New forms of urbanization

beyond the urban-rural dichotomy

There is increasing appreciation in the social sciences that context is an important element in understanding social, economic, cultural, political and demographic processes. An important element in context is the type of settlement in which people live and work and so, it is vital to ...

The human sustainable city

challenges and perspectives from the habitat agenda

Five years after Habitat II culminated with the Istanbul agreement on Sustainable Urban Development, this book brings together leading experts in fields including architecture, urban planning, sociology and geography to assess the successes and failures in fulfilling the objectives decided upon.

Frontiers of Family Law

The essays in this collection are written by academics and practitioners who look at some of the key aspects of family law. Papers include one from Lord Justice Ward, who gave the first judgement in the Court of Appeal on the case of the conjoined ...

The Canso d'Antioca

an occitan epic chronicle of the First Crusade

Critical beings

law, nation, and the global subject

The role of such people as the refugee, the immigrant and the subjugated minority is explored in this book, together with their attendant legal regimes, in the persistent but ever unsettled processes of national/global formation. Challenging accounts that would ascribe to them a transitory ...

The rare anf excellent history of Saladin

or al Nawadir al-Sutaniyya wa'l-Mahasin al-Yusufiyya by Baha'al-Din Ibn- Shaddad

The Crusade against heretics in Bohemia, 1418-1437

sources and documents for the Hussite Crusades

This selection of over 200 texts, nearly all appearing for the first time in English translation, provides a close-up look at the crusades against the Hussite heretics of 15th-century Bohemia, from the perspective of the official Church - or at their struggles for religious freedom, from ...

Crusade and cinversion on the Baltic frontier

1150-1500

This text represents a contribution to the history of the Northern crusades and the Chritianization of the Baltic lands in the Middle Ages, from the beginnings of the Catholic mission to the time of the Reformation. Topics covered include: discussions of the ideology and practice ...

The song of the Cathar Wars

a history of the albigensian Crusade

Venetian music in the Age of Vivaldi

This book contains sixteen essays on Venetian music in its last great period, stretching from the second half of the 17th century to the fall of the Republic in 1797. Two essays deal with musical institutions (academies and conservatories), nine with the life and works ...

The conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade

sources and translation

The Crusades and their sources

essays presented to Bernard Hamilton

This volume is concerned with the sources for the study of the Crusades, conceived in terms of the records of their history and of their enemies, the motives that inspired them, and the monuments which they left behind. Some of the studies analyze particular historical ...

Christianity and missions

1450-1800

Offender rehabilitation

effective correctional intervention

Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction 1 What Works? - Questions and Answers about Prison Reform by Robert Martinson 2 Meta-analysis and the Rehabilitation of Punishment by Charles H. Logan and Gerald G. Gaes 3 Treatment Destruction Techniques by Michael R. Gottfredson 4 New Findings ...

Capital Cities and Their Hinterlands in Early Modern Europe

This work provides an amalysis of European capital cities and their impact in the early modern period. Capital cities were dynamic and influential, accounting for more than a third of all European city growth during the 16th and 17th centuries. Some were ancient cities, like ...