Presents examples of educational innovation and change. Suitable for teachers and administrators alike, this volume documents twelve different instances of innovative plans, all of which, while achieving some of the original goals, found both impediments and opportunities in the change process.

A collection of essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue. Under various names - rogues, vagrants, molls, doxies, vagabonds, cony-catchers, masterless men - this group of marginal figures, poor men and women with no clear social place or identity, exploded onto the scene in 16th century English history and culture.

The European Union is becoming able both to protect its common borders and to contribute to global security

Offers a full-bodied approach to the study of culture in which each sense serves as a potent register of meaning

Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.

The curious items collected by a 17th-century English nobleman shed light on the origins and limitations of modern museum practices

Examines the role of women in medieval law and society