic participation. His book shows why critical faculties and skills of students are essential not only to the success of individual students but to their participation in a healthy democracy. Provenzo offers a list of 5 000 things every educated American ought to know-- none of them the same items as those included on Hirsch's list in Cultural Literacy. Critical Literacy is essential reading for those concerned with our schools and the future of our children. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315635385

Critical Live ArtContemporary Histories of Performance in the UK Live Art is a contested category not least because of the historical disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term often tends to conceal. Live Art can be usefully defined as a peculiarly British variation on particular legacies of cultural experimentation – a historically and culturally contingent translation of categories including body art performance art time-based art and endurance art. The recent social and cultural history of the UK has involved specific factors that have crucially influenced the development of Live Art since the late 1970s. These have included issues in national cultural politics relating to sexuality gender disability technology and cultural policy. In the past decade there has been a proliferation of festivals of Live Art in the UK and growing support for Live Art in major venues. Nevertheless while specific artists have been afforded critical essays and monographs there is a relative absence of scholarly work on Live Art as a historically and culturally specific mode of artistic production. Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out programmed read or taught as Live Art. This book is based on a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138818231

Critical Management Perspectives on Information Systems Critical Management Perspectives on Information Systems provides a coherent set of reference points to show students and researchers the organizational issues of information systems in theory method and practice. Combining fresh and insightful contributions from lead researchers in the field the book illustrates the diversity of approaches to critical research presents practical examples and demonstrates the lessons learnt from applying a critical approach. Exploring the management and organizational issues of information systems from a range of critical theory viewpoints Critical Management Perspectives on Information Systems sets out the key theoretical underpinnings of different critical approaches and considers the issues associated with designing critical methodologies for systems design and study. The book is suitable for final year undergraduate research and postgraduate courses in information systems management and organizational studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138435346

Critical Management StudiesGlobal Voices Local Accents Critical Management Studies (CMS) is often dated from the publication of an edited volume bearing that name (Alvesson and Willmott 1992). In the two decades that have followed CMS has been remarkably successful in establishing itself not just as a ‘term’ but as a recognizable tradition or approach. The emerging status of CMS as an overall approach has been both encouraged and marked by a growing range of handbooks readers and textbooks. Yet the literature is dominated by writings from the UK and Scandinavia in particular and the tendency is to treat this literature as constituting CMS. However the meaning practice constraints and context of CMS vary considerably between different countries cultures and language communities. This volume surveys fourteen various countries and regions where CMS has acquired some following and seeks to explore the different ways in which CMS is understood and the different contexts within which it operates as well as its possible future development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138616967

Critical Marketing Marketing is still widely perceived as simply the creator of wants and needs through selling and advertising and marketing theory has been criticized for not taking a more critical approach to the subject. This is because most conventional marketing thinking takes a broadly managerial perspective without reflecting on the wider societal implications of the effects of marketing activities.In response this important new book is the first text designed to raise awareness of the critical ethical social and methodological issues facing contemporary marketing. Uniquely it provides: The latest knowledge based on a series of major seminars in the field The insights of a leading team of international contributors with an interdisciplinary perspective. A clear map of the domain of critical marketing A rigorous analysis of the implications for future thinking and research. For faculty and upper level students and practitioners in Marketing and those in the related areas of cultural studies and media Critical Marketing will be a major addition to the literature and the development of the subject. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138441194

Critical Medical Anthropology The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction and overview to the critical perspective as it has evolved in medical anthropology over the last ten years. Standing as an opposition approach to conventional medical anthropology critical medical anthropology has emphasized the importance of political and economy forces including the exercise of power in shaping health disease illness experience and health care. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415783767

Critical Methods for the Study of World PoliticsCreativity and Transformation This book develops an approach to both method and the socio-political implications of knowledge production that embraces our embeddedness in the world that we study. It seeks to enact the transformative potentials inherent in this relationship in how it engages readers. It presents a creative survey of some of the newest developments in critical research methods and critical pedagogy that together go beyond the aims of knowledge transfer that often structure our practices. Each contribution takes on a different shape tone and orientation and discusses a critical method or approach teasing out the ways in which it can also work as a transformative practice. While the presentation of different methods is both rigorously practice-based and specific contributors also offer reflections on the stakes of critical engagement and how it may play an important role in expanding and subverting existing regimes of intelligibility. Contributions variously address the following key questions: What makes your research method important? How can others work with it?　 How has research through this method and/or the way you ended up deploying it transformed you and/or your practice? How did it matter for thinking about community (academic) collaboration and sharing ‘knowledge’? This volume makes the case for re-politicizing the importance of research and the transformative potentials of research methods not only in ‘accessing’ the world as an object of study but as ways of acting and being in the world. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations critical theory research methods and politics in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138097254

Critical Methods in Political and Cultural Economy Critical Methods in Political and Cultural Economy offers students and scholars the first methods book for the critical school of International Political Economy (IPE). What does it mean to ‘do’ critical research? How do we write about the evidence we present? This volume explores our shared critical ethic to demonstrate how methods are transformative and reimagines research strategies as both an embodied practice and a social process. By presenting methodologically informed ways of researching enriched by real-life accounts from academics doing empirical research the volume seeks to forge a new collaborative path that builds a critical ethic and modes of inquiry within International Political Economy. Substantive chapters advance the pluralism of the critical school of cultural political economy and seek to articulate its nascent research ethic. Short autobiographical vignettes articulate the professional journeys of contributors who ‘do’ critical political economy. There is practical advice on how to develop evidence from an iterative reflexive research strategy. Using this innovative format offers a guide to methods in critical political economy by engaging directly with the people doing research not only as technical practice but also as lived experience. The combination of research and practice presented throughout the book offers an extensive and authoritative framework for evaluating how methods are part of critical research and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of IPE. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138934276

Critical Methods in Terrorism Studies This book shows how to use a range of critical approaches to conduct research on terrorism. Featuring the work of researchers who have already utilized these methods to study terrorism it includes a diverse range of critical methodological approaches – including discourse analysis feminist postcolonial ethnographic critical theory and visual analysis of terrorism. The main objectives of the book are to assist researchers in adopting and applying various critical approaches to the study of terrorism. This goal is achieved by bringing together a number of different scholars working on the topic of terrorism from a range of non-variables-based approaches. Their individual chapters discuss explicitly the research methods used and methodological commitments made by the authors while also illustrating the application of their particular critical perspective to the topic of terrorism. The authors of each chapter will discuss (1) why they chose their specific critical method; (2) how they justified their methodological stance; (3) how they conduct their research; (4) and finally an example of the research. This book will be essential reading for students of terrorism studies and critical terrorism studies and highly recommended for students of political violence security studies and IR. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138018723

Critical Mobile PedagogyCases of Digital Technologies and Learners at the Margins Critical Mobile Pedagogy is an exploration of mobile technologies for designing and delivering equitable and empowering education around the globe. Synthesizing a diverse range of projects and conceptual frameworks this case-based collection addresses the ambitions assumptions and impacts of interventions in under-researched often disadvantaged communities. The editors and authors provide a nuanced and culturally responsive approach to showcasing: indigenous nomadic refugee rural and other marginalized communities emerging pedagogies such as curation open resources massive open online courses (MOOCs) and self-directed learning contextual factors including pedagogy ethics scaling research methodology and culture and consequences of innocuous or harmful implementation and deployment the nature of participation by global capital multinationals education systems international agencies national governments and telecoms companies. Scholars academics policymakers and program managers are increasingly using mobile technologies to support disadvantaged or disempowered communities in learning more effectively and appropriately. This book’s diverse research precedents will help these and other stakeholders meet the challenges and opportunities of our complex increasingly connected world and work with greater cultural and ethical sensitivity at the intersection of education research and technology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367204570

Critical Moments in Executive CoachingUnderstanding the Coaching Process through Research and Evidence-Based Theory Critical Moments in Executive Coaching examines the change process supported by workplace and executive coaching making use of empirical evidence from the study of a range of real coaching conversations and coaching relationships. It is both a complete handbook that for the first time gives access to a global qualitative research base in the field of executive coaching and a look behind the scenes into the practice of both inexperienced and experienced coaches their clients and their commissioners. Erik de Haan allows the reader access to the wealth of Ashridge empirical research in this field to date alongside prominent research groups around the world. This book provides practitioners with a range of suggestions for their contracts backed up by qualitative and narrative research. It looks at what research is already telling us about the value of coaching conversations and the impact of critical ‘moments of change’ in coaching from the perspectives of coaches clients stakeholders and sponsors. The detailed research findings outlined in the book are supplemented throughout by case studies and snapshots of coaching moments as well as practical advice and insights for those working in the field. The book also brings forward innovative new models and concepts for coaches which have emerged from research. Critical Moments in Executive Coaching offers an evidence and research-based approach that will be of great interest to coaches in practice and in training students of both undergraduate and graduate coaching programmes and those who supervise and commission coaching. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815396918

Critical Multicultural Practice in Social WorkNew perspectives and practices Critical multicultural practice rather than being a specialism is integral to Australian social work. Drawing on critical race theory critical multiculturalism intersectionality and critical reflection as practice theory this major new edited collection challenges many of the dominant assumptions of cross-cultural social work and provides instead a new model of transformative engagement. Key concepts are considered including identity culture diversity and superdiversity how power and privilege shape everyday interactions and what is meant by citizenship in the contemporary context. Part One explores the changing nature of multicultural practice in Australia including our society's changing demographic profile the impact of asylum and refugee migrations race and racism and cultural identity. Indigenous perspectives and the relationship with multicultural practice are examined together with the ethical and legal basis for multicultural practice. This part concludes with an outline of the editors' framework for critical multicultural practice. Part Two draws on contributions from a range of practitioners and offers new perspectives on diverse fields including child protection mental health disability ageing homelessness and rural and regional practice.Featuring case studies and insights drawn from across the spectrum of practice this book is a vital resource for all social workers practising in Australia today.'[A] rich and nuanced analysis of what is happening at the interfaces of our work and the lives of Australian citizens [it] articulates ways forward that are genuine bold and empathetic.'From the foreword by Professor Kerry Arabena The University of Melbourne Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781760297831

Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse Studies of multimodality have significantly advanced our understanding of the potential of　different semiotic resources—verbal visual aural and kinetic—to make meaning and allow people to achieve various social purposes such as persuading entertaining and explaining. Yet little is known about the role that individual nonverbal resources and　their interaction with language and with each other play in concealing and supporting or drawing attention to and subverting social boundaries and inequality political or commercial agendas. This volume brings together contributions by rominent and emerging　scholars that address this gap through the critical analysis of multimodality in popular culture texts and semiotic practices. It connects multimodal analysis to critical discourse analysis demonstrating the value of　different approaches to multimodality for building a better understanding of critical　issues of central interest to discourse analysis semiotics applied linguistics education 　cultural and media studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138210530

Critical Music Historiography: Probing Canons Ideologies and Institutions During the past two decades there has emerged a growing need to reconsider the objects axioms and perspectives of writing music history. A certain suspicion towards Francois Lyotard’s grand narratives as a sign of what he diagnosed as our ’postmodern condition’ has become more or less an established and unquestioned point of departure among historians. This suspicion at its most extreme has led to a radical conclusion of the ’end of history’ in the work of postmodern scholars such as Jean Baudrillard and Francis Fukuyama. The contributors to Critical Music Historiography take a step back and argue that the radical view of the ’impossibility of history’ as well as the unavoidable ideology of any history are counter-productive points of departure for historical scholarship. It is argued that metanarratives in history are still possible and welcome even if their limitations are acknowledged. Foucault Lyotard and others should be taken into account but systematized viewpoints and methods for a more critical and multi-faceted re-evaluation of the past through research are needed. As to the metanarratives of music history they must avoid the pitfalls of evolutionism hagiography and teleology all hallmarks of traditional historiography. In this volume the contributors put these methods and principles into practice. The chapters tackle under-researched and non-conventional domains of music history as well as rethinking older historiographical concepts such as orientalism and nationalism and consequently introduce new concepts such as occidentalism and transnationalism. The volume is a challenging collection of work that stakes out a unique territory for itself among the growing body of work on critical music history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367599393

Critical Musicological ReflectionsEssays in Honour of Derek B. Scott This collection of original essays is in tribute to the work of Derek Scott on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. As one of the leading lights in Critical Musicology Scott has helped shape the epistemological direction for music research since the late 1980s. There is no doubt that the path taken by the critical musicologist has been a tricky one leading to new conceptions interactions and heated debates during the past two decades. Changes in musicology during the closing decades of the twentieth century prompted the establishment of new sets of theoretical methods that probed at the social and cultural relevance of music as much as its self-referentiality. All the scholars contributing to this book have played a role in the general paradigmatic shift that ensued in the wake of Kerman's call for change in the 1980s. Setting out to address a range of approaches to theorizing music and promulgating modes of analysis across a wide range of repertories the essays in this collection can be read as a coming of age of critical musicology through its active dialogue with other disciplines such as sociology feminism ethnomusicology history anthropology philosophy cultural studies aesthetics media studies film music studies and gender studies. The volume provides music researchers and graduate students with an up-to-date authoritative reference to all matters dealing with the state of critical musicology today. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138255692

Critical New Perspectives in Early Childhood MusicYoung Children Engaging and Learning Through Music Exploring and expanding upon current understandings of early childhood music education this book provides a much-needed response to the rapid social cultural and technological developments affecting children’s experience of music today. Critical New Perspectives in Early Childhood Music returns to the core question of how children engage participate and learn through music and how we are to best harness musical resources to their benefit. Chapters move beyond conservative or traditional models of practice and draw upon new and emerging insights from the fields of childhood studies neuroscience psychology and sociology. In-depth analysis of research and real examples from practice illustrate the strengths and possible shortcomings of each approach and acknowledge the diverse impacts of digitisation increased child autonomy intensive parenting practices and cultural and economic diversity on the child’s experience of music. An invaluable theoretical overview of current thinking in relation to contemporary musical childhoods this book will support and challenge students and early childhood music educators as they rethink practice for the present day. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138239982

Critical Path Analysis in PracticeCollected papers on project control Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile this volume was originally published in 1968 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes or as a complete collection. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415852975

Critical Peace Education and Global CitizenshipNarratives From the Unofficial Curriculum Critical Peace Education and Global Citizenship offers narrative accounts representing multiple ways teacher and learner activists have come to realize possibilities for peace and reconciliation through unofficial curricula. With these narratives the book demonstrates the connections between critical peace education and such crucial issues as human trafficking gang violence contested narratives of nationhood and belonging gender identities and the significance of mentoring. Through rich examples of pedagogic work this volume enhances and illustrates critically oriented understandings and interpretations of peace in real classrooms with diverse populations of students. Written primarily for scholars and graduate students working in the fields of educational theory critical pedagogy and educational policy the chapters in this book tell a compelling story about teachers learners and scholar activists who continue to struggle for the creation of transformative and meaningful sites for peace praxis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138649569

Critical Pedagogy and Social ChangeCritical Analysis on the Language of Possibility At its core the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple—to construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitious it is not always realistic in a climate of increased commodification privatization of schooling and canned curriculum. By assuming rather than articulating its own possibilities critical pedagogy literature itself is often its own worst enemy in its call for transformation. With such challenges from both within and without is the idea of liberatory pedagogy for social change out of reach or can critical educators really achieve the rather high call for social change? What alternative visions of schooling does critical pedagogy truly offer against the mainstream pedagogy? In short what are the political projects of critical pedagogy? This powerful and accessible text breaks with tradition by teasing out mere assumptions and provides a concrete illustration and critique of today’s critical pedagogy. Veteran teacher educator Seehwa Cho begins the book with an engaging overview of the history of critical pedagogy and a clear concise breakdown of key concepts and terms. Not content to hide behind rhetoric Cho forces herself and the reader to question the most basic assumptions of critical pedagogy such as what a vision of social change really means. After a thoughtful and pithy analysis of the politics possibilities and agendas of mainstream critical pedagogy Cho takes the provocative step of arguing that these dominant discourses are ultimately what stifle the possibility for true social change. Without focusing on micro-level approaches to alternatives Cho concludes by laying out some basic principles and future directions for critical pedagogy. Both accessible and provocative Critical Pedagogy and Social Change is a significant contribution to the debates over critical pedagogy and a fresh much-needed examination of teaching and learning for social justice in the classroom and community beyond. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415886116

Critical Pedagogy in Hong KongClassroom Stories of Struggle and Hope This book chronicles the author’s application of critical pedagogy in Hong Kong secondary schools serving students from working-class families of South Asian heritage so-called ‘ethnic minorities’ in the local context. Soto used concepts such as banking pedagogy generative themes liberatory dialogue and transformative resistance to first understand students’ school online and community experiences and then to reshape his teaching of English and humanities subjects to address the students’ academic social and emotional needs. This critical ethnography is set against educational reforms in Hong Kong which re-orientated schools towards developing a knowledge-economy workforce increased privatization and competition in the school system aimed to build national identification with China and sought to address growing inequality in a territory known for wealth disparity. While these reforms opened opportunities for implementing student-centered pedagogies in schools and increased student access to tertiary education ethnic minority youth faced ongoing economic and social marginalization on top of academic difficulties. The central narrative captures everyday struggles and contradictions arising from intersections of neoliberal reforms institutional school histories students’ transnational realities and collective efforts for equity and social justice. In the course of the book a parallel story unfolds as the author explores what it means to be a critical teacher and researcher and is reborn in the process. The book’s ‘on the ground’ story is hopeful yet tempered in discussing the limits and possibilities for critical pedagogy. It will be of a great resource for researchers teacher educators and pre-service and in-service teachers who are interested in the topic. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138611801

Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies Agrarian transformations within and across countries have been significantly and dynamically altered during the past few decades compared to previous eras provoking a variety of reactions from rural poor communities worldwide. The recent convergence of various crises – financial food energy and environmental – has put the nexus between ‘rural development’ and ‘development in general’ back onto the center stage of theoretical policy and political agendas in the world today. Confronting these issues will require (re)engaging with critical theories taking politics seriously and utilizing rigorous and appropriate research methodologies. These are the common messages and implications of the various contributions to this collection in the context of a scholarship that is critical in two senses: questioning prescriptions from mainstream perspectives and interrogating popular conventions in radical thinking. This book focuses on key perspectives frameworks and methodologies in agrarian change and peasant studies. The contributors are leading scholars in the field of rural development studies: Henry Bernstein Terence J. Byres Saturnino M. Borras Jr Marc Edelman Cristóbal Kay Benedict Kerkvliet Philip McMichael Shahra Razavi Ian Scoones and Teodor Shanin. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315875729

Critical Perspectives of the Language Gap This volume is an orchestrated critique of the notion that individuals from lower socioeconomic status communities have inferior language skills as compared to middle- and upper-class groups. The idea of this so-called “language gap” stems in large part from Hart and Risley’s (1995) publication Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children. Hart and Risley proposed that by age 3 children from more economically affluent households were exposed to approximately 30 million more words than children from low-income backgrounds. They also claimed that this gap in exposure to words negatively impacts cognitive development and eventual academic achievement. The contributing authors in this book contest the original concept of a “language-gap” as well as the recent swell of academic research and public programs that it has produced. The chapters interrogate the linguistic academic cultural and social implications of the “language-gap” by providing critical accounts grounded in the scholarly disciplines of sociolinguistics anthropology and education.This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Multilingual Research Journal. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367586669

Critical Perspectives on African PoliticsLiberal interventions state-building and civil society Strong states and strong civil societies are now increasingly hailed as the twin drivers of a ‘rising Africa’. Current attempts to support growth and democracy are part of a longer history of promoting projects of disciplinary regulatory and liberal rule and values beyond ‘the West’. Yet this is not simply Western domination of a passive continent. Such an interpretation misses out on the complexities and nuances of the politics of state-building and civil society promotion and the central role of African agency. Drawing upon critical theory including postcolonial and governmentality approaches this book interrogates international practices of state-building and civil society support in Africa. It seeks to develop a theoretically informed critical approach to discourses and interventions such as those associated with broadly ‘Western’ initiatives in Africa. In doing so the book highlights the power relations inequalities coercion and violence that are deeply implicated within contemporary international interventions on the African continent. Providing a range of empirical cases and theoretical approaches the chapters are united by their critical treatment of political dynamics in Africa. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African politics development studies postcolonial theory International Relations international political economy and peacekeeping/making. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138214903

Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction to the literary worlds and perceptions of national culture and identity of authors from Spanish-America Brazil and uniquely Equatorial Guinea thus contextually connecting Africa to the history of Spanish colonization. The importance of Latin America literature to the discipline of African Diaspora studies is immeasurable and this edited collection provides a ripe cultural context for critical comparative analysis among the vast geographies that encompass African and African Diaspora studies. Scholars in the area of African Diaspora Studies Black Studies Latin American Studies and American literature will be able to utilize the eleven essays in this edition to enhance classroom instruction and further academic research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415719773

Critical Perspectives on AgingThe Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social political and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race gender and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the "biomedicalization" of aging; the role of business and the media in changing societal images of the old; the fact and fiction behind "senior power"; the multibillion dollar nursing home industry; and the role of advanced capitalist nations in creating economic dependency among elders in the Third World. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315232560

Critical Perspectives on Agrarian TransitionIndia in the global debate This book evaluates the relevance of classical debates on agrarian transition and extends the horizon of contemporary debates in the Indian context linking national trends with regional experiences. It identifies new dynamics in agrarian political economy and presents a comprehensive account of diverse aspects of capitalist transition both at theoretical and empirical levels. The essays discuss several neglected domains in agricultural economics such as discursive dimensions of agrarian relations and limitations of stereotypical binaries between capital and non-capital rural and urban sectors agriculture and industry and accumulation and subsistence. With contributions from major scholars in the field this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of agriculture economics political economy sociology rural development and development studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9781138488311

Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success In this comprehensive volume research-based chapters examine the experiences that have shaped college life for Black undergraduate women and invite readers to grapple with the current myths and definitions that are shaping the discourses surrounding them.　 Chapter authors ask valuable questions that are critical for advancing the participation and success of Black women in higher education settings and also provide actionable recommendations to enhance their educational success.　 Perspectives about Black undergraduate women from various facets of the higher education spectrum are included sharing their experiences in academic and social settings issues of identity intersectionality and the services and support systems that contribute to their success in college and beyond.　 Presenting comprehensive theoretically grounded and thought-provoking scholarship Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success is a definitive resource for scholarship and research on Black undergraduate women. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138819474

Critical Perspectives on Coercive InterventionsLaw Medicine and Society Coercive medico-legal interventions are often employed to prevent people deemed to be unable to make competent decisions about their health such as minors people with mental illness disability or problematic alcohol or other drug use from harming themselves or others. These interventions can entail major curtailments of individuals’ liberty and bodily integrity and may cause significant harm and distress. The use of coercive medico-legal interventions can also serve competing social interests that raise profound ethical legal and clinical questions. Examining the ethical social and legal issues involved in coerced care this book brings together the views and insights of leading researchers from a range of disciplines including criminology law ethics psychology and public health as well as legal and medical practitioners social-service ‘consumers’ and government officials. Topics addressed in this volume include: compulsory treatment and involuntary detention orders in civil mental health and disability law; mandatory alcohol and drug treatment programs and drug courts; community treatment orders; the use of welfare cards with Indigenous populations; mandated treatment of seriously ill minors; as well as adult guardianship and substituted decision-making regimes. These contributions attempt to shed light on why we use coercive interventions whether we should whether they are effective in achieving the benefits that are offered to justify their use and the impact that they have on some of society’s most vulnerable citizens in the names of ‘justice’ and ‘treatment’. This book is essential reading for clinicians researchers and legal practitioners involved in the study and application of coerced care as well as students and scholars in the fields of law medicine ethics and criminology. The collection asks important questions about the increasing use of coercive care that demand to be answered and offers critical insights guidance and recommendations for those working in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138067370

Critical Perspectives on ColonialismWriting the Empire from Below This collection brings much-needed focus to the vibrancy and vitality of minority and marginal writing about empire and to their implications as expressions of embodied contact between imperial power and those negotiating its consequences from "below." The chapters explore how less powerful and less privileged actors in metropolitan and colonial societies within the British Empire have made use of the written word and of the power of speech public performance and street politics. This book breaks new ground by combining work about marginalized figures from within Britain as well as counterparts in the colonies ranging from published sources such as indigenous newspapers to ordinary and everyday writings including diaries letters petitions ballads suicide notes and more. Each chapter engages with the methodological implications of working with everyday scribblings and asks what these alternate modernities and histories mean for the larger critique of the "imperial archive" that has shaped much of the most interesting writing on empire in the past decade. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415537384

Critical Perspectives on Counter-terrorism This volume examines the rationale effectiveness and consequences of counter terrorism practices from a range of perspectives and cases. The book critically interrogates contemporary counter-terrorism powers from military campaigns and repression through to the prosecution of terrorist suspects counter-terrorism policing counter-radicalisation programmes and the proscription of terrorist organisations. Drawing on a range of timely and important case studies from around the world including the UK Sri Lanka Spain Canada Australia and the USA its chapters explore the impacts of counter-terrorism on individuals communities and political processes. The book focuses on three questions of vital importance to any assessment of counter-terrorism. First what do counter-terrorism strategies seek to achieve? Second what are the consequences of different counter-terrorism campaigns and how are these measured? And third how and why do changes to counter-terrorism occur? This volume will be of much interest to students of counter-terrorism critical terrorism studies criminology security studies and IR in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138221765

Critical Perspectives on Diversity in Organizations Decades of investigations into diversity in the workplace have created mixed answers about what kinds of effects it has on employees and teams and whether or not it can be managed effectively to generate positive outcomes for organizations. In contrast to mainstream work from management and psychology critical views on workplace diversity have emerged that seek to grasp more fully the messy social and political realities of workplace diversity as they operate in context.    Critical Perspectives on Diversity in Organizations therefore seeks to review integrate and build upon emerging critical perspectives on workplace diversity to help give a fuller understanding of how employee differences affect workplace interactions relationships employment inequality culture and society. Critical perspectives help to fill in and openly recognize many of the more far-reaching issues that pure management and psychology approaches can leave out – issues of power inequality politics history culture and lived experiences. If organizations do not try to take these issues into account and critically reflect on them then diversity management is likely to remain a relatively blunt instrument or worse a hollow piece of rhetoric.    This book will be of interest to international graduate students and researchers working on topics associated with equality diversity and inclusion in organizations as well as various organizational practitioners and activists engaged with these issues. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138633780

Critical Perspectives on EntrepreneurshipChallenging Dominant Discourses Entrepreneurship is largely considered to be a positive force driving venture creation and economic growth. Critical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship questions the accepted norms and dominant assumptions of scholarship on the matter and reveals how they can actually obscure important questions of identity ideology and inequality. The book’s distinguished authors and editors explore how entrepreneurship study can privilege certain forms of economic action whilst labelling other more collective forms of organization and exchange as problematic. Demystifying the archetypal vision of the white male entrepreneur this book gives voice to other entrepreneurial subjectivities and engages with the tensions paradoxes and ambiguities at the heart of the topic. This challenging collection seeks to further the momentum for alternate analyses of the field and to promote the growing voice of critical entrepreneurship studies. It is a useful tool for researchers advanced students and policy-makers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367873387

Critical Perspectives on Food SovereigntyGlobal Agrarian Transformations Volume 2 This volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivotal concept over the past few decades with a wide variety of social movements on-the-ground experiments and policy innovations flying under its broad banner. Despite its large and growing popularity the history theoretical foundations and political program of food sovereignty have only occasionally received in-depth analysis and critical scrutiny. This collection brings together both longstanding scholars in critical agrarian studies such as Philip McMichael Bina Agarwal Henry Bernstein Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and Marc Edelman as well as a dynamic roster of early- and mid-career researchers. The ultimate aim is to advance this important frontier of research and organizing and put food sovereignty on stronger footing as a mobilizing frame a policy objective and a plan of action for the human future. This volume was published as part one of the special double issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138916500

Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis and its new essays analyze the full scope of the seven-book series as both pop cultural phenomenon and as a set of literary texts. Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter Second Edition draws on a wider range of intellectual traditions to explore the texts including moral-theological analysis psychoanalytic perspectives and philosophy of technology. The Harry Potter novels engage the social cultural and psychological preoccupations of our times and Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter Second Edition examines these worlds of consciousness and culture ultimately revealing how modern anxieties and fixations are reflected in these powerful texts.  ("DISCLAIMER: This book is not authorized approved licensed or endorsed by J.K. Rowling Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. or anyone associated with the Harry Potter books or movies.") Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138128873

Critical Perspectives on Hazing in Colleges and UniversitiesA Guide to Disrupting Hazing Culture This important resource explores the political cultural and historical context of hazing at colleges and universities and also highlights the diverse settings where hazing occurs on campus. Grounded in empirical practice and research chapter authors discuss current hazing policies and implications to student success while challenging dangerous and harmful hazing habits. Unpacking common myths this volume helps higher education and student affairs practitioners understand the implications of policy while providing best practices and practical tools for fostering safe and productive organizations on campus. Critical Perspectives on Hazing in Colleges and Universities helps readers continue to educate themselves in prevention while advocating for the lives of people affected by or vulnerable to hazing. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138038523

Critical Perspectives on Human SecurityRethinking Emancipation and Power in International Relations This new book presents critical approaches towards Human Security which has become one of the key areas for policy and academic debate within Security Studies and IR. The Human Security paradigm has had considerable significance for academics policy-makers and practitioners. Under the rubric of Human Security security policy practices seem to have transformed their goals and approaches re-prioritising economic and social welfare issues　that were marginal to the state-based geo-political rivalries of the Cold War era. Human Security has reflected and reinforced the reconceptualisation of international security both broadening and deepening it and in so doing it has helped extend and shape the space within which security concerns inform international policy practices. However 　in its wider use Human Security has become an amorphous and unclear political concept seen by some　as progressive and radical and by others as　tainted by association with the imposition of neo-liberal practices and values on non-Western spaces　or as legitimizing attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is concerned with critical perspectives towards Human Security highlighting some of the tensions which can emerge between critical perspectives which discursively radicalise Human Security within frameworks of emancipatory possibility and those which attempt to deconstruct Human Security within the framework of an externally imposed attempt to regulate and order the globe on behalf of hegemonic power. The chapters gathered in this edited collection represent a range of critical approaches which bring together alternative understandings of human security. This book will be of great interest to students of human security studies and critical security studies war and conflict studies and international relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415532518

Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature This book is the first collection on Indo-Caribbean women's writing and the first work to offer a sustained analysis of the literature from a range of theoretical and critical perspectives such as ecocriticism feminist queer post-colonial and Caribbean cultural theories. The essays not only lay the framework of an emerging and growing field but also critically situate internationally acclaimed writers such as Shani Mootoo Lakshmi Persaud and Ramabai Espinet within this emerging tradition. Indo-Caribbean women writers provide a fresh new perspective in Caribbean literature be it in their unique representations of plantation history anti-colonial movements diasporic identities feminisms ethnicity and race or contemporary Caribbean societies and culture. The book offers a theoretical reading of the poetics politics and cultural traditions that inform Indo-Caribbean women's writing arguing that while women writers work with and through postcolonial and Caribbean cultural theories they also respond to a distinctive set of influences and realities specific to their positioning within the Indo-Caribbean community and the wider national regional and global imaginary. Contributors visit the overlap between national and transnational engagements in Indo-Caribbean women's literature considering the writers' response to local or nationally specific contexts and the writers' response to the diasporic and transnational modalities of Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean communities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138889200

Critical Perspectives on Journalistic Beliefs and ActionsGlobal Experiences This book provides case studies many incorporating in-depth interviews and surveys of journalists. It examines issues such as journalists’ attitudes toward their contributions to society; the impact of industry and technological changes; culture and minority issues in the newsroom and profession; the impact of censorship and self-censorship; and coping with psychological pressures and physical safety dilemmas. Its chapters also highlight journalists’ challenges in national and multinational contexts. International scholars conducting research within a wide range of authoritarian semi-democratic and democratic systems contributed to this examination of journalistic practices in the Arab World Australia Bangladesh Bulgaria China Denmark India Kenya Kyrgyzstan Malaysia Mexico Russia Samoa South Africa Taiwan Turkey and the United States. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367590857

Critical Perspectives on LeadershipThe Language of Corporate Power Within contemporary culture ‘leadership’ is seen in ways that appeal to celebrated societal values and norms. As a result it is becoming difficult to use the language of leadership without at the same time assuming its essentially positive intrinsically affirmative nature. Within organizations routinely referring to bosses as ‘leaders’ has therefore  become both a symptom and a cause of a deep largely unexamined new conceptual architecture. This architecture underpins how we think about authority and power at work. Capitalism and its turbo-charged offspring neo-liberalism have effectively captured ‘leader’ and ‘leadership’ to serve their own purposes. In other words organizational leadership today is so often a particular kind of insidious conservativism dressed up in radical adjectives. This book makes visible the work that the language of leadership does in perpetuating fictions that are useful for bosses of work organizations. We do this so that we – and anyone who shares similar discomforts – can make a start in unravelling the fiction. We contend that even if our views are contrary to the vast and powerful leadership industry our basic arguments rest on things that are plain and evident for all to see. Critical Perspectives on Leadership: The Language of Corporate Power will be key reading for students academics and practitioners in the disciplines of Leadership Organizational Studies Critical Management Studies Sociology and the related disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138093997

Critical Perspectives on Linguistic Fixity and FluidityLanguagised Lives This volume offers a critical perspective on current views on linguistic fixity and fluidity in sociolinguistics and highlights empirical accounts alternative to prevailing trends in the field. Featuring accounts from a broad range of regional contexts the collection takes stock of such terms as "polylingualism" "metrolingualism" and "translanguaging" to question perceptions around multilingual and monolingual language use. The book critiques the status of fluid language use as a more "natural" language practice and in turn its greater potential for corresponding social transformation demonstrating the value of linguistic fixity and the continuous debate between fixity and fluidity in multilingual speakers' lives. In providing these accounts the book seeks not to advocate for linguistic fixity or fluidity but to argue that sociolinguists pay close attention to the way both types of linguistic practice open up or close down avenues for social transformation. This collection is a key reading for graduate students and scholars in sociolinguistics multilingualism and linguistic anthropology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367732196

Critical Perspectives on Media Power and Change This book aims to feed into the critical debates about media power and change through the respectful inclusion of a wide variety of critical approaches and traditions. This diversity is simultaneously structured and balanced by a deeply shared set of concerns that are mobilised to defend core societal values including social justice equality fairness care for the other and humanity. Critical Perspectives on Media Power and Change raises questions about how the omnipresent media can contribute to the materialisation of these core values and how it sometimes works against them. Rethinking social change mediatisation and regulations are thus significant issues – explicitly addressed in this book. In addition the authors show how the role of the critical media and communication scholar merits and requires (self-)reflection; critical voices matter but they also face structural limitations. This book was originally published as two special issues of Javnost – The Public. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367891107

Critical Perspectives on Michael FinnissyBright Futures Dark Pasts The composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) is an unmistakeable presence in the British and international new music scene both for his immeasurable generosity as prolific composer for many different types of musicians major advocate for the works of others and performer and conductor who has also been a driving force behind ensembles; he was also President of the International Society for Contemporary Music from 1990 to 1996. His vast and enormously varied output confounds those who seek easy categorisations: once associated strongly with the ‘new complexity’ Finnissy is equally known as composer regularly engaged with many different folk musics for working with amateur and community musicians for a long-term engagement with sacred music or as an advocate of Anglo-American ‘experimental’ music. Twenty years ago a large-scale volume entitled Uncommon Ground: The Music of Michael Finnissy gave the first major overview of the output of any ‘complex’ composer. This new volume brings a greater plurality of perspectives and critical sensibility to bear upon an output which is almost twice as large as it was when the earlier book was published. A range of leading contributors – musicologists composers performers and others – each grapple with particular questions relating to Finnissy’s music often in ways which raise questions relating more widely to new music and provide theoretical foundations for further of study both of Finnissy and other composers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367729127

Critical Perspectives on Public Systems Management in IndiaThrough the Lens of District Administration This book analyses the effectiveness of district administration from critical management perspective. Using classical organizational theory and leadership competency framework the authors conducted a comparative study of two exemplary districts with distinctive traits in India ─ a rural district in the developed state of Maharashtra and an urban district from the underdeveloped state of Madhya Pradesh. The book delves into the dynamics of district administration by breaking down the processes further and mapping the role of the district magistrates on the UNDP competency framework. Given the changing scope and challenges of public service this comparative analysis of the two districts would provide insights into district administration and would be of significant relevance to administrators and management professionals across the globe in assessing their effectiveness. The book provides an eclectic framework for public administration from an overall sustainability perspective　 　 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367540234

Critical Perspectives on Teaching in PrisonStudents and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall This volume makes a case for engaging critical approaches for teaching adults in prison higher education (or “college-in-prison”) programs. This book not only contextualizes pedagogy within the specialized and growing niche of prison instruction but also addresses prison abolition reentry and educational equity. Chapters are written by prison instructors currently incarcerated students and formerly incarcerated students providing a variety of perspectives on the many roadblocks and ambitions of teaching and learning in carceral settings. All unapologetic advocates of increasing access to higher education for people in prison contributors discuss the high stakes of teaching incarcerated individuals and address the dynamics conditions and challenges of doing such work. The type of instruction that contributors advocate is transferable beyond prisons to traditional campus settings. Hence the lessons of this volume will not only support readers in becoming more thoughtful prison educators and program administrators but also in becoming better teachers who can employ critical democratic pedagogy in a range of contexts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815379430

Critical Perspectives on the Management and Organization of Emergency Services Critical Perspectives in Emergency Services Management makes an important contribution to the subject of emergency services management and to public administration and organization studies more generally. It critically assesses developments in emergency services management by examining the multi-dimensional nature of the provision of emergency services and their connectedness in advanced western democracies. The effective management of emergency services has never been more important than in today’s high-pressured and cost-conscious public sector. The authors of this volume forensically analyse the challenges of delivering emergency services within this context. This book provides an in-depth scholarly and comprehensive analysis of the changing landscape of emergency service provision and clearly addresses a gap in the market for a critical volume on the emergency services. For anyone seeking to understand why and how the management of emergency services matters this collection is essential reading. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138097650

Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to ProtectInterrogating Theory and Practice This edited volume critically examines the widely supported doctrine of the 'Responsibility to Protect' and investigates the claim that it embodies progressive values in international politics. Since the United Nations World Summit of 2005 a remarkable consensus has emerged in support of the doctrine of the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) – the idea that states and the international community bear a joint duty to protect peoples around the world from mass atrocities. While there has been plenty of discussion over how this doctrine can best be implemented there has been no systematic criticism of the principles underlying R2P. This volume is the first critically to interrogate both the theoretical principles and the policy consequences of this doctrine. The authors in this collection argue that the doctrine of R2P does not in fact embody progressive values and they explore the possibility that the R2P may undermine political accountability within states and international peace between them. This volume not only advances a novel set of arguments but will also spur debate by offering views that are seldom heard in discussions of R2P. The aim of the volume is to bring a range of criticisms to bear from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including international law political science IR theory and security studies. This book will be of much interest to students of the Responsibility to Protect humanitarian intervention human security critical security studies and IR in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415832304

Critical Perspectives on the Security and Protection of Human Rights Defenders Human rights defenders – who by peaceful means advocate mobilise and often put their lives at risk to defend the most fundamental freedoms of their fellow citizens – are key agents of change in their own societies and make a significant contribution to the international community's efforts to support democracy and human rights. Defenders often face serious threats and can experience harm by state and non-state actors. Since the United Nations General Assembly's adoption of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders in 1998 there has been considerable effort to recognise and protect the right of individuals groups and communities to promote and protect their own rights and the rights of others. Over time a multi-level multi-actor international protection regime for the rights of human rights defenders has emerged which is based on existing rights derived from the international human rights regime. The authors in this book reflect on the positive developments that have emerged over time to strengthen the protection of defenders as well as the debates tensions and contestations in such practices. This collection provides a critical appraisal of the construction function ethical boundaries and evolution of this protection regime as well as its multi-scalar social and political effects. In particular the authors consider the effectiveness of particular international and regional protection mechanisms for the protection of defenders and examine the relationship between repression activism and tactics for managing risks in the face of danger. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138105607

Critical Philosophy of Race and Education This volume by philosophers sociologists and historians on issues of race and racism examines central educational questions contributing to ongoing discussions amongst educational theorists philosophers and practitioners. Critical Race Theory and the Critical Philosophy of Race are now well established within North American academia – yet they are only recently beginning to make inroads in UK academia. The wide-ranging discussions in this collection explore conceptual ethical political and epistemological aspects of race and racism in the context of discussions of pedagogy curriculum and education policy across a range of educational settings. The questions and issues addressed include: • why and how issues of race play out differently in different national and social contexts; • the impact of the legacies of empire and colonialism on philosophy and education; • the disciplinary boundaries and practices of academic philosophy; • the philosophical canon; • racial identities and their role in educational processes; • diversity and difference in educational practices and curricula; • whiteness and institutional racism; and • the pedagogical issues raised by teaching young children about race and racism. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethics and Education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367344313

Critical Political Economy of the MediaAn Introduction How the media are organised and funded is central to understanding their role in society. Critical Political Economy of the Media provides a clear comprehensive and insightful introduction to the political economic analysis of contemporary media. Jonathan Hardy undertakes a critical survey of political economy scholarship encompassing worldwide literature issues and debates and relationships with other academic approaches. He assesses different ways of making sense of media convergence and digitalisation media power and influence and transformations across communication markets. Many of the problems of the media that prompted critical political economy research remain salient he argues but the approach must continue to adapt to new conditions and challenges. Hardy advances the case for a revitalised critical media studies for the 21st century. Topics covered include: media ownership and financing news and entertainment convergence and the Internet media globalisation advertising and media alternative media media policy and regulation Introducing key concepts and research this book explains how political economy can assist students researchers and citizens to investigate and address vital questions about the media today. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415544849

Critical PracticeArtists museums ethics Critical Practice is an ambitious work that blurs the boundaries between art history museum studies political science and applied ethics. Marstine demonstrates how convergences between institutional critique and socially engaged practice as represented by the term ‘critical practice’ can create conditions for organisational change particularly facilitating increased public agency and shared authority. The book analyses a range of museum interventions exploring such subjects as the ethical stewardship of collections hybridity as a methodological approach to social justice and alternative forms of democracy. Discussing critical practice within the framework of peace and reconciliation studies Marstine shows how artists’ interventions can redress exclusions inequalities and relational frictions between museums and their publics. Elucidating the museological and ethical implications of institutional critique and socially engaged practice Marstine has provided a timely and thoughtful resource for museum studies scholars artists museum professionals art historians and graduate students worldwide who are interested in mapping and unpacking the intricate relationships among artists museums and communities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415658560

Critical Pragmatic Studies on Chinese Public Discourse Public discourse constitutes the language environment of a town or a city which forms part of the social environment of a country or a region. Based on extensive first-hand data collected from public places mass media and the Internet this monograph attempts critical pragmatic studies of public discourse in the contemporary Chinese context.By applying pragmatic theories and analytical instruments to the analysis of the data including business names advertisements public signs and notices and news the book showcases such discursive practices as personalization and subjectivization and reveals such social problems as unhealthy social mentalities “pragmatic traps” suspect discrimination and vulgarity. It exemplifies a way of combining the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach and the pragmatic approach with a clear focus on the pragmatic issues. This book will not only be a necessary addition to the academic discipline of pragmatics in general and critical pragmatics in particular but also lay bare the problems existing in the use of public discourse and suggest several ways to improve such use. While it addresses the Chinese data only the proposed analyses may contribute to international readers’ understanding of public discourse in contemporary China and serve as a reference for similar researches worldwide. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367354411

Critical Psychiatry and Mental HealthExploring the work of Suman Fernando in clinical practice Critical Psychiatry and Mental Health critically explores the current theory and practice of ethno-psychiatry and multicultural mental health practices and policies. Through an in-depth discussion of the work of Suman Fernando one of the world’s leading scholars and researchers in race culture and mental health an international selection of contributors discuss and debate issues affecting mental health and minority ethnic individuals and groups. The book offers a new approach to global mental health arguing that the use of outdated and outmoded ways in which psychiatry is researched and practiced is a thing of the past that social justice can only be achieved through a more democratic approach to mental health care and emphasising that the inclusion of cultural and traditional healing methods and practices are vital to meeting diverse needs. Split into five parts the book covers: Critique of Western Psychiatry and Mental Health Challenges and Opportunities in Mental Health Care Training and Development in Mental Health Practice Transnational Contexts: Engaging the work of Suman Fernando Personal Reflections on Suman Fernando’s Life and Work Critical Psychiatry and Mental Health is ideal for researchers and practitioners in health and mental health psychiatry counselling and psychotherapy and anyone interested in the intersection of race culture and mental health. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138016583

Critical Psychology PraxisPsychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality This collection of chapters advances critical psychology by incorporating praxis (theory and practice) and decolonial streams of thought. They are united around a theme of psychosocial non-alignment to modernity/coloniality. Bringing together a transdisciplinary range of authors from around the world this edited volume weaves together a spectrum of complex arguments and perspectives to lay the foundations for bridging the Global North–South divide in critical psychology through solidarity and dialogue. The book’s central argument is to emphasize praxis and transdisciplinarity over disciplinary fundamentalism. Psychology is only a starting point and not the end goal of critique in this book; incidentally some of the authors are not even psychologists. Instead the book draws on decolonial theoretical resources such as Chican@ Studies Black Male Studies and Critical Pedagogy to complement traditional theoretical resources like psychoanalysis Marxism poststructuralism and feminism. This groundbreaking text is suitable for scholars and upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students studying critical discourse the psychology and philosophy of post-coloniality conceptual and historical issues in psychology as well as anthropology and sociology courses engaging with action research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367634636

Critical Qualitative Health ResearchExploring Philosophies Politics and Practices Critical Qualitative Health Research seeks to deepen understandings of the philosophies politics and practices shaping contemporary qualitative health related research. This accessible lively controversial introduction draws on current empirical examples and critical discussion to show how qualitative research undertaken in neoliberal healthcare contexts emerges and the complex issues qualitative researchers confront. This book provides readers with a critical interrogative discussion of the histories and the legacies of qualitative research as well as of the more recent calls for renewed criticality in research to respond to global health concerns. Contributions further showcase a range of contemporary work engaging with these issues and the complex encounters with philosophies politics and practices this involves; from seeking explicit engagements with posthuman ideas or detailed explorations of deeply engaged humanist approaches to critical discussions of the politics and practices of emerging novel digital and creative methods. This book offers postgraduate researchers health researchers and students alike opportunities to engage more deeply with the emergent complex and messy terrain of qualitative health related research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138361263

Critical Qualitative InquiryFoundations and Futures Critical approaches to qualitative research have made a significant impact on research practice over the past decade. This comprehensive volume of contemporary original articles places this trend in its historical context describes the current landscape of critical work and considers the future of this turn. The book-includes contributions from some of the leading qualitative researchers on three continents;-consists of big-picture articles that describe the dimensions of this research tradition;-situates critical qualitative inquiry in the overall development and landscape of qualitative research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781629580128

Critical Queer StudiesLaw Film and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture Critical Queer Studies examines contemporary films and documentaries that dramatize the intersection of law and queer life analyzing the effects of legal doctrines-jury selection unwanted sexual advance negligence hate crimes and gay marriage-on the production and reception of queer film and fiction. Exploring the interaction of these discourses by discussing internationally-known American films the book demonstrates how the law maintains its hold over the queer subject through promoting certain ideological fictions and conversely how film and literature draw upon the material realities of queer legal status to dramatize conflicts between law and the marginalized subject. Critical Queer Studies synthesizes queer studies law and literature and film studies engaging these fields to show how the struggle for gay and lesbian rights has influenced the production of film and fiction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138271760

Critical Race ConsciousnessThe Puzzle of Representation Despite the apparent racial progress reflected in Obama's election the African American community in the United States is in a deep crisis on many fronts - economic intellectual cultural and spiritual. This book sets out to trace the ideological roots of this crisis.Challenging the conventional historical narrative of race in America Peller contends that the structure of contemporary racial discourse was set in the confrontation between liberal integrationism and black nationalism during the 1960s and 1970s. Arguing that the ideology of integration that emerged was highly conservative apologetic and harmful to the African American community this book is sure to provide a new lens for studying - and learning from - American race relations in the twentieth century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781594519055

Critical Race Counterstories along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline Chicanas/os are part of the youngest largest and fastest growing racial/ethnic 'minority' population in the United States yet at every schooling level they suffer the lowest educational outcomes of any racial/ethnic group. Using a 'counterstorytelling' methodology Tara Yosso debunks racialized myths that blame the victims for these unequal educational outcomes and redirects our focus toward historical patterns of institutional neglect. She artfully interweaves empirical data and theoretical arguments with engaging narratives that expose and analyse racism as it functions to limit access and opportunity for Chicana/o students. By humanising the need to transform our educational system Yosso offers an accessible tool for teaching and learning about the problems and possibilities present along the Chicano/a educational pipeline. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203624821

Critical Race Theory in Education Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an international movement of scholars working across multiple disciplines; some of the most dynamic and challenging CRT takes place in Education. This collection brings together some of the most exciting and influential CRT in Education. CRT scholars examine the race-specific patterns of privilege and exclusion that go largely unremarked in mainstream debates. The contributions in this book cover the roots of the movement the early battles that shaped CRT and key ideas and controversies such as: the problem of color-blindness racial microaggressions the necessity for activism how particular cultures are rejected in the mainstream and how racism shapes the day-to-day routines of schooling and politics. Of interest to academics students and policymakers this collection shows how racism operates in numerous hidden ways and demonstrates how CRT challenges the taken-for-granted assumptions that shape educational policy and practice. The chapters in this book were originally published in the following journals: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education; Race Ethnicity and Education; Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education; Critical Studies in Education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367436070

Critical Race Theory in Education (4-vol. set) Critical Race Theory (CRT) offers an account of society based on systemic deep-rooted racist oppression that saturates our commonsensical judgements to such an extent that all but the most extreme racism appears normal and unexceptional simply ‘business as usual’. CRT is one of the fastest growing and most controversial fields of contemporary social theory and education is the discipline where its most dynamic and challenging work is taking place. Now answering the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this sometimes shocking and often contentious body of thought Routledge announces a new title in its Major Themes in Education series. In four volumes Critical Race Theory in Education provides a unique ‘mini library’ that encompasses the very best CRT scholarship in education. As with other titles in the series the collection’s hallmark is its combination of the canonical and the cutting edge: every selection is either an established ‘classic’ or significantly challenges and advances thinking on current issues. The first volume (‘Tenets of Critical Race Theory in Education’) sets out the core themes that distinguish the CRT approach. Volume II (‘Whiteness and White Supremacy’) meanwhile explores the construction and maintenance of assumptions and practices that take for granted the elevated status of white people’s interests and perspectives. The third volume (‘Global and Specific: CRT Off-shoot Movements’) focuses on the development of CRT as an approach with an international reach while simultaneously retaining space for distinctive developments that prioritize individual social groups within their particular historic cultural and economic contexts. The collection’s final volume (‘Doing CRT in Education’) is dedicated to questions of method ethics and praxis in the everyday struggle to advance research and effect genuine anti-racist change amid systems that normalize racism and deny the legitimacy of race-conscious scholarship. The collection has been assembled by an editorial team featuring some of the leading US and UK-based scholars in educational critical race theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138848276

Critical Race Theory in EducationAll God's Children Got a Song Appropriate for both students curious about Critical Race Theory (CRT) and established scholars Critical Race Theory in Education is a valuable guide to how this theoretical lens can help better understand and seek solutions to educational inequity. While CRT has been established as a vital theoretical framework for understanding the ways race-neutral policies and laws sustain and promote racial inequity questions around how to engage and use CRT remain. This second edition of Critical Race Theory in Education evaluates the role of CRT in the field of higher education answering important questions about how we should understand and account for racial disparities in our school systems. Parts I and II trace the roots of CRT from the legal scholarship in which it originated to the educational discourse in which it now resides. A much-anticipated Part III examines contemporary issues in racial discourse and offers all-important practical methods for adopting CRT in the classroom. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138891159

Critical Race Theory in England Critical Race Theory (CRT) explains and challenges the persistence of racial discrimination throughout the world today addressing issues such as racism post-colonialism and systems of apartheid. Despite claims we live in a post-racial era equality laws are under threat in the UK and evidence of racism persists in life and work. This collection is the result of ongoing work in this area by a group of UK based academics: the CRT in the UK discussion group convened by Namita Chakrabarty John Preston and Lorna Roberts. The aim of this book is to examine the practical application of CRT within a specifically English context. Encompassing a range of fields from education to civil defense it considers the tools and techniques of CRT (including CRT feminist thought) from counter-narrative to the role of political positioning but above all it analyzes the workings of on-going racism within English institutions and structures. Key aspects of post- 9/11 culture are also critiqued and explored including an analysis of Islamophobia and antiracism how counter-terror measures may reinforce racist beliefs the role of race and the BME academic and the manipulation of race in debates surrounding education and class. These new perspectives offer greater insight into the crucial area of race without which any understanding of 21st century England is incomplete. This book was originally published as a special issue of Race Ethnicity and Education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415713078

Critical Race Theory in Mathematics Education Critical Race Theory in Mathematics Education brings together scholarship that uses critical race theory (CRT) to provide a comprehensive understanding of race racism social justice and experiential knowledge of African Americans’ mathematics education. CRT has gained traction within the educational research sphere and this book extends and applies this framework to chronicle the paths of mathematics educators who advance and use CRT. This edited collection brings together scholarship that addresses the racial challenges thrusted upon Black learners and the gatekeeping nature of the discipline of mathematics. Across the ten chapters scholars expand the uses of CRT in mathematics education and share insights with stakeholders regarding the racialized experiences of mathematics students and educators. Collectively the volume explains how researchers practitioners and policymakers can use CRT to examine issues of race racism and other forms of oppression in mathematics education for Black children and adults. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138562677

Critical Rationalism and GlobalizationTowards the Sociology of the Open Global Society Critical Rationalism and Globalization addresses how the access to critical reason enables people to shape a new social order on a global scale. This book demonstrates how the philosophy of critical rationalism contributes to the sociology of Globalization through uncovering the role of critical reason in arriving at an agreement on common values and institutions on a global scale. It discusses how value consensus on the institutions of sovereignty and inter–state law has prepared the ground for the rise of a global system of national societies after the end of World War II. Masoud Alamuti argues that uneven openness of national economies to global trade and investment should be comprehended in the framework of the post–war legal and political context. Using the concept of rationality as openness to criticism the book proposes a normative theory of open global society in order to show that the existing value consensus on the cult of sovereignty suffers from the recognition of the possibility of rational dialogue among competing ways of the good life. Masoud Alamuti argues that once the people of the world across national communities open their fundamental ways of the good life to mutual criticism they can create common global values necessary for the rise of a just social order on a global scale. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Globalization Studies Global Sociology and International Relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815377412

Critical Rationalism and the Theory of SocietyCritical Rationalism and the Open Society Volume 1 Investigating Karl Popper’s philosophy of critical rationalism Critical Rationalism and the Theory of Society Volume 1 explores a non-justificationist conception of critical reason and its fundamental outcomes for the theory of society. Through a set of fundamental contributions to epistemology the theory of rationality and sociology this volume (a) situates the idea of critical rationalism in its true epistemological context (b) uses non-justificationist epistemology to reinvent critical rationalism and (c) applies its revised concept of rationality to show how people’s access to critical reason enables them to agree on the common values and social institutions necessary for a peaceful and just social order. These contributions lead the reader to a new epistemological understanding of the idea of critical rationalism and recognition of how a non-justificational concept of reason changes the content of the theory of society. The reader also learns how thinkers movements and masses apply their critical reason to replace an established social order with an ideal one through activating five types of driving forces of social change: metaphysical moral legal political and economic. Written for philosophers and sociologists this book will appeal to social scientists such as moral philosophers legal scholars political scientists and economists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367461317

Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital AgeAn Introductory Coursebook Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age is a fully introductory interactive textbook that explores the power relations at work in and behind the texts we encounter in our everyday lives. Using examples from numerous genres – such as fiction poetry advertisements and newspapers – this textbook examines the language choices a writer must make in structuring texts representing the world and positioning the reader. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age offers guidance on how to read texts critically and how to develop effective writing skills. Extensively updated key features of the second edition include: a radically revised and repackaged section that highlights the theme of discourses of power and authority and the new possibilities for resisting them; a revamped analysis of the art of communication which has changed due to the advent of new media including Facebook and Wikipedia; fresh examples exercises and case studies including fan fiction articles from the BBC Daily Mail and South China Morning Post and a selection of international ads for a variety of products; a brand new companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/goatly featuring projects quizzes and activities for each chapter a glossary and further reading. Written by two experienced teachers Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age is an ideal coursebook for students of English language. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415842624

Critical Readings in Bodybuilding In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding in particular continues to be of interest to scholars of gender media film cultural studies and sociology. However there is surprisingly little scholarship available on contemporary bodybuilding. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding is the first collection to address the contemporary practice of bodybuilding especially the way in which the activity has become increasingly more extreme and to consider much neglected debates of gender eroticism and sexuality related to the activity. Featuring the leading scholars of bodybuilding and the body as well as emerging voices this volume will be a key addition to the fields of Sociology Sport Studies and Cultural Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415846868

Critical Readings on Latinos and Education This critical anthology showcases an interdisciplinary forum of scholars sharing a common interest in the analysis discussion critique and dissemination of educational issues impacting Latinos. Drawing on the best of the past 20 years of the Journal of Latinos and Education the collection highlights work that has been seminal in addressing complex educational issues affecting and influencing the growing Latina and Latino population. Chapters discuss the production and application of wisdom and knowledge to real-world problems while engaging and collaborating with the interests of key stakeholders in other sectors outside the "traditional" academy. Organized thematically around issues related to policy research practice and creative and literary works the collection is sure to extend and encourage novel ways of thinking about the ongoing and emerging questions around the unifying thread of Latinos and education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367075286

Critical Readings on Piaget First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138006898

Critical Realism Environmental Learning and Social-Ecological Change Southern Africa where most of these book chapters originate has been identified as one of regions of the world most at risk of the consequences of environmental degradation and climate change. At the same time it is still seeking ways to overcome the century long ravages of colonial and apartheid impositions of structural and epistemic violence. Research deliberations and applied research case studies in environmental education and activism from this region provide an emerging contextualized engagement that is related to a wider internationally articulated quest to achieve social-ecological justice resilience and sustainability through educational interventions.This book introduces a decade of mainly southern African critical realist environmental education research and thinking that asks the question: "How can we facilitate learning processes that will lead to the flourishing of the Earth’s people and ecosystems in more socially just ways?" The environmental education research topics represented in this book are wide-ranging. However they all exhibit the common theme of social justice and wanting to create change towards a better future. All the authors have used critical realist or critical realist-influenced research methodologies. Offering contributions from a small but growing community of researchers working with critical realism in the global South this book will be of interest to students scholars and practitioners in the areas of environmental education sustainability development and the philosophy of critical realism in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367597689

Critical Realism Feminism and Gender: A Reader In assessing the current state of feminism and gender studies whether on a theoretical or a practical level it has become increasingly challenging to avoid the conclusion that these fields are in a state of disarray. Indeed feminist and gender studies discussions are beset with persistent splits and disagreements. This reader suggests that returning to and placing centre-stage the role of philosophy especially critical realist philosophy of science is invaluable for efforts that seek to overcome or mitigate the uncertainty and acrimony that have resulted from this situation. In particular it claims that the dialectical logic that runs through critical realist philosophy is ideally suited to advancing feminist and gender studies discussions about broad ontological and epistemological questions and considerations intersectionality and methodology methods and empirical research. By bringing together four new and eight existing writings this reader provides both a focal point for renewed discussions about the potential and actual contributions of critical realist philosophy to feminism and gender studies and a timely contribution to these discussions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138083707

Critical Realism Somalia and the Diaspora Community Critical Realism Somalia and the Diaspora Community equips new researchers with a simplified knowledge of critical realism suitable to the degree of their comprehension. Moreover it offers a step by step example of research using all levels of critical realism. This book resulted from the endeavour of a researcher new to critical realism who however sought to apply all parts and phases of critical realism to his subject matter. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 provides an outline of the three phases of critical realism: original/basic critical realism dialectical critical realism and the philosophy of metaReality. Part 2 presents a case study that applied critical realism as a research-theory framework. The case study explores the formation of the Somali Community Organisations in the UK and develops a retroductive model that outlines their role in engaging the Somali Diaspora Community with the issue of sustainability. Part 3 presents reflections towards the geo-historical study of Somalia and explains the origins of the civil war and the dispersal that resulted in the formation of Somali Diaspora Communities in different parts of the world. This book will be of interest to Critical Realists researchers on and in Africa agencies interested in Somali affairs researchers on diaspora and refugees Somali Community Co-ordinators and local council authorities in the UK and Europe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138233324

Critical Realism and Composition Theory The field of composition theory has emerged as part of the intellectual turmoil and set of pedagogical debates which have beset higher education for the last four decades and is now revolutionizing the theory and praxis of higher education. This volume examines three of the dominant pedagogical theories within composition theory: expressivist cognitivist and social-constructivist and builds its critique on the fact that much of modern composition theory has focused on epistemological concerns while neglecting the ontological foundations of that which is being discussed.Critical Realism and Composition Theory offers an alternative approach to teaching composition. This problem-oriented alternative is designed to lead students beyond the abstract contemplative description of a problem to an expanded understanding that shows that concerns for justice cannot be addressed intellectually without at the same time confronting the practical constraints that limiting powers of social institutions play in both defining a problem and its social solution. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415524001

Critical Realism and Housing Research Since the nineteenth century various housing solutions have evolved such as sprawling Australian home ownership and compact Dutch social rental housing. This phenomenon cannot be adequately explained with simple descriptions of key events politics and housing outcomes. Critical Realism and Housing Studies pushes debate forward  arguing that a new ontological perspective is required to address fundamental issues in housing and comparative research. This book is clearly organized into three parts which: evaluate ontological and methodological alternatives for comparative housing research provide two historical case studies inspired by critical realist ontology compare the causal tendencies that explain diverging housing pathways in Australia and the Netherlands. Lawson proposes that we turn to critical realism for the solution. From this perspective the causal tendencies of complex open and structured housing phenomena are highlighted. With this insight we are able to extract the key social arrangements which promote different housing solutions from the historical case studies. Social arrangements which are found to influence alternative pathways in housing history concern the property rights circuit of savings and investment as well as labour and welfare relations. As they develop differently over time and space they affect where when and how housing solutions develop.    Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415864657

Critical Realism and Spirituality Critical Realism and Spirituality contextualizes delineates explores and critiques the turn to spirituality and religion in critical realism which has been under way since the mid-1990s as well as telling its story. It provides incisive discussion and anaysis of the following broad questions: How does critical realism allow and facilitate the resolution of problems in the area of comparative religion? Can it help you to justify your own faith or belief? What are the implications of the new philosophy of meta-Reality for traditional religious studies and how we organize and conduct our lives? A range of distinguished critical realists theological critical realists and scholars working with related approaches (Roland Benedikter Roy Bhaskar Terry Eagleton Mervyn Hartwig Alister McGrath Markus Molz Jamie Morgan Andrew Wright and others) bring their talents to bear on this task. While their personal beliefs span the whole spectrum from theism to atheism they are united by the desire to open up a space for dialogue of one kind or another (intra-faith inter-faith and/or extra-faith) promoting mutual understanding respect and the unity and capability for collective emancipatory action on a global scale that humanity is so sorely in need of. This book is therefore essential reading for students and academics alike in Religous Studies Theology and Philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138798038

Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education This book offers a critical realist intervention into the field of Marxist Sociology of Education. Critical realism as developed by British philosopher Roy Bhaskar is known for its capacity to serve as a conceptual underlabourer to applied fields like education. Indeed its success in clarifying and resolving thorny issues of educational theory and practice is now well established. Given critical realism’s sympathetic Marxist origins its productive and critical engagement with Marxism has an even longer history. To date there has been little sustained attention given to the application of critical realism to Marxist educational praxis. The book addresses this gap in existing scholarship. Its conceptual ground clearing of the field of Marxist Sociology of Education centres on two problematics well-known in the social sciences: naturalism and the structure-agency relation. Marxist theory from the days of Marx to the present is shown to also be haunted by these problematics. This has resulted in considerable tension around the meaning and nature of for example reform revolution class determinism and class struggle. With its emergence in the 1970s as a child of Western Marxism the field continues to be an expression of these tensions that seriously limit its transformative potential. Addressing these issues and offering conceptual clarification in the interests of revolutionary educational practice Critical Realism for Marxist Sociology of Education provides a new perspective on education which will be of interest to students scholars and practitioners alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367598150

Critical Realism for Psychologists This is the first dedicated text to explain and explore the utility of critical realism for psychologists offering it as a helpful middle ground between positivism and postmodernism. By introducing its basic concepts Pilgrim explains critical realism to psychologists and shows how the interface between the natural and social worlds and the internal and external can be used to examine human life. This both/and aspect of human life is important in another sense: we are both determined and determining beings making choices but within the material constraints of both our bodies and the social context of our unique existence. The book offers an exploration of academic and applied psychology with that inward and outward curiosity in mind beginning with the premise that both inner and outer reality are the legitimate interest of psychologists. In doing so it shows how critical realism endorses the remaining advantages of positivism and postmodernism while discarding their philosophical errors. A range of case studies are presented to show how psychologists can use critical realism when working with real life problems as researchers or practitioners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367223588

Critical Realism for Welfare Professions As a discipline social work needs an inclusive metatheory for both research and practice that goes beyond positivism and constructivism. This is the first book to present and discuss how critical realism can contribute to a more useful and realistic approach to both research and practice in social work. As a theory of science that includes normative theories and emphasises method-pluralism and holistic thinking critical realism is applicable to a world of poverty global health problems and social conflicts. Contributors to this book present a realist perspective on social work. The connection between critical realism and social work is illuminated through a theoretical introduction in Part 1. Part 2 covers the specific topics of normativity interdisciplinarity and education. Part 3 presents practical/empirical examples from contemporary research in social work using different approaches based on critical realism. As critical realism can contribute to a useful and realistic approach to research and practice this book is essential reading for professionals academics and students working in different fields of social work and health care. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367352417

Critical RealismEssential Readings Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible in one volume key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism. It explores the following themes:* transcendental realist* the theory of explanatory critique* dialectics* Bhaskar's critical naturalist philosophy of science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138130401

Critical Realist Activity TheoryAn engagement with critical realism and cultural-historical activity theory Critical Realist Activity Theory provides an exciting new contribution to the New Studies in Critical Realism and Education series by showing how the nature of learning is tantamount to the critical realist notion of the dialectic. The science of learning is too important to leave solely to the sciences; it needs philosophy as well. The task of this book is to take a further step and clear the conceptual field for an ontologically grounded view of the science of learning through critical realism making use of dialectical critical realism and the philosophy of meta-Reality as well as basic critical realism. The objective of the book is neither to accommodate the nature of learning to strategies and techniques nor to adjust to the demands of institutions and authorities. Its key goal is to explain how the very nature of learning constitutes itself; that is its aim is to explain how a stratum of learning emerges out of the need to absent something that has been left out in human reality. In this precise sense the book does much more than simply reveal the aspects of reality that have been omitted from the conceptualization of learning it helps to reformulate a proper understanding of the nature of learning. An implication of this understanding of learning is that it begins to advance the fundamental question of what it means to be a human being. This book will be of great interest to academics and students interested in Vygotsky Luria   Activity Theory and Critical Realism more generally across both Europe and the US. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138919396

Critical Reflection in ContextApplications in Health and Social Care Critical reflection enables practitioners – especially those within health and social care –to theorise from their own practice improving and developing their work and practising both creatively and professionally. This book provides an accessible overview of the influential Fook/Gardner Critical Reflection framework for students researchers and professionals. It then presents a wide range of illustrative case studies from a variety of different health and social care settings demonstrating how it can be used in effective and innovative practice around the world. By highlighting how professionals are actually using the Fook/Gardner model of critical reflection it shares practical and resourceful ideas and provides specific theoretical and practical guidelines for use. It also further conceptualises and develops the theory of critical reflection by articulating underlying theory used in practice. The book also draws out particular issues for how critical reflection might be better practised within organisations and develops a framework for a better understanding of this. The book is divided into four parts discussing critical reflection in: Professional Practice Supervision and Management Research Education Including an up-to-date overview of the framework written by Jan Fook this helpful text makes a significant contribution in terms of the practical theorizing of critical reflection. It will be of use to health and social care professionals keen to practice creatively and effectively especially those undertaking short courses or further development in supervision critical reflection advanced practice and leadership and management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415684255

Critical Reflections on Career Education and GuidancePromoting Social Justice within a Global Economy First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415646383

Critical Reflections On Dist. This book suggests that apparently unrelated vignettes of Mikhail Gorbachev Robert Mugabe and Harold Wilson are closely connected and illustrates that the concept of distance education may be seen as one of those innovations which was forged on the frontier of European expansion overseas. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003059165

Critical Reflections on Evidence-Based Policing Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) has over the last decade made an increasing mark in several fields notably health and medicine education and social welfare. In recent years it has begun to make its mark in criminal justice. As engagement with EBP has spread it has begun to evolve from what might be regarded as a somewhat narrow doctrine and orthodoxy to something more complex and various. Often criminological research has been at odds with the assumptions conventions and methodologies associated with first generation EBP. In that context EBP poses a challenge to the research community and existing evidence base and is accordingly hotly controversial. This book is a welcome and timely contribution to current debates on evidence-based practice  in policing. With a sharp conceptual focus the chapters provide a critical examination of the recent history of EBP in academic policy and practitioner communities evaluate key dimensions of its application to policing challenge established understandings and pave the way for a much needed change in how research ‘evidence’ is perceived generated transferred implemented and evaluated. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138595804

Critical Reflections on Indigenous Religions The study of indigenous religions has become an important academic field particularly since the religious practices of indigenous peoples are being transformed by forces of globalization and transcontinental migration. This book will further our understanding of indigenous religions by first considering key methodological issues related to defining and contextualizing the religious practices of indigenous societies both historically and in socio-cultural situations. Two further sections of the book analyse cases derived from European contexts which are often overlooked in discussion of indigenous religions and in two traditional areas of study: South America and Africa. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138251625

Critical Reflections on Migration 'Race' and MulticulturalismAustralia in a Global Context Migration and its associated social practices and consequences have been studied within a multitude of academic disciplines and in the context of policies at local national and regional level.This edited collection provides an introduction and critical review of conceptual developments and policy contexts of migration scholarship within an Australian and global context through:political economy analyses of migration and associated transformations;sociological analyses of ‘settling in’ processes; multi-disciplinary analyses of migrant work;a historical review of scholarship on refugees;a Southern theory approach to cultural diversity;sociological reflections on post-nationalism;Cultural Studies analyses of public culture and ‘second generation’ youth cultures;interdisciplinary and Critical Race analyses of ‘race’ and racism;feminist intersectional analyses of migration belonging and representation;the theorising of cosmopolitanism;a transdisciplinary analysis of gender transnational families and care; anda comparative transcontextual analysis of hybridity.An essential contribution to the current mapping of migration studies with a focus on Australian scholarship in its international context this collection will be of interest to undergraduates and postgraduates interested in fields such as Sociology Cultural Studies Geography and Politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367876227

Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships This book argues that despite the hype within many policy circles there is actually very little evidence to support the presumed benefits of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in reducing poverty and addressing inequalities in the provision of and access to public services. Taking a cross-sectoral comparative approach this book investigates how PPPs have played out in practice and what the implications have been for inequalities. Drawing on a range of empirical case studies in education healthcare housing and water the book picks apart the roles of PPPs as financing mechanisms in several international and national contexts and considers the similarities and differences between sectors. The global COVID-19 pandemic has raised significant questions about the future of social provision and through its analysis of the emergence and expansion of the role of PPPs the book also makes a vital contribution to current discussion over this rapidly changing landscape. Overall this wide-ranging guide to understanding and evaluating the role of PPPs in the Global South will be useful to researchers within development international relations economics and related fields as well as to policy makers and practitioners working in development-related policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367235666

Critical Reflections on Regional CompetitivenessTheory Policy Practice Since the early 1990s governments and development agencies have become increasingly preoccupied with the pursuit of regional competitiveness. However there is considerable confusion around what exactly regional competitiveness means how it might be achieved whether and how it can be measured and whether it is a meaningful and appropriate goal for regional economies. The central aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive and critical account of these debates with reference to theory policy and practice and thus to explore the meaning and value of the concept of regional competitiveness. The book is structured into three parts. Part one introduces the concept of regional competitiveness by tracing its origins and exploring its different meanings in regional economic development. This will critically engage with political economy approaches to understanding the nature and dominance of the competitiveness discourse. Part two interrogates the pursuit of regional competitiveness in policy and practice. This critically evaluates the degree to which the pursuit of competitiveness is encouraging convergence in policy agendas in regions through an examination of key determinants of policy sameness and difference notably benchmarking and devolved governance. Part three explores the limitations to regional competitiveness and explores whether and how its predominance in the policy discourse might be challenged by alternative agendas such as sustainable development and wellbeing. This focuses on the developing qualitative character of regional development. This volume critically engages with the theory and policy of regional competitiveness thus providing the first integrated critique of the concept for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics interested in regional development and policy. It will unpack the concept of regional competitiveness and explain its usefulness limitations and policy appeal as well as examining its sustainability in the light of evolving governance structures and the imperatives of broadening regional development agendas. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138867321

Critical Reflections on Security and Change The contributors reflect critically on security studies since the 1980s. They conclude that analysts and policy-makers have not been able to respond well to the changes that have occurred and that they must revise their approach if they are to meet the challenges of the future. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203045060

Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of DisabilityDisabling Society Enabling Theology “No other mainstream theologian has so consistently and trenchantly taken a stand with and for people with developmental disabilities.”—John SwintonCritical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas’ Theology of Disability: Disabling Society Enabling Theology examines the influential writings of one of the most important contemporary theologians. Over the past thirty years Time magazine Theologian of the Year (2001) Dr. Stanley Hauerwas has consistently presented a theological position which values the deep theological significance of people with developmental disabilities as well as their importance to the life and the faithfulness of the church. Ten key Hauerwas essays on disability are brought together in a single volume—essays which reflect and illustrate his thinking on the theology of disability along with responses to each essay from multidisciplinary authoritative sources including Jean Vanier Michael Bérubé John O'Brien and Ray S. Anderson.Dr. Hauerwas has always been a fearless voice in the field of theology. Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas’ Theology of Disability: Disabling Society Enabling Theology presents his work on the true meaning of disability and provides critical multidisciplinary discussions about his challenging ideas and their validity. In his essays Hauerwas discusses his views on issues such as the social construction of developmental disabilities the experience of profound developmental disabilities in relation to liberal society and the community as the “hermeneutic of the gospel.” Included is a new essay by Dr. Hauerwas responding to the contributors to the book.Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas’ Theology of Disability: Disabling Society Enabling Theology explores Hauerwas’ thoughts on: the political nature of disability in liberal society the creation of a society where there is more love the dimensions of what is “normal” the key role of those treated as outsiders in building community the theological understanding of parenting which places responsibility for the individual child firmly within the Christian community using the model of the church as a social ethic developmental disability being equated with suffering the concept of the person in the theology of disability the developmentally disabled and the criteria for “humanhood” the importance of family in the process of caring for people with developmental disabilitiesCritical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas’ Theology of Disability: Disabling Society Enabling Theology is a fascinating exploration of contemporary theological reflection on disability and is essential reading for students and teachers of practical theology pastoral counselors clergy chaplains and social and health care students. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203051122

Critical Reflections on the Language of Neoliberalism in EducationDangerous Words and Discourses of Possibility Recognizing the dominance of neoliberal forces in education this volume offers a range of critical essays which analyze the language used to underpin these dynamics. Combining essays from over 20 internationally renowned contributors this text offers a critical examination of key terms which have become increasingly central to educational discourse. Each essay considers the etymological foundation of each term the context in which they have evolved and likewise their changed meaning. In doing so these essays illustrate the transformative potential of language to express or challenge political social and economic ideologies. The text’s musings on the language of education and its implications for the current and future role of education in society make clear its relevance to today’s cultural and political landscape. This exploratory monograph will be of interest to doctoral students researchers and scholars with an interest in the philosophy of education educational policy and politics as well as the sociology of education and the impacts of neoliberalism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367629564

Critical Religious Education in PracticeA Teacher's Guide for the Secondary Classroom Critical Religious Education in Practice serves as an accessible handbook to help teachers put Critical Religious Education (CRE) into practice. The book offers straightforward guidance unpicking some of the key difficulties that teachers encounter when implementing this high-profile pedagogical approach. In-depth explanations of CRE pedagogy accompanied by detailed lesson plans and activities will give teachers the confidence they need to inspire debate in the classroom tackling issues as controversial as the authority of the Qur’an and the relationship between science and religion. The lesson plans and schemes of work exemplify CRE in practice and are aimed at empowering teachers to implement CRE pedagogy across their curriculum. Additional chapters cover essential issues such as differentiation assessment the importance of subject knowledge and tips for tackling tricky topics. The accompanying resources including PowerPoint presentations and worksheets are available via the book’s companion website. Key to developing a positive classroom culture and promoting constructive attitudes towards Religious Education this text is essential reading for all practising and future teachers of Religious Education in secondary schools. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138123229

Critical Religious Pluralism in Higher EducationA Social Justice Framework to Support Religious Diversity This text presents a new critical theory addressing religious diversity Christian religious privilege and Christian hegemony in the United States. It meets a growing and urgent need in our society—the need to bring together religiously diverse ways of thinking and being in the world and eventually to transform our society through intentional pluralism. The primary goal of Critical Religious Pluralism Theory (CRPT) is to acknowledge the central roles of religious privilege oppression hegemony and marginalization in maintaining inequality between Christians and non-Christians (including the nonreligious) in the United States. Following analysis of current literature on religious secular and spiritual identities within higher education and in-depth discussion of critical theories on other identity elements the text presents seven tenets of CRPT alongside seven practical guidelines for utilizing the theory to combat the very inequalities it exposes. For the first time a critical theory will address directly the social impacts of religious diversity and its inherent benefits and complications in the United States. Critical Religious Pluralism in Higher Education will appeal to scholars researchers and graduate students in higher education as well as critical theorists from other disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367438104

Critical Research in Sport Health and Physical EducationHow to Make a Difference Within the overlapping fields of the sociology of sport physical education and health education the use of critical theories and the critical research paradigm has grown in scope. Yet what social impact has this research had? This book considers the capacity of critical research and associated social theory to play an active role in challenging social injustices or at least in ‘making a difference’ within health and physical education (HPE) and sporting contexts. It also examines how the use of different social theories impacts sport policies national curricula and health promotion activities as well as the practices of HPE teaching and sport training and competition. Critical Research in Sport Health and Physical Education is a valuable resource for academics and students working in the fields of research methods sociology of sport physical education and health. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367520304

Critical Resilience for NursesAn Evidence-Based Guide to Survival and Change in the Modern NHS The nursing profession is under pressure. Financial demands student debt the target culture political scrutiny in the wake of major care scandals and increasing workloads are all taking their toll on professional morale and performance. This timely book considers the meaning of resilience in this adverse context and explains why measures to preserve individual nurses’ and students’ well-being are flawed if they don’t take into account wider political and organizational perspectives. Arguing that healthcare can be thought about and experienced differently this book: 　 provides a summary of the latest research on resilience explaining its relevance and also limitations for nurses; considers debates about compassion and highlights the effects of policy agendas on nurse education and nursing work; re-evaluates nursing’s professional identity including where nursing has come from and the effects of class gender and race on its powerbase; assesses the role of politics and social media both in driving change and feeding resistance; and introduces the idea of critical resilience as a complete framework for resisting bullying and fostering survival and change in the nursing workforce. 　 Direct upbeat at times provocative and witty this agenda-setting book enables nurses to understand why they feel the way they do. It also lists what opportunities are available to them to change resist and survive in what has become a complex challenging – if still deeply rewarding – line of work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138194236

Critical Security Democratisation and Television in Taiwan This title was first published in 2001. By examining the way the ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) dominated Taiwan’s three mainstream television stations before the introduction of political reform in the mid-1980s the book provides an insightful investigation of how the media can be used as an instrument of both political power and emancipation. This new approach challenges many accepted assumptions about Taiwan’s political development such as the sacrifice of democracy for stability and wealth and recognizes that threats to society often originate within the state itself rather than from external forces. However the development of public television also broadened the political agenda allowing the Taiwanese population to express its will through collective activities and to exercise the power of (civil) society. Taiwan is an exciting case study with which to explore the post-Cold War understanding of Critical Security. A fascinating look at one of the world’s most rapidly developing nations this book makes a striking contribution to a fresh area of political thought. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138706279

Critical Security and Chinese PoliticsThe Anti-Falungong Campaign This book examines how critical approaches to security developed in Europe can be used to investigate a Chinese security issue - the case of the Falungong. The past few decades have produced a rich field of theoretical approaches to ‘security’ in Europe. In this book the security-specific notions of securitization the politics of insecurity and emancipation are used as analytical approaches to investigate the anti-Falungong campaign in the People’s Republic of China. This campaign launched in 1999 was the largest security-related propaganda campaign since 1989 and was directed against a group of qigong-practitioners who were presented as a grave threat to society. The campaign had major impacts as new security legislation was established and human rights organizations reported severe mistreatment of practitioners. This book approaches one empirical case with three approaches in order to transcend the tendency to pit one approach against another. It shows how they highlight different aspects in investigation and how they can be combined to gain more comprehensive insights and thereby invigorate renewed debate in the field. Furthermore this is used as a vehicle to discuss more general philosophical issues of theory development and theory development and will assist students to comprehend the effects research framework selection has on a piece of research. Such discussions are necessary in order to apply the frameworks in investigations that go beyond the socio-political context they were originally developed in. This book will be of interest to students of critical security studies Chinese politics research methods and IR in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138650282

Critical Security MethodsNew frameworks for analysis Critical Security Methods offers a new approach to research methods in critical security studies. It argues that methods are not simply tools to bridge the gap between security theory and security practice. Rather to practise methods critically means engaging in a more free and experimental interplay between theory methods and practice. This recognises that the security practices we research are often methods in their own right as forms of surveillance data mining visualisation and so on and that our own research methods are themselves practices that intervene and interfere in those sites of security and insecurity. Against the familiar methdological language of rigour detachment and procedural consistency Critical Security Methods reclaims the idea of method as experiment. The chapters offer a series of methodological experimentations that assemble concepts theory and empirical cases into new frameworks for critical security research. They show how critical engagement and methodological innovation can be practiced as interventions into diverse instances of insecurity and securitisation including airports drug trafficking peasant struggles biometrics and police kettling. The book will be a valuable resource for students and researchers in critical security studies politics and international relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415712958

Critical Security Studies Although prominent—some would argue pre-eminent—within the modern political lexicon the concept of ‘security’ is complex and contested. While the meaning and reference point of security was once largely taken for granted within International Relations the past thirty years or so have witnessed the growth of a range of approaches that refuse to take this concept and its application as self-evident. Instead serious scholarship often grouped under the rubric of ‘Critical Security Studies’ has sought to question and critique dominant conceptions of security to introduce new theoretical approaches to the assessment of security discourses and practices and to expand the range of issues considered within security analysis. This new four-volume collection from Routledge provides a timely anthology of the subdiscipline’s best and most influential scholarship to help users make sense of a now dizzyingly large body of literature and a continuing explosion in research output. Bringing together these major works in one easy-to-use reference resource the collection illuminates the sometimes complex debates within and between different critical approaches to security where even the meaning form and function of critique is itself contested. And rather than attempting to impose a unitary or monolithic understanding of Critical Security Studies the collection editors have instead captured the diversity and vibrancy of critical research on security by grouping the gathered materials into four interrelated themes: defining deepening broadening and extending security. Volume I (‘Defining Security’) collects a variety of critical perspectives on the meaning of the concept of security. Volume II (‘Broadening Security’) meanwhile presents arguments for and against the ‘broadening’ of security to include issues such as environmental degradation migration and health. The third volume (‘Deepening Security’) in the collection gathers assessments of the appropriate point of reference for security that range from the individual to the global level while Volume IV (‘Extending Security’) brings together materials that have sought to extend existing critical approaches and to expand further the disciplinary boundaries of Security Studies. The collection is fully indexed and includes a comprehensive introduction that places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is destined to be valued by students teachers and researchers of Security Studies—as well as those working in contiguous fields—as a vital and unique resource. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415603287

Critical Security StudiesAn Introduction This textbook introduces students to the sub-field of critical security studies through a detailed yet accessible survey of emerging theories and practices. This third edition contains two new chapters – on ‘Ontological security’ and ‘(In)Security and the everyday’ – and has been fully revised and updated. Written in an accessible and clear manner Critical Security Studies: offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to critical security studies locates critical security studies within the broader context of social and political theory evaluates fundamental theoretical positions in critical security studies against a backdrop of new security challenges. The book is divided into two main parts. Part I ‘Approaches’ surveys the newly extended and contested theoretical terrain of critical security studies: constructivist theories Critical Theory feminist and gender approaches postcolonial perspectives poststructuralism and International Political Sociology Ontological security and securitisation theory. Part II ‘Issues’ examines how these various theoretical approaches have been put to work in critical considerations of environmental and planetary security; health human security and development; information technology and warfare; migration and border security; (in)security and the everyday; and terror risk and resilience. The historical and geographical scope of the book is deliberately broad and each of the chapters in Part II concretely illustrates one or more of the approaches discussed in Part I with clear internal referencing allowing the text to act as a holistic learning tool for students. This book is essential reading for upper level students of critical security studies and an important resource for students of international/global security political theory and international relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367224257

Critical Security StudiesConcepts And Strategies This text takes issue with arguments that security studies is a discipline of limited use in making sense of the post-Cold War world. It argues that many of the most interesting theoretical issues in international relations can most usefully be studied through a prism labelled "security studies". The book combines chapters which provide a variety of critical perspectives on the discipline and address a diverse range of theoretical concerns with chapters that examine such substantive issues as weapons proliferation and the changing meaning of "security" for actors in the erstwhile conflict between East and West. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138143593

Critical Social Issues in American EducationDemocracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World This text-reader brings together powerful readings that critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural moral political economic ecological and spiritual crises that confront us as a nation and a global community. It provides a focus and a conceptual framework for thinking about education in light of these issues. Readers are exposed to the thinking of some of the best and most insightful social and educational commentators. Critical Social Issues in American Education: Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World Third Edition is intended to work on two levels. First it helps readers to develop an awareness of how education is connected to the wider social structures of cultural political and economic life. Second it encourages not only a critical examination of our present social reality but also a serious discussion of alternatives--of what a transformed society and educational process might look like. The editors' goal is to deliberately engage readers in connecting the work of teachers to an ethically committed politically charged pedagogy. The assumption on which they base the text is that educators must see their work as inextricably linked to the broader conflicts stresses and crises of the social world--it is not otherwise possible to make sense of what is happening educationally. What happens in school or as part of the educational experience reflects expresses and mediates profound questions about the direction and nature of the society we inhabit. The text is organized thematically into five sections which address respectively social justice and democracy; consumerism culture and public education; marginality and difference; moral and spiritual perspectives on education; and globalization and education. Each section is preceded by a brief essay that introduces the readings. This Third Edition includes many new readings and addresses issues that have more rec Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138453043

Critical Social Theories This thoroughly updated edition of Critical Social Theories presents a comprehensive analysis of leading social and cultural theories today. Ben Agger covers a diverse range of perspectives from feminism and cultural studies to postmodernism and critical theory. This new edition traces new developments in theory up to 2012. It also offers a new chapter on challenges to modernity by religious fundamentalism right-wing politics terrorism the decline of civil discourse and globalisation. Particular attention is also given to the changing impact of the Internet on culture media politics and personal identity. Critical Social Theories assumes little prior knowledge and is written for undergraduate and graduate students in sociology and other social sciences and humanities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781612051970

Critical Social Theory and the End of Work Critical Social Theory and the End of Work examines the development and sociological significance of the idea that work is being eliminated through the use of advanced production technology. Granter’s engagement with the work of key American and European figures such as Marx Marcuse Gorz Habermas and Negri focuses his arguments for the abolition of labour as a response to the current socio-historical changes affecting our work ethic and consumer ideology. By combining history of ideas with social theory this book considers how the 'end of work' thesis has developed and has been critically implemented in the analysis of modern society. This book will appeal to scholars of sociology history of ideas social and cultural theory as well as those working in the fields of critical management and sociology of work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367147761

Critical Social Theory in Public Administration The essential premise of critical social theory is that contemporary society is neither democratic nor free but that modern global capitalism creates a citizenry satiated with consumer goods unaware of alternative ways of living. In the public sector critical theory suggests that governing systems are influenced if not controlled by the wealthy and powerful leaving public professionals to decide whether to serve those interests or the interests of a broader public. This book provides a framework for the application of critical social theory in public administration. Its goal is to encourage awareness among public administration scholars and practitioners of social conditions that tend to shape and constrain scholarship practice teaching and social change. At a time when concern for public interest and a civil society have largely been displaced by the goals of economic efficiency and the "New Public Management " Critical Social Theory in Public Administration presents a viable alternative that incorporates the latest views of postmodern thinking with the central elements of critical social theory. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315705347

Critical Social Welfare IssuesTools for Social Work and Health Care Professionals Critical Social Welfare Issues is a collection of lectures by noted social welfare experts that addresses paramount issues facing society and suggests recommendations for positive change. It is a useful handbook for social workers psychologists educators health professionals and human service administrators and a valuable text for students studying social welfare policy and social work in health care.The result of the Distinguished Lecturers Series instituted at the State University of New York at Stony Brook Critical Social Welfare Issues brings nationally recognized and outstanding social work and allied health care scholars and practitioners together for their views on topics such as: welfare reform and homelessness in the U.S. crisis in child welfare and women as victims the changing structure of African-American families the growing Hispanic population and the unique challenges they face mandatory vs. voluntary HIV testing for newborns the infrastructure of the social work profession the for-profit market system for social work and health care the future for health care professionals de-professionalization in health care professionals and the political processAs the Editors explain Critical Social Welfare Issues addresses “the rapidly changing context in the various fields of practice of professional social work and other health care areas. The crises that are identified are newly emerging and part of a long historical process which has been exacerbated by current political and economic changes and events. . . . The threat currently seems to be coming not only from governmental political forces focused to tax reductions and right wing ideologies but for the first time from the non-government sector the for-profit market system which is projecting huge profits from health care education and corrections among other social welfare arenas.” Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315043418

Critical Social WorkTheories and practices for a socially just world 'Another important contribution to the growing literature on critical social work. It is on the cutting edge of thinking about social work and its goal of social change.' - Kate van Heugten Social Work ReviewCritical Social Work starts from the premise that a central goal of social work practice is social change to redress social inequality. Taking a critical theoretical approach the authors explore the links between personal and social change. They confront the challenges for critical social work in the context of pressures to separate the personal from the political and in responding to the impact of changes in the socio-political statutory and global contexts of practice.Critical Social Work has been thoroughly revised to take into account recent social economic and political developments. Coverage of theoretical frameworks has been substantially expanded and reflects current concerns such as evidence based practice and human rights. The causes of people's marginalisation and oppression are examined in relation to class race ethnicity gender and other forms of social inequality.Case study chapters in the earlier edition on working with immigrants Indigenous people women men families people with psychiatric disabilities and those experiencing loss and grief have been updated and revised. The second edition includes new case study chapters on disability older people children rurality and violence and abuse.Critical Social Work is an essential resource to inform progressive social work practice. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003115304

Critical Sociolinguistic Research MethodsStudying Language Issues That Matter Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods is a guide to conducting concrete ethnographic and discourse analytic research projects written by top scholars for students and researchers in social science fields. Adopting a critical perspective focusing on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality the authors walk the reader through five key moments in the life of a research project: composing research questions designing the project doing fieldwork performing data analysis and writing academic texts or otherwise engaging in conversation with different types of social actors about the project. These moments are illustrated by colour-coded examples from the authors’ experiences that help researchers and students follow the sequential stages of a project. Clear and highly applicable with a detailed workbook full of practical tips and examples this book is a great resource for graduate-level qualitative methods courses in linguistics and anthropology as well as methods courses in the humanities and social sciences that focus on the role of language in research. It is a timely text for investigating language issues that matter and have consequences for people’s lives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138825901

Critical Sociology Critical Sociology is a thoroughly revised updated and sophisticated introduction to the sociological perspective as a critical lens on society. Much has happened since the first edition: the Great Recession the Obama presidency the burgeoning role of social media and recent global social movements such the Tea Party Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring. In this second edition Buechler discusses the changing relationship between social movements and democracy. The book contains chapters on how to think sociologically; an overview of scientific humanistic and critical schools of sociology; and a detailed exposition of the critical tradition. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781612056258

Critical Sociology All sociology is implicitly critical because the sociological perspective questions and debunks what common sense takes for granted. Some sociology is explicitly critical of how the domination of states corporations the media and other powerful institutions attenuate our potential for living autonomous lives in today's world. In Critical Sociology Buechler explores sociology's double critique. The book opens with chapters on how to think sociologically; an overview of the scientific humanistic and critical schools of sociology; and a more detailed exposition of the critical tradition. He applies this critical tradition to economics politics and culture; to class race and gender; to individualism self and identity; and to globalization social movements and democracy. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315095240

Critical SpiritualityA Holistic Approach to Contemporary Practice Critical spirituality is a way of naming a desire to work with what is meaningful in the context of enabling a socially just diverse and inclusive society. Critical spirituality means seeing people holistically seeking to understand where they are coming from and what matters to them at a fundamental level; the level that is part of the everyday but also transcends it. What is important in critical spirituality is to combine a postmodern valuing of individual experience of spirituality with all its diversity with a critical perspective that asserts the importance of living harmoniously and respectfully at an individual family and community level. Human service professionals currently wrestle with the gradually increasing expectation to work with spirituality often without feeling capable of undertaking such practice. Some work with people experiencing major trauma or change such as palliative care or rehabilitation where people ask meaning of life questions to which they feel ill equipped to respond. Others work with individuals families and communities experiencing conflict about spiritual issues. Increased migration and movement of refugees increases contact with people for whom spirituality is central. Such experiences raise a number of issues for existing professionals as well as students: what do we mean by spiritual? How does this relate to religion? How do we work with the spiritual in ways that recognise and value difference without accepting abusive relationships? What are the limits to spiritual tolerance if any? This book explores these issues and addresses the dilemmas and challenges experienced by professionals. It also provides a number of practical tools such as possible questions to ask to assess for spiritual issues; to see spirituality as part of a web of relationships. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409427940

Critical Studies in Teacher EducationIts Folklore Theory and Practice Originally published in 1987 this was the only available book to offer a critical interpretation of the current reform efforts in teacher education at the time. The focus is issues of professionalization the role of the university and schools in the socialization of teachers and the ideological and social assumptions that underlie educational theory. The book draws upon the sociology of knowledge Marxist theory and political sociology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138325968

Critical Studies of Education in AsiaKnowledge Power and the Politics of Curriculum Reforms Critical Studies of Education in Asia features analyses that take seriously the complex postcolonial historical and cultural consciousnesses felt across societies in Asia and that bring these to bear on the changing terrain of knowledge subjectivities and power relations constructed both within schools and across the public sphere.In documenting the multiple sites of conflict and contestation both between and within states in Asia and a host of pedagogic agents – ministries of education state boards and agencies schools teachers and teacher unions university departments of education local interest groups the media international standards agencies and global educational reform discourses – the chapters in this volume illuminate the struggles over knowledge education and the work of schools. Faced with emergent global and local forces that are determined to challenge ‘official’ knowledge and to offer alternative understandings of education and society in Asia this volume offers critical insights for academic researchers policy- makers and graduate students seeking to understand the tensions and possibilities of educational change in the region. This book was originally published as a special issue of Curriculum Inquiry. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367729868

'Critical Support' for Sport During more than forty years Bruce Kidd has combined careers as an internationally ranked athlete coach sports administrator professor and dean with critical scholarly and popular writing about sport often on the issues in which he has been directly involved. Frequently called ‘the conscience of Canadian sport’ he defines his perspective as that of ‘critical support’: while he can be savage about the inequalities and abuses of power in contemporary sport he seeks to reform sports so that many more people can enjoy their potential benefits. This book provides a sampling of Professor Kidd’s scholarly writing. The issue begins with Kidd’s reflection on the ways in which ‘sport’ is constituted by ‘society’ and a lifetime of simultaneous scholarship and intervention. The rest of the issue is organized around three themes: the Canadian sport system the Olympic Movement and his ‘recovery projects’ historical writing that brought long-forgotten earlier initiatives and episodes back into public understanding. In each case Kidd provides a brief introduction of 1000-1500 words that sets the context for the original article and provides an update on the subject matter. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415488686

Critical TechnologyA Social Theory of Personal Computing Have we resigned ourselves to a cyber-future that has been decided behind our backs? Why is technology - and our understanding of it - central to the concerns of critical social theory? In developing the PC technologists have borrowed ideas from the human sciences about what people are like about the nature of meaning and the desirability of some experiences over others. Yet to date the academic disciplines most concerned with these ideas have offered neither resistance nor debate. In this book Graeme Kirkpatrick shows why it is crucial that we initiate that debate. Offering a revealing critique of PC design and the social assumptions that underlie it Kirkpatrick argues that it relies on a particular conception of a capitalistic society that expects its technology to come pre-packaged mass-marketed and "user-friendly". Anyone who is critical of such a society and its commodification of human achievement should he suggests be suspicious. Kirkpatrick argues that the computer is a contested space within which major social conflicts are played out. On the one hand there is a narrative of flexibility and human empowerment and on the other a sense of a "system" that controls our lives leaving us in thrall to the computer corporations and at constant risk from phishers and hackers. The outcomes of these conflicts are extremely important as they will shape our future experience of technology society and politics. Critical Technology is a lively provocative and often radical book which forces us to reflect on the meaning of an artefact that is central to our daily lives yet that we too often take for granted. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138600164

Critical Terrorism Studies at TenContributions Cases and Future Challenges Critical Terrorism Studies emerged around 2007 in the context of the rapidly intensifying War on Terror. It was in this era that "terrorism" became a "growth industry" which generated a huge amount of academic research as well as social and political activity. Yet a yawning gap developed between the actual material threat posed by terrorists and the level of investment and activity devoted to responding to this threat. Similarly the quality of terrorism research was noticeably weak and lacking in methodological rigour.Critical Terrorism Studies set out to explore the exceptional treatment of political violence to challenge the political manipulation of terrorism fears and increase in draconian anti-terrorism legislation and to address some of the conceptual and methodological failings of terrorism research.In the 10 years since the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism was launched that context and mission remains as important as ever. This volume looks back on the achievements and failures of Critical Terrorism Studies in this period as well as collecting state of the art research into terrorism discourse queerness and the War on Terror the Prevent Strategy epistemology in terrorism studies state repression the ambiguous ends of militant campaigns the epistemology of preventative counterterrorism and the question of non-violent responses to terror.The chapters originally published in a special issue in Critical Studies in Terrorism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367585969

Critical Terrorism Studies since 11 September 2001What Has Been Learned? This book focuses on state terrorism Western counterinsurgency propaganda and misinformation. It showcases leading examples of critical terrorism studies and presents an agenda for the expansion of an evidence-based approach to political violence and terrorism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138056893

Critical Terrorism StudiesAn Introduction to Research Methods This book is an introduction to critical approaches to terrorism studies. While there is a growing body of Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) literature devoted to empirical examples and conceptual development very little has been written about how to systematically carry out this kind of research. Critical Terrorism Studies fills this gap by addressing three key themes: The position of terrorism studies and critical terrorism studies in the discipline of International Relations (IR) Theoretical and methodological elaborations of critical approaches to the study of terrorism Empirical illustrations of those approaches. Drawing upon a range of engaging material the volume reviews a series of non-variable based methodological approaches. It then goes on to provide empirical examples that illustrate how these approaches have been and can be utilized by students teachers and postgraduate researchers alike to critically and rigorously study terrorism. This textbook will be of much interest to students of terrorism studies sociology critical security studies and IR in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415620475

Critical Themes in World MusicA Reader for Excursions in World Music Eighth Edition Critical Themes in World Music is a reader of nine short essays by the authors of the successful Excursions in World Music Eighth Edition edited by Timothy Rommen and Bruno Nettl. The essays introduce key and contemporary themes in ethnomusicology—gender and sexuality coloniality and race technology and media sound and space and more—creating a counterpoint to the area studies approach of the textbook a longstanding model for thinking about the musics of the world. Instructors can use this flexible resource as a primary or secondary path through the materials on its own or in concert with Excursions in World Music allowing for a more complete understanding that highlights the many continuities and connections that exist between musical communities regardless of region. Critical Themes in World Music presents a critically-minded thematic study of ethnomusicology one that serves to counterbalance complicate and ultimately complement the companion textbook. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138354609

Critical Theories and the Budapest SchoolPolitics Culture Modernity Critical Theories and the Budapest School brings together new perspectives on the Budapest School in the context of contemporary developments in critical theory. Engaging with the work of the prominent group of figures associated with Georg Lukács this book sheds new light on the unique and nuanced critiques of modernity offered by this school informed as its members’ insights have been by first-hand experiences of Nazism Soviet-type societies and the liberal-democratic West. With studies of topics central to contemporary critical theory such as the political and historical consciousness of modernity the importance of bio-politics the complexity of the human condition and the relevance of comedy and friendship to developing critical perspectives the authors draw on the works of Ágnes Heller Maria Márkus György Márkus and Ferenc Fehér demonstrating their enduring relevance to critical theory today and the ways in which these philosophers can inform new perspectives on culture and politics. An innovative reassessment of the Budapest School and the importance of its legacy this book opens a much-needed and neglected dialogue with other schools and traditions of critical theorizing that will be of interest to scholars of sociology philosophy and social theory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367332969

Critical Theory After the Rise of the Global SouthKaleidoscopic Dialectic After the end of Euro-American hegemony and the return of the multi-centric world Eurocentrism in philosophy and the social sciences has come under attack. However no real alternative has been proposed. This provides an opportunity to reassess the philosophy of the social sciences that has been developed in the West. This book argues that the re-emergence of a multi-centric world allows the Euro-centric social sciences in general and critical theory in particular to finally disengage from countless paradoxes and impasses by which they have heretofore been hindered. The author presents a solution in the form of the "kaleidoscopic dialectic." This dialectic is unique in that it is able to overcome the precarious dichotomy between universalism and relativism by relying on an original approach to the philosophy of science. With this approach the focus is on the configurations embedded in the ethics of understanding accommodation and learning and on their connections to broader social scientific critique. This book demands that the European social sciences make philosophical and methodological adaptations to the new realities of the social world by becoming more reflexive and by extension less Euro-centric. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138344778

Critical Theory and DemocracyCivil Society Dictatorship and Constitutionalism in Andrew Arato’s Democratic Theory This book focuses on Andrew Arato’s democratic theory and its relevance to contemporary issues such as processes of democratization civil society constitution-making and the modern Executive. Andrew Arato is -both globally and disciplinarily- a prominent thinker in the fields of democratic theory constitutional law and comparative politics influencing several generations of scholars. This is the first volume to systematically address his democratic theory. Including contributions from leading scholars such as Dick Howard Ulrich Preuss Hubertus Buchstein Janos Kis Uri Ram Leonardo Avritzer Carlos de la Torre and Nicolás Lynch this book is organized around three major areas of Arato´s influence on contemporary political and social thought. The first section offers a comprehensive view of Arato’s scholarship from his early work on critical theory and Western Marxism to his current research on constitution-making and its application. The second section shifts its focus from the previous comprehensive approach to a much more specific one: Arato´s widespread influence on the study of civil society in democratization processes in Latin America. The third section includes a previously unpublished work ‘A conceptual history of dictatorship (and its rivals )’ one of the few systematic interrogations on the meaning of a political form of fundamental relevance in the contemporary world. Critical Theory and Democracy will be of interest to critical and social theorists and all Arato scholars. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138830431

Critical Theory and Frankfurt TheoristsLectures-Correspondence-Conversations The core of this volume is its presentation of Lowenthal's sixty-year-long intellectual career as a critical theorist and sociologist. The book includes some of his speeches on Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin and presents excerpts from conversations on his life as a scholar and teacher as managing editor of the Institute for Social Research's famous journal as government servant during and immediately after the war and as observer and critic of contemporary culture and politics. Together these selections present an intriguing biographical panorama of a major intellectual figure. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412857024

Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education offers a path-breaking explanation of how critical theories can be used within the analysis of qualitative data to inform research processes such as data collection analysis and interpretation. This contributed volume offers examples of qualitative data analysis techniques and exemplars of empirical studies that employ critical theory concepts in data analysis. By creating a clear and accessible bridge between data analysis and critical social theories this book helps scholars and researchers effectively translate their research designs and findings to multiple audiences for more equitable outcomes and disruption of historical and contemporary inequality. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138067035

Critical Theory and Social MediaBetween Emancipation and Commodification Social media platforms such as Facebook YouTube and Twitter are enormously popular: they are continuously ranked among the most frequently accessed websites worldwide. However there are as yet few studies which combine critical theoretical and empirical research in the context of digital and social media. The aim of this book is to study the constraints and emancipatory potentials of new media and to assess to what extent digital and social media can contribute to strengthen the idea of the communication and network commons and a commons-based information society.　Based on a critical theory and political economy approach this book explores: the foundational concepts of a critical theory of media technology and society users’ knowledge attitudes and practices towards the antagonistic character and the potentials and risks of social media whether technological and/or social changes are required in order to bring about real social media and human liberation. Critical Theory and Social Media examines both academic discourse on and users’ responses to new media making it a valuable tool for international scholars and students of sociology media and communication studies social theory new media and information society studies. Its clear and interesting insights into corporate practices of the global new media sector will mean that it appeals to critical social media users around the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138636828

Critical Theory and Social TransformationCrises of the Present and Future Possibilities Critical Theory and Social Transformation provides an exploration of the major themes in critical social theory of recent years. Delanty argues that a critical theory perspective can offer much-needed insights into the pressing socio-political challenges of our time. In this volume he advances the need to reconnect social theory and social research and to return to the foundational concerns of critical social theory. Delanty engages with the key topics facing critical social theorists: capitalism cosmopolitanism modernity the Anthropocene and legacies of history. The connecting thread is that the topics are all contemporary challenges for critical theory and relate to major social transformations. The notions of critique crisis and social transformation are central to the book. Critical Theory and Social Transformation will be of interest to the broad readership in social and political theory. It will appeal to those working in sociology political sociology politics and international studies and to anyone with an interest in any of the chapter-specific topics such as public space memory and neo-authoritarianism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367276416

Critical Theory and SocietyA Reader A collection of seminal essays many appearing in English for the first time which provides an excellent overview of the critical theory developed by the Frankfurt School. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003059509

Critical Theory and the Challenge of PraxisBeyond Reification This volume explores possibility of constructing a political outcome from the theory of the early years of the Frankfurt School countering the commonly-made criticism that critical theory is highly speculative. With chapters exploring the work of figures central to the Frankfurt School including Benjamin Adorno Horkheimer Marcuse Habermas and Honneth Critical Theory and the Challenge of Praxis reveals that it is only with a fixed and dogmatic model of politics that critical theory is incompatible and that it can in fact yield a rich variety of political models ranging from new forms of Marxism to more contemporary ’dialogical’ models centred on the politics of identity. With attention to new ways of contrasting alienation and reification in contemporary forms of social organisation this book demonstrates that the thought of the Frankfurt school can in fact be an invaluable tool not only for developing a critique of advanced capitalism but also for originating alternative models of political praxis. As such it will appeal to scholars of social and political theory with interests in classical sociological thought and continental philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367598976

Critical Theory and the Classical World This book radically re-examines Europe’s imaginaries of its origin in the ancient Greek world. Extracting central concepts of critical theory in its widest sense - beyond the Frankfurt School - like the human force spirit and domination it allies them to characters mythologies and motifs in ancient thought. Just as the stories of Achilles Helen and Odysseus have become central to our modes of self-understanding so we can also examine the roots and routes of the concepts of social theory out of the ancient earth and its myths. An important book for scholars and students of critical theory social theory aesthetic theory and the history of the human sciences it alerts us to the catastrophe that we are facing in the 21st century - a catastrophe of domination and ecological collapse that has its origins in the ancient world and the ways in which it began to define a certain sense of humanness. Considering the artistic production of the ancient world in relation to the thought of Adorno Critical Theory and the Classical World argues that it is only by understanding the persistence of the haunted motifs of the past into the present that we can begin to re-forge our critical theory of society and re-found our social formations on a new basis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367897222

Critical Theory and The English TeacherTransforming the Subject In this radical exploration Nick Peim himself a practising English teacher shows how teachers can use critical theory to bring students' own experience back into the subject. The author explains how the insights of discourse theory psychoanalysis semiotics and deconstruction can be used on the material of modern culture as well as on and in oral work. The book is written in a style which even those with no background in critical theory will find approachable and arguments are backed up with practical classroom examples. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138411241

Critical Theory And The Literary Canon Kolbas stakes out new territory in assessing the war over literary canon formation a subject that contemporary polemicists have devoted much ink to. Throughout this succinct manuscript Kolbas ranges through the sociology and politics of culture aesthetic theory and literary theory to develop his point that texts not only must should be situated in the historical and material conditions of their production but also evaluated for their very real aesthetic content. One reason the is an important issue Kolbas contends is that the canon is not simply enclosed in the ivory tower of academia; its effects are apparent in a much wider field of cultural production and use. He begins by critiquing the conservative humanist and liberal pluralist positions on the canon which either assiduously avoid any sociological explanation of the canon or treat texts as stand-ins for particular ideologies. Kolbas is sympathetic to the arguments of Bourdieu et. al. regarding positioning the canon in a wider "field of cultural production" than the university but argues that theirs are purely sociological explanations of aesthetics (i.e. there is no objective aesthetic content) that ignore art's autonomous realm which he argues -- a la Adorno -- exists (if only problematically). Ultimately he argues that critical theory particularly the arguments of Adorno on aesthetics offers the most fruitful path for evaluating the canon despite the approach's clear flaws. His vision is a sociological one but one that treats the components of the canon as possessing objective aesthetic content albeit content that shifts in meaning over history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367098872

Critical Theory in International Relations and Security StudiesInterviews and Reflections This book provides an assessment of the legacy challenges and future directions of Critical Theory in the fields of International Relations and Security Studies. This book provides ‘first-hand’ interviews with some of the pioneers of Critical Theory in the fields of International Relations Theory and Security Studies. The interviews are combined innovatively with reflective essays to create an engaging and accessible discussion of the legacy and challenges of critical thinking. A unique forum that combines first-person discussion and secondary commentary on a variety of theoretical positions the book explores in detail the interaction between different theories and approaches including postcolonialism feminism and poststructuralism. Scholars from a variety of theoretical backgrounds reflect on the strengths and problems of critical theory recasting the theoretical discussion about critical theory in the study of world politics and examining the future of the discipline. Both an introduction and an advanced engagement with theoretical developments over the past three decades Critical Theory in International Relations and Security Studies will be of interest to students and scholars of International Politics Security Studies and Philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415601580

Critical Theory in Russia and the West The traditional view that the rise of Western theoretical thought in the 1960s and 1970s could be traced back to the Soviet 1920s once accepted in Russia and the West alike because it directly associated the academic prestige of contemporary Western theory with the intellectual climate of post-revolutionary Russia is increasingly challenged today. With the gradual retreat in recent years of theory from the high ground of the Western humanities new work has emerged to suggest unexpected parallels and to undermine others.This book with contributions from some of the most visible specialists in the field re-examines the significant transfers cross-fertilisations and synergies of cultural and literary theory between Russia and the West from the 1920s through to the present day. It focuses primarily on those tendencies which have made the most significant contribution to critical theory over the last century and looks ahead at the theoretical paradigms that are most likely to shape the future dialogue between Russia and the West in the humanities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415673358

Critical Theory of International PoliticsComplementarity Justice and Governance Critical international theory encompasses several distinct radical approaches that focus on identity difference hegemonic power and order. As an applied theory critical international theory draws on critical social theories to shed light on international processes and global transformations. While this approach has led to increasing interest in formulating an empirically relevant critical international theory it has also revealed the difficulties of applying critical theory to international politics. What are these difficulties and problems? And how can we move beyond them? This book addresses these questions by investigating the intellectual currents and key debates of critical theory from Kant and Hegel to Habermas and Derrida and the recent work of critical international theory including Robert Cox and Andrew Linklater. By drawing on these debates the book formulates an original theory of complementarity that brings together critical theory and critical international theory. It argues that complementarity—a governing principle in international law and politics—offers a conceptual framework for working toward two goals: engaging the changing contexts and forms of resistance and redressing some of the difficulties of applying critical theory to international relations. In adopting three critical perspectives on complementarity to analyze the evolving social and political contexts of global justice this book provides an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students and scholars interested in the application of critical theory to international relations. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203861295

Critical Theory to StructuralismPhilosophy Politics and the Human Sciences Philosophy in the middle of the 20th Century between 1920 and 1968 responded to the cataclysmic events of the time. Thinkers on the Right turned to authoritarian forms of nationalism in search of stable forms of collective identity will and purpose. Thinkers on the Left promoted egalitarian forms of humanism under the banner of international communism. Others saw these opposed tendencies as converging in the extinction of the individual and sought to retrieve the ideals of the Enlightenment in ways that critically acknowledged the contradictions of a liberal democracy racked by class cultural and racial conflict. Key figures and movements discussed in this volume include Schmitt Adorno and the Frankfurt School Arendt Benjamin Bataille French Marxism Black Existentialism Saussure and Structuralism Levi Strauss Lacan and Late Pragmatism. These individuals and schools of thought responded to this 'modernity crisis' in different ways but largely focused on what they perceived to be liberal democracy's betrayal of its own rationalist ideals of freedom equality and fraternity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781844656134

Critical Theory TodayA User-Friendly Guide This thoroughly updated third edition of Critical Theory Today offers an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today including: feminism; psychoanalysis; Marxism; reader-response theory; New Criticism; structuralism and semiotics; deconstruction; new historicism and cultural criticism; lesbian gay and queer theory; African American criticism and postcolonial criticism. This new edition features: a major expansion of the chapter on postcolonial criticism that includes topics such as Nordicism globalization and the ‘end’ of postcolonial theory global tourism and global conservation an extended explanation of each theory using examples from everyday life popular culture and literary texts a list of specific questions critics ask about literary texts an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works updated and expanded bibliographies Both engaging and rigorous this is a "how-to" book for undergraduate and graduate students new to critical theory and for college professors who want to broaden their repertoire of critical approaches to literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415506755

Critical Theory: The Key Concepts Critical Theory: The Key Concepts introduces over 300 widely-used terms categories and ideas drawing upon well-established approaches like new historicism postmodernism psychoanalysis Marxism and narratology as well as many new critical theories of the last twenty years such as Actor-Network Theory Global Studies Critical Race Theory and Speculative Realism. This book explains the key concepts at the heart of a wide range of influential theorists from Agamben to Žižek. Entries range from concise definitions to longer more explanatory essays and include terms such as: Aesthetics Desire Dissensus Dromocracy Hegemony Ideology Intersectionality Late Capitalism Performativity Race Suture Featuring cross-referencing throughout a substantial bibliography and index Critical Theory: The Key Concepts is an accessible and easy-to-use guide. This book is an invaluable introduction covering a wide range of subjects for anyone who is studying or has an interest in critical theory (past and present). Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415695657

Critical TheoryA Reader An anthology of readings and extracts providing a comprehensive introduction to the main schools and positions of critical theory. The book is divided into five sections; structuralism and poststructuralism psychoanalytical theory Marxism feminism and post-foundational ethics and politics. It includes a general introduction covering the field of critical theory and identifies founding theorists and movements with a bibliography and notes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138148468

Critical Thinking Across the CurriculumA Brief Edition of Thought & Knowledge Consider that many of the people who are alive today will be working at jobs that do not currently exist and that the explosion of information means that today's knowledge will quickly become outdated. As a result two goals for education clearly emerge -- learning how to learn and how to think critically about information that changes at a rapid rate. We face a multitude of new challenges to our natural environment difficult dilemmas concerning the use of weapons of mass destruction political agendas for the distribution of scarce commodities and wealth psychological problems of loneliness and depression escalating violence and an expanding elderly population. International in scope and in magnitude these new problems strain resources and threaten the continuance of life on earth. To creatively and effectively attack these imminent problems a well educated thinking populace is essential. An abridged edition of Halpern's best-selling text Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum is designed to help students enhance their thinking skills in every class. The skills discussed are needed in every academic area and setting -- both in and out of class. They are: determining cause; assessing likelihood and uncertainty; comprehending complex text; solving novel problems; making good decisions; evaluating claims and evidence; and thinking creatively. In this adaptation of her best-selling text Diane Halpern applies the theories and research of cognitive psychology to the development of critical thinking and learning skills needed in the increasingly complex world in which we work and live. The book is distinguished by its clear writing style humorous tone many practical examples and anecdotes and rigorous academic grounding. Everyday examples and exercises promote the transfer of critical thinking skills and dispositions to real-world settings and problems. The goal is to help readers recognize when and how to apply the thinking skills needed to analyze arguments reason clearly identify and solve problems and make sound decisions. Also of importance a general thinking skills framework ties the chapters together but each is written so that it can "stand alone." This organization allows for maximum flexibility in the selection of topics and the order in which they are covered. This book is intended for use in any course emphasizing critical thinking as an approach to excellence in thinking and learning. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315805719

Critical Thinking and Education The skills of ‘critical thinking’ occupy a contentious place in debates on education. It is of course widely recognised that education must consist of more than an unreasoning accumulation of facts and skills and that modern society demands a highly-developed critical awareness to cope with its ever-increasing complexities. Yet the very term ‘critical thinking’ threatens to become a vague and unexamined slogan displayed more in party tricks than in useful knowledge. In this book first published in 1981 Professor McPeck offers a critique of the major ideas and important work in the field including those of Ennis and de Bono while at the same time presenting his own rigorous ideas on the proper place in critical thinking in the philosophy of education. The book aims to establish a sound basis on which the role of critical thinking in schools can be evaluated and the author makes a strong case for the contribution it can make to resolving current dilemmas of the curriculum. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138206892

Critical Thinking and Formative AssessmentsIncreasing the Rigor in Your Classroom Develop your students' critical thinking skills and prepare them to perform competitively in the classroom on state tests and beyond. In this book Moore and Stanley show you how to effectively instruct your students to think on higher levels and how to assess their progress. As states implement the Common Core State Standards teachers have been called upon to provide higher levels of rigor in their classrooms. Moore and Stanley demonstrate critical thinking as a key approach to accomplishing this goal. They explore the benefits of critical thinking and provide the tools you need to develop and monitor critical thinking skills in the classroom. Topics include: The Difference Between Higher-Level and Lower-Level Thinking Writing Higher-Level Thinking QuestionsAssessing Critical Thinking Strategies to Develop Higher-Level Thinking Skills Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138146921

Critical Thinking in Young Minds How do you protect young minds from the everyday bombardment of "tabloid culture" – the malign cultural influences which are so prevalent in today’s society? Originally published in 1997 stimulating and actively developing children’s philosophical and critical thinking is one answer and an area in which Victor Quinn had enjoyed extraordinary success. Here he conveys to teachers through successful lesson plans some of the ideas and techniques that lie behind his achievements helping them to succeed in this vital area of education. for teachers of early years primary and early secondary school pupils. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138334564

Critical Thinking Skills for Healthcare Thinking critically is an essential skill both for students and for the modern evidence-based healthcare practitioner. You need to be able to find understand and evaluate the evidence that underpins your assignments clinical decision making and practice. The good news is that you use all of these skills in everyday life. You don’t believe every advert you see or respond to every spam email. It’s just a question of taking these critical skills and having the confidence to apply them to your academic work. This book will help you do just that. It will enable you to: - recognise your existing ability to be a critical thinker - spot logical flaws and inconsistencies in arguments - consider health issues from multiple perspectives weighing up the strengths and weaknesses of a case - build a convincing argument in assessments - develop a range of critical skills for successful study and healthcare practice. Critical Thinking Skills for Healthcare is an essential resource for all health professionals in training. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138787520

Critical Thinking Within the Library Program While academic librarians frequently discuss critical thinking and its relationship to information literacy the literature does not contain an abundance of sources on the topic. Therefore this works provides a current and timely perspective on the possible roles of critical thinking within the library program. The work contains a variety of approaches likely to benefit the practicing librarian. It begins with a review of the literature followed by theoretical approaches involving constructivism and the Socratic method. Readers will find pieces on the integration of critical thinking into the first-year experience and course-specific case studies as well as a selection on a campus-wide critical thinking project. In each of the pieces librarians are exploring new ways to meet their instructional goals including the goal of teaching critical thinking skills to students across the curriculum. This book was originally published as a special issue of College & Undergraduate Libraries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415846875

Critical Thinking: The Basics Critical Thinking: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the field of critical thinking drawing on philosophy communication and psychology. Emphasising its relevance to decision making (in personal professional and civic life) academic literacy and personal development this book supports the reader in understanding and developing the knowledge and skills needed to avoid poor reasoning reconstruct and evaluate arguments and engage constructively in dialogues. Topics covered include: the relationship between critical thinking emotions and the psychology of persuasion the role of character dispositions such as open-mindedness courage and perseverance argument identification and reconstruction fallacies and argument evaluation. With discussion questions/exercises and suggestions for further reading at the end of each main chapter this book is an essential read for students approaching the field of critical thinking for the first time and for the general reader wanting to improving their thinking skills and decision making abilities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138826243

Critical ThinkingA Concise Guide We are frequently confronted with arguments. Arguments are attempts to persuade us â€“ to influence our beliefs and actions – by giving us reasons to believe this or that. Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide will equip students with the concepts and techniques used in the identification analysis and assessment of arguments whatever the subject matter or context. Through precise and accessible discussion this book provides the tools to become a successful critical thinker one who can act and believe in accordance with good reasons and who can articulate and make explicit those reasons. Key topics discussed include: Core concepts in argumentation How language can serve to obscure or conceal the real content of arguments How to distinguish argumentation from rhetoric How to avoid common confusions surrounding words such as ‘truth’ ‘knowledge’ and ‘opinion’ How to identify and evaluate the most common types of argument How to distinguish good reasoning from bad in terms of deductive validity and induction. This fifth edition has been revised and extensively updated throughout including a significantly expanded range of ‘complete examples’ the introduction of Venn diagrams and the discussion of fake news and related phenomena arising in the contemporary scene. The dynamic Routledge Critical Thinking companion website provides thoroughly updated resources for both instructors and students including new examples and case studies flashcards sample questions practice questions and answers student activities and a testbank of questions for use in the classroom. Visit www.routledge.com/cw/bowell. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815371434

Critical ThinkingDeveloping the Intellectual Tools for Social Justice Critical Thinking presents defines and explains the intellectual skills and habits of mind that comprise critical thinking and its relationship to social justice. Each of the sequential chapters includes detailed examples and learning exercises that guide the reader step by step from intellectual competency to critical thinking to cultural cognition and to critical awareness necessary for social justice. The book documents and explains the scope of multiple crises facing society today including environmental destruction income and wealth inequality large-scale human migration and the rise of autocratic governments. It shows how critical thinking cultural cognition and critical awareness lead to the possibility of solutions grounded in social justice. All college students especially those in the social sciences and humanities will develop the intellectual skills necessary for critically engaging information in order to become active learners and effective agents in the world. This book complements information in introductory interdisciplinary or discipline-specific courses. Every chapter contains examples and exercises that can be assigned as homework adopted as in-class activities or both. The Conclusion also contains exercises for developing writing and basic mathematical competency skills. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780429439544

Critical ThinkingLearning from Mistakes and How to Prevent Them Mistakes occur for many reasons. This book takes a hands-on approach to the reasons mistakes happen analyzes the actual mistakes and develops a strategy to reduce them. This book proposes error reduction strategies in human decision making and educates the reader to further reduce the likelihood of making a mistake. It provides error reduction strategies describes various cost-effective methods for eliminating costly errors and discusses Anthropometry Crew Resource Management Human Factors Industrial Engineering Scientific Management and Usability and the role these topics play in the avoidance of mistakes. This book will be of interest to professionals and students in the areas of industrial engineering human factors logistics quality control manufacturing human resources and safety. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367502720

Critical Times in GreeceAnthropological Engagements with the Crisis This volume brings together new anthropological research on the Greek crisis. With a number of contributions from academics based in Greece the book addresses a number of key issues such as the refugee crisis far-right extremism and the psychological impact of increased poverty and unemployment. It provides much needed ethnographic contributions and critical anthropological perspectives at a key moment in Greece’s history and will be of great interest to researchers interested in the social political and economic developments in southern Europe. It is the first collection to explore the impact of this period of radical social change on anthropological understandings of Greece. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367594244

Critical ToponymiesThe Contested Politics of Place Naming While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character. This book brings together recent works that conceptualize the hegemonic and contested practices of geographical naming. The contributors guide the reader into struggles over toponymy in a multitude of national and local contexts across Europe North America New Zealand Asia and Africa. In a ground-breaking and multidisciplinary fashion this volume illuminates the key role of naming in the colonial silencing of indigenous cultures canonization of nationalistic ideals into nomenclature of cities and topographic maps as well as the formation of more or less fluid forms of postcolonial and urban identities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138267756

Critical Translation Studies This book offers an introduction for Translation Studies (TS) scholars to Critical Translation Studies (CTS) a cultural-studies approach to the study of translation spearheaded by Sakai Naoki and Lydia H. Liu with an implicit focus on translation as a social practice shaped by power relations in society. The central claim in CTS is that translators help condition what TS scholars take to be the primal scene of translation: two languages two language communities with the translator as mediator. According to Sakai intralingual translation is primal: we are all foreigners to each other making every address to another "heterolingual" thus a form of translation; and it is the order that these acts of translation bring to communication that begins to generate the "two separate languages" scenario. CTS is dedicated to the historicization of the social relations that create that scenario. In three sets of "Critical Theses on Translation " the book outlines and explains (and partly critiques) the CTS approach; in five interspersed chapters the book delves more deeply into CTS with an eye to making it do work that will be useful to TS scholars. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367410636

Critical Understandings of Digital Technology in EducationMeta-Connective Pedagogy This book explores the underlying assumptions beliefs and values of prevailing theories frameworks models and principles in digital technology education through the metaphysical lenses of ontology epistemology axiology and methodology. By proposing meta-connective pedagogy that reflects the ecological transformative nature of the digitally networked world Dreamson repositions learners in the networked world for their authentic engagement. Covering key domains of digital technology education this volume explores topics such as meta-connective learning; digital identity formation; emergent communities and co-laboured learning; interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge production; teacher attitudes towards the relationship between learning and technology; learner engagement and online interaction; transformative digital literacy; meta-analysis of technology integration frameworks; methodology for authentic digital engagement; and meta-connective ethics. Critical Understandings of Digital Technology in Education is the perfect resource for in-service and preservice teachers as well as researchers and specialist teachers in technology and information and communication technology education fields who are looking to enhance their pedagogical understandings of digital technology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367229030

Critical Urban Infrastructure Handbook Represents the State of the Art in Urban Lifeline Engineering Urban lifelines are buried or aboveground network systems used for water sewerage gas power and telecommunications. Dedicated to preserving the functions of lifeline systems against natural disasters the Critical Urban Infrastructure Handbook is a vital compilation of urban utility management. This text utilizes the input of leading experts who have extensive experience with natural disasters and provides a better understanding of the technical and legal framework of infrastructure construction and operation. Examine the Damage Data of Urban Lifelines Suffered by Seismic Disasters The book addresses water supply and sewerage power gas telecommunications joint utility corridor lifeline facilities and other critical civil infrastructure lifelines. It emphasizes the importance of the resilience of lifeline systems against natural disasters in protecting human lives and supporting survivors of disasters as well as in promptly recovering and reconstructing the affected areas. In addition it also describes the structural damage of nodes and links as well as the functional damage of the lifeline system from the viewpoint of disaster prevention and mitigation measures. This valuable work consists of 24 chapters in four sections covering: Design and construction of various lifeline facilities Maintenance Disaster management Environmental protection Disaster and emergency recovery measures Urban planning Life cycle costing GIS analysis of lifeline systems Computerized integrated management systems New materials and technologies The Critical Urban Infrastructure Handbook comprehensively describes common issues of lifeline systems and provides practical information to engineers and industry professionals involved in the planning construction and maintenance of lifeline systems. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781466592049

Critical Urban Theory Common Property and “the Political”Desire and Drive in the City Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of Political Theory (and political science more broadly): the urban as a level of political analysis and political struggles in urban space. Because the city and urban space is so prominent in other critical disciplines most notably geography and sociology a driving question of the book is: what kind of distinct contribution can political theory make to the already existing critical urban literature? The answer is to be found in what Webb calls the "properly political" approach to understanding political conflict as developed in the work of thinkers like Chantal Mouffe Jodi Dean and Slavoj Žižek. This "properly political" analysis is contrasted with and a curative to the predominant "ethical" or "post-political" understanding of the urban found in so much of the geographical and sociological critical urban theory literature. In order to illustrate this primary theoretical argument of the book Webb suggests that "common property" is the most useful category for conceiving the city as a site of the "properly political." When the city and urban space are framed within this theoretical framework critical urbanists are provided a powerful tool for understanding urban political struggles in particular anti-gentrification movements in the inner city. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367371784

Critical VisionsNew Directions in Social Theory Originally published in 2003 Critical Visions develops a wide-ranging analysis of key issues and debates in contemporary social theory. Drawing social theory cultural studies and psychoanalysis together in a bold configuration the book challenges the widespread view that social theory seems to have lost its way as a result of the diversification of conceptual approaches. The book includes critical readings of the terrain of contemporary social theory and theorists. Questions relating to the globalization of risk citizenship morality and ethics politics and norms and sexuality and desire are all explored. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138354449

Critical VoicesWomen and Art Criticism in Britain 1880-1905 Critical Voices is a fascinating account of women writing about art in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Meaghan Clarke employs extensive original research in order to demonstrate the significant contribution made by women to the art world and draws on a diversity of sources including diaries letters and periodicals to highlight the many different forms their criticism took. Focusing in particular on the work of three women - Alice Meynell Florence Fenwick-Miller and Elizabeth Robins Pennell - Clarke argues that in order to understand fully art debates of the time it is essential we broaden our understanding of the role of women in the construction of art history. John Singer Sargent James MacNeill Whistler Edgar Degas Mary Cassatt Elizabeth Butler William Holman Hunt Frederic Leighton Walter Sickert Henrietta Rae and Rosa Bonheur are among the artists considered. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815388340

Critical Youth Research in EducationMethodologies of Praxis and Care Critical studies of youth play an increasingly important role in educational research. This volume adds to that ongoing conversation by addressing the methodological lessons learned from key scholars in the field. With a focus on “the doing” of critical youth studies in ways that center praxis and relational care in work with youth and their communities the volume showcases scholars discussing their research and reflecting on the practical strategies they have used to operationalize their conceptions of knowledge in youth-centered research projects. Each chapter addresses the research features challenges tensions and debates of the project; engagement with communities; and relationality reciprocity and responsibility to participants. The focus throughout is on qualitative approaches that are humanizing anti-colonial and transformative. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367230029

Critically Examining the Case Against the 1998 Human Rights Act Since its inception in 1998 the Human Rights Act (HRA) has come in for a wide variety of criticism on legal constitutional political and cultural grounds. More recently this criticism escalated significantly as politicians have seriously considered proposals for its abolition. This book examines the main arguments against the HRA and the issues which have led to public hostility against the protection of human rights. The first part of the book looks at the legal structures and constitutional aspects of the case against the HRA including the criticism that the HRA is undemocratic and is used by judges to subvert the will of parliament. The second part of the book looks at specific issues such as immigration and terrorism where cases involving the HRA have triggered broader public concerns about the protection of human rights. The final section of this book looks at some of the structural issues that have generated hostility to the HRA such as media coverage and the perception of the legal profession. This book aims to unpick the complex climate of hostility that the HRA has faced and examine the social political and legal forces that continue to inform the case against the HRA. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367232177

Critically Impaired Infants and End of Life Decision MakingResource Allocation and Difficult Decisions Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment are contentious and offer difficult moral dilemmas to both medical practitioners and the judiciary. This issue is exacerbated when the patient is unable to exercise autonomy and is entirely dependent on the will of others. This book focuses on the legal and ethical complexities surrounding end of life decisions for critically impaired and extremely premature infants. Neera Bhatia explores decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment from critically impaired infants and addresses the controversial question which lives are too expensive to treat? Bringing to bear such key issues as clinical guidance public awareness and resource allocation the book provides a rational approach to end of life decision making where decisions to withdraw or withhold treatment may trump other competing interests. The book will be of great interest and use to scholars and students of bioethics medical law and medical practitioners. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138704770

CriticaTextual Issues in Horace Ennius Vergil and Other Authors Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual issues this volume represents notorious problems in well-known texts from the classical era by authors including Horace Ennius and Vergil. A follow-up to Vegiliana: Critical Studies on the Texts of Publius Vergilius Maro (2017) the volume includes major contributions to the discussion of Horace’s Carmen IV 8 and IV 12 along with studies on Catullus Carmen 67 and Hadrian’s Animula vagula as well as a new contribution on Livy’s text at IV 20 in connection with Cossus’s spolia opima and on Vergil’s Aeneid 3. 147–152 and 11. 151–153. On Ennius the author presents several new ideas on Ann. 42 Sk. and 220–22l and in editing Horace he suggests new principles for the critical apparatus and tries to find a balance by weighing both sides in several studies comparing a conservative and a radical approach. Critica will be an important resource for students and scholars of Latin language and literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367820756

Criticism Crisis and Contemporary NarrativeTextual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk The etymological affinity between ‘criticism’ and ‘crisis’ has never been more resonant than it is today when social life is increasingly understood as defined by a succession of overlapping global crises: financial and economic crises; environmental crises; geopolitical crises; terrorist crises; public health crises. But what is the role of literary and cultural criticism in conceptualizing this atmosphere of perpetual crisis? If as Paul de Man maintained criticism necessarily exists in a state of crisis in what ways is this condition intensified at a time when the social formations within which criticism operates and the cultural artefacts that it takes as its objects are themselves pervaded by actual and imagined states of emergency? This book the first sustained response to these questions demonstrates the capacity of critical thought working in dialogue with key narrative texts to provide penetrating insights into a contemporary landscape of global manufactured risk. Written by an international team of specialist scholars the essays in the collection draw on a wide variety of contemporary theoretical fictional and cinematic sources ranging from Giorgio Agamben Jacques Derrida and Fredric Jameson to Cormac McCarthy Ian McEwan and Lauren Beukes to Ghost and the James Bond and National Treasure series. Appearing in the midst of a phase of extraordinary turbulence in the fabric of our interconnected and interdependent world the book makes a landmark intervention in debates concerning the cultural ramifications of globalization. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138816206

Criticism & Society First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415866415

Criticism and Literary Theory 1890 to the Present Presents a coherent and accessible historical account of the major phases of British and American Twentieth-century criticism from 'decadent' aestheticism to feminist decontsructonist and post-colonial theories. Special attention is given to new perspectives on Shakesperean criticism theories of the novel and models of the literary canon. The book will help to define and account for the major developments in literary criticism during this century exploring the full diversity of critical work from major critics such as T S Eliot and F R Leavis to minor but fascinating figures and critical schools. Unlike most guides to modern literary theory its focus is firmly on developments within the English speaking world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138137134

Criticism and Public Rationality (Routledge Revivals)Proffesional Rigidity and the Search for Caring Government Criticism is at the heart of any political discussion and criticism of old policies is central to the development of new ones. In its analysis of political decision-making this reissue first published in 1991 examines the principles which control the process of policy criticism. It identifies two fundamental and related obstacles to this process: the privileged status accorded to 'professional judgement' and the conflicting philosophical ideas that shape political argument. Based on the study of Europe's largest local authority the book presents a theory of decision-making that can be applied to institutions at all levels. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415613576

Criticisms of Classical Political EconomyMenger Austrian Economics and the German Historical School The role of the German Historical School and of Carl Menger (founder of the Austrian School) is appraised in this new book. This important period of the history of economics is vital to understand how the discipline developed over the next half-century. Gilles Campagnolo has produced an impressive original work which makes use of rarely seen research by Carl Menger and as such this book will be of interest across several discplines including history of economic thought economic methodology  philosophy of science and the history of ideas. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415750066

Criticizing PhotographsAn Introduction to Understanding Images Emphasizing the understanding of images and their influences on how they affect our attitudes beliefs and actions this fully updated sixth edition offers consequential ways of looking at images from the perspectives of photographers critics theoreticians historians curators and editors. It invites informed conversations about meanings and implications of images providing multiple and sometimes conflicting answers to questions such as: What are photographs? Should they be called art? Are they ethical? What are their implications for self society and the world? From showing how critics verbalize what they see in images and how they persuade us to see similarly to dealing with what different photographs might mean the book posits that some interpretations are better than others and explains how to deliberate among competing interpretations. It looks at how the worth of photographs is judged aesthetically and socially offering samples and practical considerations for both studio critiques for artists and professional criticism for public audiences. This book is a clear and accessible guide for students of art history photography and criticism as well as anyone interested in carefully looking at and talking about photographs and their effects on the world in which we live. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781350097377

Critics and CrusadersPolitical Economy and the American Quest for Freedom The quest for freedom has always been a defining characteristic of the American people. That neither constitutionalism nor capitalism has secured complete freedom for every person is demonstrated by media announcements of slavery oppression exploitation and a variety of shortcomings in the economic system. That said and as this volume seeks to demonstrate through a history of radical commentaries there have always been bold spirits who fight for such ambitious heights. With changing times freedom meant different things to those who worked for it. This book in its broadest sense is a history of libertarianism. Each of the libertarians in this full study extending from William Lloyd Garrison to Eugene V. Debs fought for the ideal of political economy as a practical ideal. In so doing these major figures at the margins of power expanded the entire field of human rights. Charles A. Madison concludes that radicalism became an ideology in the search for freedom. The zeal and activity of these figures did much to attain the political freedom and economic well- being that Americans are inclined to take for granted. These individual chapters are set in frames supplied by background sketches of the movements each group led and the whole is an attempt to depict and re-evaluate America's social progress without the rigor or formality of impersonalised history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412847704

Critics of Society (Routledge Revivals)Radical Thought in North America First published in 1967 this essay in the interpretation of radical social thought deals mainly with the radical theorists rather than the doctrines of social and political movements but makes an exception in an important discussion of the new radicalism of the 1960s. The author's main concern is to lay bare the connections between intellectual dissent and theories of society and in so doing to to explore the neglected subject of the heritage of American radical thinking.  Readers of this book will not only emerge enlightened by Professor Bottomore's impressive knowledge of American radical thought but with a greatly increased understanding of contemporary American history. He ends with the question of whether the new radicalism can find a firmer basis than the student movement or the negro revolt; cn produce an ideology both responsive to the doutbs and complexties of our time and capable of directing action to plausible ends. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203844878

Critique Security and PowerThe Political Limits to Emancipatory Approaches This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical analytical outlook much critical security theory fails to fulfil its promise to pose a challenge to contemporary power relations. In general 'critical security' theories and dialogues are understood to be progressive theoretical frameworks that offer a trenchant evaluation and analysis of contemporary international and national security policy. Tara McCormack investigates the limitations of contemporary critical and emancipatory theorising and its relationship with contemporary power structures. Beginning with a theoretical critique and moving into a case study of the critical approaches to the break up of the former Yugoslavia this book assesses the policies adopted by the international community at the time to show that much contemporary critical security theory and discourse in fact mirrors shifts in post-Cold War international and national security policy. Far from challenging international power inequalities and offering an emancipatory framework contemporary critical security theory inadvertently ends up serving as a theoretical justification for an unequal international order. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies international relations and security studies. Tara McCormack is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415852982

Critique Social Media and the Information Society In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On one hand there are overdrawn claims that social media (Twitter Facebook YouTube etc) have caused uproars in countries like Tunisia and Egypt. On the other hand the question arises as to what actual role social media play in contemporary capitalism crisis rebellions the strengthening of the commons and the potential creation of participatory democracy. The commodification of everything has resulted also in a commodification of the communication commons including Internet communication that is today largely commercial in character. This book deals with the questions of what kind of society and what kind of Internet are desirable how capitalism power structures and social media are connected how political struggles are connected to social media what current developments of the Internet and society tell us about potential futures how an alternative Internet can look like and how a participatory commons-based Internet and a co-operative participatory sustainable information society can be achieved. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415721080

Critique and Radical Discourses on Crime This title was first published in 2000:  Critique and Radical Discourses on Crime develops a unique line of thought in contemporary criminology re-examining an under-researched dimension of radical discourse. In particular it focuses attention on the distinguishing feature of radical discourses their allegiance to various visions of critique. The book reassesses the genres of critique evident in previous forms of radical criminology formulates a different genre of critique appropriate to the uncertainties of postmodern conditions and shows how these genres can be articulated to differently conceived radical discourses on crime. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138736115

Critique for What?Cultural Studies American Studies Left Studies Students want to know: What does one do with critique? Fortunately some of the most provocative self-critical intellectuals from the postwar period to the postmodern present have wrestled with this. Joel Pfister in Critique for What? criss-crosses the Atlantic to take stock of exciting British and US cultural studies American studies and Left studies that challenge the academic critique-for-critique's-sake and career's-sake business and ask: Critique for what and for whom? Historicizing for what and for whom? Politicizing for what and for whom? America for what and for whom? Here New Left revisionary socialists members of the "unpartied Left " cultural studies theorists American studies scholars radical historians progressive literary critics and early proponents of transnational analysis interact in what amounts to a lively book-length strategy seminar. British political intellectuals including Raymond Williams E. P. Thompson Stuart Hall and Raphael Samuel and Americans including F. O. Matthiessen Robert Lynd C. Wright Mills and Richard Ohmann reconsider the critical project as social transformation studies activism studies organizing studies. Eager to prevent cultural studies from becoming cynicism studies Critique for What? thinks creatively about the possibilities of using as well as developing critique in our new millennium. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315635361

Critique in a Neoliberal Age Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main debates within economic sociology populism studies the neoliberal university therapy culture contemporary intimacies and feminism. Over the last decades neoliberalism has worked to lift social protections and political regulations from the market and to identify modernity with capitalism itself. It has also engaged in an ideological project to screen alternative measurements of progress. Liberal and social democracy have been effectively disabled as grounds for weighing the costs of neoliberal predations. This volume examines the strategies through which neoliberalism has reconstituted and de-politicized liberal precepts such as universal justice private right and a social democratic project responsive to needs. As such it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and social and critical theory political and social philosophy politics cultural studies and feminist thought. 　 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472460998

Critique of the Legal OrderCrime Control in Capitalist Society Originally published thirty years ago Critique of the Legal Order remains highly relevant for the twenty-first century. Here Richard Quinney provides a critical look at the legal order in capitalist society. Using a traditional Marxist perspective he argues that the legal order is not intended to reduce crime and suffering but to maintain class differences and a social order that mainly benefits the ruling class. Quinney challenges modern criminologists to examine their own positions. As "ancillary agents of power " criminologists provide information that governing elites use to manipulate and control those who threaten the system. Quinney's original and thorough analysis of "crime control bureaucracies" and the class basis of such bureaucracies anticipates subsequent research and theorizing about the "crime control industry " a system that aims at social control of marginalized populations rather than elimination of the social conditions that give rise to crime. He forcefully argues that technology applied to a "war against crime " together with academic scholarship is used to help maintain social order to benefit a ruling class. Quinney also suggests alternatives. Anticipating the work of Noam Chomsky he suggests we must first overcome a powerful media that provides a "general framework" that serves as the "boundary of expression." Chomsky calls this the manufacture of consent by providing necessary illusions. Quinney calls for a critical philosophy that enables us to transcend the current order and seek an egalitarian socialist order based upon true democratic principles. This core study for criminologists should interest those with a critical perspective on contemporary society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521582

Critique of ViolenceBetween Poststructuralism and Critical Theory Critique of Violence is a highly original and lucid investigation of the heated controversy between poststructuralism and critical theory. Leading theorist Beatrice Hanssen uses Walter Benjamin's essay 'Critique of Violence' as a guide to analyse the contentious debate shifting the emphasis from struggle to dialogue between the two parties. Regarding the questions of critique and violence as the major meeting points between both traditions Hanssen positions herself between the two in an effort to investigate what critical theory and poststructuralism have to offer each other. In the course of doing so she assembles imaginative new readings of Benjamin Arendt Fanon and Foucault and incisively explores the politics of recognition the violence of language and the future of feminist theory. This groundbreaking book will be essential reading for all students of continental philosophy political theory social studies and comparative literature. Also available in this series: Essays on Otherness Hb: 0-415-13107-3: £50.00 Pb: 0-415-13108-1: £15.99 Hegel After Derrida Hb: 0-415-17104-4: £50.00 Pb: 0-415-17105-9: £15.99 The Hypocritical Imagination Hb: 0-415-21361-4: £47.50 Pb: 0-415-21362-2: £15.99 Philosophy and Tragedy Hb: 0-415-19141-6: £45.00 Pb: 0-415-19142-4: £14.99 Textures of Light Hb: 0-415-14273-3: £42.50 Pb: 0-415-14274-1: £13.99 Very Little ... Almost Nothing Pb: 0-415-12821-8: £47.50 Pb: 0-415-12822-6: £15.99 Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315824512

Critiquing Free SpeechFirst Amendment theory and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity In this exceptional volume Matthew D. Bunker explores the work of contemporary free speech critics and argues that while at times these critics provide important lessons many of their conclusions must be rejected. Moreover Bunker suggests that we be wary of interdisciplinary approaches to free speech theory that--by their very assumptions and techniques--are a poor "fit" with existing free speech theory and doctrine. In his investigation of diverse critiques of free speech theory and his sophisticated rebuttal he provides an innovative and important examination of First Amendment theory. In doing so he establishes a new agenda for First Amendment theory scholarship that incorporates some of the critics' insights without abandoning the best aspects of the free speech tradition. COPY FOR MAILER: Distinctive features in this volume include: * an overview of the traditional approaches to First Amendment theory * an examination of work from key First Amendment scholars and theorists at both the individual and group level * an emphasis on interdisciplinarity ranging from femi- nist and critical legal scholars to economists and literary theorists and * a new agenda for First Amendment theory scholar- ship which incorporates critical comment while pre- serving the best aspects of the free speech tradition. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415761673

Critiquing Sustainability Changing Philosophy To increasing numbers of people sustainability is the key challenge of the twenty-first century. In the many fields where it is a goal persistent problems obstruct the efforts of those trying to make a difference. The task of this book is to provide an overview of the current state of philosophy in the context of what philosophy is could be or should be – in relation to sustainability and the human future on Earth. The book is conceived as a contribution to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development helping to link work on philosophy and sustainability. Critiquing Sustainability Changing Philosophy focusses on the importance of philosophical work to the formation and effectiveness of global civil society and social movements for sustainability in the context of the Anthropocene age of the Earth. It takes a transdisciplinary systems approach that challenges philosophy and concludes by proposing a greatly enhanced role for philosophy in contributing to global public reason for sustainability. This book will be of interest to philosophers sustainability practitioners and thinkers policy makers and all those engaged in the global movement for sustainability. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138687998

Critiquing the Modern in Architecture Written over four decades Critiquing the Modern in Architecture is a collection of essays exploring the ideological and metaphysical core of modern architecture. Author Jaimini Mehta moves architectural modernism from its primarily Eurocentric definition interrogating the subject from the perspective on a non-western thought-world. Mehta groups his essays under three key themes: "Rethinking Modernity" explores the ideological underpinnings of the modernity/modernism binary; "The Idea of Architecture" looks at a number of issues that constitute the timeless and the invariable aspects of architecture against which the prevalent modernist discourse can be critically evaluated; and "On Praxis" looks at three contemporary architects' work and the Vienna Secessionist movement between 1890 and 1918 to articulate a critique of the underpinnings of the modern movement. Providing a new view of the modern in architecture this book is critical reading for architectural theorists and scholars of modernism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138690806

Croatia and the European UnionChanges and Development The accession of Croatia to the EU marked the end of a long and arduous period of transition. Croatia had to meet significantly higher criteria than previous states with suspicion and concerns among existing members about further enlargement increasing. Meanwhile initially strong public support in Croatia declined as inconsistencies in EU policy entry criteria and problems caused by the economic crisis all combined with fears about the loss of national identity and the ability to realize national interests. The successful Croatian accession to the EU in 2013 shows that despite concerns on both sides the EU continues to have meaning and significance and that membership remains highly desirable. Through nine mutually interrelated chapters the contributors speak not only about the political and social situation in Croatia but also prospects for the European Union itself. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138576537

Croce the King and the AlliesExtracts from a diary by Benedetto Croce July 1943 - June 1944 Originally published in English in 1950 this is one of the most revealing works by one of Italy’s foremost philosophers of the 20th century who was also a courageous and effective opponent of Fascism. Following the Allied landing at Salerno Croce was called upon by kings princes generals and politicians and asked to decide question of vital importance to Italy. This book records the notes Croce made on political matters in 1943 and 1944 and includes some of the many documents Croce possessed which referred to the attempt in Naples (noted in the Autumn of 1943) to form a Corps of Italian volunteers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367140014

Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic PlanesTactile Mathematics Art and Craft for all to Explore Second Edition Winner Euler Book Prize awarded by the Mathematical Association of America. With over 200 full color photographs this non-traditional tactile introduction to non-Euclidean geometries also covers early development of geometry and connections between geometry art nature and sciences. For the crafter or would-be crafter there are detailed instructions for how to crochet various geometric models and how to use them in explorations. New to the 2nd Edition; Daina Taimina discusses her own adventures with the hyperbolic planes as well as the experiences of some of her readers. Includes recent applications of hyperbolic geometry such as medicine architecture fashion & quantum computing. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367375072

Crocodiles Can't Climb TreesTargeting the k Sound Lucas the Monkey loves to play soccer by the river but he has a problem – Mr. Crocodile who would love to make Lucas his dinner. This picture book targets the /k/ sound and is part of Speech Bubbles 1  a series of picture books that target specific speech sounds within the story. The series can be used for children receiving speech therapy for children who have a speech sound delay/disorder or simply as an activity for children’s speech sound development and/or phonological awareness. They are ideal for use by parents teachers or caregivers. Bright pictures and a fun story create an engaging activity perfect for sound awareness. Please see other titles in the series for stories targeting other speech sounds. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367185305

Crop BreedingBioinformatics and Preparing for Climate Change This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Climate change will severely impact the world’s food supply unless steps are taken to increase crop resilience. Otherwise the negative effects on both the yield and the quality of crop plants are predicted to be immense. Plant genomics is a potentially powerful defense against this looming threat. This compendium volume offers a global perspective on the topic with contributions from 42 eminent researchers from 12 nations around the world. The editor is a respected and published scientist in the bioinformatics field who has chosen articles in the following topics: An overview of the genetic challenges presented by climate change A genomic toolkit for crop-related research Specific methods of improvement for specific crop by means of genomic applications The hand-picked up-to-date research makes this volume an excellent reference not only for university-level academics but also for policymakers and stakeholders who must tackle the challenge of the world’s food security. Media > Books > Print Books Apple Academic Press 9781771883443

Crop Diseases and Their ManagementIntegrated Approaches This important and comprehensive book is designed to provide information on crop diseases and how to manage those diseases. Covering a multitude of crops and diseases the book presents integrated approaches on managing diseases that affect such crops as: Cereal and crop plants such as maize pigeon pea chickpeas and urd/mung beans Oil seed crops such as groundnut soybeans and linseed Horticultural crops such as citrus onions garlic cucurbitaceae Colocasia roses Stevia rebaudiana betelvine jute and sunhemp The book thoroughly covers the symptoms causes disease cycles and management approaches for many diseases that affect useful agricultural crops. Edited by two professors and researchers with years of experience in teaching on crop diseases this book is suitable for students in agricultural sciences and helps to cover the recently modified course curricula in India that increases coverage of crop diseases. Crop Diseases and Their Management is also a handy reference for plant protection experts vegetable specialists horticultural officers and extension workers. Media > Books > Print Books Apple Academic Press 9781771882705

Crop Genetic Resources as a Global CommonsChallenges in International Law and Governance Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation – improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials – since the earliest plant domestications. Relatively open flows of plant germplasm attended the early spread of agriculture; they continued in the wake of (and were driven by) imperialism colonization emigration trade development assistance and climate change. As crops have moved around the world and agricultural innovation and production systems have expanded so too has the scope and coverage of pools of shared plant genetic resources that support those systems. The range of actors involved in their conservation and use has also increased dramatically.  This book addresses how the collective pooling and management of shared plant genetic resources for food and agriculture can be supported through laws regulating access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits arising from their use. Since the most important recent development in the field has been the creation of the multilateral system of access and benefit-sharing under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture many of the chapters in this book will focus on the architecture and functioning of that system. The book analyzes tensions that are threatening to undermine the potential of access and benefit-sharing laws to support the collective pooling of plant genetic resources and identifies opportunities to address those tensions in ways that could increase the scope utility and sustainability of the global crop commons. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781844078936

Crop Improvement Utilizing Biotechnology This book discusses; somaclonal variation in crop improvement the role of tissue culture in rapid clonal propagation and production of pathogen-free plant protoplasts in crop improvement cell selection and long-term high-frequency regeneration of cereals and legumes agrobacteria-mediated gene transformation and vectors for gene cloning in plants and plant frost injury and its management. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315892139

Crop Production Technologies for Sustainable Use and ConservationPhysiological and Molecular Advances Crop Production Technologies for Sustainable Use and Conservation:Physiological and Molecular Advances presents an abundance of research on important and new production technologies for the successful sustainable production of major crops. The volume covers most of the major crops used the production of food sugar and commercial fiber. With the focus on sustainability and conservation issues in crop production the chapters present molecular and physiological research and innovations for increasing yield quality and safety while also taking into considering increasing demand diminishing water and land resources and the agricultural consequences of climate change on crop production. The major crops discussed include wheat mungbean cotton jute sugarcane eggplant Solanum (such as potatoes and tomatoes) peppers okra fruits such as apples and pears and more. The chapters report on new developments and research on production techniques related to various fertilizers biosystematics and molecular biology of various crops and building resistance to climatic change including drought tolerance salinity stresses and more.   Media > Books > Print Books Apple Academic Press 9781771887267

Crop Protection Strategies For Subsistence Farmers This book describes crop protection strategies that rely on subsistence farmers' knowledge and participation local resources and alternative low-input methods as a sensitive approach to developing and implementing pest management schemes adjusted to farmers' needs and their conditions. . Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367160906

Crop Reactions To Water And Temperature Stresses In Humid Temperate Climates First published 1983. Aimed at improving agricultural production by providing a better under· standing of the interaction between crops and the environment this book presents the latest research findings on the effects of water and temperature stresses on plants in humid temperate regions. It also covers management practices and breeding programs that may reduce crop sensitivity to the vagaries of weather. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367019211

Crop Responses to EnvironmentAdapting to Global Climate Change Second Edition Following in the tradition of its predecessor Crop Responses to Environment this fully updated and more comprehensive second edition describes aspects of crop responses to environment that are particularly relevant to the development of improved crop cultivars and management methods on a global scale. It includes an extensive discussion of the difficulties in developing agricultural systems that accommodate increasing human needs for agricultural products during the twenty-first century in a sustainable manner. The book features new sections on adaptation to global climate change including adapting to global warming elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and increased flooding and salinity through plant breeding and changes in crop management. Warming effects include stressful effects of heat on pollen development and reduced winter chilling effects on fruit and nut trees. The book examines principles theories mathematical models and experimental observations concerning plant responses to environment that are relevant to the development of improved crop cultivars and management methods. It illustrates the importance of considering emergent plant properties as well as reductionist approaches to understanding plant function and adaptation. Plant physiological and developmental responses to light and temperature and plant water relations are considered in detail. Dr. Hall also describes climatic zone definitions based on temperature rainfall and evaporative demand in relation to plant adaptation and the prediction of crop water use. Irrigation management and crop responses to salinity flooding and toxic levels of boron and aluminum are considered. Crop responses to pests and diseases as they interact with crop responses to physical and chemical aspects of the environment are examined. The book concludes with analyses illustrating the relevance of crop responses to environment to plant breeding. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138506381

Crop Wild RelativesA Manual of in situ Conservation Crop wild relatives (CWR) are plant species which are more or less closely related to crops. They are a vital resource by providing a pool of genetic variation that can be used in breeding new and better adapted varieties of crops that are resistant to stress disease drought and other factors. They will be increasingly important in allowing crops to adapt to the impacts of climate thus safeguarding future agricultural production. Until recently the main conservation strategy adopted for CWR has been ex situ - through the maintenance of samples as seed or vegetative material in various kinds of genebank or other facilities. Now the need to conserve CWR in their natural surroundings (in situ) is increasingly recognized. Recent research co-ordinated by Bioversity International has produced a wealth of information on good practices and lessons learned for their effective conservation. This book captures the important practical experiences of countries participating in this work and describes them for the wider conservation community. It includes case studies and examples from Armenia Bolivia Madagascar Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan which are important centres of diversity for crop wild relatives and covers four geographical regions - the Caucasus South America Africa and the Asia-Pacific Region. It provides practical relevant information and guidance for the scaling-up of actions targeting CWR conservation around the world. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781849775564

Crops and CarbonPaying Farmers to Combat Climate Change Rich countries are paying poor countries to fight climate change on their behalf – and one way they are doing it is through carbon sinks. These are reservoirs of organic carbon tied up in plants and in the earth rather than being in the atmosphere as greenhouse gases. This book looks critically at this mode of climate change mitigation. Can it work? Is it just? Will poorer countries benefit? The book considers the scientific economic and ethical basis for this type of mitigation. Previous attention has been focused mainly on reducing emissions from deforestation and land degradation (REDD) but this book is one of the first attempts to examine the potential for carbon sinks in agriculture in crop plants and the soil. In assessing this the author examines exactly how north-south climate mitigation trading works or does not and what the pitfalls are. It highlights the complex relationship between agriculture particularly different forms of farming systems and the mitigation of climate change. The arguments are backed up by original research with farmers in Brazil to demonstrate the challenges and prospects which these proposals offer in terms of payments for environmental services from agriculture through carbon trading. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138384125

Crops Residue Management Recent changes in the Conservation Compliance Plans for farmers shows the need for improved information on the effective management of crop residues. Residue management requires an understanding of the crop soil and climate in which the farming system is located. In this volume the strategies for effective residue management are described for each region of the country to provide a comparison of the regional differences. The chapters not only describe the knowledge in each region but also suggest some of the needed areas of research required to develop an improved understanding of the processes involved in effective residue management. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315892146

Cross Cultural Anxiety First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Taylor & Francis 9781315825724

Cross Cultural Awareness and Social Justice in Counseling Many societal and cultural changes have taken place over the past several decades almost all of which have had a significant effect on the mental health professions. Clinicians find themselves encountering clients from highly diverse backgrounds more and more often increasing the need for a knowledge of cross-cultural competencies. Ellis and Carlson have brought together some of the leaders in the field of multicultural counseling to create a text for mental health professionals that not only addresses diversity but also emphasizes the counselor’s role as an advocate of social justice. The theoretical foundation for this book rests on research into diversity spirituality religion and color-specific issues. Each chapter addresses the unique needs and relevant issues in working with a specific population such as women men African Americans Asian Americans Spanish-speaking clients North America’s indigenous people members of the LGBT community new citizens and the poor underserved and underrepresented. Issues that enter into the counselor-patient relationship are discussed in detail for all of these groups with the hope that this will lead to a greater understanding and sensitivity on the part of the counselor for their patients. This is an important and timely book for both counselors-in-training and those already established as professionals in today’s highly diverse and constantly-changing society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138137318

Cross Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School... Science Using a cross-curricular focus this book brings together ongoing debates about personalised learning creativity and ICT in education and establishes a principled framework for cross-curricular teaching and learning in Science. It identifies a range of key issues and aims to strengthen in-school science practices by introducing ways of teaching rigorous science through and alongside other subjects. This highly practical book draws on examples and case studies taken from innovative practices in different schools and subject areas as well as summarising lessons from key pieces of research evidence. Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School.... Science also includes the following: Clear theoretical frameworks for cross-curricular processes of teaching and learning in science including chapters on Maths ICT and Technology English the Humanities and the Arts An analysis of the use of language ICT and assessment as key components of a skilful pedagogical practice that affect how teaching is delivered and how pupils learn science in cross-curricular contexts A lively account of theoretical issues blended with engaging stories of current practice Practical tasks and questions for reflective practice This timely textbook is essential reading for all students on Initial Teacher Training courses and PGCE courses as well as practising teachers looking to holistically introduce cross-curricular themes and practices in Science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415666824

Cross Laminated TimberA design stage primer Cross-laminated timber (CLT) has long been heralded as a wonder material with a light environmental footprint high strength quick installation times and reduced waste – so why isn’t everyone using it? Delving into the key considerations including fire safety cost and value visual aspects planning feasibility and engineering this book is an essential companion to designing and delivering exemplar CLT buildings. Abundantly illustrated with over 130 colour images and in-depth case studies from around the world it will help the entire project team - whether design team constructor or clients - to better understand and build using a truly modern method of construction. Outlines key challenges as well as benefits of CLT including quality cost and environmental benefits risk reduction and health and safety benefits Presents lessons learnt to aid the development process from the earliest stages of design to production and assembly Accessible easy-to-read handbook format allows you to dip in and out investigating issues as necessary Multidisciplinary in approach with contributions from a range of practitioners Media > Books > Print Books RIBA Publishing 9781859469224

Cross-Border Collaborative JournalismA Step-By-Step Guide Cross-Border Collaborative Journalism is a detailed guide to transnational reporting a cutting-edge journalistic strategy. In the twenty-first century the most pressing political and social issues such as financial crises wealth inequality migration flows and environmental collapse transcend national borders. In reaction journalists are increasingly collaborating across the globe to produce impactful and in-depth reporting. Recent agenda-setting cross-border collaborations include LuxLeaks Panama Papers and Football Leaks. Brigitte Alfter takes the reader step-by-step through the history of cross-border collaborative journalism and the current working practices behind it. The book draws from the author’s own experience as well as exclusive interviews with other pioneers of cross-border journalism and notable case studies are integrated throughout. Chapters cover: Managing intercultural communication Effectively utilising a network of sources Choosing the initial story idea Fact-checking for cross-border publication Adapting the findings to different audiences and to different types of media Legal and security considerations for a cross-border team. By providing the essential practical skills for transnational reporting Cross-Border Collaborative Journalism encourages students of journalism and practitioners to undertake their own collaborative projects. It highlights the importance of this exciting new journalistic form to answering the defining questions of our time. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138613638

Cross-border Electronic BankingChallenges and Opportunities Cross-border Electronic Banking addresses everything from the changes made to payment clearing since the deregulation of cross-border flows of funds to the development of capital adequacy ratios and the Euro. This insightful and revealing book backed up by extensive practical experience will alert you to the ways that electronic banking practices affect even the simplest daily transactions and will unveil the legal technicalities imposed by these developments. Media > Books > E-books Informa Law from Routledge 9781315781143

Cross-Border Law EnforcementRegional Law Enforcement Cooperation – European Australian and Asia-Pacific Perspectives This innovative volume explores issues of law enforcement cooperation across borders from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. In doing so it adopts a comparative framework hitherto unexplored; namely the EU and the Australsian/Asia-Pacific region whose relative geopolitical remoteness from each other decreases with every incremental increase in globalisation. The borders under examination include both macro-level cooperation between nation-states as well as micro-level cooperation between different Executive agencies within a nation-state. In terms of disciplinary borders the contributions demonstrate the breadth of academic insight that can be brought to bear on this topic. The volume contributes to the wider context for evidence-based policy-making and knowledge-based policing by bringing together leading academics public policy-makers legal practitioners and law enforcement officials from Europe Australia and the Asian-Pacific region to shed new light on the pressing problems impeding cross-border policing and law enforcement globally and regionally. Problems common to all jurisdictions are discussed and innovative ‘best practice’ solutions and models are considered. The book is structured in four parts: Police cooperation in the EU; in Australia; in the Asia-Pacific Region; and finally it considers issues of jurisdiction and due process/human rights issues with a focus on regional cooperation strategies for countering human trafficking organised crime and terrorism. The book will be of interest to both academic and practitioner communities in policing criminology international relations and comparative Asia-Pacific and EU legal studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415859240

Cross-Border Mergers and AcquisitionsUK Dimensions Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBM&As) activity has become an important vehicle for firms’ internationalization and corporate restructuring over the past three decades. Despite the huge volume of global CBM&A activity however there are few books which carefully explore the strategies motives and consequences of global mergers and acquisitions. This book discusses and synthesizes the theoretical literature on the motivation and performance of international merger activities. Focusing on the UK as a top acquiring country in the European Union the authors explore the recent trends in cross-border mergers and acquisitions motives for cross-border mergers and acquisitions the mergers integration process home and host countries’ macroeconomic consequences on mergers and acquisitions and shareholder’s wealth effects on CBM&A. This book explores and sheds much-needed light on the UK CBM&A market what drives it and what lessons can be learned for other regions around the globe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138616974

Cross-border Partnerships in Higher EducationStrategies and Issues Cross-border Partnerships in Higher Education looks beyond student and faculty exchanges to examine the myriad ways international colleges and universities work together as institutions. These partnerships have involved the creation of branch campuses joint research and technology initiatives collaboration in strengthening institutional management testing faculty development efforts collaboration in quality assurance and sharing of technology. Cross-national collaborations are a growing financial and informational resource for universities and non-Western schools are increasingly taking part. The volume provides an overview of the purposes and types of cross-border collaborations an analysis of the benefits and an examination of issues arising from these efforts. A cross-cutting goal is to provide a critical look at the models being employed the challenges encountered and the unintended consequences of such collaboration both positive and negative. The book is intended for scholars and students of international higher education higher education leaders and practitioners who are charting a course toward greater cross-border collaboration and leaders in international development assistance organizations that are often asked to support such initiatives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415530262

Cross-Border Police CollaborationBuilding Communities of Practice in the Baltic Sea Area This book focuses on a border police collaboration project in the Baltic Sea area aiming at fighting cross-border crimes. It deals with the challenges that inherently "suspicious" organizations face when forced to work together. The study offers unique insights into a European border police project giving the reader a behind the scenes account of how cross-border policing and organized crime in Europe is prevented and solved. Through detailed ethnographic descriptions the book describes how a trust-based relationship which is necessary for the exchange of sensitive intelligence information gradually developed by the participants in and through their joint efforts to protect Europe from external threats and by performing everyday work together. The study presented in this book is of interest to scholars as well as practitioners concerned with migration management border policing intelligence analysis police culture and the changing nature of policing in an increasingly global and interconnected world. The book includes various sociological features such as emotion management emotional labor hegemonic masculinity and takes an interactionist perspective on informal interactions such as joking bantering and telling stories. It is also of interest to readers engaged in various forms of intra- inter-organizational and inter-cultural collaborations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367536619

Cross-Bordering Dynamics in Education and Lifelong LearningA Perspective from Non-Formal Education Education as a concept has long been taken for granted. Most people immediately think of schools and colleges of classes and exams. This volume aims to highlight non-formal education (NFE) in its various forms across different historical and cultural contexts. Contributors draw upon their experience as educators and researchers in comparative education and sociology to elucidate compare and critique NFE in Asia Europe Latin America and the USA. By mapping out NFE’s forms functions and dynamics this volume gives us the opportunity to reflect on the myriad iterations of education to challenge preconceived limitations in the field of education research. Only by expanding the focus beyond that of traditional schooling arrangements can we work towards a more sustainable future and improved lifelong learning. This book will appeal to researchers interested in non-formal education and comparative education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367227012

Cross-Continental Agro-Food ChainsStructures Actors and Dynamics in the Global Food System Filling a gap in contemporary food and globalization scholarship this timely book presents recent case-study research on the globalization of food systems and the impacts for communities around the world. It covers debates on new structures and food products as well as detailed accounts of fresh horticulture tropical crops and livestock.Drawing together contributions of twenty-six leading international social scientists from eleven countries this book will interest researchers in geography development studies agricultural economics and political science as well as professionals in the fields of trade and food policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415514026

Cross-continental Views on Journalistic Skills This book considers the role journalism education plays in coping with a changing media landscape. It looks at how journalists can empower themselves in an effort to excel in an evolving environment and considers whether it suffices for them to master ‘pre-millennial’ basic skills or whether brand new competencies need to be incorporated. Few dramatic qualifications are spared when discussing the changes that have shaken the news environment during the noughties. Digitization has both empowered and tried professional journalists through multimedia news production media convergence and not least a maturing commercial internet. Moreover digitization has also influenced and been influenced by other societal changes such as global financial tensions evolving multicultural societies and emerging democracies in search for a suitable journalistic paradigm. Indeed the rather technological evolutions emphasized time and again cannot be detached from a cultural setting. This is why an investigation in required competencies benefits from an explicit socio-cultural and cross-continental perspective. As this book tackles a varied set of ‘news ecosystems’ it is our hope to offer a nuanced view on what indeed seems to be a global fluidity in journalism practice. Explicit emphasis is put on the role of journalism education as facilitator for and even innovator in required journalistic competencies. Time will tell whether or not ‘news ecosystems’ will again stabilize. This volume makes a number of concrete recommendations towards journalism training and discusses a number of case studies across several continents illustrating how goals are attuned to a changed news environment. As this book links academic paradigms to concrete journalism practice and education its reading is recommended both for practitioners and educators. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138953826

Cross-Cultural AnalysisMethods and Applications Second Edition Intended to bridge the gap between the latest methodological developments and cross-cultural research this interdisciplinary resource presents the latest strategies for analyzing cross-cultural data. Techniques are demonstrated through the use of applications that employ cross-national data sets such as the latest European Social Survey. With an emphasis on the generalized latent variable approach internationally prominent researchers from a variety of fields explain how the methods work how to apply them and how they relate to other methods presented in the book. Syntax and graphical and verbal explanations of the techniques are included. Online resources available at www.routledge.com/9781138690271 include some of the data sets and syntax commands used in the book. Applications from the behavioral and social sciences that use real data-sets demonstrate: The use of samples from 17 countries to validate the resistance to change scale across these nations How to test the cross-national invariance properties of social trust The interplay between social structure religiosity values and social attitudes A comparison of anti-immigrant attitudes and patterns of religious orientations across European countries. The second edition includes six new chapters and two revised ones presenting exciting developments in the literature of cross-cultural analysis including topics such as approximate measurement invariance alignment optimization sensitivity analyses a mixed-methods approach to test for measurement invariance and a multilevel structural equation modeling approach to explain noninvariance.　 This book is intended for researchers practitioners and advanced students interested in cross-cultural research. Because the applications span a variety of disciplines the book will appeal to researchers and students in: psychology political science sociology education marketing and economics geography criminology psychometrics epidemiology and public health as well as those interested in methodology. It is also appropriate for an advanced methods course in cross-cultural analysis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138690271

Cross-Cultural Aspects of Tourism and HospitalityA Services Marketing and Management Perspective Cross-Cultural Aspects of Tourism and Hospitality is the first textbook to offer students lecturers researchers and practitioners a comprehensive guide to the influence of culture on service providers as well as on customers affecting both the supply and the demand sides of the industry – organisational behaviour and human resource management and marketing and consumer behaviour. Given the need for delivering superior customer value understanding different cultures from both demand and supply sides of tourism and hospitality and the impact of culture on these international industries is an essential part of all students’ and practitioners’ learning and development. This book takes a research-based approach critically reviewing seminal cultural theories and evaluating how these influence employee and customer behaviour in service encounters marketing and management processes and activities. Individual chapters cover a diverse range of cultural aspects including intercultural competence and intercultural sensitivity uncertainty and risk avoidance context in communication power distance indulgence and restraint time orientation gender assertiveness individualism and collectivism performance orientation and humane orientation. This book integrates international case studies throughout to show the application of theory includes self-test questions activities further reading and a set of PowerPoint slides to accompany each chapter. This will be essential reading for all students lecturers researchers and practitioners and future managers in the fields of Tourism and Hospitality. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367860745

Cross-Cultural Behaviour in Tourism Cross-Cultural Behaviour in Tourism: Concepts and Analysis is important reading for those in the following areas of industry: * Tourism: illustrates the importance of cultural background in the tourist experience and how it is a major determinant in repeat visitation * Marketing: provides an understanding of the cultural background of a destination that is vital when formulating successful marketing strategies * Management: provides valuable examples on how cultures influence tourist behaviour and decision-making helping managers to develop cross-cultural skills and deal with tourists from diverse cultural backgrounds Tourism is a service industry where people from different nationalities meet. In today's international marketplace it is imperative that those in the industry understand the influence of national cultures on their consumers in order to compete successfully for a market share. The book is accompanied by online resources which can be found at www.bh.com/companions/0750656689. These resources include an account of Hypothesis Testing together with a detailed glossary and a comprehensive reference list of relevant materials. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138131965

Cross-cultural Challenges in International Management The development of international business and of globalization in every field of activity requires the interaction of individuals and groups with diverse cultural religious ethnic and social characteristics in different institutional contexts. Cross-cultural Challenges in International Management addresses the various difficulties that may impede smooth communication and cooperation of those involved in such interactions. It examines what types of resources are mobilized to overcome such difficulties. The cultural and societal challenges of international management must be considered at different levels the one of strategy which the first part of the book is devoted to but also that of management and business practices addressed in the third part of the book. Both strategic decisions and daily business practices however in the particularly fluctuating and incompletely defined international context gain from being framed by ethical and corporate social responsibility which the second part of this book is devoted to. Cross-cultural Challenges in International Management provides an analysis of specific situations revealing such cultural or societal challenges. Thus the reader will benefit not only from advanced theoretical knowledge in the field but also from practical applications in various professional context and various countries. Practitioners students in various fields of social sciences particularly in management communication international relations and researchers will widely benefit from this book. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367457907

Cross-cultural Communication and Aging in the United States Recently the communication discipline has devoted increasing energy toward the study of aging yet most of the research has insufficiently addressed a crucial factor in communicative relationships--culture. Meanwhile cross-cultural/intercultural communication has not adequately addressed the aging process. Combining three powerful elements--communication aging and culture--all of which have an increasingly profound impact on today's multicultural society this book focuses on older Americans in various communicative contexts within the framework of their cultures. Composed of original research by experts in their respective fields the book combines communication aging and culture for a unique examination of those elements in American society. Section 1 deals with perspectives in cross-cultural communication and aging. These perspectives both illustrate the issues that greatly affect the lives of our elders and suggest ways to improve their status. Section 2 showcases three American co-cultures: Hawaiian Arab and Mormon illustrate how language attitudes and mentoring can serve as the links for maintaining cross-generational continuity in multicultural society. Section 3 demonstrates that many American organizations frequently contribute to the hardships that both internal elder customers (employees) and external elder customers (residents and patients) must endure. Section 4 incorporates popular culture and aging. It presents the role of selective popular media in portraying our elders. Because Americans rely heavily on the media their mediated perceptions can have a profound impact on their attitudes toward the older population. Designed as a reader or supplementary text for college students in communication gerontology anthropology sociology and other related fields this text can also be used by professionals in gerontological service areas by libraries and as a personal reference. It offers extensive appendices figures and tables for additional reference. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203811016

Cross-cultural CommunicationPerspectives in Theory and Practice "Cross-Cultural Communication" is a collection of essays that examines how practitioners can improve the acceptance of their documentation when communicating to cultures other than their own. The essays begin by examining the cross-cultural issues relating to quality in documentation. From there the essays look at examples of common documents analysing them from several perspectives. Specifically the author uses communication theories (such as Bernstein's Elaborated and Restricted Code theory and Marwell and Schmidt's Compliance-Gaining theory) to show how documents used by readers who are not native speakers of English can be written and organized to increase their effectiveness. The principal assumption about how practitioners create their documents is that while large organizations can afford to write translate and then localize small- to medium-size organizations produce many documents that are used directly by people in other cultures-often without translating and localizing. The advantage the writer gains from these essays is in understanding the strategies and knowing the kinds of strategies to apply in specific situations. In addition the essays can serve as a valuable resource for students and teachers alike as they determine ways to understand how cross-cultural communication is different and why it makes a difference. Not only do students need to be aware of the various strategies they may apply when creating documents for cross-cultural settings they also need to see how research can apply theories from different areas-in the case of these essays communication and rhetorical theories. Another value of the essays is to show the students the role standards play in cross-cultural communication; standards are written by committees that follow style rules developed by the International Standardization Organization in Geneva. Thus both students and practitioners can find valuable cross-cultural communication advice in these essays. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138637177

Cross-Cultural ConversationA New Way of Learning This book proposes a radical shift in the way the world thinks about itself by highlighting the significance of Cross-Cultural Conversations. Moving beyond conventional boundaries it examines the language in which histories are written; analyzes how scientific technology is changing the idea of identity; and highlights the need for a larger identity across nationality race religion gender ethnicity and class. It asks for a concerted effort to engage each other in open conversational forums on a range of contemporary global issues alter our attitudes toward self and the other and unlearn prejudices that perpetuate the practice of divisive identities. The book also explores critical themes such as political actions solidarity-in-diversity clash of social identities tensions between nationalism and globalism the quest for global peace and authentic meeting of world religions. Further it discusses the evolving connection between science and religion focusing on key philosophical ideas that have permeated the Indian cultural soil. The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy religious studies science and technology studies and cultural studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780367172985

Cross-Cultural CounselingThe Arab-Palestinian Case As a therapist you may find yourself at a brick wall when you try to treat Middle Eastern North African South American Asian and other clients with psychotherapeutic techniques formulated in the West. As Cross-Cultural Counseling: The Arab-Palestinian Case illustrates the construction of self community and society is remarkably different in Arab countries. Only certain aspects of Western psychotherapy can be adapted to respond to the unique sociopolitical conditions and cultural factors affecting the mental health of people raised to consider community needs over self needs and desires. This text suggests a biopsychosocial approach to treating psychological disorders among Arab clients and highlights differences in the prevalence and manifestation of psychological disorders among peoples of South/Eastern backgrounds as compared to what is known in the West. You’ll gain an education and understanding from Cross-Cultural Counseling that helps you provide more effective services to Arabs and Palestinians to meet their mental health needs. Cross-Cultural Counseling shows you how divesting therapeutic techniques of cultural sensitivity results in the alienation of clients who are not accustomed to recognizing or meeting their individual needs. It suggests a biopsychosocial approach to treating psychological disorders among Arab clients and highlights differences in the prevalence and manifestation of psychological disorders among peoples of South/Eastern backgrounds as compared to what is known in the West. Challenging therapists to discard their misconceptions and biases about people who don’t fit the Western mold in terms of individualization identity and personality the book also covers: different sociopolitical situations in Arab countries and the maintenance of authoritarian and collectivistic culture psychocultural features of Arabs socialization in Arab homes and schools help-seeking behavior among Arabs and poor mental health service delivery in Arab countries factors threatening the unity of the Palestinian family therapeutic recommendations for traditional clientsAccording to author Marwan Dwairy Cross-Cultural Counseling is meant to “undo the dehumanization that has surrounded Palestinian-Arabs and help clinicians to understand the behavior of the Arab client and come to know the person in him or her.” Certainly no other book can help you as a psychologist psychiatrist or mental health professional treat Palestinians Arabs and other South/Eastern clients as efficiently and successfully. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315809946

Cross-Cultural Design for IT Products and Services With the increase of globalization of business and industry IT products and services are often produced and marketed across geographical cultural boundaries without adequate consideration of culture. There is a high probability that IT products and services developed in one country may not be effectively used in another country which may hinder their market penetration sales and use. Based on research and practice Cross-Cultural Design for IT Products and Services provides a resource for human factors engineers designers and marketing professionals who define and develop IT products and services for the global market. With its extensive review of cross-cultural theory and cross-cultural design literature it is also a resource for those who are interested in research on cross-cultural design. The book presents an overview of the dimensions of culture that have implications for human information processing and affective response. It examines a set of user interface design guidelines grouped into five areas: language use of color icons and images navigation and information architecture. Also it addresses physical ergonomics and anthropometry issues. The text translates theory and guidelines into a practical methodology and discusses how to integrate methods of cross-cultural design into a standard engineering process for product development. The authors review and reappraise theories models principles and techniques for design of IT products and services that will be marketed globally. They provide guidelines for user interface design across North American Asian and other cultures. Applying the guidelines within the methodological framework provided will enhance the usability and effectiveness of the IT product or service and contribute to greater user satisfaction increased productivity higher sales and lower product support costs. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367380564

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History 1453-Present One of the hallmarks of world history is the ever-increasing ability of humans to cross cultural boundaries. Taking an encounters approach that opens up history to different perspectives and experiences Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History examines cultural contact between people from across the globe between 1453 and the present. The book examines the historical record of these contacts distilling from those processes patterns of interaction different peoples’ perspectives and the ways these encounters tended to subvert the commonly accepted assumptions about differences between peoples in terms of race ethnicity nationhood or empire. This new edition has been updated to employ current scholarship and address recent developments as well as increasing the treatment of indigenous agency including the major role played by Polynesians in the spread of Christianity in Oceania. The final chapter has been updated to reflect the refugee crisis and the evolving political situation in Europe concerning its immigrant population. Supported by engaging discussion questions and enlivened with the voices and views of those who were and remain directly engaged in the process of cross-cultural exchange this highly accessible volume remains a valuable resource for all students of world history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138303102

Cross-Cultural ExplorationsActivities in Culture and Psychology It is only in recent decades that psychology as an academic discipline has begun to recognize the importance of a cultural perspective. From cross-cultural psychology through to psychological anthropology psychologists have taken a number of approaches to studying the role of culture in human behavior. This comprehensive workbook is designed to facilitate students’ understanding and application of major concepts and principles of culture and psychology. The fully updated new edition features over 100 case studies self-administered scales mini-experiments and library research projects addressing topics such as culture race/ethnicity gender age sexual orientation disability and social class. Theoretical and guiding content is included in each chapter to embed the activities within key concepts and principles. Designed to contribute to the inclusion of cultural perspectives in the psychology curriculum this wide-ranging book provides students with hands-on experiences that facilitate the understanding and application of major concepts and principles in the study of culture and psychology. The workbook is supported by a substantial Instructor’s Manual that includes discussion questions video recommendations variations by course level and suggestions for expanded writing assignments.  See "Support Material" below for access.  Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138037083

Cross-Cultural Exposure and ConnectionsIntercultural Learning for Global Citizenship This new book explores the recent issue of cross-cultural management from both theoretical and research perspectives. It considers the impact of knowledge experience and exposure of cross-cultural differences in developing a global viewpoint and citizenship in the corporate workplace. The volume throws light on the emerging concepts of building global citizens who are willing to think beyond boundaries of place identity and category and to recognize all human beings as their equals while respecting humanity’s inherent diversity. The effective use of cross-cultural teams can provide a source of experience and innovative thinking to enhance the competitive position of organizations. However cultural differences can interfere with the successful completion of goals in today’s multicultural global business community. To achieve project goals and avoid cultural misunderstandings managers should be culturally sensitive and promote creativity and motivation through flexible leadership. The chapter authors in this volume look at these challenges by reviewing and conducting empirical studies roundtables and focus discussions. The volume tackles a variety of issues including enterprise resource planning (ERP) talent management differences in individual work performances differences in leadership styles virtual work relationships and much more. It looks at the challenges in establishing crosscultural workplaces such as the overcoming significant barriers in multi-cultural project communications and motivating project team members. Media > Books > Print Books Apple Academic Press 9781771888127

Cross-Cultural Health TranslationExploring Methodological and Digital Tools Health translation represents a critical yet underexplored research field in Translation Studies. High-quality health translation represents an integral part in the development of multicultural health resources. The empirical study and evaluation of health translations and the establishment of effective health translation methods and models holds the key to the success of multicultural health communication and promotion. Chapters in this book aim to fill in a persistent knowledge gap in current multicultural health research  that is  culturally effective and user-oriented healthcare translation. Research presented in this book points to an important opportunity to improve and enhance current multicultural healthcare services based on empirical evidence-based health translation studies. Health translation provides a powerful intervention tool to engage with migrants with diverse language cultural backgrounds and health literacy levels. This book provides much-needed reading in the emerging research field of healthcare translation. It makes useful and original contributions to this emerging research field through the exploration of culturally effective health translation methods approaches and models as well as the development and evaluation of digital health translation resources and tools. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367150013

Cross-Cultural Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience DesignA Semiotic Perspective The semiotic perspective of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) can give you insight into values beliefs and reference systems of the users that often go unnoticed when using traditional HCI approaches. Cross-Cultural Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Design: A Semiotic Perspective focuses on the semiotic approach in product services and system design and emphasizes the semiotic and linguistic aspects in HCI and user experience (UX). The book shows you how to leverage these insights when creating useful usable and appealing user interfaces. The book covers the theoretical background of HCI semiotics with emphasis on the interaction elements present in the user interface the methodology to work with them to achieve useful insights both for design and evaluation and the results obtained compared to traditional UX methods. It then examines a cross-cultural study presenting a semiotic method for design and evaluation in a different cultural background and discusses the resulting insights which are then structured as guidelines for HCI/UX design for Chinese users. Although extensive research has been done in HCI semiotics and the cultural aspects of HCI this book differs by exploring how these fields are informed by the linguistic perspective. It presents a novel approach to cross-cultural HCI/UX covers the latest research in the field and brings a set of tools and methods to benefit the design process by taking a semiotic perspective. It also supplies a set of design guidelines for developing more usable useful and appealing products services and systems. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781498702577

Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West 1204–1669Whose Mediterranean Is It Anyway? The early modern Mediterranean was an area where many different rich cultural traditions came in contact with each other and were often forced to co-exist frequently learning to reap the benefits of co-operation. Orthodox Roman Catholics Muslims Jews and their interactions all contributed significantly to the cultural development of modern Europe. The aim of this volume is to address explore re-examine and re-interpret one specific aspect of this cross-cultural interaction in the Mediterranean – that between the Byzantine East and the (mainly Italian) West. The investigation of this interaction has become increasingly popular in the past few decades not least due to the relevance it has for cultural exchanges in our present-day society.The starting point is provided by the fall of Constantinople to the troops of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. In the aftermath of the fall a number of Byzantine territories came under prolonged Latin occupation an occupation that forced Greeks and Latins to adapt their life socially and religiously to the new status quo. Venetian Crete developed one of the most fertile ‘bi-cultural’ societies which evolved over 458 years. Its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1669 marked the end of an era and was hence chosen as the end point for the conference. By sampling case studies from the most representative areas where this interaction took place the volume highlights the process as well as the significance of its cultural development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367591915

Cross-Cultural InterviewingFeminist Experiences and Reflections Interviewing is one of the most common techniques used to conduct qualitative research in the social sciences and humanities. As a result of globalization researchers increasingly conduct interviews cross- inter- and intra-nationally. This raises important questions about how differences and sameness are understood and negotiated within the interview situation as well as the power structures at play within qualitative research and the role that reflexivity plays in mediating these. What does it mean to interview Black women as a Black woman? How is ethnicity negotiated across various qualitative research encounters? How are differences bridged or asserted in feminist interviewing? These are just some of the questions explored in the chapters in this volume. Drawing on their recent research the contributors detail their experiences of engaging in qualitative interviewing and examine how they negotiated the various dilemmas they encountered. The contributions challenge some of the assumptions made in early feminist work on interviewing providing nuanced accounts of actual research experiences. This volume explores the practice and implications of conducting cross- inter- and intra-cultural interviewing bringing together researchers from a range of disciplines and countries to describe and analyse both its vicissitudes and its advantages. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138344808

Cross-Cultural Journalism and Strategic CommunicationStorytelling and Diversity Built using the hands-on and pioneering Missouri Method this textbook prepares readers to write about and communicate with people of different backgrounds offering real-world examples of how to practice excellent journalism and strategic communication that takes culture into account. No matter the communication purpose this book will help readers engage with difference and the concept of fault lines and to identify and mitigate bias. It provides guidance on communicating the complexity inherent in issues such as crime immigration and sports and understanding census data gathering methods and terms to craft stories or strategic campaigns. Above all the book encourages readers to reconsider assumptions about race class gender identity sexual orientation immigration status religion disability and age and recognize communicators’ responsibilities in shaping national discussions. This new edition addresses the ever-changing political and social climate differentiates excellent journalism from punditry and shows the business value of understanding diverse perspectives. A fantastic introduction to this complex but important field this book is perfect for students teachers and early career communicators. The combintion of a hands-on approach and pull-out boxes with the diverse voices curated by editors María Len-Ríos and Earnest Perry make this an ideal text for the classroom and beyond. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138595224

Cross-Cultural LeadershipBeing Effective in an Era of Globalization Digital Transformation and Disruptive Innovation For many decades management in its research and practice has been in need of an alternative approach and paradigm to understanding human behaviours. Many studies and books have attempted to provide solutions to the individual which ended up being a cultural dilemma with little success. This book provides a novel approach to address this dilemma by linking aspects from three knowledge domains; Psychology Anthropology and Sociology. Cross-Cultural Leadership supports Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and makes it a practical construct and tool that both managers and researchers harness to understand what "cultural Chameleon" means. The book also renders support to Douglaisan Cultural Framework　 (DCF) by activating the role of the usually neglected fifth culture; the hermit by linking it to the metacognitive dimension of CQ. This link introduces for the first time the mechanism that individuals use to run through metacognitive processes to drive change. This book is a tool for individuals to help them work efficiently outside their homeland. Being an adaptive or culturally hybrid leader is among the most important competencies of the effective leaders in the 21st century. By focusing on comprehending the five cultures as elaborated in DCF leaders and managers will be relieved from the dilemma of having to understand each and every national culture of their employees. This book will be of value to researchers academics managers and students with an interest in leadership management organization studies globalization and innovation Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367361471

Cross-cultural LiteracyEthnographies of Communication in Multiethnic Classrooms Originally published in 1992. This book advocates and demonstrates the benefits of an anthropological approach that recognizes the centrality of culture in the educational process. This approach encompasses knowledge and understanding of other cultures’ patterns of interaction values institutions metaphors and symbols as well as cross-cultural communication skills. Ethnographic studies of multi-ethnic classrooms and schools in their community context are presented in this excellent volume with a view to informing practice and policy concerning the education of language minority students and teachers and anyone with an interest in foreign language education and bilingual education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815373582

Cross-Cultural ManagementA Transactional Approach The internationalization of business via the process of globalization has brought issues of culture to the forefront of management thinking. Although culture is by no means a new area of study in business schools it remains frustratingly elusive and misunderstood. This textbook gives business students - or future managers - an understanding of the multitude of frameworks available to them to make sense of the cultural contexts they will encounter in their managerial careers. Starting from a general introduction to â€˜culture’ and its role in businesses Taran Patel encourages readers to shed a critical eye on the commonly accepted frameworks. She compels readers to ask three questions: Can I only make sense of the variety of cultures around me by categorizing people into static categories based on their geo-ethnic identities? Is it valid to make sense of people’s behaviours by categorizing them as ‘French’ ‘Indian’ ‘German’ or ‘American’? What other ways are there to make sense of people and their behaviours? Students studying from this textbook will benefit from a variety of conceptual tools that can be used to navigate the world of culture and its intersection with business and management. Taran Patel's unique textbook will be core reading for students of cross-cultural management / intercultural communication and essential reading for all those studying or researching international business and management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415501675

Cross-Cultural ManagementCulture and Management across the World All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things ‘correctly’ while others until proven otherwise are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric. When people from different cultures work together and cannot take shared meanings for granted managers face serious challenges. An individual’s parsing of an experience and its meaning may vary according to several cultural scales – national professional industrial and local. Awareness of cultural differences and the willingness to view them as a positive are therefore crucial assets. This edited textbook sets itself apart from existing cross-cultural management texts by highlighting to the reader the need to avoid both ethnocentrism and the belief in the universality of his or her own values and ways of thinking: the success of international negotiations and intercultural management depends on such openness and acceptance of real differences. It encourages the development of ‘nomadic intelligence’ and the creative use of a culture’s resources according to a symbolic anthropology perspective. Through the essays and case studies in the chapters readers will become aware of the intercultural dimension of business activities and better understand how they affect work. Cross-Cultural Management will help interested parties – students of business management international relations and other disciplines and business managers and other professionals – develop their ability to interact take action and give direction in an intercultural context. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415688185

Cross-Cultural ManagementFoundations and Future Academics worldwide need empirically developed concise ideas to make their cross-cultural teams and organizations productive. This invaluable reference tool provides an essential resource for academics to develop their understanding and professional practice in working across cultural boundaries. It considers the fundamental theories and frameworks of cross-cultural management and deepens our understanding of how they can be applied to management knowledge. Managers researchers students HRM practitioners and specialists in international business and cross-cultural affairs will find this book a valuable reference source. Chapters suggest how frameworks can be further developed and how managers and employees can put them to use so as to build cross-cultural understanding and productive cross-functional teams. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138274884

Cross-Cultural ManagementWith Insights from Brain Science Cross-Cultural Management: With Insights from Brain Science explores a broad range of topics on the impact of culture in international business and vice versa and the impact of businesses and individuals in shaping a culture. It provides critical and in-depth information on globalization global/glocal leadership cross-cultural marketing and cross-cultural negotiation. It also discusses many other topics that are not typically found in the mainstream management textbooks such as diversity management bias management cross-cultural motivation strategies and change management. While most literature in the field is dominated by the static paradigm  that is  culture is fixed nation equates to culture and values are binary this book takes a different approach. It regards national values as a first-best-guess and balances it with an introduction of the dynamic paradigm. This school of thought posits that culture is not static context is the software of the mind opposing values coexist change is constant and individuals can develop a multicultural mind. A unique feature of this book is the contribution of an interdisciplinary approach. It’s the first textbook of cross-cultural management that incorporates latest findings from the emerging discipline of cultural neuroscience and evolutionary biology in the discussion. Such a holistic approach is meant to help readers gain a deeper and broader understanding of the subjects. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138304666

Cross-Cultural MarriageIdentity and Choice As societies world-wide become increasingly multicultural so the issues of identity belonging tolerance and racism become imperative to understand in their various forms. This book adds to the discussion by examining the interface between the lived personal experiences of people in cross-cultural marriages and wider socio-political issues. One major contribution this book offers is that the marriages discussed are from a very broad range of cultures and classes. Amongst other issues contributors examine: the legal and social factors influencing cross-cultural marriages; the personality factors and positive or negative stereotypes of otherness that influence spouse choice; notions of identity gender and personhood and definitions of difference and how these are often tied up in emotive stereotypes; how all these factors affect the ongoing process of living together and the ability to cope; and how the children of such marriages come to terms with identity choices. This book should be highly relevant to the growing number of people in cross-cultural marriages as well as to professionals in the fields of marriage guidance child welfare and academics interested in ethnicity and kinship. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003136101

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Hagiographical StrategiesA Comparative Study of the Standard Lives of St. Francis and Milarepa This book examines the potential of conducting studies in comparative hagiology through parallel literary and historical analyses of spiritual life writings pertaining to distinct religious contexts. In particular it focuses on a comparative analysis of the early sources on the medieval Christian Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) and the Tibetan Buddhist Milarepa (c. 1052-1135) up to and including the so-called ‘standard versions’ of their life stories written by Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1221-1274) and Tsangnyön Heruka (1452-1507) respectively.The book thus demonstrates how in the social and religious contexts of both 1200s Italy and 1400s Tibet narratives of the lives deeds and teachings of two individuals recognized as spiritual champions were seen as the most effective means to promote spiritual doctrinal and political agendas. Therefore as well being highly relevant to those studying hagiographical sources this book will be of interest to scholars working across the fields of religion and the comparative study of religious phenomena as well as history and literature in the pre-modern period. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367881856

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Policy and PracticeDecolonizing Community Contexts This book provides a space in which struggles for indigenous knowledge within communities are articulated valued heard and responded to. The volume takes change as its focus yet acknowledges that the origins and significance of change are frequently found to be unsettling. Contributors explore different understandings of change that forge sustainable inclusive and just communities and examine issues related to citizenship resistance peacemaking critical literacies and second chance opportunities. The authors seek to promote advocacy of change that recognises the importance of an informed engagement with cross-cultural issues in order to foreground those missing perspectives that are often marginalised silenced ignored or denied. All contributors are concerned with how the process of change can bridge the gap between social justice and exclusion and develop critical understandings of the implications of changing policy and practice for those within and working with the educational organisations and communities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415648998

Cross-Cultural Practice with Couples and Families Cross-Cultural Practice with Couples and Families prepares you for the ways that cultural realities can affect your social work practice with both couples and families. You will gain in-depth exposure to a variety of cultural values and perspectives and learn to identify similarities and differences between and among different ethnic families. This will lead you to a deeper more thorough understanding of the roles dynamics and particular challenges of social work both current and historical.From Cross-Cultural Practice with Couples and Families you will learn how to use the religious history family values rituals and community in attaining positive outcomes in treatment. Placing value on diversity in families supporting ethnic differences and recognizing the strength and resiliency of modern-day families will become the cornerstones of your more effective and sensitive social work practice. The authors who come with firsthand experience provide you with specific models and approaches for working with families and couples of different backgrounds. They also offer you insight on: treatment implications for interracial couples the components of healthy marriages domestic violence from various cultural perspectives the Native American family circle cross-cultural considerations in family preservation the realities of racism in the worker-client relationshipCross-Cultural Practice with Couples and Families is an excellent resource for graduate students faculty and practitioners alike! When ideas and interventions become more complex the authors guide you through them step-by-step to make implementation easy and practical. Nowhere else will you find such a reader-friendly form that makes the role of culture in therapy and its influence on structure communication dynamics process and interventions within couple and family systems so astonishingly clear! Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315786629

Cross-Cultural Psychology The consequences of globalization and mass migration are such that it has been estimated over 200 million people are living in countries other than where they were born. And as formerly homogeneous societies evolve into multicultural entities with traditional social and geographic boundaries giving way to increasingly complex representations of identity new—and urgent—questions for psychologists social scientists and policymakers arise. As research in and around cross-cultural psychology burgeons as never before this new four-volume collection from Routledge meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature. Edited by two leading scholars the collection is organized into four principal sections: Basic Issues; Theory and Method; Substantive Findings in Basic Processes; and Substantive Findings in Applied Issues. Cross-Cultural Psychology provides a one-stop ‘mini library’ of foundational and canonical work. The collection also includes cutting-edge analyses and discussions of theory and research alongside major works addressing policy implications. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138848375

Cross-Cultural PsychologyCritical Thinking and Contemporary Applications Seventh Edition Written in a conversational style that transforms complex ideas into accessible ones this international best-selling textbook provides an interdisciplinary review of the theories and research in cross‐cultural psychology. The text’s unique critical thinking framework including Critical Thinking boxes helps students develop analytical skills. Exercises interspersed throughout promote active learning and encourage class discussion. Case in Point sections review controversial issues and opinions about behavior in different cultural contexts. Cross‐Cultural Sensitivity boxes underscore the importance of empathy in communication. Numerous applications prepare students for working in various multicultural contexts such as teaching counseling health care and social work. New to the 7th Edition: over 190 recent references particularly on studies of non-Western regions such as the Middle East Africa Asia  and Latin America as well as the United States and Europe. broader discussion of gender roles and health behaviors across cultures. new discussions related to the psychological fallout of both globalization and anti-globalization tendencies. greater attention shifted from general psychological theories to specific challenges of cross-cultural psychology. new or revised chapter openings that draw upon current events. more examples related to the experiences of international students in the United States and indigenous people. updated figures tables and graphs that are also available for download for instructors to utilize in their online teaching. new research on global trends nationalism gender race religious beliefs parenting styles sexual orientation ethnic identity and stereotypes immigration intelligence substance abuse states of consciousness DSM-5 cultural customs evolutionary psychology treatment of psychological disorders and acculturation. online resources for instructors and students. The dynamic author team brings a diverse set of experiences in writing this text that provides cross-cultural perspectives on topics such as sensation perception consciousness intelligence human development emotion motivation social perception personality psychological disorders and various applied topics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367199395

Cross-Cultural PsychologyCritical Thinking and Contemporary Applications Sixth Edition Written in a conversational style that transforms complex ideas into accessible ones this international best-seller provides an interdisciplinary review of the theories and research in cross‐cultural psychology. The book’s unique critical thinking framework including Critical Thinking boxes helps to develop analytical skills. Exercises interspersed throughout promote active learning and encourage class discussion. Case in Point sections review controversial issues and opinions about behavior in different cultural contexts. Cross‐Cultural Sensitivity boxes underscore the importance of empathy in communication. Numerous applications better prepare students for working in various multicultural contexts such as teaching counseling health care and social work. The dynamic author team brings a diverse set of experiences in writing this book. Eric Shiraev was raised in the former Soviet Union and David Levy is from Southern California. Sensation perception consciousness intelligence human development emotion motivation social perception interaction psychological disorders and applied topics are explored from cross‐cultural perspectives. New to the 6th Edition: Over 200 recent references particularly on studies of non-western regions such as the Middle East Africa Asia & Latin America as well as the US and Europe. New chapter on personality and the self with an emphasis on gender identity. New or revised chapter opening vignettes that draw upon current events. More examples related to the experiences of international students in the US and indigenous people. Many more figures and tables that appeal to visual learners. New research on gender race religious beliefs parenting styles sexual orientation ethnic identity and stereotypes conflict resolution immigration intelligence physical abuse states of consciousness DSM-5 cultural customs evolutionary psychology treatment of psychological disorders and acculturation. Revised methodology chapter with more attention to issues related specifically to cross-cultural research and more on qualitative and mixed methods. A companion website at www.routledge.com/9781138668386 where instructors will find a test bank containing multiple choice true and false short answer and essay questions and answers for each chapter and a complete set of tables and figures from the text; and students will find chapter outlines flashcards of key terms and links to further resources and the authors' Facebook page. Intended as a text for courses on cross-cultural psychology multicultural psychology cultural psychology cultural diversity and the psychology of ethnic groups and a resource for practitioners researchers and educators who work in multicultural environments. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138668386

Cross-cultural Roots of Minority Child Development This book constitutes the first time in the field of developmental psychology that cross-cultural roots of minority child development have been studied in their ancestral societies in a systematic way--and by an international group of researchers. Most child development and child psychology texts take cultural diversity in development into account only as an addendum or as a special case--it is not integrated into a comprehensive theory or model of development. The purpose of this text is to redress this situation by enlisting insiders' and outsiders' perspectives on socialization and development in a diverse sampling of the world's cultures including developing regions that often lack the means to speak for themselves in the arena of international social science. The unique feature of this text is the paradigm. For the minority groups represented the questions focused on how development was behaviorally expressed within the culture of origin and in new societal contexts. Thus developmental issues--such as language and mother-child interactions--for African-American children are considered in the United States as well as in the African culture of origin and in France as a country of immigration. This paradigm is considered for African and Asian cultures and the Americas including Hispanics from Mexico as well as Native Americans. Specific questions posed consider the extent to which: * the development and socialization of minority children can be seen as continuous with their ancestral cultures; * the cultural and political conditions in the United States Canada and France have modified developmental and socialization processes yielding discontinuities with ancestral cultures; * the ancestral cultures have changed yielding cross-generational discontinuities in the development and socialization of immigrants from the very same countries. * the role of interdependence and independence in developmental scripts can account for historical continuities and discontinuities in development and socialization both across and within cultures. These questions not only provide the unifying theme of this unique book but also a model for conceptualizing multi-culturalism within a unified framework for developmental psychology. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9781315806884

Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development was the first volume to analyze minority child development by comparing minority children to children in their ancestral countries rather than to children in the host culture. It was a ground-breaking volume that not only offered an historical reconstruction of the cross-cultural roots of minority child development but a new cultural-historical approach to developmental psychology as well. It was also one of the best attempts to develop guidelines for building models of development that are multicultural in perspective thus challenging scholars across the behavioral sciences to give more credence to the impact of culture on development and socialization in their respective fields of work. A true classic Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development will remain an essential resource for any scholar who is interested in minority child development and engages in cross-cultural research and multidisciplinary methodologies. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781848724815

Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning for Home and International StudentsInternationalisation of Pedagogy and Curriculum in Higher Education Cross cultural teaching and learning for home and international students maps and discusses the increasing internationalisation of teaching and learning at universities around the world. This new phenomenon brings both opportunities and challenges as it introduces what can be radically different teaching learning and assessment contexts for both students and staff. This book moves beyond the rhetoric of internationalisation to examine some of the more complex issues for practitioners researchers students and those working in transnational or non-Anglophone contexts. It recognises that although universities around the world enthusiastically espouse internationalisation as part of their mission there is currently little information available about carrying out this vision in terms of pedagogy and curriculum at a practical level. This book fills that gap comprehensively organising its information around four main themes: New ways of teaching learning and assessing: Challenges and opportunities for teaching practice student engagement and participation assessment and supervision of learning. New ways of designing and delivering curriculum: Internationalising the curriculum for all students within ‘home’ and ‘abroad’ contexts. New ways of thinking and acting: Developing the global citizen intercultural learning and respectful dialogue responding to student diversity and equity enhancing graduate employability and future life trajectories. New ways of listening: Discovering and responding to new or unfamiliar voices among students and staff embracing ‘other’ academic and intellectual traditions. Illustrated by a wide range of examples from around the world this book brings together contemporary work and thinking in the areas of cross cultural teaching and internationalisation of the curriculum. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415630139

Crosscultural TransgressionsResearch Models in Translation: v. 2: Historical and Ideological Issues Ideology has become increasingly central to work in translation studies. To date however most studies have focused on literary and religious texts thus limiting wider understanding of how ideological clashes and encounters pervade any context where power inequalities are present. This special edition of The Translator deliberately focuses on ideology in the translation of a rich variety of lesser-studied genres namely academic writing cultural journals legal and scientific texts political interviews advertisements language policy and European Parliament discourse in all of which translation as a social practice can be seen to shape maintain and at times also resist and challenge the asymmetrical nature of exchanges between parties engaged in or subjected to hegemonic practices.The volume opens with two ground-breaking papers that investigate the nature and representation of truth and knowledge in the translation of the sciences followed by two contributions which approach the issue of shifts in the translation of ideology from the standpoint of critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis using data from political speeches and interviews and from English and Korean versions of Newsweek. Other contributions discuss the role that translation scholars can play in raising public awareness of the manipulative devices used in advertising; the way in which potentially competing institutional and individual ideologies are negotiated in the context of interpreting in the European Union; the role translation plays in shaping the politics of a multilingual nation state with reference to Belgium; and the extent to which the concepts of norms and polysystems may be productive in investigating the link between translation and ideology with reference to Chinese data. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138473775

Cross-Cultural Women Scholars in AcademeIntergenerational Voices This ground-breaking collection features the diverse voices experiences and scholarship of cross-cultural women of American Indian Asian American Black/African American and Hispanic descent at various levels of academe actively engaged in the advancement of marginalized groups in the U.S. and abroad through their scholarly work. Intergenerational cross-cultural scholars manifest a literary community that models ways in which women scholars can move beyond traditional institutional psychological and professional barriers to practice activism break unwritten rules and shatter status quo ‘business as usual’ practices in the academy. This distinctive volume exemplifies the phenomenon of cross-cultural women scholars conducting research and writing about ways in which they negotiate their professional realities toward professional goal attainment. Each chapter presents rigorous ethnographic research complemented by critical analyses reflecting ways in which these self-determined scholars transcend barriers associated with the dynamic intersections of race gender ethnicity class and language in higher education. Scholars share strategies for institutional psychological and professional barrier transcendence through various approaches such as educational leadership for equity the practice of cross-cultural competence various mentoring interactions and the creation of and participation in networking groups with other women of color in academe. Students  academics educational practitioners and individuals seeking exemplars for ethnographic research will find this critical book essential as a means for better informing their scholarship. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138284975

Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School... HumanitiesHistory Geography Religious Studies and Citizenship What is the role of the humanities in the modern school? Should geography history RE and Citizenship teachers remain faithful to long-standing subject cultures and pedagogies? Or is there another way to consider how the curriculum and the notion of individual subjects and teachers’ pedagogy could be constructed? Drawing on case studies taken from a range of innovative secondary schools and interrogating the use of cross-curricular approaches in UK schools Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in Humanities constructs a research based pedagogy with practical steps for students and teachers as they consider how cross-curricular approaches can be implemented in their own subject areas. Key features include: Clear theoretical frameworks for cross-curricular processes of teaching and learning in the humanities Lively and engaging text that blends key issues with stories of current practice An analysis of the use of assessment enquiry and pupil talk as key components in building a cross-curricular approach to the humanities Practical and reflective tasks that enable to reader to apply their reading to day to day practice alongside links to professional standards Summaries of key research linked to suggestions for further reading Professional development activities to promote cross-curricular dialogue Part of the Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School series this timely interdisciplinary textbook is essential reading for all students on Initial Teacher Training courses and practising teachers looking to holistically introduce cross-curricular themes and practices in secondary Humanities teaching. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415561891

Cross-Curricular Teaching in the Primary SchoolPlanning and facilitating imaginative lessons How can teaching across the curriculum improve children’s learning? How can you plan meaningful imaginative topic work?　 Cross-Curricular Teaching in the Primary School helps teachers plan a more imaginative integrated curriculum by presenting in accessible language a rationale and framework for teaching across the subjects. This second edition has been fully updated in light of the new curriculum and shows how cross-curricular work can contribute to deeper subject knowledge. Illustrated throughout with examples of effective topic work in successful schools this book provides guidance on the underpinning theory and strategies to facilitate cross-curricular work with young children. With a new structure to emphasise the importance of careful planning and preparation issues covered include: How children learn The theory and rationale behind the cross-curricular approach Developing the curriculum and lesson planning Teaching and learning in an integrated way at KS1 and KS2 Cross-curricular approaches for maths Whole school approaches and team teaching for cross-curricular teaching The role of support staff in cross-curricular teaching Improving children’s thinking skills Supporting children with special needs Using new media and drama to facilitate cross-curricular learning Assessing cross-curricular learning. Cross-Curricular Teaching in the Primary School provides much needed support for busy student and practising teachers. Packed with practical ideas it offers an accessible guide to all aspects of introducing an integrated curriculum. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138787919

Crosscutting Social CirclesTesting a Macrostructural Theory of Intergroup Relations Crosscutting Social Circles describes a theory of groups' relations to each other and tests the theory in the 125 largest metropolitan areas In the United States. The focus is on the Influence social structure exerts on intergroup relations. Blau and Schwartz show how role relations are influenced by how people are distributed among social positions. Examples are a community's racial composition division of labor ethnic heterogeneity income Inequality or the extent to which educational differences are related to income differences. Blau and Schwartz test their theory by considering its impact on such structural conditions as intermarriage an important form of intergroup relations.The authors derive the main principles of previously formulated theories of intergroup relations and present them in simpler and clearer form. They empirically test the power of the theory by analyzing its ability to predict how social structure affects intermarriage in the largest American cities where three-fifths of the American population live. They selected cities because population distribution of a small neighborhood might be affected by casual associations among neighbors; it is much more sociologically interesting if population distribution also affects mate selection in a city of millions.Unlike most theories that emphasize the implications of such cultural orientations as shared values and common norms this volume focuses on the significance of various forms of inequality and heterogeneity. As one of the few books that supplies a large-scale empirical test of implications of a theory Crosscutting Social Circles serves as a model. The new introduction by Peter Blau reviews the origins and impact of the book. It will be of immense value to sociologists psychologists and group relations specialists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521605

Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist SiteBodh Gaya Jataka Bodh Gaya in the North Indian state of Bihar has long been recognized as the place where the Buddha achieved enlightenment. This book brings together the recent work of twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines - anthropology art history history and religion – to highlight their various findings and perspectives on different facets of Bodh Gaya’s past and present. Through an engaging and critical overview of the place of Buddha’s enlightenment the book discusses the dynamic and contested nature of this site and looks at the tensions with the on-going efforts to define the place according to particular histories or identities. It addresses many aspects of Bodh Gaya from speculation about why the Buddha chose to sit beneath a tree in Bodh Gaya to the contemporary struggles over tourism development education and non-government organizations to bring to the foreground the site's longevity reinvention and current complexity as a UNESCO World Heritage monument. The book is a useful contribution for students and scholars of Buddhism and South Asian Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138844728

Cross-Functional Knowledge ManagementThe International Landscape Diverse kinds of knowledge are vital for each organization that would successfully compete today in an international scenario. The emergent relevance of knowledge and its management in an even more complex environment opens up the possibility to analyze investigate and deepen our understanding on different aspects related to several functional areas in business management. Nowadays firms that create new knowledge and apply it effectively and efficiently will be successful at creating competitive advantages. The choices of the firms in selecting and applying different knowledge process (such as knowledge sourcing transferring and exploiting) as well as knowledge tools may be crucial. Thus the role of knowledge as the key source of potential advantage for organizations and indeed whole economies is still a hot debate in the international landscape. This book develops insights for the management of knowledge in cross-functional business areas to originate an innovative approach to the classical Knowledge Management (KM) field. This book provides a fresh perspective on different knowledge related topics in an international landscape highlighting the key role of knowledge and its management in business activities. Overall the primary aim of this book is to extend our understandings on how KM can be helpful in several cross-functional management areas such as strategic management finance HRM and innovation as well as in different business circumstances such as M&A internationalization processes and risk management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367074234

Cross-Functional Productivity Improvement Using language that is easy to understand Cross-Functional Productivity Improvement describes how improvement efforts can be undermined by errors and incompleteness. It illustrates the various types of errors that can hurt productivity and outlines proven solutions to prevent or correct them. Explaining how departments not directly related to manufacturing can hinder productivity it provides time-tested advice on how to reduce waste and enhance efficiency.The book starts with an overview of traditional productivity improvement methods. Subsequent chapters explain how different departments can affect productivity and describe what must be done to improve productivity. Supplying time-tested procedures for implementing cross-functional productivity actions that are applicable across a wide range of industries the text describes the problems caused by incorrect Lean manufacturing material flow efficiency ergonomics quality policies issues of malpractice and counterproductive procedures. Includes many figures illustrations and tables that provide the technical information needed to implement sustainable productivity improvements Addresses the problems often caused by incorrect Lean manufacturing and issues of malpractice Includes an extensive glossary and a list of suggested readings to help readers further explore productivity improvement Readers will gain a clear understanding of exactly what to do and what not to do in all aspects of company operations to maximize productivity through a cross-functional approach. Furthermore the book will enable companies to take better advantage of all that the ISO 9001 and similar systems have to offer by making best use of the interactions between the various elements of company operations. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9781466510739

Cross-Gender ChinaAcross Yin-Yang Across Cultures and Beyond Jingju Cross-Gender China the outcome of more than twenty years of theatrical and sociological research deconstructs the cultural implications of cross-gender performance in today's China.The recent revival in male-to-female cross-gender nandan performance in Chinese theatre raises a multitude of questions: it may suggest new gender dynamics or new readings of old aesthetic traditions in new socio-cultural contexts. Interrogating the positions of the gender being performed and the gender doing the performing this volume gives a broad cultural account of the contexts in which this unique performance style has found new life. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367735937

Crossing Borders Crossing Borders examines how translocal transnational and internal borders of various kinds distribute uneven capabilities for moving dwelling and circulating. The contributors offer nuanced understandings of the politics of mobility across various kinds of borders and forms of cultural circulation 　showing how people experience and practice crossing many different borders. Several chapters draw on interviews and ethnographic methods to analyze transnational migration while others focus on material relations and cultural practices. Rather than the usual narrative of mobility as a kind of freedom border crossing emerges here as an instrumental practice for building translocal livelihoods a tactic for simply getting by and a material practice potentially generating new forms of future sociality. Ultimately these diverse perspectives on crossing borders offer new ways to think about the mobility of political relations and the politics of mobile relations in a world of growing circulation across borders but also flexible forms of (re)bordering. This book was originally published as a special issue of Mobilities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367234041

Crossing Borders - Integrating DifferencesPsychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Transition This book will stimulate readers to cross borders: between theory and practice between research and everyday therapy between out-patient and in-patient psychotherapy between the view of ones own the known and the culturally foreign. Yet it is only with an awareness of these borders an acknowledgement and respect of them that it will be possib Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367324001

Crossing BordersRegional and Urban Perspectives on International Migration Published in 1998. Migration patterns at the global level have become more complex affecting more countries more people and for a greater variety of reasons. Consequently international migration is receiving increasing attention throughout the world. Migration is an inherently spatial phenomenon. But while the spatial patterns themselves have been described in recent surveys of global contemporary international migration the causes and consequences of the spatial patterns have received surprisingly little systematic attention. Often migration is seen just from a host country perspective or from a sending country perspective without explicit consideration of the sub-national origin and destinations of the flows or linkages between countries. It is well known that migration flows follow certain gravity-like properties that there is chain migration that certain regions attract more migrants than others that migrants are highly urbanised and that within urban areas there are also concentrations of migrants leading to a reshaping of the urban landscape. However such observations are often the result of purely descriptive research or case study research. Consequently there is still a need for an integrated multi-disciplinary study of the spatial impact and the resulting socio-economic and political issues concerning migration. This book aims to fill this gap by bringing together a collection of papers which are primarily concerned with the spatial impact of contemporary international migration patterns or with related issues. The topics of the papers are wide ranging and the focus varies from broad international perspectives to specific urban areas. Two general themes run through the papers. The first of these is that migration is an inherently dynamic process which may have either equilibrating or self-reinforcing (cumulative) effects. The importance of considering international migration in a dynamic context has come to the fore in several theoretical frameworks which are available in the literature to study this phenomenon. The second major theme of the book is the emphasis on the importance of personal networks in shaping international migration patterns leading to pronounced clusters of (urban) areas from which migrants are drawn and of migrant settlement. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138612556

Crossing Boundaries and Weaving Intercultural Work Life and Scholarship in Globalizing Universities This book generates a fresh complex view of the process of globalization by examining how work scholarship and life inform each other among intercultural scholars as they navigate their interpersonal relationships and cross boundaries physically and metaphorically. Divided into three parts the book examines: (1) the socio-psychological process of crossing boundaries constructed around nations and work organizations; (2) the negotiation of multiple aspects of identities; and (3) the role of language in intercultural encounters in particular adjustment taking place at linguistic and interactional levels. The authors reflect upon and give meaning and structure to their own intercultural experiences through theoretical frameworks and concepts—many of which they themselves have proposed and developed in their own research. They also provide invaluable advice for transnational scholars and those who aspire to work and live abroad to improve organizational participation and mutual intercultural engagement when working in a globalizing workplace.　 Researchers and practitioners of applied linguistics communication studies and higher education in many regions of the world will find this book an insightful resource. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138575912

Crossing Boundaries in Public Management and PolicyThe International Experience In the 21st century governments are increasingly focusing on designing ways and means of connecting across boundaries to achieve goals. Whether issues are complex and challenging – climate change international terrorism intergenerational poverty– or more straightforward - provision of a single point of entry to government or delivering integrated public services - practitioners and scholars increasingly advocate the use of approaches which require connections across various boundaries be they organizational jurisdictional or sectorial. Governments around the world continue to experiment with various approaches but still confront barriers leading to a general view that there is considerable promise in cross boundary working but that this is often unfulfilled. This book explores a variety of topics in order to create a rich survey of the international experience of cross-boundary working. The book asks fundamental questions such as: What do we mean by the notion of crossing boundaries? Why has this emerged? What does cross boundary working involve? What are the critical enablers and barriers? By scrutinizing these questions the contributing authors examine: the promise; the barriers; the enablers; the enduring tensions; and the potential solutions to cross-boundary working. As such this will be an essential read for all those involved with public administration management and policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415678247

Crossing Boundaries in Public Policy and ManagementTackling the Critical Challenges This book aims to develop four key challenges that remain unresolved in the boundary-spanning literature which span from the conceptual to the practice to the translational. In doing so it tackles the question of boundary-spanning from four different angles providing an in-depth investigation of the current state of the field in each of these realms in addition to new directions for solving the identified challenges. Finally the book synthesises the lessons from each of these challenges into a coherent and integrated final piece of the boundary dilemma. In doing so it will provide depth and a clearer agenda for future research and practice. Crossing Boundaries in Public Policy and Management digs into the heart of enduring questions and challenges for cross-boundary working providing in-depth conceptual contributions on the fundamental challenges of boundary work. It displays the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to researchers academics practitioners and students in the fields of public management public policy public administration public-private relationships and coordination and collaboration. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367732578

Crossing BoundariesWork and Industrial Relations in Perspective This book provides thoughtful insights into the development in work organisations and employment relations in the last 50 years. In a semi-autobiographical approach the author reflects on important contributions by other scholars practitioners and policy makers to work and employment relations. The book covers a variety of themes which have been the subject of research undertaken by the author over his career and explores these themes over a period of time with examples drawn from various countries. It also emphasises that countries and regions cannot be understood in isolation from each other. The author seeks to convey the importance of crossing disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences in order to interpret changes in work organisations and employment relations. Drawing on the author’s rich experience and research the book is engaging and accessible to anyone who wishes to learn more about the rapidly changing workplace and employment relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367408022

Crossing CustomsInternational Students Write on U.S. College Life and Culture First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315053448

Crossing Design BoundariesProceedings of the 3rd Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference 15-16 September 2005 Edinburgh UK This book presents over 100 papers from the 3rd Engineering and Product Design Education International Conference dedicated to the subject of exploring novel approaches in product design education. The theme of the book is "Crossing Design Boundaries" which reflects the editors wish to incorporate many of the disciplines associated with and integral to modern product design and development pursuits. Crossing Design Boundaries covers for example the conjunction of anthropology and design the psychology of design products the application of soft computing in wearable products and the utilisation of new media and design and how these can be best exploited within the current product design arena. The book includes discussions concerning product design education and the cross-over into other well established design disciplines such as interaction design jewellery design furniture design and exhibition design which have been somewhat under represented in recent years. The book comprises a number of sections containing papers which cover highly topical and relevant issues including Design Curriculum Development Interdisciplinarity Design Collaboration and Team Working Philosophies of Design Education Design Knowledge New Materials and New Technologies in Design Design Communication Industrial Collaborations and Working with Industry Teaching and Learning Tools and Design Theory. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138416864

Crossing Gender in ShakespeareFeminist Psychoanalysis and the Difference Within In this book Stone effects a return to gender after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices of the dialogue between Shakespeare and his critics. Issues addressed range from the cross dressing of Viola and Imogen to the cross gartering of Malvolio the sound of "un" and the uncanny lyric narcissism of Richard II Hamlet’s misogyny androgyny and the poison of marital/political "union " Othello’s fears of impotence rumors of Antony’s emasculation versus the militant yet nurturing triumphalism of Cleopatra’s suicide and Posthumus’s hysterical reaction to the "woman’s part" in himself and his compensatory fantasies of parthenogenesis. Stone unpacks ideologically powerful but unsustainable male claims to self-identity and sameness set over against man’s type-gendering of women as the origin of divisive sexual difference discord and the dissolution of marriage. Men who blame women for the difference that divides and weakens their sense of unity and sameness to oneself are unconscious that the uncanny feminine is not outside the masculine its reassuring canny opposite; it is inside the masculine its uncanny difference from itself. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415896511

Crossing JordanNorth American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan Jordan is a key area of migration within the Levantine corridor that links the continents of Africa and Asia. 'Crossing Jordan' examines the peoples and cultures that have travelled across Jordan from antiquity to the present. The book offers a critical analysis of recent discoveries and archaeological models in Jordan and highlights the significant contribution of North American archaeologists to the field. Leading archaeologists explore the theory and methodology of archaeology in Jordan in essays which range across prehistory the Bronze Age the Iron Age the Hellenistic and Roman periods Nabatean civilization the Byzantine period and Islamic civilization. The volume provides an up-to-date guide to the archaeological heritage of Jordan being an important resource for scholars and students of Jordan's history as well as citizens non-governmental organizations and tourists. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315478579

Crossing Numbers of Graphs Crossing Numbers of Graphs is the first book devoted to the crossing number an increasingly popular object of study with surprising connections. The field has matured into a large body of work which includes identifiable core results and techniques. The book presents a wide variety of ideas and techniques in topological graph theory discrete geometry and computer science. The first part of the text deals with traditional crossing number crossing number values crossing lemma related parameters computational complexity and algorithms. The second part includes the rich history of alternative crossing numbers the rectilinear crossing number the pair crossing number and the independent odd crossing number.It also includes applications of the crossing number outside topological graph theory. Aimed at graduate students and professionals in both mathematics and computer science The first book of its kind devoted to the topic Authored by a noted authority in crossing numbers Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781498750493

Crossing OverTeaching Meaning-centered Secondary English Language Arts This text for secondary preservice and in-service English language arts teachers offers a rationale for meaning-centered English language arts teaching and practical strategies for application. Its goal is to provide readers with an understanding of the issues involved in English teaching and specific examples of how to apply this understanding to classrooms. Teaching strategies are presented through a series of stories depicting teachers from a variety of settings practicing their craft with secondary students. Features: A solid introduction and interesting personal narratives introduce the issues and ideas involved in English language arts teaching. Case studies based on actual teachers and students realistically illustrate methods that can be used in secondary English classes. Lessons are described in sufficient detail to be converted to teaching models. Multicultural emphasis prepares teachers for the contemporary classroom. Chapters and sections incorporate the new literacies of TV film and computers in the English language arts class. Pedagogical aids include end-of-chapter questions and activities reproducible charts and worksheets; an updated listing of young adult novels; and annotated recommended readings. An appendix on writing a personal narrative helps students develop as writers. New in the Second Edition: Updates. All chapters the bibliographies and the references are thoroughly updated to reflect changes since the first edition was published. Chapters 1 and 2 have been totally rewritten. Standards/Benchmarks. The IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts are incorporated into the text. Benchmarks and Performance Assessment Measures are included in all the pedagogical chapters to address proficiency concerns. A section on helping students prepare for state proficiency tests has been added. Computers. More is included Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138423336

Crossing the AtlanticComparing the European Union and Canada Given the legal political economic and social similarities that exist comparisons between the European Union (EU) and Canada can prove instructive. This volume introduces the rationale for comparing Canada and the EU and reviews the political initiatives that have been undertaken to forge links between the two. Taking the political and economic structure used by the EU it compares this structure to the Canadian model at both the federal/supranational level and the local government level. Using various disciplinary approaches and case studies specific policy areas are used to illustrate these comparisons and several of the papers in the collection extend these comparisons to the NAFTA level. A highly useful reference tool Crossing the Atlantic will intrigue and inform an interdisciplinary and inter-regional studies audience. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815388357

Crossing the Human ThresholdDynamic Transformation and Persistent Places During the Middle Pleistocene When was the human threshold crossed? What is the evidence for evolving humans and their emerging humanity? This volume explores in a global overview the archaeology of the Middle Pleistocene 800 000 to 130 000 years ago when evidence for innovative cultural behaviour appeared. The evidence shows that the threshold was crossed slowly by a variety of human ancestors and was not confined to one part of the Old World. Crossing the Human Threshold examines the changing evidence during this period for the use of place landscape and technology. It focuses on the emergence of persistent places and associated developments in tool use hunting strategies and the control of fire represented across the Old World by deeply stratified cave sites. These include the most important sites for the archaeology of human origins in the Levant South Africa Asia and Europe presented here as evidence for innovation in landscape-thinking during the Middle Pleistocene. The volume also examines persistence at open locales through a cutting-edge review of the archaeology of Northern France and England.Crossing the Human Threshold is for the worldwide community of students and researchers studying early hominins and human evolution. It presents new archaeological data. It frames the evidence within current debates to understand the differences and similarities between ourselves and our ancient ancestors. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367878474

Crossing the LineVagrancy Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia This pioneering book is the first to explore the experiences of homeless people in Russia in the late Soviet period and during post-socialist transition. Through their own stories it introduces us to the hidden world of vagrants itinerant workers and the street homeless - roofless people living on the streets in cellars in the lofts of apartment blocks in train stations in rubbish dumps or in holes underground. Using in-depth biographical interviews Svetlana Stephenson documents the processes of their displacement; the strategies they adopt for survival and building social bonds; and the barriers which block their escape from homelessness. These narratives are placed within a framework of theoretical perspectives on social and spatial exclusion; interaction between space and social identity and the regimes of settlement and social control. The structural causes of homelessness are discussed together with the criminological legal and expert discourses that constructed vagrants and the homeless as 'social waste' in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Stephenson advances our understanding of homelessness as an extreme case of social-territorial displacement and sets out its causes and its individual consequences within the larger social and political context. She suggests that by using the concept of displacement particularly in a historical perspective it is possible to better understand the ways in which social systems produce marginality and homelessness. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138263925

Crossing the Psycho-Social DivideFreud Weber Adorno and Elias The prevailing view among social scientists is that the psyche and the social reside in such disparate domains that their proper study demands markedly incompatible analytical and theoretical approaches. Over the last decade scholars have begun to challenge this view. In this innovative work George Cavalletto moves this challenge forward by connecting it to theoretical and analytical practices of the early 20th century. His analysis of key texts by Sigmund Freud Max Weber Theodor Adorno and Norbert Elias shows that they crossed the psycho-social divide in ways that can help contemporary scholars to re-establish an analytical and theoretical understanding of the inherent interconnection of these two domains. This book will particularly interest scholars and students in sociology and social psychology especially those in the fields of social theory the sociology of emotion self and society and historical sociology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367603762

Crossing the RubiconRonald Reagan and US Policy in the Middle East This insightful work explores one of the under-examined eras of US foreign policy toward the Palestinian question: the Reagan years. The Reagan tenure is often perceived as one of disengagement from the region especially in the aftermath of the bombing in Lebanon. Nicholas Laham contends that this is not so and that the Reagan administration set the tone for US policy for the next two decades. Specifically the work analyzes the nexus between domestic actors and US foreign policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict. Employing significant archival materials the book probes in detail the machinations which produced new policies and new policy priorities during this era. This study is provocative but the arguments are well-supported and solid thus offering a major contribution to the literature. The work will prove a valuable reference tool on the Reagan presidency the Palestinian conflict the Middle East and international relations more generally in light of the 2001 terrorist attacks the war with Iraq and the continuing ramifications of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138619241

CrossingLanguage and Ethnicity Among Adolescents Volume 5 This is a new and enlarged edition of Ben Rampton's ground-breaking study of sociolinguistic processes in urban youth culture. It focuses on language crossing - the use of Panjabi by adolescents of African-Caribbean and Anglo descent the use of Creole by adolescents with Panjabi and Anglo backgrounds and the use of stylized Indian English. Its central question is: how far and in what ways do these intricate processes of language sharing and exchange help to overcome race stratification and contribute to a new sense of mixed youth class and neighbourhood community? Ben Rampton produces detailed ethnographic and interactional analyses of spontaneous speech data and integrates the discussion of particular incidents with theories of discourse code-switching social movements resistance and ritual drawn from sociolinguistics sociology anthropology and cultural studies. Vivid descriptions of adolescent life in youth clubs and school playgrounds provide an important insight into the ways in which young people manage to 'live with difference' and full consideration is given to crossing's critical implications for education policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138148949

CrossingLanguage and Ethnicity among Adolescents Focusing on urban youth culture and language crossing this foundational volume by Ben Rampton has played a pivotal role in the shaping of language and ethnic identity as a domain of study. It focuses on language crossing - the use of Panjabi by adolescents of African-Caribbean and Anglo descent the use of Creole by adolescents with Panjabi and Anglo backgrounds and the use of stylized Indian English. Crossing’s central question is: how far and in what ways do these intricate processes of language sharing and exchange help to overcome race stratification and contribute to a new sense of mixed youth class and neighbourhood community? Ben Rampton produces detailed ethnographic and interactional analyses of spontaneous speech data and integrates the discussion of particular incidents with theories of discourse code-switching social movements resistance and ritual drawn from sociolinguistics sociology anthropology and cultural studies. Now a Routledge Linguistics Classic with a new preface which sets the work in its current context this book remains key reading for all those working in the areas of applied linguistics sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138636583

Crosslinguistic Influence in Singapore EnglishLinguistic and Social Aspects In a social setting where speakers with several languages interact extensively a major source of variation in Colloquial Singapore English comes from the complex interaction between crosslinguistic influences and various social and linguistic factors. By unifying both social and linguistic aspects of the phenomenon through the use of multivariate analyses like logistic regressions and Poisson regressions this book represents a novel approach to the study of crosslinguistic influence in Colloquial Singapore English. As multivariate analyses provide us with information regarding the relative strengths of each social and linguistic factor they are useful tools that allow us to have a more nuanced understanding of crosslinguistic influence in contact situations. Linguistic features from a variety of linguistic domains – morphology semantics and discourse – will be quantified and statistical analyses will be run in R to determine the degree to which various social and linguistic factors affect the extent of crosslinguistic influence. Well-known Singlish features like the optionality of past tense and plural marking the unique meanings of already got and one and discourse particles lah leh and lor are analyzed using this approach. The statistical modeling of these features is a first step towards creating a unified framework to understanding crosslinguistic influence. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138614864

Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument StructureImplications for Learnability This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data this volume shows that languages are much more diverse in their argument structure properties than has been realized. The volume is the outcome of an integrated research project and comprises chapters by both specialists in first language acquisition and field linguists working on a variety of lesser-known languages. The research draws on original fieldwork and on adult data child data or both from seventeen languages from eleven different language families. Some chapters offer typological perspectives examining the basic structures of a given language with language-learnability issues in mind. Other chapters investigate specific problems of language acquisition in one or more languages. Taken as a whole the volume illustrates how detailed work on crosslinguistic variation is critical to the development of insightful theories of language acquisition. Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure integrates important contemporary issues in linguistics and language acquisition. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415721998

Cross-Linked Liquid Crystalline SystemsFrom Rigid Polymer Networks to Elastomers Liquid crystal displays were discovered in the 1960s and today we continue to enjoy the benefits of that fundamental discovery and its translation into a wide variety of products. Like liquid crystals polymers are unusual materials and have similarly enjoyed a great deal of research attention because of their vast applications and uses and complex fundamental properties. The combination of liquid crystal and polymer properties produces a broad array of new effects—spanning from densely crosslinked rigid polymer networks to weakly crosslinked elastomers—that are not simply manifestations of either native liquid crystals or polymers alone. Cross-Linked Liquid Crystalline Systems brings together liquid crystal and polymer systems and their variations. The field much like traditional liquid crystals is one of an interdisciplinary nature with a broad spectrum from the very fundamental questions of nature to a myriad of practical uses. There seems to be no shortage of unusual properties and far-reaching applications in densely crossed-linked liquid crystal systems and liquid crystal elastomers. These systems provide a rich new avenue for both fundamental and applied research and continue to fascinate scientists and engineers. Specifically this book covers:Cross-linked networks created from reactive mesogen materialsManipulation of liquid crystalline by external constraintsAdvances in liquid crystal display screen technologyPhysical and electromagnetic properties of elastomers and magnetic gelsComputer simulations and theory of liquid crystal polymeric networks and elastomersSide-on nematic liquid-crystalline elastomers for artificial muscle applicationsLiquid crystal display technology has driven much of the fundamental research in crosslinked liquid crystalline systems. The systems’ ability to enforce three-di Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367383107

Cross-National and Cross-Cultural Issues in Food Marketing Enhance your food marketing operation with this thorough and business-savvy book!Marketing and distribution related decisions and policies are now of paramount importance in the world of food marketing. This is due to the present state of economic crisis in much of the world and the cost efficiency issues that must be considered in countries at varying levels of economic development. Cross-National and Cross-Cultural Issues in Food Marketing examines food marketing systems from around the world to bring you an understanding of the opportunities and pitfalls in these areas. Cross-National and Cross-Cultural Issues in Food Marketing evaluates the present state and likely developments of food marketing systems in different countries. This book also provides conceptual frameworks for studying food marketing systems across countries and/or cultures. When studying food marketing systems from varying cultures one must take into consideration the political cultural and environmental aspects of the countries involved. Cross-National and Cross-Cultural Issues in Food Marketing provides the information you need. In this book you can examine: the U.S. poultry export trade food market segmentation in Europe the yogurt market in the European Union (EU) the connection between agricultural exports and economic growth in Pakistan ethnic niche markets for import quality policies and consumer behavior in different countries . . . and more!Cross-National and Cross-Cultural Issues in Food Marketing has the information you'll need to be able to analyze design and manage effective food marketing systems in an increasingly global economy. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315865287

Cross-National Consumer Psychographics What makes consumers behave as they do?Just as demographics examine the “who” of consumer behavior psychographics examine the “why”. Psychographics show the motivations that people have in regard to purchasing products and choosing a lifestyle. The measurement approaches of psychographics utilize a combination of the personality social value and demographic variables. Cross-National Consumer Psychographics demonstrates that as communication and interactions between different parts of the world increase marketing practitioners and educators will benefit by continuing to employ psychographic segmentation as a fundamental teaching and marketing tool. Examining consumer behavior with Cross-National Consumer Psychographics will bring you an improved understanding of the political and economic ties between communities and citizens and will facilitate improved market understanding segmentation and communication.Cross-National Consumer Psychographics explores important marketing topics like: the role of psychographics and values in international marketing cross-cultural consumer information processing styles the relationship between independent and interdependent self-concepts and reasons for purchase the internationally recognized List of Values (LOV)and specific case studies including: the values of American and Japanese mothers (using the LOV) means-end analyses of fish consumption in Denmark and France effects of the change of sovereignty on consumer preferences in Hong KongCross-National Consumer Psychographics provides data from several applications of the List of Values (LOV) coming from various parts of the globe showing the implications of particular cultures upon consumerism. Through this unique book you will discover how countries and consumer groups can be segmented and approached based on their social values to help you develop more effective marketing strategies for your products. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315865294

Cross-national Policy ConvergenceConcepts Causes and Empirical Findings A fresh analysis of policy convergences across nations which identifies their key driving forces. To what extent and in which direction can we empirically observe a convergence of national policies? In which areas and for which patterns of policy is convergence more or less pronounced? This text addresses these central questions with clarity and rigour. With growing economic and institutional interlinkages between nation states it is often assumed that there is an overall trend towards increasingly similar policies across countries. Comparative research on the domestic impact of globalization and European integration however reveals that policy convergence can hardly be considered as a dominant and uniform tendency which can be taken for granted. Although a number of factors have been suggested in order to account for the rather mixed empirical picture we still have limited knowledge about the causes and conditions of cross-national policy convergence. In particular the central mechanisms and conditions affecting both degree and level of cross-national policy convergence are yet not well understood. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of the European Union European politics and international relations. This is a special issue of the leading Journal of European Public Policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138967021

Cross-National Research Methodology and Practice Cross-National Research Methodology and Practice offers practical guidance for relative newcomers to cross-national research by analysing and evaluating the research process by focusing strongly on best practice in terms of methods and management. It raises a number of important issues for cross-national research which have been given insufficient attention in discussions of methods and practice. The volume contains reflexive and theoretically based pieces on the development of contextualization as an approach to cross-national comparative research on qualitative and quantitative methods extending to the integration of different methodological approaches. The volume includes practical examples of cross-national research projects which illustrate different methods ranging from: biographical and documentary approaches the collection and analysis of socio-demographic and attitudinal survey data either carried out by lone researchers or teams of researchers the exploration of internet sources and application of computer analysis to quantitative and qualitative data. This collection provides a firm emphasis on methodological issues relating to context values and discourse. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315878683

'Crossover' Children in the Youth Justice and Child Protection Systems "Crossover" Children in the Youth Justice and Child Protection Systems explores the outcomes faced by the group of children who experience involvement with both child protection and youth justice systems across several countries including the United States United Kingdom Canada New Zealand and Australia. Situated against a backdrop of international evidence and grounded in a two-year study with the Children’s Court in Victoria Australia this book presents a cohesive picture of the backgrounds characteristics and pathways traversed by crossover children. It presents statistical data from 300 crossover Children’s Court case files alongside the expert evidence of 82 professionals to generate a comprehensive picture of the lives of crossover children and the individual and systemic challenges that they face. The book investigates the crucial question of why some children involved with child welfare systems experience particularly poor criminal justice outcomes demonstrating how the convergence of cumulative childhood adversity complex support needs and systemic disadvantage produces acutely damaging outcomes for some crossover youth. It outlines the implications of the study including how these findings might shape diversion and differential justice system responses to child protection-involved youth and the innovative approaches adopted internationally to avert the care to custody pathway. This book is internationally relevant and will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology and law social work psychology and sociology as well as legal welfare and government agencies and policy developers non-government peak bodies and services professional probation services case managers health and mental health services disability and drug treatment agencies and others who work with both young offenders and the design and implementation of policy and legislation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367261108

Crossover CinemaCross-Cultural Film from Production to Reception Cinematic products in the twenty-first century increasingly emerge from engage with and are consumed in cross-cultural settings. While there have been a number of terms used to describe cinematic forms that do not bear allegiance to a single nation in terms of conceptualization content finance and/or viewership this volume contends that "crossover cinema" is the most apt contemporary description for those aspects of contemporary cinema on which it focuses. This contention is provoked by an appreciation of the cross-cultural reality of our post-globalization twenty-first century world. This volume both outlines the history of usage of the term and grounds it theoretically in ways that emphasize the personal/poetic in addition to the political. Each of the three sections of the volume then considers crossover film from one of three perspectives: production the texts themselves and distribution and consumption. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138243255

Cross-Over ExperimentsDesign Analysis and Application Developing a model-based approach that enables any cross-over trial of any degree of imbalance to be analyzed both for direct effects and for residual effects using consistent procedures that employ commercially available statistical software this text offers a guide to the analysis of cross-over designs.;Illustrating practical applications throughout with examples this book: emphasizes the importance of choosing highly efficient designs that separate treatment and carryover effects; demonstrates the exact methodology needed to handle the analysis of data; presents a new methodology for the analysis of binary and categorical data; and considers the effects of blocking. The appendices facilitate the choosing of an appropriate design for every experimental need. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367579913

Crossover of Audit and Evaluation PracticesChallenges and Opportunities Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices brings together academic analysis with insights from practitioners to discuss the potential for collaboration in audit and evaluation practices between three professional disciplines. Clearly written and thoughtfully organized this volume is structured in three parts to deal with theory practice issues and how the practices have worked together. • Part One provides definitions of performance audit internal audit and program evaluation. • Part Two addresses several challenges that professionals face in applying these standards and principles. • Part Three contains examples of organizational collaboration between the practices how they have worked together and the lessons that were learned from that experience. Specific cases from the Government Accountability Office and UNESCO UNDP and Inter-Americas Development Bank illustrate what has worked or not and suggest reasons why. Crossover of Audit and Evaluation Practices offers even the most skilled and experienced professional insight on how to bridge some of the divides. It will help generate a better understanding of the activities and services that are either imposed on them or are freely available and help to stimulate their optimal use. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367897703

Crossover PicturebooksA Genre for All Ages This book situates the picturebook genre within the widespread international phenomenon of crossover literature examining an international corpus of picturebooks — including artists’ books wordless picturebooks and celebrity picturebooks — that appeal to readers of all ages. Focusing on contemporary picturebooks Sandra Beckett shows that the picturebook has traditionally been seen as a children’s genre but in the eyes of many authors illustrators and publishers it is a narrative form that can address any and all age groups. Innovative graphics and formats as well as the creative often complex dialogue between text and image provide multiple levels of meaning and invite readers of all ages to consider texts that are primarily marketed as children’s books. The interplay of text and image that distinguishes the picturebook from other forms of fiction and makes it a unique art form also makes it the ultimate crossover genre. Crossover picturebooks are often very complex texts that are challenging for adults as well as children. Many are characterized by difficult "adult" themes genre blending metafictive discourse intertextuality sophisticated graphics and complex text-image interplay. Exciting experiments with new formats and techniques as well as novel interactions with new media and technologies have made the picturebook one of the most vibrant and innovative contemporary literary genres one that seems to know no boundaries. Crossover Picturebooks is a valuable addition to the study of a genre that is gaining increasing recognition and appreciation and contributes significantly to the field of children’s literature as a whole. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415730372

Crossover Stars in the Hindi Film IndustryGlobalizing Pakistani Identity This book explores the cultural politics of Pakistani crossover stardom in the Hindi film industry as a process of both assimilation and “Otherness”. Analysing the career profiles of three crossover performers – Ali Zafar Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan – as a relevant case study it unites critical globalization studies with soft power theory in exploring the potential of popular culture in conflict resolution. The book studies the representation and reception of these celebrities while discussing themes such as the meaning of being a Pakistani star in India and the consequent identity politics that come into play. As the first comprehensive study of Pakistani crossover stardom it captures intersections between political economy cultural representation and nationalist discourse at the same time reflecting on larger questions of identity and belonging in an age of globalization. Crossover Stars in the Hindi Film Industry will be indispensable to researchers of film studies media and cultural studies popular culture and performance peace and area studies and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to enthusiasts of Indian cinematic history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780367266806

CrossoversAnti-zionism and Anti-semitism Crossovers compares Jewish anti-Zionism and Palestinian anti-Semitism from political and philosophical points of view. The authors' goal is to expose what is unique about these phenomena and what they share so that both ideologies and their practical impact can be better understood.The authors identify a symbiotic relationship between anti-Semitic Palestinian doctrines and those Jews who are anti-Zionists. There has been a great deal of research on these as separate phenomena but there has thus far been no research that has noted their similarities. Palestinian anti- Semitism and Jewish anti-Zionism may stem from different sources but they have similar consequences. Palestinian views derive from religious Islamic as well as nationalist- Arab roots while the views of anti-Zionist Jews grew out of an ideological-Marxist-Trotskyite background. But both share a common goal: the destruction of the Jewish-Zionist nation and a common strategy to achieve a bi-national state as a first stage in the march to this goal.Jewish history is replete with examples of how Jews have ignored repeated threats and acts of violence against them. That characteristic of Jews reflects their Messianic belief but it lacks a basis in history. That belief has resisted change even in the face of threats that were obvious and that have endangered Jewish lives in the past. Contemporary anti-Zionists share this optimistic outlook. Paradoxically while the Jewish-Zionist State of Israel contends in public that another Holocaust will not happen and is patently impossible the lesson of recent Jewish history is that a Holocaust can happen again. This work is unrelenting in its criticisms and tough minded in its assessments of the future. It merits careful serious reading. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508736

Cross-OversArt Into Pop/Pop Into Art This book first published in 1987 was the first major survey of the links between the visual arts and pop music over the last thirty years. It brings to light the ideas styles and people who have influenced both the look of pop and the shape of art. It examines how pop uses art movements like Dada Futurism and Surrealism in everything from the design of album covers to the creation of a group’s look stage act and video; how art uses pop as a subject for painting sculpture and design; the vital role of the British art school connection; and collaborations and cross-overs – between the visual arts and groups musicians and movements. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138652583

Crossroads and ConflictSecurity and Foreign Policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315022802

Cross-Site Scripting AttacksClassification Attack and Countermeasures Social network usage has increased exponentially in recent years. Platforms like Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn and Instagram not only facilitate sharing of personal data but also connect people professionally. However development of these platforms with more enhanced features like HTML5 CSS XHTML and Java Script expose these sites to various vulnerabilities that may be the root cause of various threats. Therefore social networking sites have become an attack surface for various cyber-attacks such as XSS attack and SQL Injection. Numerous defensive techniques have been proposed yet with technology up-gradation current scenarios demand for more efficient and robust solutions. Cross-Site Scripting Attacks: Classification Attack and Countermeasures is a comprehensive source which provides an overview of web-based vulnerabilities and explores XSS attack in detail. This book provides a detailed overview of the XSS attack; its classification recent incidences on various web applications and impacts of the XSS attack on the target victim. This book addresses the main contributions of various researchers in XSS domain. It provides in-depth analysis of these methods along with their comparative study. The main focus is a novel framework which is based on Clustering and Context based sanitization approach to protect against XSS attack on social network. The implementation details conclude that it is an effective technique to thwart XSS attack. The open challenges and future research direction discussed in this book will help further to the academic researchers and industry specific persons in the domain of security. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367367701

Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016The End of the Illusion Cross-Strait Relations Since 2016: The End of the Illusion examines the situation in the Taiwan Strait since the election of Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party in the January 2016 general elections. Tracking the pragmatic approach taken by the Tsai administration this book positions the recent developments within a changing geopolitical context and analyzes Beijing’s reactions to an environment which has become increasingly skeptical of its intentions. It shows that despite President Tsai’s commitment to the "status quo" in the Taiwan Strait and pro-democracy policies which have been well received by the international community Xi Jinping continues to advocate for a unification policy which remains very unpopular in Taiwan. With in-depth on-the-ground analysis based on access to various government actors in Taiwan and abroad the author takes a deep dive into a highly complex relationship that is often misunderstood abroad with stakes that have direct implications for the future stability of the Indo-Pacific region. The first English language book to provide a full assessment of the four years of DPP rule since 2016 this book will be useful to students and scholars of Asian Studies and Taiwan Studies as well as Security Studies Politics and International Relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367428495

Cross-Tradition Engagement in PhilosophyA Constructive-Engagement Account This book presents a systematic unifying-pluralist account—a "constructive-engagement" account—of how cross-tradition engagement in philosophy is possible. The goal of this "constructive-engagement" account is by way of reflective criticism argumentation and methodological guiding principles to inquire into how distinct approaches from different philosophical traditions can talk to and learn from each other for the sake of making joint contributions to the contemporary development of philosophy. In Part I of the book Bo Mou explores a range of fundamental theoretic and methodological issues in cross-tradition philosophical engagement and philosophical interpretation. In Part II he analyzes several representative case studies that demonstrate how relevant resources in the Western and Chinese philosophical traditions can constructively engage with each other. These studies cover issues in philosophical methodology metaphysics epistemology philosophy of language and logic and ethics. The book’s theoretical and practical approaches expand the vision coverage and agenda of doing philosophy comparatively and promote worldwide joint efforts of cross-tradition philosophical inquiries. Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy will be of interest to graduate students and scholars interested in comparative philosophy and the intersection of Chinese and Western philosophy. It will also appeal to those who are interested in the ways in which cross-tradition philosophical engagement can enhance contemporary philosophical debates in metaphysics epistemology philosophy of language and logic and ethics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367360412

Crow Indian Rock ArtIndigenous Perspectives and Interpretations This absorbing volume examines the cultural role of rock art for the Apsáalooke or Crow people of the northern Great Plains. Their extensive rock art developed within the changing cultural life of the tribe. Individual knowledge and meaning of rock art panels however relies as much on collective concepts of landscape as it does on shared memories of historic Crow culture. Using this idea as a focus this book:-introduces Plains Indian rock art of the 19th century as we know about it from its own stylistic conventions ethnographic data and historical accounts;-investigates the contemporary Crow discourse about rock art and its place within the cultural landscape and archaeological record;-argues that cultural concepts of space and place are fundamental to the way rock art is discussed experienced and interpreted. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367605346

Crowd and Rumour in Shakespeare In this study the author offers new interpretations of Shakespeare's works in the context of two major contemporary notions of collectivity: the crowd and rumour. The plays illustrate that rumour and crowd are mutually dependent; they also betray a fascination with the fact that crowd and rumour make individuality disappear. Shakespeare dramatizes these mechanisms relating the crowd to class conflict to rhetoric to the theatre and to the organization of the state; and linking rumour to fear to fame and to philosophical doubt. Paying attention to all levels of collectivity Wiegandt emphasizes the close relationship between the crowd onstage and the Elizabethan audience. He argues that there was a significant - and sometimes precarious - metatheatrical blurring between the crowd on the stage and the crowd around the stage in performances of crowd scenes. The book's focus on crowd and rumour provides fresh insights on the central problems of some of Shakespeare's most contentiously debated plays and offers an alternative to the dominant tradition of celebrating Shakespeare as the origin of modern individualism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138252578

Crowd Assisted Networking and Computing Crowd computing crowdsourcing crowd-associated network (CrAN) crowd-assisted sensing are some examples of crowd-based concepts that harness the power of people on the web or connected via web-like infrastructure to do tasks that are often difficult for individual users or computers to do alone. This creates many challenging issues like assessing reliability and correctness of crowd generated information delivery of data and information via crowd middleware for supporting crowdsourcing and crowd computing tasks crowd associated networking and its security Quality of Information (QoI) issues etc. This book compiles the latest advances in the relevant fields. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367571009

Crowdfunding and Entrepreneurial Finance An increase in the restrictions on the availability of funding for new and growing businesses in the aftermath of the global financial crisis has been accompanied by the emergence and growth of crowdfunding as an alternative method of raising capital. Crowdfunding contributes towards the disintermediation of the finance market as funders and promoters are brought together directly democratising both fundraising by businesses and investment by individuals. This book extends entrepreneurial finance research to the study of crowdfunding. Contributions review the history status and future of crowdfunding analyse the patterns of fundraising assess the potential of crowdfunding for the financing of social ventures in particular and discuss the regulatory implications of recent developments. What is clear from this collection is that the crowdfunding space is still evolving institutional forms are still developing as models are refined new institutional collaborations (e.g. between equity platforms and business angel networks) are emerging and new challenges particularly regulatory challenges are being encountered. While crowdfunding is not a universal solution for SME finance in a post-crisis financial landscape it remains too early to determine whether crowdfunding represents a large-scale transformation of the early stage risk capital market or a minor addition to it. This book was originally published as a special issue of Venture Capital. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138086487

Crowdfunding for EntrepreneursDeveloping Strategic Advantage through Entrepreneurial Finance This is the first book of its kind to systematically integrate crowdfunding in the entrepreneurial finance research field and extend the current debate to show how crowdfunding can be leveraged as a strategic tool to grow new ventures. Utilising original empirical evidence of companies that have raised funds via crowdfunding it discusses the value-added services that the crowd provides to entrepreneurs as well as how and under which conditions crowdfunding helps company development by facilitating subsequent access to critical financial and non-financial resources from external stakeholders. The first part introduces the most popular models and tactics for a successful crowdfunding campaign and illustrates the characteristics of the crowdfunding phenomenon and its evolution across the world during the last decade. The second part of the book demonstrating how crowdfunding can be a starting point to seed financing illustrates and discusses how entrepreneurs can use crowdfunding as a strategic tool for accessing subsequent resources from external stakeholders – showing the benefits beyond capital that entrepreneurs can gain from the crowd as well as potential risks. Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurs is particularly useful for academics advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in entrepreneurship and innovation entrepreneurial finance strategic management as well as professionals interested in how crowdfunding can be utilised as a strategic tool to create competitive advantage. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367334253

CrowdRisingBuilding a Sustainable World through Mass Collaboration Open innovation enabled through crowdsourcing is one of the hottest topics in management strategy today. Particularly striking – and of vital importance to the world – are the pioneering efforts to apply crowdsourcing technology and open innovation to solve social environmental and economic sustainability challenges. CrowdRising sets out these challenges as context and then highlights the experiences of leaders and early adopters identifies implementation guidelines critical success factors and lessons learned and finally projects where the field is going in the future.  With a strong focus on the applications of crowdsourcing for innovation engagement and market intelligence the book profiles the initiatives of companies NGOs and technology providers using crowdsourcing to develop these solutions to global problems. It addresses the key challenges impacting organizations: 1) identifying more sustainable ways to design distribute transport recycle and repurpose products; and 2) discovering and implementing the systems needed to transform global economic growth drive human prosperity and replenish the planet’s resources. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781783533770

Crowds and Politics in North AfricaTunisia Algeria and Libya This book  takes predominant crowd theory to task questioning received ideas about ‘mob psychology’ that remain prevalent today. It is a synchronic study of crowds crowd dynamics and the relationships of crowds to political power in Tunisia Libya and Algeria (2011-2013) that has far reaching implications embedded in its thesis.　 One central theme of the book is gender providing an in-depth look at women’s participation in the recent uprisings and crowds of 2011-2013 and the subsequent gender-related aspects of political transitions. The book also focuses on the social and political dynamics of tribalism and group belonging (‘asabiyya) including analysis and discussions with Libyan regional tribal chiefs Libyan and Tunisian tribal members and citizens regarding their notions of tribal belonging. Crowd language and literature are also central to the book’s discussion of how crowds represent themselves how we as observers represent crowds and how crowds confront languages of authoritarianism and subjugation.　 Crowds and Politics in North Africa includes interviews with crowd participants and key civil society actors from Tunisia Libya and Algeria. Among these there are numerous interviews with Benghazi residents activists and tribal leaders.  One of the original case studies in the book is the crowd dynamics during and after the attack on the US consular installation in Benghazi Libya. The book presents interviews and fieldwork within a literary and cultural theoretical context showing how crowds in the region resonate in forms of cultural resistance to authoritarianism. A valuable resource this book will be of use to students and scholars with an interest in North African culture society and politics more broadly. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138700437

Crowds and Public Order PolicingAn Analysis of Crowds and Interpretations of Their Behaviour Based on Observational Studies in Turkey Engla Published in 1998. This research is based on observations made of 33 crowd events between February 1992 - February 1995. These took place in Turkey England and Wales and all of which involved a large police deployment. In addition informal interviews were conducted in both countries involving key figures in areas of police public order training and practice. Further visits were made to training sites and public order units to familiarise the researcher with public order policing in both countries. Finally the researcher has attended three major public order courses organised for the senior members of British police forces. This research analyzes the underlying assumptions contained within the existing theories in the field and attempts to adjudicate on the validity of both classical and modern contributions to the understanding of the field. The research concludes that any public order policing regardless of the political system it serves will tend to be relatively paramilitary and oppressive. Civilian public order policing practices need to take account of an approach which appreciates a wide combination of levels of understanding as represented by Combined Factors Approach. Finally it is argued that the more public order policy reflects the potential level of understanding promoted by the CFA the less emphasis on paramilitary techniques will be deployed as tactics of last resort. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138612471

Crowds in the 21st CenturyPerspectives from contemporary social science Crowds in the 21st Century presents the latest theory and research on crowd events and crowd behaviour from across a range of social sciences including psychology sociology law and communication studies. Whether describing the language of the crowd in protest events measuring the ability of the crowd to empower its participants or analysing the role of professional organizations involved in crowd safety and public order the contributions in this volume are united in their commitment to a social scientific level of analysis. The crowd is often depicted as a source of irrationality and danger – in the form of riots and mass emergencies. By placing crowd events back in their social context – their ongoing historical and proximal relationships with other groups and social structures – this volume restores meaning to the analysis of crowd behaviour. Together the studies described in this collection demonstrate the potential of crowd research to enhance the positive experience of crowd participants and to improve design planning and management around crowd events. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138922914

CrowdsEthnographic Encounters What exactly is a crowd? How do crowds differ from other large gatherings of people? And how do they transform emotions politics or faith? In Crowds contributors draw on their experiences and expertise to reflect on their encounters with crowds. Each chapter examines a particular crowd or conception of crowdedness to provide an analysis of how when where—and with whom—crowds form in different contexts as well as their purpose and the practical effect the experience has on both the participants and their environment. The wide selection of case studies ranges from the crowds that form every year during the Hajj to New Year celebrations in China commuters on the Delhi metro public prayer in Nigeria online mobs in Bangladesh and the crowds that have emerged during protest movements in Thailand and Syria. Crowds makes a key contribution to establishing an anthropological theory of crowds and will be an essential read for both students and researchers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781350002340

Crowdsourcing for FilmmakersIndie Film and the Power of the Crowd Whether you’re a producer screenwriter filmmaker or other creative you probably have a project that needs constant exposure or a product to promote. But how do you rise above the noise? In Crowdsourcing for Filmmakers: Indie Film and the Power of the Crowd Richard Botto explains how to put crowdsourcing to use for your creative project using social media networking branding crowdfunding and an understanding of your audience to build effective crowdsourcing campaigns sourcing everything from film equipment to shooting locations. Botto covers all aspects of crowdsourcing: how to create the message of your brand project or initiative; how to mold shape and adjust it based on mass response; how to broadcast a message to a targeted group and engage those with similar likes beliefs or interests; and finally how to cultivate those relationships to the point where the message is no longer put forth solely by you but carried and broadcasted by those who have responded to it. Using a wealth of case studies and practical know-how based on his years of experience in the industry and as founder of Stage 32—the largest crowdsourced platform for film creatives—Richard Botto presents a comprehensive and hands-on guide to crowdsourcing creatively and expertly putting your audience to work on your behalf. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138849891

Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing or asking the general public to help contribute to shared goals is increasingly popular in memory institutions as a tool for digitising or computing vast amounts of data. This book brings together for the first time the collected wisdom of international leaders in the theory and practice of crowdsourcing in cultural heritage. It features eight accessible case studies of groundbreaking projects from leading cultural heritage and academic institutions and four thought-provoking essays that reflect on the wider implications of this engagement for participants and on the institutions themselves. Crowdsourcing in cultural heritage is more than a framework for creating content: as a form of mutually beneficial engagement with the collections and research of museums libraries archives and academia it benefits both audiences and institutions. However successful crowdsourcing projects reflect a commitment to developing effective interface and technical designs. This book will help practitioners who wish to create their own crowdsourcing projects understand how other institutions devised the right combination of source material and the tasks for their ’crowd’. The authors provide theoretically informed actionable insights on crowdsourcing in cultural heritage outlining the context in which their projects were created the challenges and opportunities that informed decisions during implementation and reflecting on the results. This book will be essential reading for information and cultural management professionals students and researchers in universities corporate public or academic libraries museums and archives. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138706170

Crown of Life First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415488464

Crucial Decisions at the Beginning of LifeParents' Experiences of Treatment Withdrawl from Infants The management function is practice-based primary care and who performs it varies by practice. While the number of practice managers increase and their role continues to unfold in response to NHS changes the development of practice management as a profession is contained if not constrained by GPs as both employers and as the dominant profession within primary care. This stimulating review of the responsibilities opportunities and future prospects of management in primary care based on workshops with GPs and practice managers identifies their respective management development needs and the ways in which these might be met. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781315379135

Crucible of a GenerationHow the Attack on Pearl Harbor Transformed America Crucible of a Generation tells the story of the fifteen days surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the pages of eight leading American newspapers. Focusing on publications such as The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune J. Kenneth Brody paints a vivid picture of U.S. political culture and society at a pivotal moment in the nation's history. Brody considers the papers in full from headlines to "help wanted" ads in a text richly illustrated with archival images wartime posters and editorial cartoons. The book provides a compelling snapshot of the United States and the role of the media at a time of dramatic tension and global change.　 　 　   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412865579

Cruelty Sexuality and the Unconscious in PsychoanalysisFreud Lacan Winnicott and the Body of the Void In Cruelty Sexuality and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis Touria Mignotte explores an innovative conception of cruelty. Integrating the life sciences and quantum physics this approach shows that cruelty structures the living just as much as the unconscious and makes it possible to integrate the main psychoanalytic currents notably Freud Lacan Winnicott Klein and the thinkers of autism while renewing the place of psychoanalysis as a human science. The life sciences have given us an insight into the murderous struggles that unfold before the primitive environment consents to the emergence of life as a "primary destructive impulse." This book offers a deep exploration of this primitive cruelty and of the processes of pairing that it induces: Mignotte hypothesizes that cruelty pertains to the dynamics of the void from which the human being originates and whose creative expansion manifests itself at each birth as a sexual excess threatening the primary oneness. Cruelty Sexualit y and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis thus posits the necessity of revisiting the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis within a new epistemological framework developed from the laws of the dynamics of the void and based on an analysis of the development of these dynamics through clinical symptomatology. From this new perspective this book suggests that the narcissistic psychoses and contemporary pathologies may be seen as the enactment of the murder and incest induced by the jouissance of the primitive void. This book calls on psychoanalysts to become the testamentary witnesses of the inhuman sexuality of the primitive void and to allow themselves to be affected by the ferment of destabilization and dissociation from which it proceeds. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367415525

Cruelty Violence and Murder The line that separates those who kill from those who only think about it and from those who injure themselves is often thinner than we imagine. Convicted murderers serving life-sentences in England are among the subjects of this in-depth psychological study of what makes people kill. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367324018

Cruelty and CivilizationThe Roman Games Roland Auguet examines the Roman taste for blood and considers what the games that strange combination of Cruelty and Civilization reveal about the Roman mentality. He shows how the great spectacles became a part of city life - they were awaited with impatience everyone discussed them some applauded the action in the arena while others booed frantically.This book provides an exciting history of gladiators chariot racing and other games as well as an investigation of their function and significance within society. It is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the Romans' violent form of entertainment. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203389072

Cruise Operations ManagementHospitality Perspectives Cruise Operations Management provides a comprehensive and contextualised overview of hospitality services for the cruise industry. As well as providing a background to the cruise industry it also looks deeper into the management issues providing a practical guide for both students and professionals alike. A user-friendly and practical guide it discusses issues such as:· The history and image of cruising· How to design a cruise and itinerary planning· Roles and responsibilities on a cruise ship· Customer service systems and passenger profiles· Managing food and drink operations onboard· Health safety and security Cruise Operations Management presents a range of contextualised facts illustrated by a number of case studies that encourage the reader to examine the often complex circumstances that surround problems or events associated to cruise operations. The case studies are contemporary and are constructed from first hand research with a number of international cruise companies providing a real world insight into this industry. Each case study is followed by questions that are intended to illuminate issues and stimulate discussion.The structure of the book is designed so the reader can either build knowledge cumulatively for an in-depth knowledge of managerial practices and procedures onboard a cruise ship or they can ‘dip in’ and make use of specific material and case studies for use within a more generic hospitality or tourism learning context. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138143203

Cruise Operations ManagementHospitality Perspectives Cruise Operations Management: Hospitality Perspectives offers a comprehensive and contextualised overview of hospitality services for the cruise industry. As well as providing a background to the cruise industry it also looks deeper into the management issues providing a practical guide for students and professionals alike. Since the last edition of this book was published there have been many important developments in the industry. This third edition has been updated to include: New content on: health safety and security sustainability environmental impacts of cruise operations changing and emerging markets professionalism and talent management innovation and digital technologies A new chapter on 'Leadership in the cruise industry' New international case studies throughout to provide a real-world insight into the industry Additional online resources including PowerPoint slides for instructors and student quizzes to test knowledge This comprehensive accessible and engaging text is essential reading for all those seeking to study cruise operations management whether for academic or vocational reasons. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138505179

Cruise Tourism in Polar RegionsPromoting Environmental and Social Sustainability? Cruises are the primary form of tourism in the Polar Regions and cruise ship tourism in both the Arctic and Antarctic is expanding rapidly. The industry has moved beyond its infancy and is now entering a maturing phase with increased numbers and types of vessels more demanding routes and more regular and predictable patterns of activity. The increase in cruise activities and the associated risks of accidents as well as the potential and actual impacts of the large numbers of tourists in the polar regions bring with it management challenges for sustainable use of these regions. This book discusses critically the issues around environmental and social sustainability of the cruise industry in Polar Regions. Authors from Canada USA Europe Australia and New Zealand are experts in their respective fields and take an innovative critical and at times controversial approach to the subject. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138967038

Cruise Tourism in the CaribbeanSelling Sunshine This book explores the lessons learned from half a century of Caribbean cruise tourism; one of the most popular and profitable sectors of the tourism industry. The modern-day cruise industry dates from the 1960s when the three major cruise lines Carnival Royal Caribbean and Norwegian set up shop in Florida and began selling winter cruises to the Caribbean targeting American retirees. For geopolitical reasons the US initially excluded cruises to Cuba. This changed in 2016 following the historic Obama-Castro agreement to move towards diplomatic trade and travel normalization. Cuba quickly became the Caribbean’s fastest growing cruise destination. This book considers the limited economic benefits of cruise tourism its environmental and social impacts and the effects of climate change and "overtourism." Based on this analysis and case studies of key Caribbean and Mediterranean destinations this book cautions against overdependence on cruise tourism and outlines reforms needed to bring more benefits and equity to Caribbean countries. It will be valuable to professionals businesses development agencies NGOs and academics interested in a sustainable cruise industry and the economic well-being of Caribbean island nations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367195816

Cruising in the Global EconomyProfits Pleasure and Work at Sea The business of cruise tourism in recent years has commanded news media attention especially on issues of environmental pollution passenger safety and worker rights yet consumer interest in cruise vacations has not been adversely affected by negative publicity and it continues to grow at an average of 8-9% per annum. This unique mode of business focusing on the production and consumption of pleasure at sea and on land offers us an unprecedented opportunity to analyze the manner in which ongoing economic restructuring processes to bring about free markets in goods services and labour can and does involve both life on land and at sea. This interdisciplinary analysis elicits an examination of states' relationship to the maritime regulatory structure governing ship ownership management and operations cruise lines' business strategies development of port communities to capture cruise-related revenue changing leisure consumption patterns and meanings and the employment of foreign migrant workers as seafarers. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315258812

Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier 1150–1500 This volume represents a major contribution to the history of the Northern Crusades and the Christianization of the Baltic lands in the Middle Ages from the beginnings of the Catholic mission to the time of the Reformation. The subjects treated range from discussions of the ideology and practice of crusade and conversion through studies of the motivation of the crusading countries (Denmark Sweden and Germany) and the effects of the crusades on the countries of the eastern Baltic coast (Finland Estonia Livonia Prussia and Lithuania) to analyses of the literature and historiography of the crusade. It brings together essays from both established and younger scholars from the western tradition with those from the modern Baltic countries and Russia and presents in English some of the fruits of the first decade of historical scholarship and dialogue after the collapse of the Iron Curtain. The depth of treatment diversity of approaches and accompanying bibliography of publications make this collection a major resource for the teaching of the Baltic Crusades. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315258805

Crusade of the LeftThe Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War Between 1936 and 1938 some 3 000 young Americans sailed to France and crossed the Pyrenees to take part in the brutal civil war raging in Spain. Virtually all joined the International Brigades formed under the auspices of the Soviet-led Comintern and largely directed by Communists. Yet a large number were not Communists; their activism was inspired by domestic and international crises of the 1930s and colored by idealism.The men who went to Spain came out of a radical subculture that emerged from the Depression and the New Deal. Th is radicalism was a native plant but it was nourished from abroad. In the thirties the menace of fascism seemed to be spreading like cancer across Europe giving an international aspect to many domestic problems in the United States. To intellectuals students unionists liberals and leftists the threat of fascism was so real that many came to believe that if it was not stopped in Spain eventually they would have to take up arms against fascism at home.To understand the Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War it is necessary to bury some of the shibboleths of cold war years. Dissidence in the United States occurs in response to perceptions of reality on this side of the Atlantic not because of the wishes of men in the Soviet Union. Th e members of the Lincoln Battalion were genuine products of America and their story is properly a page in American military and political history. From them one can learn much about the world of the 1930s and perhaps even something about the potential of modern man for thought and action in time of crisis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521612

Crusader ArchaeologyThe Material Culture of the Latin East Crusader Archaeology examines what life was like for European settlers in the Latin East and how they were influenced by their new-found neighbours. Incorporating recent excavation results and the latest research this new edition updates the only detailed study of the material culture of the Frankish settlers in Israel Cyprus Syria and Jordan. Adrian Boas provides comprehensive coverage of the key topics connected to crusader archaeology including an examination of urban and rural settlements agriculture industry the military the church public and private architecture arts and crafts leisure pursuits death and burial and building techniques. There are also entirely new chapters on domestic architecture and disease injury and medical treatment. Drawing on the extensive experience of an established writer in the field Crusader Archaeology effectively combines a broad body of material to introduce readers to the archaeological research of the region. This well-illustrated volume is a crucial survey for all those interested in the Middle Ages and in particular the Crusades. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367872847

Crusader Syria in the Thirteenth CenturyThe Rothelin Continuation of the History of William of Tyre with Part of the Eracles or Acre Text The Old French ’Rothelin’ Continuation of William of Tyre’s Historia provides one of the best contemporary narratives of the history of the crusades and of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the mid-thirteenth century. Covering the period 1229-61 it has vivid accounts of the disastrous expeditions led by Count Theobald of Champagne (1239-40) and King Louis IX of France (1248-54) as well as of other events in the East. But the text contains far more than this with a detailed description of Jerusalem itself songs of protest written by crusaders and a variety of marvels and adventures including stories of Alexander the Great and the poisonous snakes encountered by the Roman army under Cato. This text is here translated into English for the first time together with a narrative for the same years taken from another Old French Continuation of William of Tyre’s work part of L’Estoire de Eracles. Both accounts are translated from the Receuil des historiens des croisades: Historiens occidentaux vol. 2 (Paris 1859). An introduction and full notes make these thirteenth-century events and ideas accessible to students of medieval history and to anyone interested in the lives and patterns of thought of people of that time. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315258799

Crusaders Cathars and the Holy Places First published in 1999 this volume emerged as part of the Collected Studies series and features studies authored by Bernard Hamilton over a period of twenty years all of which deal with relations between Western Europe and the neighbouring civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 12th and 13th centuries. The first set examines the kind of society which developed in the Crusader States (including three essays on women and Queens) and the attitude of western settlers to the Byzantine Empire eastern Christian churches and the Islamic world. Further essays deal with the impact on Western Europe of Christian dualist heresy which had its roots in the Balkans and Armenia and perhaps ultimately in Persia. The final group centres around the Holy Places whose liberation was the raison d’etre of the crusade movement. They examine how the Western Church administered these shrines the way in which they shaped western piety during the time of crusader rule and how the cult of the Holy Places developed in the Western Church after they had been recaptured by Islam. Each article’s original citation information is included along with the original page numbers and pagination. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138335646

Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century Crusading in the twelfth century was less a series of discrete events than a manifestation of an endemic phenomenon that touched almost every aspect of life at that time. The defense of Christendom and the recovery of the Holy Land were widely-shared objectives. Thousands of men and not a few women participated in the crusades including not only those who took the cross but many others who shared the costs and losses as well as the triumphs of the crusaders. This volume contains not a narrative account of the crusades in the twelfth century but a group of studies illustrating many aspects of crusading that are often passed over in narrative histories including the courses and historiography of the crusades their background ideology and finances and how they were seen in Europe. Included are revised and updated versions of Giles Constable's classic essays on medieval crusading along with two major new studies on the cross of the crusaders and the Fourth Crusade and two excursuses on the terminology of crusading and the numbering of the crusades. They provide an opportunity to meet some individual crusaders such as Odo Arpinus whose remarkable career carried him from France to the east and back again and whose legendary exploits in the Holy Land were recorded in the Old French crusade cycle. Other studies take the reader to the boundaries of Christendom in Spain and Portugal and in eastern Germany where the campaigns against the Wends formed part of the wider crusading movement. Together they show the range and depth of crusading at that time and its influence on the broader history of the period. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367740177

Crusaders and FranksStudies in the History of the Crusades and the Frankish Levant While research on the crusades tends increasingly to bifurcate into study of the crusade idea and the crusading expeditions and study of the Frankish states the crusaders established in the Levant Benjamin Kedar confirms-through the articles reproduced in this latest selection of his articles-his adherence to the school that endeavours to deal with both branches of research. Of the ten studies that deal with the crusading expeditions one examines the maps that might have been available to the First Crusaders and their Muslim opponents another discusses in detail the Jerusalem massacre of July 1099 and its place in Western historiography down to our days a third sheds light on the largely neglected doings of the Fourth Crusaders who decided to sail to Acre rather than to Constantinople while a fourth exposes unknown features of the well-known sculpture of the returning crusader-most probably Count Hugh I of Vaudémont- who is embracing his wife. Of the ten studies that deal with the Frankish Levant one proposes a hypothesis on the composition stages of William of Tyre's chronicle another provides new evidence on the Latin hermits who chose to live in the Frankish states a third examines the catalogue of the library of the cathedral of Nazareth while a fourth calls attention to convergences of Eastern Christians Muslims and Franks in sacred spaces and offers a typology of such events and a fifth proposes a methodology for the identification of trans-cultural borrowing in the Frankish Levant. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815366850

Crusades – Medieval Worlds in Conflict These essays selected from papers presented at the International Symposium on Crusade Studies in February 2006 represent a stimulating cross-section of this vibrant field. Organized under the rubric of "medieval worlds" the studies in this volume demonstrate the broad interdisciplinary spectrum of modern crusade studies extending far beyond the battlefield into the conflict and occasional cooperation between the diverse cultures and faiths of the Mediterranean. Although the crusades were a product of medieval Europe they provide a backdrop against which medieval worlds can be observed to come into both contact and collision. The range of studies in this volume includes subjects such as Muslim and Christian understandings of their wars within their own intellectual and artistic perspectives as well as the development of memory and definition of crusading in both the East and West. A section on the Crusades and the Byzantine world examines the intersection of western and eastern Christian attitudes and agendas and how they played out - particularly in the Aegean and Asia Minor. The book concludes with three studies on the crusader king Louis IX examining not only his two crusades in new ways but also the role of the crusade in his later sanctification. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138383937

Crusades and MemoryRethinking Past and Present Crusading was a religious movement involving papal authorization the incentive of remission of sins pious motivation on behalf of the individual and the justification of holy war. Much recent historiography in this area has focused on resolving the questions of what a crusade was and why people went on them. But crusading became a cultural and social phenomenon that changed across time and geographical space. In turn crusading was shaped by the ways specific crusades and their participants were remembered in specific historical contexts. Moreover crusade memory had profound effects on the cultivation of family lineage kinship ties national and regional identity and religious orthodoxy. Integrating memory into crusades scholarship thus offers new ways of exploring the aftermath of war the construction of cultural and social memory the role of women and families in this process and the crusading movement itself.This book explores memory as a methodological means of understanding the crusades. It engages with theories of communicative memory social and cultural memory war commemoration and historical processes of remembering. Contributions explore the variety of cultural forms used in cultivating crusade memory. Material visual liturgical and textual objects are all reflective of crusade culture and the process of crafting its memory and the analysis of such sources is of particular interest. This publication furthers new trends in crusade scholarship which understand the crusades as a broad religious movement that called upon and developed within a wider cultural framework than previously acknowledged. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138059085

CrusadesVolume 1 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. This first edition of the journal includes contributions from Jonathan Riley-Smith refecting on the number of knights who participated in the First Crusade and the number of casualties and Peter W. Edbury on Fiefs and Vassals in the Kingdom of Jerusalem: from the Twelfth Century to the Thirteenth. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315271705

CrusadesVolume 10 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409428138

CrusadesVolume 11 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409446668

CrusadesVolume 12 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472408990

CrusadesVolume 13 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472441676

CrusadesVolume 14 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472468413

CrusadesVolume 15 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history.  Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138213258

CrusadesVolume 16 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history.  Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138296855

CrusadesVolume 17 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095–1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages â€“ narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin. The editors are Benjamin Z. Kedar Hebrew University Israel; Jonathan Phillips Royal Holloway University of London UK; Nikolaos G. Chrissis Democritus University of Thrace Greece. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138353626

CrusadesVolume 18 Crusades covers the seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources - narrative homiletic and documentary - but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin. The editors are Professor Benjamin Z. Kedar Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel; Professor Jonathan Phillips Royal Holloway University of London UK; Iris Shagrir The Open University of Israel; and Nikolaos G. Chrissis Democritus University of Thrace Greece. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367375355

CrusadesVolume 2 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Issue 2 of the Crusades includes Jonathan Riley-Smith's 'survey of Islam and the Crusades in history and imagination over the course of the twentieth century culminating in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315271682

CrusadesVolume 3 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. The third issue of the Crusades features articles from Denys Pringle on Crusader inscriptions Bejamin Z. Kadar on the massacre of 15 July 1099 and Peter Frankopan on co-operation between Constantinople and Rome before the First Crusade. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315271675

CrusadesVolume 4 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Issue 4 of Crusades  kicks off with Graham Loud's reflections on the failure of the Second Crusade and also features Susan Edgington's administrative regulations for the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem dating from the 1180s. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315271668

CrusadesVolume 5 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Volume 5 is notable for John's France's article 'Two types of vision on the First Crusade: Stephen of Valence and Peter Bartholomew'. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315271651

CrusadesVolume 6 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Peter W. Edbury again features in an issue of Crusades this time with his piece on The French translation of William of Tyre's Historia: the manuscript tradition. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315271620

CrusadesVolume 7 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. In this issue Jonathan Riley-Smith studies the death and burial of Latin Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem and Acre and Andrew Jotischky studies the Christians of Jerusalem the Holy Sepulchre and the origins of the First Crusade. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315271606

CrusadesVolume 8 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Volume 8 begins with Adrian J. Boas and Aren M. Maeir on the Frankish Castle of Blanche Garde and the Medieval and Modern Village of Tell es-Safi in the light of recent discoveries. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315271590

CrusadesVolume 9 Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology law literature art numismatics and economic social political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315271583

Crusading and ArchaeologySome Archaeological Approaches to the Crusades Between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries the social and cultural worlds of medieval Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean were transformed by the religious impetus of the crusades. Today we bear witness to these transformations in the material and environmental record revealed by new archaeological excavations and reappraisals of museum collections. This volume highlights new archaeological knowledge being developed by scholars working in the fields of history archaeology numismatics and architecture to demonstrate its potential to change and augment our understanding of the crusades. The 16 chapters in this volume deploy a contemporary scientific approach to archaeology of the crusades to give an up-to-date account into the diverse range of research in this area. They explore five key themes: the implications of scientific methods new excavations and surveys architectural analyses sigillography and the application of social interpretations. Together these chapters provide a new way of approaching the study of the crusades and demonstrate the value of taking a holistic view that utilises the full diverse range of evidence available to us. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138308220

Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic FrontierA Companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia written by a missionary priest in the early thirteenth century to record the history of the crusades to Livonia and Estonia around 1186-1227 offers one of the most vivid examples of the early thirteenth century crusading ideology in practice. Step by step it has become one of the most widely read and acknowledged frontier crusading and missionary chronicles. Henry's chronicle offers many opportunities to test and broaden the new approaches and key concepts brought along by recent developments in medieval studies including the new pluralist definition of crusading and the relationship between the peripheries and core areas of Europe. While recent years have produced a significant amount of new research into Henry of Livonia much of it has been limited to particular historical traditions and languages. A key objective of this book therefore is to synthesise the current state of research for the international scholarly audience. The volume provides a multi-sided and multi-disciplinary companion to the chronicle and is divided into three parts. The first part 'Representations ' brings into focus the imaginary sphere of the chronicle - the various images brought into existence by the amalgamation of crusading and missionary ideology and the frontier experience. This is followed by studies on 'Practices ' which examines the chronicle's reflections of the diplomatic religious and military practices of the christianisation and colonisation processes in medieval Livonia. The volume concludes with a section on the 'Appropriations ' which maps the reception history of the chronicle: the dynamics of the medieval early modern and modern national uses and abuses of the text. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367602154

Crusading and Masculinities This volume presents the first substantial exploration of crusading and masculinity focusing on the varied ways in which the symbiotic relationship between the two was made manifest in a range of medieval settings and sources and to what ends. Ideas about masculinity formed an inherent part of the mindset of societies in which crusading happened and of the conceptual framework informing both those who recorded the events and those who participated. Examination and interrogation of these ideas enables a better contextualised analysis of how those events were experienced comprehended and portrayed. The collection is structured around five themes: sources and models; contrasting masculinities; emasculation and transgression; masculinity and religiosity and kingship and chivalry. By incorporating masculinity within their analysis of the crusades and of crusaders the contributors demonstrate how such approaches greatly enhance our understanding of crusading as an ideal an institution and an experience. Individual essays consider western campaigns to the Middle East and Islamic responses; events and sources from the Iberian peninsula and Prussia are also interrogated and re-examined thus enabling cross-cultural comparison of the meanings attached to medieval manhood. The collection also highlights the value of employing gender as a vital means of assessing relationships between different groups of men whose values and standards of behaviour were socially and culturally constructed in distinct ways. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367660611

Crusading and the Crusader States Crusading and the Crusader States explores how the idea of holy war emerged from the troubled society of the eleventh century and why Jerusalem and the Holy Land were so important to Europeans. It follows the progress of the major crusading expeditions offering insights into initial success and subsequent failure charts the development of new attitudes towards Islam and its followers and shows the effects of the Crusades on society and culture in the Near East. Providing analysis and discussion of this vital period of medieval history Andrew Jotischky discusses key questions such as how crusading evolved in theory and practice how crusading expeditions were planned and carried out why they were considered such an essential part of medieval society and why their popularity endured despite military failures. This new edition takes into account the wealth of rich and varied recent research to show why crusading should be seen as central to the European experience in the Middle Ages. It engages with key historiographical debates of the past decade including how Crusades were formed the political culture and social networks of crusading and the effects of crusading on western religious and aristocratic culture. It now extends into the fifteenth century to discuss the lasting ramifications of the Crusades and illustrate their legacy into the early modern period. It is essential reading for all students of the Crusades and medieval history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138808065

Crusading and Trading between West and EastStudies in Honour of David Jacoby For almost sixty years Professor David Jacoby devoted his research to the economic social and cultural history of the Eastern Mediterranean and this new collection reflects his impact on the study of the interactions between the Italian city-states Byzantium the Latin East and the realm of Islam. Contributors to this volume are prominent scholars from across Medieval Studies and leading historians of the younger generation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367583637

Crusading and Warfare in the Middle AgesRealities and Representations. Essays in Honour of John France This volume has been created by scholars from a range of disciplines who wish to show their appreciation for Professor John France and to celebrate his career and achievements. For many decades Professor France’s work has been instrumental in many of the advances made in the fields of crusader studies and medieval warfare. He has published widely on these topics including major publications such as: Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade (1994) and Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades (1999). This present volume mirrors his interests offering studies upon both areas. The fifteen essays cover a wide variety of topics spanning chronologically from the Carolingian period through to the early fourteenth century. Some offer new insights upon long-contested issues such as the question of whether a new form of cavalry was created by Charles Martel and his successors or the implications of the Mongol defeat at Ayn Jalut. Others use innovative methodologies to unlock the potential of various types of source material including: manuscript illuminations depicting warfare Templar graffiti German crusading songs and crusading charters. Several of the articles open up new areas of debate connected to the history of crusading. Malcolm Barber discusses why Christendom did not react decisively to the fall of Acre in 1291. Bernard Hamilton explores how the rising Frankish presence in the Eastern Mediterranean during the central medieval period reshaped Christendom’s knowledge and understanding of the North African cultures they encountered. In this way this work seeks both to advance debate in core areas whilst opening new vistas for future research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138706217

Crusading as an Act of Vengeance 1095–1216 Only recently have historians of the crusades begun to seriously investigate the presence of the idea of crusading as an act of vengeance despite its frequent appearance in crusading sources. Understandably many historians have primarily concentrated on non-ecclesiastical phenomena such as feuding purportedly a component of "secular" culture and the interpersonal obligations inherent in medieval society. This has led scholars to several assumptions regarding the nature of medieval vengeance and the role that various cultures of vengeance played in the crusading movement. This monograph revises those assumptions and posits a new understanding of how crusading was conceived as an act of vengeance in the context of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Through textual analysis of specific medieval vocabulary it has been possible to clarify the changing course of the concept of vengeance in general as well as the more specific idea of crusading as an act of vengeance. The concept of vengeance was intimately connected with the ideas of justice and punishment. It was perceived as an expression of power embedded in a series of commonly understood emotional responses and also as an expression of orthodox Christian values. There was furthermore a strong link between religious zeal righteous anger and the vocabulary of vengeance. By looking at these concepts in detail and in the context of current crusading methodologies fresh vistas are revealed that allow for a better understanding of the crusading movement and those who "took the cross " with broader implications for the study of crusading ideology and twelfth-century spirituality in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367602413

Crusading at the Edges of EuropeDenmark and Portugal c.1000 � c.1250 This book is the first to compare Denmark and Portugal systematically in the High Middle Ages and demonstrates how the two countries became strong kingdoms and important powers internationally by their participation in the crusading movement. Communication in the Middle Ages was better developed than often assumed and institutions ideas and military technology was exchanged rapidly meaning it was possible to coordinate great military expeditions across the geographical periphery of Western Europe. Both Denmark and Portugal were closely connected to the sea and developed strong fleets at the entrance to the Baltic and in the Mediterranean Seas respectively. They also both had religious borders to the pagan Wends and to the Muslims that were pushed forward in almost continuous crusades throughout the centuries. Crusading at the Edges of Europe follows the major campaigns of the kings and crusaders in Denmark and Portugal and compares war-technology and crusading ideology highlighting how the countries learned from each other and became organised for war. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367881405

Crusading in the Age of Joinville Crusading in the Age of Joinville enhances the current literature dealing with the issue of crusaders' motivations by providing a detailed examination of the ideas and experiences of those who promoted and participated in the crusades of Louis IX of France in the mid-thirteenth century. It assesses the possibilities and problems associated with the source material available to historians of crusading in the thirteenth century and highlights the unique nature and value of John of Joinville's Life of Saint Louis. Two distinct approaches are taken to the analysis of these sources in order to demonstrate their richness. The first of these is thematic and is employed to reveal contrasts between the idealised images of crusading depicted by its promoters and the experiences of those who responded to their calls to take the cross. Secondly the careers of Joinville and his close contemporary Oliver of Termes provide extended case studies demonstrating that involvement with crusading could have very different origins and expressions. Overall Crusading in the Age of Joinville provides an innovative and accessible study of crusaders and crusading in the thirteenth century. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315258751

Crush Mechanics of Thin-Walled Tubes Thin-walled structures can be used to absorb impact energy during a vehicle collision. Crush Mechanics of Thin-Walled Tubes describes the analysis and design of these lightweight elements and thoroughly explains the deformation behaviors of thin-walled hollow members under crushing loading. The book covers in detail thin-walled structures—under axial compression bending and torsion. It provides a complete understanding of the underlying concepts and mechanisms of energy absorption components includes analysis techniques and covers existing theoretical approaches along with the author’s research. Geared toward engineering students practicing mechanical and structural engineers and researchers interested in analyzing energy absorption and designing structures that may undergo impacts this book: Addresses axial compression of circular and square tubes and bending and torsion of tubes Summarizes the mechanism of collapse and associated calculations for the initial peak force and the average compressive force Explores two factors controlling the axial collapse of a plate Investigates systematically the deformation characteristics of corrugated tubes under axial crush Provides an understanding of the collapse behavior of members undergoing bending deformation when trying to evaluate strength and energy-absorption characteristics Looks at the bending deformation of circular and square tubes Explains the characteristic flattening phenomenon the maximum moment in bending deformation and the moment-rotation relation during bending collapse Discusses the collapse behavior of thin-walled structures with an open cross section during axial crushing and bending deformation Includes the proposition of a new method for evaluating the maximum bending moment of square tubes with consideration of sidewall buckling Proposes a new technique that can be used to determine the relation between the bending moment M and the rotation angle θ Presents analysis methods for predicting the maximum torsion moment in each case A shelf-worthy reference showcasing structural mechanics Crush Mechanics of Thin-Walled Tubes provides a basic understanding of the fundamental concepts and mechanisms of crushing deformations in thin-walled structures and serves as a guide for both teaching and self-study. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138748583

Crusoe's FootprintsCultural Studies in Britain and America "Cultural Studies" has emerged in British and American higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines. Influenced by the New Left feminism and poststructualist literary theory cultural studies seeks to analyze everday life and the social construction of "subjectivities." Crusoe's Footprints encompasses the movement of many colleges and universities in the 1960s towards such interdisciplinary and "radical" programs as American Studies Women's Studies and Afro-American Studies. Brantlinger also examines the role of feminist criticism which has been particularly crucial in both Britain and the U.S. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138166967

Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships Compared to other arthropods crustaceans are characterized by an unparalleled disparity of body plans. Traditionally the specialization of arthropod segments and appendages into distinct body regions has served as a convenient basis for higher classification; however many relationships within the phylum Arthropoda still remain controversial. Can Crustacea even be considered a monophyletic group? If so then which are their closest relatives within the Arthropoda? The answers to questions such as these will play a key role in understanding patterns and processes in arthropod evolution including the disappearance of certain body plans from the fossil record as well as incidences of transition from aquatic to terrestrial environments.Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships written by a team of internationally recognized experts presents a wide variety of viewpoints while offering an up-to-date summary of recent progress across several disciplines. With rich detail and vibrancy it addresses the evolution and phylogenetic relationships of the Arthropoda based upon molecular developmental morphological and paleontological evidence. Volume 16 is the first in the series to not be exclusively dedicated to discussions specific to crustaceans. While it is still crustaceo-centric the focus of this volume has been extended to include other groups of arthropods along with the Crustacea. This wider focus offers challenging opportunities to evaluate higher-level relationships within the Arthropoda from a carcinologic perspective.This volume is dedicated to the career of Frederick R. Schram the founding editor of CrustaceanIssues in 1983 in recognition of his many stimulating and wide-ranging contributions to the evolutionary biology of arthropods in general and of crustaceans in particular. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367392949

Crustacean Biogeography This work covers the geographical distribution of Crustaceans with hypotheses on how the distribution took place based on fossil and recent records. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315140674

Crustacean Egg Production This title discusses egg formation release and development variations in life history patterns population and fisheries aspects regarding crustaceans. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138440753

Crustacean Issues 2Larval Growth This volume is an outcome of the annual meeting of the crustacean society symposia on Crustacean Issues 2. It examines issues in contemporary carcinology. The volume emphasises on larval and postlarval growth in decapods. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138440746

Crustacean Issues 3Factors in Adult Growth First published in 1985. CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138440722

Cry PalestineInside The West Bank This book provides a unique perspective a glimpse into the world behind the intifada from both the Palestinian and Israeli points of view. It is helpful for anyone who wishes to comprehend fully the complexities of the Palestinian. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367160746

Cry WolfThe Psychology of False Alarms Published in the year 1984 Cry Wolf is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9780203781203

Crying in the Middle AgesTears of History Sacred and profane public and private emotive and ritualistic internal and embodied medieval weeping served as a culturally charged prism for a host of social visual cognitive and linguistic performances. Crying in the Middle Ages addresses the place of tears in Jewish Christian and Islamic cultural discourses providing a key resource for scholars interested in exploring medieval notions of emotion gesture and sensory experience in a variety of cultural contexts. Gertsman brings together essays that establish a series of conversations with one another foregrounding essential questions about the different ways that crying was seen heard perceived expressed and transmitted throughout the Middle Ages. In acknowledging the porous nature of visual and verbal evidence this collection foregrounds the necessity to read language image and experience together in order to envision the complex notions of medieval crying. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415744195

Cryogenic Engineering Revised and Expanded Written by an engineering consultant with over 48 years of experience in the field this Second Edition provides a reader-friendly and thorough discussion of the fundamental principles and science of cryogenic engineering including the properties of fluids and solids refrigeration and liquefaction insulation instrumentation natural gas processing and safety in cryogenic system design. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367578169

Cryogenic Engineering and TechnologiesPrinciples and Applications of Cryogen-Free Systems Cryogen-free cryogenics is leading a revolution in research and industry by its significant advantages over traditional liquid helium systems. This is the first overview for the field covering the key technologies conceptual design fabrication operation performance and applications of these systems. The contents cover important topics such as the operating principles of 4 K cryocoolers enabling technologies (including vibration reduction) for cryogen-free systems the cryogen-free superconducting magnet and cryogen-free systems that reach millikelvin. It highlights the wide range of applications in materials science quantum physics astronomy and space science medical sciences etc. Key features: • Introduces technologies and practical know-how employed for cryogen-free systems of using 4　K cryocoolers to replace liquid helium • Addresses state-of-the-art of cryogen-free superconducting magnets subkelvin refrigeration systems of the He-3 sorption cooler adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR) and dilution refrigerators (DR) • Discusses applications of cryogen-free systems in modern instruments and equipment Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781498765763

Cryogenic Heat Transfer Cryogenic Heat Transfer Second Edition continues to address specific heat transfer problems that occur in the cryogenic temperature range where there are distinct differences from conventional heat transfer problems. This updated version examines the use of computer-aided design in cryogenic engineering and emphasizes commonly used computer programs to address modern cryogenic heat transfer problems. It introduces additional topics in cryogenic heat transfer that include latent heat expressions; lumped-capacity transient heat transfer; thermal stresses; Laplace transform solutions; oscillating flow heat transfer and computer-aided heat exchanger design. It also includes new examples and homework problems throughout the book and provides ample references for further study. New in the Second Edition: Expands on thermal properties at cryogenic temperatures to include latent heats and superfluid helium Develops the material on conduction heat transfer and divides it into four separate chapters to facilitate understanding of the separate features and computational techniques in conduction heat transfer Introduces EES (Engineering Equation Solver) a computer-aided design tool and other computer applications such as Maple Describes special features of heat transfer at cryogenic temperatures such as analysis with variable thermal properties heat transfer in the near-critical region Kapitza conductance and network analysis for free-molecular heat transfer Includes design procedures for cryogenic heat exchangers Cryogenic Heat Transfer Second Edition discusses the unique problems surrounding conduction heat transfer at cryogenic temperatures. This second edition incorporates various computational software methods and provides expanded and updated topics concepts and applications throughout. The book is designed as a textbook for students interested in thermal problems occurring at cryogenic temperatures and also serves as reference on heat transfer material for practicing cryogenic engineers. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781482227444

Cryogenic Recycling and Processing The purpose of this book is to promote useful knowledge in the field of cryogenics. To accomplish this the manuscript presents a composite of the state-of-the-art knowledge research and application of cryogenic processes. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315892153

CryopreservationApplications in Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology This book covers the principles of cryopreservation as they relate the preservation of viable cells and cell materials being developed for biopharmaceutical applications. Topics include: the principles of freezing and thawing cells physiochemical phenomena process and system design options method selection considerations preservation procedures cryoprotectant additives freeze-drying human live virus vaccines and transport system selection criteria. Contributions from well-known experts such as Steven S. Lee Thomas C. Pringle William H. Siegel Richard Wisniewski and Fangdong Yin make this the single most important study available. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367399399

Cryptanalysis of Number Theoretic Ciphers At the heart of modern cryptographic algorithms lies computational number theory. Whether you're encrypting or decrypting ciphers a solid background in number theory is essential for success. Written by a number theorist and practicing cryptographer Cryptanalysis of Number Theoretic Ciphers takes you from basic number theory to the inner workings of ciphers and protocols.First the book provides the mathematical background needed in cryptography as well as definitions and simple examples from cryptography. It includes summaries of elementary number theory and group theory as well as common methods of finding or constructing large random primes factoring large integers and computing discrete logarithms. Next it describes a selection of cryptographic algorithms most of which use number theory. Finally the book presents methods of attack on the cryptographic algorithms and assesses their effectiveness. For each attack method the author lists the systems it applies to and tells how they may be broken with it.Computational number theorists are some of the most successful cryptanalysts against public key systems. Cryptanalysis of Number Theoretic Ciphers builds a solid foundation in number theory and shows you how to apply it not only when breaking ciphers but also when designing ones that are difficult to break. Media > Books > E-books Chapman & Hall 9781315275765

Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and FilmSecret Messages and Buried Treasure One of the primary objectives of comparative literature is the study of the relationship of texts also known as intertextuality which is a means of contextualizing and analyzing the way literature grows and flourishes through inspiration and imitation direct or indirect. When the inspiration and imitation is direct and obvious the study of this rapport falls into the more restricted category of hypertextuality. What Steven Walker has labeled a cryptic subtext however is an extreme case of hypertextuality. It involves a series of allusions to another text that have been deliberately inserted by the author into the primary text as potential points of reference. This book takes a deep dive into a broad array of literature and film to explore these allusions and the hidden messages therein. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367666019

Crypto WarsThe Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption The crypto wars have raged for half a century. In the 1970s digital privacy activists prophesied the emergence of an Orwellian State made possible by computer-mediated mass surveillance. The antidote: digital encryption. The U.S. government warned encryption would not only prevent surveillance of law-abiding citizens but of criminals terrorists and foreign spies ushering in a rival dystopian future. Both parties fought to defend the citizenry from what they believed the most perilous threats. The government tried to control encryption to preserve its surveillance capabilities; privacy activists armed citizens with cryptographic tools and challenged encryption regulations in the courts. No clear victor has emerged from the crypto wars. Governments have failed to forge a framework to govern the at times conflicting civil liberties of privacy and security in the digital age—an age when such liberties have an outsized influence on the citizen–State power balance. Solving this problem is more urgent than ever. Digital privacy will be one of the most important factors in how we architect twenty-first century societies—its management is paramount to our stewardship of democracy for future generations. We must elevate the quality of debate on cryptography on how we govern security and privacy in our technology-infused world. Failure to end the crypto wars will result in societies sleepwalking into a future where the citizen–State power balance is determined by a twentieth-century status quo unfit for this century endangering both our privacy and security. This book provides a history of the crypto wars with the hope its chronicling sets a foundation for peace. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367642488

Cryptocurrencies and CryptoassetsRegulatory and Legal Issues This book examines the legal and regulatory aspects of cryptocurrency and blockchain and the emerging practical issues that these issues involve. The analysis covers a range of advanced economies across the world in America Europe and Asia. The book describes explains and analyses the nature of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain systems they are constructed on in these major world economies and considers relevant law and regulation and their shortcomings. It will be of use and interest to academics lawyers regulators and anyone involved with cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Media > Books > Print Books Informa Law from Routledge 9780367486365

CryptocurrenciesA Primer on Digital Money Already in just a decade of existence cryptocurrencies have been the world’s best-performing financial asset outperforming stocks bonds commodities and currencies. This comprehensive yet concise book will enable the reader to learn about the nuts and bolts of cryptocurrencies including their history technology regulations and economics. Additionally this book teaches sound investment strategies that already work along with the spectrum of risks and returns. This book provides a plain-language primer for beginners worldwide on how to confidently navigate the rapidly evolving world of cryptocurrencies. Beginning by cutting to the chase the author lists the common burning questions about cryptocurrency and provides succinct answers. Next he gives an overview of cryptocurrency’s underlying technology: blockchain. He then explores the history of cryptocurrency and why it’s attracted so much attention. With that foundation readers will be ready to understand how to invest in cryptocurrency: how cryptocurrency differs from traditional investments such as stocks how to decide which cryptocurrency to invest in how to acquire it how to send and receive it along with investment strategies. Additionally legal issues social implications cybersecurity risks and the vocabulary of cryptocurrency are also covered including Bitcoin and the many alternative cryptocurrencies. Written by a journalist-turned-professor this book’s appeal lies in its succinct informative and easy-to-understand style. It will be of great interest to anyone looking to further their understanding of what cryptocurrency is why it’s a big deal how to acquire it how to send and receive it and investment strategies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367192679

CryptoeconomicsIgniting a New Era of Blockchain "A systematic review of the structure and context of the blockchain-derived economic model... (the book) describes cryptoeconomics in connection with the game theory behavioral economics and others in simple understandable language."—Wang Feng founder of Linekong Interactive Group and Mars Finance partner in Geekbang Venture Capital Blockchain technology has subverted existing perceptions and is the start of an economic revolution called cryptoeconomics. Blockchain is a key component of cryptoeconomics. Vlad Zamfir a developer of Ethereum defines this term as "a formal discipline that studies protocols that governs the production distribution and consumption of goods and services in a decentralized digital economy. Cryptoeconomics is a practical science that focuses on the design and characterization of these protocols". This book explains the structures of blockchain-derived economic models their history and their application. It uses real-world cases to illustrate the relationship between cryptoeconomics and blockchain. Blockchain technology solves trust issues. A blockchain application can restrict behavior on the blockchain through a reward and punishment system that enables consensus in an innovative way. The greatest significance of cryptoeconomics lies in guaranteeing safety stability activity and order in a decentralized consensus system. Security and stability are achieved mainly by cryptographical mechanisms. Activity and order are achieved through economic mechanisms. Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain: Ignighting a New Era of Blockchain discusses the most popular consensus algorithms and optimization mechanisms. With examples explained in clear and simple terms that are easy to understand the book also explores economic mechanisms of blockchain such as game theory and behavioral economics. Media > Books > Print Books Auerbach Publications 9780367429935

Cryptographic and Information Security Approaches for Images and Videos This book presents essential principles technical information and expert insights on multimedia security technology. Illustrating the need for improved content security as the Internet and digital multimedia applications rapidly evolve it presents a wealth of everyday protection application examples in fields including . Giving readers an in-depth introduction to different aspects of information security mechanisms and methods it also serves as an instructional tool on the fundamental theoretical framework required for the development of advanced techniques. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367570668

CryptographyTheory and Practice Through three editions Cryptography: Theory and Practice has been embraced by instructors and students alike. It offers a comprehensive primer for the subject’s fundamentals while presenting the most current advances in cryptography. The authors offer comprehensive in-depth treatment of the methods and protocols that are vital to safeguarding the seemingly infinite and increasing amount of information circulating around the world. Key Features of the Fourth Edition: New chapter on the exciting emerging new area of post-quantum cryptography (Chapter 9). New high-level nontechnical overview of the goals and tools of cryptography (Chapter 1). New mathematical appendix that summarizes definitions and main results on number theory and algebra (Appendix A). An expanded treatment of stream ciphers including common design techniques along with coverage of Trivium. Interesting attacks on cryptosystems including: padding oracle attack correlation attacks and algebraic attacks on stream ciphers attack on the DUAL-EC random bit generator that makes use of a trapdoor. A treatment of the sponge construction for hash functions and its use in the new SHA-3 hash standard. Methods of key distribution in sensor networks. The basics of visual cryptography allowing a secure method to split a secret visual message into pieces (shares) that can later be combined to reconstruct the secret. The fundamental techniques cryptocurrencies as used in Bitcoin and blockchain. The basics of the new methods employed in messaging protocols such as Signal including deniability and Diffie-Hellman key ratcheting. Media > Books > Print Books Chapman & Hall 9781138197015

CryptologyClassical and Modern Cryptology: Classical and Modern Second Edition proficiently introduces readers to the fascinating field of cryptology. The book covers classical methods including substitution transposition Alberti Vigenère and Hill ciphers. It also includes coverage of the Enigma machine Turing bombe and Navajo code. Additionally the book presents modern methods like RSA ElGamal and stream ciphers as well as the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and Advanced Encryption Standard. When possible the book details methods for breaking both classical and modern methods. The new edition expands upon the material from the first edition which was oriented for students in non-technical fields. At the same time the second edition supplements this material with new content that serves students in more technical fields as well. Thus the second edition can be fully utilized by both technical and non-technical students at all levels of study. The authors include a wealth of material for a one-semester cryptology course and research exercises that can be used for supplemental projects. Hints and answers to selected exercises are found at the end of the book. Features: Requires no prior programming knowledge or background in college-level mathematics Illustrates the importance of cryptology in cultural and historical contexts including the Enigma machine Turing bombe and Navajo code Gives straightforward explanations of the Advanced Encryption Standard public-key ciphers and message authentication Describes the implementation and cryptanalysis of classical ciphers such as substitution transposition shift affine Alberti Vigenère and Hill Media > Books > Print Books Chapman & Hall 9781138047624

Crypto-PoliticsEncryption and Democratic Practices in the Digital Era This book examines current debates about the politics of technology and the future of democratic practices in the digital era. The volume centres on the debates on digital encryption in Germany and the USA during the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s leaks which revolved around the value of privacy and the legitimacy of surveillance practices. Using a discourse analysis of mass media and specialist debates it shows how these are closely interlinked with technological controversies and how as a result contestation emerges not within one public sphere but within multiple expert circles. The book develops the notion of ‘publicness’ in order to grasp the political significance of these controversies thereby making an innovative contribution to Critical Security Studies by introducing digital encryption as an important site for understanding the broader debates on cyber security and surveillance. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies science and technology studies and International Relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138314788

Cryptosporidiosis of Man and Animals This book attempts to provide a broad coverage of current information needed by public health workers physicians veterinarians parasitologists technicians and various biologists who encounter or work with the parasitic disease Cryptosporidium. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315892160

Crystal Growth and Evaluation of Silicon for VLSI and ULSI Silicon as a single-crystal semiconductor has sparked a revolution in the field of electronics and touched nearly every field of science and technology. Though available abundantly as silica and in various other forms in nature silicon is difficult to separate from its chemical compounds because of its reactivity. As a solid silicon is chemically inert and stable but growing it as a single crystal creates many technological challenges. Crystal Growth and Evaluation of Silicon for VLSI and ULSI is one of the first books to cover the systematic growth of silicon single crystals and the complete evaluation of silicon from sand to useful wafers for device fabrication. Written for engineers and researchers working in semiconductor fabrication industries this practical text: Describes different techniques used to grow silicon single crystals Explains how grown single-crystal ingots become a complete silicon wafer for integrated-circuit fabrication Reviews different methods to evaluate silicon wafers to determine suitability for device applications Analyzes silicon wafers in terms of resistivity and impurity concentration mapping Examines the effect of intentional and unintentional impurities Explores the defects found in regular silicon-crystal lattice Discusses silicon wafer preparation for VLSI and ULSI processing Crystal Growth and Evaluation of Silicon for VLSI and ULSI is an essential reference for different approaches to the selection of the basic silicon-containing compound separation of silicon as metallurgical-grade pure silicon subsequent purification single-crystal growth and defects and evaluation of the deviations within the grown crystals. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138034198

Crystalline LasersPhysical Processes and Operating Schemes By the end of the 1970s crystalline lasers were widely used in science engineering medicine and technology. The types of lasers used have continued to grow in number to include newly discovered crystalline hosts previously known compounds generating at other spectral wavelengths and broadband tunable stimulated emission. This has led to the creation of an extremely promising new generation of crystalline lasers that are both highly efficient and more reliable. The major part of this book is devoted to describing multilevel operating laser schemes for stimulated emission excitation in insulating crystals doped with lanthanide ions.The first part of Crystalline Lasers deals with the history of the physics and spectroscopy of insulating laser crystals. The chapters in the second part of the book present results from the study of Stark-energy levels of generating ions in laser crystals and their radiative and nonradiative intermanifold transition characteristics. This section includes extensive tabular data and reference information. Popular and novel operating schemes of crystalline lasers are covered in Part 3.In the chapters in the fourth part of the book the newest technologies in the physics and engineering of crystalline lasers are considered. The results of investigations into laser action under selective excitations miniature crystalline lasers and the properties of nonlinear activated laser crystals are presented and analyzed.Crystalline Lasers summarizes and reviews the results of many years of research and studies of activator ions and multilevel operating laser schemes and discusses exciting prospects of using these systems to create new types of crystalline lasers. This book will be of use to laser scientists and engineers physicists and chemical engineers. Media > Books > E-books CRC Press 9781003067962

Crystallization of Membrane Proteins The precise knowledge of the structure of biological macromolecules forms the basis of understanding their function and their mechanism of action. It also lays the foundation for rational protein and drug design. The only method to obtain this knowledge is still crystallography. At present the structures of about 400 proteins are known at or nearly at atomic proteins. However only two of them are membrane proteins or complexes of the membrane proteins. The reasons for the difference is not the crystals of membrane proteins resists forming special problems when being analysed. The reason is that the membrane proteins resist into forming into well-ordered crystals. The intention of this book is to help to produce well-ordered crystals proteins and to provide guidelines it is aimed at both biochemists and protein crystallographer‘s. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781315892177

Crystallization Processes in Fats and Lipid Systems An exploration of new and emerging techniques processes and applications in the behaviour crystallization and polymorphic transformations of fats and oils. It presents research and information on advanced analytical tools computer modelling molecular structures mixing behaviour and interactions with seeding materials and surfactants. The contributors spotlight developments in the food cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries highlighting modern discoveries in polymorphic forms self-assembled structures and speciality fats and oils emphasizing health balanced nutrition and functionality. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367397098

Cscl 2Carrying Forward the Conversation CSCL 2: Carrying Forward the Conversation is a thorough and up-to-date survey of recent developments in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning one of the fastest growing areas of research in the learning sciences. A follow-up to CSCL: Theory and Practice of an Emerging Paradigm (1996) this volume both documents how the field has grown and fosters a meaningful discussion of how the research program might be advanced in substantive ways. Recognizing the long-standing traditions of CSCL work in Europe and Japan the editors sought to broaden and expand the conversation both geographically and topically. The 45 participating authors represent a range of disciplinary backgrounds including anthropology communication studies computer science education psychology and philosophy and offer international perspectives on the field. For each chapter the goal was not only to show how it connects to past and future work in CSCL but also how it contributes to the interests of other research communities. Toward this end the volume features a "conversational structure" consisting of target chapters invited commentaries and author responses. The commentaries on each chapter were solicited from a diverse collection of writers including prominent scholars in anthropology of education social studies of science CSCW argumentation activity theory language and social interaction ecological psychology and other areas. The volume is divided into three sections: *Part I explores four case studies of technology transfer involving CSILE one of the most prominent CSCL projects. *Part II focuses on empirical studies of learning in collaborative settings. *Part III describes novel CSCL technologies and the theories underlying their design. Historically there has been a certain amount of controversy as to what the second "C" in CSCL should represent. The conventional meaning is "collaborative" but there are many C-words that can be seen as relevant. With the publication of this volume "conversational" might be added to the list and in this spirit the book might be viewed as an invitation to join a conversation in progress and to carry it forward. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781410601544

CsclTheory and Practice of An Emerging Paradigm This book about a newly emerging area of research in instructional technology has as its title the acronym "CSCL." Initially CSCL was chosen as an acronym for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. However some would argue that "collaborative" is often not a descriptive term for what learners do in instructional settings; further as the field develops the technology used to support collaboration may not always involve computers at least not in the direct ways they have been used to support instruction in the past. To avoid getting bogged down in this terminological debate this book uses CSCL as a designation in its own right leaving open to interpretation precisely what words it stands for. The authors talk a great deal about the theory underlying their work. In part this is because that is what they were asked to do but it is also an indication of the state of the field. In an established paradigm in which the theories and methods are well agreed upon such discussion is less central. CSCL however has not yet reached the stage of "normal" science. There is much to be worked out yet. This book is offered with the hope that it will help to define a direction for future work in this field. The chapters appear in alphabetical order (except for the introductory chapter and the afterword) -- not for lack of a better way to organize the chapters but rather because the organizational possibilities are too numerous and this order does not privilege one over another. By not imposing a topical organizing structure on this collection it is hoped that readers will feel freer to explore the chapters in a way that best suits their needs. COPY FOR BIND-CARD CD-ROM info ................................. There is an accompanying CD-Rom for this proceedings that will become available September 1998. Purchasers of the proceedings may obtain a copy of this CD-ROM at no cost by contacting Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. phone: (201) 236-9500 toll-free: 1-800-9-BOOKS-9 (1-800-926-6579) 9am-5pm EST fax: (201) 236-0072 e-mail: orders@erlbaum.com Web site: www.erlbaum.com address: 10 Industrial Avenue Mahwah NJ 07430-2262 The CD-ROM was funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203052747

CSF RhinorrhoeaManagement and Practice Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) rhinorrhea is a rare but potentially devastating condition that can lead to significant morbidity and mortality. CSF Rhinorrhea: Management and Practice covers the current concepts in the etiology diagnosis and treatment of the condition as well as long-term management of patients following successful treatment. It provides broad insight into the causes for leakage of CSF from the nose and helps in diagnosis and subsequent treatment. Its multidimensional approach caters to medical undergraduates and postgraduates along with specialists in various fields such as ENT neurosurgery neurology medicine and endocrinology thus providing a comprehensive plan for management of CSF rhinorrhea. Key features Focuses on trans-nasal endoscopic repair of CSF rhinorrhea Explores minimally invasive techniques and recent advances in CSF rhinorrhea Reviews clinical presentation and case diagnosis with special emphasis pertaining to general practitioners Discusses post-operative care in an exclusive chapter Includes videos of surgical procedures 　 Dr Jyotirmay S Hegde is currently a consultant ENT head and neck and endoscopic skull base surgeon at Columbia Asia Hospital Whitefield Bangalore India. He has also worked as a faculty member in various capacities at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER) Pondicherry India. Dr Hegde completed his Masters in Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences Hubli Karnataka India and his Fellowship in Rhinology and Endoscopic skull base surgery from Aintree University Hospital Liverpool UK. Dr Hegde is a fellow of the European Board of Otolaryngology (FEBORL). He has published in several peer-reviewed scientific publications and presented in national and international conferences courses and workshops. Dr Hemanth Vamanshankar graduated from K.S. Hegde Medical Academy Mangalore India in 2008 and completed a diploma in Otolaryngology from St John’s Medical College Bangalore India in 2011 and DNB-ENT from Southern Railway Hospital Ayanavaram Chennai India in 2014. He was awarded MRCS-ENT from the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh UK. He has to his credit 25 indexed publications of national and international repute. He is currently working as a medical officer and consultant ENT surgeon at the Divisional Railway Hospital Bangalore India (South Western Railway). Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367029586

CSI for the First ResponderA Concise Guide Critical to the successful apprehension and prosecution of criminals the job of collecting evidence at a crime scene requires knowledge technical skills patience and perseverance. Often this task falls on just one individual � the officer on routine patrol duties who is the first to arrive at the scene of a crime. Written by an expert with seventeen years experience in law enforcement CSI for the First Responder is a succinct guide on how to secure search identify document collect and preserve physical evidence essential for solving a case and making the evidence stand up in court. A practical hands-on resource to all aspects of crime scene investigation this book covers: The approach to the scene Securing the scene Searching for and identifying evidence Documenting the evidence through notes and reports Photography and videotape Sketches and diagrams Collection and preservation The investigative value of different types of evidence Testimony and presenting evidence in court Enhanced with real-life examples the book presents case studies implementing the described techniques. The case studies include examples of successful scene security and documentation as well as cautionary tales of erroneous practices with lessons learned. Also included with this book is a Quick Reference Guide on CD-ROM which can be downloaded to patrol car laptops or printed and kept in a pocket for easy access. Spanning the entire scope of a case from initial discovery of evidence to courtroom presentation this one-stop resource enables law enforcement to nail down the evidence they need to prove the crime and get the conviction. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138426870

CSR Sustainability and Leadership With the acceptance of CSR and Sustainability as important business performance indicators it is timely now to assess the impact that leadership has on the development of these processes. CSR Sustainability and Leadership seeks to explore the integration of these three elements through an examination of concerns and trends in contemporary organisations. The authors discuss empirical and theoretical studies which focus on processes and practices which inform the field. Organisations wish not only to participate in responsible behaviour but also actively lead within their local environments. However businesses are failing in their execution of CSR because of ineffective leadership. Business leaders are central to an organisation’s purpose in the world and this book will inform a robust discussion about social issues which are pressing to scholars policymakers not-for-profit organisations and students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367026585

CSR and SustainabilityFrom the Margins to the Mainstream: A Textbook Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is steadily moving from the margins to the mainstream across the spectrum of private companies NGOs and the public sector. It has grown from being a concept embraced by a small number of companies such as The Body Shop in the early 1990s to a widespread global movement. At its weakest level it is represented by a few philanthropic gestures by organizations but when applied in its most complete form it can steer the organization or sector to deliver a fully fledged system-wide multi-stakeholder operation accompanied by multiple types of certification.For the first time a book brings together key issues relating to CSR as they apply to different aspects of business; it is not another generalist title about CSR. Michael Hopkins a leading expert in the field is joined by a number of outstanding contributors to the book to explain how CSR has evolved since the 1990s and to offer ground-breaking insights and practical and specific applications of the concept. For example Mervyn King explains Integrating Reporting Deborah Leipziger looks at the laws and standards for CSR Branding and the Supply Chain George Starcher provides a framework for Socially Responsible Restructuring and Adrian Henriques explores Social Accounting and Stakeholder Dialogue. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781783534463

CSR for HRA Necessary Partnership for Advancing Responsible Business Practices Arguably the Human Resources (HR) function is the key partner in embedding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability initiatives in any organisation as this can be achieved only when a company educates engages and empowers its entire workforce.  This book goes even further and proposes that the HR function has a responsibility to be proactive in leading the way in establishing a company-wide CSR-enabled culture. And yet this is not happening. HR managers are preoccupied with their traditional roles of organizational development recruitment training and compensation and are failing to see the opportunities that CSR brings for them as professionals and for their organizations.  CSR for HR has been designed to change the game. It provides HR managers with a thorough understanding of the drivers and principles of CSR and a practical step-by-step guide to the way CSR interfaces with every HR function. Recruitment compensation training employee communications employee well-being health & safety employee rights involvement in the community and employee impacts on the environment are all discussed from the CSR–HR standpoint with many clear examples showing how HR can leverage CSR strategies to deliver greater benefit for the business for employees for society for the environment and ultimately for HR professionals themselves.  The HR function plays a critical role in embedding a values-based strategic CSR mindset and establishing an organizational culture that meets the needs of today's stakeholders. HR professionals who understand this and adapt accordingly will reap the benefits. The book explains why how and what to do next offering detailed advice tools a roadmap to get started and hundreds of tips from companies around the world including original content from HR managers of large corporations.  Written from the standpoint of an HR professional waking up to the strategic possibilities of incorporating CSR in her day-to-day role the book has an easy and engaging style ideal for the busy managerial reader. CSR for HR is both a wake-up call and a toolkit and will be essential reading for practitioners in both HR and CSR as well as being a sought-after teaching resource for both executives and students. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781351278607

CT and MR Angiography of the Peripheral CirculationPractical Approach with Clinical Protocols This text discusses the basic aspects of multislice CT angiography with chapters on technical principles basic scan technique for peripheral vascular imaging with multislice CT image reconstruction with multislice CT radiation doses and contrast agent administration. Clinical applications for each major vascular territory are covered in-depth with clear descriptions of the examination technique for assessing the peripheral vasculature including the aorta to detect various vascular pathologies. The section on MR angiography provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of magnetic resonance (MR) vascular imaging. The basic principles and technical features of MR angiography are outlined with chapters on fundamentals of MR angiography and commonly used pulse sequences and contrast dosing. Specific chapters focus on each particular vascular territory including the extracranial and intracranial circulation the pulmonary circulation the thoracic and the abdominal aorta the renal and mesenteric circulation and both the lower and the upper extremity circulation. Easy to follow clinical protocols for angiographic imaging for the different vascular regions are provided. The text also addresses imaging of the venous circulation using MR and CT angiography. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367389062

Ctesias' 'History of Persia'Tales of the Orient Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and as a doctor tended to the world’s most powerful kings and queens. His position gave him special insight into the workings of Persian court life and access to the gossip and scandal surrounding Persian history and court politics past and present. His History of Persia was completed at a time when the Greeks were fascinated by Persia and seems very much to cater to contemporary interest in Persian wealth and opulence powerful Persian women the institution of the harem kings and queens eunuchs and secret plots. Presented here in English translation for the first time with commentaries Ctesias offers a fascinating insight into Persia in the fifth century BC. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415629478

Cuba Cubans and Cuban-Americans First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an Informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781351316088

Cuba After Thirty YearsRectification and the Revolution First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138990517

Cuba Annual Report1986 First published in 1990. This text includes information of Cuba in 1986 split over four reporting quarters. The economic crisis resulting from Fidel Castro’s traditional subordination of economic matters to international and political objectives is hounding the regime and is weakening the appeal of Cuba as a model for developing countries. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508774

CubaFrom Economic Take-off to Collapse Under Castro This book is a study of Cuba's economic development under communism over the last fifty-five years. The authors find that Cuba's socioeconomic development has gone backward since the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The authors conclude that Fidel Castro's revolution has been an economic disaster for Cuba. The book first outlines Cuba's economic position prior to the revolution. It reviews Cuba's rankings with respect to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in the 1950s and examines the strength of pre-Castro Cuba's foreign reserves and the health of its monetary system. It also presents pre-Castro Cuba's investments in health care and education and documents the island's development potential in the 1950s. The last few chapters describe the precipitous decline in all of these areas of Cuba's economy under Castro. Despite the socioeconomic catastrophe of the Castro years the authors envision a post-Castro Cuba where this book can provide a benchmark to measure the developmental success that the Cuban work-ethic and entrepreneurial spirit can generate in a free-market system. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508750

CubaFrom Economic Take-off to Collapse Under Castro This book is a study of Cuba's economic development under communism over the last fifty-five years. The authors find that Cuba's socioeconomic development has gone backward since the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The authors conclude that Fidel Castro's revolution has been an economic disaster for Cuba. The book first outlines Cuba's economic position prior to the revolution. It reviews Cuba's rankings with respect to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in the 1950s and examines the strength of pre-Castro Cuba's foreign reserves and the health of its monetary system. It also presents pre-Castro Cuba's investments in health care and education and documents the island's development potential in the 1950s. The last few chapters describe the precipitous decline in all of these areas of Cuba's economy under Castro. Despite the socioeconomic catastrophe of the Castro years the authors envision a post-Castro Cuba where this book can provide a benchmark to measure the developmental success that the Cuban work-ethic and entrepreneurial spirit can generate in a free-market system. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412856706

Cuban Communism Cuban Communism has widely come to be known as “the Bible of Cuban Studies." It has been updated and upgraded for the fortieth anniversary of Castro's successful seizure of power which has been termed the longest running dictatorship in the world. In addition to articles and essays representing recent developments in Cuba the work boasts three new features that will make it even more important to students scholars and researchers in the area.The volume has many new chapters on future prospects for Cuba in a post-Castro environment. It also contains a chronology of events from 1959 through 1997 that will be important as a guide for studying the period. Finally the work contains a brief but carefully constructed who's who of important players in Cuba and the regime during the Castro period.Some of the articles new to the ninth edition of Cuban Communismare: "Cuba and the United States: Back to the Beginning" by Mark FalcofT; “After Fidel What? Forecasting Institutional Changes in Cuba” by Josep M. Colomer; “Decentralization Local Government and Participation in Cuba” by Nelson Amaro; “Cuba’s Transition: Institutional Lessons from Eastern Europe” by Michael Radu; and “The United States and Cuba Agenda" by Pamela S. Falk. This edition sheds new light on why despite predictions of imminent collapse the Castro regime has remained in power. It offers insights into the staying power of dictatorships and illegitimate regimes despite crisis and ostracism. It is more than ever a must volume for those interested in comparative political systems and social structures. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521629

Cuban Communism 1959-2003 "Cuban Communism remains like its previous ten editions an important contribution to the field of Cuban Studies. It includes many useful chronological facts as well as a selection of Fidel Castro's speeches which are interesting and informative for any reader interested in the island." -- Maria Gropas Department of Social Anthropology University of Cambridge This new 11th edition of a classic text come to be known as "the bible of Cuban Studies " emphasizes two key issues of the twenty-first century. First transition concerns in a world without Castro and second the continuing embargo of Cuba by the United States in the aftermath of a major change in the presidency. Cuban Communism has been updated to take account of changes in the 44 years of Castro's rule since seizing power in 1959. In addition to articles and essays that represent new developments in Cuba the work boasts a database upgrade that makes it more important to students scholars and researchers. The volume has expanded the section on future prospects for civil society and democracy in a post-Castro environment; including "Regime Change in Cuba" by Eusebio Mujal-Leon and Joshua W. Busby; "Transition Scenarios" by Randolph H. Pherson and "A Policy Conundrum over Cuba" by Edward Gonzalez. It also contains a chronology of events from 1959 through 2002. Finally the new work contains a carefully constructed Who's Who of important players in Cuba and the regime during the Castro period up to the present. Other articles new to the 11th edition of Cuban Communism are by Ernesto Betancourt "Cuba's Balance of Payment Gap"; Carmelo Mesa-Lago "The Cuban Economy From 1999-2001"; Taylor Boas "The Internet and U.S. Policy toward Cuba"; Aldo M. Leiva "Environmental Technology Transfer and Foreign Investment"; Moises Asis "Judaism in Cuba"; Wolf Grabendorff "A View from the European Union." More than ever it is a must volume for those interested in political systems and social structures. Irving Louis Horowitz is Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science at Rutgers University. Among his works are Three Worlds of Development Beyond Empire and Revolution and his Bacardi Lectures on Cuba that was published as The Conscience of Worms and the Cowardice of Lions. Jaime Suchlicki is Bacardi Professor of History at the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Miami and executive director of its Cuban-American and Cuban Center. He is author of From Columbus to Castro University Students and Revolution in Cuba and Mexico: From Montezuma to Nafta and Beyond. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521681

Cuban Insurrection 1952-1959 The Cuban Insurrection is an in-depth study of the first stage of the Cuban Revolution the years from 1952 to 1959. The volume depicts the origins of the conflict details the middle years and ends with Fidel Castro's victorious arrival In Havana on January 8 1959. Based on a wealth of hitherto unpublished original material including confidential military reports letters from various leaders of the insurrection and data gathered from interviews held In Cuba and abroad the book Is a descriptive historical analysis of the struggle against military dictator Fulgencio Batista.The authors challenge the traditional premise that Cuba's insurrection began in the rural areas and only later expanded into urban areas. Instead they argue that the insurrectionary struggle was based upon combined urban-rural guerrilla warfare against the regular army.Basically The Cuban Insurrection treats two major movements involved in the struggle The Directorio Revolucionario and the M-26-7 and examines the growth ideology conflicts and military strategies of their respective rural and urban organizations. The book includes a detailed analysis of combat strikes uprisings and expeditions. Original maps and charts illustrate battles maneuvers and guerrilla political structures. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138534971

Cuban Political EconomyControversies In Cubanology This comprehensive and authoritative book assesses in theoretical and empirical terms some of the most widely debated issues in the study of Cuban political economy. It presents a broad critique of the mainstream scholarship in the United States on Cuban political economy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367164034

Cuba's International RelationsThe Anatomy Of A Nationalistic Foreign Policy This book explores the nature and development of Castro's foreign relations and Cuban globalism with primary attention devoted to nationalism's influence on Havana's policies toward the United States the Soviet Union and the developing African Asian and Latin countries of the Third World. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367155117

Cuba's Second EconomyFrom behind the Scenes to Center Stage Without doubt Cuba is facing its most serious economic challenge in nearly thirty-five years of revolutionary rule. There is consensus that as the official centrally planned economy has faltered ordinary citizens eke out a living only by engaging in under-the-table unrecorded and mostly illegal activities. In fact this "second economy" is growing by leaps and bounds. This volume sketches the contours of the very complex phenomenon of the second economy of socialist Cuba and discusses its evolution over time as well as the role that it may play in the transition to a market economy on the island.The economic crisis of the 1990s has propelled the second economy from behind the scenes to center stage. Not only have black markets mushroomed but second economy activities connected to the free-market that the Castro government has traditionally discouraged or even prosecuted are now being incorporated into the government's own economic strategy. Self-employment cultivation of individual plots and the use of foreign currencies to buy or sell goods are now promoted with considerable enthusiasm by the leadership.Perez-Lopez examines different ways of thinking about unregulated economic activities that have been set forth in the literature and concludes that the concept of the second economy is the most appropriate for Cuba. He brings together available information from a multitude of sources on the manifestations of the second economy in Cuba and of its operation. Cuba's Second Economy is a timely study of an economic system in crisis. It will be of interest to economists political scientists policymakers and Latin America area scholars. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508811

Cubism and Abstract Art Originally published in 1936 in this classic account of the development of abstract art Alfred Barr analyses the many diverse abstract movements which emerged with bewildering rapidity in the early years of the twentieth century and which had an impact on every major form of art. Barr traces the history of nonrepresentational art from its antecedents in late nineteenth-century painting in France – Seurat and Neo-Impressionism Gauguin and Synthetism and Cézanne – through abstract tendencies in Dada and Surrealism. He distinguishes two main trends in abstract art: the geometrical structural current as it developed in Cubism and later in Constructivism and Mondrian and the intuitional decorative current running from Matisse and Fauvism through Kandinskt and later Surrealism. He shows how individual movements influenced one another and how many artists experimented with more than one style. Barr also discusses the involvement of a number of abstract movements in architecture and the practical arts – the Bauhaus in Germany de Stijl in Holland Purism in France and Suprematism and Constructivism in Russia. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367180218

Cuckoldry Impotence and Adultery in Europe (15th-17th century) In Renaissance and early modern Europe various constellations of phenomena-ranging from sex scandals to legal debates to flurries of satirical prints-collectively demonstrate at different times and places an increased concern with cuckoldry impotence and adultery. This concern emerges in unusual events (such as scatological rituals of house-scorning) appears in neglected sources (such as drawings by Swiss mercenary soldier-artists) and engages innovative areas of inquiry (such as the intersection between medical theory and Renaissance comedy). Interdisciplinary analytical tools are here deployed to scrutinize court scandals and decipher archival documents. Household recipes popular literary works and a variety of visual media are examined in the light of contemporary sexual culture and contextualized with reference to current social and political issues. The essays in this volume reveal the central importance of sexuality and sexual metaphor for our understanding of European history politics and culture and emphasize the extent to which erotic presuppositions underpinned the early modern world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138548169

Culinary Creation The book seeks not to present a detailed history and discussion but instead is intended to provide the student with an appreciation of the idea that all cuisines of the world have something unique to offer to a menu. The author strongly believes that foods of other nations (and even other areas of the United States) are too often given short shrift by culture-bound students and chefs and that every attempt should be made to open their minds to the unlimited possibilities available. The wordfoodism is introduced to refer to biases against foods outside your culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138432819

Culinary Infrastructure Over the past two centuries global commodity chains and industrial food processing systems have been built on an infrastructure of critical but often-overlooked facilities and technologies used to transport food and to convey knowledge about food. This culinary infrastructure comprises both material components (such as grain elevators transportation networks and marketplaces) and immaterial or embodied expressions of knowledge (cooking schools restaurant guides quality certifications and health regulations). Although infrastructural failures can result in supply shortages and food contamination the indirect consequences of infrastructure can be just as important in shaping the kinds of foods that are available to consumers and who will profit from the sale of those foods. This volume examines the historical development of a variety of infrastructural nodes and linkages including refrigerated packing plants in Nazi-occupied Europe trans-Atlantic restaurant labour markets food safety technologies and discourses in Singapore culinary programming in Canadian museums and dietary studies in colonial Africa. By paying attention to control over facilities and technologies as well as the public–private balance over investment and regulation the authors reveal global inequalities that arise from differential access to culinary infrastructure. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Food History. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367892340

Culinary Taste Culinary Taste: Consumer Behaviour in the International Restaurant Sector looks at the factors that influence our culinary tastes and dining behaviour illustrating how they can translate into successful business in industry.With a foreword from Prue Leith restaurateur author teacher and prolific cookery writer and novelist and a list of well-known and respected international contributors from the UK France Australia and Hong Kong this text discusses the issues involved from a multitude of angles. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138151598

Cult Ritual Divinity and Belief in the Roman World The papers assembled in this selection of studies range in subject matter from early Judaic magic to an inscribed monument of the Neo-Classical period. The principal emphasis of the collection is nevertheless on religious developments under the High Roman Empire: problems arising from the interpretation of oriental cults imported from the Hellenistic East but primarily the development of imperial cult the one universal religion of the empire before the coming of Christianity. The essays divide into five categories: Divinity and Power; The Imperial Numen; The Imperial Cult: Review and Discussion; Rituals and Ceremonies; Ainigmata. The titles of the individual articles speak for themselves but readers may also find the preface of interest in so far as it sets out the author's ideas on the controversial nature of the emperor's divinity. While this is a topic deserving of a book in its own right the preface together with the points raised by individual studies within the overall framework may go some way to repairing this defficiency. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138107434

Cult Backgrnd Persnlty Ils 84 First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315006864

Cult Collectors Cult Collectors examines cultures of consumption and the fans who collect cult film and TV merchandise. Author Lincoln Geraghty argues that there has been a change in the fan convention space where collectible merchandise and toys rather than just the fictional text have become objects for trade nostalgia and a focal point for fans’ personal narratives. New technologies also add to this changing identity of cult fandom whereby popular websites such as eBay and ThinkGeek become cyber sites of memory and profit for cult fan communities. The book opens with an analysis of the problematic representations of fans and fandom in film and television. Stereotypes of the fan and collector as portrayed in series such as The Big Bang Theory and films like The 40 Year Old Virgin are discussed alongside changes in consumption practices and the mainstreaming of cult media. Following this theoretical chapters consider issues of gender representation nostalgia and the influence of social media. Finally extended case study chapters examine in detail the connections between the fan community and the commodities bought and sold. Topics discussed include: The San Diego Comic-Con and the cult geographies of the fan convention Hollywood memorabilia and collecting cinema history The Star Wars franchise merchandising and the adult collector Online stores and the commercialisation of cult fandom Mattel Hasbro and nostalgia for animated eighties children’s television Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415617666

Cult of AnalyticsData analytics for marketing Cult of Analytics enables professionals to build an analytics driven culture into their business or organization. Marketers will learn how to turn tried and tested tactics into an actionable plan to change their culture to one that uses web analytics on a day to day basis.Through use of the fictitious ACME PLC case Steve Jackson provides working examples based on real life situations from the various companies he has worked with such as Nokia KONE Rovio Amazon Expert IKEA Vodafone and EMC. These examples will give the reader practical techniques for their own business regardless of size or situation making Cult of Analytics a must have for any would-be digital marketer. This new edition has been thoroughly updated now including examples out of how to get the best from Google analytics as well as ways to use social media data big data tag management and advanced persona segmentation to drive real value in your organisation. It's also been expanded to include exercises and new cases for students and tutors using the book as a text. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138837997

Cult Places and Cult Personnel in the Roman Empire The twenty-one studies assembled in this volume focus on the apparatus and practitioners of religions in the western Roman empire the enclaves temples altars and monuments that served the cults of a wide range of divinities through the medium of priests and worshippers. Discussion focuses on the analysis or reconstruction of the centres at which devotees gathered and draws on the full range of available evidence. While literary authorities remain of primary concern these are for the most part overshadowed by other categories of evidence in particular archaeology epigraphy numismatics and iconography sources in some cases confirmed by the latest geophysical techniques - electrical resistivity tomography or ground-probing radar. The material is conveniently presented by geographical area using modern rather than Latin terminology: Rome Italy Britain Gaul Spain Hungary along with a broader section that covers the empire in general. The titles of the various articles speak for themselves but readers may find the preface of interest in so far as it sets out my ideas on the use of ancient evidence and the pitfalls of some of the approaches favoured by modern scholars. Together with the wide range of individual papers the preface makes the book of interest to all students of the Roman empire as well as those specifically concerned with the history of religions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472414731

Cult Wars' in Historical PerspectiveNew and Minority Religions 'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective  provides a broad characterization of the shifting religious contours over the past several decades. Offering an assessment of several important topics in the study of new religions this book explores developments in well-known groups such as the Unification movement The Family International (Children of God) the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and the Church of Scientology. Bringing together both insiders and outsiders from various academic disciplines and personal perspectives this book takes account of the ways in which the cult question is defined and addressed in different countries. It offers a vivid depiction of how the cult wars or cult controversies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries first took shape; the transformation of deeply entrenched positions on cults and sects as at least some members of new groups cult watchers and academics entered into serious and sustained conversations about topics of mutual concern; the shifting foci and concerns of the general public law enforcement and the courts and academics in various countries; and the complex histories of individual groups in which many dramatic transformations have occurred despite their comparatively short life spans. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367880620

Cultivating a Data Culture in Higher Education Higher education institutions have experienced a sharp increase in demand for accountability. To meet the growing demand by legislators accreditors consumers taxpayers and parents for evidence of successful outcomes this important book provides higher education leaders and practitioners with actionable strategies for developing a comprehensive data culture throughout the entire institution. Exploring key considerations necessary for the development of an effective data culture in colleges and universities this volume brings together diverse voices and perspectives including institutional researchers senior academic leaders and faculty. Each chapter focuses on a critical element of managing or influencing a data culture approaches for breaking through common challenges and concludes with practical research-based implementation strategies. Collectively these strategies form a comprehensive list of recommendations for developing a data culture and becoming a change agent within your higher education institution. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138046801

Cultivating a Digital Culture for Effective Patient EngagementA Strategic Framework and Toolkit for Health-Provider Websites Cultivating a Digital Culture for Effective Patient Engagement offers a strategic framework for healthcare provider websites in order to support patient engagement and connected health initiatives. Referred to as the Health Empowerment Web Strategy Index (HEWSi) the proposed framework is complemented by a detailed "check list" of health empowerment items organizations should incorporate into their website design. A healthcare provider’s website should be an effective resource for empowering the health of patients no matter where patients are in their digital culture evolution. The challenge for many organizations is that patient engagement/connected health initiatives are frequently developed and managed separately from the organization’s digital marketing efforts. This book recognizes this disconnect and advocates for a reimaging of healthcare provider websites based on the four domains of the HEWSi strategic framework: (1) orienting; (2) enlightening; (3) aligning; and (4) personalizing. As a framework and toolkit HEWSi helps breakdown patient engagement silos within healthcare organizations by allowing varied functional teams (marketing; web developers; patient experience staff; clinical leaders; HIM/HIS personnel; etc.) to congregate around a shared pathway for conversing strategizing planning and developing an effective patient empowerment website. Media > Books > Print Books Productivity Press 9780367024352

Cultivating an Ethical School Often the school is left as an institution seemingly ethically neutral leaving untouched questions about whether the school itself is a site of injustice toward both educators and children. Springing from his well-known Building an Ethical School Robert J. Starratt now looks more closely at the educational leader’s responsibility to ensure that the whole fabric of the educational process reflects an ethical philosophy of education. Starratt argues that the work of educating young people is by its very nature an ethical work as well as an intellectual work and that this work inescapably engages educators and their pupils with an academic curriculum a social curriculum and a civic curriculum. Cultivating an Ethical School lays a foundation for educators seeking to cultivate a comprehensive ethical educating environment. The second half of the book then takes up the more specific perspectives on teaching and learning that constitute the heart of cultivating an ethical school. Starratt provides examples of how an ethical school can expose students to a variety of perspectives on the challenges they will be called upon to face in the worlds of culture nature and society. This valuable book shows leaders and educators the importance of organizing a curriculum and a pedagogy that simultaneously respect and cultivate the intellectual personal and social qualities of being human. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415887397

Cultivating Common Ground Caring is a nitty-gritty process. Cultivating Common Ground teaches us how to care at work with real life experiences rather than through conceptual thinking alone. Caring relationships to our work and each other give meaning to our work and provide a powerful source of energy for our organizations. Therefore we must release relationships from their hiding place in the informal structure of the organization. The way to do that is to work together to cultivate common ground in order to make a conscious commitment to hold a life and a task in common. As old structures crumble we have the opportunity to build caring communities at work. This book explains what went wrong in the first place names our fears and provides real-life examples of how to release the power of relationships in the workplace. Daniel S. Hanson is President of the Fluid Dairy Division of Land O'Lakes Inc. an instructor at Augsburg College in Minneapolis and a speaker and author on the subject of organizational change and personal empowerment. Hanson draws on his 30 years experience as a corporate executive for four Fortune 500 companies his extensive research and his own life-changing experience to offer practical hands-on presentations and trainings. He is also the author of A Place To Shine: Emerging From the Shadows at Work Butterworth-Heinemann 1996."This is a compassionate and powerful call for caring in the workplace. Dan Hanson is right on the mark when he suggests that we need to take courageous steps toward a new caring workplace. He is one of the best teachers of building community at work you'll ever meet."--Richard J. Leider founding partner The Inventure Group author "Repacking Your Bags" and "The Power of Purpose" "Dan Hanson delves broadly and deeply into the nature of relationships in the workplace. He lays before us the common ground that n Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138414471

Cultivating CopyrightHow Creators and Creative Industries Can Harness Intellectual Property to Survive the Digital Age Creators and creative industries are struggling to navigate the digital age. Intellectual property rights including copyrights trademarks and  patents  offer invaluable tools to help creative industries remain viable and sustainable. But to be fully effective they must be considered as part of a greater ecosystem. Cultivating Copyright offers a framework for tailoring flexible strategies and adaptive solutions suited to diverse creative industries. Tailored solutions entail change on four fronts: business models and strategies legal policies and practices technological measures and cultural and normative features. Creating strong creative industries through tailored solutions serves critical functions: promoting richly varied artistic endeavors and supporting democratic flourishing. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138477490

Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural CommunicationCommunicating as a Global Citizen This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives particularly as globalization informs more of the current and future research in the area. It emphasizes the postcolonial perspective in order to raise critical consciousness about the complexities of intercultural communication in a globalizing world situating cosmopolitanism—the notion of global citizenship—as a multilayered lens for research. Cosmopolitanism as a theoretical repertoire provides nuanced descriptions of what it means to be and communicate as a global citizen how to critically study interconnectedness within and across cultures and how to embrace differences without glossing over them. Moving intercultural communication studies towards the global in complex and nuanced ways this book highlights crucial links between globalization transnationalism postcolonialism cosmopolitanism social injustice and intercultural communication and will help in the creation of classroom spaces devoted to exploring these links. It also engages the links between theory and praxis in order to move towards intercultural communication pedagogy and research that simultaneously celebrates and interrogates issues of cultural difference with the aim of creating continuity rather than chasms. In sum this book orients intercultural communication scholarship firmly towards the critical and postcolonial while still allowing the incorporation of traditional intercultural communication concepts thereby preparing students scholars educators and interculturalists to communicate ethically in a world that is simultaneously global and local. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138885561

Cultivating Grass-Roots for Regional Development in a Globalising EconomyInnovation and Entrepreneurship in Organised Markets First published in 1999. The key to successful regional development is more a personality issue than a global one contends social economist Dr. James Cécora. With a fresh new interdisciplinary approach Cécora tackles traditional economic theory to show that a distinct type of individual the 'innovative entrepreneur' can do more to secure economic stability in a particular region than any multinational corporation. Arguing that global economics have spiraled out of control Cécora builds a case for supporting and promoting the development of entrepreneurs at the local and regional level. These individuals will he says work at strengthening the regional economy over the long term because of their permanent attachment to a region as well as in vested self-interest. Cécora compares the personalities of corporate managers to self-starting entrepreneurs drawing the conclusion that the risk-taking ability of entrepreneurial types prompts more creative thinking and regionally appropriate action and solutions. This willingness to try new approaches is often a key to success. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138612297

Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who ThriveWhy Human Connection from Before Birth Matters Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who Thrive introduces an expanded view of human development and health which begins before conception and moves through pregnancy early childhood and adulthood. This book is a call for all prenatal and perinatal professionals and policy makers to appreciate indigenous ways of knowing being and doing and integrate them with scientific evidence in the care of expectant parents and their babies. It explains how this could also tackle pressing social issues facing the modern world and favour social innovations through a revaluation of preconception pregnancy birth and childcare practices. Sansone presents the reader with scientific discoveries of epigenetics interpersonal neuroscience quantum physics  attachment anthropology prenatal and perinatal psychology and mindfulness which interestingly resonate with the intuitions of primal wisdom. The book will be of interest to clinicians policy makers researchers parents  and those interested in the prenatal and perinatal roots of human development and well-being. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138598270

Cultivating Moral Character and Virtue in Professional Practice Cultivating Moral Character and Virtue in Professional Practice　is a pioneering collection of essays focused on the place of character and virtue in professional practice. Professional practices usually have codes of conduct designed to ensure　good conduct;　but　while　such codes may be necessary and useful they appear　far from sufficient 　since many　recent public scandals in professional life seem to have been attributable to failures of personal moral character. This book argues that there is a pressing need to devote more attention in professional education to the cultivation or development of such moral qualities as integrity courage self-control service and selflessness. Featuring contributions from distinguished leaders in the application of virtue ethics to professional practice 　such as　Sarah Banks Ann Gallagher Geoffrey Moore Justin Oakley and Nancy Sherman the volume looks beyond traditional professions to explore the ethical dimensions of a broad range of important professional practices. Inspired by a successful international and interdisciplinary conference on the topic the book examines various ways of promoting moral character and virtue in professional life from the general ethical perspective of contemporary neo-Aristotelian virtue theory. The professional concerns of this work are of global significance and the book　will be　valuable　reading　for all　working in　contemporary　professional　practices.　It　will　be of particular interest to academics practitioners and postgraduate students in the fields of education medicine nursing social work business and commerce and military service. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367371500

Cultivating Nationhood in Imperial RussiaThe Periodical Press and the Formation of a Modern Armenian Identity Nineteenth-century Armenia was a zone of competition between the Persian Ottoman and the Russian Empires. Yet over the course of the century a new generation of Armenian journalists scholars and writers worked to transform their geographically socially and linguistically fragmented communities threatened by regional isolation and dissent into a patriotic and nationally conscious population. Lisa Khachaturian seeks to explain how this profoundly divided society managed to achieve a common cultural bond.The national project that captivated nineteenth-century Eastern Armenian intellectuals was a daunting task especially since their efforts were directed in the Caucasus--a territory known for its volatile history its ethnic heterogeneity and its linguistic complexity. Although this cultural and social maelstrom was both aggravated and tempered by the new Russian arena of economic growth urban development and heightened technology and communication diversity was hardly a recent phenomenon in the region; it had been an endemic part of Caucasian history for centuries. Armenians were no exception to this. While the Georgians bound to their landed nobility generally lived within kingdoms the Armenians experienced centuries of forced resettlement migration and centuries of habitation among other peoples. Some Armenians had settled in faraway countries but many remained in scattered colonies within the boundaries of historic Armenia.This is a study of the formation of modern Armenian national consciousness under Imperial Russian rule. The Tsarist acquisition of Armenian-populated territory and consequent efforts to integrate this territory into the empire imposed sufficient unity to provide a basis for a nascent national movement. The particular influences of Russian imperial rule met the Eastern Armenian communities to create a new environment for a modern national revival. This book reviews how nineteenth-century Armenian intellectuals discussed and conceived of the nation through the formation of the Armenian press. This is a rare blend of national culture and communication networking. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508828

Cultivating New Post-secular Political Space This comprehensive volume provides crucial insights from contemporary academics and practitioners into how positive interventions might be made into post-secular political spaces that have emerged in the wake of the economic political and social upheavals of the 2008 global financial crisis. The failure of liberal democracy to deal effectively with such challenges has led to scapegoating of the poor immigrants and Muslims and contributed to the populist electoral success of among others the Leave campaign during the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum and Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign. These shocks have highlighted contemporary political spaces defined by what has been termed ‘all the posts’: postmodern post-Christendom post-liberal post-political and post-secular. This collection examines emerging attempts to understand and advance the cause of wellbeing within this context. The authors address a variety of key issues including: (re)configuring mythologies for the common good; deploying love and friendship politically; motivating new social movements; valuing the other; recovering displaced and devalued political narratives; finding alternatives to the previously dominant neo-liberalism; listening deeply for social transformation; and overcoming adversarial party politics.This book was originally published online as a special issue of the journal Global Discourse. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367730307

Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments Does a flourishing life involve pursuing passionate attachments? Can we choose what these passionate attachments will be? This book offers an original theory of how we can actively cultivate our passionate attachments. The author argues that not only do we have reason to view passionate attachments as susceptible to growth change and improvement but we should view these entities as amenable to self-cultivation. He uses Pierre Hadot’s and Michel Foucault’s accounts of Hellenistic self-cultivation as vital conceptual tools to formulate a theory of cultivating our passionate attachments. First their accounts offer the conceptual resources for a philosophical theory of how we can cultivate our passionate attachments. Second the exercises of self-cultivation they focus on allow us to outline a practical method though which we can cultivate our passionate character. Doing this brings out a significantly new dimension to the role of the passionate attachments in the flourishing life and offers theoretical and practical accounts of how we can cultivate them based on the Hellenistic conception of self-directed character change. Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments will be of interest to advanced students and scholars working in virtue ethics moral philosophy and ancient philosophy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367529635

Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher EducationTeachers Like Me Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education examines how English and literacy teacher education—a space dominated by White English-monolingual middle class perspectives—shapes the experiences of preservice teachers of color and their construction of a teacher identity. Significant and timely this book focuses attention on the unique needs and perspectives of racially and linguistically diverse preservice teachers in the field of literacy and English education and offers ways to improve teacher training to better meet the needs of preservice teachers from all racial ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. These changes have the potential to diversify the teacher force and cultivate teachers who bring rich racial cultural and linguistic histories to the field of teaching. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415729963

Cultivating System ChangeA Practitioner’s Companion Where should you start if you are faced with massive systemic challenges or want to cultivate a shift towards sustainability in global systems? Where are the leverage points for systemic change? This book provides examples of what organizations and companies like the Sustainable Shipping Initiative WWF and Nike are doing along with practical strategies and an overview of system change theory. Section one outlines systems thinking especially how we can use a "living systems" perspective as a tool to understanding sustainability and change.Section two pulls out practical strategies for action from theoretical models and "must-read" literature. Section three illustrates how organisations are implementing these strategies â€“ including examples from the Sustainable Shipping Initiative Nike Sustainable Food Lab Finance Innovation Lab Shell Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation.Section four provides tips for you as a practitioner navigating this territory. Many of the ideas behind cultivating system change can be difficult to understand until they are put into practice. This "practitioner's companion" ends with questions that will prompt reflections and spur you to action. Keep it to hand as you change the system! Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781910174098

Cultivating the Arts in Education and Therapy The constituency for education and therapy in the arts is rapidly expanding beyond the conventional school and clinical settings to include the wider community. In Cultivating the Arts in Education and Therapy Malcolm Ross integrates traditional Chinese Five Element Theory also known as The Five Phases of Change with contemporary Western psychological and cultural studies to form a new Syncretic Model of creative artistic practice. The Syncretic Model is explored and validated through an analysis of interviews with practising successful artists and in a comprehensive review of the latest neuro-scientific research into human consciousness and emotion. The book addresses the well-documented difficulties experienced by arts teachers and therapists intervening in supporting and evaluating the creative development of individual students and clients. This groundbreaking text repositions the arts as central to the effective initiation and management of change in contemporary society. Besides being of wide general interest it will have particular relevance for practising and trainee arts teachers arts therapists and community artists. With the demand for their services growing and pressure to demonstrate effectiveness mounting the arts community is looking to build bridges between the different arts and between arts education and therapy across national boundaries. This book offers a fresh coherent and challenging framework for a revitalized reflective practice from an experienced authority in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415603669

Cultivation of Self in East Asian Philosophy of Education This book provides exciting and significant inquiries into the cultivation of self in East Asian philosophy of education. The contributors to this volume are from different countries or areas in the world but all share the same interest in exploring what it means to be human and how to cultivate the self. In this book self-cultivation in classical Chinese philosophies—including Confucianism neo-Confucianism and Daoism—is scrutinised and elaborated upon in order to reveal the significance of ancient wisdom for today’s educational issues and to show the meaningful connections between Eastern and Western educational thoughts. By addressing many issues of contemporary importance including environmental education equity and justice critical rationalism groundlessness of language and power and governance this book offers fresh views of self-cultivation illuminated not merely by East Asian philosophy of education but also by Western insights. For those who are interested in comparative philosophies intercultural education and cultural study this book is both thought-provoking and inspirational. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Educational Philosophy and Theory journal. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367359348

Cults New Religions and Religious Creativity (Routledge Revivals) The twentieth century has been marked by an unprecedented outburst of religious activity on a world-wide scale and in particular by a mushrooming of numerous religious movements. This work first published in 1987 takes a fresh approach to the understanding of this phenomenon an approach which takes into account new concepts of human nature and of religion. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415614429

Cults & New Relig. Set (Code C First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315046433

Cults in ContextReadings in the Study of New Religious Movements In the face of the increasingly variegated ideological landscape of contemporary America cults have become the focus of public controversy. The growth of new religions has been matched by the development of an organized and vocal opposition the anti-cult movement. This in turn has prompted an extensive investigation of new religious movements (NRMs) by sociologists and psychologists of religion as well as historians and religious studies scholars. The readings collected here contribute to the debate about cults by sampling some of the best and most accessible publications from the academic study of NRMs.The contributors address the questions most commonly asked about cults such as: What brought about the emergence of new religious movements? What is a cult or new religious movement? Who joins new religious movements and why? Are converts to new religious movements brainwashed? Why did the Jonestown and Waco tragedies happen? Are cults inclined to be violent? What does the emergence of so many new religious movements say about our society? What does it say about the future of religion?Cults in Context surveys the descriptive typologies theories and data accumulated by sociologists and psychologists studying new religious movements over the last twenty years. It serves to defuse many popular fears and misconceptions about cults allowing the reader to develop a more reasonable and tolerant understanding of the people who join new religious movements and the functions of these movements in contemporary society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521704

CultsA Reference and Guide Cults examines the history and current status of cults across the United States Europe and East Asia. Focusing on the principal controversial religions and movements that have attracted major media attention the book also includes profiles of hundreds of minority religions from Jesus People and Rastafarians to voodoo practitioners and the human-cloning Raelians. All the issues central to the practice and the fear of cults are examined - apocalypticism deprogramming social isolation cults and the media the use and threat of violence child custody libel tax evasion solicitation and the techniques of persuasion and conviction - as are the many charismatic cult leaders. Cults presents a comprehensive and authoritative reference offering a balanced view of the controversy surrounding these new religious movements assessing the movements themselves as well as the legal and governmental responses to them including attempts to quantify membership. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781845539740

Cultural Adaptation Cultural borrowing is exploding across the world. Creative ideas are transferred and modified in ever increasing number and complexity making new products ranging from TV shows to architectural style in new cities. But what do we really know about the spread of creative ideas? This intriguing engrossing and comprehensive collection looks at the cultural and commercial dimensions of creative borrowing world wide with an international cast of contributors and case studies from India to Ireland Canada to China. Cultural Adaptation explores how creative ideas are packaged and nationalised to meet local taste maps the cultural economy of adaptation in entertainment media ranging from motion pictures to mobile phones and even probes the role of cultural recipes and formats in mutating participatory experiences of theme parks and sporting spectacles. Written in a lively and accessible manner the book also provides insight into remaking in lifestyle and consumption cultures including fashion food drink and gambling. Essential for communication cultural media leisure and consumption studies scholars and students alike this book opens up important new perspectives on how we understand global creativity. This book was published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415852999

Cultural Adaptation in the Workplace The purpose of this book first published in 1996 is to explore the dimensions of the changing workforce and examines the issues faced by non-native workers and their employers. This study aims to explore issues such as culture shock and cultural adaptation in the healthcare fast food and hotel industries in Washington DC Metropolitan Area. This title will be of interest to students of business studies and sociology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138286061

Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s LegacySettling Accounts and Developing Alternatives Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars. This edited collection offers sustained critical engagement substantiated by new empirical work. It presents concrete evidence of different approaches to the interpretation of culture in Britain France and the USA. Discussions are situated in relation to current debates about cultural analysis in particular the vibrant and extensive disputes concerning the applicability of Bourdieu’s concepts and methods. Subsequently implications for the future of research work in cultural analysis including into theory and methods are drawn. The contributing authors offer key interpretations of the work of Bordieu arguments for alternative approaches to cultural analysis and critical applications of his concepts in empirical analysis. This book is essential reading for graduate students of sociology cultural studies social anthropology or cultural geography providing great insight into the work of one of the most eminent contemporary scholars in the field of cultural analysis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415534147

Cultural AnalysisThe Work of Peter L. Berger Mary Douglas Michel Foucault and Jürgen Habermas First published in 1984 Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L. Berger Mary Douglas Michel Foucault and Jürgen Habermas. This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the analysis of culture and shows the converging assumptions that the authors believe are laying the foundation for a new approach to the study of culture. The focus is specifically on culture a concept that remains subject to ambiguities of treatment and concentrates on questions concerning the definition and content of culture its construction its relations with social conditions and the manner in which it may be changing. The books demonstrates how these writers have made strides towards defining culture as an objective element of social interaction which can be subjected to critical investigation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415521598

Cultural AnalysisVolume 1 Politics Public Law and Administration As a result of a lifetime of incomparably wide-ranging investigations Aaron Wildavsky concluded that politics in the United States and elsewhere was a patterned activity exhibiting recurring regularities. Political values beliefs and institutions were neither endlessly varied nor haphazardly organized. They tended to exhibit a limited range of variation and were organized in discoverable predictable ways. In Cultural Analysis the fourth collection of his essays posthumously published by Transaction Wildavsky argues that American politics public law and public administration are the contested terrain of rival inescapable political cultures.Analysts of American politics distinguish liberals from conservatives and Democrats from Republicans but do not explain how these categories of political allegiance develop maintain themselves or change. Wildavsky offers a cultural-functional explanation for ideological and partisan coherence and realignment. Wildavsky also felt that these dualisms did not adequately capture the ideological and partisan variation he observed on the political landscape. Like others he detected another recurring strain of political allegiance: that of classical liberalism or libertarianism. People of this political stripe valued freedom more than equality (the primary political value of contemporary liberals) and also more than order the primary political value of conservatives.The value of Wildavsky's reconceptualization of the ideological and social foundations of political conflict compromise and coalition is assessed here by Wildavsky's former colleagues and students at the University of California Berkeley: Dennis Coyle Richard Ellis Robert Kagan Austin Ranney and Brendon Swedlow. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508835

Cultural and Economic Reproduction in EducationEssays on Class Ideology and the State First published in 1982 this collection of essays provides an analysis of education’s contradictory role in social reproduction. It looks at the complex relations between the economic political and cultural spheres of society both historically and at the time of publication and hones the wider range of debate in on education. This volume will be of interest to those studying sociology and equality in education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415786539

Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui Rapa Nui one of the world’s most isolated island societies and home to the notable moai has been at the centre of a tense debate for the past decade. Some see it as the site of a dramatic cultural collapse occurring before Western contact where a self-inflicted ecocide was brought on by the exhaustion of resources. Others argue that the introduction of Western pathogens and the slave raids of 1862 were to blame for the near extinction of the otherwise resilient Rapa Nui people.　Cultural and Environmental Change on Rapa Nui　brings together the latest studies by prominent Rapa Nui researchers from all over the world to explore the island’s past and present from its discovery by Polynesians through the first documented contact with Western culture in 1722 to the 20th century. The exiting new volume looks beyond the moai to examine such questions as: was there was a cultural collapse; how did the Rapa Nui react to Westerners; and what responses did the Rapa Nui develop to adjust to naturally- or humanly-induced environmental change?This volume will appeal to scholars and professionals in the fields of history archaeology and ecology as well as anyone with an interest in the challenges of sustainable resource management and the contentious history of Rapa Nui itself. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367884727

Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Asia and the Pacific The Asia Pacific region’s enormous diversity of living cultures and preserved heritage sites has significant appeal to many tourists. However tourism has grown so rapidly that many issues associated with the incorporation of cultural and heritage experiences in tourist itineraries (such as authenticity verses commodification exploitation of national cultures impacts on local communities and the management of heritage resources) have not been adequately addressed and must be debated. This revealing book reviews recent developments in cultural and heritage tourism in the Asia Pacific region and provides a discussion on how communities have faced and overcome significant challenges to develop and market their culture and heritage resources. A range of models and case studies are used to deepen the reader’s understanding of heritage and cultural issues to illustrate many of the more controversial issues and to examine new evaluative and planning tools. This book is a special issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315879079

Cultural and Heritage Tourism in the Middle East and North AfricaComplexities Management and Practices This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of cultural and heritage tourism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the many complexities that heritage sites and tourist attractions face. The MENA region has long been regarded as the cradle of Western and Arab civilisation and is the home of many of the world’s major religions. Because of this the region is rich in heritage sites that serve as major tourist attractions and as icons of national cultural and religious identity. However as this book examines heritage in the region is simultaneously highly contested and has even become a target for terrorism creating a situation that brought major challenges for heritage management and sustainable tourism development. Many of the region’s innumerable cultural sites are threatened in some cases by overuse in others by neglect and in many simply by the pressures of economic development. This book is therefore of interest not only to heritage managers and policy makers but those academics who seek to address the delicate balance between tourism development communities and the tourists who visit such sites in a turbulent but highly significant region of the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367232719

Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of TerrorThe Melancholic Sublime This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts from architecture and art to literature digital technology and film detailing a worrying trend towards nostalgia and arguing that although the sublime has the potential to be the most powerful uniting aesthetic force it currently spreads fear violence and retrospection. In exploring contemporary culture this book touches on the role of architecture to provoke feelings of sublimity the role of art in the aftermath of destructive events literature’s establishment of the historical moment as a point of sublime transformation and change and the place of nostalgia and the returning of past practices in digital culture from gaming to popular cinema. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367884093

Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary JapanRethinking Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion The recent manifestation of exclusionism in Japan has emerged at a time of intensified neoliberal economic policies increased cross-border migration brought on by globalization the elevated threat of global terrorism heightened tensions between East Asian states over historical and territorial conflicts and a backlash by Japanese conservatives over perceived historical apologism. The social and political environment for minorities in Japan has shifted drastically since the 1990s yet many studies of Japan still tend to view Japan through the dominant discourses of “ethnic homogeneity (tanitsu minzoku shakai)” and “middle-class society (so¯churyu¯-shakai)” which positions the exclusion of minorities as an exceptional phenomenon. While exclusionism has been recognized as a serious threat to minority groups it has not often been considered a representative issue for the whole of Japanese society. This tendency will persist until the discourses of tanitsu minzoku shakai and so¯churyu¯-shakai are systematically debunked and Japan is widely recognized as both multiethnic and socio-economically stratified. Today as with most advanced capitalist countries serious social divides occasioned by the impacts of globalization and neoliberalism have destabilized Japanese society. This book explores not only how Japanese society is diversified and unequal but also how diversity and inequality have caused people to divide into separate realities from which conflict and violence have emerged. It empirically examines the current situation while considering the historical development of exclusionism from the interdisciplinary viewpoints of history policy studies cultural studies sociology and cultural anthropology. In addition to analyzing the realities of division and exclusionism the authors propose theoretical alternatives to overcome such cultural and social divides. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138310391

Cultural and Sociological Aspects of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse In this highly informative book on the sociocultural interactions between alcoholism and drug abuse experts explore the relationship of such factors as ethnicity family religion and gender to chemical abuse and address important implications for treatment. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315826301

Cultural and Spiritual Significance of Nature in Protected AreasGovernance Management and Policy Cultural and spiritual bonds with ‘nature’ are among the strongest motivators for nature conservation; yet they are seldom taken into account in the governance and management of protected and conserved areas. The starting point of this book is that to be sustainable effective and equitable approaches to the management and governance of these areas need to engage with people’s deeply held cultural spiritual personal and community values alongside inspiring action to conserve biological geological and cultural diversity. Since protected area management and governance have traditionally been based on scientific research a combination of science and spirituality can engage and empower a variety of stakeholders from different cultural and religious backgrounds. As evidenced in this volume stakeholders range from indigenous peoples and local communities to those following mainstream religions and those representing the wider public. The authors argue that the scope of protected area management and governance needs to be extended to acknowledge the rights responsibilities obligations and aspirations of stakeholder groups and to recognise the cultural and spiritual significance that ‘nature’ holds for people. The book also has direct practical applications. These follow the IUCN Best Practice Guidelines for protected and conserved area managers and present a wide range of case studies from around the world including Africa Asia Australia Europe and the Americas. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138091191

Cultural Anthropology: 101 This concise and accessible introduction establishes the relevance of cultural anthropology for the modern world through an integrated ethnographically informed approach. The book develops readers’ understanding and engagement by addressing key issues such as: What it means to be human The key characteristics of culture as a concept Relocation and dislocation of peoples The conflict between political social and ethnic boundaries The concept of economic anthropology Cultural Anthropology: 101 includes case studies from both classic and contemporary ethnography as well as a comprehensive bibliography and index. It is an essential guide for students approaching this fascinating field for the first time. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138775527

Cultural AnthropologyGlobal Forces Local Lives Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces Local Lives is an exceptionally clear and readable introduction that helps students understand the application of anthropological concepts to the contemporary world and everyday life. It provides thorough treatment of key subjects such as colonialism and post-colonialism ethnicity the environment cultural change economic development and globalization. This fourth edition has a fresh thematic focus on the future with material relating to planning decision-making design and invention hope and waiting. More space is devoted to contemporary topics and there is new coverage of subjects ranging from white nationalism right-wing populism and natural disasters to surgical training hacker conferences and the gig economy. Each chapter contains a rich variety of case studies that have been updated throughout. The book includes a number of features to support student learning including: A wealth of color images Definitions of key terms and further reading suggestions in the margins Questions for discussion/review and boxed summaries at the end of every chapter An extensive glossary bibliography and index. Additional resources are provided via a comprehensive companion website. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367186982

Cultural Approaches To Parenting This volume is concerned with elucidating similarities and differences in enculturation processes that help to account for the ways in which individuals in different cultures develop. Each chapter reviews a substantive parenting topic describes the relevant cultures (in psychological ethnography rather than from an anthropological stance) reports on the parenting-in-culture results and discusses the significance of cross-cultural investigation for understanding the parenting issue of interest. Specific areas of study include environment and interactive style responsiveness activity patterns distributions of social involvement with children structural patterns of interaction and development of the social self. Through exposure to a wide range of diverse research methods readers will gain a deeper appreciation of the problems procedures possibilities and profits associated with a truly comparative approach to understanding human growth and development. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138967045

Cultural Archives of AtrocityEssays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature Culture and Society Studies on the aesthetic representations of atrocity the world over have taken different discursive dimensions from history sociology political to human rights. These perspectives are usually geared towards understanding the manifestations extent political and economic implications of atrocities. In all these cases representation has been the singular concern. Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature Culture and Society brings together generic ways of interrogating artistic representations of atrocity in Kenya. Couched on interdisciplinary multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches essays in this volume investigate representations of Atrocity in Kenyan Literature Film Popular Music and other mediated cultural art forms. Contributors to this volume not only bring on board multiple and competing perspectives on studying atrocity and how they are archived but provide refreshing and valuable insights in examining the artistic and cultural interpellations of atrocity within the socio-political imaginaries of the Kenyan nation. This volume forms part of the growing critical resources for scholars undertaking studies on atrocity within the fields of ethnic studies cultural studies postcolonial studies peace and conflict criminology psychology political economy and history in Kenya. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367205454

Cultural Astronomy of the Japanese ArchipelagoExploring the Japanese Skyscape Goto introduces the diverse and multilayered skylore and cultural astron- omy of the peoples of the Japanese Archipelago. Going as far back as the Jomon Yayoi and Kofun periods this book examines the significance of constellations in the daily life of farmers fishermen sailors priests and the ruling classes throughout Japan’s ancient and medieval history. As well as covering the systems of the dominant Japanese people he also explores the astronomy of the Ainu people of Hokkaido and of the people of the Ryukyu Islands. Along the way he discusses the importance of astronomy in official rituals mythol- ogy and Shinto and Buddhist ceremonies. This book provides a unique overview of cultural astronomy in Japan and is a valuable resource for researchers as well as anyone who is inter- ested in Japanese culture and history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367407988

Cultural Autonomy Minority Rights and Globalization This insightful and timely book analyzes the role of cultural autonomy in advancing minority rights protection on the national and global level. It assesses the historical and legal limits of the right to self-determination and autonomy and draws on Marxist internationalism liberal nationalism and EU integrationist studies to examine the relationship between cultural autonomy and globalization. As such emphasis is placed on the sociological and historical value of cultural autonomy with the aim of working beyond formalistic and utilitarian approaches to cultural autonomy. The volume will appeal primarily to upper-level undergraduate and graduate level students of political science and international law interested in rethinking the role of cultural autonomy in an age of globalization. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815388371

Cultural Autonomy in Contemporary Europe In this volume some of the world’s leading scholars involved in researching the fields of ethnopolitics nationalism and ideas of nation and state have come together to produce a work that is both original and accessible. The volume explores the rich but sadly neglected tradition of thought on non-territorial cultural autonomy as exemplified by the work of Karl Renner and Otto Bauer and the European Nationalities Congress of the 1920s. Through a combination of theoretical analysis and case study approaches the authors challenge conventional thinking on how best to reconcile competing claims over territory and cultural expression. Drawing upon a range of examples from countries such as Russia Romania and Hungary and by comparing the situation of territorially-based ethnic minorities with those - principally the Roma - who lack identification with a given state or states the authors of this volume seek to supply answers and question received truths. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138967052

Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health CareAn Introductory Text This introductory textbook relates theory to practice and enhances students' learning and understanding of cultural issues that impact on patient care and their own practice as nurses while considering wider social and political issues. 　 Now in its third edition Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care has been updated to include new research evidence and a completely new chapter focusing on the health care workforce itself and the issues it’s facing. Other topics include: Health illness and religious beliefs; Mental health and culture; Women’s and men’s health in a multicultural society; Caring for the elderly; Death and bereavement. 　 Key features: Includes international perspectives and issues relating to overseas nurses studying and working in the UK; Case studies reflective exercises summary boxes and website links designed to stimulate discussion and shared practice; Fully updated with guidelines for practice and education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781482245578

Cultural Capital Identity and Social MobilityThe Life Course of Working-Class University Graduates This qualitative study explores the meaning of working-class origin in the life and career of university graduates. Social transition from a working-class background to a middle-class milieu results in loyalty conflicts and communication barriers. The lack of social and cultural capital and the absent sense of an assertive self-presentation are pivotal barriers to gaining management functions. Positions in certain key sectors are not necessarily allocated according to professional capacity but to obscure social connections regulated by cultural codes and tests. Matthys approaches social mobility as a trajectory of identity construction in which different classes are integrated and uses the notion of identity capital to interpret and discuss the meaning of the individual drive in social mobility. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138809468

Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia This book focuses on and examines the impact of cultural capital political economy social movements and political consciousness on the potential development of substantive democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia. While explaining the challenges obstacles and opportunities for the development of democracy Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia engages in defining democracy as a contested open and expanding concept through a comparative and historical examination. The book’s analysis employs interdisciplinary multidimensional comparative methods and critical approaches to examine the dynamic interplay among social structures human agencies cultural factors and social movements. This comparative and historical study has required an examination of critical social history that looks at societal issues from the bottom up: specifically critical discourse and the particular world system approach which deal with long-term and large-scale social changes. Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia will be of interest to scholars and students of African politics political theory and democratization. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367228538

Cultural CapitalsRevaluing The Arts Remaking Urban Spaces This is a book about the power of the arts to enhance city images urban economies and communities. Anchored in academic discussion of the Cultural Industries - what they are how they have emerged why they matter and how they should be theorized - the book offers a series of case studies drawn from five countries: Australia Singapore Spain the UK and the US to examine how the arts contribute to sustainable urban regeneration. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138254978

Cultural Change & Continuity In First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138990524

Cultural Change And The New EuropePerspectives On The European Community This book addresses issues in cultural change in reconstructing New Europe of the European Community (EC). It offers anthropological perspectives on the transformations of European culture and community which both result from the processes of EC integration. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367157852

Cultural Change In Postwar Taiwan This book combines perspectives from literature anthropology sociology political science economics history philosophy and art to explore the culture of a fully industrialized society with a traditional Chinese background. It explores the importance of key cultural influences on Taiwan. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367160883

Cultural ChauvinismIntercultural Communication and the Politics of Superiority This book explores the concept of cultural chauvinism as the sense of superiority that ethnic or national groups have of themselves relative to others particularly in the context of international relations. Minabere Ibelema shows the various ways that academics statesmen and especially journalists express their cultural groups’ sense of superiority over others. The analysis pivots around the notion of “Western values” given its centrality in international relations and diplomacy. To the West this stands for an array of largely positive political and civic values; to a significant portion of the global community it embodies degeneracies. Ibelema argues that often the most routine expressions go under the radar even in this age of hypersensitivity. This book throws a unique light on global relations and will be of particular interest to scholars in international relations communication studies and journalism studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367710026

Cultural Citizenship in Political Theory Cultural citizenship is a recently developed concept in discussions on multicultural society the media society consumerism and political theory. It addresses the various ways in which citizenship is becoming mixed up with culture either through globalisation processes (involving new cultural identities immigrations culture industries) or by increasingly life-style oriented types of action. In the face of these challenges the good old notion of citizenship seems in need of some assistance. This book takes a fresh look at cultural citizenship by exploring it from political-philosophical angles. It seeks to develop explicitly normative perspectives on the present debates around culture. What do the novel national and global constellations mean with respect to inclusion and exclusion participation and marginalisation political rights and ‘mere’ cultural practices? Moreover this volume’s authors aim to develop notions of cultural citizenship beyond the liberal political paradigm that associates it with ‘cultural rights’ ‘cultural capital’ or the ‘consumer-citizen’. They engage the concept to re-think politics in both its meanings of citizenship practices and governance practices vis-à-vis citizens. The authors address a range of pertinent issues exploring historical as well as present-day understandings and theoretical as well as policy applications of the notion of cultural citizenship. This book was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138798090

Cultural CollisionsPostmodern Technoscience In Cultural Collisions Raphael Sassower brings postmodernism face to face with technoscience and considers the viability of public works such as the Superconducting Supercollider in a postmodern age. Contending that technoscientific projects are contingent upon economic and political support and not simply upon their scientific feasibility Sassower illuminates the cultural context of postmodern technoscience vis-a-vis an examination of postmodernism and the philosophy of late 20th century science. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203699126

Cultural Communication and Intercultural Contact How is cultural identity accomplished interactively? What happens when different cultural identities contact one another? This book presents a series of papers from classic essays to original expositions which respond to these questions. The view of communication offered here -- rather than ignoring culture or making it a variable in an equation -- is based on cultural patterns and situated communication practices unveiling the multiplicity of factors involved in particular times and places. The contributors to this unusual volume represent a wide range of fields. Their equally diverse offerings will serve to clarify cultural distinctiveness in some communication phenomena and lay groundwork for the identification of cross-cultural generalities in others. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203812259

Cultural Competence for Public ManagersManaging Diversity in Today' s World Our increasingly globalized society demands a higher level of sophistication when working cross-culturally and internationally in local state and federal governments; tribal corporations; and nonprofit organizations. Cultural Competence for Public Managers offers guidance on how to become a leader in developing cultural competence in your organization. It provides a conceptual foundation and successful examples for developing cultural competence including competencies for international collaborations. The authors clearly define terms and provide their own cultural competence model that will add significantly to the current field. They describe the rapidly changing worldwide demographics that are bringing new cultures into many countries and societies. They also examine the issues that culturally diverse landscapes create in the United States Asia Europe Africa and Latin America highlighting the differences between assimilationist and the multicultural viewpoints. Drawing on a wide range of examples from universities; local state and federal governments; health care service providers; and nonprofit organizations the book illustrates management practices that are then extended into the relevant cultural context. It also includes examples of cultural missteps and cultural competencies that have worked in practice. Written in an accessible format and style the book provides practical and useful standards and performance measures proven coaching and mentoring guides as well as templates checklists exercises and guidelines. It includes a DVD with coaching guides checklists. Organized thematically the book defines the scope of cultural competencies highlights best practices and describes variations in responsibility for administering cultural competence for executives managers supervisors and employees. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781439828076

Cultural Competence in Forensic Mental HealthA Guide for Psychiatrists Psychologists and Attorneys As culturally relevant psychiatry becomes common practice the need for competent and culturally relevant forensic psychiatry comes to the forefront. This volume written by one expert in cultural psychiatry and another in forensic psychiatry addresses that need. By combining their expertise in these areas they are able to develop and create a new body of knowledge and experiences addressing the issue of the cultural aspects of forensic psychiatry. Beginning with an introduction to cultural and ethnic aspects of forensic psychiatry this volume will address basic issues of the practice as well as more detailed areas ranging from the various psychiatric disorders to intensive analysis and discussion of how to perform forensic psychiatric practice in a culturally relevant and competent way. Also the book suggests methods for continued awareness and sensitivity to issues of cultural and ethnic diversity in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138967069

Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis ManagementConcepts Theories and Case Studies Disasters are complex and dynamic events that test emergency and crisis professionals and leaders – even the most ethical ones. Within all phases of emergency management disasters highlight social vulnerabilities that require culturally competent practices. The lack of culturally respectable responses to diverse populations underscores the critical need for cultural competency education and training in higher education and practice. Using a case study approach that is both adaptable and practical this textbook is an accessible and essential guide on what makes teaching effective in emergency and crisis management. Key Features An in-depth understanding of cultural competence makes it well suited for teaching effectively in emergency preparedness Expert guidance from leading authorities ensures a fresh perspective in various aspects of emergency and crisis management National and international emergency and crisis management case studies containing ground rules a scenario roles/actors guiding questions facilitator questions and resources Pedagogy and andragogy theories that drive design and implementation Pre- and post-tests for each case study allow faculty and trainers to empirically measure the participants’ learning outcomes Short case study structure can be easily implemented in a course as a group discussion group assignment or individual assignment With unparalleled resources to reach every participant and facilitator Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management offers educators a roadmap for successfully engaging participants in various aspects of cultural competency knowledge skills and abilities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367321833

Cultural Competency for Public Administrators With a focus on a broad spectrum of topics--race ethnicity gender disability and sexual orientation at the federal tribal state and local levels--this book equips readers to better understand the complex real-world challenges public administrators confront in serving an increasingly diverse society. The book's main themes include: What is cultural competency and why is it important? Building culturally competent public agencies; Culturally competent public policy; Building culturally competent public servants; How do agencies assess their cultural competency and what is enough? PA scholars will appreciate the attention given to the role of cultural competency in program accreditation and to educational approaches to deliver essential instruction on this important topic. Practitioners will value the array of examples that reflect many of the common trade offs public administrators face when trying to deliver comprehensive programs and services within a context of fiscal realities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780765626776

Cultural Competency in Health Social & Human ServicesDirections for the 21st Century First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315805375

Cultural Complexes and the Soul of AmericaMyth Psyche and Politics Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America explores many of the cultural complexes that comprise the collective psychic-filtering system of emotions ideas and beliefs that possess the United States today. With chapters by an international selection of leading authors the book covers ideas both broad and specific and presents unique insight into the current state of the nation.The voices included in this volume amplify contemporary concerns linking them to themes which have existed in the American psyche for decades while also looking to the future. Part One examines meta themes including history purity dominion and democracy in the age of Trump. Part Two looks at key complexes including race gender the environment immigration national character and medicine. The overall message is that it is in wrestling with these complexes that the soul of America is forged or undone.This highly relevant book will be essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas politics sociology and American studies. It will also be of great interest to Jungian analysts in practice and in training and anyone interested in the current state of the US. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367272357

Cultural Complexes in China Japan Korea and TaiwanSpokes of the Wheel Thomas Singer presents a unique collection which examines cultural complexes in four parts of East Asia: China Japan Korea and Taiwan. From ancestor worship in China to the "kimchi bitch" meme of South Korea the wounded feminine in Taiwan and hikikomori in Japan the contributors take a Jungian lens to aspects of culture and shine a light on themes including gender archetypes consciousness social roles and political relations. This insightful and timely book will be essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas politics sociology and Asian studies. It will also be of great interest to Jungian analysts in practice and in training. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367441050

Cultural Conflict & Adaptation First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315831077

Cultural Consumption Classification and Power When social scientists in the 1970s began to identify the positive and constructive role of cultural practices in the operation of power Pierre Bourdieu advanced a highly influential and subsequently controversial account. Most notably in Distinction he charted the connections between cultural taste and practice and social classification. This book seeks to evaluate develop and transcend the ideas that Bourdieu explored in Distinction.. Taken together the papers compare and contrast different theoretical and conceptual approaches bring empirical investigations to bear on relevant theoretical issues drawing on different national experiences (France UK Canada Central Africa) and attend to aspects of the relationship between culture and power with reference to gender and ethnicity as well as class. Thus the book contributes to the on-going international debates across the social sciences about Bourdieu’s legacy and the current role of cultural practice in social reproduction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138883505

Cultural Continuity in Advanced EconomiesBritain and the U.S. Versus Continental Europe Originally published in 2005. In the past three centuries Britain Continental Europe and the United States have all experienced remarkable continuity in terms of the character and nature of the relations between the State and the economy. In a fascinating and eminently readable account this book examines the significance of ideology in the formation of economic policy in the two groups of countries comparing and contrasting the minimalist state-ownership societies of Britain and the United States with the interventionist states of Continental Europe. The book uncovers a continued contrast between the economic and social individualism of Britain and the United States and the reliance on the State typical of nations in Continental Europe. The readership will benefit from a clearer understanding of the varying degrees of intervention in both the domestic and international economic policies employed and the illuminating comparisons between the Continentals and the more market orientated nations of Britain and the United States. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138356795

Cultural Criminology Cultural Criminology is a theoretical methodological and interventionist approach to the study of crime and deviance that places criminality and its control in the context of culture; that is it views crime and the agencies and institutions of crime control as cultural products—as creative constructs. Cultural criminologists focus relentlessly on the continuous generation of meaning around interaction: rules created rules broken a constant interplay of moral entrepreneurship political innovation and transgression. Indeed Cultural Criminology is now a well-established—if heterogeneous and contentious—field of study. The work of cultural criminologists supports numerous international journals regional organizations and global conferences. As the field continues to flourish as never before this new title from Routledge edited by a distinguished scholar with an international reputation meets the need for an authoritative one-stop reference work to make sense of the wide range of approaches theories and concepts that have informed Cultural Criminology. In four volumes the collection assembles the best and most influential contributions made by cultural criminologists from around the world. The gathered works cover not only the history and antecedents of Cultural Criminology and cutting-edge theories but also explore a variety of research methods used by leading scholars in the field and the rich data generated by their rigorous empirical work. With a full index together with a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context Cultural Criminology is an essential work of reference. The collection will be particularly useful as a database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar—and sometimes overlooked—texts. For researchers students and policy-makers it is an essential one-stop research and pedagogic resource. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415812887

Cultural Criminology Unleashed First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge-Cavendish 9781138140479

Cultural CriminologyTheories of Crime Cultural criminology has now emerged as a distinct theoretical perspective and as a notable intellectual alternative to certain aspects of contemporary criminology. Cultural criminology attempts to theorize the interplay of cultural processes media practices and crime; the emotional and embodied dimensions of crime and victimization; the particular characteristics of crime within late modern/late capitalist culture; and the role of criminology itself in constructing the reality of crime. In this sense cultural criminology not only offers innovative theoretical models for making sense of crime criminality and crime control but presents as well a critical theory of criminology as a field of study. This collection is designed to highlight each of these dimensions of cultural criminology - its theoretical foundations its current theoretical trajectories and its broader theoretical critiques-by presenting the best of cultural criminological work from the United States Europe Australia and elsewhere. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780754629436

Cultural Crisis and Social MemoryModernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos. It explicates the ways in which social memory constructed by the people enters modernity and how this in turn causes fundamental ruptures with their past as well as the various ways cultural crises are experienced in their lives. The essays in this book consider how in these crises the people constitute their cultural social or individual identities particularly focusing on the theoretical issues of identifications and their relevance to distinct historical processes in Thailand and Laos. Both countries particularly in the two decades since the 1970s have been undergoing radical social and economic changes. Whilst Thailand has travelled down the road to industrialization neighbouring Laos experienced a communist revolution in 1975 and only since the late 1980s has attempted to follow a reformist path to development. Increasingly influenced by globalised economic and social institutions both countries have come to face crises that have made people insecure in the present and anxious about the future. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138990531

Cultural Defences at the International Criminal Court Cultural defences i.e. claims that certain aspects of a defendant’s cultural background should be taken into consideration by courts when adjudicating on their guilt or innocence have been raised before domestic courts in a variety of jurisdictions. This has been a very sensitive and controversial issue. However the issue of cultural defences at international tribunals is one that has not yet been fully explored. The main objective of this book is to analyse if the International Criminal Court can and should accommodate cultural defences as answers to legal charges or if the Court should accommodate cultural considerations in other ways. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367888978

Cultural Difference and Material Culture in Middle English RomanceNormans and Saxons This book explores how the cultural distinctions and conflicts between Anglo-Saxons and Normans originating with the Norman Conquest of 1066 prevailed well into the fourteenth century and are manifest in a significant number of Middle English romances including King Horn Havelok the Dane Sir Orfeo Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and others. Specifically the study looks at how the material culture of these poems (architecture battle tactic landscapes) systematically and persistently distinguishes between Norman and Anglo-Saxon cultural identity. Additionally it examines the influence of the English Outlaw Tradition itself grounded in Anglo-Saxon resistance to the Norman Conquest as expressed in specific recurring scenes (disguise and infiltration forest exile) found in many Middle English romances. In the broadest sense a significant number of Middle English romances including some of the most well-read and often-taught set up a dichotomy of two ruling houses headed by a powerful lord who compete for power and influence. This book examines the cultural heritage behind each of these pairings to show how poets repeatedly contrast essentially Norman and Anglo-Saxon values and ruling styles.  Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367864798

Cultural Difference on TrialThe Nature and Limits of Judicial Understanding Cultural Difference on Trial: The Nature and Limits of Judicial Understanding comprises a sustained philosophical exploration of the capacity of the modern liberal democratic legal system to understand the thought and practice of those culturally different minorities who come before it as claimants defendants or witnesses. Exploring this issue from within the tradition of contemporary analytical and naturalistic philosophy and drawing upon recent developments in the philosophy of mind and language this volume is informed by a sound academic and practical grasp of the workings of the legal system itself. Systematically analysing the nature and limits of a judge's ability to understand culturally different thought and action over the course of a trial this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the workings of the modern legal system. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138260467

Cultural Differences and Economic GlobalizationEffects on trade foreign direct investment and migration Economic globalization is the process of increased integration among nations characterized and fostered by three elements of international trade- goods and services international capital flows and international migration. In recent decades international economic integration has increased both in depth (more pronounced bilateral connections) and in breadth (connections have become more commonplace) thus the global economy has become increasingly integrated. Societies receive tremendous net benefits from economic globalization however accessing these benefits may be limited by cross-societal cultural differences. This book examines cultural differences as a potential impediment to economic integration. Relying on rigorous statistical and econometric techniques the analyses indicate that higher transaction costs due to greater cultural distance inhibit both the volume of trade flows and the successful completion of trade deals. Cultural distance appears to reduce foreign direct investment as well as divert investment to less culturally-distant destinations. This book finds a negative relationship between migration flows and cultural distance. It considers the common criticism that repeated and intensified integration diminishes cultural differences resulting in cultural homogeneity. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the relationships between cross-societal cultural differences and economic globalization. It will be of great interest to scholars and students who study globalization international economics and cultural studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367668624

Cultural Differences and Improving PerformanceHow Values and Beliefs Influence Organizational Performance One of the most significant and yet largely overlooked factors influencing performance and workplace problem solving in many large organizations is that of national culture. Managers and the organizations for which they work need to be able to understand the influence of cultural values and beliefs on performance in order to identify appropriate solutions; strategies appropriate in one part of the world may be ineffective or even counter-productive in another. Bryan Hopkins' ground breaking book relates the concept of cultural dimensions as developed by writers such as Hofstede and Trompenaars to the performance engineering approaches of Gilbert and Mager and Pipe to show how strategies for solving workplace performance problems need to consider the cultural composition of the workforce. It then provides a practical structure for problem solving within the context of an international multi-cultural environment. This is a book for both managers working in an international setting or for those in national organizations who are dealing with the challenge of culturally diverse workforces. It's also a book for governments seeking to understand the potential implications of national culture on civilian or even military interventions. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315575254

Cultural Diplomacy and International Cultural Relations: Volume I This book is the first in a dedicated series that explores questions of cultural diplomacy and international cultural relations. Drawing on a broad range of disciplinary perspectives it throws new light on the function and operation of policies that seek to change attitudes values and behaviours across national boundaries and in diverse geocultural contexts. The specific policies explored relate to ways in which sites of past violence and atrocity are deployed in strategies of soft power; to the contribution of culture to EU enlargement; to the use of the Russian language as a soft power resource; to the singularities of the Indian cultural diplomacy; to cultural diplomacy as elite legitimation; to the role of diaspora relations in European cultural diplomacy; to the use of film in post-war cultural diplomacy; and to the role assigned to culture in the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement. Scholars interested in how cultural and foreign policy intersect in widely differing national contexts will find this book an invaluable resource. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367661205

Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of EmpireNegotiating Post-Colonial Returns Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire analyzes the history of the negotiations that led to the atypical return of colonial-era cultural property from the Netherlands to Indonesia in the 1970s. By doing so the book shows that competing visions of post-colonial redress were contested throughout the era of post-World War II decolonization. Considering the danger this precedent posed to other countries the book looks beyond the Dutch-Indonesian case to the “Elgin (Parthenon) Marbles” and “Benin Bronzes” controversies as well as recent developments relating to returns in France and the Netherlands. Setting aside the “universalism versus nationalism” debate Scott asserts that the deeper meaning of post-colonial cultural property disputes in European history has more to do with how officials of former colonial powers negotiated decolonization while also creating contemporary understandings of their nations’ pasts. As a whole the book expands the field of cultural restitution studies and offers a more nuanced understanding of the connections drawn between postcolonial national identity making and the extension of cultural diplomacy. Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire offers a new perspective on the international influence of the UNGA and UNESCO on the return debate. As such the book will be of interest to scholars students and practitioners engaged in the study of cultural property diplomacy and law museum and heritage studies modern European history post-colonial studies and historical anthropology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815382317

Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest? Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the National Interest? is the first book bringing together from the perspective of the cultural disciplines scholarship that locates contemporary cultural diplomacy practices within their social political and ideological contexts while examining the different forces that drive them. The contributions to this book have two methodologies: the first to deconstruct and demystify cultural diplomacy notably the ‘hype’ that accompanies it especially when it is yoked to the notion of ‘soft power’; the second to better understand how contemporary cultural diplomacy actually operates. In applying a cultural lens to the question this book probes whether there can be such a thing as a cultural diplomacy ‘beyond the national interest’. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138392526

Cultural Disability Studies in EducationInterdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide Over the last few decades disability studies has emerged not only as a discipline in itself but also as a catalyst for cultural disability studies and Disability Studies in Education. In this book the three areas become united in a new field that recognises education as a discourse between tutors and students who explore representations of disability on the levels of everything from academic disciplines and knowledge to language and theory; from received understandings and social attitudes to narrative and characterisation. Moving from late nineteenth to early twenty-first-century representations this book combines disability studies with aesthetics film studies Holocaust studies gender studies happiness studies popular music studies humour studies and media studies. In so doing it encourages discussion around representations of disability in drama novels films autobiography short stories music videos sitcoms and advertising campaigns. Discussions are underpinned by the tripartite model of disability and so disrupt one-dimensional representations. Cultural Disability Studies in Education encourages educators and students to engage with disability as an isolating hurtful and joyful experience that merits multiple levels of representation and offers true potential for a non-normative social aesthetic. It will be required reading for all scholars and students of disability studies cultural disability studies Disability Studies in Education sociology and cultural studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138103276

Cultural Dissemination and Translational CommunitiesGerman Drama in English Translation 1900-1914 The early twentieth century is widely regarded as a crucial period in British theatre history: it witnessed radical reform and change with regard to textual conceptual and institutional practices and functions. Theatre practitioners and cultural innovators such as translators Harley Granville Barker William Archer and Jacob Thomas Grein amongst others laid the foundations during this period for - what is now regarded to be - modern British theatre.   In this groundbreaking work Katja Krebs offers one of the first extended attempts to integrate translation history with theatre history by analyzing the relationship between translational practice and the development of domestic dramatic tradition. She examines the relationship between the multiple roles inhabited by these cultural and theatrical reformers - directors playwrights critics actors and translators - and their positioning in a wider social and cultural context. Here she takes into consideration the translators as members of an artistic network or community the ideological and personal factors underlying translational choices the contemporaneous evaluative framework within which this translational activity for the stage occurred as well as the imprints of social and cultural traces within specific translated texts. Krebs employs the examples from this period in order to raise a series of wider issues on translating dramatic texts which are important to a variety of periods and cultures.   Cultural Dissemination and Translational Communities demonstrates that an analysis of stage-translational practices allows for an understanding of theatre history that avoids being narrowly national and instead embraces an appreciation of cultural hybridity. The importance of translational activity in the construction of a domestic dramatic tradition is demonstrated within a framework of interdisciplinarity that enhances our understanding of theatrical translational as well as cultural and social systems at the international level. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315759449

Cultural Diversity Liberal Pluralism and SchoolsIsaiah Berlin and Education With debates on the relationship between cultural diversity and the role of schools raging on both sides of the Atlantic the time is apt for a philosophical work that shines new light on the issues involved and that brings a fresh perspective to a political and emotive discussion. Here Burtonwood brings the writing of British philosopher Isaiah Berlin to bear on the subject of multiculturalism in schools the first time that his work has been applied to matters of education. Tackling the often-contradictory issues surrounding liberal pluralism this book poses serious questions for the education system in the US and in the UK. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415647113

Cultural Diversity and Discourse Practices in Grade Nine In the classroom knowledge is widely distributed among the students and teacher but is difficult to share across linguistic and cultural barriers. Seeking paths across these barriers Lynne Wiltse meticulously explores the question: What is the discourse frame in which students and teachers work? Situated in a grade nine multilingual classroom her work provides a rich description of the research process in the classroom. At the same time she draws the reader sequentially through the analysis revealing inferences in increasing levels of abstraction within a framework ofcommunities of practice. She highlights issues related to second language acquisition students immigration experiences teaching and learning and points the way toward multi-vocal dialogues and practices that can forge a path across cultural and linguistic divides. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138425071

Cultural Diversity and EducationFoundations Curriculum and Teaching Now available in paperback the sixth edition of this definitive text provides students a strong background in the conceptual theoretical and philosophical issues in multicultural education from a leading authority and scholarly leader of the field---James A. Banks. In the opening chapter author Banks presents his well-known and widely used concept of Dimensions of Multicultural Education to help build an understanding of how the various components of multicultural education are interrelated. He then provides an overview on preparing students to function as effective citizens in a global world; discusses the dimensions history and goals of multicultural education; presents the conceptual philosophical and research issues related to education and diversity; examines the issues involved in curriculum and teaching; looks at gender equity disability giftedness and language diversity; and focuses on intergroup relations and principles for teaching and learning.　 　 This new edition incorporates new concepts theories research and developments in the field of multicultural education and features: A new Chapter 5 "Increasing Student Academic Achievement: Paradigms and Explanations"　provides important explanations for the achievement gap and suggests ways that educators can work to close it. A new Chapter 7 "Researching Race Culture and Difference " explains the unique characteristics of multicultural research and how it differs from mainstream research in education and social science. A new Chapter 14 "Principles for Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Society"　contains research-based guidelines for reforming teaching and the school in order to increase the academic achievement and social development of students from diverse racial ethnic cultural language and gender groups. A new Appendix—"Essential Principles Checklist"—designed to help educators determine the extent to which practices within their schools colleges and universities are consistent with the research-based findings described in the book. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138654150

Cultural Diversity and Inclusion in Early Years Education Cultural Diversity and Inclusion in Early Years Education reveals how cultural diversity can be celebrated in every early years setting. Acknowledging the impact of culture on a child’s development and identity the book demonstrates the need for practitioners to appreciate cultural difference value diversity and ensure inclusive practices. Alongside comprehensive discussion of current and historical policy relating to multiculturalism and relevant sociocultural theory the book provides practical guidance and resources to support practitioners in responding to the challenges of working with families and children from diverse cultural backgrounds. Chapters focus on topics such as: policy and the role of the practitioner sociocultural theories relating to child development building working relationships with families the impact of culture on a child's identity enabling environments and inclusive strategies. Including case studies reflective questions and suggestions for further reading and research this essential book will help early years practitioners and students to embrace the varied cultural heritages of the children in their care. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138218550

Cultural Diversity and SuicideEthnic Religious Gender and Sexual Orientation Perspectives This book adds a vital and overlooked dimension—diversity—to suicide assessments and interventions The literature on the relationship between culture and suicide has historically been widely scattered and often difficult to find. Cultural Diversity and Suicide summarizes that widespread literature so that counselors can begin to include diversity issues as important variables that can help them become even more effective when conducting suicide assessments or interventions. For ease of reading Cultural Diversity and Suicide is divided into chapters based on ethnicity. The book avoids broad generalizations whenever possible thus each chapter specifically discusses critical within-group variables (issues relating to gender age religion and sexuality) that should be considered when conducting suicide assessments and interventions. Each chapter includes at least one case study and incorporates clear headings that make it simple to find specific information.Cultural Diversity and Suicide is not a book of cookie-cutter approaches to suicide prevention nor is it a primer for the novice. Rather it has been carefully designed to help counselors and counselors-in-training gain a fuller understanding of the issues that may lead individuals from diverse backgrounds to consider suicide—and the cultural aspects of an individual’s heritage that can influence that person’s decision. Written for professionals who have a pre-existing understanding of how to work with suicidal clients the book begins with a concise but essential overview of traditional suicide risk factors and a brief assessment model (an excellent “memory refresher”) and then moves quickly into specific diversity issues relevant to: European Americans African Americans Asian Americans Hispanic Americans Native AmericansCultural Diversity and Suicide explores ethnicity and its relationship to suicide (for example suicide rate and reason differences based on ethnic group or ethnic identity) plus meaningful within-group variables such as: lesbian/gay/bisexual issues and the increase in suicide rate based on sexual orientation and sexual identity religious differences—suicide rates among various religious groups religious differences in views of suicide views of the afterlife burial practices and views of lesbian/gay/bisexual people cultural buffers such as extended family and religious practice suicide prevention interventions based on cultural differences (essentially how traditional suicide prevention programs can be altered to include new variables)This book is essential reading for everyone doing the vital work of conducting suicide assessments and interventions. Please consider making it part of your professional/teaching collection today. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315808451

Cultural Diversity in International LawThe Effectiveness of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultur The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (CDCE) was adopted in 2005 and designed to allow States to protect and promote cultural policies. This book examines the effectiveness of the CDCE and offers ways by which its implementation may be improved to better attain its objectives. 　The book provides insight in how the normative character of the CDCE may be strengthened through implementation and increasingly recurrent practice based on its provisions. Hailing from various fields of　international law political and social sciences the book’s contributors work to promote discussions on the practical and legal influence of the CDCE 　and to identify opportunities and recommendations for a more effective application.　Part One of the book assesses the effectiveness of the CDCE in influencing other areas of international law and the work conducted by other intergovernmental organizations through the recognition of the double nature (cultural and economic) of cultural goods and services. Part Two focuses on the practice of the CDCE beyond the recognition of the specificity of cultural goods and services in international law by addressing the CDCE’s call for greater international cooperation and stronger integration of cultural concerns in development strategies at the national and regional levels. 　The book will be of great use and interest to academics and practitioners in law 　social and political sciences agents of governmental and international organizations and cultural sector stakeholders. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138670471

Cultural Diversity in Trade Unions: A Challenge to Class Identity?A Challenge to Class Identity? This title was first published in 2000:  Addresses the question of how encompassing unions deal with regional differences and competing cultural identities - in particular those of migrant workers as a specific social and cultural category. Are regional and cultural differences jeopardizing the working-class solidarity? Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138715677

Cultural Diversity Pedagogy and Meta-Case DesignA New Approach to Diversity in Education Responding to the growing need for educators to have a deeper understanding of cultural diversity this book provides a theoretically-rich and empirically-sound analysis of diversity education to develop a new cultural diversity pedagogy. The author deconstructs and navigates the complex field of diversity education arguing for a more socially engaged approach in which educators and researchers develop their perspectives on cultural diversity by examining their own assumptions values and beliefs. This is explored through a series of 10 case studies based in primary school settings demonstrating that teaching and learning environments are crucial to the success of cultural diversity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367560690

Cultural DiversityA Special Issue of applied Neuropsychology Cultural Diversity studies the relationship between culture and neuropsychology. Its goal is to examine salient aspects of this relationship and assist in bringing the issue of culture and cultural diversity to the forefront of neuropsychological discussions. The articles help further the understanding that ethnic and cultural variables are important not only in research design but also in clinical practice. In addition they urge clinicians to make cultural variables an integral component of any neuropsychological assessment and examine clinical data in the context of the patient's ethnic and cultural backround. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9780203764497

Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized WorldProceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities Depok Indonesia Novembe The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature cultural studies archaeology philosophy history language studies information and literacy studies and area studies. Asia and the Pacifi c are the particular regions that the conference focuses on as they have become new centers of knowledge production in arts and humanities and in the future seem to be able to grow signifi cantly as a major contributor of culture science and arts to the globalized world. The book will help shed light on what arts and humanities scholars in Asia and the Pacifi c have done in terms of research and knowledge development as well as the new frontiers of research that have been explored and opening up which can connect the two regions with the rest of the globe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367735470

Cultural Economics Culture is a priceless inheritance and source of wellbeing that is of immense value to humankind. Cultural economics set out to examine the nature and social benefits of cultural products and phenomena as they exist in the market. This volume is the masterpiece of Li Yining one of the best-known Chinese economists active in devoting his attention to the role of culture in the economy since the 1950s. Considering the importance of culture in the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics the author combines cultural history economic history and the history of economic thought to produce unique perspectives. This book not only introduces the central concepts of cultural economics and the culture industry but proposes several groundbreaking views that greatly influenced the culture policies of China including cultural adjustment cultural confidence and cultural checks and balances. Researchers and students of economics cultural studies and Chinese politics as well as policy makers will benefit from this volume. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367558956

Cultural Economics and TheoryThe evolutionary economics of David Hamilton David Hamilton is a leader in the American institutionalist school of heterodox economics that emerged after WWII. This volume includes 25 articles written by Hamilton over a period of nearly half a century. In these articles he examines the philosophical foundations and practical problems of economics. The result of this is a unique institutionalist view of how economies evolve and how economics itself has evolved with them. Hamilton applies insight gained from his study of culture to send the message that human actions situated in culture determine our economic situation. David Hamilton has advanced heterodox economics by replacing intellectual concepts from orthodox economics that hinder us with concepts that help us. In particular Hamilton has helped replace equilibrium with evolution make-believe with reality ideological distortion of government with practical use of government the economy as a product of natural law with the economy as a product of human law and last he has helped us replace the entrepreneur as a hero with the entrepreneur as a real person. These articles provide an alternative to the self-adjusting market. They provide an explanation of how the interaction of cultural patterns and technology determine the evolutionary path of the economic development of a nation. This is not a simple materialist depiction of economic history as some Marxists have advocated instead Hamilton treats technology and culture as endogenous forces embedded and inseparable from each other and therefore economic development. This volume will be of most interest and value to professional economists and graduate students who are looking for an in-depth explanation of the origins and significance of institutional economics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138803022

Cultural Economies of the Atlantic WorldObjects and Capital in the Transatlantic Imagination Cultural Economies explores the dynamic intersection of material culture and transatlantic formations of "capital" in the long eighteenth century. It brings together two cutting-edge fields of inquiry—Material Studies and Atlantic Studies—into a generative collection of essays that investigate nuanced ways that capital material culture and differing transatlantic ideologies intersected. This ambitious provocative work provides new interpretive critiques and methodological approaches to understanding both the material and the abstract relationships between humans and objects including the objectification of humans in the larger current conversation about capitalism and inevitably power in the Atlantic world. Chronologically bracketed by events in the long-eighteenth century circum-Atlantic these essays employ material case studies from littoral African states to abolitionist North America to Caribbean slavery to medicinal practice in South America providing both broad coverage and nuanced interpretation. Holistically Cultural Economies demonstrates that the eighteenth-century Atlantic world of capital and materiality was intimately connected to both large and small networks that inform the hemispheric and transatlantic geopolitics of capital and nation of the present day. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367458003

Cultural EcstasiesDrugs Gender and the Social Imaginary In this important contribution to the field Ilana Mountian critically analyses discourses surrounding drug addiction drug prohibition treatment and prevention and highlights new ways of understanding the role that gender plays in the ethics of drug use across cultures. The book analyses the discourses of religion criminality and medicine and shows how they combined with key historical events affect our views of drug use and drug users based on gender race and class. The book draws on research from a variety of fields to provide alternative conceptual and methodological perspectives on the subject including: critical theory gender studies post-colonial studies psychoanalysis philosophy. Cultural Ecstasies is an innovative study of drugs and addiction and will be of great interest to students researchers and professionals working in psychology sociology social work health care criminology and allied disciplines. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415583862

Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri LankaSex and Serendipity Ceylon or Sri Lanka was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes colourful temples and friendly inhabitants – the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day providing a history of homosexuality travel and cultural encounter on the island. The book offers profiles of major figures in Sri Lankan culture and of homosexual visitors both famous and infamous to the island. It discusses the experiences of sojourners including the Victorian social reformer Edward Carpenter and the German naturalist Ernst Haeckel such British and American writers as Paul Bowles and Arthur C. Clarke and the Australian painter Donald Friend. It also pays particular attention to Lionel Wendt one of the most important modernist photographers outside Europe. For these figures an erotic appreciation of young men whom they encountered mixed with interest in Sinhalese art Buddhist and Hindu spirituality and the flora and fauna of the island. Their experiences influenced modern writing art and dance. Cultural influences moved in both directions however and Sri Lankans also found inspiration from abroad. The book argues that homosexuals played a major role in the transmission of cultural influences from Sri Lanka to the rest of the world and from the wider world to this Indian Ocean island. Providing an original analysis of gay cultures in Sri Lanka from Victorian encounters to the present day this book is the first study of Sri Lanka as a site of gay travel. An excellent study of trans-national cultural exchange sexuality and the relationships between them it will be of interest to academics in the field of Asian Studies Colonial History and Gay and Queer Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138491502

Cultural Encounters as Intervention Practices Setting up cultural encounters is a widespread intervention strategy employed to diffuse conflicts and manage difficulties related to diversity. These organised cultural encounters bring together people of different backgrounds in order to promote peaceful coexistence and inclusion. These transformative aims relate to the participants but are often also expected to spill over into the society community or context addressed by the encounter. As a category ‘Organised Cultural Encounters’ draws together a variety of activities and events such as multicultural festivals dialogue initiatives diversity training and inclusion projects – activities that are generally not considered to be of the same kind. Most of the existing literature on these types of encounters is instrumental and has an overall emphasis on evaluations in terms of outcome or success rate. This book goes beyond evaluations and the contributors pose and debate theoretical and methodological questions and analyse the practices and performativities of particular encounters. Taken together it makes an important contribution to the theorisation and analysis of intercultural relations and negotiations. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367584405

Cultural Encounters in IndiaThe Local Co-workers of Tranquebar Mission 18th to 19th Centuries The book is an English translation of an award winning German book. The history of social and religious encounter  in 18th century South  India is narrated through fascinating biographies and day to day lives of  Indian workers in the Tranquebar  Mission (1706-1845). The book challenges the notion that Christianity in colonial India was basically imposed from the outside. Liebau maintains that  significant contributions  were made by  the local converts and mission co-workers who played an important role in the Tranquebar Mission. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138102682

Cultural Encounters in Translated Children's Literature Cultural Encounters in Translated Children's Literature offers a detailed and innovative model of analysis for examining the complexities of translating children's literature and sheds light on the interpretive choices at work in moving texts from one culture to another. The core of the study addresses the issue of how images of a nation locale or country are constructed in translated children's literature with the translation of Australian children's fiction into French serving as a case study. Issues examined include the selection of books for translation the relationship between children's books and the national and international publishing industry the packaging of translations and the importance of titles blurbs and covers the linguistic and stylistic features specific to translating for children intertextual references the function of the translation in the target culture didactic and pedagogical aims euphemistic language and explicitation and literariness in translated texts.   The findings of the case study suggest that the most common constructs of Australia in French translations reveal a preponderance of traditional Eurocentric signifiers that identify Australia with the outback the antipodes the exotic the wild the unknown the void the end of the world the young and innocent nation and the Far West. Contemporary signifiers that construct Australia as urban multicultural Aboriginal worldly and inharmonious are seriously under-represented. The study also shows that French translations are conventional conservative and didactic showing preference for an exotic rather than local specificity with systematic manipulation of Australian referents betraying a perception of Australia as antipodean rural exoticism.   The significance of the study lies in underscoring the manner in which a given culture is constructed in another cultural milieu especially through translated children's literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138150003

Cultural EncountersRepresenting Otherness Cultural Encounters examines how 'otherness' has been constituted communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Covering a diverse range of media including film TV advertisements video photographs painting novels poetry newspapers and material objects the contributors who include Ludmilla Jordanova and Ivan Karp explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil India Israel Australia and Africa examining the ways in which visual and textual art forms operate in their treatment of cultural difference. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315008691

Cultural Entrenchment of HindutvaLocal Mediations and Forms of Convergence The book reflects on the discreet influence of Hindutva in situations/places outside or at the margins of its organisational and mobilisational arena where people denying any commitment to the Sangh Parivar incidentally show affinities and parallelisms with its discourse and practice. This study looks at Hindutva’s entrenchment not so much as an orchestration from above but more as an outcome of a process that evolves in relation to specific social and cultural milieus.The contributors analyse Hindutva’s entrenchment emphasising on the ethnography of the forms of mediation and/or convergence produced in certain contexts. The 11 case studies highlight three different dynamics of Hindutva’s cultural entrenchment. The first section gathers cases where RSS-affiliated organisations have set up specific cultural or artistic programmes at the regional level involving the meditation of local people whose interest in these programmes does not necessarily mean that they endorse the Hindutva agenda completely. The next deals with convergence and refers to cases where the followers gather around a charismatic personality whose precepts and practice may bring them towards a closer affinity with the Hindutva programme. The last section deals with the contexts of resistance where social milieus engaged in opposing Hindutva may in fact paradoxically and even inadvertently imbibe some of its ideas and practices in order to contest its claims. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9781138659957

Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa This book seeks to widen perspectives on entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the diverse and partly new forms of entrepreneurial practice in Africa since the 1990s. Contrary to widespread assertions figures of success have been regularly observed in Africa since pre-colonial times. The contributions account for these historical continuities in entrepreneurship and identify the specifically new political and economic context within which individuals currently probe and invent novel forms of enterprise. Based on ethnographically contextualized life stories and case studies of female and male entrepreneurs the volume offers a vivid and multi-perspectival account of their strategies visions and ventures in domains as varied as religious proselytism politics tourism media music prostitution funeral organization and education. African cultural entrepreneurs have a significant economic impact attract the attention of large groups of people serve as role models for many youths and contribute to the formation of new popular cultures. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367870690

Cultural EntrepreneurshipThe Cultural Worker�s Experience of Entrepreneurship This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship examining the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecurities of managing precarious working conditions. Drawing on interviews conducted with cultural workers Cultural Entrepreneurship focuses on how individuals articulate their experience of entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries. Noting the importance of place the local cultural milieu is examined as a means of situating entrepreneurial practices through cultural and enterprise policies local networks and significant relationships. Within this framework the cultural entrepreneurs’ stories reveal means of subverting or re-interpreting identities and the possibility for ‘rethinking cultural entrepreneurship.’ Aimed at researchers academics and students investigating cultural entrepreneurship cultural policy and cultural labour Cultural Entrepreneurship will additionally be of value to creative industry consultants cultural policymakers and those setting up creative enterprises. Researchers from fields such as geography investigating different aspects of the cultural industries in relation to cultural policy and place will also find this book to be a useful contribution. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367883997

Cultural ErgonomicsTheory Methods and Applications Even when products and systems are highly localized rarely is there one design suitable for a single mono-cultural population of users. The products and systems created and used are cultural artifacts representing shared cognitions that characterize mental models that result from interactions with physical environments. Thus culture is embedded and impacts the extent to which products are usable accessible useful and safe. Products and systems that deviate from users’ mental models may have negative consequences for users ranging from minor annoyance to more serious consequences such as severe injury or death.Both an introduction and a primer Cultural Ergonomics: Theory Methods and Applications demonstrates how cultural ergonomics can be applied in research and practitioner contexts. It covers selection of theories descriptions of research designs methods to analyze the results case studies and strategies used to draw inferences and conclusions in a vast array of areas including occupational safety global issues emergency management human-computer interaction warnings and risk communications and product design.Human factors/ergonomics as a discipline is slowly integrating cultural ergonomics into efforts to explore human capabilities and limitations in the context of design and evaluation. Edited by experts and containing contributions from pioneers in this area this book provides examples and methodologies within a human factors framework. It provides systematic methods to apply what is learned from analysis of culture to the design development and evaluation of products and systems. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367379056

Cultural Evolution and its DiscontentsCognitive Overload Parasitic Cultures and the Humanistic Cure People worry that computers robots interstellar aliens or Satan himself – brilliant stealthy ruthless creatures – may seize control of our world and destroy what’s uniquely valuable about the human race. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our cultural systems – especially those whose last names are "ism" – are already doing that and doing it so adeptly that we seldom even notice. Like other parasites they’ve blindly evolved to exploit us for their own survival. Creative arts and humanistic scholarship are our best tools for diagnosis and cure. The assemblages of ideas that have survived like the assemblages of biological cells that have survived are the ones good at protecting and reproducing themselves. They aren’t necessarily the ones that guide us toward our most admirable selves or our healthiest future. Relying so heavily on culture to protect our uniquely open minds from cognitive overload makes us vulnerable to hijacking by the systems that co-evolve with us. Recognizing the selfish Darwinian functions of these systems makes sense of many aspects of history politics economics and popular culture. What drove the Protestant Reformation? Why have the Beatles The Hunger Games and paranoid science-fiction thrived and how was hip-hop co-opted? What alliances helped neoliberalism out-compete Communism and what alliances might enable environmentalism to overcome consumerism? Why are multiculturalism and university-trained elites provoking working-class nationalist backlash? In a digital age how can we use numbers without having them use us instead? Anyone who has wondered how our species can be so brilliant and so stupid at the same time may find an answer here: human mentalities are so complex that we crave the simplifications provided by our cultures but the cultures that thrive are the ones that blind us to any interests that don’t correspond to their own. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367476564

Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England Gesa Stedman's ambitious new study is a comprehensive account of cross-channel cultural exchanges between seventeenth-century France and England and includes discussion of a wide range of sources and topics. Literary texts garden design fashion music dance food the book market and the theatre as well as key historical figures feature in the book. Importantly Stedman concentrates on the connection between actual material transfer and its symbolic representation in both visual and textual sources investigating material exchange processes in order to shed light on the connection between actual and symbolic exchange. Individual chapters discuss exchanges instigated by mediators such as Henrietta Maria and Charles II and textual and visual representations of cultural exchange with France in poetry restoration comedies fashion discourse and in literary devices and characters. Well-written and accessible Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England provides needed insight into the field of cultural exchange and will be of interest to both literary scholars and cultural historians. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780754669388

Cultural Exclusion in ChinaState Education Social Mobility and Cultural Difference Ethnic minorities form a very substantial proportion of the population of China with over 100 million people in 55 formally designated minority groups inhabiting over 60% of the country’s land area. Poverty and economic inequality of minority groups are widely-recognised problems. However as this book based on extensive original research shows underlying economic inequality are educational inequality and cultural exclusion which in turn lead to problems of social mobility and thereby to poverty. The book examines in particular Tibetan Muslim Hui Salar and Bonan people. It discusses the policy and practice of education for ethnic minorities the prevailing chauvinistic Chinese national culture from which minorities feel excluded and the attitudes of both majority Han Chinese towards minorities and of minorities towards their position of cultural exclusion. Besides exploring the forms of cultural exclusion experienced by ethnic minorities it considers what might be done to promote inclusion proposing a rethinking of the project of nation building and modernisation of state and minority rights in order to achieve the goal of including the minority population of distinctive cultures into wider society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415541152

Cultural Expertise and LitigationPatterns Conflicts Narratives Cultural Expertise and Litigation addresses the role of social scientists as a source of expert evidence and is a product of their experiences and observations of cases involving litigants of South Asian origin. What is meant in court by "culture " "custom" and "law"? How are these concepts understood by witnesses advocates judges and litigants? How far are cross-cultural understandings facilitated - or obscured - in the process? What strategies are adopted? And which ones turn out to be successful in court? How is cultural understanding – and misunderstanding – produced in these circumstances? And how moreover do the decisions in these cases not only reflect but impact upon the law and the legal procedure? Cultural Expertise and Litigation addresses these questions as it elicits the patterns conflicts and narratives that characterize the legal role of social scientists in a variety of de facto plural settings – including immigration and asylum law family law citizenship law and criminal law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415815260

Cultural Factors in Delinquency Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile this volume was originally published in 1966 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes or as a complete collection. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138861350

Cultural Factors in Systems DesignDecision Making and Action Cultural factors in both the narrow sense of different national racial and ethnic groups and in the broader sense of different groups of any type play major roles in individual and group decisions. Written by an international interdisciplinary group of experts Cultural Factors in Systems Design: Decision Making and Action explores innovations in the understanding of how cultural differences influence decision making and action. Reflecting the diverse interests and viewpoints that characterize the current state of decision making and cultural research the chapter authors represent a variety of disciplines and specialize in areas ranging from basic decision processes of individuals to decisions made in teams and large organizations to cultural influences on behavior. Balancing theoretical and practical perspectives the book explores why the best laid plans go awry examining conditions that can yield unanticipated behaviors from complex adaptive sociotechnical systems. It highlights the different ways in which East Asians and Westerners make decisions and explores how to model and investigate cultural influences in interpersonal interactions social judgment and decision making. The book also reviews decision field theory and examines its implications for cross cultural decision making. With increasing globalization of organizations and interactions among people from various cultures a better understanding of how cultural factors influence decision making and action is a necessity. Much is known about decision processes culture and cognition design of products and interfaces for human interaction with machines and organizational processes however this knowledge is dispersed across several disciplines and research areas. Presenting a range of current research and new ideas this volume brings together previously scattered research and explores how to apply it when designing systems that will be used by individuals of varied backgrounds. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781439846469

Cultural FeelingsMood Mediation and Cultural Politics Cultural Feelings: Mood Mediation and Cultural Politics sets out to examine the role of feelings and mood in the production of social and cultural experience. By returning to the work of Raymond Williams and informed by recent ‘affect theory’ it treats feeling as a foundational term for cultural studies. Ben Highmore argues that feelings are political and cultural forms that orchestrate our encounters with the world. He utilises a range of case studies from twentieth-century British culture focusing in particular on Home Front morale during the Blitz the experiences of Caribbean migration in the post-war decades the music of post-punk bands in the late 1970s and early 1980s and more recent ‘state of the nation’ film and television including Our Friends in the North and This is England. He finds evidence in oral history in films photographs television novels music policy documents and journalism. Through these sources this book tells a vivid and compelling story of our most recent history and argues that the urgent task for a progressive cultural politics will require the changing of moods as well as minds. Cultural Feelings is essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in affect theory emotion and culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415604123

Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia Alongside the Arab Spring the 'Occupy' anti-capitalist movements in the West and the events on the Maidan in Kiev Russia has had its own protest movements notably the political protests of 2011–12. As elsewhere in the world these protests had unlikely origins in Russia’s case spearheaded by the 'creative class'. This book examines the protest movements in Russia. It discusses the artistic traditions from which the movements arose; explores the media including the internet film novels and fashion through which the protesters have expressed themselves; and considers the outcome of the movements including the new forms of nationalism intellectualism and feminism put forward. Overall the book shows how the Russian protest movements have suggested new directions for Russian – and global – politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367874148

Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino/a Mental HealthHistory Theory and within Group Differences Advancing work to effectively study understand and serve the fastest growing U.S. ethnic minority population this volume explicitly emphasizes the racial and ethnic diversity within this heterogeneous cultural group. The focus is on the complex historical roots of contemporary Latino/as their diversity in skin-color and physiognomy racial identity ethnic identity gender differences immigration patterns and acculturation. The work highlights how the complexities inherent in the diverse Latino/a experience as specified throughout the topics covered in this volume become critical elements of culturally responsive and racially conscious mental health treatment approaches. By addressing the complexities within-group differences and racially heterogeneity characteristic of U.S. Latino/as this volume makes a significant contribution to the literature related to mental health treatments and interventions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815386377

Cultural Foundations of Political Psychology Over the centuries all of the great philosophers made psychology central to understanding social life. Indeed the ancient Greeks thought it impossible to conceive of political life without insight into the human soul. Yet insuffficient professional legitimization attaches to the central importance of modern depth psychology in understanding politics. Cultural Foundations of Political Psychology explores the linkages between psychology and politics focusing on how rival conceptions of the good life and unspoken moral purposes in the social sciences have led to sectarian intolerance.Roazen has always approached the history of psychoanalysis with the conviction that ethical issues are implicit in every clinical encounter. Thus his opening chapter on Erich Fromm's exclusion from the International Psychoanalytic Association touches on a host of political matters including collaboration as opposed to resistance to Nazi tyranny. Roazen also brings a public/private perspective to such well-known episodes as the Hiss/Chambers case the circumstances of Virginia Woolf's madness and suicide and the matter of CIA funding of the monthly Encounter. He deals with the reaction to psychoanalysis on the part of three major philosophers--Althusser Wittgenstein and Buber--and looks at the link between psychology and politics in the work of such political theorists as Machiavelli Rousseau Burke Tocqueville Berlin and Arendt. A chapter grappling with Vietnam and the Cold War illustrates how political psychology should be concerned with questions of an ethical or "ought" character.In examining the social and psychological bases for political theorizing Roazen shows how both psychology and politics must change and redefine their methodologies as a result of their interaction. Roazen concludes with a chapter on how political psychology must deal with issues posed by changing conceptions of femininity. This volume is a pioneering exploration of the intersection of psychology and politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508842

Cultural Fusion of Sufi IslamAlternative Paths to Mystical Faith It has been argued that the mystical Sufi form of Islam is the most sensitive to other cultures being accommodative to other traditions and generally tolerant to peoples of other faiths. It readily becomes integrated into local cultures and they are similarly often infused into Sufism. Examples of this reciprocity are commonly reflected in Sufi poetry music hagiographic genres memoires and in the ritualistic practices of Sufi traditions. This volume shows how this often-side-lined tradition functions in the societies in which it is found and demonstrates how it relates to mainstream Islam. The focus of this book ranges from reflecting Sufi themes in the Qur’anic calligraphy to movies from ideals to everyday practices from legends to actual history from gender segregation to gender transgression and from legalism to spiritualism. Consequently the international panel of contributors to this volume are trained in a range of disciplines that include religious studies history comparative literature anthropology and ethnography. Covering Southeast Asia to West Africa as well as South Asia and the West they address both historical and contemporary issues shedding light on Sufism’s adaptability. This book sets aside conventional methods of understanding Islam such as theological juridical and philosophical in favour of analysing its cultural impact. As such it will be of great interest to all scholars of Islamic Studies the Sociology of Religion Religion and Media as well as Religious Studies and Area Studies more generally. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138615038

Cultural GenealogyAn Essay on Early Modern Myth This book explores the popularization in the Renaissance of the still pervasive myth that later cultures are the hereditary descendants of ancient or older cultures. It shows how the new techne of systematic genealogy facilitated the process of "remythicizing" the ancient authorities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367175641

Cultural GenocideLaw Politics and Global Manifestations This book explores concepts of Cultural genocide its definitions 　place in international law the systems and methods that contribute to its manifestations and its occurrences. Through a systematic approach and comprehensive analysis international and interdisciplinary contributors from the fields of genocide studies legal studies criminology sociology archaeology human rights colonial studies and anthropology examine the legal structural and political issues associated with cultural genocide. This includes a series of geographically representative case studies from the USA Brazil Australia West Papua Iraq Palestine Iran and Canada. This volume is unique in its interdisciplinarity regional coverage and the various methods of cultural genocide represented and will be of interest to scholars of genocide studies cultural studies and human rights international law international relations indigenous studies anthropology and history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815380078

Cultural GeographiesAn Introduction Cultural geography is a major vibrant subdiscipline of human geography. Cultural geographers have done some of the most important exciting and thought-provokingly zesty work in human geography over the last half-century. This book exists to provide an introduction to the remarkably diverse controversial and sometimes-infuriating work of cultural geographers. The book outlines how cultural geography in its various forms provides a rich body of research about cultural practices and politics in diverse contexts. Cultural geography offers a major resource for exploring the importance of cultural materials media texts and representations in particular contexts and is one of the most theoretically adventurous subdisciplines within human geography engaging with many important lines of social and cultural theory. The book has been designed to provide an accessible wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction for students studying cultural geography or specific topics within this subdiscipline. Through a wide range of case studies and learning activities it provides an engaging introduction to cultural geography. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780273719687

Cultural Geography First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203714362

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY IN PRACTICE Cultural Geography in Practice provides an innovative and accessible approach to the sources theories and methods of cultural geography. Written by an international team of prominent cultural geographers all of whom are experienced researchers this book is a fully illustrated guide to methodological approaches in cultural geography. In order to demonstrate the practice of cultural geography each chapter combines the following features:·Practical instruction in using one of the main methods of cultural geography (e.g. interviewing interpreting texts and visual images participatory methods)·An overview of a key area of concern in cultural geography (e.g. the body national identity empire marginality)·A nuts and bolts description of the actual application of the theories and methods within a piece of researchWith the addition of boxed definitions of key concepts and descriptions of research projects by students who devised and undertook them Cultural Geography in Practice is an essential manual of research practice for both undergraduate and graduate geography students. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203784242

Cultural Heritage Cultural Heritage is a systematic interdisciplinary examination of cultural heritage which provides an up-to-date view of the field by drawing on various disciplines. The book offers a thorough structured review of extant literature on heritage in tourism and pertinent challenges for cultural heritage. This book offers new ways of looking at cultural heritage assets against a backdrop of increasing economic and environmental pressures. It comprises a number of sections that each examine cultural heritage from the perspective of ethics and values community relations and development cultural entrepreneurship economic viability and conservation methodologies impacts of tourism research consumption and urban and immaterial heritage. Encompassing global research perspectives from public management visual culture environmental management and cultural entrepreneurship Cultural Heritage is a crucial  text for those working or interested in the heritage field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138092822

Cultural Heritage Ageing Disability and IdentityPractice and the development of inclusive capital Cultural Heritage Ageing Disability and Identity examines the effects of disability and ageing on engagement with cultural heritage and associated cultural identity formation processes. Combining theory with detailed case study research it unpicks both the current state of play and future directions. The book is based upon detailed case example research on both the self-reported individual experiences of people with disabilities engaging with cultural heritage and the accessibility approaches of cultural heritage institutions themselves. Hayhoe grounds the analysis in a theoretical and historical overview of disability and inclusion. He interrogates the various ways in which identity is formed through interaction with cultural heritage and considers the differences in engagement with cultural heritage amongst those who develop disabilities early in life compared to those who acquire disabilities later in life. His conclusions offer insights that can help improve the provision of cultural heritage engagement to all people but particularly those with disabilities.Cultural Heritage Ageing Disability and Identity is key reading for students and scholars of cultural heritage visitor studies and disability studies  and will also be of interest to other subject areas engaging with issues of accessibility. It should also be read by institutions looking to improve their accessibility strategy to engage broader audiences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367730178

Cultural Heritage Ethics and Contemporary Migrations Cultural Heritage Ethics and Contemporary Migrations breaks new ground in our understanding of the challenges faced by heritage practitioners and researchers in the contemporary world of mass migration where people encounter new cultural heritage and relocate their own. It focuses particularly on issues affecting archaeological heritage sites and artefacts which help determine and maintain social identity a role problematised when populations are in flux. This diverse and authoritative collection brings together international specialists to discuss socio-political and ethical implications for the management of archaeological heritage in global society. With contributions by authors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds including archaeologists philosophers cultural historians and custodians of cultural heritage the volume explores a rich mix of contrasting yet complementary viewpoints and approaches. Among the topics discussed are the relations between culture and identity; the potentialities of museums and monuments to support or subvert a people’s sense of who they are; and how cultural heritage has been used to bring together communities containing people of different origins and traditions yet without erasing or blurring their distinctive cultural features. Cultural Heritage Ethics and Contemporary Migrations is a crucial text for archaeologists curators policymakers and others working in the heritage field as well as for philosophers political scientists and other readers interested in the links between immigration and cultural heritage.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138788220

Cultural Heritage Transnational Narratives and Museum Franchising in Abu Dhabi This publication contributes to new understandings of how heritage operates as a global phenomenon and the transnational heritage discourses that emerge from this process. Taking such a view sees autochthonous and franchised heritage not as separate or opposing elements but as part of the same process of contemporary globalised identity-making which contributes to the development of newly emergent cosmopolitan identities. The book critically examines the processes that are involved in the franchising of heritage and its cultural effects. It does so by examining the connections and tensions that emerge from combining autochthonous and franchised heritage in the United Arab Emirates providing a unique window in to the process of creating hybrid heritage in non-Western contexts. It develops new ideas about how this global phenomenon works how it might be characterised and how it influences and is itself affected by local forms of heritage. By exploring how autochthonous and franchised heritage is produced in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates it becomes clear that Western-dominated practices are often challenged and perhaps more importantly that new ways of understanding producing and living with heritage are being articulated in these previously marginal locations. The book offers innovative insights into heritage as a transnational process exploring how it operates within local national and international identity concerns and debates. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in critical heritage studies museums tourism cultural studies and Middle Eastern studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138088221

Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of WarCreativity Behind Barbed Wire This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity including: paintings cartoons craftwork needlework acting musical compositions magazine and newspaper articles wood carving and recycled Red Cross tins turned into plates mugs and makeshift stoves all which have previously received little attention. The authors of this volume show the wide potential of such items to inform us about the daily life and struggle for survival behind barbed wire. Previously dismissed as items which could only serve to illustrate POW memoirs and diaries this book argues for a central role of all items of creativity in helping us to understand the true experience of life in captivity. The international authors draw upon a rich seam of material from their own case studies of POW and civilian internment camps across the world to offer a range of interpretations of this diverse and extraordinary material. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138117129

Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability For cultural and heritage institutions around the world sustainability is the major challenge of the twenty-first century. In the first major work to analyze this critical issue Barthel-Bouchier argues that programmatic commitments to sustainability arose both from direct environmental threats to tangible and intangible heritage and from social and economic contradictions as heritage developed into a truly global organizational field. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews over many years as well as detailed coverage of primary documents and secondary literature she examines key international organizations including UNESCO ICOMOS and the World Monuments Fund and national trust organizations of Great Britain the United States and Australia and many others. This wide-ranging study establishes a foundation for critical analysis and programmatic advances as heritage professionals encounter the growing challenge of sustainability. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781611322385

Cultural Heritage and the Future Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural heritage and the future. Drawing on case studies from around the world the contributing authors insist that cultural heritage and the future are intimately linked and that the development of futures thinking should be a priority for academics students and those working in the wider professional heritage sector. Until recently the future has never attracted substantial research and debate within heritage studies and heritage management and this book addresses this gap by offering a balance of theoretical and empirical content that will stimulate multidisciplinary debate in the burgeoning field of critical heritage studies. Cultural Heritage and the Future questions the role of heritage in future making and will be of great relevance to academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies archaeology anthropology architecture conservation studies sociology history and geography. Those working in the heritage professions will also find much to interest them within the pages of this book.　 Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138829015

Cultural Heritage CommunitiesTechnologies and Challenges Cultural heritage communities of interest have increasingly expanded from cultural heritage professionals to volunteers special interest groups and independent citizen-led initiative groups. Digital technology has also increasingly impacted cultural heritage by affording novel experiences of it – it features in a number of activities for all the aforementioned groups as well as acting as support for visitors to cultural heritage centres.With different degrees of formality and training these communities are increasingly defining and taking ownership of what is of value to them thus reconfiguring the care communication interpretation and validation of heritage. Digital technology has played a crucial role in this transformative process.In a fully international context cultural heritage practitioners community champions and academics from different fields of study have contributed to this book. Each chapter brings to the fore the multiple relationships between heritage communities and technologies as a focus of study and reflection in an inclusive way. Contributions touch upon present and future opportunities for technology as well as participatory design processes with different stakeholders.This book brings together ideas from different disciplines cultures methods and goals to inspire scholars and practitioners involved in community heritage projects. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367889647

Cultural Heritage in the Arabian PeninsulaDebates Discourses and Practices Heritage projects in the Arabian Peninsula are developing rapidly. Museums and heritage sites are symbols of shifting national identities and a way of placing the Arabian Peninsula states on the international map. Global i.e. Western heritage standards and practices have been utilised for the rapid injection of heritage expertise in museum development and site management and for international recognition. The use of Western heritage models in the Arabian Peninsula inspires two key areas for research which this book examines: the obscuring of indigenous concepts and practices of heritage and expressions of cultural identity; and the tensions between local/community concepts of heritage and identity and the new national identities being constructed through museums and heritage sites at a state level. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815399322

Cultural Heritage InformationAccess and Management This book provides an overview of various challenges and contemporary research activities in cultural heritage information focusing particularly on the cultural heritage content types their characteristic and digitization challenges; cultural heritage content organization and access issues; users and usability as well as various policy and sustainability issues associated with digital cultural heritage information systems and services. Cultural Heritage Information the first book in the peer-reviewed i-Research series contains eleven chapters that have been contributed by seventeen leading academics from six countries. The book begins with an introductory chapter that provides a brief overview of the topic of digital cultural heritage information with the subsequent chapters addressing specific issues and research activities in this topic. The ordering of the chapters moves from scene setting on policies and infrastructures through considerations of interaction access and objects through to concrete system implementations. The book concludes by looking forward to issues around sustainability in the widest sense that are necessary to think about in order to maximize the availability and longevity of our digital cultural heritage. Media > Books > Print Books Facet Publishing 9781783302949

Cultural Heritage InformationAccess and management This book provides an overview of various challenges and contemporary research activities in cultural heritage information focusing particularly on the cultural heritage content types their characteristic and digitization challenges; cultural heritage content organization and access issues; users and usability as well as various policy and sustainability issues associated with digital cultural heritage information systems and services. Cultural Heritage Information the first book in the peer-reviewed i-Research series contains eleven chapters that have been contributed by seventeen leading academics from six countries. The book begins with an introductory chapter that provides a brief overview of the topic of digital cultural heritage information with the subsequent chapters addressing specific issues and research activities in this topic. The ordering of the chapters moves from scene setting on policies and infrastructures through considerations of interaction access and objects through to concrete system implementations. The book concludes by looking forward to issues around sustainability in the widest sense that are necessary to think about in order to maximize the availability and longevity of our digital cultural heritage. The key topics covered are: Managing digital cultural heritage information Digital humanities and digital cultural heritage (alt-history and future directions) Management of cultural heritage information: policies and practices Cultural heritage information: artefacts and digitization technologies Metadata in cultural contexts- from manga to digital archives in linked open data environment Managing cultural heritage: information systems architecture Cultural heritage information users and usability A framework for classifying and comparing interactions in cultural heritage information systems Semantic access and exploration in cultural heritage digital libraries Supporting exploration and use of digital cultural heritage materials: the PATHS perspective Cultural heritage information services: sustainability issues. Readership: This will be essential reading for researchers in Information Science specifically in the areas of digital libraries digital humanities and digital culture. It will also be useful for practitioners and students in these areas who want to know the different research issues and challenges and learn how they have been handled in course of various research projects in these areas. Media > Books > Print Books Facet Publishing 9781856049306

Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities What are the leading tools and archives in digital cultural heritage? How can they be integrated into research infrastructures to better serve their intended audiences? In this book authors from a wide range of countries representing some of the best research projects in digital humanities related to cultural heritage discuss their latest findings both in terms of new tools and archives and how they are used (or not used) by both specialists and by the general public. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367880415

Cultural Heritage Management and Indigenous People in the North of ColombiaBack to the Ancestors' Landscape Cultural Heritage Management and Indigenous People in the North of Colombia explores indigenous people's struggle for territorial autonomy in an aggressive political environment and the tensions between heritage tourism and Indigenous rights. South American cases where local communities especially Indigenous groups are opposed to infrastructure projects are little known. This book lays out the results of more than a decade of research in which the resettlement of a pre-Columbian village has been documented. It highlights the difficulty of establishing the link between archaeological sites and objects and Indigenous people due to legal restrictions. From a decolonial framework the archaeology of Pueblito Chairama (Teykú) is explored and the village stands as a model to understand the broader picture of the relationship between Indigenous people and political and economic forces in South America. The book will be of interest to researchers in Archaeology Anthropology Heritage and Indigenous Studies who wish to understand the particularities of South American repatriation cases and Indigenous archaeology in the region. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367422189

Cultural Heritage Management in ChinaPreserving the Cities of the Pearl River Delta Cultural Heritage Management in China presents a thematic examination of the development of cultural heritage management (CHM) in an Asian context. It challenges assumptions of the primacy of community-sponsored action and heritage authority based on Western-derived ideals and practices that fit with democratic models for civil action. The multidisciplinary team of international contributors analyze four key case studies of cities along the Pearl River Delta examining their administrative characteristics economic growth and their relationship with cultural identity and human relationships. Providing an innovative study of cultural heritage management this book will be of interest to students of Asian and cultural studies as well as offering valuable insights into Asian culture and society itself. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415666428

Cultural Heritage of the Great War in Britain As the hundredth anniversary approaches it is timely to reflect not only upon the Great War itself and on the memorials which were erected to ensure it did not slip from national consciousness but also to reflect upon its rich and substantial cultural legacy. This book examines the heritage of the Great War in contemporary Britain. It addresses how the war maintains a place and value within British society through the usage of phrases references metaphors and imagery within popular media heritage and political discourse. Whilst the representation of the war within historiography literature art television and film has been examined by scholars seeking to understand the origins of the 'popular memory' of the conflict these analyses have neglected how and why wider popular debate draws upon a war fought nearly a century ago to express ideas about identity place and politics. By examining the history usage and meanings of references to the Great War within local and national newspapers historical societies political publications and manifestos the heritage sector popular expressions blogs and internet chat rooms an analysis of the discourses which structure the remembrance of the war can be created. The book acknowledges the diversity within Britain as different regional and national identities draw upon the war as a means of expression. Whilst utilising the substantial field of heritage studies this book puts forward a new methodology for assessing cultural heritage and creates an original perspective on the place of the Great War across contemporary British society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138270701

Cultural Heritage Rights This collection brings together selected articles on key areas in the field of cultural heritage rights discourse. Contributed by an international group of scholars the papers address conceptual and political issues and explore themes in contemporary literature on cultural heritage such as repatriation looting and illicit trade the effects of armed conflict and the relationship between tourism economic development and cultural heritage. The legal regulation of cultural heritage is also discussed with articles on regulatory challenges current practices around the world and issues and challenges in common. Topics which are likely to become increasingly important in the future such as climate change cultural globalisation human genomic science and the shift to a post-liberal post-rights politics and law of cultural heritage are also explored. This volume which presents the most up-to-date scholarship in an area of increasing interest and relevance is an indispensable reference resource for libraries lecturers and students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472423245

Cultural Histories Memories and Extreme WeatherA Historical Geography Perspective Extreme weather events such as droughts strong winds and storms flash floods and extreme heat and cold are among the most destructive yet fascinating aspects of climate variability. Historical records and memories charting the impacts and responses to such events are a crucial component of any research that seeks to understand the nature of events that might take place in the future. Yet all such events need to be situated for their implications to be understood.This book is the first to explore the cultural contingency of extreme and unusual weather events and the ways in which they are recalled recorded or forgotten. It illustrates how geographical context particular physical conditions an area’s social and economic activities and embedded cultural knowledges and infrastructures all affect community experiences of and responses to unusual weather. Contributions refer to varied methods of remembering and recording weather and how these act to curate recycle and transmit extreme events across generations and into the future. With international case studies from both land and sea the book explores how and why particular weather events become inscribed into the fabric of communities and contribute to community change in different historical and cultural contexts.This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in historical and cultural geography environmental anthropology and environmental studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367667689

Cultural Histories of Crime in Denmark 1500 to 2000 Taking the kingdom of Denmark as its frame of reference this volume presents a range of close analyses that shed light on the construction and deconstruction of crime and criminals on criminal cultures and on crime control from 1500 to 2000.Historically there have been major changes in the legal definition of those acts that are legally defined as being criminal offences – and of those that are not. This volume explores the criteria and perceptions underlying definitions of crime in a powerful and absolutist Lutheran state and subsequently in a Denmark characterised by social welfare and sexual liberation. It places special focus on moral issues rooted in considerations of religion and sexuality. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367886479

Cultural Histories of IndiaSubaltern Spaces Peripheral Genres and Alternate Historiography This book explores the social and cultural histories of India focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. Examining cultural encounters between Europeans and Indians during the precolonial and colonial periods the book analyzes European especially English efforts to exoticize or investigate the social practices of the Other. It also presents the culturally conditioned Indian subject's perspective on Europe and the imperial society. The book engages with narratives of suppressed movements of tribals and dalits of erosion of the culture and history of ancient communities and recovers the local narratives of marginalized groups in Andaman and Malabar which get superseded by the larger narrative of nation-building. Often relying on oral history instead of printed material and sociological fieldwork the alternate histories are presented through unconventional literary or semi-literary genres like travel narratives fiction films and songs thus presenting an alternative interpretation to the central narrative of the progress of mainstream India. Representing cultural history and the view from below the book shifts its focus from the conventional historiography associated with political history and will be of interest to academics working in the field of cultural studies the historiography of India South Asian Studies and an interdisciplinary audience in history sociology literature media and English studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367435318

Cultural Histories of Noise Sound and Listening in Europe 1300-1918 Cultural Histories of Noise Sound and Listening in Europe 1300-1918 presents a range of historical case studies on the sounding worlds of the European past. The chapters in this volume explore ways of thinking about sound historically and seek to understand how people have understood and negotiated their relationships with the sounding world in Europe from the Middle Ages through to the early twentieth century. They consider in particular: sound and music in the later Middle Ages; the politics of sound in the early modern period; the history of the body and perception during the Ancien Régime; and the sounds of the city in the nineteenth century and sound and colonial rule at the fin de siècle. The case studies also range in geographical orientation to include considerations not only of Britain and France the countries most considered in European historical sound studies in English-language scholarship to date but also Bosnia-Herzegovina British Colonial India Germany Italy and Portugal. Out of this diverse group of case studies emerge significant themes that recur time and again varying according to time and place: sound power and identity; sound as a marker of power or violence; and sound physiology and sensory perception and technologies of sound consumption and meaning. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367230517

Cultural Histories of Sociabilities Spaces and Mobilities For the majority of us the opportunity to travel has never been greater yet differences in mobility highlight inequalities that have wider social implications. Exploring how and why attitudes towards movement have evolved across generations the case studies in this essay collection range from medieval to modern times and cover several continents. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781848935259

Cultural History After Foucault Both as historian and maker of culture Foucault infused numerous disciplines of study with a new conceptual vocabulary and an agenda for future research. His ideas have called central assumptions in Western culture into question and altered the ways in which scholars and social scientists approach such issues as discourse theory theory of knowledge Eros technologies of the Self and Other punishment and prisons and asylums and madness.The contributors to this volume indicate Foucault's achievements and the suggestive power of his work as well as his methodological weaknesses historical inaccuracies and ambiguities. Above all they attempt to show how one can use Foucault to go beyond him in opening new approaches to cultural history. Though comprehensiveness was not attempted their essays broach the major controversial aspects of Foucauldian cultural history--the position of the subject the fusion of power and knowledge sexuality the historical structures and changes--and they explicitly analyze them with respect to antiquity the Renaissance and the nineteenth century.In this collection Neubauer presents analyses by historians literary scholars and philosophers of the entire transdisciplinary range of Foucault's oeuvre emphasizing the rich suggestiveness of its agenda. The breadth of the undertaking makes it suitable for seminars and graduate courses in numerous departments. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521711

Cultural History in FranceLocal Debates Global Perspectives This volume which gathers contributions presented at the annual conferences of l'Association pour le développement de l'histoire culturelle (ADHC) questions the subjects and boundaries of cultural history in France – with regard to neighboring approaches such as cultural studies media studies and gender studies – to elaborate a "social history of representations." Historians philosophers and sociologists address a large variety of topics and methodological proposals. Definitions objects and actors memories and cultural transfers: this book depicts the major questions that underlie the historical debate at the beginning of the 21st century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367271879

Cultural History Of Postwar Japa First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138967083

Cultural HistoryA Concise Introduction The expression ‘cultural history’ is generally used today to signal a particular approach to history one which could be applied to any object and is mainly concerned with the sense men and women from the past gave to the world they lived in. In this introduction to cultural history as a subdiscipline the reader will find the key steps in the historical development of the field from 1850 to the present. It surveys different ways in which cultural history has been practised exploring intellectual history the history of ideas and concepts of mentalities of symbols and representations and of languages and discourses. Cultural History also maps the territory cultural history most effectively enlightens: gender; the family and sexuality; the body; senses and emotions and images; material culture and consumption; the media and communication. Lastly it includes an appendix of biographies of a number of influential cultural historians. This concise and accessible introduction will be an essential volume for any university student studying cultural history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415667760

Cultural HybridityContradictions and Dilemmas This book brings together a group of scholars from diverse disciplines to interrogate everyday life events in various interpersonal and organizational contexts so as to answer an age-old question: what happens when (carriers of) cultures meet or when East meets West? The contributors to this volume argue that rather than assume clashes of civilizations assimilation conversion and essentialism to be the expected outcomes of cultural encounters we should focus our analytical attention on processes rather than outcomes; on emergence dialectics contradictions ironies and paradoxes and complexity. We should focus on attempting to learn and grow to synthesize and integrate to create and innovate to change and transform at personal micro macro and global levels. Or in one word: hybridity. Contexts of cultural encounters analyzed in this book range from business organizations through individual travels to personal philosophies and from mechanical models to complex systems as social imaginaries. This book is based on a special issue of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138110182

Cultural Icons The Eiffel Tower—this symbol of industrial development and the French Republic is now associated with a romantic vacation in Paris. Nelson Mandela—the hero of the struggle against apartheid was featured in a British Airways magazine article called “The Power of Brand Mandela.” This book explores these and other contemporary cultural icons that over time have been endowed with a complex and powerful layering of meanings. The authors analyze the way in which such icons whether objects or persons living or mythical are constructed and disseminated. They also critically investigate the implications in semiotic and cultural terms of the accretion of meaning and popular recognition attached to them their moral and aesthetic ambiguity and their enduring appeal to a fascinated public. This slim and provocative volume is ideal for courses in and related to cultural studies. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315431017

Cultural Ideals of HomeThe Social Dynamics of Domestic Space Spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries this book investigates how home is imagined staged and experienced in western culture. Questions about meanings of ‘home’ and domestic culture are triggered by dramatic changes in values and ideals about the dwellings we live in and the dwellings we desire or dread. Deborah Chambers explores how home is idealised as a middle-class haven managed as an investment and signified as a status symbol and expression of personal identity. She addresses a range of public state commercial popular and expert discourses about ‘home’: the heritage industry design exhibitions television social media home mobilities and migration smart technologies and ecological sustainability. Drawing on cross-disciplinary research including cultural history and cultural geography the book offers a distinctive media and cultural studies approach supported by original historically informed case studies on interior and domestic design; exhibitions of model homes; TV home interiors; ‘media home’ imaginaries; multiscreen homes; corporate visions of ‘homes of tomorrow’ and digital smart homes. A comprehensive and engaging study this book is ideal for students and researchers of cultural studies cultural history media and communication studies as well as sociology gender studies cultural geography and design studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138637931

Cultural Identity and ArchaeologyThe Construction of European Communities Cultural identity is a key area of debate in contemporary Europe. Despite widespread use of the past in the construction of ethnic national and European identity theories of cultural identity have been neglected in archaeology. Focusing on the interrelationships between concepts of cultural identity today and the interpretation of past cultural groups Cultural Identity and Archaeology offers proactive archaeological perspectives in the debate surrounding European identities. This fascinating and thought-provoking book covers three key areas. It considers how material remains are used in the interpretation of cultural identities for example ‘pan-Celtic culture’ and ‘Bronze Age Europe’. Finally it looks at archaeological evidence for the construction of cultural identities in the European past. The authors are critical of monolithic constructions of Europe and also of the ethnic and national groups within it. in place of such exclusive cultural political and territorial entities the book argues for a consideration of the diverse hybrid and multiple nature of European cultural identities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415642866

Cultural Identity and Educational Policy Published in 1985. Cultural identity is a key factor in shaping educational policy. In many countries there are significant minority groups who require educating in a certain way in order to meet their specific cultural needs. Also in countries which are trying to change direction politically reshaping education is an important factor in bringing about this change. In many countries tension arises and reforms are required because educational policy fails to cater correctly for cultural needs.　 This book examines many facets of the problem in many important countries of the world.　It looks at policies designed for ethnic minorities and at policies aimed at bringing about far-reaching societal and cultural change. It discusses the tensions caused by　policies and the pressures for reform. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138587748

Cultural Identity in KindergartenA Study of Asian Indian Children The purpose of this study is to explore play and story as forms of early childhood discourse in which cultural identity is both constructed and expressed in the Asian Indian community. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415649001

Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture Since the Second World War there has been considerable growth in the importance of non-manufacturing based forms of production to the performance of many Western economies. Many countries have seen increased contributions being made by industries such as the media entertainment and artistic sectors. Gathering together a leading international multi disciplinary team of researchers this informative book presents cutting-edge perspectives on how these industries function their place in the new economy and how they can be harnessed for urban and regional economic and social development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415511315

Cultural Intermarriage in Southern AppalachiaCherokee Elements in Four Selected Novels by Lee Smith First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138967090

Cultural IntimacySocial Poetics and the Real Life of States Societies and Institutions In the third edition of this important and influential book Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of ‘cultural intimacy’. The chapters examine a range of topics touching on the relationship between state and citizen and the notion of ‘national character’. Herzfeld provides a developed theoretical framework and additional clarification of core concepts such as disemia social poetics and structural nostalgia. The text has been fully updated in light of recent scholarship and events including comment on Greece and the European Union. There is new material drawn from regions such as Thailand and China and further consideration of religious intimacy and its impact on cities. The book improves our understanding of how states societies and institutions function and illustrates the relevance of anthropology to contemporary issues such as globalization censorship ethnic conflict and nationalism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138125759

Cultural Issues in PsychologyAn Introduction to a Global Discipline This book offers an engaging introduction to cultural and cross-cultural psychology and offers an interdisciplinary approach to the key research theories and controversies that impact on human behaviour in a global context. How is human behavior and experience intertwined with culture? From this starting point this second edition of Cultural Issues in Psychology explores the role of culture in relation to mainstream and critical perspectives of our discipline. Beginning with an examination of culture itself as well as related concepts such as ethnicity race and nation it goes on to trace historical developments in the role of culture in psychology. Including a new chapter on migration and additional coverage of indigenous psychologies ethnographic research methods and cosmopolitanism the new edition reflects the latest developments in this global discipline. Also featuring up-to-date research examples and revision exercises the book reviews and explains classic and contemporary approaches to cultural issues relating to social cognitive developmental and health psychology. Also including chapters on culture and lifespan and culture and psychopathology this is the essential entry-level text on cultural and cross-cultural psychology for students taking psychology and related courses. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815383987

Cultural Journalism and Cultural Critique in the Media This book addresses a topic in journalism studies that has gained increasing scholarly attention since the mid-2000s: the coverage and evaluation of arts and culture or what we term ‘cultural journalism and cultural critique’. The book highlights three approaches to this emerging research field: (1) the constant challenge of demarcating what constitutes the ‘cultural’ in cultural journalism and cultural critique and the interlinks of cultural journalism and cultural critique; (2) the dialectic of globalization’s cultural homogenization and the specificity of local/national cultures; and (3) the need to rethink perhaps even redefine cultural journalism and cultural critique in view of the digital media landscape. ‘Cultural journalism’ is used as an umbrella term for media reporting and debating on culture including the arts value politics popular culture the culture industries and entertainment. Therefore some of the contributions this book apply a broad approach to ‘the cultural’ when theorizing and analyzing the production and content of cultural journalism and the professional ideology self-perception and legitimacy struggles of cultural journalists and editors. Other contributions demarcate their field of study more narrowly both topically and generically by engaging with very specific sub-areas such as ‘film criticism’ or ‘television series.’ This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367075880

Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as those transformed by human action. As human influence on the earth increases advances in palaeocological reconstruction have also allowed for new interpretations of the evidence for the earliest human impacts on the environment. It is essential that such evidence is examined in the context of modern trends in social sciences and humanities. This stimulating new book argues that convergence of the two approaches can provide a more holistic understanding of long-term physical and human processes.Split into two major sections this book attempts to bridge the gap between the sciences and humanities. The first section provides an analysis of the methodological tools employed in examining processes of environmental change. Empirical research in the fields of palaecology and Quaternary studies is combined with the latest theoretical views of nature and landscape occurring in cultural geography archaeology and anthropology. The author examines the way in which environmental management decisions are made. The book then moves on to discuss the relevance of this perspective to contemporary issues through a wide variety of international case studies including World Heritage protection landscape preservation indigenous people and cultural tourism. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315824802

Cultural Landscapes of Post-Socialist CitiesRepresentation of Powers and Needs The cultural landscapes of Central European cities reflect over half a century of socialism and are marked by the Marxists' vision of a utopian landscape. Architecture urban planning and the visual arts were considered to be powerful means of expressing the 'people's power'. However since the velvet revolutions of 1989 this urban scenery has been radically transformed by new forces and trends infused by the free market democracy and liberalization. This has led to 'landscape cleansing' and 'recycling' as these former communist nations used new architectural functional and social forms to transform their urbanscapes their meanings and uses. Comparing case studies from different post-socialist cities this book examines the culturally conditional variations between local powers and structures despite the similarities in the general processes and systems. It considers the contemporary cultural landscapes of these post-socialist cities as a dynamic fusion of the old communist forms and new free-market meanings features and democratic practices of global influences and local icons. The book assesses whether these urbanscapes clearly reflect the social cultural and political conditions and aspirations of these transitional countries and so a critical analysis of them provides important insights. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138254275

Cultural Landscapes of South AsiaStudies in Heritage Conservation and Management The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity its cultural traditions retain certain attributes that are at their core South Asian—in their capacity to self‐organize enact and reinvent cultural memories and in their ability to retain an intimate connection with nature and landscape. This volume focuses on the notion of cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms of heritage and points to a new paradigm for conservation practices in the South Asian context. Even though the construct of cultural landscape has been accepted as a category of heritage its potent use in heritage management in general and within the South Asian context in particular has not been widely studied. The volume challenges the prevalent views of heritage management in South Asia that are entrenched in colonial legacies and contemporary global policy frameworks. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138601574

Cultural LandscapesReligion and Public Life Adualism between man and nature has been a persistent feature of Western thought and spirituality from ancient times to the present. The opposition of mind and body consciousness and world has tended to obscure the ways in which humans are ecologically part of interconnected systems some of which are obvious while others operate in hidden but life-sustaining ways. Cultural Landscapes explores the physical ways in which we are intimately linked to the land and the intellectual and aesthetic connections human consciousness has with the landscape. Following the editor's introductory essay the lead article by Jame Schaeffer "Quest for the Common Good: A Collaborative Public Theology for a Life-Sustaining Climate " assesses the lightning rod issue of global warming in the context of a public and ecumenical theology and sets the tone for this normative assessment of our relationship with nature. Likewise David Kenley's essay "Three Gorges be Dammed: The Philosophical Roots of Environmentalism in China " reveals the traditional philosophical and cultural values that can sustain a vital environmentalism in the East. David Brown's historical insights into the use of the American landscape to define historical writing complement Patricia Likos-Ricci's historical treatment of nineteenth-century landscape painting and the first call to preserve wilderness in the United States. Matt Willen "An Feochszn " and David Martinez "What Worlds are Made of: The Lakota Sense of Place " both demonstrate how space is transformed into place through song and mythic tales. On a metaphysical note Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopolos' essay "On the Line of the Horizon Anxiety in de Chirico's Metaphysical Spaces " provides the reader with psychological and existential insights into the disorienting paintings of de Chirico and Gabriel Ricci's concluding essay tours the landscape that underpins Heidegger's ontological speculations. The contributions to this volume are posited on the belief that culture society and human history are ultimately rooted in the natural world. This integration may explain why humanity has always looked to nature for moral and ethical guidelines. Gabriel R. Ricci is associate professor of humanities and the chair of the Department of History at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Time Consciousness: The Philosophical Uses of History published by Transaction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521728

Cultural Legal StudiesLaw's Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law What can law’s popular cultures do for law as a constitutive and interrogative critical practice?　 This collection explores such a question through the lens of the ‘cultural legal studies’ movement which proffers a new encounter with the ‘cultural turn’ in law and legal theory.　 Moving beyond the ‘law ands’ (literature humanities culture film visual and aesthetics) on which it is based this book demonstrates how the techniques and practices of cultural legal studies can be used to metamorphose law and the legalities that underpin its popular imaginary. By drawing on three different modes of cultural legal studies – storytelling technology and jurisprudence – the collection showcases the intersectional practices of cultural legal studies and law in its popular cultural mode. The contributors to the collection deploy differentiated modes of cultural legal studies practice adopting diverse philosophical disciplinary methodological and theoretical approaches and subjects of examination. The collection draws on this mix of diversity and homogeneity to thread together its overarching theme: that we must take seriously an interrogation of law as culture and in its cultural form. That is it does not ask how a text ‘represents’ law; but rather how the representational nature of both law and culture intersect so that the ‘juridical’ become visible in various cultural manifestations. In short it asks: how law’s popular cultures actively effect the metamorphosis of law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815382201

'Cultural Life' Disability Inclusion and CitizenshipMoving Beyond Leisure in Isolation Disability is a complex multidimensional social construct where the type of disability and the level of support of individuals needs to be considered within leisure provision. In a leisure context people with a disability often face a multitude of constraints to participation. However when leisure is possible the benefits are substantial and worth pursuing. While other marginalised populations have received a great deal of attention across disciplines and in the field of leisure and recreation disability has received comparatively less attention and generally in isolation to the leisure context. This book concentrates on "disability citizenship in leisure".The chapters focus on examining the leisure lives of people with different types of disability by supporting their leisure endeavours through innovations in technology service provision and the imagination. Each chapter has a different social setting involves different groups of people with disability and challenges conventional wisdom about what is possible when ability is seen nurtured and then  flourishing with the opportunities provided. Rather than leisure being seen in isolation the context of this book explores leisure as part of everyday lives of people with disabilities whether that be part of promoting inclusive practices across University basis invoking an innovative technology of Photovoice to allow people with intellectual disability to provide insight into their hopes and dreams of community living maintaining mental health in refugees through innovative leadership programs or how people with traumatic brain injury can regain autonomy through the arts. We situate the book in the context of further challenging researchers to think beyond disability as a context in their research and engagement of the person as a citizen in leisure opportunities as opposed to a disability.This book was published as a special issue of Annals of Leisure Research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367739775

Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry This edited collection provides an introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary field of cultural mapping offering a range of perspectives that are international in scope. Cultural mapping is a mode of inquiry and a methodological tool in urban planning cultural sustainability and community development that makes visible the ways local stories practices relationships memories and rituals constitute places as meaningful locations. The chapters address themes processes approaches and research methodologies drawn from examples in Australia Canada Estonia the United Kingdom Egypt Italy Malaysia Malta Palestine Portugal Singapore Sweden Syria the United Arab Emirates the United States and Ukraine. Contributors explore innovative ways to encourage urban and cultural planning community development artistic intervention and public participation in cultural mapping—recognizing that public involvement and artistic practices introduce a range of challenges spanning various phases of the research process from the gathering of data to interpreting data to presenting "findings" to a broad range of audiences. The book responds to the need for histories and case studies of cultural mapping that are globally distributed and that situate the practice locally regionally nationally and internationally. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367599003

Cultural Mega-EventsOpportunities and Risks for Heritage Cities Mega-events have long been used by cities as a strategy to secure global recognition and attract future economic investment. However while cultural mega-events like the European Capital of Culture have become increasingly popular cities have begun questioning the traditional model of other events such as the Olympic Games with many candidate cities cancelling bids in recent years. This approach to planning and developing cities through mega-events introduces a broad range of physical effects and nuanced institutional changes for cities particularly for the more sensitive heritage areas of cities. This book explores these issues by first examining the dynamics of cities’ attempts to reduce overall costs and increase the sustainability of these large events by further embedding them within the existing fabric of the city and second by studying in depth the impact on the heritage of host cities. This book investigates three World Heritage Cities: Genoa Liverpool and Istanbul each of which have hosted the European Capital of Culture and introduced a variety of opportunities and risks for their heritage. The book highlights the potential benefits and challenges of integrating event and heritage planning to provide lessons that can help future historic cities and heritage decision makers better prepare for such events. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367249847

Cultural Mobility in the Interwar Avant-Garde Art NetworkPoland Belgium and the Netherlands This book explores the issue of cultural mobility within the interwar network of the European avant-garde focusing on selected writers artists architects magazines and groups from Poland Belgium and Netherlands. Regardless of their apparent linguistic cultural and geographical remoteness their mutual exchange and relationships were both deep and broad and of great importance for the wider development of interwar avant-garde literature art and architecture. This analysis is based on a vast research corpus encompassing original often previously overlooked periodicals publications and correspondence gathered from archives around the world. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138493544

Cultural Models of NaturePrimary Food Producers and Climate Change Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models represent specific organizations of the etic categories underlying the concept of Nature (i.e. plants animals the physical environment the weather humans and the supernatural). The adoption of a common methodology across the research projects allows the drawing of meaningful cross-cultural comparisons between these communities. The research will be of interest to scholars and policymakers actively involved in research and solution-providing in the climate change arena. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367731090

Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary JapanA Sociological Enquiry The debate about Japan's 'uniqueness' is central to Japanese studies. This book aims to illuminate that debate from a comparative and theoretical perspective. It also tests theories of ethnicity and cultural nationalism through the use of Japan as a case study.Yoshino examines how ideas of national distinctiveness are `produced' and `consumed' in Japanese society through a study of intellectuals teachers and businessmen. He finds that ideas of Japanese uniqueness the nihonjinron have been embraced more by those in business than in education. He looks at the Japanese perception of their own 'uniqueness' and at the ways in which ideas of cultural distinctiveness are formulated in different national and historical contexts.This extremely readable book combines anthropology and sociology to present both a historical analysis of the roots of the Japanese sense of national identity and a discussion of the ways in which that sense is changing. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138990548

Cultural Networks in Migrating HeritageIntersecting Theories and Practices across Europe This book is a study of the role of cultural and heritage networks and how they can help institutions and their host societies manage the tensions and realise the opportunities arising from migration. In looking at past and emerging challenges of social inclusion and cultural dialogue hybrid models of cultural identity citizenship and national belonging the study also sets out to answer the questions 'how'. How can cultural institutions leverage the power of cross-border networks in a contested place such as Europe today? How could they elaborate approaches and strategies based on cultural practices? How can the actions of the European Commission and relevant cultural bodies be strengthened adapted or extended to meet these goals? Cultural Networks in Migrating Heritage will be of interest to scholars and students in museum and cultural heritage studies visual arts sociology of organisations and information studies. It will also be relevant to practitioners and policymakers from museums libraries NGOs and cultural institutions at large. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815399346

Cultural Organizations Networks and Mediators in Contemporary Ibero-America This book proposes an innovative conceptual framework to explore cultural organizations at a multilateral level and cultural mediators as key figures in cultural and institutionalization processes. Specifically it analyzes the role of Ibero-American mediators in the institutionalization of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures in the first half of the 20th century by means of two institutional networks: PEN (the non-governmental writer’s association) and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (predecessor to UNESCO). Attempting to combine cultural and global history sociology and literary studies the book uses an analytical focus on intercultural networks and cultural transfer to investigate the multiple activities and roles that these mediators and cultural organizations set in motion. Literature has traditionally studied major figures and important centers of cultural production but other regions and localities also played a crucial role in the development of intellectual cooperation. This book reappraises the place of Ibero-America in international cultural relations and retrieves the lost history of key secondary actors. The book will appeal to scholars from international relations global and cultural history sociology postcolonial Studies world and comparative literature and New Hispanisms. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367280505

Cultural Overstretch?Differences Between Old and New Member States of the EU and Turkey Within a few years the European Union will be enlarged from fifteen to twenty-eight member states including Turkey. Cultural Overstretch investigates whether the new countries culturally fit into the European Union. Interpreting the European treaties and the European Law Gerhards describes in a first step what he calls 'The value script of the European Union'. Using survey data from twenty-eight countries the author examines in a second step whether citizens support the value script of the European Union and whether there are significant differences between old and new member states and candidate countries. The book also highlights cultural differences by referring to modernization theory and forecasts in the concluding chapter the political consequences of a possible cultural overstretch of the European Union. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415761857

Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct Pedagogy is often glossed as the ‘art and science of teaching’ but this focus typically ties it to the instructional practices of formalised schooling. Like the emerging work on ‘public pedagogies’ the notion of cultural pedagogies signals the importance of the pedagogic in realms other than institutionalised education but goes beyond the notion of public pedagogies in two ways: it includes spaces which are not so public and it includes an emphasis on material and non-human actors. This collection foregrounds this broader understanding of pedagogy by framing enquiry through a series of questions and across a range of settings. How for example are the processes of ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’ realised within and across the pedagogic processes specific to various social sites? What ensembles of people things and practices are brought together in specific institutional and everyday settings to accomplish these processes?This collection brings together researchers whose work across the interdisciplinary nexus of cultural studies sociology media studies education and museology offers significant insights into these ‘cultural pedagogies’ – the practices and relations through which cumulative changes in how we act feel and think occur. Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct opens up debate across disciplines theoretical perspectives and empirical foci to explore both what is pedagogical about culture and what is cultural about pedagogy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367869427

Cultural Perceptions of Violence in the Hellenistic World Violence had long been central to the experience of Hellenistic Greek cities and to their civic discourses. This volume asks how these discourses were shaped and how they functioned within the particular cultural constructs of the Hellenistic world. It was a period in which warfare became more professionalised and wars increasingly ubiquitous. The period also saw major changes in political structures that led to political and cultural experimentation and transformation in which the political and cultural heritage of the classical city-state encountered the new political principles and cosmopolitan cultures of Hellenism. Finally and in a similar way it saw expanded opportunities for cultural transfer in cities through (re)constructions of urban space. Violence thus entered the city through external military and political shocks as well as within emerging social hierarchies and civic institutions. Such factors also inflected economic activity religious practices and rituals and the artistic literary and philosophical life of the polis. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367595210

Cultural Perspectives on Development What does cultural analysis have to offer development studies? Is culture a new paradigm for the study of development or a minefield of theoretical confusion? Can we move beyond notions of global culture' and local culture' to a more refined notion of cultural processes?This collection of articles addresses these issues providing a diversity of approaches. Two themes in particular run through the contributions: the relationship between culture and political economy and the relationship between local and global processes. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315831633

Cultural Planning HandbookAn essential Australian guide Cultural planning is as important to communities as roads rates and rubbish. Local councils and urban planners are increasingly recognising the value of community cultural resources as a means of improving the quality of life and economic vitality of a region city or town as well as consolidating identity and sense of place. Until now however there has been little Australian-based information to assist cultural planners in their task.The Cultural Planning Handbook fills the information gap with practical guidelines for mapping the cultural resources of communities and devising and implementing appropriate cultural development strategies. It is an essential guide for community development workers planning professionals tourism operators artists and cultural workers as well as all community members involved in cultural development. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003136668

Cultural Pluralism and PsychoanalysisThe Asian and North American Experience Cultural Pluralism and Psychoanalysis explores the creative dialogue that the major psychoanalysts since Freud have had with the modern Northern European/North American culture of individualism and tries to resolve major problems that occur when psychoanalysis with its cultural legacy of individualism is applied to those from various Asian cultures. Roland examines the theoretical issues involved in developing a multicultural psychoanalysis and then looks at the interface between Asian-Americans and other Americans discussing the frequent dissonances miscommunications and misunderstandings that result from each coming from vastly different cultural and psychological realms. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203948484

Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development The concept of sustainable development is commonly divided into environmental economic social and cultural dimensions. While a variety of international actors have declared the importance of culture in sustainable development jointly articulating this clearly has been difficult. For example the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that were adopted by the UN General Assembly in September 2015 contained only the most fleeting mention of culture. None of the SDGs referred directly to the case for integrating culture into sustainable development planning and decision-making. The role of cultural policy has remained unclear. This book contributes to a better understanding of the role of culture in achieving sustainability focusing on the particular roles for cultural policy in this context. Cultural sustainability is conceptualised as the sustainability of cultural and artistic practices and patterns and to the role of cultural traits and actions to inform and compose part of the pathways towards more sustainable societies. The links between culture and sustainable development are analysed in ways that articulate and contemplate different roles for cultural policy. The contributors take up the concerns and perspectives of international national and local authorities and actors illuminating ways in which these multi-scale efforts both intersect and diverge. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367535575

Cultural Policy David Bell and Kate Oakley survey the major debates emerging in cultural policy research adopting an approach based on spatial scale to explore cultural policy in cities nations and internationally. They contextualise these discussions with an exploration of what both ‘culture’ and ‘policy’ mean when they are joined together as cultural policy. Drawing on topical examples and contemporary research as well as their own experience in both academia and in consultancy Bell and Oakley urge readers to think critically about the project of cultural policy as it is currently being played out around the world. Cultural Policy is a comprehensive and readable book that provides a lively up-to-date overview of key debates in cultural policy making it ideal for students of media and cultural studies creative and cultural industries and arts management. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415665018

Cultural Policy Specialists in cultural policy draw on many scholarly literatures and traditions including but not limited to media and communication studies history sociology politics arts management geography and cultural studies. Now this new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the key texts that form the background context and basis for a sophisticated understanding of the topic materials that have hitherto been scattered throughout a variety of specialist journals and books. Cultural Policy offers advanced students and established researchers alike a comprehensive and carefully ordered ‘mini library’ of the subject’s major works. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138889859

Cultural Policy Work and IdentityThe Creation Renewal and Negotiation of Professional Subjectivities How have cultural policies created new occupations and shaped professions? This book explores an often unacknowledged dimension of cultural policy analysis: the professional identity of cultural agents. It analyses the relationship between cultural policy identity and professionalism and draws from a variety of cultural policies around the world to provide insights on the identity construction processes that are at play in cultural institutions. This book reappraises the important question of professional identities in cultural policy studies museum studies and heritage studies. The authors address the relationship between cultural policy work and identity by focusing on three levels of analysis. The first considers the state the creativity of the power relationship established in cultural policies and the power which structures the symbolic order of cultural work. The second presents community in the cultural policy process society and collective action whether it is through the creation of institutions for arts and heritage profession or through resistance to state cultural policies. The third examines the experience of cultural policy by the professional. It illustrates how cultural policy is both a set of contingencies that shape possibilities for professionals as much as it is a basis for identification and identity construction. The eleven authors in this unique book draw on their experience as artists and researchers from a range of countries including France Canada United Kingdom United States and Sweden. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815399384

Cultural Policy and Democracy This book discusses how public cultural policies can relate to the principle political issue of democracy. Here democratic cultural policies include ideas and ideologies institutional structures agents and interests power access and participation and distribution of economic resources. Contributors focus on analysing the relationship between a political system and culture and the arts as an empirical field. They critically consider questions such as: How do different democratic forms affect cultural policy consequences? Can cultural autonomy be combined with cultural democracy? How is cultural policy-making used as a political process and which interests are involved? What position does popular culture have in cultural policies? How does a former Soviet state like Lithuania handle the question of culture and democracy? What does it mean when UNESCO talks about cultural diversity? How did intellectuals act in cultural policy debates in France in the late 19th century? The volume also looks at whether the democratisation of culture is actually possible. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138018518

Cultural Policy in East AsiaContemporary Issues and Trends This book provides an introduction to the contemporary issues that are occurring in cultural policy in East Asia today. Interest in East Asia has grown considerably in recent years due not only to the emergence of economic super-powers such as China but also to the cultural impact the region is making throughout the world through Japanese film and Korean Pop-Music. Addressing the relationship between the state culture and the creative economy this collection highlights how cultural policy within this region has to be understood within its social historical and political context. By presenting a variety of chapters that examine the role of culture within the countries of China Japan Singapore South Korea and Taiwan this book offers readers an insight into the key issues affecting development of cultural policy in these countries. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138775862

Cultural Policy in Ibero-America This book provides a broad overview of the development of Ibero-American cultural policy in an important and innovative way. This volume brings together specialists in the field from different nations and disciplines and provides the keys to understanding the different trajectories and experiences of some significant countries in the area on both sides of the Atlantic; the recent developments in this domain such as urban cultural regeneration policies and cultural development policies; and the dynamics of policy transfers such as cultural diplomacy. The book also contrasts the applicability and the explanatory power of the idea of the family of nations for the analysis of cultural policy with models inspired by the welfare regimes. This book allows international researchers an overarching view of the peculiarities and the latest achievements in the field of Ibero-American cultural policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367729493

Cultural Policy in South KoreaMaking a New Patron State This is the first English-language book on cultural policy in Korea which critically historicises and analyses the contentious and dynamic development of the policy. It highlights that the evolution of cultural policy has been bound up with the complicated political economic and social trajectory of Korea to a surprising degree. Investigating the content and context of the policy from the period of Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945) until the military authoritarian regime (1961–1988) the book discusses how culture often co-opted by the government was mobilised to disseminate state agendas and define national identity. It then moves on to investigate the distinct characteristics of Korea’s contemporary cultural policy since the 1990s particularly its energetic pursuit of democracy a market economy of culture and outward cultural globalisation (the Korean Wave). This book helps readers to understand the continuous presence of the ‘strong state’ in Korean cultural policy and its implications for the cultural life of Koreans. It argues that this exceptionally active cultural policy sets an important condition not only for artistic creation cultural consumption and cultural business in the country but also for the nation's ambitious endeavour to turn the success of its pop culture into a global phenomenon. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367588557

Cultural Policy Review of Books Cultures are shaped by many institutions and agencies including governments corporations education and the media. In recent years research into these culture-shaping activities has been increasingly associated with the developing field of cultural policy studies. The Cultural Policy Review of Books offers a fascinating insight into the intellectual formation of many of the leading figures that have contributed to this field. Invited to write a short review essay on the book that had most influenced their thinking 41 academics and researchers from around the world reveal what they consider to be essential reading. Including essays on Bourdieu de Certeau Foucault Gramsci Habermas and Williams as well as many lesser known writers the collection throws new light on the intellectual underpinning of cultural policy studies. It will be of interest not only to researchers students and teachers in this field but to all those looking to understand the forces that shape the culture of modern societies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138111172

Cultural PolicyManagement Value & Modernity in the Creative Industries Contemporary society is complex; governed and administered by a range of contradictory policies practices and techniques. Nowhere are these contradictions more keenly felt than in cultural policy. This book uses insights from a range of disciplines to aid the reader in understanding contemporary cultural policy. Drawing on a range of case studies including analysis of the reality of work in the creative industries urban regeneration and current government cultural policy in the UK the book discusses the idea of value in the cultural sector showing how value plays out in cultural organizations. Uniquely the book crosses disciplinary boundaries to present a thorough introduction to the subject. As a result the book will be of interest to a range of scholars across arts management public and nonprofit management cultural studies sociology and political science. It will also be essential reading for those working in the arts culture and public policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415817608

Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture and leisure. Culture and leisure are focal points both to local entrepreneurship and to planning by city governments which means that these developments are subject to market dynamics as well as to political discourse and action. Public-private partnerships as well as conflicts of interests characterise the field and a major issue related to the strategic development of culture and leisure is the balance between market and welfare. This field is gaining importance in most cities today in planning production and consumption but to the extent that these changes have drawn academic attention it has focused on large metropolitan areas and on creative clusters and flagship high culture projects. Smaller cities and their often substantively different cultural strategies have been largely ignored thus leading to a huge gap in our knowledge on contemporary urban change. By bringing together a number of case studies as well as theoretical reflections on the cultural political economy of small cities this volume contributes to an emerging small cities research agenda and to the development of policy-relevant expertise that is sensitive to place-specific cultural dynamics. In taking this approach the volume hopes to contribute to emerging research on culture and leisure economies by developing a differentiated spatial dimension to it without which sustainable urban strategies cannot be developed. This book integrates perspectives of economic development with questions of governance and equity in relation to the fields of culture and leisure planning and development. This book should be of interest to students and researchers of Urban Studies and Planning Regional Studies and Economics as well as Sociology and Geography. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415818636

Cultural Politics - Queer Reading Following a first edition that generated wide-spread debate Cultural Politics â€“ Queer Reading is a bold study of the future of critical theory and the role of gender ethnicity and cultures within academic literary studies.An illuminating introduction to the second edition revisits the book's agenda for a new form of cultural critique and a truly political lesbian and gay studies. Sinfield renews his call for an 'Englit' that incorporates ongoing study of the cultures of ethnicity gender and sexuality.Challenging the assumptions that have shaped the study of English literature Sinfield engages provocatively with topics such as the gendering of literary culture  the sexual politics of psychoanalysis during the Cold War and the history of cultural materialism. He discusses such key figures as William Shakespeare Christopher Marlowe Walt Whitman Arthur Miller Holly Hughes Audre Lorde and Jeanette Winterson.This influential investigation of the principles and practice that may form dissident reading  forms compelling argument for intellectual allegiances beyond the academy. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203360002

Cultural Politics and Asian Values Cultural Politics and Asian Values looks at the political cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of 'the West' with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics: democratization the international human rights discourse NGOs and globalization.The book surveys the political history and pre-history of the 'Asian values' debate taking it up to the era of Megawati Sukarnoputri Chen Shui-bian and Kim Dae-jung. In chapters on Confucianism Buddhism Islam Christianity and liberalism Barr explores the histories and conceptual essences of the world religions involved in or affected by the debate. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138181342

Cultural Politics and Asian ValuesThe Tepid War Cultural Politics and Asian Values looks at the political cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of 'the West' with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics: democratization the international human rights discourse NGOs and globalisation.The book surveys the political history and pre-history of the 'Asian values' debate taking it up to the era of Megawati Sukarnoputri Chen Shui-bian and Kim Dae-jung. In chapters on Confucianism Buddhism Islam Christianity and liberalism Barr explores the histories and conceptual essences of the world religions involved in or affected by the debate. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138863088

Cultural Politics in Harry PotterLife Death and the Politics of Fear Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life Death and the Politics of Fear is the first book-length analysis of topics such as death fear and biopolitics in J.K. Rowling’s work from controversial and interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection brings together recent theoretical and applied cultural studies and focuses on three key areas of inquiry: (1) wizarding biopolitics and intersected discourses; (2) anxiety death resilience and trauma; and (3) the politics of fear and postmodern transformations. As such this book:  provides a comprehensive overview of national and gender discourses as well as the transiting bodies in-between in relation to the Harry Potter books series and related multimedia franchise; situates the transformative power of death within the fandom transmedia and film depictions of the Potterverse and critically deconstructs the processes of subjectivation and legitimation of death and fear; examines the strategies and mechanisms through which cultural and political processes are managed as well as reminding us how fiction and reality intersect at junctions such as terrorism homonationalism materialism capitalism posthumanism and technology. Exploring precisely what is cultural about wizarding politics and what is political about culture this book is key reading for students of contemporary literature media and culture as well as anyone with an interest in the fictional universe and wizarding world of Harry Potter. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367206635

Cultural Politics in International Relations This title was first published in 2001. Questioning the authority of the discipline of international relations in particular structural realism to recognize the influence of varied social phenomena on possible outcomes this book demonstrates how seemingly insignificant acts propagated through music humour and poetry can disturb official culture and initiate social change. This thought-provoking work is compelling reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of both international relations and cultural studies alike. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138728769

Cultural Politics in Modern IndiaPostcolonial prospects colourful cosmopolitanism global proximities India’s global proximities derive in good measure from its struggle against British imperialism. In its efforts to become a nation India turned modern in its own unusual way. At the heart of this metamorphosis was a "colourful cosmopolitanism " the unique manner in which India made the world its neighbourhood. The most creative thinkers and leaders of that period reimagined diverse horizons. They collaborated not only in widespread anti-colonial struggles but also in articulating the vision of alter-globalization universalism and cosmopolitanism. This book in revealing this dimension offers new and original interpretations of figures such as Kant Tagore Heidegger Gandhi Aurobindo Gebser Kosambi Narayan Ezekiel and Spivak. It also analyses cultural and aesthetic phenomena from the rasa theory to Bollywood cinema explaining how Indian ideas texts and cultural expressions interacted with a wider world and contributed to the making of modern India. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9781138488335

Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity In 2008 another economic crisis emerged in the long history of capitalism which created a period of ‘austerity economics’ across many nations. Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity examines how austerity has impacted upon cultural politics in relation to understanding how established power is both maintained and challenged. The book begins by detailing the meaning of cultural politics before exploring themes such as media discourse austerity narratives class cultural hegemony/government policymaking social movements and the European Union and left responses to austerity. It also includes chapters tracing cultural politics in Spain with a focus on anti-austerity movements and the relationship between austerity and Spanish football. Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity assesses the impact of a range of cultural/political forms concerning the dynamics of society and relations of power during times of crisis. As such it will appeal to scholars of culture media  politics philosophy sociology and social psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367085377

Cultural Politics in the Third World First Published in 1999. This book does not aim to offer a new or radically different interpretation of the ongoing debate over cultural geography. Kamrava states nor does it seek to present a universal theory of what Third World countries have done or ought to do as they navigate the political economic and sociocultural traumas of development. Instead it tries to place culture in its proper political perspective in the Third World. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138158788

Cultural Politics of Targeted KillingOn Drones Counter-Insurgency and Violence The deployment of remotely piloted air platforms (RPAs) - or drones - has become a defining feature of contemporary counter-insurgency operations. Scholarly analysis and public debate has primarily focused on two issues: the legality of targeted killing and whether the practice is effective at disrupting insurgency networks and the intensive media and activist scrutiny of the policy processes through which targeted killing decisions have been made. While contributing to these ongoing discussions this book aims to determine how targeted killing has become possible in contemporary counter-insurgency operations undertaken by liberal regimes. Each chapter is oriented around a problematisation that has shaped the cultural politics of the targeted killing assemblage. Grayson argues that in order to understand how specific forms of violence become prevalent it is important to determine how problematisations that enable them are shaped by a politico-cultural system in which culture operates in conjunction with technological economic governmental and geostrategic elements. The book also demonstrates that the actors involved - what they may be attempting to achieve through the deployment of this form of violence how they attempt to achieve it and where they attempt to achieve it - are also shaped by culture. The book demonstrates how the current social relations prevalent in liberal societies contain the potential for targeted killing as a normal rather than extraordinary practice. It will be of great use for academic specialists and graduate students in international studies geography sociology cultural studies and legal studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367596309

Cultural Politics of TranslationEast Africa in a Global Context This book is the first full-length examination of the cultural politics at work in the act of translation in East Africa providing close critical analyses of a variety of texts that demonstrate the myriad connections between translation and larger socio-political forces. Looking specifically at texts translated into Swahili the book builds on the notion that translation is not just a linguistic process but also a complex interaction between culture history and politics and charts this evolution of the translation process in East Africa from the pre-colonial to colonial to post-colonial periods. It uses textual examples including the Bible the Qur’an and Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth from five different domains – religious political legal journalistic and literary – and grounds them in their specific socio-political and historical contexts to highlight the importance of context in the translation process and to unpack the complex relationships between both global and local forces that infuse these translated texts with an identity all their own. This book provides a comprehensive portrait of the multivalent nature of the act of translation in the East African experience and serves as a key resource for students and researchers in translation studies cultural studies post-colonial studies African studies and comparative literature. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138499157

Cultural Populism First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138162969

Cultural Practices of LiteracyCase Studies of Language Literacy Social Practice and Power This volume presents case studies of literacy practices as shaped by culture language community and power. Covering a range of contexts and exploring a number of relevant dimensions in the evolving picture of literacy as situated multiple and social the studies are grouped around four overarching themes:*Language Literacy and Hegemony;*The Immigrant Experience: Language Literacies and Identities;*Literacies In-/Out-of-School and On the Borders; and*New Pedagogies for New Literacies. It is now generally recognized that literacy is multiple and woven within the sociocultural lives of communities but what is not yet fully understood is how it is multiple--how this multiplicity plays out across and within differing sociocultural contexts. Such understanding is critical for crafting school literacy practices in response to the different literacy sets brought to school by different learners. Toward this end it is necessary to know what those sets are composed of. Each of the case studies contributes to building this knowledge in new and interesting ways. As a whole the book provides a rich and complex portrait of literacy-in-use. Cultural Practices of Literacy: Case Studies of Language Literacy Social Practice and Power advances sociocultural research and theory pertaining to literacy development as it occurs across school and community boundaries and cultural contexts and in and out of school. It is intended for researchers students professionals across the field of literacy studies and schooling including specialists in family literacy community literacy adult literacy critical language studies multiliteracies youth literacy international education English as a second language language and social policy and global literacy. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781003064374

Cultural Practices of Victimhood Cultural Practices of Victimhood aims to set the agenda for a cultural study of victimhood. Words such as ‘victim’ and ‘victimhood’ represent shifting cultural signifiers their meaning depending on the cultural context of their usage. Using case studies and through a practice-based approach questions are asked about how victimhood is defined and constructed whether in the ritual commemoration of refugees on Lampedusa the artistic practices of an Aboriginal artist such as Richard Bell or the media practices associated with police violence. Consisting of contributions by cultural studies experts with an interest in victim studies this book seeks a double readership. On the one hand it intends to break new ground with regards to a ‘cultural turn’ in the field of criminology in particular victimology. On the other hand it also seeks to open up discussions about a ‘victimological turn’ in culture studies. The volume invites scholars and advanced students active in both domains to reflect on victimhood in cultural practices. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138552814

Cultural Processes in Child DevelopmentThe Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology Volume 29 The chapters of this volume were originally presented at the 29th Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology. The focus of this symposium on cultural processes in child development emerged from the growing recognition among those at the Institute of Child Development and many others in the field that more needs to be known about the processes linking individual development and the contexts in which it occurs and that this is no longer a luxury but essential for good science and good policy in an increasingly interconnected and pluralistic world. The chapter authors in this volume chronicle the challenges as well as the benefits of venturing out to the growing edge of theory and research concerned with how cultures and individuals interact to shape development. These investigators have wrested with the complexities of figuring out the assumptions beliefs values and rules by which people conceptualize their lives and rear their children organize their societies and educate the next generation. As a whole this volume reflects the beginnings of a "cultural renaissance" in developmental science. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138002586

Cultural Production and Participatory PoliticsYouth Symbolic Creativity and Activism This book addresses the conceptual lapse in the literature regarding the relationship between cultural production and participatory politics by examining their connections in a range of national and political contexts. Each chapter examines how youth engage cultural production as part of their political participation and how political participation is sometimes central to and expressed through cultural production. The contributing authors provide examples of the intersections between youth cultural production and participatory politics and bring together a range of approaches to the examination of these intersections providing illustrations of the complexities involved in these processes. Each of the chapters takes up different kinds of practices – from street art to video production from online activism to installation work. They also examine a range of political contexts – from students striking at the University of Puerto Rico to activism in community arts centres and university classrooms. The book considers what becomes evident when close attention is paid to the intersection of cultural production and participatory politics: what does participatory politics help people to see about cultural production and how does cultural production expand how people understand participatory politics? This book was originally published as a special issue of Curriculum Inquiry. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367266431

Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Literature and Film Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among women’s workplace roles modes of authorship and processes of subject-formation pointing to some of the reasons for the persistence of limiting gender roles and occupational hierarchies that arose during the first 60 years of the 20th century.The book interrogates three common narratives: The rise of Fordism as a "masculine" mode of production and the transition to an era of "feminized" work; women’s liberation through the sexual revolutions; and the rise of a new form of literary authorship. Conversely it suggests that women’s labor was integral to the operations of the Fordist business sphere where unlike at the factory the white-collar office proletarian work was casualized and feminized. This book argues that this workplace was an important site of subject formation affirming dominant ideologies through economic practices. Analyzing work by Sinclair Lewis Nella Larsen Anita Loos and Sylvia Plath the book presents an alternative history of American modernism one that is more attuned to gendered discourses of labor and class. By looking at the micropolitics of power within cultural institutions this study moves beyond the dichotomies of exclusion/inclusion to interrogate the terms on which women and minorities worked as producers and the ideas and experiences that consequently entered the field of intelligibility.  Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367731908

Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio Recording studios are the most insulated intimate and privileged sites of music production and creativity. Yet in a world of intensified globalisation they are also sites which are highly connected into wider networks of music production that are increasingly spanning the globe. This book is the first comprehensive account of the new spatialities of cultural production in the recording studio sector of the musical economy spatialities that illuminate the complexities of global cultural production. This unique text adopts a social-geographical perspective to capture the multiple spatial scales of music production: from opening the "black-box" of the insulated space of the recording studio; through the wider contexts in which music production is situated; to the far-flung global production networks of which recording studios are part. Drawing on original research recent writing on cultural production across a variety of academic disciplines secondary sources such as popular music biographies and including a wide range of case studies this lively and accessible text covers a range of issues including the role of technology in musical creativity; creative collaboration and emotional labour; networking and reputation; and contemporary economic challenges to studios. As a contribution to contemporary debates on creativity cultural production and creative labour Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio will appeal to academic students and researchers working across the social sciences including human geography cultural studies media and communication studies sociology as well as those studying music production courses. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138634596

Cultural Property AcquisitionsNavigating the Shifting Landscape Museum staff--whether new to the field or working with collections for decades--are often overwhelmed by the complexities of acquiring cultural property particularly antiquities and archaeological material. Collecting practices now require a greater degree of transparency and cooperation with various stakeholders than in the past and are under greater scrutiny to be in line with current legal requirements and ethical expectations. This book provides a concise unbiased and practical resource for those tasked with navigating the complicated and rapidly changing legal and ethical landscape governing the acquisition of cultural property and archaeological material. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781611321104

Cultural Property and Contested OwnershipThe trafficking of artefacts and the quest for restitution Against the backdrop of international conventions and their implementation Cultural Property and Contested Ownership explores how highly-valued cultural goods are traded and negotiated among diverging parties and their interests. Cultural artefacts such as those kept and trafficked between art dealers private collectors and museums have become increasingly localized in a ‘Bermuda triangle’ of colonialism looting and the black market with their re-emergence resulting in disputes of ownership and claims for return. This interdisciplinary volume provides the first book-length investigation of the changing behaviours resulting from the effect of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. The collection considers the impact of the Convention on the way antiquity dealers museums and auction houses as well as nation states and local communities address issues of provenance contested ownership and the trafficking of cultural property. The book contains a range of contributions from anthropologists lawyers historians and archaeologists. Individual cases are examined from a bottom-up perspective and assessed from the viewpoint of international law in the Epilogue. Each section is contextualised by an introductory chapter from the editors. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367875473

Cultural Property SecurityProtecting Museums Historic Sites Archives and Libraries The protection and security of cultural properties is of primary concern to the thousands of federal state county city and private institutions entrusted with housing and displaying our national heritage and history of our society. Cultural property security is of global importance as well with tens of thousands of institutions internationally tasked with protecting and maintaining relics and artifacts of social cultural and historical significance.Cultural Property Security offers powerful protection guidelines to security departments tasked with safeguarding popular historical sites museums and libraries and the historical artifacts they house. Presenting practical ready-to-implement solutions in a clear writing style the book: Provides a working definition of cultural properties Identifies the threats against cultural properties from crime and terrorism particularly in regions with political or civil unrest Offers guidance in threat assessment Identifies the physical security measures and technology that can be used to protect such institutions Presents guidelines for establishing a protective service department for cultural properties Describes proper arrest and post-arrest protocols Includes a list of online resources for further information related to the protection of cultural properties Complete with dozens of photos the book establishes leading industry best practices to identify the various threats to cultural properties and protect them.Dr. Daniel J. Benny has more than 35 years of security management experience and has served as a Director of Protective Services for the state of Pennsylvania’s Historic and Museum Commission. His insight is invaluable to those responsible for securing these institutions from internal and external threats. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781466558182

Cultural Protest in Journalism Documentary Films and the ArtsBetween Protest and Professionalization Cultural Protest in Journalism Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest and Professionalisation entails a comprehensive account of the history and trajectory of contemporary journalistic (documentary) film and arts and cultural actors rooted (partially or wholly) in radical alternative community voluntary participatory and independent movements primarily in Britain and Germany. It focuses particularly on the examination of production and organisational contexts of selected case studies some of which date from the countercultural era. The book takes a transnational and interdisciplinary approach encompassing a range of theoretical perspectives â€“ drawn from the political economy of communication tradition; alternative media scholarship; journalism studies; critical sociological and cultural studies of media industries; cultural industries research; and critical and social theory â€“ in conjunction with extensive ethnographic fieldwork. It does so to reveal the obscure nature of media and cultural production and organisation at seventeen media and cultural actors based in Britain and Germany including South Africa and Nigeria. A particular focus is placed on how such actors balance competing imperatives of a civic/socio-political professional artistic and commercial nature as well as various systemic pressures and on how they navigate the resultant ambivalences paradoxes and tensions in their day-to-day work. In essence the book highlights key insights into a changing nature and quality of engagement with social and political realities in protest cultures. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367660840

Cultural Proximity and OrganizationManaging Diversity and Innovation Cultural proximity consists in shared language codes and norms of communication and exchange between actors. It is generally considered important for organizations enhancing communication and facilitation interaction between actors. In such situation diversity is often seen as a source of richness and originality. However high levels of proximity might create some risk leading to lock-in and inertia with a negative impact on the innovativeness of the organization. While the role of cultural proximity is subject to much debate within organizations studies a comprehensive understanding of cultural proximity remains elusive. This book explores the organizational implications of the concept of cultural proximity delving into the managerial challenges posed by diversities and similarities in culture within a business environment using different levels of analysis. The key messages of the present book grounded on original empirical evidence can be summarized as follows: cultural proximity is a key factor for managing innovation in present times; innovation requires a deliberate orchestration of the dichotomy between cultural proximity/cultural diversity; there are specific circumstances where proximity can be beneficial for managers and entrepreneurs. The book will be of value to researchers academics managers and students in the fields of management science human resource management innovation studies and organizational studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367513160

Cultural Psychology of Immigrants This new volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective on how intersections of race class gender sexuality and culture shape the cultural psychology of immigrants. It demonstrates the influence transnational ties and cultural practices and beliefs play on creating the immigrant self. Distinguished scholars from a variety of fields examine the cultural psychological consequences of displacement among different immigrant communities. Cultural Psychology of Immigrants opens with a variety of theoretical perspectives on immigration and a historical overview of sociological research on immigrants. It then examines the racial discrimination of immigrants and the multifaceted influences on the creation of immigrant identities. The final section documents the pivotal role of family contexts in shaping identity. Each chapter illustrates the commonalities and differences among immigrants in the ways in which they make sense of their newfound selves in a displaced context. Intended for advanced students and researchers in the fields of psychology social work marriage and family therapy public health anthropology sociology education and ethnic studies the book also serves as a resource in courses on cultural psychology immigrant studies minority groups race and ethnic relations self and identity culture and human development and immigrants and mental health. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9781315820934

Cultural PsychologyA Special Issue of the journal of Consumer Psychology First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9780203764947

Cultural Realities of BeingAbstract ideas within everyday lives Cultural Realities of Being offers a dialogue between academic activity and everyday lives by providing an interface between several perspectives on human conduct. Very often academic pursuits are arcane and obscure for ordinary people this book will attempt to disentangle these dialogues lifting everyday discourse and providing a forum for advancing discussion and dialogue. Nandita Chaudhary S. Anandalakshmy and Jaan Valsiner bring together contributors from the field of cultural psychology to consider how people living within social groups regardless of how liberal are guided by collective reality and interconnected with life circumstances. The book discusses experiences and events in the lives of people of Indian cultures covering topics including family food pilgrimages social dynamics and truth in order to expand the material on human phenomena under the broad frame of cultural psychology. The book builds upon rich cultural traditions present in India and precisely because of this focus the book has much larger implications and relevance to the field and aims to orient the academic reader from around the world to viewing India and Indian society as a valuable area for research. Divided into three sections the book covers:• Social presentation in culture• Representing relations• Children and youth in cultureThis book includes commentaries from expert academics from outside of India providing a bridge between academic reality and cultural discourse and throwing fresh light on the everyday events presented in the text. Cultural Realities of Being will be essential reading for those studying Cross Cultural Psychology as well as those interested in social representation and identity. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138636866

Cultural Reflections of MedusaThe Shadow in the Glass This project studies the patterns in which the Medusa myth shapes constructs and transforms new meanings of women today correlating portrayals in ancient Greek myth nineteenth- century Symbolist painting and new controversial visions of women in contemporary art. The myth of the Medusa has long been the ultimate symbol of woman as monster. With her roots in classical mythology Medusa has appeared time and again throughout history and culture and this book studies the patterns in which the Medusa myth shapes constructs and transforms new meanings of women today. Hedgecock presents an interdisciplinary and broad historical “cultural reflections” of the modern Medusa including the work of Maria Callas Nan Goldin the Symbolist painters and twentieth-century poets. This timely and necessary work will be key reading for students and researchers specializing in mythology or gender studies across a variety of fields touching on interdisciplinary research in feminist theory art history and theory cultural studies and psychology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367183479

Cultural RenewalRestoring the Liberal and Fine Arts The decline of interest in the liberal and fine arts is widely lamented. At issue is why this decline happened and how we might restore qualitative standards by which to live. Arthur Pontynen argues that cultural decline is the consequence of a tragically anti-intellectual academic tradition and its alternative is the cosmopolitan pursuit of wisdom and beauty.Pontynen writes that the liberal and fine arts are justified by their attempt to understand the material realization of wisdom of that which is true and good in reality and life. The current decline marks a denial that such qualitative aspirations are realistic. Instead of understanding art as the intellectual pursuit of ontological perfection perfection is subjectified as willful preference or experience. Consequently the liberal and fine arts have been displaced by a naturalistic social science and a relational existentialism. This reduction denies qualitive thoughts words and deeds.Pontynen establishes that the arts are not obsolete merely subjectivist or limited to a brutal (de)constructivism. He argues for a renewed idealism that is neither reductionist trivializing or brutalized. Pontynen offers an alternative global narrative that is both realistic and idealistic; one that permits us to distinguish between the trivial the brutal and the profound. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508859

Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the US-Mexico Border Since the early 1990s the repeated murders of women from Ciudad Juárez Mexico have become something of a global cause célèbre. Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the US-Mexico Border examines creative responses to these acts of violence. It reveals how theatre art film fiction and other popular cultural forms seek to remember and mourn the female victims of violent death in the city at the same time as they interrogate the political legal and societal structures that produce the crimes. Different chapters examine the varying art forms to engage with Ciudad Juárez’s feminicidal wave. Finnegan discusses Àlex Rigola’s theatrical adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666 by Teatre Lliure in Barcelona as well as painting about the victims of feminicidio by Irish painter Brian Maguire. There is analysis of documentary film about Ciudad Juárez including Lourdes Portillo’s acclaimed Señorita Extraviada (2001). The final chapter turns its attention to writing about feminicide and examines testimonial and crime fiction narratives like the mystery novel Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders by Alicia Gaspar de Alba among other examples. By drawing on a range of artistic responses to the murders in Ciudad Juárez Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the US-Mexico Border shows how art film theatre and fiction can unsettle official narratives about the crimes and undo the static paradigms that are frequently used to interpret them. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138482173

Cultural Resistance 9/11 and the War on TerrorSensible Interventions Cultural Resistance 9/11 and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions offers a fresh account of the enduring cultural legacies of the September 11 2001 terror attacks and the global war on terror through the critical lens of cultural resistance. It assesses the intersecting ways that popular culture has been deployed as oppositional practice in the post-9/11 context by documenting a collection of media texts including a political hip hop album a TV sitcom a best-selling novel and studio photographs. Deviating from the conventional discursive and representative axis of mourning nationalism and commemoration this multimedia assemblage contests and rearticulates the political meanings affects and visualizations of the war on terror and its global consequences.Drawing on the theoretical work of Jacques Rancière the book also argues that these cultural artefacts are extending cultural resistance by shifting the scenes and methods of opposition to the realm of the sensible or sensorial experiences. Never celebratory the book encapsulates the potential of cultural practices against restricted post-9/11 regimes of visibility and audibility in the public sphere but it also remains attentive to their blind spots contradictions and constraints. This book offers a new angle to consider the events of 9/11 the war on terror and their continual effects one that blurs established visions of patriotism and grief. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367887193

Cultural Resistance and Security from BelowPower and Escape through Capoeira This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how security has been pursued from below and what significance this has for security analysis and policy. Illegal at the beginning of the twentieth century capoeira is now a cultural institution and export that is protected by the Brazilian state and recognised by UNESCO with capoeira players protecting and promoting their interests through the practice and development of their art. The book brings the musical and corporeal narrative from capoeira into conversation with debates on security; these have typically been dominated by northern white military voices and as a result the perspective of the weaker player is routinely overlooked in security literature and policy making. Bringing the perspective of the weaker party Cultural Resistance and Security from Below examines the distribution of security from two angles. First it presents the history of the interaction between capoeira players and the Brazilian society and state that resulted in political and legal acceptance of capoeira. Second it explores how the practice of capoeira generates knowledge of identities explanations and values and how this knowledge empowers communities of players and is communicated to society more broadly. The book then turns to consider how capoeira resists within Brazil's contemporary context of insecurity and what significance the knowledge and power along with capoeira's core move of escape have to security analysis and policy. The book concludes by taking the lessons from capoeira to inform understanding of other cultural activities and ways of life as potential sites and forms of resistance. Conceptually and methodologically original this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of security studies development studies political science and international studies. It will also be of interest to those scholars interested in the changing interaction between politics and the arts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367024932

Cultural ResistanceChallenging Beliefs About Men Women and Therapy In everyday life--in relationships in various institutions in texts--cultural premises influence and sometimes limit individuals’thoughts actions and ideas. Cultural Resistance: Challenging Beliefs About Men Women and Therapy analyzes cultural constraints and encourages therapists individuals and communities to practice cultural resistance on a daily basis allowing for the realization of diverse and suppressed knowledges. Cultural Resistance shows general patterns by which some ideas in a culture become accepted and others are marginalized. It proposes ways individuals and communities can resist the hold of limiting ideas on their lives. In the postmodern tradition Editor Kathy Weingarten brings together authors who ask and offer answers to the question “What is not present in our thinking?” Each chapter invites therapists to extend their thinking about the scope of their work. Topics covered include: challenging cultural beliefs about mothers transforming masculine identities lesbian and gay parents a narrative approach to anorexia/bulimia perspectives on the Black woman and sexual trauma focusing on Thomas v. Hill opening therapy to conversations with a personal god new conversations on controversial issuesThe chapters in Cultural Resistance first describe cultural premises that constrain the lives of women men and/or therapists and then develop an approach to resisting these constraints. A response follows each chapter in an effort to promote discourse extend meanings and encourage learning between professionals.Cultural Resistance yields new perspectives on the nature of social change and the relationships between individuals and culture. It offers valuable insights to family therapists psychiatrists psychologists and social workers who want to broaden their thinking and approach. It gives therapists a fresh new way of thinking about themselves others and their conversations through applications which may be professional personal or both. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315801063

Cultural Resource Management in Contemporary SocietyPerspectives on Managing and Presenting the Past This innovative collection of essays from an international range of contributors describes various means of preserving protecting and presenting vital cultural resources within the context of economic development competing claims of "ownership" of particular cultural resources modern uses of structures and space and other aspects of late twentieth-century life. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415642415

Cultural ResourcesPlanning And Management This book offers a wide range of perspectives from academia private industry and governmental agencies. It discusses how a resource is defined legal and government requirements and improved methods for implementing cultural resource studies and increasing public involvement. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367167820

Cultural Reverse The phenomenon of "Cultural Reverse" (文化反哺) emerged in the 1980s after China's reform and opening up. In this era of rapid social change the older generation started to learn from the younger generation across many fields in a way that is markedly similar to the biological phenomenon of "The old crow that keeps barking fed by their children" from ancient Chinese poetry. In this book the author discusses this new academic concept and other aspects of Chinese inter-generational relations. In the first volume the author explains some popular social science theories about generations traces the history of Chinese intergenerational relationships and through focus group interviews with 77 families in mainland China comprehensively discusses the younger generation's values attitudes behavior patterns and the ways which differ from their ancestors’. Following on from the first volume this second volume further analyzes the multiple causes of cultural reverse including rapid social change the influence of peer groups and the impact of the media. Then in a broader context the author discusses the complex interdependence of and conflict among the state society and youth. He tells a story of the transformation of Chinese youth over the past hundred years and names this "one-place" (fast-changing China) and "one-time only" (unrepeatable) phenomenon "China feeling". The book will be a valuable resource for scholars of Chinese sociology and also general readers interested in contemporary Chinese society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367904104

Cultural Reverse â…¡The Multidimensional Motivation and Social Impact of Intergenerational Revolution The book proposes a new academic concept "Cultural Reverse" (文化反哺) referring to the phenomeno beginning in China in the 1980s in which the older generation started to learn from the younger generation and analyses the multiple causes and social impacts of this trend. Following on from the first volume this second volume further analyses the multiple causes of cultural reverse including rapid social change the influence of peer groups and the impact of the media. Then in a broader context the author discusses the complex interdependence of and conflict among the State society and youth. He tells a story of the transformation of Chinese youth over the past hundred years and names this "one-place" (fast-changing China) and "one-time only" (unrepeatable) phenomenon "China feeling". The innovative content of the book pushes the barriers of the academic field. Scholars of Chinese sociology and general readers interested in contemporary Chinese society will find this book to be essential. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367904159

Cultural Reverse IThe Past and Present of Intergenerational Revolution The phenomenon of "Cultural Reverse" (文化反哺) emerged in the 1980s after China's reform and opening up. In this era of rapid social change the older generation started to learn from the younger generation across many fields in a way that is markedly similar to the biological phenomenon of "The old crow that keeps barking fed by their children" from ancient Chinese poetry. In this book the author discusses this new academic concept and other aspects of Chinese intergenerational relations. In the first volume the author explains some popular social science theories about generations traces the history of Chinese intergenerational relationships and through focus group interviews with 77 families in mainland China comprehensively discusses the younger generation's values attitudes behavior patterns and the ways in which they differ from their ancestors’. The book will be a valuable resource for scholars of Chinese sociology and also general readers interested in contemporary Chinese society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138330740

Cultural Safety Healthcare and Vulnerable PopulationsA Critical Theoretical Perspective Culturally safe healthcare is rapidly challenging previous notions of cultural competency or cultural sensitivity in healthcare provision. The increasing number of vulnerable populations means healthcare must be given by a healthcare provider who has developed a social consciousness in relation to his or her own socio-cultural positioning versus that of the patient. A culturally safe practitioner has engaged in an active examination of the power differences existing in this patient-provider relationship. In this book Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu critically analyzes the complex issues affecting the health of vulnerable populations. Written from a critical theoretical perspective she seeks to enhance the ability of the healthcare student to develop a social consciousness about the realities faced by many populations living on the margins of society and thereafter make an active and conscious decision to engage in culturally safe healthcare and contribute to the elimination of health disparities. Through the application of postcolonial feminist theory this book conceptualizes health as being historically situated in social relations of power and emphasizes health interventions that are potentially empowering and enhance emancipatory change. Through discussions of health provision for ethnic minorities immigrant populations and refugees the book seeks to provide pragmatic guidance for culturally safe care for a variety of marginalized populations and invites students and professionals to think deeply about the implications of power culture and health. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138898226

Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter musician novelist screenwriter curator critic actor and performer. From the band The Boys Next Door (1976-1980) to the spoken-word recording The Secret Life of the Love Song (1998) to the recently acclaimed screenplay of The Proposition (2005) and the Grinderman project (2008) Cave's career spans thirty years and has produced a comprehensive (and sometimes controversial) body of work that has shaped contemporary alternative culture. Despite intense media interest in Cave there have been remarkably few comprehensive appraisals of his work its significance and its impact on understandings of popular culture. In addressing this absence the present volume is both timely and necessary. Cultural Seeds brings together an international range of scholars and practitioners each of whom is uniquely placed to comment on an aspect of Cave's career. The essays collected here not only generate new ways of seeing and understanding Cave's contributions to contemporary culture but set up a dialogue between fields all-too-often separated in the academy and in the media. Topics include Cave and the Presley myth; the aberrant masculinity projected by The Birthday Party; the postcolonial Australian-ness of his humour; his interventions in film and his erotics of the sacred. These essays offer compelling insights and provocative arguments about the fluidity of contemporary artistic practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138251472

Cultural SemiosisTracing the Signifier First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315822143

Cultural Studies Featuring new essays by such prominent cultural theorists as Tony Bennett Homi Bhabha Donna Haraway bell hooks Constance Penley Janice Radway Andrew Ross and Cornel West Cultural Studies offers numerous specific cultural analyses while simultaneously defining and debating the common body of assumptions questions and concerns that have helped create the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138138230

Cultural Studies - Vol 12.2 First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138416260

Cultural Studies - Vol. 12.4The Institutionalization of Cultural Studies This special issue looks at the increasing presence of Cultural Studies as a discipline within academia. The debate about it's relevance still rages and is commented on in these pages. Also includes tips on publishing for academics and a guide to Cultural Studies institutional presence. A must for all students and graduates in the field. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138416246

Cultural Studies 10.3 "Cultural Studies"is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life economic relations the material world the State and historical forces and contexts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138416192

Cultural Studies 11.1 Cultural Studies explores the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life economic relations the material world the State and historical forces and contexts. It fosters more open analytic critical and political conversations by enabling people to push the dialogue into fresh uncharted territory. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138416222

Cultural Studies 11.3 This intriguing issue represents the truly international and interdisciplinary nature of contemporary work in cultural studies. Cultural Studies has reflected the discipline in becoming ever more global in scope and perspective. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138416277

Cultural Studies and Anti-Consumerism Anti-consumerism has become a conspicuous part of contemporary activism and popular culture from ‘culture jams’ and actions against Esso and Starbucks through the downshifting and voluntary simplicity movements the rise of ethical consumption and organic and the high profile of films and books like Supersize Me! and No Logo. A rising awareness of labor conditions in overseas plants the environmental impact of intensified consumer lifestyles and the effects of neo-liberal privatization have all stimulated such popular cultural opposition. However the subject of anti-consumerism has received relatively little theoretical attention – particularly from cultural studies which is surprising given the discipline’s historical investments in extending radical politics and exploring the complexities of consumer desire. This book considers how the expanding resources of contemporary cultural theory might be drawn upon to understand anti-consumerist identifications and practices; how railing against the social and cultural effects of consumerism has a complex past as well as present; and it pays attention to the interplays between the different movements of anti-consumerism and the particular modes of consumer culture in which they exist. In addition as well as ‘using’ cultural studies to analyse anti-consumerism it also asks how such anti-consumerist practices and discourse challenges some of the presumptions and positions currently held in cultural studies. This book was previously published as a special issue of Cultural Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415846899

Cultural Studies and Environment Revisited The environment is perhaps most misunderstood as a static place somewhere "out there " separated from the practices of our everyday lives. Given this assumption environmental movements and concerns have remained mostly marginalized or denigrated in cultural studies publications conferences and presentations. Recent global developments have made changing this oversight and at times direct resistance to engaging environmental concerns a new priority. This edited collection illustrates an appreciation of the dynamic palpable and significant ways the environment permeates culture (and vice versa) as well as a collective commitment to the ways that cultural studies has more to offer—and to learn from—taking environmental matters to heart. Like foundational categories of identity economics and historical context this collection reminds us why the environment is and should be considered relevant to any work done in the name of "cultural studies." Including research from four continents and across media the authors offer insights on timely topics such as food tourism human/animal relations forests queer theory indigenous rights and water. This book was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138879553

Cultural Studies and Finance CapitalismThe Economic Crisis and After While many discussions of the economic crisis of 2007-2008 have sought to explain the causes of the financial collapse this volume looks to supplement these accounts by exploring possible alternatives for the post-crisis world in which we now live. However rather than offering a strictly economic approach Cultural Studies and Finance Capitalism argues that the crisis was as much cultural as economic and that any way forward must understand the complex relationship between media culture and the economy. The chapters in this volume deal with a wide range of themes including celebrity culture media coverage of the economy examinations of economic theory and financial markets. They bring together research that combines an historical perspective with a view towards the future of critical cultural and political analysis. In a period marked by anxiety and economic austerity this volume offers the reader tools for understanding the place and importance of cultural research in the post-crisis era. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Cultural Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138111165

Cultural Studies and the 'Juridical Turn'Culture law and legitimacy in the era of neoliberal capitalism The relationship between culture and the law has become an emergent concern within contemporary Cultural Studies as a field but the recent focus has been largely limited to the role played by cultural representations and identity politics in the legitimation of legal discourse and policies. While continuing this emphasis this collection also looks at the law itself as a cultural production tracing some of the specific contours of its function in the last three decades. It argues that with the onset of neoliberal or late capitalism the law has taken on a new specificity and power leading to what we are calling the ‘juridical turn’ where the presumed legitimacy of the law makes other forms of hegemonic struggle secondary. The collection not only charts the law and cultural policy as they exert their powerful—if often overlooked—influence on every aspect of society and culture but it also seeks to define this important field of study and demonstrate the substantial role law plays in the production of our social and cultural worlds. In this trailblazing collection of contributions by leading and emerging figures in the field of cultural legal studies chapters examine various ways in which this process is manifested such as U.S. legislation and Supreme Court Decisions on gay marriage immigration consumer finance welfare copyright and so-called victim’s rights along with international comparisons from Europe and Latin America. It promises to be a pathbreaking analysis of our juridically-determined conjuncture. This book was originally published as a special issue of Cultural Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138502604

Cultural Studies and the Symbolic: Theory Studies Presented at the Univeristy of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies: v. 1: Occasion "Given the growing disenchantment on all sides with the 'high theory' of the 1970s and 1980s and with the dominant master-trope of literary and cultural reflexion of the 1980s and 1990s the extended metaphor or 'allegory' this volume offers a timely re-examination of what according to Goethe is a deeper mode of understanding the symbol. Via the life-long preoccupation of Ernst Cassirer with the problems of 'symbolic form' as he christened it the papers collected here try to come to terms with the thinking of Goethe and Schiller on the symbol and on related issues. Taken together they attempt to elucidate the filiation of German classicism down through the nineteenth century to the present in the belief that some of Cassirer's ideas have fed often unacknowledged into the mainstream of contemporary cultural theory and that the rigour of his thought can help clear up much of the confusion in that 'theory'." Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781351196598

Cultural Studies As Critical Theory First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Spon Press 9781315067438

Cultural Studies in India This volume discusses the development of cultural studies in India. It shows how inter-disciplinarity and cultural pluralism form the basis of this emerging field. It deals with contemporary debates and interpretations of post-colonial theory subaltern studies Marxism and post-Marxism nationalism and post-nationalism. Drawing upon literature linguistics history political science media and theatre studies and cultural anthropology it explores themes such as caste indigenous peoples vernacular languages and folklore and their role in the making of historical consciousness. A significant intervention in the area this book will be useful to scholars and students of cultural studies and theory literature history cultural anthropology sociology and media and mass communication as well as the general reader. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780815393092

Cultural Studies of Law This edited collection is a cultural analysis of how law is shaped into procedure and principle by the conditions of everyday life. Law is constitutive of culture just as culture and cultural analyses shape resist and interrogate legal regulation exception and norms. So too does law have a dual capacity in the field of culture: it enables the formation of subjects and of cultural practices and it constrains those very formations. This book uses the animating critical concerns of Cultural Studies over the last 20 years—that is the symbolic material economic and political practices and power relations that are inscribed in everyday life—to analyze the assembly of practices procedures sites interactions and agents of law. The chapters in this collection accordingly examine the conditions of law’s everyday life in situations ordinary and extraordinary to show it in the moment of its working. This book was originally published as a special issue of Cultural Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138379190

Cultural Studies of RightsCritical Articulations At a time of global uncertainties and erosion of liberties how will cultural studies clear a space for a parallel intellectual and political engagement with human rights practice? How will human rights thinking be liberated from its doctrinal approach to ethics and legal justice? This book forges an alliance between cultural studies and human rights scholarships to help us better understand the changing and complex political context that continuously shapes contemporary violence. To date interdisciplinary dialogue or institutional collaboration remains rare across the two domains resulting in critical interpretive work appearing too vacuous at times and institutional legal work often trapped in doctrinalism. By opening a door for a new and engaging scholarship this book will re-ignite debates and passions within communication and critical cultural studies in the search for global justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138008953

Cultural Studies of Transnationalism This book asks what ‘transnationalism’ might mean for Cultural Studies as an intellectual project shaped in vastly differing circumstances across the world. With contributions from scholars with experience of cultural life and the work of education in various regions countries and locales - from francophone Africa Eastern Europe and the Middle East to Hawaii Jamaica South Korea and Japan - Cultural Studies of Transnationalism ranges across literary film dance theatrical and translation studies to explore the socially material and institutional factors that not only shape transnational developments in culture broadly understood but also frame the academic and professional spaces in which we reflect on these. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Cultural Studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415853002

Cultural Studies20.2 This book leading and shaping the field of cultural studies in Australia fosters a conversation about the changing and competing discursive and material conditions struggles and possibilities of the contemporary world in all their complexities and diversities. Media > Books > E-books Taylor & Francis 9781003060727

Cultural StudiesVolume 8 Issue 3 First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138164413

Cultural Sustainability and Regional DevelopmentTheories and practices of territorialisation Meeting the aims of sustainability is becoming increasingly difficult; at the same time the call for culture is becoming more powerful. This book explores the relationships between culture sustainability and regional change through the concept of ‘territorialisation’. This new concept describes the dynamics and processes in the context of regional development driven by collective human agency that stretches beyond localities and marked-off regional boundaries. This book launches the concept of ‘territorialisation’ by exploring how the natural environment and culture are constitutive of each other. This concept allows us to study the characterisation of the natural assets of a place the means by which the natural environment and culture interact and how communities assign meaning to local assets add functions and ascribe rules of how to use space. By highlighting the time-space dimension in the use and consumption of resources territorialisation helps to frame the concept and grasp the meaning of sustainable regional development. Drawing on an international range of case studies the book addresses both conceptual issues and practical applications of ‘territorialisation’ in a range of contexts forms and scales. The book will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduates in sustainable development environmental studies and regional development and planning. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138743533

Cultural Sustainability and the Nature-Culture InterfaceLivelihoods Policies and Methodologies As contemporary socio-ecological challenges such as climate change and biodiversity preservation have become more important the three pillars concept has increasingly been used in planning and policy circles as a framework for analysis and action. However the issue of how culture influences sustainability is still an underexplored theme. Understanding how culture can act as a resource to promote sustainability rather than a barrier is the key to the development of cultural sustainability. This book explores the interfaces between nature and culture through the perspective of cultural sustainability. A cultural perspective on environmental sustainability enables a renewal of sustainability discourse and practices across rural and urban landscapes natural and cultural systems stressing heterogeneity and complexity. The book focuses on the nature-culture interface conceptualised as a place where experiences practices policies ideas and knowledge meet are negotiated discussed and resolved. Rather than looking for lost unities or an imaginary view of harmonious relationships between humans and nature based in the past it explores cases of interfaces that are context-sensitive and which consciously convey the problems of scale and time. While calling attention to a cultural or ‘culturalised’ view of the sustainability debate this book questions the radical nature-culture dualism dominating positive modern thinking as well as its underlying view of nature as pre-given and independent from human life. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367855796

Cultural Sustainability in Rural CommunitiesRethinking Australian Country Towns There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been particularly prominent in Australia in recent years spurring the emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural cultural studies'. This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary research project that is part of that emergence particularly focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean for understanding experiences of growth decline change and heritage in small Australian country towns. However it extends beyond the initial parameters of that research bringing together a range of senior and emerging Australian researchers who offer diverse approaches to rural culture. The essays collected here explore the diverse forms that rural cultural studies might take and how these intersect with other disciplinary approaches  offering a uniquely diverse but also careful account of life in country Australia. Yet in its emphasis on the simultaneous specificity and cross-cultural recognisability of rural communities this book also outlines a field of inquiry and a set of critical strategies that are more broadly applicable to thinking about the "rural" in the early twenty-first century. This book will be valuable reading for students and academics of Geography History Literary Studies Cultural Studies  Anthropology and Sociology introducing rural cultural studies as a new dynamic and integrative discipline. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367349288

Cultural SustainabilityPerspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences If the political and social benchmarks of sustainability and sustainable development are to be met ignoring the role of the humanities and social cultural and ethical values is highly problematic. People’s worldviews beliefs and principles have an immediate impact on how they act and should be studied as cultural dimensions of sustainability. Collating contributions from internationally renowned theoreticians of culture and leading researchers working in the humanities and social sciences this volume presents an in-depth interdisciplinary discussion of the concept of cultural sustainability and the public visibility of such research. Beginning with a discussion of the concept of cultural sustainability it goes on to explore its interaction with philosophy theology sociology economics arts and literature. In doing so the book develops a much needed concept of ‘culture’ that can be adapted to various disciplines and applied to research on sustainability. Addressing an important gap in sustainability research this book will be of great interest to academics and students of sustainability and sustainable development as well as those studying sustainability within the humanities and social sciences such as cultural studies ethics theology sociology literature and history. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367500429

Cultural TechnologiesThe Shaping of Culture in Media and Society The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed focussing on a variety of examples from varied national contexts. The book brings together internationally recognised scholars from the social sciences and humanities covering diverse themes such as intellectual property server farms and search engines cultural technologies and epistemology virtual embassies surveillance peer-to-peer file-sharing sound media and nostalgia and much more. It contains both historical and contemporary analyses of technological phenomena as well as epistemological discussions on the uses of technology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138811522

Cultural Theory Why do people want what they want? Why does one person see the world as a place to control while another feels controlled by the world? A useful theory of culture the authors contend should start with these questions and the answers given different historical conditions should apply equally well to people of all times places and walks of li Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367315283

Cultural Theory and Popular CultureA Reader The fifth edition of John Storey’s successful Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader is an essential companion volume to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction now in its eighth edition. The reader offers students the opportunity to experience first-hand the theorists and critics discussed in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction through crucial articles and essays spanning over a hundred years of cultural theory. It can be used both in conjunction with and independently of the textbook. Taken as a whole this book provides a theoretical analytical and historical introduction to the study of popular culture and provides key primary coverage of fundamental issues in cultural studies. This edition includes: a new section on class as well as additional readings on sexuality and gender; fully revised general and section introductions from the editor contextualizing and linking the readings with key issues from the textbook; a fully updated bibliography. The new edition is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural studies media studies communication studies the sociology of culture popular culture and other related subjects. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815393542

Cultural Theory and Popular CultureAn Introduction In this ninth edition of his award-winning introduction John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity exemplified through popular culture means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines. Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions and using appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular culture this new edition remains a key introduction to the area. New to this edition: updated throughout with contemporary examples of popular culture revised and expanded sections on Richard Hoggart and Utopian Marxism brand new discussions on Black Lives Matter and intersectionality updated student resources at www.routledge.com/cw/storey This new edition remains essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural studies media studies communication studies the sociology of culture popular culture and other related subjects. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367820602

Cultural Theory and Popular CultureAn Introduction In this eighth edition of his award-winning Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity exemplified through popular culture means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines. Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions and using appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular culture this new edition remains a key introduction to the area. New to this edition: revised rewritten and updated throughout brand new chapter on class and popular culture updated student resources at www.routledge.com/cw/storey. The new edition remains essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural studies media studies communication studies the sociology of culture popular culture and other related subjects. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415786621

Cultural Theory and Psychoanalytic Tradition The culture of psychoanalysis has many traditions and multiple schools of theory and thought. This work presents informative and original investigations into three overlapping areas of psychoanalytic tradition: the history of psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic culture criticism; and the application of psychoanalytic methods to the study of history. In this carefully crafted evaluation of various authors and subjects Fisher's perceptions are informed by a deep and comprehensive knowledge of the psychoanalytic movement its interaction with the wider context of European cultural and political history and its philosophical and clinical origins.In examining the history of the movement Fisher attempts to discover the fundamental inspiration of psychoanalysis by returning to the origins of the discipline. Freud is the central figure here but Fisher also looks to the second generation of European analysts including such maverick figures as Lacan and Spielrein and mainstream figures as Fenichel to gain insight into the multidimensional and creative personalities who were drawn to Freud and his ideas. In his discussion of psychoanalytic culture criticism Fisher analyzes symbolic meanings and psychological themes from a variety of written works. In an analysis of Freud's Civilization audits Discontents the author argues that the figure of Romain Rolland is pervasive throughout the text as symbol muse stimulus and adversary.Reading analytic theory and applying it to personalities and situations from the past allowed historians to address issues of their own inner world and to develop breathtaking possibilities for understanding the past. Brilliantly written and historical and critical in method Cultural Theory and Psychoanalytic Tradition offers valuable insights into significant themes and ambiguities in the diverse areas of psychoanalysis. Intellectual historians and psychoanalysts will find reliable introductions and springboards for subsequent reflection and research. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521735

Cultural Theory as Political Science This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory' proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements - social relations cultural bias and behavioural strategy - illuminate political questions at a level of analysis on any scale: from the household to the state; the international regime to the political party. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415862714

Cultural Tourism Cultural Tourism remains the only book to bridge the gap between cultural tourism and cultural and heritage management. The first edition illustrated how heritage and tourism goals can be integrated in a management and marketing framework to produce sustainable cultural tourism. The current edition takes this further to base the discussion of cultural tourism in the theory and practice of cultural and heritage management (CM and CHM) under the understanding that for tourism to thrive a balanced approach to the resource base it uses must be maintained. An ‘umbrella approach’ to cultural tourism represents a unique feature of the book proposing solutions to achieve an optimal outcome for all sectors. Reflecting the many important developments in the field this new edition has been completely revised and updated in the following ways: New content on increasingly relevant topics including sustainability climate change the threat of de-globalization overtourism and social media. New sections on experience creation accessibility and inclusivity as well as expanded material on creative industries and new management challenges. New international case studies and tried-and-tested assignment exercises have been added to every chapter. Written by experts in both tourism and cultural heritage management this book will enable professionals and students to gain a better understanding of their own and each other’s roles in achieving sustainable cultural tourism. It provides a blueprint for producing top-quality long-term cultural tourism products. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367229016

Cultural Tourism Cultural Tourism remains the only book to bridge the gap between cultural tourism and cultural and heritage management.  The first edition illustrated how heritage and tourism goals can be integrated in a management and marketing framework to produce sustainable cultural tourism. The current edition takes this further to base the discussion of cultural tourism in the theory and practice of cultural and heritage management (CM and CHM) under the understanding that for tourism to thrive a balanced approach to the resource base it uses must be maintained. An ‘umbrella approach’ to cultural tourism represents a unique feature of the book proposing solutions to achieve an optimal outcome for all sectors. Reflecting the many important developments in the field this new edition has been completely revised and updated in the following ways:• New sections on tangible and intangible cultural heritage and world heritage sites. • Expanded material on cultural tourism product development the cultural tourism market and consumer behaviour planning and delivery of exceptional experiences • New case studies throughout drawn from cultural attractions in developing countries such as Southeast Asia China South Africa and the Pacific as well as from the developed world particularly the United States Britain Japan Singapore Australia and Canada. Written by experts in both tourism and cultural heritage management this book will enable professionals and students to gain a better understanding of their own and each other’s roles in achieving sustainable cultural tourism. It provides a blueprint for producing top-quality long-term cultural tourism products. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415833974

Cultural Tourism and Sustainable Local Development With the exponential rise in leisure mobility tourism has increasingly become of great economic significance. Cultural heritage such as museums churches historical landscapes urban parks and exhibitions attract many visitors and countries regions and cities which house such historic-cultural amenities have seen increasingly large waves of tourists. While an avalanche of tourists has a positive impact on the local economy such modern mass tourism also brings about negative externalities such as congestion decline in quality of life low access to cultural amenities and loss of local identity; to the extent that the sustainability conditions of a locality might be endangered. This tourism dilemma is particularly pronounced in cities with a rich cultural past such as Venice Naples and Amsterdam. Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars from North America and Europe this book examines the interface of local cultural resources and modern mass tourism from a sustainability perspective. It puts forward innovative methodologies and best case practice for future cultural conservation policies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138253681

Cultural TourismThe Partnership Between Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management Examine cultural tourism issues from both sides of the industry!Unique in concept and content Cultural Tourism: The Partnership Between Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management examines the relationship between the sectors that represent opposite sides of the cultural tourism coin. While tourism professionals assess cultural assets for their profit potential cultural heritage professionals judge the same assets for their intrinsic value. Sustainable cultural tourism can only occur when the two sides form a true partnership based on understanding and appreciation of each other's merits. The authors--one a tourism specialist the other a cultural heritage management expert--present a model for a working partnership with mutual benefits integrating management theory and practice from both disciplines.Cultural Tourism is the first book to combine the different perspectives of tourism management and cultural heritage management. It examines the role of tangible (physical evidence of culture) and intangible (continuing cultural practices knowledge and living experiences) heritage describes the differences between cultural tourism products and cultural heritage assets and develops a number of conceptual models including a classification system for cultural tourists indicators of tourism potential at cultural and heritage assets and assessment criteria for cultural and heritage assets with tourism potential. Cultural Tourism examines the five main constituent elements involved in cultural tourism: cultural and heritage assets in tourism sites such as the Royal Palace in Bangkok the Cook Islands and Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco. tourism--what it is how it works and what makes it a success five different types of cultural tourists consumption of products value adding and commodification integrating the first four elements to satisfy the tourist meet the needs of the tourism industry and conserve the intrinsic value of the assetThough tourism and cultural heritage management professionals have mutual interests in the management conservation and presentation of cultural and heritage assets the two sectors operate on parallel planes maintaining an uneasy partnership with surprisingly little dialogue. Cultural Tourism provides professionals and students in each field with a better understanding of their own roles in the partnership bridging the gap via sound planning management and marketing to produce top-quality long-lasting cultural tourism products.Now translated into simplified Chinese. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203479537

Cultural Transformations and GlobalizationTheory Development and Social Change Change is the most significant factor of contemporary society and humanity s past. This book represents the first substantial attempt since the 1970s to synthesize and critique sociocultural change theories in anthropology and relate them to trends in the social and physical sciences. It emphasizes the most recent contributions especially complexity and emergence theory social movements network analysis and globalization. Ervin presents a rich legacy of theories and case studies accessible to both the established scholar and the beginning student. He considers how theories and insights can inform policy as humanity faces crises of globalization.Key Features of the Text Designed for scholars and students seeking a comprehensive analysis of the relation between anthropological theory and practice. Assesses big questions facing the social sciences: Do cultures and societies change or is it really individuals families and social networks? Are there prime movers of change environment technology economics ideas powerful leaders or cultural contacts? Are there structures embedded within changes and changes built into structures? Original contribution of the book is the integration of sociological and anthropological theories including networks social movements complexity world systems etc. Online appendices include resources for students on applied and practice anthropology." Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781612058122

Cultural Turns/Geographical TurnsPerspectives on Cultural Geography Introduces undergraduates to the key debates regarding space and culture and the key theoretical arguments which guide cultural geographical work. This book addresses the impact significance and characteristics of the 'cultural turn' in contemporary geography. It focuses on the development of the cultural geography subdiscipline and on what has made it a peculiar and unique realm of study. It demonstrates the importance of culture in the development of debates in other subdisciplines within geography and beyond. In line with these previous themes the significance of space in the production of cultural values and expressions is also developed. Along with its timely examination of the health of the cultural geographical subdiscipline this book is to be valued for its analysis of the impact of cultural theory on studies elsewhere in geography and of ideas of space and spatiality elsewhere in the social sciences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138172852

Cultural Validity in AssessmentAddressing Linguistic and Cultural Diversity What is assessment and how is it a cultural practice? How does failure to account for linguistic and cultural variation among students jeopardize assessment validity? What is required to achieve cultural validity in assessment? This resource for practicing and prospective teachers – as well as others concerned with fair and valid assessment – provides a thorough grounding in relevant theory research and practice. The book lays out criteria for culturally valid assessment and recommends specific strategies that teachers can use to design and implement culturally valid classroom assessments. Assessment plays a powerful role in the process of education in the US and has a disproportionately negative impact on students who do not come from mainstream middle-class backgrounds. Given the significance of testing in education today cultural validity in assessment is an urgent issue facing educators. This book is essential reading for addressing this important relevant topic. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203850954

Cultural Values and Entrepreneurship Cultural Values and Entrepreneurship aims to broaden and deepen our understanding of which elements of ‘culture’ influence or are influenced by entrepreneurial activity. Differences in entrepreneurial activity among countries and regions within those countries are persistent and cannot be fully explained by institutional and economic variables. A substantial number of these differences have been attributed to culture and it is clear that some socio-cultural practices values and norms are more conducive to driving or inhibiting entrepreneurial intentions and activity. However we need to dig deeper into ‘how’ and ‘why’ cultural practices and underlying values and norms matter in entrepreneurial action in order to more fully understand the complexities of the processes without making cross-cultural or cross-national generalisations. Unique cultural national and institutional contexts present different practices in terms of opportunities and challenges for driving entrepreneurial action. The contributions in this book consider some of the many different facets of the culture-entrepreneurship relationship and offer valuable insights to our understanding of the field. This book was originally published as a special issue of Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138231122

Cultural Variation in Conflict ResolutionAlternatives To Violence This volume's central purpose is to provide a clearly written scholarly exploration of cultural variation regarding conflict resolution and in so doing highlight certain alternatives to violence. It presents an interdisciplinary examination of how conflicts are perceived and handled in a variety of cultural settings. Drawing on data and models from anthropology psychology and political science the chapters analyze conflict resolution across the societal spectrum including cases from Western and non-Western traditions complex and tribal societies and violent and non-violent cultures. While demonstrating the extremely important impact of culture on conflict resolution processes the book does not solely emphasize cultural specificity. Rather--through introductory chapters section introductions and a concluding chapter--the volume editors draw attention to cross-cultural patterns in an attempt to further the search for more general conflict principles. An explicit message throughout the book is that alternatives to violence exist. The volume demonstrates that at various levels--from the interpersonal to the international-- conflicts can be handled in ways that cause far less pain and destruction than violence. Chapters by psychologists discuss social and cognitive processes for facilitating the learning of alternatives to violence among children and youth. Anthropology contributors explore mechanisms for dealing with social conflict which allow some cultures to remain relatively peaceful and consider implications of their work for reducing violence in other societies. Chapters by former President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias and by political scientists examine how non-violent political solutions can be employed as alternatives to warfare and violent resistence. Media > Books > E-books Psychology Press 9780203726488

Cultural Violence and the Destruction of Human CommunitiesNew Theoretical Perspectives This volume brings together leading sociologists and anthropologists to break new ground in the study of cultural violence. First sketched in Raphael Lemkin’s seminal writings on genocide and later systematically defined by peace studies scholar Johan Galtung the concept of cultural violence seeks to explain why and how language symbols rituals practices and objects are so frequently in the crosshairs of socio-political change. Recent conflicts in the Middle East Africa and Central Asia along with renewed public interest in the repertoire of violence applied to the control and erasure of indigenous populations highlights the gaps in our understanding of why cultural violence occurs what it consists of and how it relates to other forms of collective violence. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138577336

Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood This reader contains source material for an up-to-date study of child development as it applies to major issues in child care and education. The emphasis is on studying early childhood in cultural contexts - in families and in preschool settings.Part 1 elaborates a socio-cultural approach to early development taking emotional attachment communication and language and daycare as examples. Part 2 considers how children's emerging capacities for empathy inter-subjectivity and social understanding enable them to negotiate talk about and play out relationship themes both in the family and preschool. Part 3 concentrates on early learning with chapters on the way parents support children's acquisition of new skills young children negotiating their role in learner-teacher relationships and toddlers learning to collaborate with each other. Part 4 continues the theme of children's initiation into socio-cultural practices from a cross-cultural perspective with studies drawn from such diverse contexts as Cameroon Guatemala Italy Japan and the United States. This is the first of three readers which have been specially prepared as readers for the Open University MA Course: ED840 Child Development in Families Schools and Society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138148055

Cultural ZooAnimals in the Human Mind and its Sublimation This book traces the historical and cross-cultural aspects of the psychic bond between man and animals and elucidates the role of animals in the normal development of the human mind. It discusses the phenomenology and dynamics of the appearance of animals in human dreams. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781782201663

Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Approaches to Design-Based Research Most intervention research in education aims to demonstrate the efficacy of specific programs and practices. The assumption is that if researchers can produce evidence-based programs that work in a variety of settings educators will take them up on a large scale. Unfortunately this approach largely neglects the role that out-of-school experiences can and do play in learning and assumes that contexts are peripheral to intervention success. However we know from decades of research that contexts profoundly shape the nature and effects of interventions. Further researchers may produce interventions that are not usable or sustainable when they do so without incorporating the voices of educators community members and families.Design-based research offers a more collaborative approach to organizing for equitable educational change. This approach to developing and testing innovations in classrooms (and other settings) intertwines design and research closely. The essays in this volume draw on inspiration from the work of L.S. Vygotsky and his colleagues highlighting ways that design research can foreground cultural historical and institutional processes as central constituents of learning.Each essay considers concrete ways that institutional contexts shape interventions; how design can support the agency of local participants in developing new learning arrangements and resources; and how communities can organize both with and without researcher-interventionists to address historical inequities linked to race language and poverty. As an ensemble these essays offer productive new approaches for expanding design research methodologies to encompass both issues and contexts that have often been absent in most learning sciences research. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of the Learning Sciences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367892500

Culturally Affirmative Psychotherapy With Deaf Persons The impetus for this volume is the growing awareness within the mental health and larger community of a culturally affirmative model for understanding and assisting deaf people. In contrast to the "medical-pathological" model which treats deafness as a disability the "cultural" model guides us to view deaf persons in relation to the deaf community--a group of people with a common language culture and collective identity. A primary tenant of culturally affirmative psychotherapy is to understand and respect such differences not to eradicate them. The contributors to this volume present a practical and realistic model of providing culturally affirmative counseling and psychotherapy for deaf people. The three dimensions of this model have been delineated by the multicultural counseling literature. These dimensions assert that culturally affirmative psychotherapy with deaf persons requires therapist self-awareness knowledge of the deaf community/culture and understanding of culturally-syntonic therapeutic interventions. The first to exhaustively delineate the implications of the cultural model of deafness for counseling deaf people this book is essential reading for anyone who works in an educational or counseling capacity with the deaf. This audience includes not only psychotherapists but also vocational guidance and residence counselors teachers independent living skills specialists interpreters and administrators of programs for the deaf. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315806549

Culturally Competent CompassionA Guide for Healthcare Students and Practitioners Bringing together the crucially important topics of cultural competence and compassion for the first time this book explores how to practise ‘culturally competent compassion’ in healthcare settings – that is understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it using culturally appropriate and acceptable caring interventions. This text first discusses the philosophical and religious roots of compassion before investigating notions of health illness culture and multicultural societies. Drawing this information together it then introduces two invaluable frameworks for practice one of cultural competence and one of culturally competent compassion and applies them to care scenarios. Papadopoulos goes on to discuss: how nurses in different countries understand and provide compassion in practice; how students learn about compassion; how leaders can create and champion compassionate working environments; and how we can and whether we should measure compassion. Culturally Competent Compassion is essential reading for healthcare students and its combination of theoretical content and practice application provides a relevant and interesting learning experience. The innovative model for practice presented here will also be of interest to researchers exploring cultural competence and compassion in healthcare. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138674905

Culturally Diverse Mental HealthThe Challenges of Research and Resistance First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315811178

Culturally Diverse Populations: Reflections from Pioneers in Education and Research The purpose of this book is to open a discourse on current and pertinent issues related to multicultural populations by the most noted experts and researchers in the field. This book offers an overview of the literature on multicultural issues and assesses its approach to the following issues: the stereotypic assumptions with regard to filial piety and Asian American populations substance abuse within the Latino community multicultural youth and elders refugee and immigrant populations as well as vulnerable populations such as victims of political and sexual exploitation. The aim is to provide a forum for educators in the field to present views regarding important issues for which there is no other venue. They are important for educators practitioners and students in the field to consider and discuss. These will serve as springboards for such discussion. Although references will be cited when appropriate these will be position papers rather than research papers or reviews of the literature. This book was based on a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315877648

Culturally Inclusive Instructional DesignA Framework and Guide to Building Online Wisdom Communities WINNER OF THE 2019 OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD FROM AECT'S DIVISION OF DISTANCE EDUCATION! As online courses and digital learning enable more people from more places to learn together it is crucial for instructional design to incorporate diverse cultural perspectives. Culturally Inclusive Instructional Design provides a framework for thinking about culture in digital learning offering insight into how to build inclusive online communities that encourage reflection and growth regardless of content domain. Chapters cover the foundation components and implementation of the authors’ Wisdom Communities (WisCom) framework which enables learners from global backgrounds to experience long-lasting transformative learning through real-world problem-solving. This book is a timely resourceful guide to building truly collaborative inquiry-based online learning experiences. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138217867

Culturally Mindful CommunicationEssential 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. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780765644015

Culturally Relevant Arts Education for Social JusticeA Way Out of No Way A groundswell of interest has led to significant advances in understanding and using Culturally Responsive Arts Education to promote social justice and education. This landmark volume provides a theoretical orientation to these endeavors. Examining a range of efforts across different forms of art various educational settings and diverse contexts it foregrounds the assets of imagination creativity resilience critique and cultural knowledge working against prevailing understandings of marginalized groups as having deficits of knowledge skills or culture. Emphasizing the arts as a way to make something possible it explores and illustrates the elements of social justice arts education as "a way out of no way" imposed by dominance and ideology. A set of powerful demonstrations shows how this work looks in action. Introductions to the book as a whole and to each section focus on how to use the chapters pedagogically. The conclusion pulls back the chapters into theoretical and pedagogical context and suggests what needs done to be done practically empirically and theoretically for the field to continue to develop. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415656610

Culturally Relevant SchoolsCreating Positive Workplace Relationships and Preventing Intergroup Differences The authors provide teachers and school leaders concrete suggestions to address workplace relationships; to respond to intergroup conflict; to create positive exchanges among different ethnic groups of teachers; and to create a strategic process to address diversity issues. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315024424

Culturally Relevant Teaching in the English Language Arts ClassroomA Guide for Teachers This book is a practical research-based classroom-ready resource for English language arts teachers interested in learning how to incorporate culturally relevant pedagogy into all aspects of their instruction including writing reading and vocabulary lessons. It also provides suggestions for building an inclusive classroom environment in which all students’ backgrounds are valued. Topics covered: Writing strategies and diverse texts Dialect and student writing Applying reading strategies to texts that represent diverse backgrounds Using reading strategies in out-of-school contexts Considering students’ funds of knowledge and language awareness Connecting linguistic diversity to word-root instruction Building an inclusive classroom environment The appendix features several useful tools including a study guide a comprehensive list of suggested texts recommendations for parent communication and reproducible tools for the classroom. The study guide and reproducibles are available for free download from our website at www.routledge.com/9781138393318. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138393318

Culturally Responsive Choral Music EducationWhat Teachers Can Learn From Nine Students’ Experiences in Three Choirs Culturally Responsive Choral Music Education visits the classrooms of three ethnically diverse choral teacher-conductors to highlight specific examples of ways that culturally responsive teaching (CRT) can enrich choral music education. Principles of CRT are illustrated in contrasting demographic contexts: a choir serving a sizeable immigrant Hispanic population a choir with an African American classroom majority and a choir comprised of students who identify with eighteen distinct ethnicities. Additionally portraits of nine ethnically diverse students illuminate how CRT shaped their experiences as members of these choral ensembles. Practical recommendations are offered for developing a culturally responsive classroom environment. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138587502

Culturally Responsive Education in the ClassroomAn Equity Framework for Pedagogy This exciting book helps educators translate the concept of equity into the context of pedagogy in the K-12 classroom. Providing a practice-oriented framework for understanding what equity entails for both teachers and learners this book clarifies the theoretical context for equity and shares rich teaching strategies across a range of content areas and age groups. Unpacking six themes to understand Culturally Responsive Education (CRE) this powerful book helps teachers incorporate equity into behaviors environments and meaningful learning opportunities. Culturally Responsive Education in the Classroom provides specific practice-based examples to help readers develop a culturally responsive pedagogical mindset for closing equity gaps in student achievement. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138339453

Culturally Responsive EducationReflections from the Global South and North Culturally Responsive Education: Reflections from the Global South and North examines culturally responsive education’s contribution to sustainable development and explores ways in which educational practitioners respond to cultures in and around educational contexts. This book argues that cultural responsiveness in education is invaluable for sustainability in and throughout education and explores methods with which to deepen the understanding of the values and intercultural dialogue constantly present in education. Using a number of international and multidisciplinary studies the authors offer a novel perspective on to the consideration of diversity throughout education and provide a valuable contribution to the ongoing global and national debate surrounding the UN Sustainable Development Goal initiative. With a focus on collaboration this edited volume is vital reading for scholars teachers and students of education sociology and development studies as well as education professionals. The book will also be of interest to education policy -makers and international and non-governmental organizations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367152352

Culturally Responsive Leadership in Higher EducationPromoting Access Equity and Improvement Rapidly changing global demographics demand visionary collaborative and culturally appropriate leadership practices on university campuses. In the face of widening gaps in academic achievement and socio-economic roadblocks Culturally Responsive Leadership in Higher Education offers a new vision of leadership where diversity is transformed from challenge into opportunity. This book offers a range of perspectives from culturally racially linguistically ability and gender-diverse contributors who demonstrate that effective leadership springs from those who engage link theory to practice and promote access equity and educational improvement for underserved students. Each chapter explores a critical higher educational leadership issue with feasible strategies and solutions. In this exciting book theory and research-based chapters unpack culturally responsive leadership revealing how higher education leaders in the U.S. and international contexts can improve their practice for social equity and educational change. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138854802

Culturally Responsive Self-Care Practices for Early Childhood Educators The first self-care book designed specifically for the early childhood field Culturally Responsive Self-Care Practices for Early Childhood Educators is filled with helpful strategies and tools that you can implement immediately. Recognizing that self-care is not one size fits all the authors present culturally responsive strategies drawn from diverse early childhood staff working in a range of roles across communities and contexts. By tying the importance of educator self-care to goals of social justice and equity this book advocates for increased awareness of the importance of self-care on both an individual and institutional level. Through key research findings effective strategies and personal anecdotes this accessible guide helps readers understand and engage with the critical role self-care and wellness-oriented practices play in creating strong foundations for high quality early learning programs. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367150259

Culturally Responsive Teaching and Reflection in Higher EducationPromising Practices From the Cultural Literacy Curriculum Institute Culturally Responsive Teaching and Reflection in Higher Education explores how postsecondary educators can develop their own cultural awareness and provide inclusive learning environments for all students. Discussing best practices from the Cultural Literacy Curriculum Institute at Lesley University faculty and administrators who are committed to culturally responsive teaching reflect on how to create an inclusive environment and how educators can cultivate the skills attitudes and knowledge necessary for implementing culturally responsive curriculum and pedagogy. Rather than a list of "right answers " essays in this important resource integrate discussion and individual reflection to support educators to enhance skills for responding effectively to racial cultural and social difference in their personal and professional contexts. This book is as an excellent starting point or further enrichment resource to accompany program or institutional diversity and inclusion efforts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367736446

Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music EducationFrom Understanding to Application Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education presents teaching methods that are responsive to how different culturally specific knowledge bases impact learning. It is a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students’ cultural references in all aspects of learning. Designed to be a supplementary resource for teachers of undergraduate and graduate music education courses the book provides examples in the context of music education with theories presented in Section I and a review of teaching applications in Section II. Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education is an effort to answer the question: How can I teach music to my students in a way that is culturally responsive? This book serves several purposes by: • Offering theoretical/philosophical frameworks of social justice • Providing practical examples of transferring theory into practice in music education • Illustrating culturally responsive pedagogy within the classroom • Demonstrating the connection of culturally responsive teaching to the school and larger community Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138814721

Culturally Sensitive Supervision and TrainingDiverse Perspectives and Practical Applications Culturally Sensitive Supervision and Training: Diverse Perspectives and Practical Applications is a comprehensive text that exposes readers to an array of culturally competent approaches to supervision and training. The book consists of contributions from a culturally and professionally diverse group of scholars and clinicians who have been on the frontline of providing culturally competent supervision and training in a variety of settings. Many of the invited contributing authors have developed innovative clinical-teaching strategies for skillfully and effectively incorporating issues of culture into both the classroom and the consulting room. A major portion of the book will provide the reader with an insider’s view of these strategies as well as a plan for implementation with one chapter devoted to experiential exercises to enhance cultural sensitivity in supervision and training. The text is intended for use in supervision courses but trainers and supervisors will also find it essential to their work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138124608

Culturally Specific Pedagogy in the Mathematics ClassroomStrategies for Teachers and Students Advocating for the use of culturally specific pedagogy to enhance the mathematics instruction of diverse students this revised second edition offers a wide variety of conceptual and curricular resources for teaching mathematics in a way that combats and confronts the forms of oppression that students face today. Addressing stratification based on race class and gender Leonard offers lesson templates that teachers can use with ethnically and culturally diverse students and makes the link between research and practice. Connecting cutting-edge and emerging technologies to culturally specific pedagogy the second edition features new chapters on mathematics and social justice robotics and spatial visualization. Applying a more expansive focus the new edition discusses current movements such as Black Lives Matter and incorporates examples of rural and tribal students to paint a broader picture of what culturally rich mathematics classrooms actually look like. The text builds on sociocultural theory and research on culture and mathematics cognition to extend the literature and better understand minority students’ goals and learning needs. Including new discussion questions and new examples lessons and vignettes of integrating culture in the mathematics classroom this book employs pedagogical research to field-test new instructional methods for culturally diverse and female students. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815368175

Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics PraxisEmbodied Inquiry with Multilingual Youth By introducing a framework for culturally sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) praxis Harman Burke and other contributing authors guide readers through a practical and analytic exploration of youth participatory work in classroom and community settings. Applying an SFL lens to critical literacy and schooling this book articulates a vision for youth learning and civic engagement that focuses on the power of performance spatial learning community activism and student agency. The book offers a range of research-driven multimodal resources and methods for teachers to encourage students’ meaning-making. The authors share how teachers and community activists can interact and support diverse and multilingual youth fostering a dynamic environment that deepens inquiry of the arts and disciplinary area of knowledge. Research in this book provides a model for collaborative engagement and community partnerships featuring the voices of students and teachers to highlight the importance of agency and action research in supporting literacy learning and transformative inquiry. Demonstrating theoretically and practically how SFL praxis can be applied broadly and deeply in the field this book is suitable for preservice teachers teacher educators graduate students and scholars in bilingual and multilingual education literacy education and language policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367139827

Culturally Tuning Change Management Managing change across cultures can be tricky and universal approaches to change management may not serve their purpose in every cultural setting. This book examines the cultural dimensions that can influence the perceptions of and reactions to change in different cultural contexts and highlights the benefits of developing and applying cultural mindfulness when planning and running cross-cultural change initiatives. It offers practical advice to project and change management teams and leaders for developing Cultural Intelligence tailoring plans to consider any cultural variables that could be barriers to (or catalysts for) effective change and applying facilitating strategies. Media > Books > Print Books Auerbach Publications 9780815380894

Culture What are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do? Culture offers students a workable understanding of the category ‘culture’ and explores how the realm of the ‘cultural’ can be practically explored as a way of understanding the world. Ben Highmore provides a clear and robust defence of the productivity of cultural analysis in a media saturated world while also instilling a sense of modesty in qualifying what can and can’t be accomplished in the name of cultural analysis. With extensive examples and case studies throughout the book demonstrates both the productivity and the limitations in orientating analysis to the cultural. A thought-provoking and engaging examination Culture is an ideal introductory text for students of media and cultural studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415672740

Culture Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous MediaThe Prosaic Image This book argues that ubiquitous media and user-created content establish a new perception of the world that can be called ‘particulate vision’ involving a different relation to reality that better represents the atomization of contemporary experience especially apparent in social media. Drawing on extensive original research including detailed ethnographic investigation of camera phone practices in Hong Kong as well as visual analysis identifying the patterns regularities and genres of such work it shows how new distributed forms of creativity and subjectivity now work to shift our perceptions of the everyday. The book analyses the specific features of these new developments – the components of what can be called a ‘general aesthesia’ – and it focuses on the originality and innovation of amateur practices developing a model for making sense of the huge proliferation of images in contemporary culture discovering rhythms and tempo in this work and showing why it matters. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815374831

Culture Architecture and NatureAn Ecological Design Retrospective Gathering his most compelling essays and addresses from the last fifty years in one accessible volume this book looks at the pioneering ideas that underpin Sim Van der Ryn’s ecological design philosophy. It offers a unique decade-by-decade retrospective of the key issues in environmental design beginning with the most recent years and looking back to the 1960s. With an introductory chapter and further recommended reading for each decade this book is key reading for any architect or designer practising today and students will find a wealth of knowledge with which to support their studies. The author’s beautiful illustrations painted in a corresponding timescale to the chapters offer further insight into the way he understands the challenges of humanity’s stewardship of our planet. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415839679

Culture Behavior and PersonalityAn Introduction to the Comparative Study of Psychosocial Adaptation This book presents an overview of the sense of theoretical problem in culture and personality research and a biological perspective on culture and the individual. It describes relations between psychological theory and method and explores the psychology of culture and social change. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521865

Culture Bodies and the Sociology of Health Culture Bodies and the Sociology of Health explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'. Illustrating the importance of contextualizing the body as a cultural entity this book demonstrates that the spaces and boundaries between healthy bodies are becoming more diverse than ever before. The volumes international team of scholars engage with a range of issues surrounding the cultural construction of the body as a site of health and illness. As such it will be of interest not only to sociologists especially sociologists of health but also to scholars of media and communication studies as well as cultural theorists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138382862

Culture Capitals and Graduate FuturesDegrees of class In a time of too many graduates for too few jobs and in a context where applicants have similar levels of educational capital what other factors influence graduate career trajectories? Based on the life history interviews of graduates and framed through a Bourdieusian sociological lens Culture Capitals and Graduate Futures explores the continuing role that social class as well as cultural and social capitals have on both the aspirations and expectations towards and the trajectories within the graduate labour market. Framed within the current context of increasing levels of university graduates and the falling numbers of graduate positions available in the UK labour market this book provides a critical examination of the supposedly linear and meritocratic relationship between higher education and graduate employment proposed by official discourses from government at both local and national levels. Through a critical engagement with the empirical findings Culture Capitals and Graduate Futures asks important questions for the effective continuation of the widening participation agenda. This timely book will be of interest to higher education professionals working within widening participation policy and higher education policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138840546

Culture Celebrity and the CemeteryHollywood Forever Monuments and memorials commemorating the dead and past events around the world have recently gained importance not least because we are living in an era in which many are driven to record and archive the events of their lives. Cemeteries in particular are increasingly viewed as places associated with popular culture and cultural memory with many now being considered as heritage tourism sites. Culture Celebrity and the Cemetery analyses the famous Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles USA examining how the cemetery presents itself as an attraction whilst also safeguarding and promoting cultural heritage. Focusing on an analysis of the articulation and performance of commemoration Levitt examines how the cemetery leverages its rich resources to draw visitors and the diverse ways in which visitors interact with the cemetery considering the influence of celebrity culture fandoms and cinema culture. Combining ethnographic research with cultural analysis the book situates Hollywood Forever in the context of cemetery development in the United States and argues that touristic visits to cemeteries more generally have become similar to visits to more traditional memorials. Providing more than just a critical analysis of this fascinating cemetery as a landscape of famous death Levitt coherently weaves the theme of cultural memory and meaning-making throughout every chapter. Offering the first book-length study of the cultural impact of Hollywood Forever in particular and the cemetery as public heritage space in general Culture Celebrity and the Cemetery will be of interest to scholars and students of heritage studies and tourism around the world.   Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138609785

Culture Censorship and the State in Twentieth-century Italy This book brings together literary critics political historians historians of literature cinema and theatre and cultural sociologists to elucidate a fundamental area of enquiry into modern Italian history: the nature and scope of relations between the state and the cultural sphere. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367604981

Culture Change and Community in Higher EducationBuilding Evolving and Re-Building Learning Environments Addressing the contemporary issues relating to the delivery of education Culture Change and Community in Higher Education explores the challenges of creating effective learning communities. Focusing on the creation and implementation of strategies which permeate and influence culture and enable staff to innovate this book: considers the balance between a focus on people places pedagogy and technology encourages the reader to explore the steps that can be taken to inspire creativity collaboration and connectivity through the provision of learning environments which are both accessible and engaging employs case studies and examples to consider ways to support the creation of an effective and inclusive learning community offers both strategic and operational perspectives into creating learning spaces and evoking effective change Culture Change and Community in Higher Education offers insight into a topic that is becoming ever more important with the implementation of the Teaching Excellence Framework. It is a must-read for Higher Education managers looking to implement effective and inclusive learning environments within their university. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367183448

Culture Class and Critical TheoryBetween Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School Culture Class and Critical Theory develops a theory of culture that explains how ideas create and legitimate class inequalities in modern society. This theory is developed through a critique and comparison of the powerful ideas on culture offered by Pierre Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School thinkers especially Theodor Adorno. These ideas are illuminated and criticized through the development of two empirical cases on which Gartman has published extensively automobile design and architecture. Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School postulate opposite theories of the cultural legitimation of class inequalities. Bourdieu argues that the culture of modern society is a class culture a ranked diversity of beliefs and tastes corresponding to different classes. The cultural beliefs and practices of the dominant class are arbitrarily defined as superior thus legitimating its greater share of social resources. By contrast the thinkers of the Frankfurt School conceive of modern culture as a mass culture a leveled homogeneity in which the ideas and tastes shared by all classes disguises real class inequalities. This creates the illusion of an egalitarian democracy that prevents inequalities from being contested. Through an empirical assessment of the theories against the cases Gartman reveals that both are correct but for different parts of modern culture. These parts combine to provide a strong legitimation of class inequalities. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138920583

Culture Class and Development in PakistanThe Emergence of an Industrial Bourgeoisie in Punjab This book is concerned with social change in Pakistan particularly the relationship between indigenous sociocultural orientations the development process and the rise of a new middle-level entrepreneurial class in the Punjab. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367014605

Culture Communication and CyberspaceRethinking Technical Communication for International Online Environments The increasingly global nature of the World Wide Web presents new challenges and opportunities for technical communicators who must develop content for clients or colleagues from other cultures and in other nations. As international online access grows technical communicators will encounter a range of challenges related to culture and communication in cyberspace. These challenges include how to design content and develop services for online distribution to a culturally diverse audience of users; how to address cultural and linguistic factors effectively when collaborating with international colleagues and clients via online media; and how to develop effective online teaching and training practices and materials for use in learning environments comprised of culturally diverse groups of students. The contributors to Culture Communication and Cyberspace examine these challenges through chapters that explore the different aspects of international online communication. The contributing authors use a range of methodologies to review a variety of topics related to culture and communication in cyberspace. In so doing the authors also examine how business trends such as international outsourcing content management and the use of open source software (OSS) are affecting and could change practices in the field of technical communication as related to online cross-cultural interactions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415403184

Culture Communication and Nursing Good communication is an essential part of delivering effective nursing care.  Nursing students work in a variety of multicultural settings and therefore it is imperative that they fully understand their own cultural context and that of others.  This text illustrates the important differences between cultures and how these differences can enhance practical nursing.  Through the comprehensive use of case studies and interactive exercises  the book invites students to reflect on their own knowledge and skills about culture so that they can learn to communicate in a more effective and culturally sensitive way.  All theory is applied to nursing practice to demonstrate how situations can arise and be dealt with appropriately whilst working on clinical placement.  This text is written for students studying the CFP at Year 1.  Communication will be studied either as part of a Professional Issues module or Nursing Practice. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138837577

Culture Community and Development Culture is a living thing. In social settings it is often used to represent entire ways of life including rules values and expected behavior. Varying from nation to nation neighborhood to neighborhood and beyond even in the smallest localities culture is a motivating factor in the creation of social identity and serves as a basis for creating cohesion and solidarity. This book explores the intersection of culture and community as a basis for locally and regionally based development by focusing on three core bodies of literature: theory research and practice. The first section theory uncovers some of the relevant historical arguments as well as more contemporary examinations. Continuing the research section sheds light on some of the key concepts variables and relationships present in the limited study of culture in community development. Finally the practice section brings together research and theory into applied examples from on the ground efforts. During a time where the interest to retain the uniqueness of local life traditions and culture is significantly increasing in community-based development the authors offer a global exploration of the impacts of culturally based development with comparative analysis in countries such as Korea Ireland and the United States. A must-read for community development planners policymakers students and researchers. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138593961

Culture Conflict And Communication In The Wildland-urban Interface This book discusses culture conflict and communication issues in a wildland-urban interface setting. It provides some insight and greater knowledge concerning the management and science of natural resources in a wildland-urban interface. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367161385

Culture Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements. The volume spans from the early East India Company period through to the Second World War and India’s independence exploring themes such as the military in the field and at leisure as well as examining the effects of imperial deployments in South Asia and across the British Empire. Drawing extensively on new archival research the book integrates previously disparate accounts of imperial military history and raises new questions about culture and operational practice in the colonial Indian Army. This work will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history war and strategic studies military history the British Empire as well as politics and international relations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780367345167

Culture Curiosity and Communication in Scientific DiscoveryThe Eye in Ideas Many aspects of research activity in science are opaque to outsiders and this opacity infects how connections are made between science and other disciplines. The aim of Culture Curiosity and Communication in Scientific Discovery is to try to shine a light through the mist of scientific research by way of examples taken from the sciences social sciences and the humanities. The book maintains that the foundations of science are built on sand because theories come and go and the search for truth is elusive. Knowledge acquisition appears to be an end in itself as though knowledge is some sort of commodity or object that can be traded. Nigel Sanitt explains that we have created a mythical objective world where we pretend that opinions and values are generated by data alone and not by human beings. Science is part of our culture and part of the understanding of science is bound up with recognizing the social economic and political ramifications as they apply to science. Culture Curiosity and Communication in Scientific Discovery is a radical interpretation of how science works and aims to change the way scientists and non-scientists think about science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138625587

Culture Development and PetroleumAn Ethnography of the High North The discovery just forty years ago of vast oil and gas reserves in the Southwestern part of Norway and more recently in the Arctic High North region created an economic titan and posed a vast array of challenges for both the Norwegian government and the residents of this area. How to extract and transport all that oil and gas without despoiling the pristine environment? How to use this wealth in a socially responsible and sustainable way? How to prepare the rural High North citizens—traditionally fishermen and farmers—for a global high-tech economy?　 Adopting an original narrative approach to qualitative research this book tells the stories of 21 individuals either living or having a genuine interest in the High North from mayors and entrepreneurs to farmers and fishermen. Through these first-hand meetings it constructs an ethnographic study that reveals how petroleum and development have impacted on the regional economy and culture. This book will be of interest to all stakeholders in the oil and gas industry and for students and scholars of organization studies cultural and communication studies environmental anthropology natural resource management and sustainable development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138210271

Culture Diaspora and Modernity in Muslim Writing Fiction by writers of Muslim background forms one of the most diverse vibrant and high-profile corpora of work being produced today - from the trail-blazing writing of Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi which challenged political and racial orthodoxies in the 1980s to that of a new generation including Mohsin Hamid Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie. This collection reflects the variety of those fictions. Experts in English South Asian and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. In considering the perceptions of Muslims contributors also explore the roles of immigration class gender and national identity as well as the impact of 9/11. This volume includes essays on contemporary fiction by writers of Muslim origin and non-Muslims writing about Muslims. It aims to push beyond the habitual populist 'framing' of Muslims as strangers or interlopers whose ways and beliefs are at odds with those of modernity exposing the hide-bound conservative assumptions that underpin such perspectives. While returning to themes that are of particular significance to diasporic Muslim cultures such as secularism modernity multiculturalism and citizenship the essays reveal that 'Muslim writing' grapples with the same big questions as serve to exercise all writers and intellectuals at the present time: How does one reconcile the impulses of the individual with the requirements of community? How can one 'belong' in the modern world? What is the role of art in making sense of chaotic contemporary experience? Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138851580

Culture Discourse and the Workplace *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAAL BOOK PRIZE* Culture Discourse and the Workplace brings new theoretical and methodological insights to the complex relationship between language culture and identity in professional settings. Examining the politics of language use at work via a critical sociolinguistic approach this book: Utilises three case studies from institutional and business contexts to provide a unique illustration of participants’ roles and ways of negotiating membership within the business meeting; Questions essentialist meanings of culture and the ways in which they constitute a powerful resource for employees to perpetuate or challenge the status quo in their professional setting; Includes a core section on methodology for the workplace discourse researcher as well as a section dedicated to FAQs and a worked example on data analysis; Provides future directions for workplace sociolinguistics as a field and makes a case for holistic research and multidisciplinary enquiry. Culture Discourse and the Workplace constitutes a key resource for students and teachers of intercultural communication and ESP and will also be of significant interest to researchers in the fields of workplace studies and business interaction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415523967

Culture Education and the State First published in 1988 this book is built around the trio of interrelated themes of ‘The State’ ‘Culture’ and ‘Education’. The essays look at a variety of institutions including the BBC The British Library and the Arts Council and discuss the educational roles that they adopt and how they set the national cultural agenda. They also explor Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138629257

Culture Ethnicity and Personal Relationship Processes Culture Ethnicity and Personal Relationship Processes reviews new theory and research on personal relationships among African Latina/o and Asian Americans as well as personal relationships among different ethnic groups. The collection focuses on the give and take of affection and respect in personal relationships as influenced by specific cultural values. Using diverse strands of research from psychology psychiatry sociology and other disciplines the contributors take both a retrospective and a prospective look at ethnicity and the reciprocity of affectionate and respectful behavior. Throughout the book the reader will be challenged to take stock of common misperceptions currently blocking the way to a greater understanding of relational dynamics as a function of ethnicity.Contributors: Raymond Buriel James Liu and Diana Rios. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315811420

Culture Ethnicity and Chronic ConditionsA Global Synthesis The global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension diabetes and cancers and of common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety has a disproportionate impact on the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) of Africa Asia and Latin America. The pattern persists in African and Asian migrant populations in European and North American countries despite the higher standards of living and improved health infrastructure. The consensus of experts is that pragmatic cost-effective and sustainable interventions are required and that these must prioritise the social determinants of NCDs as well as the social participation of affected communities. Despite the growing emphasis on the role of social processes in health system responses to chronic disease in LMICs there has been no definitive volume that brings together LMIC perspectives on these issues. This book aims to address this major gap by presenting new conceptual and empirical perspectives on the interconnections between culture ethnicity and chronic conditions in LMICs and their implications for research intervention and policy. The chapters focus on lay and institutional meanings experiences and responses to chronic conditions in selected countries in Africa Europe and the Caribbean. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnicity and Health. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138953963

Culture Ethnicity and Migration After CommunismThe Pontic Greeks This book addresses the issue of emerging transnationalism in the conditions of post-socialism through focusing on migrants’ identity as a social construction resulting from their experience of the ‘transnational circuit of culture’ as well as from post-Soviet shifts in political and economic conditions in their home regions. Anton Popov draws upon ethnographic research conducted among Greek transnational migrants living on the Black Sea coast and in the North Caucasus regions of Russia who have become involved in extensive cross-border migration between the former Soviet Union (the Russian Federation Kazakhstan and Georgia) and Greece (as well as Cyprus). It is estimated that more than 150 000 former Soviet citizens of Greek origin have resettled in Greece since the late 1980s. Yet many of those who emigrate do not cut their connections with the home communities in Russia but instead establish their own transnational circuit of travel between Greece and Russia. This study demonstrates how migrants employ their ethnicity as symbolic capital available for investment in transnational migration. Simultaneously they rework their practices of family networking property relations and political participation in a way which strengthens their attachment to the local territory. The findings presented in the book imply that the social identities economic strategies political practices and cultural representation of the Russia’s Pontic Greeks are all deeply embedded in the shifting social and cultural landscape of post-Soviet Russia and extensively influenced by the global movement of ideas goods and people. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367596415

Culture Health and Development in South AsiaArsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh Recently mass arsenic poisoning of groundwater has emerged as a disastrous public health concern in Bangladesh. Apart from hundreds of deaths that have already been reported 85 million people are estimated to be at high risk of developing deadly arsenicosis symptoms. The severity and extent of arsenicosis have obliged the government of Bangladesh to declare it the "worst national disaster" the country has ever faced and further to be deemed a "state of emergency." To fight this pervasive public health disaster the Bangladesh government has collaborated with the international and national NGOs to implement development projects to provide arsenic-free water to rural villagers. Drawing upon ethnographic research in rural Southwestern Bangladesh this book discusses arsenic contamination and its resultant health impact from a medical anthropological and anthropology of development perspectives. It examines how the actual patients perceive explain manage and respond to this catastrophic public health outbreak and goes on to analyse how such lay perceptions shape health-seeking behaviour of subjects in a medically plural context. To make the issue more holistic this book further examines mitigation strategies and community participation in these projects. Challenging approaches to development and development project management the book is of interest to policy makers practitioners and academics working in the field of development studies South Asian studies medical anthropology anthropology and sociology of development. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367877712

Culture Health and DiseaseSocial and cultural influences on health programmes in developing countries Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile this volume was originally published in 1966 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes or as a complete collection. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138881389

Culture Health and SexualityAn Introduction The last twenty years have seen a growth in multi-disciplinary work in the area of sexuality culture and health. What was once a set of specialist concerns has been steadily mainstreamed. Alongside this a broader interest has developed in ‘social’ and 'cultural’ factors relating to sexuality and sexual health from family planning and STI management to gender and intimate partner violence and the technologisation of sex. This book offers a research-based overview of key topics relevant to social and cultural perspectives on sexuality and sexual health. Beginning with an extended introduction and divided into six sections it looks at culture sex and gender sexual diversity sex work migration and sexual violence. Each section opens with an editorial discussion which places the theme and the chapters that follow in a contemporary context. Six additional substantive chapters can be accessed online at www.routledge.com/cw/aggleton. Including cutting-edge conceptual and empirical material from around the world this is a key resource for students in and across a variety of academic disciplines in the social and health sciences. It is especially suitable for readers from sexuality studies gender studies development studies anthropology and sociology as well as those with public health and social work backgrounds. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138015593

Culture Heritage and RepresentationPerspectives on Visuality and the Past The 'visual' has long played a crucial role in forming experiences associations expectations and understandings of heritage. Images convey meaning within a range of practices including tourism identity construction the popularization of the past through a variety of media and the memorialization of events. However despite the central role of 'the visual' in these contexts it has been largely neglected in heritage literature. This edited collection is the first to explore the production use and consumption of visual imagery as an integral part of heritage. Drawing on case studies from around the world it provides a multidisciplinary analysis of heritage representations combining complex understandings of the 'visual' from a wide range of disciplines including heritage studies sociology and cultural studies perspectives. In doing so the book provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and methodological tools necessary for understanding visual imagery within its cultural context. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138273382

Culture Identity and Intense PerformativityBeing in the Zone ‘Being in the zone' means performing in a distinctive unusual pleasurable and highly competent way at something you already regularly do: dancing or playing a viola computer programming tennis and much more. What makes the zone special? This volume offers groundbreaking research that brings sociological and cultural studies to bear on the idea of being in the zone. There is original research on musicians dancers and surfers which shows that being in the zone far from being exclusively individualised and private but must be understood as social and collective and possibly accessible to all. The zone is not just for elite performers.Being in the zone is not just the province of the athlete who suddenly and seemingly without extra effort swims faster or jumps higher or the musician who suddenly plays more than perfectly but also of the doctor working under intense pressure or the computer programmer staying up all night. The meaning of such experiences for convincing people to work in intense conditions often with short term contracts is explored to show how being in the zone can have problematic effects and have negative and constraining as well as creative and productive implications.Often being in the zone is understood from a psychological viewpoint but this can limit our understanding. This volume provides the first in-depth analysis of being in the zone from social and cultural viewpoints drawing on a range of theories and novel evidence.Written in a stimulating and accessible style Culture Identity and Intense Performativity: Being in the Zone will strongly appeal to students and researchers who aim to understand the experience of work creativity musicianship and sport. Issues of the body are also central to being in the zone and will make this book relevant to anyone studying 　bodies and embodiment . This collection will establish being in the zone as an important area of enquiry for social science and the humani Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367875114

Culture Ideology And World Order Contemporary discourse about human affairs is largely grounded in the specific historical experience and interests of a few dominant societies. This poses an important challenge to all those who urge that we need to adopt a global perspective on modern political life whether in terms of international relations comparative and developmental politi Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780429044878

Culture Ideology and Politics (Routledge Revivals)Essays for Eric Hobsbawm First published in 1982 this book is inspired the ideas generated by Eric Hobsbawm and has taken shape around a unifying preoccupation with the symbolic order and its relationship to political and religious belief. It explores some of the oldest question in Marxist historiography for example the relationship of ‘base’ and ‘superstructure’ art and social life and also some of the newest and most problematic questions such as the relationship of dreams and fantasy to political action or of past and present — historical consciousness — to the making of ideology. The essays which range widely over period and place are intended to break new ground and take on difficult questions. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138671218

Culture Industrialisation and Education First published in 1968 Culture Industrialisation and Education explores the cultural values that underlie the content of educational provisions and the way in which industrialisation and the mass communication characteristic of advanced technology have affected what is offered in schools. The book puts forward the argument that the traditional curriculum with its emphasis on cognitive and intellectual processes is in many cases irrelevant to the needs of children whose futures are in occupations that do not centre on academic pursuits. It highlights the distinct lack of provision for these children at a time when a fuller and longer secondary education is being attempted for the whole population. Culture Industrialisation and Education will appeal to those with an interest in the history and sociology of education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367650681

Culture Innovation and the Economy This is a handbook for the cultural entrepreneur offering some of the best examples on practice franchises research innovation and business opportunities in the cultural sector. The key theme is the contribution and possibilities of the cultural economy as a business with a strong supporting subtext on innovative practice. The book illustrates the theme by providing multiple practice-based and empirical examples from an international panel of experts. Each contribution provides an accessible and easily accessed bank of knowledge on which existing practice can be grown and new projects undertaken. It provides an eclectic mix of possibilities that reinforce and underscore the full innovative and complex potential of the cultural economy. Topics include a review of the global and regional economic benefits of the cultural economy evidence-based analysis of the culture industries and an outline of the top ten cultural opportunities for business. This collection transcends the space between theory and practice to combine culture and innovation and understand their importance to a wider economy. This is essential reading for researchers and practitioners interested in entrepreneurship non-profit management art and visual culture and public finance. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138219014

Culture Institution and Development in ChinaThe economics of national character How does culture shape history and history shape culture? This book answers this question by bringing readers on a fascinating journey through the evolution of Chinese culture political and legal institutions and "national character" of historical and contemporary China. It illustrates how "national character" evolves endogenously along with an institutional environment through the use of economic theories. Recognizing the unique role of "personality" in violence and social order – important variables that contribute to successful economies the book provides a meaningful take on "personality" from the "average personality" of a country’s people. It analyses the relationship between culture institution and "national character" providing gainful interesting insights into the monumental transformation of China. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367374648

Culture Institutions and DevelopmentNew Insights Into an Old Debate Does culture matter? This question has taken on added significance since fundamentalist revivalism has recently gained ground in different parts of the world. The old controversy between Max Weber and Karl Marx which centres around the extent to which cultural factors such as social norms and values affect economic growth is of critical importance particularly because of its policy implications. Indeed if culture is not an autonomous factor susceptible to influencing economic realities it should not matter and public authorities can dispense with thinking about cultural interventions. On the other hand if culture does have a real impact the question arises as to whether it is conducive or detrimental to economic growth political liberalization and the emancipation of individuals among other things. Culture Institutions and Development addresses this debate at a concrete level by looking at five important issues: the role of tradition and its influence on development; the role of religion with special reference to Middle Eastern countries; the role of family kinship and ethnic ties in the process of development; the relationship between culture and entrepreneurship; and the relationship between culture and poverty. This collection offers a nuanced view that neither denies nor exaggerates the role of cultural factors in explaining relative growth performances across countries. Instead the contributors focus on the dynamic two-way relationship between culture and development in a way that stresses policy stakes and the value of multidisciplinary collaboration between economists historians and other social scientists. This book will be of interest to postgraduates and researchers in all the social sciences as well as to professionals working in national development agencies international organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415749961

Culture Language and IdentityEnglish�Tamil In Colonial India 1750 To 1900 This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. During the first phase of colonialism mid-18th to late-19th century the English-speaking missionaries and East India Company functionaries in South India were impelled to master Tamil the local language in order to transact their business. Tamil also comprised ancient classical literary works especially ethical and moral literature which were found especially suited to the preferences of Christian missionaries.This interface between English and Tamil acted as a conduit for cultural transmission among different groups. The essays in this volume are on chosen areas of translation activities and explore cultural religious linguistic and literary transactions. This volume and its companion (which looks at the period between 1900 CE to the present) cover the late colonial and postcolonial era and will be of interest to students scholars and researchers of translation studies literature linguistics sociology and social anthropology South Asian studies colonial and postcolonial studies literary and critical theory as well as culture studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780367886554

Culture Learning and TechnologyResearch and Practice Culture Learning and Technology: Research and Practice provides readers with an overview of the research on culture learning and technology (CLT) and introduces the concept of culture-related theoretical frameworks. In 13 chapters the book explores the theoretical and philosophical views of CLT presents research studies that examine various aspects of CLT and showcases projects that employ best practices in CLT. Written for researchers and students in the fields of Educational Technology Instructional Design and the Learning Sciences this volume represents a broad conceptualization of CLT and encompasses a variety of settings. As the first significant collection of research in this emerging field of study Culture Learning and Technology overflows with new insights into the increasing role of technology use across all levels of education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138928534

Culture Media LanguageWorking Papers in Cultural Studies 1972-79 First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138132139

Culture Migration and Health Communication in a Global Context Both international and internal migration brings new challenges to public health systems. This book aims to critically review theoretical frameworks and literature as well as discuss new practices and lessons related to culture migration and health communication in different countries. It features research and applied projects conducted by scholars from various disciplines including media and communication public health medicine and nursing. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367885182

Culture Modernity and RevolutionEssays in Honour of Zygmunt Bauman In Culture Modernity and Revolution a group of distinguished sociologists and social philosophers reflect upon the major concerns of Zygmunt Bauman. Their essays not only honour the man but provide important contributions to the three interlinked themes that could be said to form the guiding threads of Bauman's life work: power culture and modernity. Culture Modernity and Revolution is both a remarkable sociological commentary on the problems facing East-Central Europe and an exposition of some of the key hitherto neglected features of the modern cultural universe. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138990555

Culture Peers and Delinquency Increase your understanding of the etiology prevention and treatment of delinquency! This informative book provides you with specific strategies to assess delinquency and to increase the effectiveness of any prevention program. In addition it presents a community peer model of delinquency with important implications for delinquency prevention programs and for delinquency research. Examining specific cultural groups in the United States including Caucasians East Asians South-East Asians Polynesians/Micronesians and Vietnamese as well as Japanese youths in their homeland this model shows how families schools and neighborhoods affect the formation of peer groups—and how these groups can facilitate or inhibit delinquency. Culture Peers and Delinquency explores the interplay of historical traditional culture with contemporary youth culture. It also examines the relationship between individual outcome and community disorganization and illustrates how peer relationships are conditioned by gender. The book will increase your understanding of the etiology prevention and treatment of delinquency with examples that show treatment alternatives and outcomes focusing on: intercultural differences in major descriptors of the attitudes and activities of youth the demographics economics and history as well as a fascinating and disturbing cultural analysis of the ever-increasing rate of juvenile delinquency in Japan the influence of peers and culture on Vietnamese youth gangs in Honolulu gender-difference studies of mixed-culture incarcerated adolescents—and what these youths have to say about the detention facility where they go to school a careful analysis of homes schools and neighborhoods in terms of their dysfunctions and how they increase the likelihood that their youth will spend time with similar peers and without adult supervision Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315808758

Culture Philanthropy and the Poor in Late-Victorian London 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title ******************************** The Late-Victorian cultural mission to London’s slums was a peculiar effort towards social reform that today is largely forgotten or misunderstood. The philanthropy of middle and upper-class social workers saw hundreds of art exhibitions concerts of fine music evening lectures clubs and socials debates and excursions mounted for the benefit of impoverished and working-class Londoners. Ginn’s vivid and provocative book captures many of these in detail for the first time. In refreshing our understanding of this obscure but eloquent activism Ginn approaches cultural philanthropy not simply as a project of class self-interest nor as fanciful ‘missionary aestheticism.’ Rather he shows how liberal aspirations towards adult education and civic community can be traced in a number of centres of moralising voluntary effort. Concentrating on Toynbee Hall in Whitechapel the People’s Palace in Mile End Red Cross Hall in Southwark and the Bermondsey Settlement the discussion identifies the common impulses animating practical reformers across these settings. Drawing on new primary research to clarify reformers’ underlying intentions and strategies Ginn shows how these were shaped by a distinctive diagnosis of urban deprivation and anomie. In rebutting the common view that cultural philanthropy was a crudely paternalistic attempt to impose ‘rational recreation’ on the poor this volume explores its sources in a liberal-minded social idealism common to both religious and secular conceptions of social welfare in this period. Culture Philanthropy and the Poor in Late-Victorian London appeals to students and researchers of Victorian culture moral reform urbanism adult education and philanthropy who will be fascinated by this underrated but lively aspect of the period’s social activism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367356767

Culture Political Economy and Civilisation in a Multipolar World OrderThe Case of Russia This book seeks to understand how Russia’s multifaceted rejection of American unipolarity and de-territorialised neo-liberal capitalism has contributed to the gestation of the present multipolar moment in the global political economy. Analysing Western world order precepts via the actions of a powerful albeit precarious national political economy and state structure situated on the periphery of Western world order Silvius explores the manner in which culture and ideas are mobilised for the purposes of national regional and international political and economic projects in a post-global age. The book: Explains and analyses the tensions of post-Soviet Russia’s integration into and simultaneous partial rejection of the capitalist global political economy. Provides an overview of the social political and historical origins of Russian samobytnost’ (uniqueness) after the fall of the Soviet Union and demonstrates their significance to contemporary understandings of world order. Explores how structures of cultural difference and practices of cultural differentiation interact with the normative legacies of American hegemonic aspirations in contemporary world order structures. Evaluates how cultural and civilisational representations are mobilised for state-projects and their corresponding regional and international dimensions within the global political economy. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Russian Foreign Policy IPE and comparative political economy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367085698

Culture Politics and Money Among the Yoruba This masterful book investigates and analyzes several aspects of money among the Yoruba of Nigeria. Falola and Adebayo explore the origin philosophy uses politics and problems of acquiring and spending money in Yoruba culture. No prior book exists on this aspect of a major ethnic group in Africa with established connections with the black Diaspora in North America and the Caribbean. Conceived so that each chapter may be read individually the volume is divided into three parts. Part 1 "Money and Its Uses " focuses on the transition from barter to cowry currency the idealistic and pragmatic views of money the impact of monetization on social stratification accumulation among members of the elite and the development of savings banking and credit institutions. Part 2 "Money and Its Problems " investigates the social political and cultural problems of money including money-lending theft counterfeiting and corruption. Part 3 "Money and Oil Economy " assesses the impact of the oil industry on the Nigerian state and examines both the positive and negative effects of oil money on Yoruba economy society and spending. Concluding chapters detail efforts to arrest the crisis that followed the economic slump after the oil boom and led to the adoption of the Structural Adjustment Program and also evaluate the effects of currency devaluation on personal and communal responsibilities and social payment. Culture Politics and Money Among the Yoruba is timely in view of ongoing political and economic changes in Africa. It will be of interest to economists sociologists and African studies specialists. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508880

Culture Politics and Climate ChangeHow Information Shapes our Common Future Focusing on cultural values and norms as they are translated into politics and policy outcomes this book presents a unique contribution in combining research from varied disciplines and from both the developed and developing world. This collection draws from multiple perspectives to present an overview of the knowledge related to our current understanding of climate change politics and culture. It is divided into four sections – Culture and Values Communication and Media Politics and Policy and Future Directions in Climate Politics Scholarship – each followed by a commentary from a key expert in the field. The book includes analysis of the challenges and opportunities for establishing successful communication on climate change among scientists the media policy-makers and activists. With an emphasis on the interrelation between social cultural and political aspects of climate change communication this volume should be of interest to students and scholars of climate change environment studies environmental policy communication cultural studies media studies politics sociology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415661492

Culture Politics and Nationalism an the Age of Globalization This title was first published in 2001. Given current movements in global culture technology mobility economic integration and regime transformation what is it that can or does hold a community or political entity together? From a variety of perspectives this text examines the cultural politics of nationalism especially in the context of American culture and European politics where it is undergoing the most scrutiny. The first part of the volume explores the debates on the politics of national identity that surround global information and consumer distribution systems like the Internet. The second part offers a number of case studies of European domestic and foreign policy issues directly affected by arguments about cultural identity that have taken shape in the context of an increasingly global environment. Of particular interest in this volume is the tension often felt between France and the USA on the issue of culture politics and nationalism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138716384

Culture Politics and Nationalism an the Age of Globalization This title was first published in 2001. Given current movements in global culture technology mobility economic integration and regime transformation what is it that can or does hold a community or political entity together? From a variety of perspectives this text examines the cultural politics of nationalism especially in the context of American culture and European politics where it is undergoing the most scrutiny. The first part of the volume explores the debates on the politics of national identity that surround global information and consumer distribution systems like the Internet. The second part offers a number of case studies of European domestic and foreign policy issues directly affected by arguments about cultural identity that have taken shape in the context of an increasingly global environment. Of particular interest in this volume is the tension often felt between France and the USA on the issue of culture politics and nationalism. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138716414

Culture Religion and Conflict in Muslim Southeast AsiaNegotiating Tense Pluralisms By examining the sometimes surprising and unexpected roles that culture and religion have played in mitigating or exacerbating conflicts this book explores the cultural repertoires from which Southeast Asian political actors have drawn to negotiate the pluralism that has so long been characteristic of the region. Focusing on the dynamics of identity politics and the range of responses to the socio-political challenges of religious and ethnic pluralism the authors assembled in this book illuminate the principal regional discourses that attempt to make sense of conflict and tensions. They examine local notions of "dialogue " "reconciliation " "civility" and "conflict resolution" and show how varying interpretations of these terms have informed the responses of different social actors across Southeast Asia to the challenges of conflict culture and religion. The book demonstrates how stumbling blocks to dialogue and reconciliation can and have been overcome in different parts of Southeast Asia and identifies a range of actors who might be well placed to make useful contributions propose remedies and initiate action towards negotiating the region’s pluralism. This book provides a much needed regional and comparative analysis that makes a significant contribution to a better understanding of the interfaces between region and politics in Southeast Asia. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138086814

Culture Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam Originally published in 2002 Culture Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam is a study of the history and consequences of the revolutionary campaign to transform culture and ritual in northern Vietnam. Based upon official documents and several years of field research in Thinh Liet Commune a Red River delta community near Hanoi it provides the first detailed account of the nature of revolutionary cultural reforms in Vietnam as how those reforms continue to animate contemporary socio-cultural life. The study examines the key foci of revolutionary cultural change such as the articulation of a new moral system the attempts to eliminate explanations that invoke supernatural causality the creation of socialist weddings and funerals and the development of innovation ties to commemorate war dead. By examining debates over culture ritual and morality that have emerged between residents notably between men and women and party members and non-party members the study shows how ideas and values that preceded the revolution have entered into a creative dialogue with those that were articulated by the revolution and how this has produced an innovative set of ritual and other practices particularly since the relaxation of the cultural reform agenda in the post-1986 period. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367436636

Culture Social Movements and Protest This cutting-edge research volume advances the widely accepted perspective that cultural factors are central elements in shaping trajectories organizational forms recruitment protest strategies and ideologies of social movements. Hank Johnston brings together international experts in cultural analysis to focus on narratives frames speech acts subcultural networks and new developments in cultural theory. By introducing innovative methodologies this title will be of key importance to scholars across the social sciences including sociology political science geography anthropology and women's studies. Johnston's exciting book is a significant contribution to the cultural analysis of social movements. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138382848

Culture Society and DemocracyThe Interpretive Approach This volume addresses the key question of the intersection of sociology and politics and asks what a non-Marxist cultural perspective can offer the Left. Written by leading scholars it develops new conceptions of social critique new techniques of interpretive analysis and new concepts for the sociology of democratic practice. It is a volume for the twenty-first-century where global and local meet when critical theory must examine its most fundamental presuppositions. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315635323

Culture Society and the Media This book discusses two related themes concerning the role and processes of mass communication in society. The first deals with questions regarding the power of the media: how should it be defined? how is it wielded and by whom? are previous approaches and answers to such questions adequate? The second theme revolves around the divisions between the liberal pluralist and Marxist approaches to the analysis of the nature of the media. These divisions have in recent years been fundamental to the debate concerning the understanding of the role of mass communication and the examination of them in this book will challenge the reader to look more closely at a number of assumptions that have long been taken for granted. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138140264

Culture Space and Climate ChangeVulnerability and Resilience in European Coastal Areas Ways of handling climate change vary worldwide. Differences can be observed in the perception of potential threats and opportunities as well as in the appraisal of adequate coping strategies. Collective efforts often fail not because of technical restrictions but as a result of social and cultural differences between the actors involved. Consequently there is a need to explore in greater depth those zones of cultural friction which emerge when actors deal with climate change.This book examines how cultural differences in the handling of climate change can be described and explained. The work develops the concept of culture as relational space elaborates explanatory approaches and investigates them by surveying more than 800 actors responsible for spatial development of the European coastal regions in the Netherlands Germany Denmark and Poland. In doing so this book engages with debates on cultural globalisation in which the attachment of culture to place is increasingly being questioned. Adopting the approach of culture as relational space allows possible cultural formations to be examined across diverse fields of application from the local to the global scale. In addition the book investigates how far different value orientations beliefs and identities can explain diverse perceptions of problems and opportunities right up to preferences for climate-mitigation and adaptation measures. Providing comprehensive insights into the diverse zones of cultural friction which scholars and practitioners face when handling climate change locally and globally this book will be of great interest to those studying climate change environmental sociology and sustainable planning. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367582814

Culture Technology and DevelopmentIn Memory of Jan Hawkins:a Special Issue of mind Culture and Activity This special issue provides a set of articles written by former colleagues and friends of Jan Hawkins--a member of a talented group of graduate students who participated in the weekly seminars held in what was then referred to as the Institute for Comparative Development during the mid-1970s. The single theme that brought together this diverse group of scholars and that dominates the papers in this issue is the belief in the value of human diversity not only as a resource for understanding human nature but as a necessity for continued human development. The articles and commentaries testify that the ideas practices and values that Jan Hawkins helped to create in the mid-1970s are now found around the world. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138411715

Culture Thought and Development In this volume the reader will find a host of fresh perspectives. Authors seek to reconceptualize problems offering new frames for understanding relations between culture and human development. Contributors include scholars from the disciplines of philosophy law theology anthropology developmental psychology neuro- and evolutionary psychology linguistics cognitive science and physics. To help organize the discussions the volume is divided into three parts. Each part reflects an arena of current scholarly activity related to the analysis of culture cognition and development. The editors cast a wide but carefully crafted net in assembling contributions to this volume. Though the contributors span a wide range of disciplines features common to the work include both clear departures from the polemics of nature-nurture debates and a clear focus on interacting systems in individuals' activities leading to novel developmental processes. All accounts are efforts to mark new and productive paths for exploring intrinsic relations between culture and development. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138003125

Culture Transnational Education and ThinkingCase studies in global schooling The notion of thinking skills as a key component of a 21st century school education is now firmly entrenched in educational policy and curriculum frameworks in many parts of the world. However there has been relatively little questioning of the manner in which educational globalisation has facilitated this diffusion of thinking skills curriculum and pedagogy in a cultural context. This book will help to redress such an imbalance in its critical assessment of the cross-cultural validity of transplanting thinking skills programs from one educational system to another on an international scale. Culture Transnational Education and Thinking provides an international comparative study of the intersection of three educational concepts: culture education and thinking. Drawing on case studies from Malaysia South Africa and Australia/USA for the purposes of comparative analysis the book employs the context of an international school program in the teaching of thinking skills Future Problem Solving Program International. The book explores the associations between Future Problem Solving educators their cultural background and their approaches to thinking evaluating the relevance of transferring thinking skills programs derived in one cultural framework into another. The book also discusses the wider implications of these cross-cultural comparisons to curriculum and pedagogy within schools and higher education with a particular emphasis on the teaching of multicultural school-based classes and cross-cultural understandings in teacher education and professional development. This book will be of relevance to academics and higher education students who have an interest in the fields of cross-cultural and intercultural understanding comparative studies in education and theories and practices of cognition as well as the development of tertiary and secondary curricula and associated pedagogies that specifically acknowledge the cultural diversities of both teacher and learner. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138701977

Culture Urbanism and Planning The relationship between culture and urbanism has been the focus of much discussion and debate in recent years. While globalisation tends towards a homogeneity successful 'global cities' have a strong individual - and particularly cultural - identity. The economic value of the culture of cities lies not only in the arts taking place there but also in the city’s fabric its architecture and in its cultural heritage. This volume brings together a team of leading specialists to examine the policies of image and city marketing which have developed over the past 15 years and whether these are a continuity of earlier strategies. Featuring case studies which illustrate diverse perspectives on linking culture urbanism and history the book reviews heritage and planning culture looking at the experience of urbanism in the 'Old Historic City'. The book also assesses the increasingly important issue of urban images and their influence on planning strategies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138253575

Culture Values and Ethics in Social WorkEmbracing Diversity This groundbreaking book examines the ways in which questions of culture and diversity impact on the values and ethics of social work. Using detailed case studies to illustrate key points for practice Richard Hugman discusses how social workers can develop cross-cultural engagement in practice and work creatively with the tensions it sometimes involves. Debates rage over whether there is a core set of unchangeable social work values or whether they might be different at different times and for different people. This textbook proposes a new approach of ‘ethical pluralism’ for social work practice in which both shared humanity and the rich variety of cultures contribute to a more dynamic way of understanding social work’s underpinning values and ethics. In particular this book explores the implications of a pluralist approach to ethics for the central questions of: Human rights and social justice Caring relationships Social and personal responsibilities Agency and autonomy Values such as truth honesty openness service and competence. It is vital that social workers understand the values and ethics of their profession as a crucial part of the foundations on which practice is built and this is the only text to explore the connections between culture values and ethics and fully develop the pluralist approach in social work. Culture Values and Ethics in Social Work is essential reading for all social work students and academics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415673495

Culture & Progress:Esc V8 First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315015460

Culture after HumanismHistory Culture Subjectivity Culture After Humanism asks what happens to the authority of traditional western modes of thought in the wake of postmodernist theories of language and identity. Drawing on examples from music architecture literature philosophy and art Iain Chambers investigates moments of tension interruptions which transform our perception of the world and test the limits of language art and technology. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315012636

Culture and ActivismAnimal Rights in France and the United States Winner of the Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological Association This book offers a comparison of the animal rights movements in the US and France drawing on ethnographic and interview material gathered amongst activists in both countries. Investigating the ways in which culture affects the outcomes of the two movements the author examines its role as a constraining and enabling structure in both contexts showing how cultural beliefs values and practices at the international national and organizational levels shape the strategic and tactical choices available to activists and shedding light on the reasons for which activists make the choices that they do. With attention to the different emphases placed by the respective movements on ideological purity and pragmatism this volume provides an account of why their achievements differ in spite of their shared ultimate goals offering policy recommendations and suggestions for activists working in a variety of cultures. Informed by the work of Giddens and Bourdieu Culture and Activism: Animal Rights in France and the United States constitutes an empirically grounded comparative study of activism that will appeal to scholars of sociology anthropology political science and cultural geography with interests in social movements and social problems. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138595477

Culture and Change Along the Blue Nile"Courts Markets and Strategies for Development" This book aims to bring a concern with cultural values and meanings closer to the study of the economic political jural and religious change and development in the Sudan. It concentrates on sections of Sudanese society caught in the rapid changes of the 1970's. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367013264

Culture and CivilizationCosmopolitanism and the Global Polity This volume of Culture and Civilization focuses on cosmopolitanism the global polity and political ramifications of globalization. The introduction by Gabriel R. Ricci establishes context and provides an overview of the entire work. Topics include the history of globalization climate change policy ecological consequences of development concepts of civilization human rights Eastern thought and economics global citizenship and travel writing. Within this collection Carl J. Strikwerda argues that the first era of globalization in modern times was marked by global migrations patterns. Pablo Iannone's history of the Andean oil rush and its ecological consequences looks at the processes of development. Brett Bowden argues that civilization entails both progress and war. J. Baird Callicott provides a philosophical analysis of a moral theory that accommodates spatial and temporal scales of climate change Sanjay Paul analyzes the United Nations Global Compact and Ed Chung discusses the role of economic theory in business schools. Colin Butler reflects on E. F. Schumacher's "Buddhist Economics " while Taso Lagos relates parallel polis to the idea of global citizenship. Tony Burns examines the ways in which Aristotle Hegel and Kant have been interpreted. Finally Adam Stauffer explores Charles Warren Stoddard's work South-Sea Idyls. This volume of Culture and Civilization the first under Ricci's editorship follows the tradition of the previous four volumes - developing critical ideas intended to produce a positive intellectual climate one that is prepared to confront challenges and alert us to the opportunities for people in all fields and of all faiths of the twenty-first century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412849739

Culture and CivilizationVolume 1 2009 Intellectual activity in the twentieth century took place largely under the banner of science and society. As the new millennium develops it is becoming evident that science and society are not words that represent an unmitigated good nor for that matter do they exhaust what is new in the human condition. Past writing on the theme of culture has emphasized the growth and expansion of human capabilities. Recent use of the term "civilization" has placed great emphasis on the fall from grace of human beings. The use of both terms is rapidly changing.Culture and Civilization develops critical ideas intended to produce a positive intellectual climate one that is prepared to confront threats and alert us to the opportunities of the twenty-first century. It recognizes that the twenty-first century presents people in all fields and of all faiths with shared challenges. Culture and Civilization embraces the work of novelists journalists cultural figures technologists physical sciences historians and policy personnel who range beyond social science areas. What they have in common is a view that civilization is under assault and that it represents a cause worth advancing and defending.This publication does not embrace idiosyncratic visions of the clash of world civilizations or the end of Western civilization. It does attempt to bring together immediate issues of the century that are substantially new and challenging. We see that the essential polarity between democracy and autocracy has now taken on larger deeper dimensions in a different political economic and ecological terrain: the central issue of our day is now civilization versus barbarism. The character of democratic culture is central to the global equation and the systemic challenge. This publication is a sober response to such a challenge. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521773

Culture and CivilizationVolume 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. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521780

Culture and CivilizationVolume 3 Globalism Volume three of Culture & Civilization continues a pattern in this annual series of dealing with major themes of the past with a strong sense of how the everyday world of the second decade of the twenty-first century impacts cultural history and civilizations pushing up against each other. A constant theme throughout is the immediate impact of Globalism: in economics government manners styles egalitarianism in political demands and terrorism as a response to democratic systems. Each in its own way has coalesced to bring discourse on civilization levels back into vogue. Global issues in size scope and scenario are herein placed on exhibition once again.Among the noteworthy contributions are substantial articles by Jason Powell Global Aging; Tony Leon Liberal Democracy in Africa; Yoaz Hendel Terrorism and Piracy; Norman Manea and Paul Hollander "Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall"; Aleksander Kwasniewski "World Views of the European Union"; Gregg Rickman "The Nazi Religion and the Holocaust"; and Walter Laqueur "Europe's Road to the Mosque". This volume features special essays on Jean Francois Revel's Uncommon Insight; John Maynard Keynes Revisited; Stefan Zweig: Master Builder of the Spirit; and Inside Shakespeare's Hamlet.As with the previous volumes the writings are brilliantly realized in form with serious content to match. Threading a needle between abstracted empiricism that dominates present science policy and speculative metaphysics that offers little else than a great vision of the world this volume of Culture & Civilization on Globalism charts a space for which there is a felt need by large publics responded to by serious social science specialists capable of addressing such interests in historically meaningful contexts. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521766

Culture and CivilizationVolume 4 Religion in the Shadows of Modernity Debates on the meaning of religious belief in an advanced technological age have established the emergence of religion as a fact of daily life. The nineteenth-century imagery of "warfare" between science and religion is long dismissed. Emphasizing this fact of the continuing relevance and importance of religion as a driving force in contemporary life is the stunning emergence on the world scene of militant Muslim beliefs in a period of relatively inactive religious belief elsewhere. In this volume of Culture and Civilization religion is examined in the context of post-modern societies. The collection of essays is divided by themes: religions civilizations cultures and the history of ideas. The contributors William Donohue Simon Kuznets A. L. Kroeber Greg Mills Yoani Sanchez Murray Weidenbaum Andreas Herberg-Rothe Daniel Bell John W. Gardner John Charles and Liu Xiaobo's discuss a variety of topics with titles including "The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse " "Why is Africa Poor? " "Freedom and Exchange in Communist Cuba " and the "Economic Structure and the Life of the Jews." This volume concludes with a grouping of review essays on famous figures ranging from Crane Brinton and Herbert Spencer to Max Gluckman and Hannah Arendt. The volume as a whole projects a sense of the future and avoids hysteria about the past. The contributors have a sharp edge and speak in a critical voice to the dilemmas of the present world order. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412846219

Culture and Class in English Public Museums 1850-1914 The nineteenth century witnessed a flowering of museums in towns and cities across Britain. As well as providing a focus for collections of artifacts and a place of educational recreation this work argues that municipal museums had a further social role. In a situation of rapid urban growth allied to social and cultural changes on a scale hitherto unknown it was inevitable that traditional class and social hierarchies would come under enormous pressure. As a result urban elites began to look to new methods of controlling and defining the urban environment. One such manifestation of this was the growth of the public museum. In earlier centuries museums were the preserve of learned and respectable minority yet by the end of the nineteenth century one of the principal rationales of museums was the education or 'improvement' of the working classes. In the control of museums too there was a corresponding shift away from private aristocratic leadership toward a middle-class civic directorship and a growing professional body of curators. This work is in part a study of the creation of professional authority and autonomy by museum curators. More importantly though it is about the stablization of middle-class identities by the end of the nineteenth century around new hierarchies of cultural capital. Public museums were an important factor in constructing the identity and authority of certain groups with access to and control over them. By examining urban identities through the cultural lens of the municipal museum we are able to reconsider and better understand the subtleties of nineteenth-century urban society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138255791

Culture and CognitionReadings in Cross-Cultural Psychology Originally published in 1974 studies of cultural influences on cognition carried out from a variety of theoretical and methodological stances were collected for the first time in this volume. The editors placed particular emphasis on selecting material by authors from many countries who had been working with people from a wide range of cultures. In a general introduction they provide an historical overview of the major issues and draw together the most recent attempts to bring methodological sophistication to this difficult area of enquiry. Suggestions for future research on basic problems are to be found in an epilogue along with a consideration of some possible applications of these studies to problems of education and social change. A comprehensive bibliography with over 600 entries is included in the volume. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367109882

Culture and Cognitive DevelopmentStudies in Mathematical Understanding Researchers examining children's mathematics acquisition are now questioning the belief that children learn mathematics principally through formalized in-school mathematics education. There is increasing evidence that children gain mathematical understanding through their participation in out-of-school cultural practices and that their mathematics only occasionally resembles what they learn in the classroom. Culture and Cognitive Development presents the latest research by Dr. Geoffrey Saxe on this issue. In examinations of the mathematical understandings of child candy sellers in an urban center in northeastern Brazil Dr. Saxe finds sharp contrasts between mathematics as practiced in school and in real-world settings. In this unique research project he presents a penetrating conceptual treatment of the interplay between culture and cognitive development filling a void in current research literature. Subjects examined include: the interplay between sociocultural and cognitive developmental processes the differences between math knowledge learned in and out of the classroom the ways math learning in the classroom is modified by children's out-of-school mathematics and correspondingly how practical out-of-school mathematics use is modified by formal education Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138967106

Culture And Common Mental Disorders In Sub-Saharan Africa The influence of culture on mental illness has been the subject of considerable academic investigation and debate in recent years. This debate has provoked concerns about the validity and reliability of older methodologies which emphasised either universal characteristics of disorders which were heavily biased towards Euro-American systems or the culturally relativist approach which saw psychological disorders as products largely of their own culture. The "new" cross-cultural psychiatry proposed that the integration of ethnographic and epidemiological techniques be required to enable a culture sensitive psychiatric model to emerge. This monograph describes a series of research studies conducted in primary care in Harare Zimbabwe focusing on the most frequent of all psychological disorders Common Mental Disorders (CMD). The four consecutive studies are unique in several respects most notably the involvement of both biomedical and traditional health care providers at all stages the development of an indigenous measure of CMD for use in epidemiological investigations the examination of the relationship between local and biomedical models of psychological disorder and the sociodemographic and economic risk factors for CMD. The experiences and findings of these studies provide new directions in our understanding of the contribution of culture to the presentation assessment classification and risk factors for CMD in primary care in an urban African setting. The methodology used also sets out a model for epidemiological research in other areas of mental health in different cultural settings. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138871847

Culture and Consensus (Routledge Revivals)England Art and Politics since 1940 Culture and Consensus first published in 1995 and a revised edition in 1997 explores the history of the relationship between politics and the arts in Britain since 1940 and shows how the search for a secure sense of English identity has been reflected in official and unofficial attitudes to the arts architecture landscape and other emblems of national significance. Illustrating his argument with a series of detailed case histories Robert Hewison analyses how Britain’s cultural life has reached its present enfeebled condition and suggests a way forward. This book will be of interest to students of art and cultural studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138858046

Culture and ConservationBeyond Anthropocentrism Today there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of humanity and for the sake of other species. Equally important however is the fact that we as the species that causes extinctions have a moral responsibility to those whose evolutionary unfolding and very future we threaten. This volume is an examination of the relationship between conservation and the social sciences particularly anthropology. It calls for increased collaboration between anthropologists conservationists and environmental scientists and advocates for a shift towards an environmentally focused perspective that embraces not only cultural values and human rights but also the intrinsic value and rights to life of nonhuman species. This book demonstrates that cultural and biological diversity are intimately interlinked and equally threatened by the industrialism that endangers the planet's life-giving processes. The consideration of ecological data as well as an expansion of ethics that embraces more than one species is essential to a well-rounded understanding of the connections between human behavior and environmental wellbeing. This book gives students and researchers in anthropology conservation environmental ethics and across the social sciences an invaluable insight into how innovative and intensive new interdisciplinary approaches questions ethics and subject pools can close the gap between culture and conservation. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138051591

Culture and Consumption This is the thirty-first volume in Religion and Public Life formerly This World a series on religion and public affairs. This ongoing series seeks to provide a wide-ranging forum for differing views on religious and ethical considerations. The essays grouped together in Culture and Consumption discuss the phenomenon of consumption an identifiable and pervasive feature of American culture that distinguishes it from other national cultures. The lead article provides an insight into the long-standing pattern of consumption that has been progressively elevated into social policy in America. This is a balanced analysis of the history of the consumption cultural ethos beginning with the undermining of the Native American Culture and ending with Wilsonian Liberal-Internationalism and the demise of the moral authority of organized labor. This commercialization of culture has always competed with the funding vision of a dispassionate social order in which custom deferential politics and continuation of traditional hierarchal values would be the constitutional agenda. Another contributor argues that the emergence of the democratic-consumer state in America was anticipated in de Tocqueville's observation that "in democracies nothing has brighter luster than commercea." Other contributor essays treat issues such as the New Class and the consumer state; technology's triumph at the expense of the social and natural worlds; and argue against the materialist perspective in addiction. Culture and Consumption includes the following major contributions: "The Dialectic of Consumption: Materialism and Social Control" by David Brown; "Religion Social Science and the Ironies of Parasitic Modernity" by Guy Alchon; The Dilemma of Hypermodernity" by Mark Wegierski; "Toward an Epistemology of Addiction" by Leonard Kaplan and Vince Rinella. Also included are book reviews by Martha Davis and Conrad Kanagy. In a concluding essay Gabriel Ricci reviews Jerome Bruner's The Culture of Education. Culture and Consumption is part of an annual survey of religion and public life that provides relevant information and ideas about significant issues of the day. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521803

Culture and Counterculture in Moroccan Politics This book incorporates the critical features of the external environment into an analysis that is principally directed at the kinds of policy alternatives available to Morocco for which culture and culturally related historic and domestic socioeconomic factors are most directly relevant. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367012816

Culture And CritiqueAn Introduction To The Critical Discourses Of Cultural Studies Written by philosopher Jere Surber Culture and Critique familiarizes students with both the broad and specialized meanings of cultural studies providing detailed explanations of theoretical terms critical strategies and discursive traditions upon which it is based. In its broad and more theoretical sense cultural studies indicates a range of m Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367315290

Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza ShahThe Pahlavi State New Bourgeoisie and the Creation of a Modern Society in Iran Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah presents a collection of innovative research on the interaction of culture and politics accompanying the vigorous modernization programme of the first Pahlavi ruler. Examining a broad spectrum of this multifaceted interaction it makes an important contribution to the cultural history of the 1920s and 1930s in Iran when under the rule of Reza Shah Pahlavi dramatic changes took place inside Iranian society. With special reference to the practical implementation of specific reform endeavours the various contributions critically analyze different facets of the relationship between cultural politics individual reformers and the everyday life of modernist Iranians. Interpreting culture in its broadest sense this book brings together contributions from different disciplines such as literary history social history ethnomusicology art history and Middle Eastern politics. In this way it combines for the first time the cultural history of Iran’s modernity with the politics of the Reza Shah period. Challenging a limited understanding of authoritarian rule under Reza Shah this book is a useful contribution to existing literature for students and scholars of Middle Eastern History Iranian History and Iranian Culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780815361183

Culture and Cultures in TourismExploring New Trends According to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) international tourists engaging in cultural activities accounted for more than 500 million of international tourist numbers in 2017. City tourism relies on culture as a major product providing benefits not only for interested visitors but also for the local resident population. New trends in tourism include "experiential tourism" where the interactions between tourists and residents become a key part of the tourism experience and overall customer satisfaction. New technologies and IT applications allow tourists to design their own trip given the presence of global companies like Trip Advisor Booking.com and AirBnB.This comprehensive volume explores new trends in cultural tourism demonstrating how and why culture has become a central factor in tourism. The authors analyse a wide range of relevant issues including: how heritage-based and cultural tourism could contribute to the sustainability of destinations; the increase of religious travels to and within Arab countries; and how cultural tourism fosters understanding among people and cultures and could even potentially help to consolidate peace at a regional level. The book also analyses interactions between hosts (the local residents) and guests (the cultural visitors) revisiting the pioneer hippy travelling experiences in Turkey of the 1960s and how they shaped youth culture.This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of cultural tourism. The chapters were originally published in the journal Anatolia. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367660925

Culture And CurrencyCultural Bias In Monetary Theory And Policy This book sheds light on how people come to hold opposing views how these views solidify into the sides of a debate and how one side becomes the dominant view. It explores the development of a theoretical approach together with debate on alternative theoretical approaches and policy options. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367154080

Culture and Defence in BrazilAn Inside Look at Brazil's Aerospace Strategies This volume examines the connection between culture and defence by providing an inside look at Brazil’s aerospace strategies. Brazil is becoming increasingly important geopolitically and several studies have sought to further understanding of this new position in the international arena. This volume aims to provide a better understanding of the Brazilian nation its security dilemmas and how the country seeks to develop its defence training process and improve its professional military education. Organised into two parts the chapters offer academic dialogues on several aspects of this topic including public politics and the law joint operations human factors and the government interchanges with industry. The first section analyses Brazilian defence policy and strategy discussing different aspects of aerospace power and Brazilian security perspectives. Chapters discuss the relationship between Brazil and the United States which blend aspects of the generation of knowledge science technology and innovation and point to economic issues and the Defence Industrial Base. Specific implications of the Brazilian air space compared with Europe and the United States also are exposed. In addition a vision of cyberspace implications for the national power a present-day question for the entire planet is also presented. Thereafter the second section looks at specific aspects of professional military education and explains the Brazilian approach to strengthening its aerospace power. This includes military education and performance interdisciplinary studies working jointly multivariate analysis and cases. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies defence studies gender issues crises management and decision making Latin American politics and International Relations in general. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472471833

Culture and Democracy in the United States In his new introduction Whitfield sets the scene of the early twentieth century to show what inspired Horace Kallen to write this book. He delves deeply into his background discussing the influences on Kallen's life and work. Whitfield also examines the many changes that have occurred since Culture and Democracy in the United States was first written and reveals that many of the ideas espoused by Kallen have become reality. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521810

Culture and Development in Africa and the Diaspora This book examines the intersection between cultural identities and development in African and the Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives. Starting with the premise that culture is one of the most significant factors in development the book examines diverse topics such as the migrations of musical forms social media bilingualism and religion. Foregrounding the work of Africa based scholars the book presents strategies for identifying solutions to the challenges facing African culture and development. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African Studies and African Culture and Society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367276652

Culture and Diversity in the United StatesSo Many Ways to Be American Knowledge of and sensitivity toward diversity is an essential skill in the contemporary United States and the wider world. This book addresses the standard topics of race ethnicity class and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language religion age health and disability and region and geography. It also considers the intersections between and the diversities within these categories. Eller presents students with an unprecedented combination of history conceptual analysis discussion of academic literature and up-to-date statistics. The book includes a range of illustrations figures and tables text boxes a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive bibliography. Additional resources are provided via a companion website. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138826694

Culture and Early Interactions In the late 1960s after a period of intense acceleration of the pace of research on human infancy a number of investigators – some anthropologists some psychologists some psychiatrists and paediatricians and even a few ethologists – developed the conviction that certain contributions to the understanding of infancy would come from and perhaps only come from cross-cultural and cross-population studies. This book originally published in 1981 represents part of the first fruit of that conviction and its impressive range of chapters justifies not only the belief itself but also the several rationales behind it. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781848724587

Culture and Economics in the Global CommunityA Framework for Socioeconomic Development Many of the concepts values and basic assumptions on which 'modern' economic and business theory is based do not translate into or convey the same meaning in non-European languages or non-Western cultures as they do in Western societies. This results in a mismatch between what Many of the concepts values and basic assumptions on which 'modern' economic and business theory is based do not translate into or convey the same meaning in non-European languages or non-Western cultures as they do in Western societies. This results in a mismatch between what have now become global economic values and 'local' cultural ones. Kensei Hiwaki considers a new paradigm - that a sound culture is needed to underpin development employment and trade and an optimal development path. This concept is discussed against the background of the author's contention that his own Japanese society has succumbed to unsustainable modern tendencies leading to the antithesis of sustainable development and placing the society and economy in a 'credibility trap' into which it is predicted other countries like China might also fall. Professor Hiwaki presents a detailed theoretical framework for balanced socioeconomic development relevant to sustainable development of the global community explaining the pivotal concepts on which it is based as well as the institutional and practical implications of adopting the paradigm including new approaches to taxation employment trade multi-media communications and global governance. Culture and Economics in the Global Community is a challenging but ultimately hopeful book that introduces new perspectives for leaders in the political arena in business in development agencies and to researchers and others with a professional or academic interest in economics trade governance and environmental issues social policy or cultural anthropology. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315575414

Culture and EconomicsOn Values Economics and International Business Since the early 1990s culture in the sense of norms and values has entered economic analysis again whereas it was totally absent from mainstream economics during most of the second half of the twentieth century. The disappointing results of mainstream economics and developments in the world economy triggered an awareness of the relevance of the context in which people make decisions. Developments which were triggering this were the unexpected high growth rates in Asia (the Asian miracle) the transition of previously centrally planned economies and the increased attention for the role of religion after 9/11/2001. Some of the areas this research covers are: The history of culture in economics from Adam Smith to the present The way culture is incorporated into economic analysis Methods used in empirical analysis on culture and economics Culture as an explanatory factor of cross-country difference in institutions and performance Culture appears to be relevant for explaining differences between otherwise similar countries; in particular OECD-countries. Uncertainty avoidance for example significantly explains the relative importance of financial markets. This book is the first that provides an overview of the field of culture and economics and will be of use to postgraduate researchers in the field of economics and culture. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315881362

Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media Understanding social media requires us to engage with the individual and collective meanings that diverse stakeholders and participants give to platforms. It also requires us to analyse how social media companies try to make profits how and which labour creates this profit who creates social media ideologies and the conditions under which such ideologies emerge. In short understanding social media means coming to grips with the relationship between culture and the economy. In this thorough study Christian Fuchs one of the leading analysts of the Internet and social media delves deeply into the subject by applying the approach of cultural materialism to social media offering readers theoretical concepts contemporary examples and proposed opportunities for political intervention. Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to understand culture and the economy in an era populated by social media platforms such as Twitter Facebook and Google in the West and Weibo Renren and Baidu in the East. Updating the analysis of thinkers such as Raymond Williams Karl Marx Ferruccio Rossi-Landi and Dallas W. Smythe for the 21st century Fuchs presents a version of Marxist cultural theory and cultural materialism that allows us to critically understand social media’s influence on culture and the economy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138839311

Culture and EconomyContemporary Perspectives This title was first published in 2002. For many regions 'culture' is considered the only viable resource they have for economic development. Neo-liberalist economics has become the dominant paradigm across a wide range of cultural contexts while the cultural contingency of this paradigm itself has been obscured. In offering an empirically grounded anthropological critique of these issues the volume makes an original contribution to the international debate on culture and economy. The case studies shed light on everyday practices used to establish culture’s economic 'value' and concepts of 'culture' and 'economy' employed by policy decision-makers are scrutinized through studies of strategies and policies at various levels. Aspects of economy such as the market are examined as cultural constructs in a historical context. Illustrated by international case studies the volume provides a compelling and insightful survey of the theories and practices that shape the polyvalent relationships between culture and economy in the twenty-first century. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138719262

Culture and Educational Policy in Hawai'iThe Silencing of Native Voices This comprehensive educational history of public schools in Hawai'i shows and analyzes how dominant cultural and educational policy have affected the education experiences of Native Hawaiians. Drawing on institutional theory as a scholarly lens the authors focus on four historical cases representing over 150 years of contact with the West. They carefully link historical events significant people educational policy and law to cultural and social consequences for Native Hawaiian children and youth. The authors argue that since the early 1800s educational policy in Hawai'i emphasizing efficiency has resulted in institutional structures that have degenerated Hawaiian culture self-image and sovereignty. Native Hawaiians have often been denied equal access to quality schools and resulting increased economic and social status. These policies were often overtly or covertly racist and reflected wider cultural views prevalent across the United States regarding the assimilation of groups into the American mainstream culture. The case of education in Hawai'i is used to initiate a broader discussion of similar historical trends in assimilating children of different backgrounds into the American system of education. The scholarly analysis presented in this book draws out historical political cultural and organizational implications that can be employed to understand other Native and non-Native contexts. Given the increasing cultural diversity of the United States and the perceived failure of the American educational system in light of these changes this book provides an exceptionally appropriate starting point to begin a discussion about past present and future schooling for our nation's children. Because it is written and comes from a Native perspective the value of the "insider" view is illuminated. This underlying reminder of the Native eye is woven throughout the book in Ha'awina No'ono'o--the sharing of thoughts from the Native Hawaiian author. With its primary focus on the education of native groups this book is an extraordinary and useful work for scholars thoughtful practitioners policymakers and those interested in Hawai'i Hawaiian education and educational policy and theory. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315045290

Culture and EducationLooking Back to Culture Through Education This book explores the fascinating and complex interactions between the ways that culture and education operate within and across societies. In some cases education is imagined as an integrated part of general cultural phenomena; in others educational interventions become the means for transforming the cultural circumstances of different populations. The contributors to this volume show how certain educational practices produce new cultural and professional knowledge; discuss the impacts of initially foreign educational ideas and institutions on established cultural institutions in very different societies; and explore the impacts of modernity and modern educational ideas on more traditional gendered and religious practices and communities. The book also provided striking examples of when these impacts were not benign. Increasingly powerful twentieth-century governments attempted to use education and schools to produce new reformed citizens suitable for their newly created colonial national socialist and fascist states. The expectation was that cultural and social transformation might be engineered in major part through schooling. This book was originally published as a special issue of Paedagogica Historica. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367664091

Culture and EmotionA Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion For the past three decades theorizing and research on the relationship between culture and emotion has tended to concentrate on the seemingly straightforward issue of whether or not emotions are universal. This was reflected in a dispute in which it seemed only possible to choose between the two extremes namely a cultural-relativist point of view or a universalist point of view. However recent empirical evidence concerning cultural variation in emotion has expanded and is generally consistent with the view that an extreme position in this controversy is untenable. Currently there is abundant research trying to gain insight into the subtleties of cultural effects rather than in the 'yes' or 'no' issue.The papers selected for inclusion in this special issue on culture and emotion bear witness in their different ways to a new awareness of the need to approach the issue of the relation between culture and emotion in a way that goes beyond the universalism-relativism debate. One issue that is attracting increased research attention is the role of emotion language in emotion research. Three papers included here address the issue of language. A second theme concerns the distinction between individualism and collectivism and related cultural dimensions such as honour and its implication for the experience and expression of emotions. Three papers address the effects of this cultural dimension; one is on crying another on well-being and positive feelings and a third on anger-related emotions. Finally a last theme that is considered in this special issue is the way in which emotions are expressed in inter-racial interactions. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138883260

Culture and Emotional Economy of Migration This book studies how the act of migration is a motivating constituent in the production of popular culture in both the homeland and the destination. It looks at the formations of cultures in the process of identity-making of approximately 200 million Indians scattered across the world from colonial to contemporary times. The volume is an in-depth Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780367177348

Culture and Emotional Economy of Migration This book studies how the act of migration is a motivating constituent in the production of popular culture in both the homeland and the destination. It looks at the formations of cultures in the process of identity-making of approximately 200 million Indians scattered across the world from colonial to contemporary times. The volume is an in-depth exploration of the flow of cultures and their interactions through a study of north Indian migrants who underwent two waves of emigration – from the Bhojpuri region to the Dutch colony of Suriname between 1873 and 1916 to work on sugar coffee cotton and cocoa plantations and their descendants who moved to The Netherlands following the Surinamese independence in 1975. It compares this complex network of cultures among the migrants to the folk culture of the Bhojpuri region from where large-scale migration is still taking place. The work draws on archival records secondary literature folk songs rare photographs and extensive fieldwork across continents – the Bhojpuri region Mumbai Surat and Ghaziabad in India and Suriname and The Netherlands.This second edition marks the 150th Anniversary of the Abolition of Indentured Labour. With a new prologue an updated introduction and some revisions to the text it will be useful to scholars and researchers of cultural studies labour studies sociology modern Indian history migration and diaspora studies. It will also interest the Indian diaspora especially in Europe and the Americas. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780367733810

Culture and EnlightenmentEssays for György Markus This title was first published in 2002: Culture and Enlightenment are the two words that best characterise the essence of György Markus's career in whose honour this book is published. Markus devoted the last twenty years of research towards a theory of cultural objectivations and their pragmatics and the great depth of his knowledge of the history of culture and philosophy informs all his teaching and writing. The pursuit of Enlightenment ideals attains reflective self-consciousness in Markus' works; forged in the knowledge of its own historicity of the embeddedness of rationalities in culture and in an awareness of the paradoxes that cling to the conscious affirmation of ideals which are no longer self evident or beyond questioning. In taking up the challenge of these paradoxes Markus spans the whole history of modern philosophy and culture with a matchless authority. This book draws together contributions from leading figures in contemporary philosophy who are also friends colleagues and former students of György Markus. The book is divided into two sections: the first presents critical assessments of various aspects of Markus' wide-ranging works; the second presents contributions in celebration of his influence and his wide interests. In their critical assessment of Markus' work and in the demonstration of his influence the contributors hope to convey something of the breadth and something of the excitement of doing philosophy in the company of György Markus. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138728431

Culture and External RelationsEurope and Beyond Political entities use culture to support their soft power potential to generate goodwill to frame international agenda in particular ways to erect and re-enact boundaries and/or to create societal linkages across them. While the importance of culture has been on the rise in the realm of foreign affairs its role in this field remains one of the most under-studied aspects of state policy. In this book a range of international experts take an unprecedented look at what role external cultural policy plays in foreign affairs. The book features historical case studies ranging from European 'civilizing' engagement with nineteenth-century China to uses of Abstract Expressionism as an instrument in the ideological struggles of the Cold War. Conceptual issues ranging from the dynamics of the 'Anglosphere' to the effects of what some term the 'culture of liberal democracy' are addressed. Current trends in the uses of culture in the EU's external relations both from the perspective of institutional developments policies and practices in the EU and from the perspective of countries engaged by the EU's cultural policies are also discussed in greater detail. The systematic theoretically informed and empirically supported analyses make this book an indispensable read for scholars and policy makers wishing to gain a new understanding of the role that culture plays in foreign affairs. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138279599

Culture and FamilyProblems and Therapy Originally published in 1991 this landmark guide gave brilliant insights on dealing with the cultural aspects of family mental health. It systematically reviews various dimensions of the family from a cross-cultural perspective including system development behaviour and functioning. It then thoroughly examines the problems and dysfunctions that can occur in families of different cultural backgrounds and finally proposes culturally appropriate assessments and treatments for resolving these family problems.Family counsellors therapists and researchers who study the family will find practical suggestions on how to assess and evaluate the family with cultural considerations; clinical suggestions on providing culturally relevant effective care of the family; and theoretical elaboration on the cultural implications of family therapy. Instead of focusing on families of a particular ethnic or cultural background the book gives comprehensive coverage to subjects that related to cultural aspects of the family function problems and therapy. The authors’ unique backgrounds which include analysis of the cross-cultural aspects of human behaviour knowledge in family research and clinical experience in family therapy add immeasurably to this book's important contribution. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138188174

Culture and Foreign PolicyThe Neglected Factor in International Relations Political culture refers to the basic values ideas beliefs and political orientations by which countries societies and whole regions are guided. The underlying belief systems that shape cultures and societies and cause them to behave in certain often distinct ways. The puzzle or query that chiefly concerns this author is why the United States (US) and its foreign policy have such a hard time understanding cultures and societies other than their own. This provocative book argues that the US needs to end its attitudes of superiority and condescension toward other nations and cultures and redirect its foreign policy accordingly. After an introduction that sets forth the main theoretical and conceptual arguments the next chapters explore all the main areas of the world. The Conclusion pulls all these themes together analyzes the common patterns that emerge and suggests new directions for U.S foreign policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781409453291

Culture and General EducationA Survey Originally published in 1963 this remarkable book discusses the results of the ‘tests of culture’ devised by the author two of which when published in The Times Educational Supplement evoked such wide interest that he was almost overwhelmed with unsolicited test scores and correspondence. The late Kenneth Richmond was well aware that any attempt to ‘measure culture’ was open to ridicule. He makes it clear that he is concerned to measure it in its restricted sense of ‘academic or minority culture’ and he holds that there is a body of received opinion on the content of such culture which in the contemporary world is represented by two areas those of the scientists and of the literary intellectuals and that it is possible to pose questions that will test a person’s acquaintance with each. So the tests are no mere quizzes; the results from Universities Colleges the Services and Sixth Forms are often surprising sometimes disquieting in the light they throw on standards of general education at the time and on the ‘great divide’ between the scientist and the arts man. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138340398

Culture and Human DevelopmentThe Importance of Cross-Cultural Research for the Social Sciences As intercultural encounters between people in the modern world become more common important questions have been raised about the nature of culture-specific differences and similarities. Focusing on the relationship between culture and human development this timely book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of key developmental processes. It combines psychological and sociological approaches with cross-cultural research to examine phenomena such as the transfer of culture between generations and the universality of attachment theory. Drawing on detailed research from a range of cultural groups leading international researchers consider the impact of social change and modernization on the development of the individual and at the societal level. Theoretical and methodological issues are presented in terms of how to apply the results of cross-cultural research as well as recent empirical research done in specialized areas of the field. Finally short-term intercultural exchanges are examined and used to suggest some of the potential practical uses of cross-cultural research for the future. This book will be essential reading for anyone studying or researching in cultural psychology cross-cultural psychology acculturation or behavioral development. It will also prove an invaluable source of information for anyone interested in sociology and the social sciences in general. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9780415647120

Culture and Human Nature This volume illustrates Melford Spiro's explorations of key relationships among culture society and human nature. He addresses such fundamental issues as the limitations of cultural relativism the problem of explanation in the social sciences and the importance of a comparative approach to the study of social and cultural systems. Spiro believes that deep motivational and cognitive structures underlie human behavior. He argues that these structures can be explained by the evolutionary history of our species and by social experience. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521827

Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized SpacesA War Story Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) personnel are some of the most highly trained people in the military with a job description that spans defusing unexploded ordnance to protecting VIP’s and state dignitaries. EOD are also one of the first military groups to work with robots every day. These robots have become an increasingly important tool in EOD work enabling people to work at safer distances in many dangerous situations. Based on exploratory research investigating interactions between EOD personnel and the robots they use this study richly describes the nuances of these reciprocal influences especially those related to operator emotion associated with the robots. In particular this book examines the activities processes and contexts that influence or constrain everyday EOD human-robot interactions what human factors are shaping the (robotic) technology and how people and culture are being changed by using it. The findings from this research have implications for future personnel training and the refinement of robot design considerations for many fields that rely on critical small group communication and decision-making skills. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472443113

Culture and International Business Management strategies to help you profit in the international realm!What is the most effective way to help an expatriate employee learn to function in the host country? How well do we understand the formation and performance of multinational alliances? Should you threaten to sue your Chinese distributor or is friendliness a better tactic? These questions are among the issues tackled in Culture and International Business a practical look at a complex topic.Increasingly corporations and businesses are transnational or multinational in scope and culture in a way that was unimaginable a generation ago. Employees may be assigned to work overseas or deal with customers suppliers distributors or factories across the globe. Even in domestic offices employees from several different countries may work side by side. If you want your business to prosper in this new global economy you must understand the effects of cultural differences on business practices or else risk making costly potentially disastrous errors.Culture and International Business offers practical ideas and tested research on such vital topics of concern as: defining the moral ethical and legal implications of multicultural management attracting and retaining key personnel persuading employees in the host country to mentor an expatriate overcoming divisive cultural differences working within the guanxi relationship networks of China creating sustainable development strategies becoming aware of different attitudes toward change gender and risk-takingA genuinely multinational effort the seven chapters of Culture and International Business were written by authors representing five nations on three continents. This important book is designed to help you understand a wide range of issues from several geographic areas that affect everyone doing business in the new global economy. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203048122

Culture and International Economic Law Globalization and international economic governance offer unprecedented opportunities for cultural exchange. Foreign direct investments can promote cultural diversity and provide the funds needed to locate recover and preserve cultural heritage. Nonetheless globalization and international economic governance can also jeopardize cultural diversity and determine the erosion of the cultural wealth of nations. Has　an international economic culture emerged that emphasizes productivity and economic development at the expense of the common wealth? This book explores the ‘clash of cultures’ between international law and international cultural law and asks whether States can promote economic development without infringing their cultural wealth. The book contains original chapters by experts in the field. Key issues include how international courts and tribunals are adjudicating culture–related cases; the interplay between indigenous peoples' rights and economic globalization; and the relationships between culture human rights and economic activities. The book will be of great interest and use to researchers and students of international trade law cultural heritage law and public international law. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138281622

Culture and International LawProceedings of the International Conference of the Centre for International Law Studies (CILS 2018) October 2- In this era of globalization International Law plays a significant role in facing rapid development of various legal issues. Cultural preservation has emerged as an important legal issue that should be considered by States. This book consists of academic papers presented and discussed during the 9th International Conference of the Centre of International Law Studies (9th CILS Conference) held in Malang Indonesia 2-3 October 2018. The title of the book represents the major theme of the conference: "Culture and International Law." It is argued that along with globalization cultural preservation is slowly ignored by States. Various papers presented in the book cover five topics: cultural heritage; cultural rights; culture and economic activity; culture and armed conflict; and a general topic. The authors of the papers are outstanding academics from various countries Lithuania United States of America Australia Thailand and Indonesia.The conference was organized by Universitas Indonesia in collaboration with Brawijaya University. This book aims to give a useful contribution to the existing literature on International Law specifically focussing on cultural issues from the perspective of cultural heritage and rights economic as well as armed conflict. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9781138387669

Culture and Leadership Across the WorldThe GLOBE Book of In-Depth Studies of 25 Societies Culture and Leadership Across the World: The GLOBE Book of In-Depth Studies of 25 Societies is the second major publication of GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) a groundbreaking large-scale project on international management research featuring contributions from nearly 18 000 middle managers from 1 000 organizations in 62 countries perhaps the largest project of its kind ever undertaken. This volume effectively presents a complex collection of global research addressing the culture of particular countries leadership qualities within those countries and recommendations on how managers should conduct business in countries other than their own.A massive effort with a cross-cultural focus and broad international appeal this book explores:how leadership is conceptualized and enacted in its cultural milieu;quantitative data including middle manager questionnaires unobtrusive measurement and participant observation data;qualitative research from interviews focus groups and media analyses; andtheoretical and methodological pitfalls that arise in the effort to develop universal management theories.This book is a coherent and well-organized presentation of the findings of the GLOBE Project and will appeal to scholars in leadership management international business cultural studies; and also to practicing managers. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9780367866662

Culture and LibertyWritings of Isabel Paterson Isabel Paterson is widely recognized as an advocate of radical individualism and a prophet of the libertarian movement. She influenced a wide variety of libertarian and conservative writers and public figures from Ayn Rand to William F. Buckley Jr. In her own time Paterson was noted as a literary critic and novelist and one of the wittiest writers in America. She is best known for The God of the Machine also published by Transaction.Culture and Liberty includes many of Paterson's works that are out of print or have never before been published. Stephen Cox collected Paterson's words on themes she favored illustrating leading features of her accomplishments and her views. Paterson's way of combining individualist ideas with provocative writing made people look forward to her next pronouncement on American culture. Her fame while she lived and worked and the continuing interest in her ideas and writing are monuments to a complex but strongly unified personality.Paterson remains one of the most distinctive voices in American literary history—as this selection of her writings will indicate. This book is a must read for English majors literary critics humanities scholars and students of American culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781412856799

Culture and Management in Asia Local culture has long been recognised as a critically important factor in shaping management styles in different Asian countries. This book provides a comprehensive overview of culture and management in major East and Southeast Asian economies. Each chapter provides a survey of the country's history culture and economy going on to examine management in the country together with management education and how management is currently changing. The book will provide an invaluable introduction for students of international management for those studying management within East and Southeast Asia and for businessmen trading with the region. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315016115

Culture and Meaning in Health Services ResearchAn Applied Approach Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research is a practical guide to applying interpretive qualitative methods to pressing healthcare delivery problems. A leading medical anthropologist who has spent many years working in applied healthcare settings Sobo combines sophisticated theoretical insights and methodological rigor with authentic real-world examples and applications. In addition to clearly explaining the nuanced practice of ethnography and guiding the reader through specific methods that can be used in focus groups or interviewing to yield useful findings Sobo considers the social relationships and power dynamics that influence field entry data ownership research deliverables and authorship decisions. Crafted to communicate the importance of culture and meaning across the many disciplines engaged in health services research this book is ideal for courses in such fields as public health and health administration nursing anthropology health psychology and sociology. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315430935

Culture and Planning In planning debates culture is often treated as a fixed element either as a quasi-economic resource or as a category of behaviour. Yet a wealth of research and analysis is available that moves the spotlight from the question of what culture is towards understanding what we are doing when we talk about culture. This book brings that focus to planning research examining culture as a socio-historical concept and introducing a line of scholarship both established and recent to show what 'culture' does and why. Illustrated by case studies from planning contexts it addresses the materialisation of abstract concepts performance and embodiment and social categorisation. In doing so it shows how a deeper understanding of culture can offer new insights into the challenges that planners and planning theorists face. While Culture and Planning is aimed primarily at planning theorists professionals and students it has equal relevance for students of human geography or sociology and is accessible to a wider readership. In effect it opens up the field of planning to a new realm of research enabling readers to think beyond the bounds of what they know about planning and to think about what they may or may not know about culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138247116

Culture and Politics This concise accessible text presents an overview of the relevance of culture for politics. Culture figures prominently in the theories of the great classics such as Marx Durkheim and Weber. Recently the cultural approach to politics has developed quickly and the concept of political culture has played a role in these developments particularly given the emergence of large-scale survey research into political value orientations. Seeking to outline this rapid development the book is divided into three sections: Section I of the book discusses the relevance of cultural perspectives to political analysis including discussion of the most significant concepts and methods. Section II looks at the core elements of political culture – tradition ethnicity and religion. Section III examines emerging research avenues and opportunities including social capital value orientations in the postmodern world newer formulations of political culture such as gender and sexuality and the influence of the environment. Drawing on a wealth of examples and a comprehensive analysis of comparative data this textbook is essential reading for all students of political culture research methods political sociology and comparative politics. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415673266

Culture and Politics in ChinaAn Anatomy of Tiananmen Square As the world watched the crumbling away of communist regimes in Eastern Europe the pro-democracy movement in China was dealt a severe blow in June of 1989. Also referred to as the June 4th Incident the Tiananmen Square protest included students intellectuals and workers demanding democratic reforms and social change. To break up the escalating protest armed soldiers stormed the square killing close to two hundred demonstrators and injuring thousands more. Culture and Politics in China explores the events trends and tendencies that led to the student demonstrations. This volume objectively presents a wide range of information permitting readers a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances that culminated on the events of June 4 1989. Documents include eyewitness accounts by student leaders Chai Ling and Wu'er Kaixi the speeches of Deng Xiaoping and Yang Shangkun justifying the use of force analysis of the events by the Marxist theorist Su Shaozhi the writings of young intellectuals Yan Jiaqi Liu Xiaobo and others. Selections include essays on the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and the television documentary the "Yellow River Elegy" which question the Chinese cultural tradition. Leading political scientists contribute to this volume. Lee presents an analysis of the role of Deng Xiaoping in the events at Tiananmen Square and his views on the Chinese Communist party-state and the pro-democracy movement King Tsao who was at the square views the demonstrations as a form of civil disobedience and dissent against the party-state. He gives an eyewitness account and a contextual analysis of some of the events and underlying themes. Steven Mark a journalist presents an analysis of the various roles of both the Chinese and Western press beginning with their role in shaping public opinion before the demonstrations and continuing as the media scrambled to cover China's biggest news story since the communist takeover in 1949. Those who Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203794104

Culture and Politics in South AsiaPerformative Communication This volume looks at the politics of communication and culture in contemporary South Asia. It explores languages signs and symbols reflective of current mythologies that underpin instances of performance in present-day India and its neighbouring countries. From gender performances and stage depictions to protest movements folk songs to cinematic reconstructions and elections to war-torn regions the chapters in the book bring the multiple voices embedded within the grand theatre of popular performance and the cultural landscape of the region to the fore. Breaking new ground this work will prove useful to students and researchers in sociology and social anthropology art and performance studies political studies and international relations communication and media studies and culture studies. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780367277642

Culture and Politics: A Comparative ApproachA Comparative Approach This title was first published in 2002: Examining problems that have caused much debate within political science this book seeks to identify a proper place for the analysis of culture and values within political science. It goes on to explore the impact of globalization upon society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138736177

Culture and PoliticsA Comparative Approach Culture and Politics provides a comprehensive introduction to the enduring phenomenon of culture and its impact on contemporary society and politics. Combining a substantial theoretical overview with intricate comparative empirical research it assesses the complex interplay of ethnicity religion history and values on macro- and micro-level outcomes. Striking a judicious balance between the use of global data on the topic and their selection of six key in-depth country studies the book draws extensively on statistical material and 'hard data' rather than the literary evidence usual in studies of this kind. This second edition of a well-established text has been expanded and fully updated in line with new events. More student-friendly this volume now contains useful references for further reading and new material on ethnicity and religion. Readers will find that the values section is now more lucid. This clearly structured book's stringent approach to the topic and its readable accessible style make this book one that no serious scholar or student of political culture should be without. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315575452

Culture and PoliticsA Comparative Approach This title was first published in 2002: Examining problems that have caused much debate within political science this book seeks to identify a proper place for the analysis of culture and values within political science. It goes on to explore the impact of globalization upon society. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138735699

Culture and Power in South Asian IslamDefying the Perpetual Exception This book explores the myriad diversities of South Asian Islam from a historical perspective attuned to the lived practices of Muslims in various portions of South Asia outside of Urdu Persian or Arabic language perspectives. These perspectives are in some cases taken both from literal regions rarely noticed within discussions of South Asian Islam such as Sri Lanka Bengal and Tamil Nadu. In other contributions the perspectives draw on historiographic interventions about the role of fakīrs in South Asian history qasbahs in South Asian history and the role of Aligarh students within the Pakistan movement. As a collection of voices aimed at stimulating debate about the range and diversity of South Asian Islam the book probes meanings and markers of categories like "Indic " "Islamicate " and "local" or "global" Islam within the context of South Asia. Relevant to debates in the history of South Asia as well as Islamic studies this collection will serve as a reference point for discussions about South Asian Islam as well as the nature and role of vernacularization as a cultural process. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138059269

Culture and Power in the ClassroomEducational Foundations for the Schooling of Bicultural Students This is a timely second edition of the enormously significant book which changed how teachers and community activists view their own practice. This edition concludes with personal essays by teachers professors and community activists explaining the direct impact which Culture and Power in the Classroom has had on their lives. Unlike many texts that discuss educational failure this book provides a historical context for understanding underachievement in our nation. Thoroughly revised to include the new thinking on diversity and learning this edition includes a new chapter on assessment and the brain. This second edition will be welcomed by previous and new readers alike and will help influence the approach of a new generation of teachers whether they are based in schools colleges or community centres. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781612050706

Culture and Processes of Adult Learning The authors provide a variety of perspectives on the conceptualisation of adult learning drawing on sociology psychology adult education and applied research into how adults experience learning. Bringing together a number of major contributions to current debates about what learning during adulthood is for what motivates learning and how best it might be developed the authors address a range of significant issues: What should be the context of learning programmed for adults and who should decide? What are the implications in general and for women in particular of the current emphasis on learning for work at work? How do adults learn and how is learning best facilitated? How might learning be used to empower individuals communities and organisations? Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138161597

Culture and Project ManagementManaging Diversity in Multicultural Projects The cultural diversity within many major projects require those managing them to adapt their project management approach to be in harmony with the preferences and behaviours of stakeholders from these cultures; failure to do so can lead to misunderstandings about the project’s purpose and structure; significant difficulties in implementation and in some cases to conflict or litigation. Omar Zein's Culture and Project Management explores the cultural impact on projects and their management providing the reader with an understanding of the main elements of cross-cultural theory within the project context. These include our perception of context achievement power and group dynamics; and how we approach ambiguity and time. He then identifies key aspects of project management where cultural sensitivity is essential (for example planning risk management project communication and leadership) and offers a structured plan for developing what he calls 'cultural tuning' within a project environment. The book draws on the author’s research his professional experience of working on transnational projects and his own background. His review of the different theories alongside examples and stories of their practical application offers project managers a new and extraordinarily rich perspective into the likely dynamics of their projects. Making appropriate adaptations to standard processes choosing what how and through whom you communicate with stakeholders may be signal elements in the success or failure of your projects; Culture and Project Management will show where to start. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781472413826

Culture and PropagandaThe Progressive Origins of American Public Diplomacy 1936-1953 Throughout the twentieth century governments came to increasingly appreciate the value of soft power to help them achieve their foreign policy ambitions. Covering the crucial period between 1936 and 1953 this book examines the U.S. government’s adoption of diplomatic programs that were designed to persuade inform and attract global public opinion in support of American national interests. Cultural diplomacy and international information were deeply controversial to an American public that been bombarded with propaganda during the First World War. This book explains how new notions of propaganda as reciprocal exchange cultural engagement and enlightening information paved the way for innovations in U.S. diplomatic practice. Through a comparative analysis of the State Department’s Division of Cultural Relations the government radio station Voice of America and the multilateral cultural educational and scientific diplomacy of Unesco and drawing extensively on U.S. foreign policy archives this book shows how America’s liberal traditions were reconciled with the task of influencing and attracting publics abroad. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367598297

Culture and PsychopathologyA Guide To Clinical Assessment Since the first edition of Culture and Psychopathology was published a growing national and international interest in how culture impacts mental disorders and how psychopathology is influenced by culture has become a rising field of focus. In this extensive revision chapters have been updated with new material and now incorporate the DSM-5’s classification system of mental disorders. This book is international in scope not focusing on specific cultural groups but rather how the cultural context affects the presentation and the process of assessment of different types of psychopathology. This edition highlights case studies and practical guidelines to support clinicians who assess patients of any cultural background. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138925922

Culture and Public Relations Culture and Public Relations explores the impact of culture – societal and organizational – through the global lens of public relations. Structuring the volume around three themes -- culture as an environment for public relations; the culture of PR globally; and the impact of PR on culture -- the editors bring together compelling discussions on such questions as how spirituality religion and culture have affected public relations and how public relations culture has been affected by the "corporate cultures" of business enterprises. Additionally the volume provides studies on the effect of culture on public relations practice in specific countries. With contributors from Europe Asia Australia and North America this collection offers international perspectives on a topic that is growing increasingly important in public relations study and practice. It is required reading for scholars researchers and students in public relations and also has much to offer the business discipline for those seeking to integrate culture and communication to their practices. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415887274

Culture and Reflexivity in Systemic PsychotherapyMutual Perspectives The therapeutic relationship is increasingly becoming a central topic in systemic psychotherapy and cross-cultural thinking. Here experienced systemic psychotherapists offer their reflections and thoughts on the issues of race culture and ethnicity in the therapeutic relationship. The aim is to develop this area of systemic practice to place culture squarely at the centre of all systemic psychotherapy practice as a model for all psychotherapy practice to encourage both trainees and experienced systemic psychotherapists to pay attention to race culture and ethnicity as central issues in their own and their clients' identities and to inform researchers who use qualitative research techniques such as ethnography. This book moves the issues of culture race and equity into the centre of psychotherapeutic practice including that which involves therapeutic encounters across culture racial and ethnic divides. It develops an approach to cultural transference and demonstrates that thinking about culture race and ethnicity does not belong at the margin. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781855757783

Culture And ReproductionAn Anthropological Critique Of Demographic Transition Theory This book originated in a conference on Culture and Reproduction held at the University of California. It discusses conceptual changes in demographic theory focuses on micro-level issues and explores linkages between micro-level processes and the macro-level constraints that shape those processes. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367158705

Culture and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Media Written by literary scholars historians of science and cultural historians the twenty-two original essays in this collection explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationships between science and culture through the periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Ranging across the spectrum of periodical titles the six sections comprise: 'Women Children and Gender' 'Religious Audiences' 'Naturalizing the Supernatural' 'Contesting New Technologies' 'Professionalization and Journalism' and 'Evolution Psychology and Culture'. The essays offer some of the first 'samplings and soundings' from the emergent and richly interdisciplinary field of scholarship on the relations between science and the nineteenth-century media. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138251731

Culture and SecurityMultilateralism Arms Control and Security Building A comprehensive and empirically rich set of case studies that examine the impact of socio-cultural influences on multilateral arms control and security-building processes around the world. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203044766

Culture and Self-HarmAttempted Suicide in South Asians in London Attempted suicide is a matter of serious public health concern. Culture and Self-Harm considers the factors that may contribute to this increased rate of self-harm and suicide among south Asians in London which cannot be blamed on migration alone. Cultural pressures that dictate the way stress is dealt with are examined and the effects of cultural conflict and changes in an individual's cultural identity are considered. Culture and Self-Harm offers a new preventative strategy that will be of theoretical and clinical interest to all mental health professionals social workers voluntary and primary care workers. It will help them understand significant factors that play a key role in the lives of south Asians who attempt suicide and what lessons can be learnt for dealing with other ethnic groups with the same problems. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138881501

Culture And SelfPhilosophical And Religious Perspectives East And West Traditional scholars of philosophy and religion both East and West often place a major emphasis on analyzing the nature of ?the self.? In recent decades there has been a renewed interest in analyzing self but most scholars have not claimed knowledge of an ahistorical objective essential self free from all cultural determinants. The contributo Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367315306

Culture and Social BehaviorThe Ontario Symposium Volume 10 Cross-cultural differences have many important implications for social identity social cognition and interpersonal behavior. The 10th volume of the Ontario Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology focuses on East-West cultural differences and similarities and how this research can be applied to cross-cultural studies in general.Culture and Social Behavior covers a range of topics from differences in basic cognitive processes to broad level cultural syndromes that pervade social arrangements laws and public representations. Leading researchers in the study of culture and psychology describe their work and their current perspective on the important questions facing the field. Pioneers in the field such as Harry Triandis and Michael Bond present their work along with those who represent some newer approaches to the study of culture. Richard E. Nisbett concludes the book by discussing the historical development of the field and an examination of which aspects of culture are universal and which are culture-specific. By illustrating both the diversity and vitality of research on the psychology of culture and social behavior the editors hope this volume will stimulate further research from psychologists of many cultural traditions.Understanding cultural differences is now more important than ever due to their potential to spark conflict violence and aggression. As such this volume is a "must have" for cultural researchers including those in social cultural and personality psychology and interpersonal cultural and political communication anthropology and sociology. Media > Books > Print Books Psychology Press 9781138003927

Culture and Social Psychiatry This brilliant and engrossing work of social synthesis replete with profound insights opens up new vistas on the relationship between culture and mental health. The author uses his own extensive findings and his abundant knowledge of the cross-cultural studies in psychiatry anthropology and sociology to demonstrate that throughout history mental disorders have been closely linked with the prevailing culture and have thus changed in kind and extent.Opler's classic Culture Psychiatry and Human Values has here been revised and expanded to nearly twice the size of the original work. The new materials present in greater depth the author's views on the connection between culture and mental health and broaden the perspectives of theory and research on cultural change and development the migration of acculturating populations and the resulting shifts in diagnostic and therapeutic problems brought about by the stresses of the modern world.By enriching a survey of cultural evolution with fertile cross-cultural comparisons and a discussion of the interaction between culture and personality Opler adds to our knowledge of the etiology and treatment of mental illnesses in primitive societies as well as among more advanced ethnic groups and subcultures in today's metropolis. Of particular significance at a time when social and community psychiatry has assumed a major role all over the world this pioneering work is must reading not only for students of culture and personality psychiatrists social scientists and workers in community health programs but also for the educated reader concerned about these critical problems of our day. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138521841

Culture and Social Theory Aaron Wildavsky along with Mary Douglas identified what they called grid-group theory. Wildavsky began calling this "cultural theory " and applied it to an astounding array of subjects. The essays in this volume exemplify the theory's potential contributions to three seemingly disparate but related areas: the social construction of meaning normative/analytic political philosophy and a theory of rational choices. This book is the first in a series of Aaron Wildavsky's collected writings being published posthumously by Transaction. Wildavsky selected sequenced and grouped all but three of the essays included in Culture and Social Theory prior to his death. Some are presented here for the first time. Wildavsky's cultural theory provides ways to organize and interpret the world.In the first section he shows how social scientists particularly economists and sociologists apply the theory. Wildavsky argues that concepts such as externalities public goods altruism and even risk and rape are tools of rival ubiquitous cultures engaged in perpetual struggle with one another. The second section deals with cultural theory as a way to interpret the works of normative and analytic political philosophers including Thomas Hobbes and John Stuart Mill on competing human objectives. Wildavsky argues that particular types of interaction among a society's cultures are necessary for effective realization of basic concepts such as democracy. In the third section Wildavsky applies cultural theory in conjunction with instrumental rationality the former as a theory of preference formation the latter as a device for realizing preferences efficiently. High-priority objectives and thus the character of norms and rational action shift across cultures. The world and its various elements comprise a complex frequently changing and thus ambiguous reality nowhere more so than in the dynamic contours of the United States. For cultural theory individualistic hierarchical and egalitarian interpretations of the world are the only ones capable of forming and sustaining institutions and related patterns of social relations that will support human social groups.Wildavsky's central objective is to strip away the camouflage and to reveal varying domains of social life as fields of cultural competition. Culture and Social Theory will be a necessary addition to the libraries of political scientists economists and policymakers not to mention all those who admire Aaron Wildavsky and his work. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138508873

Culture and SocietyCritical Essays in Human Geography Human geographers have been at the forefront of research that examines the relationships between space culture and society. This volume contains twenty-one essays published over the past thirty years that are iconic instances of this investigative field. With a focus on four broad themes - landscape identity colonialism nature - these essays represent some of the best and most innovative interventions that geographers have made on these topics. From the visual to the corporeal from rural Ceylon to urban America and from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first this volume brings together a set of theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded works. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138619272

Culture and Sustainability in European CitiesImagining Europolis European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises ecological challenges and social disparities in different nation-states and regions throughout Europe.This book reveals in a pluralistic way how European cities are generating new approaches to their sustainable development and the special contribution of culture to these processes. It addresses both a deficit of attention to small and medium-sized cities in the framework of European sustainable development and an underestimation of the role of culture artistic expression and creativity for integrated development of the city as a prerequisite to urban sustainability. On the basis of a broad collection of case studies throughout Europe representing a variety of regionally specific cultural models of sustainable development the book investigates how participative culture community arts and more generally creativity of civic imagination are conducive to the goal of a sustainable future of small and medium-sized cities. This is an essential volume for researchers and postgraduate students in urban studies cultural studies cultural geography and urban sociology as well as for policymakers and practitioners wanting to understand the specificity of European cities as hubs of innovation creativity and artistic industriousness. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367668884

Culture and System in Family Therapy Starting with the MacPherson Report and its pronouncements on racism in Britain and in particular 'institutionalised racism' Dr Krause focuses in this important book on the practice of family therapy and draws on her expertise as both anthropologist and systemic family psychotherapist to formulate a cogent critical evaluation of the field. At the heart of her book furnished with very useful clinical material is a concern to identify the necessary conditions for an 'anti-discriminatory non-ethnocentric and ethical way of working cross-culturally'. In illuminating the way in which underlying and frequently unexamined assumptions serve to perpetuate institutionally discriminatory outcomes the author outlines a model for the development of a culturally sensitised questioning and self-reflexive practice. This book will serve as an individual reference-point for all those concerned to avoid and eliminate institutional discrimination. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367105211

Culture and Teaching This is the second volume in the "Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling" series. Reflection in the area of culture and teaching necessarily takes teachers on both an introspective journey and an examination of the social conditions of schooling. There is a need to know not only what they believe but also what schools do. It has long been charged that our educational system privileges some and disenfranchises others. Schools are not the equitable institutions that one would hope them to be--a feature of schooling and one that deserves a great deal more attention. This work facilitates an examination of its readers' own beliefs acquaints them with the sentiments and arguments of others and encourages them to look further into the social conditions of schooling. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138460164

Culture and the CityCreativity Tourism Leisure This edited collection will examine the way in which cities are imagined experienced and shaped by those who reside within them those who manage or govern them and those who as visitor tourist or traveller pass through them. Attention will be paid to the influence that these various inhabitants have on city life and living and the dialectic that exists between their sometimes collective and sometimes divergent perceptions and uses of city space. In conjunction with this the collection will explore the ways in which local culture and cultural policy are used by public and private interests as the framework for changing the image and amenity of the city in order to raise its profile and attract tourists. The book contributes to discussions of the increasingly high profile place that cultural programs have in urban regeneration initiatives and explore the tensions conflicts and negotiations that emerge in urban spaces as a result of policy and culture coming together. Papers will be sought from researchers around the world with a view to examining the nexus between tourism leisure and cultural programming from a number of perspectives and with reference to a range of international case studies. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Policy Research in Tourism Leisure and Events. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138798373

Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion Culture and the Cognitive Science of Religion is the first book to bring together cultural psychology and the cognitive science of religion (CSR). Containing much-needed discussion of how good research should do more than simply follow methodological prescriptions this thought-provoking and original book outlines the ways in which CSR can be used to study everyday religious belief without sacrificing psychological science. Cresswell’s pragmatist approach expands CSR in a　radically new direction. The author shows how language and culture can be integrated within CSR in order to achieve an alternative ontogenetic and phylogenetic approach to cognition and argues that a view of cognition that is not based on modularity but on the dynamic connection between an organism and its milieu can lead to a view of evolution that makes much more room for the constitutive role of culture in cognition. As a provocative attempt to persuade researchers to engage with religious communities more directly the book should be essential reading for academics researchers and postgraduate students as well as psychologists interested in the cognitive science of religion theological anthropology religious studies and cultural anthropology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367363383

Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya This book is concerned with human-environment relations in the Himalaya. It explores how different populations and communities in the region understand or conceive of the concept of environment how their concepts vary across lines of gender class age status and what this implies for policy makers in the fields of environmental conservation and development. The chapters in this book analyse the symbolic schema that shape human-environment relations whether that of scientists studying the Himalayan environment public officials crafting policy about it or people making a living from their engagement with it and the way that natural phenomena themselves shape human perception of the world. A new approach to the study of the environment in South Asia this book introduces the new thinking in environmental anthropology and geography into the study of the Himalaya and uses Himalayan ethnography to interrogate and critique contemporary theorizing about the environment. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780415533140

Culture and the Grammar School This book first published in 1965 discusses the nature of the grammar school its curriculum and teaching methods comparisons with sixth form education and the change in its organisation and attitudes during a time of rapid social change in 1960s Britain. This title will be of interest to students of history sociology and education. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138221154

Culture and the IndividualTheory and Method of Cultural Consonance Winner of the 2019 Society for Anthropological Sciences Book Prize This book engages with the issue of how culture is incorporated into individuals' lives a question that has long plagued the social sciences. Starting with a critical overview of the treatment of culture and the individual in anthropology  the author makes the case for adopting a cognitive theory of culture in researching the relationship. The concept of cultural consonance is introduced as a solution and placed in theoretical context. Cultural consonance is defined as the degree to which individuals incorporate into their own beliefs and behaviors the prototypes for belief and behavior encoded in shared cultural models. Dressler examines how this can be measured and what it can reveal focusing in particular on the field of health. Written in an accessible style by an experienced anthropologist Culture and the Individual pulls together more than twenty-five years of research and offers valuable insights for students as well as academics in related fields. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781629585192

Culture and the JudiciaryThe Anthropologist Judge How can jurists resolve multicultural conflicts? Which kind of questions should judges ask when culture enters the horizon of the law? Are they then called to become anthropologists? Through the analysis of hundreds of cases produced through decades of multicultural jurisprudence this book reconstructs the constitutional and anthropological narratives and the legal techniques used by Western judges to face the challenges posed by multiculturalism: from Japanese parent–child suicide to the burqa from Jewish circumcision to Roma begging from kissing a son on his genitals to the claim of indigenous people to fish salmon in natural parks the book brings the reader into a fascinating journey at the crux of the encounter between the relativism of anthropology and the endeavor toward a democratic coexistence pursued by the law. After identifying the recurrent themes or topoi used by judges and lawyers this book critically analyzes them evaluates their persuasive power and suggests a "cultural test" that gathers together the crucial questions to be answered when resolving a multicultural dispute. The "cultural test" is a matrix that guides the judge lawyers and legislatures across the intricate paths of multiculturalism to assure a relational dialogue between the law and anthropology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367534097

Culture and the Middle Classes This book is a sociological study of a societal grouping that has the popular title ’middle class’. It argues that it is more precise to describe the middle classes as dominant groupings and the book draws upon a wide range of characters from such groupings. In a detailed analysis of cultural practices those making an appearance include omnivores carnivores herbivores the middle-brow traditional culture vultures middle class plunderers the urban arts eclectic and the English gentleman. There is a particular focus on those expressing the ’silver disposition’; predominantly affluent middle-aged and white with a taste for conspicuous consumption and established cultural forms. The book brings together a range of disparate sources on the middle classes and offers a sustained engagement with the concept of ’culture’. It illustrates the extent to which social groups utilize the various assets at their disposal and seek to maintain the legitimacy of their cultural practices. The findings emphasise the continuing link between class and taste. Culture and the Middle Classes will be of interest to those working in the fields of class and culture across a range of disciplines including sociology cultural studies social theory media studies and cultural anthropology. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138267817

Culture and the Political Economy of SchoolingWhat's Left for Education? Since the global financial crisis of 2007-08 the question of the aims of schooling have assumed greater importance. There has been no ‘return to normal’ yet young people are encouraged to ‘Keep calm and go to university’. Culture and the Political Economy of Schooling explores the possibilities for the emergence of a progressive agenda for schooling. Culture and the Political Economy of Schooling provides educators and social scientists with the essential background required to understand changes in schooling since the Second World War. It introduces theories of the economic crisis and explores their educational implications before going on to provide accounts of how politics and culture have shaped debates about schooling. This cultural political economy approach is applied to issues such as social class race the brave new worlds of work the dangerous rise of creative education and the increasingly urgent question of inequality. The final parts of the book explore the educational challenges of the Anthropocene and the changing conceptions of knowledge in schools and finally consider alternatives to contemporary schooling. The students in our schools today will face a future framed by the twin crises of economy and environment prompting an urgent rethink of education. Written in an accessible and engaging manner this book is an essential guide for thinking about the past present and futures of education. It will be of great interest to researchers and graduate students of education studies curriculum studies sociology of education education politics and education policy. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138089297

Culture and the Public Sphere Jim McGuigan discusses cultural policy as a manifestation of cultural politics in the widest sense. Illustrating his case with examples from recent cultural policy initiatives in Britain the United States and Australia he looks at:* The rise of market reasoning in arts administration* Urban regeneration and the arts* Heritage tourism* Race identity and cultural citizenship* Censorship and moral regulation* The role of computer-mediated communication in democratic discourse Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203203330

Culture and the State From the end of the eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century a remarkable convergence takes place in Europe between theories of the modern state and theories of culture. Culture and the State explores that theoretical convergence in relation to the social functions of state and cultural institutions showing how cultural education comes to play the role of forming citizens for the modern state. It critiques the way in which materialistic thinking has largely taken the concept of culture for granted and failed to grasp its relation to the idea of the state. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9780203947968

Culture and the State in Spain1550-1850 First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138967113

Culture and the Therapeutic ProcessA Guide for Mental Health Professionals While there are numerous resources for practitioners on the subject the ambiguity remains of what actually constitutes effective multicultural counseling and psychotherapy and how it should be incorporated into their sessions.  This book addresses the question of how to apply current theories and research with a unique “start-to-finish” approach examining the role culture plays in each stage of the therapeutic process from before the clinical intake to termination.  Each chapter is devoted to one of these stages and provides practical strategies techniques examples and case studies.  The reader will find new ways to consider the influence of culture and expand their own knowledge and skills as a practitioner. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138135833

Culture and Trust in Technology-Driven Organizations Culture and Trust in Technology-Driven Organizations provides insight into the important role that culture and trust can play in the success of high-technology organizations. This book reviews the literature and results of an empirical study that investigated the relationship between mechanistic and organic cultures and the level of trust in technology-based organizations.The book outlines the literature on organizational trust and culture and the role theorists believe they play in the success of a changing domestic and global business environment. It identifies ways of defining culture and trust as well as the survey instruments used to measure them. The book then examines the results of two studies that demonstrate the connection between organizational culture and trust. The two studies were conducted at separate times using data collected from several companies within a three-hour radius of each other. These companies are highly dependent upon the ability to identify hire and retain highly skilled knowledge workers. These workers are critical for the companies to successfully compete within the scope of their business and expand into their current and other markets. The book provides a practitioner’s guide—based on the literature review and the results of the studies examined—that can be used to assess diagnose and improve employees’ perception of their work culture and improve trust found in organizations. This guide provides management with actions and activities that should be considered when handling the day-to-day business of the organization. If followed these activities can be instrumental in designing a culture that leads to success and ease of operation for the organization and its members. Media > Books > Print Books CRC Press 9780367379131

Culture as a SystemHow We Know the Meaning and Significance of What We Do and Say A particular culture is associated with a particular community and thus has a social dimension. But how does culture operate and how is it to be defined? Is it to be taken as the behavioral repertoire of members of that community as the products of their behavior or as the shared mental content that produces the behavior? Is it to be viewed as a coherent whole or only a collection of disparate parts? Culture is shared but how totally? How is culture learned and maintained over time and how does it change?In Meaning and Significance in Human Engagement Kronenfeld adopts a cognitive approach to culture to offer answers to these questions. Combining insights from cognitive psychology and linguistic anthropology with research on collective knowledge systems he offers an understanding of culture as a phenomenon produced and shaped by a combination of conditions constraints and logic.Engagingly written it is essential reading for scholars and graduate students of cognitive anthropology linguistic anthropology sociology of culture philosophy and computational cognitive science. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367594787

Culture as a VocationSociology of career choices in cultural management Vocational occupations are attractive not so much for their material rewards as for the prestige and self-fulfillment they confer. They require a strong personal commitment which can be subjectively experienced in terms of passion and selflessness. The choice of a career in the cultural sector provides a good example of this. What are the terms of this calling? What predisposes individuals to answer it? What are the meanings of such a choice? To answer these questions this book focuses on would-be cultural managers. By identifying their social patterns by revealing the resources expectations and visions of the world they invest in their choice it sheds new light on these occupations. In these intermediary and indeterminate social positions family heritages intersect with educational strategies aspirations of upward mobility with tactics against downward mobility and social critique with adjustment strategies. Ultimately the study of career choices in cultural management suggests a new take on the analysis of social reproduction and on the embodiment of the new spirit of capitalism. The empirical findings of this research conducted in France are set in a broader comparative perspective at the European level and with the USA. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367870584

Culture as PowerBuddhist Heritage and the Indo-Japanese Dialogue This book presents new studies on intellectual and cultural interactions in the context of Buddhist heritage and Indo-Japanese dialogue in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on art religion and cultural politics. By revisiting Buddhist connections between India and Japan it examines the pathways of communication on common aesthetic and religious heritage that emerged in the backdrop of colonial experiences and the rise of Asian nationalisms. The volume discusses themes such as Asian arts and crafts under colonialism formation of East Asian art collections development of Buddhist art history in Japan Japanese encounters with Ajanta India in the history of the Shinto tradition Japan in India’s xenology and Buddhism and world peace and suggests paradigms of reconnecting cultural heritage within a global platform. With essays from experts across the world this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of history art history ancient Indian history colonial history heritage and cultural studies South Asian and East Asian history visual and media studies Asian studies international relations and foreign policy and the history of globalization. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge India 9780367313593

Culture as Renewable OilHow Territory Bureaucratic Power and Culture Coalesce in the Venezuelan Petrostate This book unpacks the links between oil energy state power urban space and culture by looking at the Petro-Socialist Venezuelan oil state. It challenges the disciplinary compartmentalisation of the analysis of the material and cultural effects of oil to demonstrate that within the Petrostate Territory Bureaucratic Power and Culture become indivisible. To this end it examines how oil is a cultural resource in addition to a natural resource implying therefore that struggles over culture implicate oil and struggles over oil implicate culture. This book develops a story about Venezuela as an oil state and the way it deploys its policies to instrumentalise culture and urban space by examining the way Petro-Socialism manifests in space how it is imagined in speeches and how it is discursively constructed in adverts. The discussion reveals how a particular culture is privileged by the Venezuela state-owned oil company and its social and cultural branch. The book explores to what effect the state-owned oil company constructs a parallel notion of culture that becomes inextricable from land akin to a mineral deposit and tightly controlled by the Petrostate.The book will appeal to researchers who are interested in Resource Management Environmental Studies Cultural Studies and Political Geography. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9780367582050

Culture at Work in Aviation and MedicineNational Organizational and Professional Influences Published in 1998 culture forms a complex framework of national organizational and professional attitudes and values within which groups and individuals function. The reality and strength of culture become salient when we work within a new group and interact with people who have well established norms and values. In this book the authors report the results of their ongoing exploration of the influences of culture in two professions aviation and medicine. Their focus is on commercial airline pilots and operating room teams. Within these two environments they show the effect of professional national and organizational cultures of individual attitudes and values and team interaction. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138613409

Culture at Work in Aviation and MedicineNational Organizational and Professional Influences Culture forms a complex framework of national organizational and professional attitudes and values within which groups and individuals function. The reality and strength of culture become salient when we work within a new group and interact with people who have well-established norms and values. In this book the authors report the results of their ongoing exploration of the influences of culture in two professions - aviation and medicine. Their focus is on commercial airline pilots and operating room teams. Within these two environments they show the effects of professional national and organizational cultures on individual attitudes values and team interactions. From the Foreword by Captain Daniel Maurino:...the authors direct their attention to applied research as well as to the search for practical tools to approach and deal with the relationship between culture error and error management and between culture and aviation human factors training for operational personnel. They devote particular attention to the link between culture and Crew Resource Management (CRM) training a safety and prevention tool towards which few if any have contributed so much and so well.. ...The incorporation and management of cultural factors into aviation operations and practices simply represent another tool to contribute to the aviation system‘s production goals. Encouraging progress has been made but there is need for improvement. This book presents one possible way to move forward Vividly laced with numerous contributions from a range of practitioners and researchers from Asia Australia Europe and the Americas as well as case studies and practical examples the book is designed to be accessible to practitioners and managers wishing to improve their own organization and to researchers with an interest in gaining a greater understanding of the types of culture. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138424791

Culture ClashAn International Legal Perspective on Ethnic Discrimination The globalization process has foregrounded ethnic discrimination as an increasingly important area of law around the world. Allowing a better understanding of the issue of ethnic discrimination and inequality this book offers a comparative analysis of legislation impacting ethnic equality in various Anglophone countries. It demonstrates that it is possible to achieve equality at both national and international levels. A compelling historical analysis of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Union Treaty is provided together with a detailed examination of diversity and the law. The book will interest practitioners and others interested in ethnic legal issues. Media > Books > Print Books Routledge 9781138261075

Culture DividedAmerica's Struggle for Unity Politicians and pundits make a great deal of the imperative for Americans to put aside political differences and "unite" as a nation. Calls for change and fresh approaches to politics beckon citizens to move beyond partisanship and special interests in a new spirit of togetherness. But how realistic is this desire? Isn't the very nature of democracy a process of taking sides? How unified has America been in its past? A casual look at U.S. history reveals a country riven with discord and disagreement. From fights between American revolutionaries and loyalists to the British Crown to the bloody differences that caused the Civil War to controversies over the Vietnam and Iraq Wars Americans have always argued over important matters of state. A Culture Divided argues that such disagreements have not been evidence of a weakening country or the "fraying of America." Rather argument and disagreement are precisely the opposite. They are the very essence of a healthy democracy. Grounded in historical and contemporary research A Culture Divided explores the history of political argument in the United States and asserts that democracy is alive and well in the current disputes in American culture. Media > Books > E-books Routledge 9781315635330