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| AMERICA IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS : Presentations & Interpretations [Josef Jarab & Marcel Arbeit & Jenel Virden (eds)] It was to be expected that the European Association for American Studies Conference held in Prague in the spring of 2004 could not avoid debating the impact and the aftermath of 9/11 on American life, culture, and national mentality. The essays collected in this volume push through history testing some of the basic principles upon which America was founded and exists, but they also look back in an attempt to seek and reveal discernible agents behind the general reaction to the terrorist attack and the war on terror. One reiterated message of relevance in the contributions promulgates the difference between taking a critical stand and falling for dogmatic, cheap and undesirable anti-Americanism. { 306pp, 180x260mm, December 2006; PB, £30.50, 9053839925:9789053839928 , V U University Press } |
| AMERICAN METROPOLIS : Image & Inspiration [Krabbendam, Roholl & de Vries (eds)] { 253pp, 180x260mm, January 2001; PB, £25.50, 9053836942:9789053836941 , V U University Press } |
| AMSTERDAM-NEW YORK : Translantic Relations & Urban Identities Since 1653 [George Harinck & Hans Krabbendam (eds)] On 2 February 1653 Nieuw Amsterdam installed its first court on Manhattan Island. This court was granted by the commercial authorities of ‘old’ Amsterdam and marked the beginning of Nieuw Amsterdam as a separate community. From that date on a tale of two cities can be told. Durable commercial networks and close ecclesiastical ties kept the exchange between the two cities going even after the end of Dutch rule in 1664. Until the early 1800s Amsterdam was the dominant factor, overshadowing New York in size, prestige, wealth, and power. The balance between the two cities was gradually reversed in the nineteenth century, when immigration boosted New York while Amsterdam’s population growth stalled. This collection of essays deals with the political, commercial, religious, and intellectual relationship of two leading cities. It explores the interaction of merchants and ministers, books and bankers, consuls and canticles, trees and travelers through the high and low tides of this durable urban exchange. { ca200pp, April 2005; PB, £17.99, 9053839550:9789053839553 , V U University Press } |
| BREACHES & BRIDGES : Reformed Subcultures in the Netherlands, Germany, & the United States [Harinck & Krabbendam (eds)] { 166pp, January 2000; PB, £31.50, 9053836950:9789053836958 , V U University Press } |
| CEREMONIES & SPECTACLES : Performing American Culture [Alves, Cid & Ickstadt (eds)] { 426pp, 165x240mm, January 2000; PB, £32.99, 9053836934:9789053836934 , V U University Press } |
| COMPANION EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE : 2nd Edition [N H G E Veldhoen & H Aertsen (eds)] { 144pp, 155x230mm, January 1995; PB, £11.50, 9053833498:9789053833490 , V U University Press } |
| CULTURAL SHUTTLE : The United States of/in Europe [Véronique Béghain & Marc Chénetier (eds) (with the collaboration of Jean-Paul Gabilliet)] 'What is whose?' As there develops increasing speculation, in our age, on the nature of 'globalisation', the prodigious flux of ideas, people, ideas, goods and fashions between Europe and the United States over the centuries invites nuanced approaches and a modicum of relativisation. Imports and exports, the endless back and forth movement of political, social, economic, cultural notions and institutions permanently raise the question of reciprocal influences and contributions. 'Facing realities' is both a fact and an indispensable activity. American institutions are indebted to European thought, American culture has to deal with European visions and the variety of the European heritage; American social and political circumstances keep informing and interfering with European choices and decisions. What notions, values and artefacts are indeed 'adopted' by one or the other continent turn out to be selected in the name of idiosyncratic cultural dispositions and thereby undergo subtle modifications. No cultural object or sign ever travels without being profoundly transformed. This volume examines nationhood, citizenship and culture, on both sides of the Atlantic, in the light of such complex exchanges. At a time when Europe is exploring its own political organization, it seeks to profit by the American experience; at a time when American culture is more and more forcefully asserting its presence in Europe, critical evaluations of its real pertinence grow more numerous. What superficially appears to be one-sided imposition turns out to be an intricate and complex dialogue. Resistance, caution, recalcitrance, defiance and rejection are as important for a definition of identity as enthusiastic sharings and the adoption of welcomed influences, however ambiguous and variously motivated. An analysis of misunderstandings is the surest way to mutual comprehension. Climb aboard the cultural shuttle. { 304pp, 165x240mm, December 2004; PB, £26.99, 9053839496:9789053839492 , V U University Press } |
| DANCE IS THE LANGUAGE OF THE GODS : The Chitrasena School & the Tradtional Roots of Sri Lankan Stage Dance [Marianne Nurnberger] { 282pp, 155x230mm, January 1998; PB, £14.50, 9053835792:9789053835791 , V U University Press } |
| DEATH : Medical, Spiritual & Social Care of the Dying [A B M F Karim, H M Kuitert, D W W Newling & V Wortman (eds)] { 246pp, 180x260mm, January 1998; PB, £30.00, 9053835032:9789053835036 , V U University Press } |
| DIALOGUES ON WOMEN : Images of Women in the History of Philosophy [L D Derksen] { 165pp, 155x230mm, January 1996; PB, £17.50, 9053834605:9789053834602 , V U University Press } |
| ECONOMIC CHANGE & POLITICAL CONFLICT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES : With Special Reference to Sri Lanka [Sirimal Abeyratne] Civil wars and other forms of intra-state political violence have recently been concentrated generally in 'developing' regions of the world. In order to understand these phenomena, an explanatory framework from a development perspective is essential. This book focuses on political conflicts within a conceptual framework of development economies in general, and it analyses the experience of one developing country, Sri Lanka, in particular. In the context of a global economic environment, the strategic problem faced by developing countries has been, and still is, the generation of economic resources to meet the rising aspirations that were created by the development paradigm itself. The study shows that development accompanied by economic mismanagement and the lack of political discipline, has provided a fertile ground for the emergence of the twin political conflicts in Southern and North Sri Lanka. { 243pp, 165x240mm, January 1998; PB, £27.50, 9053836063:9789053836064 , V U University Press } |
| FEDERALISM, CITIZENSHIP, & COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES IN US HISTORY [Minnen & Hilton (eds)] This book highlights key aspects of the American experience inn forging political, social, and cultural identities from the late eighteenth century to the present { 270pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £30.99, 9053837140:9789053837146 , V U University Press } |
| INSULAR DREAM : Obsession & Resistance [Kristiaan Versluys (ed)] This multidisciplinary collection of essays by some of Europe's foremost Americanists deals with the United States as an island nation. America's trade policies, its foreign military ventures, its humour and its literature are all marked by the country's paradoxical desire to withdraw from the wider world beyond its oceans, while yet serving as its exemplar. The essays, covering aspects of legal and political studies, history and literature, probe the intersection between the national and the international As such they constitute an important contribution to the study of America's self-definition. { 384pp, 165x240mm, January 1996; PB, £30.00, 9053834184:9789053834183 , V U University Press } |
| JOURNEY INTO OTHERNESS [Ada Savin (ed)] Invites readers to an exploration of the complex, ever-changing relations between ethnic communities on the North American continent. Written by European and American scholars, the seventeen essays gathered in this volume focus on the complex dynamics of inter-ethnic and inter-racial contacts in American history, culture and literature. Rather than dwell on the traditional opposition mainstream versus minorities, the authors adopt a trans-ethnic, trans-national perspective, apt to shed new light on various forms of interaction between racial and ethnic groups in North America. { 224pp, 180x260mm, December 2005; PB, £27.00, 9053839607:9789053839607 , V U University Press } |
| KUYPER RECONSIDERED : Aspects of his Life & Work [Cornelias van der Kooi & Jan de Bruijn (eds)] { 320pp, 155x230mm, January 2000; PB, £23.50, 9053836403:9789053836408 , V U University Press } |
| LIVING WITH AMERICA, 1946-1996 [Cristina Giorcelli & Rob Kroes (eds)] { 329pp, 155x230mm, January 1998; PB, £26.99, 9053835482:9789053835487 , V U University Press } |
| MEDJUGORJE : Religion, Politics, & Violence in Rural Bosnia [Mart Bax] Medjugorje, fifteen years ago an out-of-the-way peasant village in Bosnia Hercegovina, is today a Marian devotion centre of global repute. Based on some ten years of fieldwork in the region, the author gives a detailed account of that transformation process, in which religion, politics and violence are closely intertwined. Adopting a long-term historical approach the description also open up surprisingly new perspectives on today's problems and atrocities in Bosnia Hercegovina. { 140pp, 165x240mm, January 1995; PB, £15.95, 9053833846:9789053833841 , V U University Press } |
| MODERN AMERICAN LANDSCAPES [Mick Gidley & Robert Lawson-Peebles (eds)] { 291pp, 180x260mm, January 1996; PB, £25.00, 9053832084:9789053832080 , V U University Press } |
| MOROCCO & THE NETHERLANDS : Society, Economy, Culture [Petra Bos & Wantje Fritschy (eds)] Morocco and the Netherlands have a shared history that goes back as far as the seventeenth century. In the past four hundred years their relationship has had its ups and downs. Even today Dutch people and Moroccan people are being thrown back and forth between feelings of fear and distrust and feelings of hope and solidarity. In this book over twenty-five authors try to shed a light on numerous different aspects of society, economy and culture in, and the relations between the two countries. They focus on the tensions between tradition and modernity and cover subjects such as: Moroccan family law, Morocco and the European Union, the Berber struggle, migration and equal citizenship, young Moroccans in the Netherlands, gender education in Morocco, literature, architecture, language and identity. { 252pp, 180x260mm, December 2006; PB, £28.00, 9053839801:9789053839805 , V U University Press } |
| MORSELS IN THE MELTING POT : The Persistence of Dutch Immigrant Communities in North America [George Harinck & Hans Krabbendam (eds)] The Dutch presence in North America has been best preserved in the two largest denominations, the Reformed Church and Christian Reformed Church. But outside these denominations seven more developed over time, of which some are hardly visible for outsiders, and also non-protestant groups tried to stay together. The eighteen essays in this volume describe the ways in which small groups of Dutch immigrants made efforts to maintain their identities in the United States and Canada between 1800 and 2000. Until now, many of those groups had never been objects of academic research. In the essays presented here, the Dutch, American, and Canadian authors zoom in on the connections of these groups with the Netherlands, with other Dutch-Americans, and other ethnic groups. All of them faced the issues of language and education. { 246pp, 180x260mm, December 2006; PB, £28.00, 9086590039:9789086590032 , V U University Press } |
| MOVEMENT THERAPY ACROSS THE LIFESPAN [Adri Vermeer, Rudolf J Bosscher & Geoffrey D Broadhead (eds)] { 390pp, 165x240mm, January 1998; PB, £12.95, 9053835512:9789053835517 , V U University Press } |
| NARRATIVES OF CHILDHOOD : Theoretical & Practical Explorations for the Innovation of Early Childhood Education [Bert van Oers (ed)] Early childhood education practices offer many challenges to practitioners and researchers and the ways to address these challenges are diverse and manifold. To date, young children's own ways of meaning making are an important issue in the attempts to understand and improve the child's world, and to contribute to their development and well-being. In this respect, the relevance of narratives for the understanding of human activity and development is becoming widely acknowledged in (early childhhood) education. This text explores the potentials of a narrative approach for the innovation of early childhood education, both on a theoretical and a practical level. { 188pp, 155x230mm, April 2004; PB, £19.50, 9053838465:9789053838464 , V U University Press } |
| NATION ON THE MOVE : Mobility in US History [A Van Minnen & Sylvia L Hilton (eds)] { 177pp, 155x230mm, January 2003; PB, £23.00, 9053838392:9789053838396 , V U University Press } |
| NOT ENGLISH ONLY : Redefining "American" in American Studies [Orm Overland (ed)] This book examines American multilingualism. { 202pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £22.99, 9053837566:9789053837566 , V U University Press } |
| ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PSYCHOLOGY & RELIGION : Issues & Trends in a Century Long Quest [Peter H M P Roelofsma et al (eds)] { 189pp, 155x230mm, January 2003; PB, £19.50, 9053838724:9789053838723 , V U University Press } |
| PARKINSONISM & RELATED DISORDERS [E Ch Wolters, T van Laar, H W Berendse (eds)] Book & CD-ROM. In "Parkinsonism and Related Disorders", a major multidisciplinary overview of neurological movement disorders will be provided. In this textbook, not only aetiology and pathophysiology of the mostly dramatic signs and symptoms of these disorders will be dealt with, also diagnostic procedures, differential diagnostic problems and, above all, pharmaco-therapeutical and neurosurgical strategies are adequately discussed. As the book also comes with a CD-ROM showing the clinical manifestations of most movement disorders dealt with, this book will function as a excellent comprehensive guide to classify these disorders, thereby meeting the need for well formulated, generally accepted definitions. It will provide you with the essential tools to better recognise and understand the various disorders in daily practice, to discuss and interpret the clinical manifestations and to select adequate therapeutical strategies. "Parkinsonism and Related Disorders" will be an excellent practical source for those medical and allied health professionals who are confronted with patients suffering these diseases, and will certainly help them to better treat these patients and improve their quality of life. { 574pp, 175x245mm, December 2007; PB, £69.00, 9086591507:9789086591503 , VU University Press } |
| PAVING THE WAY FOR REVOLUTION : Calvinism & the Struggle for a Democratic Constitutional State [John W Sap] This book explains and evaluates the political theory of early Calvinism amd compares it with the political principles of the great Western revolutions from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. { 396pp, 180x260mm, January 2001; PB, £34.60, 9053837590:9789053837597 , V U University Press } |
| PEOPLE OF MIGRANTS : Ethnicity, State & Religion in Karachi [Oskar Verkaaik] Since Pakistan was established in the name of Islam, religion has always played a major role in the construction of a national ideology. This ideology has been challenged by several ethnic groups ever since the day of independence. Most fascinating in this respect are the mohakirs, migrants from India, who for several decades championed the national ideology, but are recently involved in a process of becoming an ethnic group. Using a historical actor-oriented approach, Verkaaik discusses how this change of identity had altered mohajirs' interpretation of both pre- and post-independence history of Pakistan. Their claim to be a separate people calls for a new culture, a new set of traditions, symbols, heroes, as well as a revised reading of religion. He argues that this construction of a culture is an eclectic process that can only be understood by taking into account the modern, political context of Karachi and Pakistan. { 89pp, 155x230mm, January 1995; PB, £11.95, 9053833390:9789053833391 , V U University Press } |
| PICTURES INTO WORDS : Theoretical & Descriptive Approaches to Ekphrasis [Valerie Robillard & Els Jongeneel (eds)] { 230pp, 155x230mm, January 1998; PB, £45.99, 9053835954:9789053835951 , V U University Press } |
| POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN SRI LANKA, 1977-1990 : Riots, Insurrections, Counter-Insurgencies, Foreign Intervention [Jagath P Seneratne] { 169pp, 165x240mm, January 1998; PB, £12.95, 9053835245:9789053835241 , V U University Press } |
| POST-COLD WAR EUROPE, POST-COLD WAR AMERICA [Ruud Janssens & Rob Kroes (eds)] This volume explores how we can meaningfully relate today's world to the end of the Cold War. The over-all picture is one of flux. Many changes will be the outcome of longer-term trends (eg: Internet). Undeniably, though, many other changes are direct consequences of the end of the Cold War. An important aspect is the way Europeans and Americans have begun to redefine each other, in response to a creeping alienation that has affected public opinion and public discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. Time to restore a more balanced view. { 202pp, 165x240mm, March 2004; PB, £24.50, 905383916X:9789053839164 , V U University Press } |
| POVERTY & PROGRESS IN THE US SOUTH SINCE 1920 [Suzanne W Jones & Mark Newman (eds)] Poverty, disease, and illiteracy had long bedevilled the US South, even before the agricultural depression of the 1920s became subsumed within the Great Depression of the 1930s. The essays collected in this volume examine a variety of responses to economic depression and poverty. They recount specific battles for civil, educational, and labor rights, and explore the challenges and alternatives to the corporate South in the post World War II agribusiness era. Scholars from both the US and Europe assess how far the South has come in the last century, what forces (from the Sears Roebuck Catalogue to the Civil Rights Movement) have been at work in its transformation, and whether the region's reincarnation as the Sunbelt has lifted the burdens of southern history. Contributors assess labour strikes and demonstrations that have not always found a place in histories of the region and revisit and reassess key southern figures from Erskine Caldwell and James Agee to Albert Gore and Lyndon Johnson. { 208pp, 180x260mm, December 2006; PB, £26.00, 9086590489:9789086590483 , V U University Press } |
| PRIMARY HEALTH CARE & REFUGESS [Anke van der Kwaak & Ivan Wolffers (eds)] { 106pp, 165x240mm, April 2004; PB, £8.95, 9053833331:9789053833339 , V U University Press } |
| PUBLIC SPACE, PRIVATE LIVES : Race, Gender, Class & Citizenship in New York, 1890-1929 [William Boelhower & Anna Scacchi (eds)] Working imperial New York as an archaeological/archival site, the essays gathered here offer a wide range of theories and practices of reading the city in terms of its endlessly heterotopic disposition. In doing so, they also cover a series of dynamic constellations and novel juxtapositions of public space and private lives in New York from 1890 to 1929 and apply such indispensable city codes as race, gender, class and citizenship. These essays are exemplary not only for the centrality of their themes, which restore to us an amazingly nuanced and kaleidoscopic city, but also for the innovative approaches they use to illuminate them. { 392pp, 155x230mm, April 2004; PB, £30.99, 9053838880:9789053838884 , V U University Press } |
| RETHINKING THE BALANCE : Government & Non-Governmental Organizations in the Netherlands [Tymen van der Ploeg & John W Sap (eds)] { 176pp, 180x260mm, January 1996; PB, £21.95, 905383415X:9789053834152 , V U University Press } |
| RETURNEES, RESETTLEMENT & POWER RELATIONS : The Making of a Political Constituency in Humera, Ethiopia [Kassahun Berhanu] { 251pp, 180x260mm, January 2000; PB, £36.75, 9053837000:9789053837009 , V U University Press } |
| SACRED & PROFANE : Secular & Devotional Interplay in Early Modern British Literature [Helen Wilcox et al (eds)] { 345pp, 155x230mm, January 1996; PB, £24.50, 9053833676:9789053833674 , V U University Press } |
| SCIENCE & THE POWER OF TV [Jaap Willems & Winfried Göpfert (eds)] Has the advent of internet diminished the role television plays in science communication? Some might think so, but we don't. We are convinced that television still plays an important role in keeping the general public informed of developments from the world of science and technology, and its influences on society. Television might still even be the most important channel, given that in Europe and the US almost everybody watches it, much more so than surfing the internet regularly or reading newspapers and magazines. Still, television programmes on science are hard to find. It is a fact that academics and public affairs officers do not always appreciate the power of this medium. By showing the possibilities television has to offer, this book intends to change this attitude. Besides documentaries, other formats are equally suited to help popularise science and technology-related subjects: news-items, soaps, docudrama's, talk shows and quizzes. { 184pp, 180x260mm, December 2006; PB, £24.50, 9053839844:9789053839843 , V U University Press } |
| SKILL & TRUST : The Tovil Healing Ritual of Sri Lanka as Culture-Specific Psychotherapy [Beatrice Vogt] { 358pp, 155x230mm, January 1998; PB, £47.95, 9053835903:9789053835906 , V U University Press } |
| SMALL TOWN IN AMERICA : A Multidisciplinary Revisit [Bertens & D'haen (eds)] { 246pp, 155x230mm, January 1995; PB, £19.95, 9053833854:9789053833858 , V U University Press } |
| STRADDLING BORDERS : The American Resonance in Transitional Identities [Rob Kroes (ed)] This volume explores the possibilities and implications of transnational citizenship in terms of its cultural affinities and political affiliations. The historical experience of the US, as a federal and multi-cultural project, first inspired the concept of transnationalism. The development of the EU constitutes a more recent daring project that opens up all manner of questions concerning such transnational citizenship. The US offers a rich store of comparisons of relevance to the ongoing formation of the New Europe. This volume brings together contributions by American Studies scholars from such various transnational settings and asks them to address questions of transnational citizenship and of the American resonance in its formation. { 135pp, 155x230mm, April 2004; PB, £19.50, 9053839038:9789053839034 , V U University Press } |
| TEACHING & STUDYING US HISTORY IN EUROPE : Past, Present & Future [Cornelis A van Minnen & Sylvia L Hilton (eds)] The authors of the essays in this volume provide us with historical overviews of the development of US history in thirteen European countries, together with their perceptions and analyses of the current situation and future prospects. The essays offer insights into the possible connections between government policies (on both sides of the Atlantic), popular interest, student demand and individual scholars' commitment to the academic pursuit of knowledge about US history in European universities. At the same time, they contribute towards a better understanding of the complex ways in which European historians of the United States have navigated the different (often conflicting) demands, constraints and opportunities, arising from their official job descriptions and institutional affiliations, within widely varying academic paradigms and systems of higher education. { 268pp, 180x260mm, January 2008; PB, £28.00, 9086590497:9789086590490 , V U University Press } |
| TIME MATTERS : Global & Local Time in Asian Societies [William van Schendel & Henk Schulte Nordholt (eds)] This book explores the changing social conventions and meanings of time in Asian societies. { 140pp, 180x260mm, January 2001; PB, £21.50, 9053837450:9789053837450 , V U University Press } |
| TRANSANTLANTIC ENCOUNTERS, VOLUME 1 : Public Uses & Misuses of History in Europe & the United States [David K Adams & Maurizio Vaudagna (eds)] Discussions about fundamental historical events of the past century have invaded the public domain; Public opinion and policy-makers ask framers of the public image of the past to provide guidance, reassurance, and legitimisation. Increasing social heterogeneity and cultural difference force us to revise our traditional concepts of culture and examine the public, social and pedagogical implications of multiculturalism in an explicitly comparative perspective. This book explores how history has been used to support or oppose the political orders of our century as well as its great themes, and how historians have dealt with issues of scholarly objectivity, personal beliefs, and public commitment. { 222pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £25.50, 9053837191:9789053837191 , V U University Press } |
| TRANSANTLANTIC ENCOUNTERS, VOLUME 2 : Multiculturalism, Natural Identity & the Uses of the Past [Lenz & Ling (eds)] Discussions about fundamental historical events of the past century have invaded the public domain; Public opinion and policy-makers ask framers of the public image of the past to provide guidance, reassurance, and legitimisation. Increasing social heterogeneity and cultural difference force us to revise our traditional concepts of culture and examine the public, social and pedagogical implications of multiculturalism in an explicitly comparative perspective. This book explores how history has been used to support or oppose the political orders of our century as well as its great themes, and how historians have dealt with issues of scholarly objectivity, personal beliefs, and public commitment. { 198pp, 170x240mm, January 2001; PB, £22.99, 9053837116:9789053837115 , V U University Press } |
| ULTIMA AETAS : Time, Tense & Transience in the Ancient World -- Studies in Honour of Jan den Boeft [Caroline Kroon & Daan den Hengst (eds)] { 174pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £29.50, 9053837256:9789053837252 , V U University Press } |
| WHO'S THE BOSS : Leadership & Democratic Culture in America [Hans Krabbendam & Wil Verhoeven (eds)] Is the present popularity of leadership studies an echo of the status of the U.S. as the leader of the free world, or is it hype created by smart entrepreneurs? Have current leadership concepts emerged from the democratic environment in America or do they reflect a globalist and timeless approach? How do leadership studies reflect national values, such as individualism and competition, success, commonly associated with American culture? An international group of scholars of American society seeks to answer these questions in this volume. They critically examine the terminology and the explanatory power of various leadership concepts. These essays show that the promises of "good" leadership to protect democratic processes against political and commercial exploitation are often too optimistic. Examples from military academies, state politics, marginal groups, and African American politicians dampen high expectations for new visionary political leadership in the United States. { 222pp, 180x260mm, November 2007; PB, £27.00, 908659073X:9789086590735 , V U University Press } |
| WORLD WIDE WORK : Filtering of Online Content in a Globalized World [Sylvia van de Bunt-Kokhuis (ed)] The amount of information that is online and potentially relevant to learners is enormous. Finding, selecting and judging relevant online content are important competencies in a world where lifelong learning is becoming a must. In practice, online content is the subject of economic, cultural and language filtering, arising from design features such as browsers, commercial search engines, portals, and intellectual property protected software. Local knowledge becomes more vulnerable and less easy to find on the web. Filtering of online content may affect the mind-map of e-learners and diminish the independence of their opinions in school, university or the industrial workplace. This book highlights the economic, cultural and language filtering of online content. { 238pp, 180x260mm, November 2007; PB, £28.00, 9053839836:9789053839836 , V U University Press } |