Beat: 72 books
by Beat Flury
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: H7 (Fin), University of Kuopio (Department of Business and Management), course: Competitve Strategy Competitive Advantage, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Switzerland has been a poor nation...
Socio-Economics: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Ethics, Institutions, and Markets
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is intended as a warning against the kind of hard-core liberalism which blames state intervention for the disappointing results achieved in matters of macroeconomic, competition and social welfare policy. In calling attention to the social dimension of economics, the book stresses the need...
The Shaping of a Community
The Rise and Reformation of the English Parish c.1400–1560
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book offers a new perspective to the current debate about popular religious attitudes in Tudor England, laying particular emphasis on the social and secular dimensions of parish life. The argument focuses on the role of the laity and especially on the office of churchwarden. It assesses the rising...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1
Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;
Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;
Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases...
How to Create Kind Schools
12 extraordinary projects making schools happier and helping every child fit in
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Kidscape, the national charity that works to challenge and prevent bullying, this book offers readers an insight into a collection of innovative projects currently running in schools to promote inclusion, tolerance and kindness.
From a gay role model to a...
by Dr David Hitchcock, Professor Brian Cowan, Beat Kümin
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017
The first social and cultural history of vagrancy between 1650 and 1750, this book combines sources from across England and the Atlantic world to describe the shifting and desperate experiences of the very poorest and most marginalized of people in early...
by Sara Pennell, Professor Brian Cowan, Beat Kümin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen,...
Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640
Turning the World Upside Down
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early modern English society.
Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown examine political scandals and familiar characters-including...
by Beat Kümin
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Social and cultural studies are experiencing a 'spatial turn'. Micro-sites, localities, empires as well as virtual or imaginary spaces attract increasing attention. In most of these works, space emerges as a social construct rather than a mere container. This collection examines the potential and...
Reformations Old and New
The Socio-Economic Impact of Religious Change, c.1470–1630
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This collection of essays examines the practical impact of religious change in Central and North Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century. It focuses on the effects of reform on clergy, church resources, ecclesiastical patronage, education and poor relief. The title reflects the elementary...
The World of the Tavern
Public Houses in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The subject of drink received a great deal of attention from early modern Europeans. Preachers, physicians, authorities, artists and travellers all addressed it from a range of different perspectives. At the same time, inns, taverns and alehouses served as multifunctional centres in towns and villages...
by Beat Kümin, Dr Christopher Kissane, Professor Brian Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Using a three-part structure focused on the major historical subjects of the Inquisition, the Reformation and witchcraft, Christopher Kissane examines the relationship between food and religion in early modern Europe.
Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe employs three key case...
Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640
Eating to Impress
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640 considers early modern food consumption in an important new way, connecting English consumption practices between the reigns of Henry VIII and Charles I with ideas of 'self' and 'otherness' in wider contexts of society and the class system.
Examining...
Advances in Biological Solid-State NMR
Proteins and Membrane-Active Peptides
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The complexity and heterogeneity of biological systems has posed an immense challenge in recent years. An increasingly important tool for obtaining molecular and atomic scale information on a range of large biological molecules and cellular components is solid-state NMR. This technique can address...