This book is a work of press history that considers how the music press represented permissive social change for their youthful readership. Read by millions every week, the music press provided young people across the country with a guide to the sounds, personalities and controversies that shaped British popular music and, more broadly, British culture and society.By analysing music papers and oral history interviews with journalists and editors, Patrick Glen examines how papers re...

Westad’s seminal 2005 work shifts the focus of Cold War studies from Europe to the post-World War II interventions by both the Soviet Union and the United States in the affairs of developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Using new archival sources that became available after the fall of communism, Westad explains how these interventions destabilized the Third World, laying the foundations for contemporary problems and conflicts in the Global South.¶The Global Cold War is the ...

The Age of Revolution is the first of four works by Eric Hobsbawm that collectively synthesize the ideas he developed over a lifetime spent studying the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Hobsbawm's vision is important – he was a lifelong Marxist whose view of history was shaped by a fascination with social and economic history, yet who privileged evidence over political theory – but the real power of these works, and especially The Age of Revolution, emanates fro...

Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in Canada are few and publications that discuss these projects directly even fewer. This book brings together case studies of HGIS projects in historical geography, social and cultural history, and e...

On dit que les mercenaires n’ont pas d’âme, mais ils ont une mémoire. La nôtre, celle de la dernière des compagnies franches de Khatovar, vous la tenez entre vos mains. Ce sont nos entrailles, chaudes et puantes, étalées là devant vous. Vous qui lisez ces annales, ne perdez pas votre temps à nous maudire, car nous le sommes déjà…

SHE FOUND A HANDSOME MAN TIED TO A CHAIR…When Misty found a handsome man tied to a chair in a storeroom, beaten and abused, she was shocked. At the risk to her job and her life, she freed him. Together, they escaped her former boss in New Orleans and fled to Arcana Glen.But when Misty's boss caught up with her, he claims the man she freed is a con and a thief. Not to mention, he thinks he's a real leprechaun, so he must be crazy—right? Her boss asks her to spy on the handso...

Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City brings the humanities and the social sciences into a conversation about Mexico City in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations. Through a shared exploration of the order and disorder that mutually constitute the city, contributing authors engage topics such as the privatization of public space, challenges to existing conceptualizations of the urban form, and variations on the flâneur and other urban actors. Mexico City ...

All Alabama elections are colorful, but the 1986 gubernatorial contest may trump them all for its sheer strangenessWith the retirement of an aging and ill George Wallace, both the issues and candidates contending for the office were able to set the course of Alabama politics for generations to follow. Whereas the Wallace regimes were particular to Alabama, and the gubernatorial campaign was conducted in a partial vacuum with his absence, Alabama also exper...

There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving...

Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) are biocontrol agents that are used to control a wide variety of insect pests within agriculture and forestry. In addition to their use as bio-pesticides, EPNs have a fascinating biology and are thus considered model organisms in ecology, symbiosis and pathogenesis. This book presents basic knowledge and diverse applications to illustrate how EPNs play an important role as potent biocontrol solutions. It describes: Fundamental concepts such as biology, tax...

This book examines political leadership utilizing a worldview centered on the Bible. There are eleven substantive case study chapters that cover a wide swath of famous political leaders across multiple centuries and in several different national contexts within systems that diverge widely. In Pursuit of Moral Political Leadership sets the objective of investigating moral leadership knowing that every human being has their flaws and shortcomings yet pursues strong leadership for the betterm...

'One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today’ SALLY ROONEY, author of Normal People‘Remarkable, rare and truly brilliant’ MEGAN NOLAN, author of Acts of Desperation‘Dark, funny, honest and engrossing’ RODDY DOYLE, author of Love‘Refreshing and ambitious’ LISA MCINERNEY, author of The Rules of RevelationOn an island off Ireland’s west coast st...