Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control, and self-denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine. Both its practices and the cultural ideals they expressed were important to pagans, Jews, Christians of different kinds, and Manichees. Richard Finn presents for the first time a [...]

Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. Influencing subsequent generations of writers -- from Sherwood [...]

After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest long-distance races, the author sets out to discover what it was that made them so fast - and to see if he could keep up. He moved to Iten, Kenya, the running capital of the world, and started investigating. Was it running barefoot to s[...]

This practical guide for undergraduate and HND/C students of Leisure and Tourism provides the tools to recognize and produce good research. It should enable readers to successfully evaluate their own tourism and leisure research and the research of others.[...]

Along with Blake and Dickens, Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century's greatest chroniclers of childhood. These two novels reveal different aspects of his genius: "Tom Sawyer" is a much-loved story about the sheer pleasure of being a boy; "Huckleberry Finn," the book Hemingway said was the sou[...]

Few people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.S. education reforms--or dissented from some of them more effectively--than Chester Finn. Assistant secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, and an aide to politicians as different as Richard Nixon and Daniel Moynihan, Finn has also been a h[...]

The giant, Finn McCool, discovers that the biggest head doesn't always hold the smartest brain. When he annoys the Little People, they tell him of a giant in Scotland who is bigger than him. He sets off to find him, building the famous causeway as he goes.[...]

Coeliac surfing chef Finn Ni Fhaolain shares her delicious, gluten-free recipes for fuelling a balanced, active, happy life, including Danish Breakfast Brod, Mother Hubbard's Bare Cupboard Granola, Moroccan Surfer's Breakfast, I Can't Believe It's Not Cardboard-Thick Crust Pizza and Elderflower and [...]

"Song of the Lonely Mountain" is the first commercially released selection from the original motion picture soundtrack of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. This officially licensed piano/vocal/guitar sheet music lets music makers bring the sounds of Middle Earth to life with a Celtic-infused melody[...]

On August 20, 1968, tens of thousands of Soviet and East European ground and air forces moved into Czechoslovakia and occupied the country in an attempt to end the 'Prague Spring' reforms and restore an orthodox Communist regime. The leader of the Soviet Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, was initial[...]

This is the first book to cover the entire history of social and cultural anthropology in a single volume. Beginning with a summary of the discipline in the nineteenth century, exploring major figures such as Morgan and Tylor, it goes on to provide a comprehensive overview of the discipline in the t[...]

This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. The authors provide summaries of 'Enlightenment', 'Romantic' and 'Victorian' anthropology, from the cultural theories of Morgan and Taylor to the often neglected contributions of German scholars. The ambigu[...]

In this second edition there are new sections on scales of temperature, availability, the degradation of energy and lattice defects.[...]