This study explores the Mass and sacraments developed by Jesuit missionaries and their Huron allies in 17th-century New France. Drawn from the Jesuits’ own chronicles, it presents the liturgy celebrated before the community was massacred and became the North American Martyrs.
In today’s evolving business landscape, managing change is crucial. This anthology offers cutting-edge research and practical insights from leading experts on how organizations can effectively adapt, drive sustainable growth, and implement transformative practices.
José Antonio Villarreal and Pocho
This blend of biography, history, and literary criticism analyzes José Antonio Villarreal’s evocative, semi-autobiographical novel, *Pocho*. Its hero is Richard Rubio, a Mexican American youth of Indigenous and Mexican heritage whose appearance casts him as a social outsider.
Technological progress has advanced the forgery of monuments, threatening their historical value. This book presents scientific methods for detecting fakes to help preserve our heritage.
Entrepreneurship and Employment in the Caribbean Community
This book examines the labour market in hydrocarbon-rich CARICOM states. It reviews successful entrepreneurship case studies and provides policy recommendations to address employment problems, offering lessons for policymakers in mineral-rich countries.
This collection offers a glimpse into the challenges and opportunities of globalization for youth in Africa and its diaspora. It issues a call for action to governments to tap into the energy of its youth through education, agriculture, sport, and technology.
This collection of nineteen works from 1996 to 2022 introduces pragmapoetics, an innovative approach to literature. A philosophy of poetic utterances, it unites linguistics with the philosophy of language and mind, considering the poetic function a profound feature of life.
The Art of Women in Contemporary China
This book presents the work of over 75 Chinese female artists in visual art and poetry. Their work explores the experience of being a woman through themes of the body, home, fantasy, and social conscience. This unique volume pairs poetry with art, articulating shared concerns.
This book explores the dark labyrinths of the criminals from Dickens’s greatest novels, including Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. It supplants his image as the Santa Claus of Victorian society with another Dickens: one who understood the dark souls of his age.
This book examines the connection between mediaeval mystery plays and masonic traditions. It explores how both use symbolic characters, archetypes, stories, and rituals to convey moral and spiritual teachings, a link rooted in the stonemasons’ guilds that performed these dramas.
Spanning 50 years, these essays investigate the role of intellectuals in China’s dramatic changes. They explore the tension between utopian dreams and the quest for human rights, offering a unique perspective that challenges both official Chinese and Western narratives.
The folktales of Libyan Jews reveal views on social issues that couldn’t be expressed openly due to cultural inhibitions and fear. This study examines these tales, exploring relationships, the position of women, and attitudes towards the “Other,” including the Muslim majority.
This book is a collection of biographies of forgotten leaders in the temperance movement. Recovering the lives and works of these reformers enhances our understanding of the movement and is for anyone interested in the lost history of social movements.
This book assesses mobile technology for development (M4D) and how it addresses socio-economic challenges. It explores the tension between success reports and on-the-ground failures, identifying the real obstacles to affordable technologies that can effect development.
A global exploration of religion’s role in shaping inclusion and exclusion in utopian and dystopian literature. This collection offers critical insights for scholars and students of literature, religion, and interdisciplinary studies.
This book provides textbook publishers, teacher trainees, teachers, and academics with current theoretical and practical directions in developing, designing, and implementing materials to enhance foreign language learning and use.
Ophelia Through Time
Once a marginal character, Shakespeare’s tragic Ophelia has become a cultural icon. This captivating book offers a cross-media analysis of her rebirth in art, film, and television, tracing her evolving representation and her enduring impact on visual storytelling.
This book critiques the partial explanations of current change management theories. It proposes a comprehensive model, using case studies to introduce a “polyphonic” management style where considering the interests of all stakeholders contributes to successful change projects.
Revealing the power of the New Economic Approach, this volume applies rigorous analysis to complex social issues—from love and family to crime and addiction. An essential critical resource for academics, researchers, and policymakers.
This volume analyses the evolving dialogue between humankind and nature. Spanning Africa, America, Asia, and Europe, it provides a meeting ground between plants and humanity in different dimensions.
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