This broad-ranging history of moral regulation in Britain and the United States from the late seventeenth century onward, covers specific movements such as the Society for the Reformation of Manners, the Vice Society, sexual abuse and anti-pornography movements, and self-help movements. Hunt argues that the main impetus for moral regulations often stems from the middle classes, rather than those with institutional power, but most significantly they provide classic instances of the intimate link between the "governance of others" and the "governance of the self."

Take as long as you need, they said. Enjoy Oxford. Get better. But it didn't turn out that way... Recovering from a near-fatal shooting, British diplomat Adam White is sent on a sabbatical to Oxford University. He soon becomes embroiled in the murder of an Oxford colleague. There is no shortage of suspects: the victim was widely disliked and feared. Among those affected are Sir Julian de Crespigny, director of the diplomacy programme, Catriona MacKay, the programme administrator, and Dame Gillian King, master of St Christopher's College. MI6 are also involved, through the shadowy figure of John Smith, tasked with recruiting spies at Oxford. Impatient with the speed of police investigations, Adam sets out to solve the murder himself, his characteristically incautious approach putting him rapidly in jeopardy. In the past, against the odds, he has escaped death three times. Has his luck finally run out? Meanwhile, Adam's partner, Alison, becomes emotionally involved with a colleague in New York, not suspecting that she too will be drawn into danger as the fates of the various characters converge. The story concludes with a denouement both violent and shocking. As readers of Alan Hunt's previous books have come to expect, nothing is quite as it seems...

Sea, Sand and Sunshine are the elements of the pleasant memories of Alan Hunt's time spent in Libya, from the first glimpses of the Mediterranean Sea's clear blue waters to the Libyan Sahara Desert's bright white sands, and the endless reaches of blue sky as seen from ESSO's Convair aircraft on his first venture abroad. Join him as he explores, through sketches, photos and descriptive stories, the mystic Middle East and the lasting memories, actions, and incidents, both amusing and serious, with his fellow compatriots. About the Author: Alan Hunt resides near Spalding in Lincolnshire on the eastern side of England. He was one of last real mechanical fitters (in American terms, a millwright) who served a five year, wide skill based practical apprenticeship and, through attending Block Release courses at college, gained the relevant technical knowledge and advanced hand skills which gave him the confidence and aptitude to become an Ex-pat oil and gas maintenance technician. His career included 20 years experience of on-job training and teaching, passing on vital hand skills to Arab Nationals. He is now retired and enjoys river fishing from his self built 20 ft. boat, and plays golf at least twice a week. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/SeaSandAndSunshine.html

When he died in 1984, Michel Foucault was regarded as one of the most profoundly influential philosophers of his day. Although the law itself never formed a central focus for Foucault, many of the principal themes in his writings are concerned with issues of governance and power that are of direct relevance to the study of law. And yet, until now, Foucault's work has attracted only fleeting attention from the legal academy. Foucault and Law corrects this oversight. Opening with a lucid, critical and unpretentious account of Foucault's work, Hunt and Wickham map out a terrain of methodological and theoretical principals, providing the groundwork for a new sociology of law as governance.

The sociology of emotions has recently undergone a renaissance, raising new questions for the social sciences: How should we define and study emotions? How are emotions related to perennial sociological debates about structure, power, and agency? Emotions Matter brings together leading international scholars to build on and extend sociological understandings of emotions. Moving beyond reductionist approaches that frame emotions as idiosyncratic states of mind, the scholars in this collection conceptualize emotions as the experience of social relations. Empirical and theoretical chapters demonstrate how emotions relate to sociological theories of interaction, the body, gender, and communication. Pushing the boundaries of sociology and stimulating debate for related fields, Emotions Matter offers diverse relational approaches that illustrate the crucial importance of emotions to the sociological imagination.