This unique comparison of early childhood education and care services, and parenting leave, across seven high-income Anglophone countries reveals widespread failings, both in systems and the thinking behind them. The…

Situates the grammar of the 17th and 18th centuries in a broader context, demonstrating how it affected, and was affected by, such factors as class and gender. The author offers…

Honour, devotion, and duty; murder, abduction, and mayhem: all describe the experiences and activities of the medieval English noblewomen whose lives are explored in this volume of case studies.

Starting with the late Roman families the first five chapters explore the roles of family members defined by tradition and law, what constituted a legal marriage and a family, to…

A Touchstone of Determination - Ture Grit is a story of one man’s career journey from North Carolina by way of Florida, ultimately to the Black Belt of Alabama. Dr…

In the 1980s our understanding of how advertising affects consumer behaviour was undergoing a dramatic transformation. However, there were still many unanswered questions. Originally published in 1985, the chapters in…

The Decommodification of Early Childhood Education and Care: Resisting Neoliberalism explores how processes of marketisation and privatisation of ECEC have impacted understandings of children, childcare, parents, and the workforce, providing…

This book provides the scientific basis necessary for understanding, formulating, and testing surfactant-based personal care products, cosmetics, and cosmeceuticals. The new edition re-examines the function of emulsions, microemulsions, micelles, and…