Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide is a personal and engaging journey through theories of culture and globalization. Drawing on extensive examples and interdisciplinary research, Wise explores concepts of culture, territory and identity in order to give students a new perspective on issues of globalization. Includes numerous examples from Asian, European, and North American youth culture and popular music. Draws on interdisciplinary research from the fields of anthropology, cultural studi...

Presents developments in airline industry and business models. This book examines important elements in demand and traffic, price and yield, output and unit cost. It also probes into three critical aspects of capacity management: network management; fleet management; and revenue management.

What is Geography? Geography is a fundamental fascination with, and a crucial method for, understanding the way the world works. This title offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography.

Nu Gummbah in bijna heel Nederland en Vlaanderen beroemd en berucht is, wordt het tijd om ook de rest van de wereld kennis te laten maken met zijn weerzinwekkende creaties. Ze hebben alleen gemeen dat ze van onaangepastheid een levensstijl hebben gemaakt en louter bij de gratie van de gore randen van de mensheid lijken te bestaan.

De studie van visuele kunst is een gelaagde, caleidoscopische en kritische bezigheid. Het kunsthistorisch perspectief vormt slechts één van de vele invalshoeken om kunst te beschouwen en onderzoeken. Al veel langer woedt de kwestie: vanuit welke andere perspectieven kan kunst zinvol bestudeerd worden? In de muziek- of taalwetenschap is het bijvoorbeeld vanzelfsprekend om uiteenlopende gezichtspunten in te zetten bij reflectie en onderzoek.

Dit boek brengt voor het eerst een breed scala van ...

For 5000 years shipping has served the world economy and today it provides a sophisticated transport service to every part of the globe. Yet despite its economic complexity, shipping retains much of the competitive cut and thrust of the “perfect” market of classical economics. This blend of sophisticated logistics and larger than life entrepreneurs makes it a unique case study of classical economics in a modern setting.

The enlarged and substantially rewritten Maritime Economics u...

David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in divine powers and for his sceptical accounts of the causes and consequences of religious belief, expressed most powerfully in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion. The Dialogues ask if belief in God can be inferred ...

This accessible guide to the Gospel and Letters of John introduces readers to key issues arising from historical, literary, and theological approaches to the Johannine literature, also discussing the methodological rationale underlying each of these approaches. After introducing the reader to the development of the narrative structure of the book, the message (theology) is discussed in detail, with the aim of introducing the reader to the interrelatedness of the multiple theological ideas in ...

Clear, student-friendly introduction to the technical concepts and policies of contemporay governance.