Examines the way this artform developed from the bawdy cartoons of 17th century England into a modern publishing...

This collection of essays explores the relation between literature and madness from the Medieval through to the Modern...

The richness of Vietnam`s culture is evident in the architecture of its historic temples and pagodas, the...

Explores and catalogues our impulse to collect the incidental miscellanea of the past. Part observation, part...

This book seeks to illuminate what we call the cultural lives of cause lawyers by examining their representation in...

With the transition to a market economy, numbers of single parent families in Russia are placed under an intensified...

This volume charts the changing aspects of gender in Russia's cultural and social history from the late 17th century to...

In an era in which explorers can use cell phones to call from the peaks of the Himalayas, Irian Jaya and Papua New...

This revised edition of a well-known and widely used text in community organizing and development fully examines the...

Explores cultural influences in relation to concerns of ergonomics and human factors. These include...

Moscow has undergone vast and radical transformations which have turned it into an extraordinary urban laboratory. This...