Oxford University Press

World Cinema: Critical Approaches is a comprehensive guide to international film, covering areas as diverse as New German, Indian, and South American Cinema. Chapters are written by a team of world experts, outlining the most recent debates in the field, and covering issues of genre and the impact of technological developments. Illustrated throughout, the book contains further reading recommendations and summaries in each chapter to help the student to learn the material. This text should be invaluable to students of World cinema, and for anyone wishing to look in depth at the film output and ideas of a particular region.

Recordings of all the songs, stories, tests and listening activities in the Class Book.

This book is the first to trace comprehensively the history and development of the international insurance and re-insurance business around the world across Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and Northern Africa, Far East and Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

This unique volume on modern jury systems presents in-depth coverage of juries in Australia, England, Canada, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Scotland, and the United States. Coverage involves civil as well as criminal juries. There is also a chapter on the newly revived criminal jury systems of Spain and Russia, and a chapter on potential revival of the jury that once existed in Japan. An introductory chapter provides a historical sketch of the development of the jury and a framework that is useful in comparing the jury systems discussed in the book. A final chapter surveys 46 other contemporary jury systems in Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean, Asia, the South Pacific, South America, the Caribbean and Europe. The book has enormous value for students of comparative law and for practitioners and policy makers who are concerned about issues such as `free press versus fair trial', pretrial prejudice, racial or ethnic bias, and complex evidence.

Explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present.

From folk music to worldbeat, world music holds the power to evoke the exotic and give voice to the voiceless. This new edition shows how dramatic political changes are affecting the ways in which people produce and listen to world music, and addresses how new technologies and the internet alter the way we disseminate and listen to it.