For more than four decades, between 1969 and 2010, the remote former mining town of Trinidad, Colorado was the unlikely crossroads for approximately six thousand medical pilgrims who came looking…

The follow-up volume to the same editors’ New Labour in Government provides a systematic assessment of Blair’s first term and the continuities and changes into his second. It places particular…

Quangos are now a permanent layer of governance in Britain. The book advances and clarifies this complex debate by examining the British reform debate in an international context, and blends…

This paradox is one of aproximately 80 explored in Paradoxical Reasoning. What is a paradox, and why is paradoxical reasoning critical for understanding culture in a globalizing world? As used…

Written for those who have taken a first course in statistical methods, this book takes a modern, computer-oriented approach to describe the statistical techniques used for the assessment of reliability

With a superior chronological organization, The Making of the West tells the story of the cross-cultural, global exchanges that have shaped western history. The book offers primary sources in each…

This book explores how the Spanish kingdoms were highly influenced by the arrival of the Dominican and Franciscan friars in the thirteenth century.

This book is the first comprehensive account of ‘body language’ as ‘paralanguage’ informed by Systemic Functional Semiotics (SFS). It brings together the collaborative work of internationally renowned academics and emerging…