A comprehensive guide to conducting environmental risk assessments for students, researchers and professionals in ecology, conservation and resource management. Coverage includes the philosophy of uncertainty and human objectivity in risky…

Policy- and decision-makers in government and industry rely routinely on expert advice to fill critical scientific knowledge gaps. Yet even the best experts can be over-confident and error-prone. This book…

From forgetting lines to watching Phantom of the Opera, this book uses a range of musicals, plays and experimental performances to show what theatre is made of and how we…

Anna Komnene’s history of her father, the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, is an enormously important twelfth-century Byzantine text. This is the first full-length critical study of the literary art by…

Laidlaw lays bare the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century imperial Britain. Missionaries, scientists and imperial officials all claimed an interest in ‘protecting’ and ‘civilizing’ indigenous peoples, but this study of Quaker activist…

With the inclusion of original and archival material, this book is a unique contribution to the history of the modern right to privacy. This book will appeal to an audience…

The book challenges the development sector’s embrace of financial inclusion as social and economic policy solution to new instabilities associated with the deregulation of money and prices in developing economies…

Neuroscience has begun to intrude deeply into our lives and will demolish our present understanding of privacy. David Grant proposes a new sense of privacy and examines the changes needed…