Equine Fictions
This innovative volume explores the powerful human-horse bond in 21st-century fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It analyzes how narratives of healing, mourning, and identity are shaped by gender and nation in contemporary writing.
The New Gendered Plundering of Africa
This ethnographic study on Nigerian street prostitution in Italy questions the impact of European and Italian migration and prostitution laws on human rights, and investigates the legal, political and socio-economic conditions that create a permissive environment for trafficking.
Modal Verbs in Marlowe and Shakespeare
The findings offered here shed light on the history of modal verbs and constitute a valuable contribution to contemporary Early Modern English studies. The study investigates the usage and meaning of modal verbs in the tragedies and history plays of both Marlowe and Shakespeare.
A History of Alcman’s Early Reception
This history of Alcman’s early reception asks: Did emerging book culture kill “song culture”? Was Alcman an archetypal prototype of partheneia? This book argues the tradition of partheneia was never powerful enough, especially outside Sparta, to completely absorb the poet.
The Death of Childhood
A riveting obituary to childhood, this book offers a sobering look at what it means to grow up today, tracing childhood’s progress to a bitter end. Thanks to technology and a hostile society, its innocence is lost. But there is hope, and this book offers solutions to restore it.
Making Reform Happen
This book offers a holistic picture of government reform in South Korea, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Case studies provide a detailed understanding of each country’s reform trajectory and the context for their actions.
Use your favorite Rock-‘n’-Roll song titles to see how English grammar and style work—and it’s fun! Using songs from the 1950s to today, this book makes the patterns of English strikingly visible through the music you love.
As tales of holy people moved across cultures and time, their meanings transformed. While basic storylines remained, changing details reveal important shifts in attitudes. This volume presents case studies from early China to Christian, Muslim, and Jewish contexts.
Claiming the Ice
Ministers and their officials are the unsung heroes of Britain’s history in Antarctica. Exploring the twists and turns of policy over half a century, this work covers the whaling industry, territorial tensions, and how science ultimately came to underpin Britain’s aims.
The Turkish-American Conundrum
This novel collection of essays discusses various aspects of the experiences of Turkish immigrants in the United States, as well as those of US expatriates in Turkey. It heralds in print the launching of a new paradigm, Turkish-American Studies.
Behind every crime novel is a family. Some are crime syndicates; others are dysfunctional, tearing themselves apart. Not everyone escapes alive. This collection of essays explores crime fiction, the family, and the disastrous impact society can have on personal relationships.
Pharmaceuticals in the European Union
Through a reasoned description ranging from regulatory developments to the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU), this book presents the first complete and up-to-date analysis of the EU’s regulation of medicines and speculates on its next moves.
In 2008, corporations were bailed out while millions suffered. This book chronicles government and business fraud throughout US history, from scams by the Founders to the swindles that spawned the Great Depression, and warns that the factors are in place for the next collapse.
This innovative volume will serve to provoke cognitive dissonance and intellectual unease, as it explores cognitive theories and inspires researchers and teachers to update and invigorate some of the theories that have been embedded in their minds since their own school years.
The Language of Literature and its Meaning
Exploring how the language of literature and its meaning have been dealt with in both Indian and Western aesthetic thinking, Shrawan focuses on the intersections between the theories of vakrokti and Russian formalism, and those between dhvani and deconstruction.
Religion in Early Assam
This volume offers a fresh approach to religion in Early Assam, bringing together archaeology, history, and heritage. It reconstructs the sacred landscape of the Prāgjyotiṣa and Kāmarūpa kingdoms, illustrating implications for Assam’s history and identity.
Build a quality online course, step-by-step. This guide’s simple three-step plan transforms your own resources into engaging lessons using proven methods. No Learning Management System (LMS) expertise is required.
Ancient South Arabia through History
South Arabia’s remoteness means that it remains under-researched, despite its huge significance during pre-Islamic times. Its languages, location as a site for intercontinental trade, and its extensive ancient written history will be of interest to scholars and laypeople alike.
The Mythical Mediterranean Sea
Through an analysis of literature, history, culture and identity, the essays here explore the connections that define the Mediterranean Sea as a symbol of tradition and modernity, deeming it a region capable of congregating, synergizing and transforming cultures.
Global managers need to communicate and connect with many cultures. The new language of business is cultural literacy, which encompasses basic knowledge of business language, culture and the local economy. This work focuses on those aspects in seven countries in the G-20.
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