Balancing the self

Balancing the selfBalancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity and balance. This volumes wide ranging discussions will be of interest to historians of medicine, sociologists, social policy analysts, and social and political historians, as well as lay and professional readers.

the editors open up the critical debate to look at a larger variety of films from many different countries and cultures

This book examines the politics of crafting liberal peace in contemporary intrastate conflicts using Sri Lanka’s failed attempt to negotiate peace with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

In this innovative work of cultural history

but incomplete

A collection of sixteen essays by Simon Adams on Elizabethan history

The result is to show the often fallacious and easy generalizations made about literacy in Japan and to show that evidence exists to enable more robust empirical investigations to be undertaken

emerging into Harlem a common Black man content in his lower-class life

the author recreates and explores Shetland using its inhabitants’ material experience and personal testimony

drawn from a wide range of sources

inclusiveness and the emergence of an anarchical society

while allowing the voices of those caught up in the tragedy to be heard

This is the first book-length study of his work in English