Honors Education and the Foundation of Fairness
How can we support high academic achievement while allowing equitable access to higher learning? By focusing on equity, contributors shine light on conditions of inequity in honors education and advocate for supporting a wide range of identities. This book is a call to action.
Exploring the Macabre, Malevolent, and Mysterious
Scholars explore how horror and dark subjects influence cultures worldwide. These topics are found not only in fiction but in belief systems, art, and government. This intellectual exploration covers witchcraft, zombies, serial killers, monsters, and the mysterious unknown.
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.
This book analyzes the US Federal Reserve’s extensive role in our daily lives and its consequences for the world’s economy. As its global dominance gives rise to international opposition, this book explores the Fed’s history, policies, and the key challenges it faces.
Each wave of technological innovation and economic freedom has fueled a destructive cycle of consumerism and ecological degradation. This book is a stark warning: our addiction to growth is driving us to our demise. Hybel challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths.
World War I and the Birth of a New World Order
This volume re-evaluates the impact of World War I on Eastern Europe, particularly Romania, revealing lasting effects still felt today. Using case studies and memoirs, it offers fresh perspectives on social changes, women’s emancipation, new boundaries, and national minorities.
Uncovering the hidden history of Shi’ism in North Africa and al-Andalus, this book offers the first English translations of Morisco traditions. It reveals their original works, study of diverse Shi’ite sources, and a vibrant faith that rewrites the region’s history.
Believing ‘no text is an island,’ this book explores intertextuality and transformation. It examines texts—especially children’s literature—that traverse boundaries of genre, medium, and geography, with essays from a wide range of international scholars.
Slow violence is the gradual environmental catastrophe harming the poor. While often associated with the Global South, this book reveals its devastating impact in America, concentrating on Illinois and Appalachia and exploring its reflection in literature.
A History of the American Nonprofit Sector
This history of the American nonprofit sector covers its independence in a seminal 19th-century Supreme Court decision, its 20th-century professionalization, and modern challenges like lobbying. It also analyzes nonprofits in pop culture. A key text for researchers and students.
A vital guide for higher education administrators and international students. It blends empirical findings, personal experiences, and cultural insights to enhance global learning and cross-cultural understanding.
This guide explains quantitative research in health sciences. It covers the entire process: formulating a research question, defining variables, choosing a study design, data collection, and statistical analysis. Acquire the skills to develop a complete health research project.
Understanding Edgar Allan Poe
This book argues that the horrific experiences in Poe’s tales are a blueprint for empathy. To truly understand another person, we must go out of our minds, enter theirs, and confront the terror of being lost in a world that is not our own.
This anthology studies the subject of islands, their essence and identity, their isolation and their relationships in the Ancient world. It researches Greek and Roman concepts of insularity, and their consequences for the political, economic and social life of the Empire.
Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture
Cameroon’s complex postcolonial legacy has burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture which has inhibited its national identity. The present volume reflects on this issue and serves to renegotiate its identity beyond the mega-frames of Empire.
John Rothenstein in the Interwar Years
Sir John Rothenstein, the Tate’s first director to embrace modern art, is now a byword for conservatism. Why? From the outset, he refused to bow to the avant-garde, championing a brilliant generation of British realists in an age of abstraction. This book charts his efforts.
History shows that civilizations collapse when they fail to adapt to change. Today, new technology threatens to destroy our own world. This book analyzes its social disadvantages—from fake news to its earliest victims—and asks what must be done to adapt and use it for the good.
The Siluae of Statius are five books of occasional poems written for rich patrons. This volume presents the text with a facing translation, an introduction to the transmission of the text, and a bibliography of relevant secondary literature.
Research Methodology – Contemporary Practices
New researchers confront challenges in research methodology. This book helps scholars gain command of contemporary practices, describing the simple steps for carrying out research, discussing the tools and techniques needed, and offering valuable tips to avoid common mistakes.
Translation and Cultural Identity
Seven varied essays from leading experts tackle the complexities of translation, cultural identity, and cross-cultural communication. These major readings will give readers food for thought and will promote research on communication across cultures.
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