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In "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789053569733">Decline of the Corporate Community Eelke Heemskerk describes and investigates the decline of the 'Old boys network' in the business world.

A pioneering comparison of the director's theatre and film productions.

-Raise Your Voices and Kill Your Animals� is an anthropological study in which G.C. van de Bruinhorst explores the relationship between Islamic texts and ritual behaviour as illustrated in the annual Sacrificial Feast in Tanzania.

Pionering study of the deployment of social capital to evaluate the cohesion and integration of three generations of Moroccans living in London.

About the evolution of prison in the Netherlands, Germany and France during the early moden period with reference to all of Europe

On the tense relations and mutual suspicions between Christians and Muslims

Examines changes in the social security provision in a range of European countries, with special emphasis on the Bismarckian welfare states such as the Netherlands and Belgium.

Latest IMISCOE publication analyses citizenship policies in the ten new EU Member States

Detailed study of each country's nationality laws, their historical background and current provisions in 15 member states of the EU, executed by the renowned IMISCOE network

Explores the phenomenon of 'return migration' in Greece through the settlement and identification processes of second-generation Greek-American returning migrants.

Explores the complex set of processes that determine the incorporation patterns of migrants from Balkan countries in Greece.

Investigation of the syntactic properties of empty categories and dummy pronouns within the framework of Government- Binding theory.

What about Asia? Revisiting Asian Studies brings together scholars from Asia, Europe and America to test the strength of a field of study which, considering the rise of Asia, should be gaining momentum. But is it? This is one of the many questions that the contributors to this volume ask themselves. In the past decade the use and legitimacy of area

An essential perspective on the latest shifts in roles of the health and welfare professionals throughout Europe

Overview of current theories and empirical research on citizenship in European contexts of migration

In honor of Michael Montias' contributions to the field of the history of art, an international group of leading scholars have contributed essays to mark his achievements.

Offers a theoretical understanding of the forces that have led governments to view trade unions as vital negotiating partners, and gives an analysis of the challenges that increasing monetary integration will continue to pose.

Among the abundant Alfred Hitchcock literature, Hitchcock's Motifs has found a fresh angle. Starting from recurring objects, settings, character-types and events, Michael Walker tracks some forty motifs, themes and clusters across the whole of Hitchcock's oeuvre, including not only all his 52 extant feature films but also representative episodes fr

About the implications of this so-called 'co-production' of science, technology and society for our analytical as well as normative ideas about humanity, technology and the relations between both.

Offers overviews of various national psychiatric cultures and explores new research subjects

A study of the role of Amsterdam's Artis Zoo and the range of the cultural events it offered in the formation of the national and class identity in the nineteenth-century Netherlands

We present detailed studies of the infrared spectra of carbon-rich evolved stars. Theses studies yield insight in the composition of the dust surrounding these stars. The presence of some new materials in space has been inferred, leading to a more complete view of the composition, location and density of the dust surrounding carbon-rich old stars.

Deals with the psychological and health consequences of leaving home.

The first title in an international new series focusing on migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe post 1945

"The one book about Stravinsky Stravinsky would have liked." Richard Taruskin

Discusses two distinct approaches to welfare state reform in two European Union countries faced with mounting costs of 'welfare without work'

The need for a vaccine against HIV is obvious, but the development of an effective vaccine has met with frustrations. The HIV envelope glycoproteins, residing in the viral membrane, are the sole viral proteins exposed on the outside of virus particles and are therefore major targets for vaccine design. The first part of this thesis describes resear

An incisive study of policy issues and practice of the civil-military interface in the twentieth-century military operations from World War II to Kosovo

Brand-new fifth printing offers an analysis of the process and the elements of successful EU lobbying