Gloria Naylor’s Fiction
This text offers innovative ways of analyzing economics in Gloria Naylor’s fiction, using interpretive strategies which are applicable to the entire tradition of African American literature. The writers gathered here embody years of insightful and vigorous Naylor scholarship.
The essays here represent a selection of the papers presented at a conference on “The Future of Human Rights in the UK” held in Brighton in 2016. They are designed to make the reader ask themselves: what does the future of human rights in the UK look like?
A Social and Solidarity Economy
This volume explores the social and solidarity economy in America, Europe, and Australia, with a focus on its development in Ukraine. The collection will be of interest to academic scholars, as well as political and public decision-makers.
Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century
This publication details popular culture representations of gender, offering a rich and accessible discussion of masculinities and femininities in 21st-century media. It investigates the workings of gender in contemporary pop culture products in an original and rigorous way.
This volume explores how inaction, lack of planning, and greed ensured Hurricane Katrina resulted in widespread destruction. Using a multifaceted approach, it includes first-hand accounts, expert analyses, and data to suggest future responses to disasters.
This collection offers an interesting overview of good practices in the tourism industry, providing several snapshots of the way various economic activities have been properly managed in order to make the Canary Islands a successful symbol of integrated tourist supply.
Politics and Peasants in Interwar Romania
This title discusses the integration of peasants into the nation building project of Greater Romania with a focus on social and cultural practices. It advocates a shift from a multiple top-down perspective to an analysis concentrating on regionally diverse rural societies.
Travel and Intercultural Communication
This conference proceedings brings together texts focusing on going north from several geographical points of departure, from a wide range of genres, and explores a range of intercultural aspects such as issues of identity, othering, and cultural perceptions of the north.
The international group of historians represented here focus on several significant groups of minorities who were driven into exile from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They discuss a broad range of topics, including the religious meaning they accorded to their exile.
This monograph considers the status of the verse novel as a genre and traces its mainly English-language history from its beginnings. The discussion will be of interest to genre theorists, prosodists, narratologists and literary historians.
This volume offers insights from emerging and well-established Catholic scholars on Laudato si’, Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment. It focuses on the philosophical, ecological and anthropological aspects of Laudato si’, placing it within a specific history of ideas.
Honour killing is considered the worst form of domestic violence against human beings, particularly against women. This book allows the reader to understand precisely the menace of honour killing and to consider how it can be addressed to save innocent lives.
This monograph illustrates Professor Zeng Shiqiang’s insightful observations on the essence of the Chinese style of management science, which has developed around how modern management strategies can be integrated with ancient Chinese philosophical wisdom and ideology.
Sharma explores Quakerism, its legacy, and its relevance for Gandhian research, covering topics such as the historical circumstances that led to the birth of Quakerism, the history of the movement, the practices of the sect, and efforts of Quakers to make people more tolerant.
This publication makes a unique contribution to studies on materials development for language learning. It focuses on issues related to authenticity in materials development and includes research-based position statements and applications of theory to practice.
The Prophets and the Goddess
Psilopoulos discusses how W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound and Robert Graves had access to the forbidden knowledge of the Goddess. These four poets experienced a confrontation with their unconscious and let the grace of the Goddess touch their heart strings.
Kamp Melbourne in the 1920s and ’30s
Homosexual men in Melbourne in the 1920s and ‘30s formed a subculture of friendship groups, meeting places and secret signs which allowed them to live their lives despite legal, social and moral restrictions. Murdoch investigates this subculture and those men who lived within it.
Environmental Attitudes and Awareness
At all levels today, efforts are being made to protect and preserve the environment from further deterioration. Tankha presents an empirical study on the relationship between the measures of ecological concern and their demographic and psychosocial determinants.
Building Sustainability with the Arts
This timely book examines various roles of the arts in building ecological sustainability. A wide range of practitioners is represented here, including visual and performing artists, scientists, social researchers, environmental educators and research students.
Sasco provides an in-depth analysis of how industrial relations in Italy’s shipbuilding sector have developed over recent years, taking the leading and most well-known Italian shipbuilding company as a case study.
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