Where Angels Fear to Tread
Where Angels Fear to Tread highlights the ethical and emotional challenges for counsellors when clients become suicidal. It explores the tension between protective professional guidelines and the needs of a client in overwhelming pain, told through narrative research.
This book discusses memory construction associated with war, genocide, and colonialism. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of how conflict memories reshape history and identity, destabilizing fixed meanings and clarifying our invisible bonds to the past.
Which tasks are most successful for language learning, and what instructions work best? This book examines the effects of different task types on both immediate performance and long-term acquisition, revealing surprising results with major implications for teaching.
The Meeting Place of British Middle East Studies
This volume unites young scholars at the cutting edge of Middle East Studies. Their work spans diverse fields, from medieval literature to contemporary policy, and is selected for its relevance to general readers and academics alike. A timely and indispensable source.
Australia and Human Rights
Was the Howard government’s human rights retreat an aberration? Examining policies on refugees, China, and the UN, this book reveals a deeper legacy of failure, questioning Australia’s supposedly proud human rights history.
Spooked
Britain’s leading intelligence historians present a fresh study of British secrecy since 1945. Drawing on recently declassified archives, these essays explore the use and misuse of intelligence, from the era of decolonisation to the ‘War on Terror’.
Treating children as property can lead to abuse. This book exposes the possessive logic behind this danger, urging us to listen to children’s voices and redefine child protection by asking one crucial question: protection for whom?
SME’s and the Internationalization of Food Exports
As internationalization grows, firms see expansion as an opportunity for growth. This book identifies the internal and external factors associated with exporting foodstuffs into retail, conceptualising internationalization theory to address its unique problems.
Information and Communication Technology and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
ICT can be a source of competitive advantage for SMEs. This book provides a synthesis of the advantages of ICT, illustrating the technologies used with theoretical and practical views. It is an indispensable reference for both academics and practitioners.
This book explores the transformation of Anglo-Greek relations since 1945. With contributions from leading academics and journalists, it focuses on cultural perceptions, covering literature, the work of aid agencies, and television series set in Greece.
Between Jihad and McWorld
Inspired by Benjamin Barber’s bestseller *Jihad vs. McWorld*, contributors grapple with inequality, democracy, and power in our times. Barber joins them with an insightful essay on democracy and terrorism in a world shaped by globalization and conflict.
Learning Accountancy
This book takes a different approach to accountancy. It starts with cash flow statements, profit and loss, and balance sheets before introducing the rules of double entry, helping the layman and student to gain a valuable insight into the subject.
Global Student Mobility in the Asia Pacific
Millions of students study abroad, facing hostility, poverty, and alienation. This book explores the dilemmas of transnational education, proposing pragmatic approaches and positive responses to the challenges of global student mobility.
Dickens and Italy
Dickens’s relationship with America has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so. His stay there represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book focuses on his major Italian writings, Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit.
Metamorphoses of Travel Writing
This book adds to the fast-growing field of travel writing studies. Its papers use varied theoretical approaches to explore a diverse body of texts—fictional, non-fictional, and poetry—from the last 300 years and from multiple literary traditions.
Women in the Arts
This pioneering collection of essays is a multi-disciplined celebration of women creators. It presents an interdisciplinary emphasis on the long-neglected contributions of women to music, visual arts, and literature, and the obstacles they overcame.
A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.
This anthology explores how theatre functions at the interstices of local and global networks. It offers diverse critical viewpoints to argue that the local and global should not be regarded in opposition but as entangled, a potent force of expression and resistance.
Grace Crowley was a leading innovator of geometric abstraction in Australia. After studying in Paris, she returned to become a crucial influence on Australian abstraction. Though undervalued in her time, she is now one of the most important women artists of her generation.
This interdisciplinary book explores how mountains are represented in art and literature. It reveals the link between the world’s shapes and human imagination, showing how art is a path to awareness and a vital tool for protecting the natural world.