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The Grand Strategies of Great Powers

The Grand Strategies of Great Powers

What is grand strategy and what is it good for? What are great powers and which states are great powers today? What are the grand strategies available to great powers? What are the conditions under which a certain strategy is suitable and when should it be rejected? What are the factors affecting the success or failure of a given grand strategy? The present volume provides answers to these questions by introducing a typology of great power grand strategies as strategies of rising status quo and declining powers as well as through historical illustrations of each type. The reader is thus exposed to strategies such as divide and conquer biding your time opportunity strike primacy semi-detachment concert and appeasement through the experiences of leaders such as Bismarck Peter the Great Metternich Deng Xiaoping Neville Chamberlain and Stalin. This analysis is then brought to bear on present developments in the grand strategies of the United States China and Russia. The volume should be of interest to both the academic and foreign policy-making communities and in particular to students of international relations diplomacy history and current international affairs. | The Grand Strategies of Great Powers

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China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping How History Complicates Beijing’s Global Outreach

China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping How History Complicates Beijing’s Global Outreach

This book attempts to identify change and continuity in PRC grand strategy and the extent to which Chinese imperial history complicates PRC global outreach in the Xi Jinping era. Empires convey the wish to make the world a better place – even in the midst of oppression – and are eschatological in their rhetoric. However empires that last longer have been more pragmatic in their grand strategy; sometimes appropriating the aura of past golden ages and at other times learning from the mistakes of their predecessors. To date Chinese strategic thinkers are preoccupied with learning lessons from the disintegration of the USSR and fascinated by the secrets of American power. Interdisciplinary in its reach analysing grand strategy through both rhetoric and praxis this book unpacks the Chinese world view through critical examination of the latest history textbooks currently in use in PRC middle schools. It also brings new evidence to bear on the debate in the West about Chinese strategic culture. Finally it compares historical Japanese OFDI patterns with China in order to understand what makes the Chinese economy unique. China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping is aimed towards students and scholars of history international business and wider Chinese studies. | China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping How History Complicates Beijing’s Global Outreach

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Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World (1807–1873)

Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World (1807–1873)

The Russian Great Reforms of the 1860s were the last major modernizing effort by the Romanov dynasty. From 1855 to 1861 Grand Duchess Elena born Princess Charlotte of W¼rttemberg (1807-1873) acted as the spokeswoman for the reform-minded circles of Russian society bringing before her nephew Emperor Alexander II a group of civic-minded experts who formed the core of the committee that prepared the greatest and most complex of the reforms the abolition of serfdom in Russia. The Grand Duchess’s involvement in these crucial events in Russian history highlights the considerable influence aristocratic women had in Russian society quite unlike women of the same class and status in Western Europe. A study of the Grand Duchess Elena of Russia offers a new understanding of Russian and international events of the time the Romanovs’ role in them the degree of autonomy enjoyed by high-born women in Russia and the ways in which new ideas gained ground in the nineteenth-century Russian empire. Based on abundant and largely unused archival sources published documents and literature of the period in French Russian German Italian and English this is the first book about Grand Duchess Elena and it expertly interweaves the story of a woman’s life with that of Imperial Russian high politics. | Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World (1807–1873)

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Social Work Education and the Grand Challenges Approaches to Curricula and Field Education

Social Work Education and the Grand Challenges Approaches to Curricula and Field Education

The Grand Challenges for Social Work (GCSW) provides an agenda for society and for the social work profession. The 13 GCSW have been codified by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and are emerging as a significant underpinning in the education of undergraduate and graduate social work students throughout the USA. This volume serves as a guide as to how this can best be achieved in alignment with the 2022 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) from the Council of Social Work Education. Divided into four parts: Individual and Family Well-Being Stronger Social Fabric A Just Society The Grand Challenges in the Field Each chapter introduces a Grand Challenge situates it within the curricula and provides teaching practices in one of the targeted domains as well as learning objectives class exercises and discussions. By showing how to facilitate class discussion manage difficult conversations and address diversity equity and inclusion as part of teaching the topic this book will be of interest to all faculty teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It should be noted that there are additional supplementary chapters beyond the 13 GCSW that provide further context for the reader. | Social Work Education and the Grand Challenges Approaches to Curricula and Field Education

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Implementing the Grand Challenge of Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and its Consequences

Implementing the Grand Challenge of Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and its Consequences

‘Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and Its Consequences’ is one of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare’s Grand Challenges for Social Work a programme launched in 2012. This book reports on the work of many social work and allied professions scholars describing current strategies for achieving the ambitious goals identified in this Grand Challenge. The chapters in this book fall into two broad categories: ‘general’ pieces and those which address specific workforce development issues for meeting the Grand Challenge. The contributors cover the problem of alcohol misuse from a number of perspectives including racial/ethnic disparities in alcohol treatment services; adolescents and emerging adults; and trauma/PTSD. The book also explores both technology-based interventions for reducing alcohol misuse and its consequences and various models for preparing the workforce by effectively engaging in screening brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for those experiencing alcohol-related problems complicated by other social and behavioural health problems. The book concludes with two interviews focused global initiatives and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions. | Implementing the Grand Challenge of Reducing and Preventing Alcohol Misuse and its Consequences

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Beyond the Grand Tour Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour

Beyond the Grand Tour Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour

Travel in early modern Europe is frequently represented as synonymous with the institution of the Grand Tour a journey undertaken by elite young males from northern Europe to the centres of the arts and antiquity in Italy. Taking a somewhat different perspective this volume builds upon recent research that pushes beyond this narrow orthodoxy and which decentres Italy as the ultimate destination of European travellers. Instead it explores a much broader pattern of travel undertaken by people of varied backgrounds and with divergent motives for travelling. By tapping into current reactions against the reification of the Grand Tour as a unique and distinctive practice this volume represents an important contribution to the ongoing process of resituating the Grand Tour as part of a wider context of travel and topographicalmwriting. Focusing upon practices of travel in northern and western Europe rather than in Italy particularly in Britain the Low Countries and Germany the essays in this collection highlight how itineraries continually evolved in response to changing political economic and intellectual contexts. In so doing the reasons for travel in northern Europe are subjected to a similar level of detailed analysis as has previously only been directed on Italy. By doing this the volume demonstrates the variety of travel experiences including the many shorter journeys made for pleasure health education and business undertaken by travellers of varying age and background across the period. In this way the volume brings to the fore the experiences of varied categories of traveller – from children to businessmen – which have traditionally been largely invisible in the historiography of travel. | Beyond the Grand Tour Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour

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The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu Lord Mandeville William Hammond and Banaster Maynard

The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu Lord Mandeville William Hammond and Banaster Maynard

Focusing upon three previously unpublished accounts of youthful English travellers in Western Europe (in contrast to the renowned but maturely retrospective memoirs of other seventeenth-century figures such as John Evelyn) this study reassesses the early origins of the cultural phenomenon known as the 'Grand Tour'. Usually denoted primarily as a post-Restoration and eighteenth-century activity the basis of the long term English fascination with the 'Grand Tour' was firmly rooted in the mid-Tudor and early-Stuart periods. Such travels were usually prompted by one of three reasons: the practical needs of diplomacy the aesthetic allure of cultural tourism and the expediencies of political or religious exile. The outbreak of the English Civil War during the late-1640s acted as a powerful stimulus to this kind of travel for male members of both royalist and parliamentarian families as a means of distancing them from the social upheavals back home as well as broadening their intellectual horizons. The extensive editorial introductions to this publication of the experiences of three young Englishmen also consider how their travel records have survived in a variety of literary forms including personal diaries (Montagu) family letters (Hammond) and formal prose records (Maynard's travels were written up by his servant Robert Moody) and how these texts should now be interpreted not in isolation but alongside the diverse collections of prints engravings curiosities coins and antiquities assembled by such travellers. | The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu Lord Mandeville William Hammond and Banaster Maynard

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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin Implications for Transboundary Water Cooperation

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin Implications for Transboundary Water Cooperation

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be Africa’s largest dam but it is also essential for future cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East African region. This book after setting out basin-level legal and policy successes and failures of managing and sharing Nile waters articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the GERD through multiple disciplinary lenses. It sets out its possibilities as a basis for a new era of cooperation its regional and global implications the benefits of cooperation and coordination in dam filling and the need for participatory and transparent decision making. By applying law political science and hydrology to sharing water resources in general and to large-scale dam building filling and operating in particular it offers concrete qualitative and quantitative options that are essential to promote cooperation and coordination in utilising and preserving Nile waters. The book incorporates the economic dimension and draws on recent developments including: the signing of a legally binding contract by Egypt Ethiopia and Sudan to carry out an impact assessment study; the possibility that the GERD might be partially operational very soon the completion of transmission lines from GERD to Addis Ababa; and the announcement of Sudan to commence construction of transmission lines from GERD to its main cities. The implications of these are assessed and lessons learned for transboundary water cooperation and conflict management. | The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin Implications for Transboundary Water Cooperation

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The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

How do universities tackle wicked sustainability challenges faced by society? The Wicked Learning Workbook is a toolkit for setting up and running an interdisciplinary master-level course in the context of real-world problems such as food waste and loss. The book offers a new pedagogical approach that we call 'wicked' because it is unorthodox ambitious and tackles complex problems that won’t go away. The pedagogy is also international at the course level rather than the conventional exchange semester enabling institutions to embed international approaches to their core teaching. The Wicked Learning Workbook speaks directly to academics who are looking for solutions that provide stimuli for research and teaching while giving students an innovative international learning experience. The approach develops student understanding of the UN Sustainable Development Goals as broad-scale societal issues which are difficult if not impossible to ‘solve’. An important outcome of this approach is the laboratory-style classroom that creates opportunities for faculty students and companies to co-create solutions that are immediately implementable. The resulting methodology is based on industry–university collaboration (such as IKEA and Nestlé). The methodology is of interest to corporate leaders pursuing sustainability goals and business transformation. Achieving sustainability requires cross-boundary cross-disciplinary experimental approaches that allow for scalability. Wicked problems can only be tackled with wicked solution approaches. | The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

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The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour

The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour

The redecoration of the exhibition spaces at the Borghese palace and villa undertaken together with the reinstallation of the family's vast art collections was one of the most important events in the cultural life of eighteenth-century Rome. In this comprehensive study Carole Paul reconstructs the planning and execution of the project and explains its multifaceted significance: its place in the history of Italian art architecture and interior design at a complex moment of transition from baroque to neoclassical style as well as its unrecognized but profound influence on the development of the modern art museum. The study shows how the installations and decorations worked together to evoke traditional themes in innovative ways. Addressed primarily to a new audience of tourists from abroad the thematic content of the spaces celebrated the greatness of the Borghese family and of Roman tradition while their stylistic diversity and sophistication made a case for the continued vitality - even modernity - of Roman art and culture. Designed for the exercise of a highly refined social performance these sites helped to model the experience of art as a form of enlightened modern civility. | The Borghese Collections and the Display of Art in the Age of the Grand Tour

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Indonesia’s Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy in the 21st Century Rise of an Indo-Pacific Power

Indonesia’s Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy in the 21st Century Rise of an Indo-Pacific Power

This book examines the changes in Indonesian foreign policy during the 21st century as it seeks to position itself as a great power in the Indo-Pacific region. The rise of 21st-century Indonesia is becoming a permanent fixture in both the domestic and global discourses. Though there has been an increasing level of discussion on Indonesia’s emerging power status there has been little discussion on how the country is debating and signalling its new-found status. This book combines the insights of both neo-classical realism and social identity theory to discuss a reset in an emerging Indonesia’s foreign policy during the 21st century while emphasizing domestic drivers and constraints of its international behaviour. There are three key organizing components of the book – emerging power status signalling and the Indo-Pacific region. The Indo-Pacific region constitutes a spatial framing of the book; the emerging power provides an analytical category to explain Indonesia’s changing international status; and status signalling explains multiple facets of international behaviour through which the country is projecting its new status. Though leaders are adding different styles and characteristics to the rising Indonesia narrative there are a few unmistakable overarching trends that highlight an increasing correlation between the country’s rising power and growing ambition in international behaviour. This book is built around four key signalling strategies of Indonesia as an emerging power – expanded regional canvas power projection leadership projection and quest for great power parity. They represent Indonesia’s growing desire for a status-consistent behaviour its response to the prevailing strategic uncertainty in the Indo-Pacific region and its attempt to advance its strategic interests. This book will be of much interest to students of South-East Asian politics strategic studies international diplomacy security studies and IR in general. | Indonesia’s Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy in the 21st Century Rise of an Indo-Pacific Power

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Theoretical Foundations of Homeland Security Strategies Operations and Structures

Theoretical Foundations of Homeland Security Strategies Operations and Structures

This new textbook outlines the main theories and concepts from a variety of disciplines that support homeland security operations structures and strategies. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th homeland security (HLS) grew in importance within the U. S. government (and around the world) and matured from a concept discussed among a relatively small cadre of policymakers and strategic thinkers to a broadly discussed issue in Congress and society with a growing academic presence. Yet the ability to discern a theory of homeland security that would support overall security strategy has been more elusive to both scholars and policymakers. This textbook aims to elucidate a grand theory of homeland security by leveraging the theoretical underpinnings of the disciplines that comprise the strategies operations and structures of the HLS enterprise. In this way each chapter contributes to a grand theory of homeland security as it explores a different discipline that influences or supports a domain of the homeland security enterprise. These chapters cover intelligence systems terrorism origins and ideologies emergency management environmental and human security cybersecurity policy crime and security global governance risk management public health law and policy technology interagency collaboration and the sociology of security. This book will be essential reading for students of Homeland Security and Emergency Response and recommended reading for students of terrorism intelligence cybersecurity risk management and national security. | Theoretical Foundations of Homeland Security Strategies Operations and Structures

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Travelling Servants Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750- 1850

Travelling Servants Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750- 1850

This book outlines the contribution made by servants to domestic and Continental travel and travel writing between 1750 and 1850. Aiming to re-position British and European travel during this period as a site of work as well as leisure Katheryn Walchester provides commentary and analysis of texts by servants not addressed in current scholarship. By reading texts contrapuntally this book draws attention to repeated tropes and common patterns in the ways in which servants are featured in travelogues; and in so doing offers an account of alternative modes of experiencing and writing about the Home Tour and the Grand Tour. | Travelling Servants Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750- 1850

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Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

Country houses were grand statements of power and status but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout the new technologies and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material changes were just one aspect of comfort in the country house: feeling comfortable was just as important as being comfortable. Achieving this involved the comfort and solace to be found in daily routines religious faith and above all relationships with family and friends. Such emotional comforts and the attachment to things and places that embodied and memorialized them made country houses into homes. | Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House

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Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone Standing on Vanishing Land in Coastal Louisiana

Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone Standing on Vanishing Land in Coastal Louisiana

Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone is an ethnography of the lived experience of rapid environmental change in coastal Louisiana USA. Writing from a political ecology perspective Maldonado explores the effects of changes to localized climate and ecology on the Isle de Jean Charles Grand Caillou/Dulac and Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribes. Focusing in particular on wide-ranging displacement effects she argues that changes to climate and ecology should not be viewed in isolation as only physical processes but as part of wider socio-political and historical contexts. The book is valuable reading for students and scholars in the fields of anthropology sociology geography environmental studies and disaster studies as well as public policy and planning. | Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone Standing on Vanishing Land in Coastal Louisiana

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Why Vote? Essential Questions About the Future of Elections in America

Why Vote? Essential Questions About the Future of Elections in America

For nearly 200 years Americans have pinned the democratic character of their system on elections. In many ways we have become an election-crazed nation ever-hoping that the next grand contest or the next great candidate will save the day. But tectonic shifts abound – changes that are distorting the nature of the process. From the rise of fear-centered partisanship new limits on voter access to the polls the omnipotence of social media declining standards of objectivity Russian interference the reemergence of the partisan press the growing weight of elites and more elections – our grand democratic feasts – are transforming before our eyes. We’ve reached a precarious intersection and it is no stretch to say the future of the republic is at stake. Written by one of the nation’s leading parties and elections scholars Why Vote? Essential Questions About the Future of Elections in America explores a range of topics. Each chapter is set by a guiding question and concludes with a novel often surprising argument. Who or what is to blame for the rise of rabid hate-centered polarization? Can a third party really save our system? Should we even try to limit money in campaigns? Do elections stifle other more potent forms of engagement? Who’s to blame for the growing number of voter access restrictions? Might attitudes toward immigration and race form a unified theory of voter coalitions? This lively accessible book is sure to inspire robust discussion and debate. The election process in the United States is coming apart at the seams and Why Vote? tees up a new way of thinking about the future. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of US politics and elections and to general interest readers.

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Ukraine in Crisis

Ukraine in Crisis

In this comprehensive volume Canadian Ukrainian and American scholars examine various aspects of the Ukrainian crisis and consider its impact on Europe. The chapters include topics such as: Russian narratives about Ukraine; the conflicting assumptions underlying their divergent nation-building agendas; new findings about the far right's involvement in the Maidan protests; the Ukrainian crisis from the perspective of Western grand strategy; the security implications of Russia's geopolitical agenda in Ukraine; the factors that contributed to the rise of separatism in Donbass; and the economic costs for Ukraine of choosing economic integration with Europe rather than Eurasia. This book demonstrates that the current crisis in Ukraine is much more complex than comes across in the media. It also explores the fact that since Russia and Ukraine will always be neighbours some sort of modus vivendi between them will have to be found. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Politics and Society. | Ukraine in Crisis

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative Strategic and Economic Impacts on Central Asia Southeast Asia and Central Eastern Europe

China’s Belt and Road Initiative Strategic and Economic Impacts on Central Asia Southeast Asia and Central Eastern Europe

This edited volume presents a trans-disciplinary and multifaceted assessment of the strategic and economic impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on three regions namely Central Asia Southeast Asia and Central Eastern Europe. The contributions to this book demonstrate the requirement of a more realistic view concerning the anticipated economic benefits of the New Silk Road. The contributors critique the strategic effects of China’s opaque long-term grand strategy on the regional and global political order. Specific countries that are covered are Finland Hungary Kazakhstan Malaysia Poland and Thailand. Additionally case studies from South Asia and Africa notably India and Ethiopia enable insightful comparisons. Encouraging readers to critically challenge mainstream interpretations of the aims and impacts of the BRI this book should interest academics and students from various disciplines including Political Science International Relations Political Geography Sociology Economics International Development and Chinese Studies. | China’s Belt and Road Initiative Strategic and Economic Impacts on Central Asia Southeast Asia and Central Eastern Europe

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The Drug War in Latin America Hegemony and Global Capitalism

The Drug War in Latin America Hegemony and Global Capitalism

Since the mid-1980s subsequent US governments have promoted a highly militarized and prohibitionist drug control approach in Latin America. Despite this strategy the region has seen increasing levels of homicide displacement and violence. Why did the militarization of U. S. drug war policies in Latin America begin and why has it continued despite its inability to achieve the stated targets? Are such policies simply intended to impose U. S. power or have elites in Latin America internalized this agenda as their own? Why did resistance to this approach emerge in the late-2000s and does this represent a challenge to the prohibitionist agenda? In this book William Avilés argues that if we are to understand and explain the militarization of the drug war in Latin America a ‘transnational grand strategy’ developed and implemented by networks of elites and state managers operating in a neoliberal globalized social structure of accumulation must be considered and examined. | The Drug War in Latin America Hegemony and Global Capitalism

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Art Mobility and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia

Art Mobility and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia

This book explores how the Medici Grand Dukes pursued ways to expand their political commercial and cultural networks beyond Europe cultivating complex relations with the Ottoman Empire and other Islamicate regions and looking further east to India China and Japan. The chapters in this volume discuss how casting a global cross-cultural net was part and parcel of the Medicean political vision. Diplomatic gifts items of commercial exchange objects looted at war maritime connections and political plots were an inherent part of how the Medici projected their state on the global arena. The eleven chapters of this volume demonstrate that the mobility of objects people and knowledge that generated the global interactions analyzed here was not unidirectional—rather it went both to and from Tuscany. In addition by exploring evidence of objects produced in Tuscany for Asian markets this book reveals hitherto neglected histories of how Western cultures projected themselves eastwards. | Art Mobility and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia

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Japanese Flower Culture – An Introduction

Japanese Flower Culture – An Introduction

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to ikebana and other forms of Japanese flower culture. Unlike other books on the subject which focus on practice the book provides both an academic discussion of the subject and an introduction to practice. It examines ikebana and flower culture from anthropological and sociological perspectives analyses Japanese aesthetics customs and rituals related to flower arrangements and outlines ikebana history and the Grand Master Iemoto system. It considers how the traditional arts are taught in Japan and links traditional arts to current issues in today’s society such as gender and class. This book also covers how to prepare ikebana utensils preserve flowers and branches and how to appreciate arrangements placing an emphasis on acknowledging our five senses throughout each stage of the process. The book will be of interest to a wide range of people interested in Japanese flower culture – university professors and students tourists and people interested in traditional Japanese arts. | Japanese Flower Culture – An Introduction

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John Hick A Critical Introduction and Reflection

John Hick A Critical Introduction and Reflection

John Hick is considered to be one of the greatest living philosophers of religion. Hick's philosophical journey has culminated in the grand proposal that we should see all the major world religions as equally valid responses to the same ultimate reality (the 'Real'). This book presents a critical introduction to John Hick's speculative theology and philosophy. The book begins where Hick began with the problems of religious language and ends where Hick is now exploring the questions of religious plurality. Incorporating early aspects that Hick himself would now wish to qualify as well as explanations that reflect Hick's present focus Cheetham offers some speculative reflections of his own on key topics highlighting Hick's influence on contemporary theology and philosophy of religion. All those studying the work of this great philosopher and theologian will find this new introduction offers an invaluable overview along with fresh critical insight. | John Hick A Critical Introduction and Reflection

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The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany Medicine and Botany

The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany Medicine and Botany

In the sixteenth century medicinal plants which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities where they were observed transplanted and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly founded botanical gardens. Tuscany was one of the main European centres in this new field of inquiry thanks largely to the Medici Grand Dukes who patronised and sustained research and teaching whilst also taking a significant personal interest in plants and medicine. This is the first major reconstruction of this new world of plants in sixteenth-century Tuscany. Focusing primarily on the medical use of plants this book also shows how plants while maintaining their importance in therapy began to be considered and studied for themselves and how this new understanding prepared the groundwork for the science of botany. More broadly this study explores how the New World's flora impacted on existing botanical knowledge and how this led to the first attempts at taxonomy. | The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany Medicine and Botany

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History of the Present The Contemporary and its Culture

History of the Present The Contemporary and its Culture

This book explores the demise of the grand narrative of European modernity. That once commanding narrative located the meaning of the past in the present and the meaning of the present in an ever-receding future. Today instead the present defines both the past and the future. The ‘contemporary’ has replaced ‘modern’ and ‘post-modern’ self-understandings. The times of the past and the future have been transformed into versions of ‘now’ while the present has acquired its own history. History of the Present describes the emergence of this ‘contemporary’ historical consciousness across a wide spectrum of cultural phenomena ranging from historiography to heritage and museum studies and from the globalization of the novel to the rise of science fiction. The culture of the ‘contemporary’ appears particularly clearly in the merging of high and low culture along with art and fashion. This book will appeal to scholars of sociology cultural and social theory museum and heritage studies and literary history and criticism. | History of the Present The Contemporary and its Culture

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