The Psychological Model of Illness highlights the role of psychological factors in adapting to chronic illness like heart attacks. This book provides an empirical investigation of illness cognition, coping, and their effects on quality of life.
Discoursal Construction of Academic Identity in Cyberspace
This book explores how academic identity is constructed in computer-mediated communication. Using an e-seminar, it shows how the medium enhances individuality, distinctive voice, and self-disclosure, extending the repertoire for academic self-promotion.
Sustainability of Tourism
This book examines policies and practices for sustainable tourism development. It provides real-world examples and international cases related to culture and nature, with guidelines that apply to museums, cities, regions, and countries.
Metropolis and Experience
Reading Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce through Benjamin’s concepts of experience (Erlebnis and Erfahrung), this book traces the novel’s critique of urban modernity from Defoe’s narration of lived experience to Joyce’s exuberant, joyous excess.
Experience, Interpretation, and Community
John Edwin Smith recovered the voice of philosophy, showing its relevance to contemporary life. He not only anticipated key philosophical developments but also pointed the way beyond intellectual impasses. The essays in this volume reveal his wisdom for our world.
This collection of essays by an international panel breaks new ground in ecopolitical thought. Moving beyond techno-science fixes, these writers use cultural reflection—from poetry to architecture—to bring new understanding to our planet’s ecological crises.
Exploring Aitken’s Law, the unique Scottish Vowel Length Rule, this book argues that all vowel length distinctions are a consequence of universal, inviolable principles of grammar.
Migration and New International Actors
New migration studies focus on the political dimension of Diasporas and the trans-national character of migration, exploring their action as agents of para-diplomacy to move investigations beyond the narrow frame of the Nation State.
Investigating Arthur Upfield
This collection of critical essays by international scholars and novelists like Tony Hillerman celebrates Arthur Upfield, creator of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. The essays assess his place in the annals of crime fiction and Australian cultural history.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber, a leading 19th-century French composer, lived through four revolutions. His opera *L’Enfant prodigue*, written with librettist Eugène Scribe, retells the famous biblical parable with elegant, restrained art and subtle orchestral charm.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
From 19th-century French composer Daniel Auber comes the forgotten opera *Le Lac des fées*. Based on the same tales that inspired Tchaikovsky’s *Swan Lake*, it tells of a student’s love for a fairy and may have influenced Richard Wagner.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
From celebrated 19th-century French composer Auber comes his last great success. In colonial India, French officer Gaston de Mailleprés loves an English woman. Taken prisoner and condemned to death, can he survive to see his first day of happiness?
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Auber, one of the 19th century’s most successful French opera composers, partnered with librettist Eugène Scribe for Zerline. Written for the great contralto Marietta Alboni, this tale of maternal love showcases Auber’s elegant and virtuoso art.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, a celebrated 19th-century French composer, came to fame late in life. His final work, the opéra-comique Rêve d’amour, is a charming pastorale about a peasant who becomes a soldier to prove himself in love.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Once a giant of 19th-century French opera, Daniel Auber partnered with librettist Eugène Scribe for his first enduring success, Le Maçon. In this thrilling rescue opera, a Parisian mason is abducted and must become a hero to save the innocent.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
In Marco Spada, an opéra-comique from the famed partnership of Auber and Scribe, a bandit chief’s daughter is torn between loyalty to her father and love for her beloved. The music features a celebrated overture, gracious melodies, and noble pathos.
Categories, and What Is Beyond (Volume 2
Drawing on late antiquity and the middle ages, these essays study what types of things exist, the accuracy of our knowledge, the semantics of analogy, and how these considerations bear on our ability to learn and speak of God.
The Immateriality of the Human Mind, the Semantics of Analogy, and the Conceivability of God (Volume 1
Experts in medieval philosophy consider the nature of God and the soul. They explore Anselm’s proof for God’s existence, Aquinas and Buridan on the immateriality of the mind, and Cajetan on how we can speak of the divine essence.
This book balances theories with interactive learning activities. Believing that one learns research by conducting it, the activities provide opportunities for students to develop and sharpen the research skills useful for conducting their own research.
The Mystery of the Ten Lost Tribes
This book tests the biblical records of Israel’s lost tribes against archaeological evidence. Inscriptions excavated in Assyria, Babylon, and Persia often coincide almost word for word with the Bible, revealing what happened to the Northern Captives.
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