Combat stress and burnout in caring professions. This guide explores the vital role of supervision, drawing on quantitative research with 400 social workers, educators, and medical staff.
The Imagination in Education
This collection of essays centres on the theory and practice of imagination in education. The 13 essays present distinct yet converging points of view, exploring the breadth and richness of the field.
The Coherence of the Inchoate
This book compares children’s in-school and out-of-school internet use. At home, learning is self-motivated and purposeful, often assisted by peers. As home and school practices diverge, school use may become increasingly irrelevant to children’s lives.
Best known as the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson was also a novelist, painter, and cartoonist. This collection of essays by leading scholars discusses her children’s fiction alongside her adult writing and visual art, revealing an extraordinary artist.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer’s cantatas were written for royal and civic commissions to celebrate dynastic events and praise famous men. His powers of lyric beauty and dramatic pomp are amply in evidence, revealing a forgotten side to the great operatic composer.
This collection brings together seven papers by editors of historical dictionaries. The contributions offer a rare set of insights into ongoing lexicographical work, addressing both methodological and practical issues such as funding and publication media.
Home and the World
South Asia is rising, roiling with internal contradictions. Gathering essays by scholars, writers, and artists, this volume addresses nationalism, gender, and diaspora. An accessible and essential reference for understanding the global phenomenon of South Asia.
Love, Sorrow and Joy
The poetic and philosophic insights in this book are new and fresh. Like the mystical writers of old, Gillespie explores doubt, hope, and the search for true self-identity, generating a new and profound experience.
Researching Work-Family Discourses
This book uses qualitative methodologies to research work-family discourses, unveiling hidden social messages about gender roles. The complex discourses are retrieved from the British TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses.
Law, Morality, and Abolitionism
Brown University President Francis Wayland denounced slavery as sinful yet respected the laws protecting it. Events forced him to confront his own moral arguments: If slavery violates natural rights, how could he not act? This work explores his journey.
This volume analyses how seventeenth-century English news writers shaped their discourse. Examining corantos, newsbooks, and gazettes, it reveals the strategies they used to inform, persuade, and entertain a news-obsessed readership.
This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.
Women at the Polls
Since 1980, U.S. elections have been marked by a “gender gap” in which women are more supportive of Democrats. Women at the Polls finds this gap is extensive across demographic groups, based on differing political attitudes on key issues.
Crisis, Rupture and Anxiety
This interdisciplinary collection critically interrogates ‘crisis,’ a defining concept of our times. Leading scholars unsettle common notions by exploring crises across politics, society, and the humanities, examining the roots of our understanding and its representation.
Open Access
This book explores the archivolted portals of 12th-c. Spain and France, arguing they were tools for monastic meditation. Shaped by rhetoric and interaction with Islamic courts, their design made theology accessible to all in an age of pilgrimage and crusade.
Foreign Language Anxiety and the Advanced Language Learner
Does anxiety about learning a foreign language decline as learners become more competent, or is it also relevant at higher levels of proficiency? This book explores the role anxiety plays in the learning and communication processes of advanced language learners.
Concerning Peace
Is utopian peace a failed ideal, or an omnipresent reality? This collection of essays investigates these questions through concrete examples from metaphysics, politics, history, and culture. For anyone who refuses to accept the world as it is.
Simplification, Explicitation and Normalization
This study tests for proposed “universal features” of translation, like simplification and explicitation, in a corpus of Italian children’s books. The results show they do not prevail, suggesting cultural and social conditions determine translation choices.
Republican, First, Last, and Always
B. Carroll Reece, a 35-year congressman and RNC Chairman, pushed anti-communism to the forefront of Republican politics. Believing capitalism was America’s strongest defense, he attacked any threat—from government projects to powerful foundations.
Crafting Infinity
This collection of essays investigates how traditional Irish culture has been revised and repackaged. Contributors reveal how artists, writers, and emigrants re-interpreted and reshaped Irish myths, music, and history, crafting an infinite legacy.
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