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Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes socialand biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the different specialisms on the topic

Audrey Fisch's study, first published in 2000, examines the circulation within England of the people and ideas of the black Abolitionist campaign. During the 1850s, African-Americans and others active in the campaign to abolish slavery, journeyed to England to present the slave experience and rouse opposition to American slavery. By focusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anonymous sequel to that novel, Uncle Tom in England, and John Brown's Slave Life in Georgia, and the lecture tours of free blacks and ex-slaves, Fisch follows the discourse of American abolitionism as it moved across the Atlantic and was reshaped by domestic Victorian debates about popular culture and taste, the worker versus the slave, popular education, and working class self-improvement. Despite its popular appeal, she claims, the African-American abolitionist campaign actually re-energised English nationalism. This book will be of interest to students of African-American literature, and nineteenth-century American and English literature

Preliminary Material /Jacques Carré -- INTRODUCTION /Jacques Carré -- THE TRADITION OF DELLA CASA'S GALATEO IN ENGLISH /John R. Woodhouse -- SOCIAL CHANGE AND GENDER DECORUM: RENAISSANCE COURTESY /Michael Steppat -- STANDARDIZATION vs. GENRE: CONDUCT-BOOKS AND ENGLISH CHAP-LITERATURE /Gilles Duval -- HOGARTH'S INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS: SUBVERSIVE LESSONS ON CONDUCT /Peter Wagner -- THE COURTESY-BOOK AND THE PHRASE-BOOK IN MODERN EUROPE /Niels Haastrup -- MAXIMS OF CONDUCT INTO LITERATURE: JONATHAN SWIFT AND POLITE CONVERSATION /Dieter A. Berger -- FIELDING'S ESSAY ON CONVERSATION: A COURTESY GUIDE TO JOSEPH ANDREWS? /Tim McLoughlin -- LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS AS CONDUCT-BOOKS /Georges Lamoine -- THE MAN OF TASTE AS SOCIAL MODEL, OR, 'SENSE AND SENSIBILITY' /Rémy G. Saisselin -- THE GENTLEMAN AS GARDENER: POPE, SHENSTONE, MASON /Michel Baridon -- COURTLY MANNERS IN A VICTORIAN HOME: PATMORE'S THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE /Maurice Montabrut -- THE LADY AND THE POOR MAN; OR, THE PHILANTHROPISTS'S ETIQUETTE /Jacques Carré -- ETIQUETTE AND MARRIAGE AT THE TURN OF THE XXth CENTURY: ADVICE ON CHOOSING ONE'S PARTNER /Kathleen Dejardin -- A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CONDUCT-BOOKS PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN (1500-1993) /Alain Montandon and Jacques Carré -- NOTE ON THE CONTRIBUTORS /Jacques Carré -- NAME INDEX /Jacques Carré -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS /Jacques Carré -- Plates I-XVII /Jacques Carré.

Born into a family that traced its origins to caliph ʿUmar born al-Khaṭṭāb (d. 23/644), Rashīd al-Dīn Waṭwāṭ (d. 578/1182) was a graduate of the Niẓāmiyya academy in his hometown of Balkh, where he had received a solid grounding in Arabic language and literature. Bi-lingual in Persian and Arabic and an accomplished writer of poetry and prose, he spent the greater part of his active life in Gurgānj, steadily climbing the administrative ranks to become chief-secretary at the courts of Qizil Arslan Atsiz Khwārazmshāh (d. 551/1156) and his son Il-Arslan born Atsiz (d. 568/1172). Bald, small sized and bad-tempered, Rashīd al-Dīn used his sharp tongue to protect himself from ridicule and animosity. He is mostly known for his annotated translation of 100 sayings of ʿAlī born Abī Ṭālib and several collections of letters. The Persian renderings of 281 Arabic sayings and proverbs presented here offer an excellent sample of the authorʾs taste and erudition

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Artifacts as Pathways and Remains of Organizational Life -- 1 The Field of Analysis -- 2 Artifacts in Traditional Organization Theory and Research -- 3 Artifacts in Organizational Cultural Literature -- 4 The Potency of Artifacts in the Structuring of Sensory Experience -- 4.1 The Pathways of Action -- 4.2 Cognitive Maps, Sensory Maps, and Fourth-Level Controls -- 5 The Hermeneutic Dimension of Artifacts -- 5.1 The Remains of Organizational Life -- 5.2 Root-Metaphors, Concrete Images, and Organizational Order -- 6 The Study of Artifacts -- 7 Towards a Theory of Corporate Artifacts -- Part I: Designing Physical Settings in Organizations -- Corporate Architecture: Turning Physical Settings into Symbolic Resources -- 1 Corporate Architecture - Vanity or Asset -- 2 The State of the Art -- 3 Corporate Architecture - Assertions and Perspectives -- 3.1 The Symbolic Conditioning of Organizational Behaviour -- 3.2 Buildings as "Totems" -- 3.3 Buildings as Symbols of a Strategic Profile -- 3.4 Buildings as Packaging -- 3.5 Buildings as Symbols of Status, Potency, and Good Taste -- 3.6 Buildings as Markers of Time, Ideas, and Existence -- 4 Some General Notes on Buildings as Corporate Artifacts -- 4.1 Suspending Institutionalized Symbolic Codes -- 4.2 Supplementing Institutionalized Symbolic Codes -- 5 Conclusion -- Building Buildings and Living Lives: A Critique of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Concrete Artifacts -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Dialectics of Space and Labor -- 3 Building and Being -- 4 Building in Sociohistoric Context -- 5 Bureaucratic Control in Physical Space -- 6 Housing the Individual -- 7 Conclusion -- Housing Modifications as Organizational Communication -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Artifacts and Communication -- 3 Setting and Modifications