Carbon Footprint Wars
Climate change is acknowledged to be the major problem currently facing the human race, and the need to reduce our carbon footprint becomes ever more urgent as the scientific predictions of the effects of climate change become increasingly dire. W...
Emergency Arbitration
Emergency Arbitration is the first work of its kind to provide clear and authoritative guidance on the practice and theory of this increasingly utilized procedure. By examining the leading emergency arbitration rules, the book identifies a common ...
Addicted to Profit
Will our addiction to profit destroy the world we live in?The profit motive now exercises an effective tyranny over our lives: in the private as well as the public sector, nowhere seems immune from its reach. International tycoons, economists and ...
Corporate Value of Enterprise Risk Management
The ultimate guide to maximizing shareholder value through ERM The first book to introduce an emerging approach synthesizing ERM and value-based management, Corporate Value of Enterprise Risk Management clarifies ERM as a strategic business manage...
Food and Feast in Tudor England
Chapters cover food and society in the sixteenth century, kitchens and cooking, what people drank, food and health (including Tudor ideas on healthy eating), setting the table and table manners, feasting and banquets. Alison Sim shows that dining ...
Dear New York, I Love You
Ria Sim, the creator of the popular Instagram account @coffeecakescafe, might be New York City's biggest fan. She herself describes New York City as her soulmate (though it started out as just a crush when she lived in the Bay Area). Now a full-ti...
Routledge Companion to Postmodernism
This fully revised third edition of The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism provides the ideal introduction to postmodernist thought. Featuring contributions from a cast of international scholars, the Companion contains 19 detailed essays on majo...
Blød by
Byer skal være for mennesker. Forestil dig en by, hvor du kan sove for åbne vinduer, og hvor det gangvenlige miljø starter lige uden for din fordør. Den bløde by handler om tilgængelighed, bekvemmelighed og enkelhed. En by, der tilpasser sig vores foranderlige behov og nærer vores relationer, og hvor befolkningstæthed har et menneskeligt ansigt. Vi lever i en virkelighed, der dræner vores ressourcer, fællesskabsfølelse og miljø, mener David Sim. Han viser os, hvordan det er muligt at forene befolkningstæthed med fællesskab og menneskelighed. Hvordan vi kan organisere os og leve tæt sammen i byrum, der forbinder os, selvom vores komplekse verden vokser og forandrer sig – og hvordan et tæt, mangfoldigt samfund kan øge vores livskvalitet. Bogen kommer med idéer, vejledning og inspiration til alle, der interesserer sig for byplanlægning. David Sim lærer os, hvordan vi gør vores byer mere effektive, bæredygtige, trygge og levende.
Union Forever
In the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question-the governance of the island of Ireland-demanded attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Union Forever, David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers attempted to c...
Wearing the Cheongsam
Associations between the cheongsam dress and Chinese cultural identity are well known but what are the meanings of the cheongsam for members of the Chinese diaspora? In a study grounded in first-hand accounts of wearing, Cheryl Sim explores the practices and experiences of women in Canada, a major Chinese diaspora, and carries out the first in-depth study of the cheongsam from this critical point of view. Questions explored over the course of 20 interviews, as well as during personal reflections on the author's own experiences of wearing, include: is there a desire to re-claim or appropriate the cheongsam? Does this desire risk perpetuating stereotypes of Asian women? Does it undermine one’s identification with one's host country? Can erased heritage(s) be accessed through dress? And how does wearing the cheongsam interact with the male gaze? Revealing feelings of repulsion and attraction, Sim combines personal stories with an authoritative use of theoretical frameworks such as