Max Weber and Islam Max Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic-studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development. Eight specialists on Islam and two sociologists explore many dimensions of Weber's comments on Islam along with Weber's conceptual framework. The volume's introduction links the discussions to contemporary issues and debates. Wolfgang Schluchter reconstructs Weber's conceptual apparatus as it applies to Islam and its historical development. In subsequent chapters Islamic specialists consider such major topics as the developmental history of Islam Islamic fundamentalism Islamic reform Islamic law and capitalism secularization in Islam as well as the value of attempting to apply Weber's concept of sects to Islam. While some authors find flaws in Weber's factual knowledge of Islam they also find considerable merit in the kinds of questions Weber raised. Contributors to the volume include highly respected contemporary international scholars of Islam: Ira Lapidus Nehemia Levtzion Richard M. Eaton Peter Hardy Rudolph Peters Barbara Metcalf Francis Robinson Patricia Crone Michael Cook and S. N. Eisenstadt. Toby Huff's introduction not only knits the thematics of the separate essays together but adds its own stresses while engaging the contributors in dialogue and debate about fundamental issues. This acute collective analysis establishes a new benchmark for understanding Weber and Islam. This book also provides an up-to-date overview of the developmental history of many aspects of Islam. A major reappraisal of the entire span of Max Weber's sociological thought on Islam this book will appeal to a wide range of scholars and laymen interested in the Islamic world. It will be of particular interest to sociologists specializing in religion and Middle East area specialists. GBP 51.99 1
Revival: Forty Years of Diplomacy (1922) Volume II Baron Rosen recounts his experiences as a diplomat. | Revival: Forty Years of Diplomacy (1922) Volume II GBP 56.99 1
Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader Volume II Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader Volume II provides an overview of developments in the study of ethnomusicology in the twenty-first century offering an introduction to contemporary issues relevant to the field. Nineteen essays written by an international array of scholars highlight the relationship between current issues in the discipline and ethnomusicologists’ engagement with issues such as advocacy poverty and social participation maintaining intangible cultural heritages and ecological concerns. It provides a forum for rethinking the discipline’s identity in terms of major themes and issues to which ethnomusicologists have turned their attention since Volume I published in 2005. The collection of essays is organized into six sections: Property and Rights Applied Practice Knowledge and Agency Community and Social Space Embodiment and Cognition Curating Sound Volume II serves as a basic introduction to the best writing in the field for students professors and music professionals perfect for both introductory and upper level courses in world music. Together with the first volume Ethnomusicology: A Contemporary Reader Volume II provides a comprehensive survey of current research directions. GBP 56.99 1
Doing News Framing Analysis II Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives This volume presents original ‘big picture’ perspectives on news framing. Each chapter in this volume will feature an individual or team of framing analysts who take a reflective look at their own empirical work. The editors' goals are to identify the influences that determine the use of different theoretical and methodological approaches and to provide interpretive guides to news framing scholars regarding what news frames are how they can be observed in news texts and how framing effects are uncovered and substantiated in cultural group and individual sites. Doing News Framing Analysis II will continue the work of its predecessor by giving talented framing scholars the space to write about their work and bring readers closer to the framing research project. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com. | Doing News Framing Analysis II Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives GBP 46.99 1
The Official History of Privatisation Vol. II Popular Capitalism 1987-97 This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997. Volume II considers in detail several of the major privatisations including those of airports steel water electricity coal and the railways as well as a number of smaller ones. Each privatisation involved major challenges in terms of industrial restructuring organising successful sales and in a number of cases establishing effective regulatory regimes. The policy evolved and new methods of selling and regulating were put in place that enabled further disposals to occur. Monolithic nationalised industries with their emphasis on the benefits of economies of scale vertical integration and rationalisation were replaced by industrial structures rooted in the importance of commercial management risk taking and competition. In government departments and parts of the National Health Service direct employees were replaced by private contractors and private investment became a characteristic of public infrastructure in the form of PFI/PPP schemes. This study draws heavily on the official records of the British government to which the author was given full access and on interviews with the leading figures involved in each of the privatisations including ex-ministers civil servants business and City figures as well as academics that have studied the subject. This book will of great interest to students of privatisation British political history and of business and economics in general. | The Official History of Privatisation Vol. II Popular Capitalism 1987-97 GBP 46.99 1
The European Union as a Global Regulator? The European Union is often depicted as a dominant global regulator. The purpose of this volume is to move beyond establishing that the EU influences global regulation towards an emphasis on the conditions with which it exerts that influence. Toward that end it focuses on the EU's active efforts both bilateral and multilateral to shape regulations beyond its borders. The empirical chapters in this volume are explicitly comparative among foreign partners across international contexts over time and across issues. The more conceptual contributions posit an explanation for the EU’s choice of regulatory cooperation strategy and take stock of Market Power Europe as a dynamic conceptual framework for understanding and researching the EU as a power. Collectively this volume advances three arguments: the utility of the EU’s regulatory power resources is context-specific; debates about what kinds of power projection the EU has been found to be at least as currently conceived unproductive; and that the EU’s engagement in the world is better explained through general theories of international political economy. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy. | The European Union as a Global Regulator? GBP 46.99 1
A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor Volume II First published in 1805 this work summarises the vast array of laws at the time on the relief of the poor in Great Britain. Split across two volumes it not only condenses the laws themselves but also disentangles the theory and doctrine of each law and explains how the theory should have been applied in practice. This work will be a valuable primary source for those studying 19th poor relief and welfare. | A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor Volume II GBP 48.99 1
The American Culture of War The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom Now in its third edition The American Culture of War presents a sweeping critical examination of every major American war since 1941: World War II Korea Vietnam the First and Second Persian Gulf Wars U. S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war against ISIS. As he carefully considers the cultural forces that surrounded each military engagement Adrian Lewis offers an original and provocative look at the motives people and governments used to wage war the discord among military personnel the flawed political policies that guided military strategy and the civilian perceptions that characterized each conflict. This third edition features: A new structure focused more exclusively on the character and conduct of the wars themselves Updates to account for the latest evolving scholarship on these conflicts An updated account of American military involvement in the Middle East including the abrupt rise of ISIS The new edition of The American Culture of War remains a comprehensive and essential resource for any student of American wartime conduct. | The American Culture of War The History of U. S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom GBP 56.99 1
The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume II: Genres and Contexts For an entire millennium Byzantine hagiography inspired by the veneration of many saints exhibited literary dynamism and a capacity to vary its basic forms. The subgenres into which it branched out after its remarkable start in the fourth century underwent alternating phases of development and decline that were intertwined with changes in the political social and literary spheres. The selection of saintly heroes an interest in depicting social landscapes and the modulation of linguistic and stylistic registers captured the voice of homo byzantinus down to the end of the empire in the fifteenth century. The seventeen chapters in this companion form the sequel to those in volume I which dealt with the periods and regions of Byzantine hagiography and complete the first comprehensive survey ever produced in this field. The book is the work of an international group of experts in the field and is addressed to both a broader public and the scholarly community of Byzantinists medievalists historians of religion and theorists of narrative. It highlights the literary dimension and the research potential of a representative number of texts not only those appreciated by the Byzantines themselves but those which modern readers rank high due to their literary quality or historical relevance. | The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography Volume II: Genres and Contexts GBP 48.99 1
Symbolic Distance In Relation to Analogy and Fiction First Published in 1932 Symbolic Distance presents the grammatical account of the structure of symbols and the description of the field within which fictions arise. The author argues that it seems improbable that distance should become an exact technical term in art criticism as long as the divorce between works of art and symbols is maintained. The book discusses important themes such as the analysis of fictions genesis of fictions and reduction of fictions. This is an interesting read for students of English literature. | Symbolic Distance In Relation to Analogy and Fiction GBP 85.00 1
Routledge Revivals: The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray Volume II (1994) A Supplement to Gordon N. Ray The Lette First published in 1994 these two volumes are intended as a supplement to the four-volume edition edited by Gordon N. Ray in 1945-46. In writing to his broad range of correspondents Thackeray produced a varied body of letters that will help readers to better understand his nineteenth-century society as well as his professional and private life — especially his relationships with women. These volumes contain 1713 letters: 1464 to and from Thackeray that were not included in the earlier volumes and 249 with texts that have been edited from newly available manuscripts and that thereby replace texts that were printed in Ray from incomplete sources. | Routledge Revivals: The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray Volume II (1994) A Supplement to Gordon N. Ray The Lette GBP 52.99 1
Mozart's Piano Concertos Mozart's piano concertos stand alongside his operas and symphonies as his most frequently performed and best loved music. They have attracted the attention of generations of musicologists who have explored their manifold meanings from a variety of viewpoints. In this study John Irving brings together the various strands of scholarship surrounding Mozart's concertos including analytical approaches aspects of performance practice and issues of compositional genesis based on investigation of manuscript and early printed editions. Treating the concertos collectively as a repertoire rather than as individual works the first section of the book tackles broad thematic issues such as the role of the piano concerto in Mozart's quasi-freelance life in late eighteenth-century Vienna the origin of his concertos in earlier traditions of concerto writing; eighteenth-century theoretical frameworks for the understanding of movement forms subsequent historical shifts in the perception of the concerto's form listening strategies and performance practices. This is followed by a 'documentary register' which proceeds through all 23 original works drawing together information on the source materials. Accounts of the concertos' compositional genesis early performance history and reception are also included here drawing extensively on the Mozart family correspondence and other contemporary reports. Drawing together and synthesizing this wealth of material Irving provides an invaluable reference source for those already familiar with this repertoire. GBP 48.99 1
Sociological Analysis Originally published in 1972 this book is an important introduction to the analytical aspects of sociology. It analyses the various strands in 20th Century sociological thought illustrating the richness as much as the poverty of any particular approach. It explores and compares the work of Weber and Pareto on sociological analysis stressing the vital significance of their contributions to sociological knowledge. It looks at the stimulating implications of Karl Mannheim’s thought on the sociology of knowledge and finds in Mannheim the beginnings of most of the contemporary trends in sociology. It covers the fundamental assumptions of Parsonian thought and analyses the derivative character of the ideas of Robert Merton and Reinhard Bendix along with Dahrendorf’s notions on a re-orientation of sociology. GBP 80.00 1
Sport and Exercise Physiology Testing Guidelines: Volume II - Exercise and Clinical Testing The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sc Since its first published edition more than 30 years ago the BASES (British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences) Physiological Testing Guidelines have represented the leading knowledge base of current testing methodology for sport and exercise scientists. Sport and exercise physiologists conduct physiological assessments that have proven validity and reliability both in laboratory and sport-specific contexts. A wide variety of test protocols have been developed adapted and refined to support athletes of all abilities reach their full potential. This book is a comprehensive guide to these protocols and to the key issues relating to physiological testing. With contributions from leading specialist sport physiologists and covering a wide range of mainstream sports in terms of ethical practical and methodological issues this volume represents an essential resource for sport-specific exercise testing in both research and applied settings. This new edition draws on the authors’ experience of supporting athletes from many sports through several Olympic cycles to achieve world leading performances. While drawing on previous editions it is presented in a revised format matching the sport groupings used in elite sport support within the UK sport institutes. Building on the underpinning general procedures these specific chapters are supported by appropriate up-to-date case studies in the supporting web resources. | Sport and Exercise Physiology Testing Guidelines: Volume II - Exercise and Clinical Testing The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sc GBP 48.99 1
Social Theory The Multicultural Global and Classic Readings Social Theory is more than a reader. Feminists race theorists decolonizing leaders and others are thoughtfully introduced by Charles Lemert’s substantial commentaries. Social Theory has always sought to keep up with the new while respecting the old—from Durkheim and Weber to Latinx and LGBTQ pioneers. When the book first appeared it was as it remains a collection of selections from those who have changed how we think about social things. Today as the world is threatened by a global wave of anti-democratic movements Social Theory adds a new early section to remind us of the origins of democratic values in the 1700s. A new concluding section focuses the theoretical mind on how in the 2020s social theorists are rethinking the world in order to better understand and resist the menace of anti-democratic movements. | Social Theory The Multicultural Global and Classic Readings GBP 66.99 1
Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments Public Relations and Social Theory: Key Figures Concepts and Developments broadens the theoretical scope of public relations studies by applying the work of a group of prominent social theorists to make sense of the practice. The volume focuses on the work of key social theorists including Max Weber Karl Marx John Dewey Jürgen Habermas Niklas Luhmann Michel Foucault Ulrich Beck Pierre Bourdieu Anthony Giddens Robert Putnam Erving Goffman Peter L. Berger Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Bruno Latour Dorothy Smith Zygmunt Bauman Harrison White John W. Meyer Luc Boltanski and Chantal Mouffe. Each chapter is devoted to an individual theorist providing an overview of that theorist’s key concepts and contributions and exploring how these can be applied to public relations as a practice. Each chapter also includes a box giving a short and concise presentation of the theorist along with recommendation of key works and secondary literature. | Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments GBP 51.99 1
Analog Synthesizers: Understanding Performing Buying From the Legacy of Moog to Software Synthesis Making its first huge impact in the 1960s through the inventions of Bob Moog the analog synthesizer sound riding a wave of later developments in digital and software synthesis has now become more popular than ever. Analog Synthesizers charts the technology instruments designers and musicians associated with its three major historical phases: invention in the 1960s–1970s and the music of Walter Carlos Pink Floyd Gary Numan Genesis Kraftwerk The Human League Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre; re-birth in the 1980s–1990s through techno and dance music and jazz fusion; and software synthesis. Now updated this new edition also includes sections on the explosion from 2000 to the present day in affordable mass market Eurorack format and other analog instruments which has helped make the analog synthesizer sound hugely popular once again particularly in the fields of TV and movie music. Major artists interviewed in depth include: Hans Zimmer (Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee and winner Gladiator and The Lion King) Mike Oldfield (Grammy Award winner Tubular Bells) Isao Tomita (Grammy Award nominee Snowflakes Are Dancing) Rick Wakeman (Grammy Award nominee Yes) Tony Banks (Grammy Ivor Novello and Brit Awards Genesis) Nick Rhodes (Grammy Award Winner Duran Duran) and from the worlds of TV and movie music: Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein (Primetime Emmy Award Stranger Things) Paul Haslinger (BMI Film and TV Music Awards Underworld) Suzanne Ciani (Grammy Award Nominee Neverland) Adam Lastiwka (Travelers) The book opens with a grounding in the physics of sound instrument layout sound creation purchasing and instrument repair which will help entry level musicians as well as seasoned professionals appreciate and master the secrets of analog sound synthesis. Analog Synthesizers has a companion website featuring hundreds of examples of analog sound created using dozens of classic and modern instruments. | Analog Synthesizers: Understanding Performing Buying From the Legacy of Moog to Software Synthesis GBP 44.99 1
Cultural Capital and Creative Communication (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives Inspired by Bourdieu’s thought this book explores the notion of cultural capital offering insights into its various definitions its evolution and the critical theories that engage with it. Designed for use by students and teachers it addresses the limitations and expansion of Bourdieu's theory of capital and power considering the relationship between cultural social and human capital the distinctions between capital and capitalism and the conflicts that exist among theories that have emerged in response to – or can be brought to bear on – Bourdieu’s work. Engaging with the thought of Max Weber Fernand Braudel Daniel Bell Herbert Marcuse Jean Baudrillard Theodore Adorno Max Horkheimer and Gilles Lipovetsky Cultural Capital and Creative Communication represents the first book to develop a field of research and study that is devoted to cultural capital. Richly illustrated with empirical examples and offering assessment exercises it will appeal not only to scholars and students of sociology philosophy and social theory but also to corporate communities who seek to develop training modules on the increase of their cultural capital. | Cultural Capital and Creative Communication (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives GBP 44.99 1
The Malmariée in the Thirteenth-Century Motet This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmariée or the unhappily married woman within the thirteenth-century motet repertory a vocal genre characterized by several different texts sounding simultaneously over a foundational Latin chant. Part I examines the malmariée motets from three vantage points: (1) in light of contemporaneous canonist views on marriage; (2) to what degree the French malmariée texts in the upper voices treat the messages inherent in the underlying Latin chant through parody and/or allegory; and (3) interactions among upper-voice texts that invite additional interpretations focused on gender issues. Part II investigates the transmission profile of the motets as well as of their refrains revealing not only intertextual refrain usage between the motets and other genres but also a significant number of shared refrains between malmariée motets and other motets. Part II furthermore offers insights on the chronology of composition within a given intertextual refrain nexus and examines how a refrain’s meaning can change in a new context. Finally based on the transmission profile Part II argues for a lively interest in the topos in the 1270s and 1280s both through composition of new motets and compilation of earlier ones with Paris and Arras playing a prominent role. | The Malmariée in the Thirteenth-Century Motet GBP 44.99 1
The Routledge Introductory Course in Moroccan Arabic An Introductory Course The Routledge Introductory Course in Moroccan Arabic is ideal for both class-based and independent learners. No prior knowledge of Arabic is required as the course guides you step-by-step through the essentials of the language. Transliteration is used throughout to provide learners with an accurate representation of this spoken language while Arabic script is provided from Part II for those who have prior knowledge of Arabic. Part I introduces the phonology of Moroccan allowing you to recognise and pronounce the sounds unique to Moroccan. The basic grammar of Moroccan is also presented here ensuring students have a solid foundation on which to build their communicative skills. Part II is arranged thematically and equips you with the vocabulary and cultural information needed to communicate effectively in Morocco in a range of common situations. By the end of the course learners will have reached the CEFR A2 level/ACTFL Intermediate-Mid. | The Routledge Introductory Course in Moroccan Arabic An Introductory Course GBP 46.99 1
Revival: Oriental Memories of a German Diplomatist (1930) His Excellency Dr. Friedrich Rosen the well known German Diplomatist and Orientalist has written a fascinating account of his manifold experiences in the Near East including Palestine Syria Persia and Mesopotamia during a period of forty years. Many politically important or otherwise interesting mean and women such as Ex-Emperor William II Prince Bulow Baron von Holstein Sir Frank Lascelles Sir Valentine Chirol Lord Curzon and Miss Gertrude Bell are spoken of in this volume. | Revival: Oriental Memories of a German Diplomatist (1930) GBP 48.99 1
How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action Theories of explanation in the social sciences vacillate between holism and individualism. Wettersten contends that this has been a consequence of theories of rationality which assume that rationality requires coherent theories to be shown to be true. Rejecting these traditional assumptions about rationality Wettersten claims that the traditional explanations of rationality have placed unrealistic demands on both individuals and institutions. Analysing the theories of Weber and Popper Wettersten shows that Popper made considerable progress in the theory of rationality but ultimately stayed too close to the ideas of Hayek he explains how this dilemma leads to difficulties in economics anthropology sociology ethics and political theory and constructs an alternative theory that rationality is critical problem-solving in institutional contexts. Wettersten contends that 'the critical consideration of theories followed by their improvement' dispenses with the need for justification and sees rationality as a social phenomena with an institutional basis. The main social advantages this view offers is that the degree of rationality individuals achieve may be increased by institutional reform without moralizing and that we can explain how institutions steer events insofar as we understand how they determine the problems which individuals seek to solve. It is argued that the central moral advantage of this view is that rationality is shown to be Spinozistic in the sense that it is natural and furthers morality and peace of mind. | How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action GBP 48.99 1
Skateboarding Subcultures Sites and Shifts This book explores the cultural social spatial and political dynamics of skateboarding drawing on contributions from leading international experts across a range of disciplines such as sociology and philosophy of sport architecture anthropology ecology cultural studies sociology geography and other fields. Part I critiques the ethos of skateboarding its cultures and scenes global trajectory and the meanings it holds. Part II critically examines skateboarding in terms of space and sites and Part III explores shifts that have occurred in skateboarding’s history around mainstreaming commercialization professionalization neoliberalization and creative cities. | Skateboarding Subcultures Sites and Shifts GBP 46.99 1
The Routledge History of Italian Americans The Routledge History of Italian Americans weaves a narrative of the trials and triumphs of one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups. This history comprising original essays by leading scholars and critics addresses themes that include the Columbian legacy immigration the labor movement discrimination anarchism Fascism World War II patriotism assimilation gender identity and popular culture. This landmark volume offers a clear and accessible overview of work in the growing academic field of Italian American Studies. Rich illustrations bring the story to life drawing out the aspects of Italian American history and culture that make this ethnic group essential to the American experience. GBP 44.99 1
Art and Liberation Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse Volume 4 The role of art in Marcuse’s work has often been neglected misinterpreted or underplayed. His critics accused him of a religion of art and aesthetics that leads to an escape from politics and society. Yet as this volume demonstrates Marcuse analyzes culture and art in the context of how it produces forces of domination and resistance in society and his writings on culture and art generate the possibility of liberation and radical social transformation. The material in this volume is a rich collection of many of Marcuse’s published and unpublished writings interviews and talks including ‘Lyric Poetry after Auschwitz’ reflections on Proust and Letters on Surrealism; a poem by Samuel Beckett for Marcuse’s eightieth birthday with exchange of letters; and many articles that explore the role of art in society and how it provides possibilities for liberation. This volume will be of interest to those new to Marcuse generally acknowledged as a major figure in the intellectual and social milieus of the 1960s and 1970s as well as to the specialist giving access to a wealth of material from the Marcuse Archive in Frankfurt and his private collection in San Diego some of it published here in English for the first time. A comprehensive introduction by Douglas Kellner reflects on the genesis development and tensions within Marcuse’s aesthetic while an afterword by Gerhard Schweppenhäuser summarizes their relevance for the contemporary era. | Art and Liberation Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse Volume 4 GBP 44.99 1