Recipient of the 1994 Turner Prize, Antony Gormley is an internationally acclaimed artist who has revitalized the human figure in sculpture, and whose public sculpture projects, such as the Angel of the North , have grown in ambition, and popularity. This revised book documents his work.

What is the relationship between nations and conflict? Is globalization really eroding national sovereignty and cultural unity? This novel and compelling book explores such questions, arguing that it is wrong to assume that nations are culturally uniform.

Containing extracts by major contributors to debates on ethnicity, including Weber, Brass, Hechter, and Horowitz, this book offers explanations for the contentious nature of ethnicity, its worldwide effects, and the possible means for overcoming conflicts.

Nationalism is one of the most powerful forces in the modern world, yet its study has only recently gained popularity. This reader gives historical depth to the recent debates on nationalism and traces the development of thought on nationalism across a range of issues.

Celebrates and evaluates Anthony D Smith's contribution to the study of nations and nationalism. This title debates various issues concerning Smith's controversial ethnosymbolic approach. It includes contributions from academics based in the Czech Republic, Norway, the UK and US.

This book covers elastic stability of solids and structures, Warner Koiter's area of special expertise.

In this text, the authors show how the Roman-Jewish wars were precipitated partly by Jewish demographic and religious expansion and by conflict with the Greeks and their culture. They argue that the trauma and humiliation of defeat, stimulated Jewish cultural growth, particularly in Hebrew.

Hutchinson (London School of Economics) takes issue with what he sees as the dominant modernist view of nations as peculiar outgrowths of modernity and attachments to ancient ethnic myths and symbols as a form of false consciousness.

This text offers a survey of current perspectives and debates in the fields of nations and nationalism. The authors represent a variety of outlooks which include history, sociology, politics, gender studies and ethnography while providing a wide coverage in historical and geographical terms.