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When conflict, competing identities, and segregation collide; Identity, Segregation and Peace-building in Northern Ireland explores the implications for peace-building in Northern Ireland, and across the globe.

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Immigration and Ethnic Conflict reviews the experience of post-industrial countries that have experienced large-scale movements of population since the Second World War, creating ethnically diverse multicultural societies in a context of rapid economic, technological and social change.

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Civil society as a concept is discussed in the political arena. But what does it mean in practice and how does it relate to more familiar ideas like voluntary action This book explores the connections between the two and provides a range of examples of situations.

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This book highlights some of the ways in which people differ from each other psychologically and is aimed primarily at students of 'A' level and first degree level psychology.

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Medics learned quickly to ignore standing operating procedures in order to save lives but tensions within infantry units created a paradoxical culture of isolation and acceptance. This groundbreaking work examines training and combat experiences of soldiers working in Battalion Aid Stations and those who went as aid men to the line companies.

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A non-mathematical introduction to the macroeconomic analysis of both the open economy and the world economy. The text assumes a basic understanding of macroeconomics and is of interest to policy-makers and second year undergraduates.

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This book is designed to offer an introduction for teachers, students and interested general readers to both recent theoretical and critical work in media analysis and to outline how to analyse media institutions. It includes helpful suggestions for teaching practice and proposals for the construction of an alternative pedagogy.

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The digital broadcasting of performances to cinemas, or 'livecasting', burst onto the world scene in 2006. This book explores the reasons for its rise, examines the aesthetics of filming theatre and opera performances, and explores who the audiences are and what they want.

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In this case study approach to engineering management, some relevant theory is provided, with an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses for application.

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An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order.

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The news media has become a key arena for staging environmental conflicts. Through a range of illuminating examples ranging from climate change to oil spills, Media, Environment and the Network Society provides a timely and far-reaching analysis of the media politics of contemporary environmental debates.

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This book critically examines the socio-cultural role of achievement within education, arguing that the increasingly global demand for measurable standards of academic achievement is an expression of political ideology and the aggressive competitive reality of a neo-capitalist schooling system, resulting in many students feeling socially worthless.

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Using innovative empirical data, this book presents a unique approach to looking at moments, exploring the deeper meanings of why memories stand out and how they influence an individual's sense of self. Forrest challenges the privileged position of narrative coherence as the basis for healthy identity and formations of selfhood.

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The epidemic of scandals unleashed by the Savile Scandal highlights the precarious status of relations of trust. The rapid escalation of this crisis offers insights into the relationship between anxieties about childhood and the wider moral order. This book explains why western society has become so uncomfortable with the exercise of authority.

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This new study of Napoleon emphasizes his ties to the French Revolution, his embodiment of its militancy, and his rescue of its legacies. Jordan's work illuminates all aspects of his fabulous career, his views of the Revolution and history, the artists who created and embellished his image, and much of his talk about himself and his achievements.

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This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belonging. The ceremonial performances supported imaginative travel and created a tornadros: an ideal form of 'human' that manipulates audiovisual narratives of culture and identity for global audiences.

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Wilfred Owen's poetry is now very widely known as the finest that came out of the First World War.

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'...this superb book should be required reading for every drama and literature student and all trainee actors and directors.' Times Higher Educational Supplement

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Accessible and wide-ranging, this introduction to contemporary Philosophy of Action guides the reader through the major views and arguments. The topics addressed include the nature of intentional action and its explanation, the nature of reasons, the role of desire and intention in action, the nature of autonomy and the possibility of group agents.

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This workbook describes the principles and techniques of marketing. Part 1 discusses the principles and components of marketing, audits, research, targeting forecasting and communications. Part 2 provides a planning manual which guides the user through the production of a marketing plan.

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Developing directly from Fuller's recent book Humanity 2.0, this is the first book to seriously considerwhat a 'post-' or 'trans'-' human state of being might mean for who we think we are, how we live, what we believe and what we aim to be.