The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path Louis R. Pondy was a leading management and organizational studies scholar whose work on open systems helped launch and define the future of the field. This book offers an assessment of Pondy’s contribution through critical reflection on what happened to the relationship between conflict theory and “beyond open systems. ” Exploring the ways in which Louis R. Pondy theorizes conflict and systems and how he challenged the status quo paradigms this book offers a historical analysis on Pondy’s work and the relation to contemporary management theory. The author develops a Triple Loop framework building on Pondy’s theories as well as the work of Gregory Batesom to demonstrate a beyond-open-systems approach and existing single- or double-loop systems. Demonstrating the value and legacy of Louis R. Pondy this book will have international appeal to researchers academics and students across management disciplines and organizational studies including systems thinking and conflict resolution. | The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path GBP 130.00 1
Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet Exploration Encounter and the French New World In this succinct dual biography Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers – Jacques Marquette a Jesuit missionary and Louis Jolliet a fur trapper – reveal the diverse world of early America. Following the explorers' epic journey through the center of the American continent Marquette and Jolliet combines a story of discovery and encounter with the insights derived from recent historical scholarship. The story provides perspective on the different methods and goals of colonization and the role of Native Americans as active participants in this complex and uneven process. | Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet Exploration Encounter and the French New World GBP 35.99 1
Rome and the Legacy of Louis I. Kahn Louis I. Kahn was one of the most influential architects thinkers and teachers of his time. This book examines the important relationship between his work and the city of Rome whose ancient ruins inspired in him a new design methodology. Structured into two main parts the first includes personal essays and contributions from the architect’s children writers and other designers on the experience and impact of his work. The second part takes a detailed look at Kahn’s residency in Rome its effects on his thinking and how his influence spread throughout Italy. It analyses themes directly linked to his architecture through interviews with teachers and designers such as Franco Purini Paolo Portoghesi Giorgio Ciucci Lucio Valerio Barbera and the architects of the Rome Group of Architects and City Planners (GRAU). Rome and the Legacy of Louis I. Kahn expands the current discourse on this celebrated twentieth-century architect ideal for students and researchers interested in Kahn’s work architectural history theory and criticism. GBP 38.99 1
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text A Case Study in the Victorian Illustrated Novel Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text explores the genesis production and the critical appreciation of the illustrations to the fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson is one of the most copied and interpreted authors of the late nineteenth century especially his novels Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. These interpretations began with the illustration of his texts in their early editions often with Stevenson’s express consent and this book traces Stevenson’s understanding and critical responses to the artists employed to illustrate his texts. In doing so it attempts to position Stevenson as an important thinker and writer on the subject of illustrated literature and on the marriage of literature and visual arts at a moment preceding the dawn of cinema and the rejection of such popular tropes by modernist writers of the early twentieth century. | Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text A Case Study in the Victorian Illustrated Novel GBP 39.99 1
Architectures of Transversality Paul Klee Louis Kahn and the Persian Imagination Architectures of Transversality investigates the relationship between modernity space power and culture in Iran. Focusing on Paul Klee’s Persian-inspired miniature series and Louis Kahn’s unbuilt blueprint for a democratic public space in Tehran it traces the architectonics of the present as a way of moving beyond universalist and nationalist accounts of modernism. Transversality is a form of spatial production and practice that addresses the three important questions of the self objects and power. Using Deleuzian and Heideggerian theory the book introduces the practices of Klee and Kahn as transversal spatial responses to the dialectical tension between existential and political territories and in doing so situates the history of the silent unrepresented and the unbuilt – constructed from the works of Klee and Kahn – as a possible solution to the crisis of modernity and identity-based politics in Iran. | Architectures of Transversality Paul Klee Louis Kahn and the Persian Imagination GBP 38.99 1
Louis I. Kahn—Architect Remembering the Man and Those Who Surrounded Him Few people in the history of art and architecture have planted a seed of inspiration that grew to become a towering oak of lasting influence. There are those particularly colleagues and students of Louis I. Kahn who would say that he was one of these people. Certainly Kahn was one of the foremost architects of the twentieth century designing such famous landmarks as the National Assembly Building in Dhaka Bangladesh; the Salk Institute in La Jolla California; and the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth Texas. In this commemorative volume Charles E. Dagit Jr. shows the power and influence that Kahn displayed at the University of Pennsylvania department of architecture in the 1960s. Since Dagit knew Kahn personally this is a factual history as well as a glimpse into Kahn's personal wisdom and humanity. Beginning with a prelude that starts with the author's undergraduate years at the University of Pennsylvania Dagit launches readers on an intellectual journey of how he first met Kahn. From there he details his experiences with Kahn and explores Kahn's interactions with Penn faculty members including Mario Romanach Robert LeRicolais and Aldo Giurgola. This first-hand account sheds fascinating new light on one of the most prominent architects of the twentieth century. | Louis I. Kahn—Architect Remembering the Man and Those Who Surrounded Him GBP 24.99 1
Corps and Clienteles Public Finance and Political Change in France 1688-1715 This title was first published in 2003. Few historians would deny that Louis XIV's France dominated the political cultural and military landscape of late seventeenth century Europe. Yet the financial foundations on which French hegemony were based remain open to question. Traditionally the regime has been viewed as the archetypal centralizing monarchy in which warfare was the main motor driving reform. Yet recent research has pointed to a more subtle interpretation in which power was negotiated and interests balanced between the crown and members of the elite. Corps and Clienteles offers a unique approach to this debate by focusing on the intersection between institutions and personal relationships in the financial strategies surrounding Louis XIV's final two wars. It argues that in appealing to the elite for financial support to wage war Louis in return stabilised many of the structures on which the elite stood entrenched elements of privilege throughout the political landscape and devolved power to provincial institutions. Especially with the participation of privileged corps as financial intermediaries the politics of war finance in the last twenty five years of Louis' reign profoundly influenced the direction in which absolutism developed through the remainder of the Old Regime. The book situates the period 1688 to 1715 as a crucial stage in the development of absolutism; tying the choices available to Louis XIV with the structures and institutions that he inherited from his predecessors while setting his approach apart. By also measuring the impact of financial negotiations between crown and corps on the later state it is argued that absolutism under Louis was neither ossified nor in crisis as the latter half of his reign is often described but rather dynamic and flexible as it sought to meet the financial costs of warfare. | Corps and Clienteles Public Finance and Political Change in France 1688-1715 GBP 31.99 1
Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France This is an in-depth study of the intellectual technical and artistic encounters between Europe and China in the late eighteenth century focusing on the purposeful acquisition of information and images that characterized a direct engagement with the idea of China. The central figure in this story is Henri-Léonard Bertin (1720–1792) who served as a minister of state under Louis XV and briefly Louis XVI. Both his official position and personal passion for all things Chinese placed him at the center of intersecting networks of like-minded individuals who shared his ideal vision of China as a nation from which France had much to learn. John Finlay examines a fascinating episode in the rich history of cross-cultural exchange between China and Europe in the early modern period and this book will be an important and timely contribution to a very current discussion about Sino-French cultural relations. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history visual culture European and Chinese history. | Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France GBP 39.99 1
Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral Royalty and Ritual in Thirteenth-Century France Though long recognized as one of the most beautiful works from the second half of the thirteenth century the magnificent sculptural program of the reverse façade at Reims Cathedral has received little in the way of scholarly attention. Interpreting the iconography in the light of Latin texts associated with the building its history and its ceremonial use Donna Sadler assesses the significance of the reverse façade in light of other thirteenth-century visual programs associated with the court of Louis IX. The book's chapters deal with the history of the cathedral and its architectural antecedents; the iconographic message of the visual program the meaning of the reverse fa§ade and how it intersects with the overall iconography; the function of the verso and how it is enhanced by the marriage of form and content; and a consideration of contemporary works linked to the court of Saint Louis concluding with a brief look at the new roles sculpture assumes as it migrates inside cathedrals. Ultimately this book reveals how the imagery on the reverse façade not only conforms to a system of memory and mode of medieval narratology but also articulates a dominant ideological position regarding the interdependence of ecclesiastical and royal powers. | Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral Royalty and Ritual in Thirteenth-Century France GBP 48.99 1
Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance Essays in Honor of Hyman P.Minsky This collection of papers on financial instability and its impact on macroeconomic performance honours Hyman P. Minsky and his lifelong work. It is based on a conference at Washington University St. Louis in 1990 and includes among the authors Benjamin M. Friedman Charles P. Kindleberger Jan Kregel and Steven Fazzari. These papers consider Minsky's definitive analysis that yields such a clear and disturbing sequence of financial events: booms government intervention to prevent debt contraction and new booms that cause a progressive buildup of new debt eventually leaving the economy much more fragile financially. | Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance Essays in Honor of Hyman P. Minsky GBP 42.99 1
The Story of Modern Preventive Medicine (Routledge Revivals) Being a Continuation of the Evolution of Preventive Medicine First published in 1929 this book is a continuation of Arthur Newsholme’s Evolution of Preventive Medicine published in 1927 which was concerned with the possibilities in progress of prevention of disease up to the middle of the nineteenth century. The current volume focuses on the modern period and looks at the work of Louis Pasteur in particular. It provides a complete overview of the subject of preventive medicine at the time and should be used as the basis for more detailed study. The book will be useful to those in medical circles as well as historians interested in medicine. | The Story of Modern Preventive Medicine (Routledge Revivals) Being a Continuation of the Evolution of Preventive Medicine GBP 34.99 1
The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals) The Origins of Romanticism First published in 1983. This book charts the growth of Romanticism from the initial reactions to the authoritarian classicism of Louis XIV through the ‘codification’ of the Sublime by Burke in the 1750s to the fascination with mystery fear and violence which dominated the writing of the late eighteenth century. The origins of the movement are found in the writings of Rousseau and admiration for the ‘noble savage’ the development of the landscape garden discoveries in the South Seas new approaches to ‘primitive’ poetry and enthusiasm for gothic art and literature. These attitudes are contrasted with the more classical views of writers like Samuel Johnson. | The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals) The Origins of Romanticism GBP 35.99 1
New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam contributes to the ongoing dialogue about the nature and influence of the Nation of Islam (NOI) bringing fresh insights to areas that have previously been overlooked in the scholarship of Elijah Muhammad’s NOI the Imam W. D. Mohammed community and Louis Farrakhan’s Resurrected NOI. Bringing together contributions that explore the formation practices and influence of the NOI this volume problematizes the history of the movement its theology and relationships with other religious movements. Contributors offer a range of diverse perspectives making connections between the ideology of the NOI and gender dietary restrictions and foodways the internationalization of the movement and the civil rights movement. This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current scholarship on the Nation of Islam and will be relevant to scholars of American religion and history Islamic studies and African American Studies. GBP 38.99 1
Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences Credos and Controversies Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences explores the assessment and measurement of nonphysical attributes that define human beings: abilities personalities attitudes dispositions and values. The proposition that human attributes are measurable remains controversial as do the ideas and innovations of the six historical figures—Gustav Fechner Francis Galton Alfred Binet Charles Spearman Louis Thurstone and S. S. Stevens—at the heart of this book. Across 10 rich elaborative chapters readers are introduced to the origins of educational and psychological scaling mental testing classical test theory factor analysis and diagnostic classification and to controversies spanning the quantity objection the role of measurement in promoting eugenics theories of intelligence the measurement of attitudes and beyond. Graduate students researchers and professionals in educational measurement and psychometrics will emerge with a deeper appreciation for both the challenges and the affordances of measurement in quantitative research. | Historical and Conceptual Foundations of Measurement in the Human Sciences Credos and Controversies GBP 56.99 1
Sports Media History Culture Technology Identity This research collection explores the ongoing interaction between sports media and society throughout important periods in history from the nineteenth century to the present day. It examines both historical moments and broader trends in sports with an emphasis on the media’s role. Encompassing a variety of research approaches and perspectives the book looks at the individuals mass media outlets and communication technologies that have affected societies on a global scale including print photography broadcast (radio and television) Internet-based media and public relations/marketing. It presents fascinating new case studies covering topics as diverse as sports journalism and the Third Reich Argentina at the Mexico World Cup post-9/11 sports reporting Martina Navratilova and women’s tennis the growth of fantasy sport and the significance of Joe Louis and Jackie Robinson in the history of US sports reporting. This is essential reading for any researcher student or media professional with an interest in the relationships between sports culture and society or in the history of media culture or technology. | Sports Media History Culture Technology Identity GBP 38.99 1
Feminine Law Freud Free Speech and the Voice of Desire Feminine Law: Freud Free Speech and the Voice of Desire explores the conjunction between psychoanalysis and democracy in particular their shared commitments to free speech. In the process it demonstrates how lawful constraints enable an embodied space or gap for the potentially disruptive but also liberating and novel flow of desire and its symbols. This space intuited by the First Amendment as it is by Freud's free association enables personal and collective sovereignty. By naming a feminine law we mark the primacy a space between the conceivable and the inconceivable between knowledge and mystery. What do political free speech and psychoanalytic free association have in common besides the word free? And what do Sigmund Freud and Justice Louis Brandeis share besides a world between two great wars? How is the female body a neglected key to understanding the conditions and contradictions of free discourse? Drs. Jill Gentile and Michael Macrone take up these questions and more in their wide-ranging often passionate exploration of the hidden legacy of Freud and the Founding Fathers. | Feminine Law Freud Free Speech and the Voice of Desire GBP 130.00 1
Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe Comparisons of National Surveys Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe is the first book to compare the major population surveys on sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS carried out in Europe in recent years. Leading European researchers explore the differences and similarities between European countries in patterns of sexual behaviour and responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As well as providing an empirical and methodological base for future research the comparative analyses lead researchers policy makers health-educators and the media to new insights and a deeper understanding of issues that are of central concern in many countries. The chapters include discussion of data on sexual initiation homosexual and bisexual behaviour sexual practices sexual partners risk behaviour STDs preventive practices the normative context knowledge of HIV/AIDS and attitudes towards people with HIV/AIDS. The book results from a major European Concerted Action funded by the European Union Biomedical and Health Research programme (BIOMED) and coordinated by the Centre d'Etudes Sociologiques of the Facultes Universitaires Saint-Louis Brussels Belgium. It follows Sexual Interactions and HIV Risk published in 1997. | Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe Comparisons of National Surveys GBP 115.00 1
Stuart Hall Lives: Cultural Studies in an Age of Digital Media The work of cultural and political theorist Stuart Hall a pioneer of Cultural Studies who passed away in 2014 remains more relevant than ever. In Stuart Hall Lives scholars engage with Hall’s most enduring essays including Encoding/Decoding and Notes on Deconstructing the Popular bringing them into the context of the 21st century. Different chapters consider resistant media consumers online journalism debates around the American Confederate flag and rainbow flags the #OscarsSoWhite controversy and contemporary moral panics. The book also includes Hall’s important essay on French theorist Louis Althusser which is introduced here by Lawrence Grossberg and Jennifer Slack. Finally two reminiscences by one of Hall’s former colleagues and one of his former students offer wide-ranging reflections on his years as director of Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham UK and as head of the Department of Sociology at The Open University. Together the contributions paint a picture of a brilliant theorist whose work and legacy is as vital as ever. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication. | Stuart Hall Lives: Cultural Studies in an Age of Digital Media GBP 39.99 1
The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq presents a thorough overview and analysis of Jacques Lecoq's life work and philosophy of theatre. Through an exemplary collection of specially commissioned chapters from leading writers specialists and practitioners it draws together writings and reflections on his pedagogy his practice and his influence on the wider theatrical environment. It is a comprehensive guide to the work and legacy of one of the major figures of Western theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. In a four-part structure over fifty chapters the book examines: The historical artistic and social context out of which Lecoq's work and pedagogy arose and its relation to such figures as Jacques Copeau Antonin Artaud Jean-Louis Barrault and Dario Fo. Core themes of Lecoq's International School of Theatre such as movement play improvisation masks language comedy and tragedy investigated by former teachers and graduates of the School. The significance and value of his pedagogical approaches in the context of contemporary theatre practices. The diaspora of performance practice from the School from the perspective of many of the most prominent artists themselves. This is an important and authoritative guide for anyone interested in Lecoq's work. GBP 46.99 1
Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe Comparisons of National Surveys Originally published in 1998 Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe is detailed study comparing the major population surveys on sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS carried out in Europe at the time of publication. Leading European researchers explore the differences and similarities between European countries in patterns of sexual behaviour and responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As well as providing an empirical and methodological base for future research the comparative analyses lead researchers policy makers health-educators and the media to new insights and a deeper understanding of issues that are of central concern in many countries. The chapters include discussion of data on sexual initiation homosexual and bisexual behaviour sexual practices sexual partners risk behaviour STDs preventive practices the normative context knowledge of HIV/AIDS and attitudes towards people with HIV/AIDS. The book results from a major European Concerted Action funded by the European Union Biomedical and Health Research programme (BIOMED) and coordinated by the Centre d'Etudes Sociologiques of the Facultes Universitaires Saint-Louis Brussels Belgium. It follows Sexual Interactions and HIV Risk published in 1997. | Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe Comparisons of National Surveys GBP 29.99 1
Constructing Building Enclosures Architectural History Technology and Poetics in the Postwar Era Constructing Building Enclosures investigates and interrogates tensions that arose between the disciplines of architecture and engineering as they wrestled with technology and building cultures that evolved to deliver structures in the modern era. At the center of this history are inventive architects engineers and projects that did not settle for conventional solutions technologies and methods. Comprised of thirteen original essays by interdisciplinary scholars this collection offers a critical look at the development and the purpose of building technology within a design framework. Through two distinct sections the contributions first challenge notions of the boundaries between architecture engineering and construction. The authors then investigate twentieth-century building projects exploring technological and aesthetic boundaries of postwar modernism and uncovering lessons relevant to enclosure design that are typically overlooked. Projects include Louis Kahn’s Weiss House Minoru Yamasaki’s Science Center Sigurd Lewerentz’s Chapel of Hope and more. An important read for students educators and researchers within architectural history construction history building technology and design this volume sets out to disrupt common assumptions of how we understand this history. | Constructing Building Enclosures Architectural History Technology and Poetics in the Postwar Era GBP 36.99 1
The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969 Utterly Resigned Terror For the past 30 years the so-called 'Troubles' thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland leading to the charge that the crudity of this popular genre appropriately reflects the social degradation of the North. Aaron Kelly challenges both these judgments showing that the historical questions raised by setting a thriller in Northern Ireland disrupt the conventions of the crime novel and allow for a new understanding of both the genre and the country. Two essays on crime fiction by Walter Benjamin and Berthold Brecht appear here for the first time in English translation. By demonstrating the relevance of these theorists as well as other key European thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci Louis Althusser and Slavoj Zizek to his interdisciplinary study of Irish culture and the crime novel Kelly refutes the idea that Northern Ireland is a stagnate anomaly that has been bypassed by European history and remained impervious to cultural transformation. On the contrary Kelly's examination of authors such as Jack Higgins Tom Clancy Gerald Seymour Colin Bateman and Eoin McNamee shows that profound historical change and complexity have characterized both Northern Ireland and the thriller form. | The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969 Utterly Resigned Terror GBP 44.99 1
Music in a New Found Land Themes and Developments in the History of American Music The subject of this book is accurately defined by its subtitle. Music in a New Found Land does not pretend to be a comprehensive history of American music. Nor does Mellers strive to catalog what he considers to be authentic American music. Instead he deals in some detail with comparatively few composers most of whom have wellestablished reputations. It has always been difficult to separate American music from its immediate relevance to the twentieth century. Mellers' theme involves the relationship between art music jazz and pop music; he sees the segregation of these genres as both illogical and artifi cial. If the pop music of Tin Pan Alley may be anti-art it has also produced Gershwin Ellington and composing improvisers such as Louis Armstrong Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. The study of American music is as relevant into any inquiry into a national culture as the study of American literature and painting. This book contains a large number of quotations from American writers because Mellers thought American sensibility should parallel reinforce and comment on American music. In sum this is the closest available one-volume history of American music and a window into American culture. | Music in a New Found Land Themes and Developments in the History of American Music GBP 130.00 1
Delicious Decadence – The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such scholars will welcome this collection of essays by internationally recognised experts that gathers together for the first time varied and stimulating perspectives on the nineteenth-century collector and art market for French eighteenth-century art and ultimately the formation of collections that form part of such august institutions as the Louvre and the National Gallery in London. The book is the culmination of a successful conference organised jointly between the Wallace Collection and the Louvre on the occasion of the acclaimed exhibition Masterpieces from the Louvre: The Collection of Louis La Caze. Exploring themes relating to collectors critics markets and museums from France England and Germany the volume will appeal to academics and students alike and become essential reading on any course that deals with the history of collecting the history of taste and the nineteenth-century craze for the perceived douceur de vivre of eighteenth-century France. It also provides valuable insight into the history of the art markets and the formation of museums. | Delicious Decadence – The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century GBP 38.99 1
The French Revolution 1787-1804 Now in its fourth edition P. M. Jones’ The French Revolution has been extensively revised and incorporates the most recent research on race religion gender and citizens’ rights. It also covers in detail the colonial repercussions of the revolution in both the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. Written with the needs of students in mind this volume recounts the dramatic years from 1787 to 1804 when the ancien régime was replaced by a constitutional monarchy and then a republic. Jones covers the difficulties facing King Louis XVI in the run up to the attack on the Bastille and explains how the Revolution led to the creation of the First French Empire by France’s most successful General – Napoleon Bonaparte. Wherever possible the actions and reactions of ordinary men and women who found themselves caught up in the turmoil are recorded. By analysing the revolution’s significance for both Europe and the world beyond the concluding section sets the revolution in a global context. With study aids such as a chronology who’s who glossary and an enlarged selection of documents to allow for research and discussion this book remains a useful tool for students interested in politics culture and society during the French Revolution. | The French Revolution 1787-1804 GBP 35.99 1