If one does not understand the biology of the coral reef, one does not understand the reef at all. So, using more than 250 illustrations and specially drawn ecological reconstructions of reef communities, Rachel Wood provides a unique evolutionary approach to the understanding of ancient coral reef ecosystems. Marine organisms have aggregated to form reefs for over 3.5 billion years--creating the largest biologically constructed feature on earth, some visible from space. However, their study has been largely descriptive. Reef Evolution, documents the fundamental biological processes and...
If one does not understand the biology of the coral reef, one does not understand the reef at all. So, using more than 250 illustrations and specially...
Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - is understood within the contemporary British Army, and the political and practical consequences of this. Drawing on original research, this informaive volume looks at:
the history and structure of the British Army as a masculine institution
personnel policies which deal with gender issues
the construction of ideas about military masculinities and femininities within the Army
media representations of the figure of the soldier.
Using...
Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - is understood within the contemporary Brit...
Military Geographies is about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, and about how wider geographies are touched by militarism.
A book about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, and about how wider geographies are touched by militarism.
Sets a new agenda for the study of military geography with its critical analysis of the ways in which military control over space is legitimized.
Explores the ways in which militarism and military activities control development, the use...
Military Geographies is about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, and about how wider geographie...
Rachel Woodward K. Neil Jenkings Alison J. Williams
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the value of the university armed service units - the University Officer Training Corps, University Royal Naval Units and University Air Squadrons. The units, many of which date back to the early 20th century, exist in order to provide students at UK universities with an experience of the British armed forces. Participation in the units is entirely voluntary, and there is no expectation that students will go on to join the armed forces on graduation, although a proportion of students each year do so. The Value of the University Armed Service...
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the value of the university armed service units - the University Officer Training Corps, University R...
This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues.
As an edited collection, it brings together an extensive group of authors from a range of disciplinary perspectives whose chapters engage with the conceptual, practical and political questions raised when doing military research. The book considers a wide range of questions around research about, on and with military organisations, personnel and activities, from diverse starting-points across the social sciences, arts and humanities.
Each chapter in this volume:
Describes the nature of the...
This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues.
As an edited collection, it brings together an extensive gro...
The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military provides a comprehensive overview of the multiple ways in which gender and militaries connect. International and multi-disciplinary in scope, this edited volume provides authoritative accounts of the many intersections through which militaries issues and military forces are shaped by gender. The chapters provide detailed accounts of key issues, informed by examples from original research in a wealth of different national contexts. This Handbook includes coverage of conceptual approaches to the study of gender and...
The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military provides a comprehensive overview of the multiple ways in which gender and mi...
Looking at the journeys through which soldiers and other military personnel become writers, the authors draw on over 250 military memoirs published since 1980 about service with the British armed forces, and on interviews with published military memoirists who talk in detail about the writing and production of their books.
Looking at the journeys through which soldiers and other military personnel become writers, the authors draw on over 250 military memoirs published si...
