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This book explores several types of cultural practices involving the remembrance and restoration of past sounds. At the same time, it theorizes the cultural meaning of collecting, recycling, reciting, and remembering sound and music.

From Santa Claus and his sleigh to a dumbhead talking poppycock, the contributions of the Dutch language to American English are indelibly embedded to some of our most vernacular terms and expressions.

A compelling study of the often controversial role and meaning of the new media and digital cultures in contemporary society

A remarkable and wide-ranging examination of some of the crucial issues in film theory, drawing on the Foucauldian concepts of the dispositif and the episteme.

An illuminating and necessary contribution to the controversial debates on immigrant integration policy.

A definitive overview of the risks facing modern society and the necessary government measures to minimise them

This necessary and thought-provoking study brings together the organisational side of the world of the arts and the understanding of the many functions art fulfills in our culture.

The first-ever bilingual Dutch and English edition of Van den Vos Reynaerde, the celebrated medieval Dutch beast epic featuring a crafty fox

Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it's only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made returning to the labor market even tougher. The Impact of Losing Your Job builds on findings from life course sociology to show clearly just what effects job loss has on income, family life, and future prospects. Key to Martin Ehlert's analysis is a comparative look at the United States and Germany that enables him to show how different approaches to welfare state policies can ameliorate the effects of job loss-but can at the same time make labor insecurity more common.

By employing websites of nongovernmental organizations, search engine queries identifying cultural philosophies about aging, and more, the contributors to this volume define the agenda for aging issues throughout Europe.

Explores the literary imaginings of Shanghai, its past, present, and future, in order to understand the effects of that urban transformation on both the psychological state of Shanghai's citizens and their perception of the spaces they inhabit.

Collection of revised papers originally presented at the 7th Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT2006).

Neeltje Elisabeth Langeveld (1954) worked at the Emma Children's Hospital where she was promoted to the position of Research Nurse in the Children's Cancer Department. From 1990 she trained in Clinical Epidemiology for Nurses at the AMC. In 1996 she started the research which is the subject of this dissertation. She will remain active as Research N

Indepth analysis of women's (and men's) employment and care patterns, as well as, child care services, taxation, leave schemes and social security in four different walfare states of Europe.

First detailed study of Rembrandt's fascinating depictions of female nudes

A unique evaluation of the American cinema of the 1970s, including cult film directors such as Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Altman and Monte Hellman

A clear, concise synthesis offering a much-needed overview of this lively area of language study.

First English-language introduction to a strangely popular theme in contemporary Dutch literature.

A collection of essays studying the rapid changes in coastal settlements due to the conflicting interests of traditional and new stakeholders

A collection of essays by the acclaimed film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, written between 1968 and 2005, tracks the crisis of contemporary European cinema, faced by the Hollywood giant on the one hand, and the collapsing national cinema industries on the other.

An unconventional socio-economic analysis of the economic position of the arts and artists