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Introduction to Shakespearian Study is a book written by Frederick Gard Fleay and originally published in 1877. The book provides readers with an in-depth introduction to the study of Shakespeare's works, including his plays, sonnets, and other writings. Fleay explores the historical and cultural...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...

Pedagogies of Public Memory explores opportunities for writing and rhetorical education at museums, archives, and memorials. Readers will follow students working and writing at well-known sites of international interest (e.g., the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum),...

In recent years, scholars have argued that the ability of people to choose which channel they want to watch means that television news is just preaching to the choir, and doesn't change any minds. However, this book shows that the media still has an...

Policy informatics is addressing governance challenges and their consequences, which span the seeming inability of governments to solve complex problems and the disaffection of people from their governments. Policy informatics seeks approaches that enable our governance systems to address increasingly complex challenges and to...

Written by one of the leading scholars of global politics, Globalization Revisited is a major new book for students of globalization. It describes and explains the challenges to liberalism and the global order as result of globalizing forces - from financial interconnectedness to the...

This collection provides an accessible yet rigorous survey of the rhetorical study of historical and contemporary social movements and promotes the study of relations between strategy, symbolic action, and social assemblage.Offering a comprehensive collection of the latest research in the field, The Rhetoric of...

Academic and research fields are moved by fads, waves, revolutionaries, paradigm shifts, and turns. They all imply a certain degree of change that alters the conditions of a stable system, producing an imbalance that needs to be addressed by the field itself.New Approaches to...

In this dialog between friends, (Pub, representing the public mind, and Indy, the individual), two important events, one which has already happened and another still on the horizon, are scrutinized to reveal some widely held untruths and misconceptions. The first is the 1963 assassination...

New Perspectives in Behavioral Cybersecurity offers direction for readers in areas related to human behavior and cybersecurity, by exploring some of the new ideas and approaches in this subject, specifically with new techniques in this field coming from scholars with very diverse backgrounds in...

In his new book, Hanna Samir Kassab examines changes and trends in international politics and the competition between great powers for control of the international system.He argues that the increase in geopolitical, economic, nationalist, and resource competition between three great powers, the United States,...

As a threat, a pandemic has indirect implications for social, economic and political conditions both at domestic and international levels. Thus, collective and comprehensive efforts are needed in responding to and preventing the expansion of infections caused by the virus, including Covid-19. This international...

"The Armies of Europe" offers a detailed look at the military landscape of 19th-century Europe. Authored by Fedor von Köppen, this historical text meticulously examines the armed forces of the era, providing insights into their organization, structure, and operational capabilities. A valuable resource for...

Wasmann's book provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to modern biology and the theory of evolution. He covers a range of topics, from the history of biology to the latest scientific breakthroughs, and offers a clear and engaging explanation of complex concepts. This book...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

A crucial topic in the study of Chinese culture past or present is that of the "boundary". In this book the authors investigate the meaning of the boundary as metaphor and paradox, as threshold and interface across the whole spectrum of Chinese art and...

"The Seventeen papers in this collection deal with various aspects of the relationship between economics and the political units which constituted the Aztec state and its main competitor the Tarascan empire...Until recently Aztec studies were dominated by two rather narrow foci...a preoccupation with the...

Advances in International Management (AIM) is a research annual devoted to advancing the cross-border study of organizations and management practices from a global, regional, or comparative perspective, with emphasis on interdisciplinary inquiry that integrates ideas from multiple academic disciplines.It publishes conceptual and empirical papers...

Author: Barry StawISBN-10: 0892326360ISBN-13: 9780892326365Publisher: ElsevierLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/25/1998Pages: 456Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.79lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d

Author: Jo Ann RuckmanISBN-10: 0875800963ISBN-13: 9780875800967Publisher: Northern Illinois University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1984Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.00d

Families need child care more in the 1990s than ever before. Those hours surrounding school time are particularly troublesome for working parents. In this new edition of a pioneering work, Seligson and Allenson explore the challenges that child care providers will encounter as the...

Author: Immanuel M. WallersteinISBN-10: 0853458073ISBN-13: 9780853458074Publisher: Monthly Review PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1990Pages: 188Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Whitehead's ten American essays in social philosophy are here reprinted in their original form, although not in chronological sequence. They have been rearranged to present first Whitehead's statement of general social principles and are followed by those essays in which he discusses problems of...

Japan's road to war in China in the 1930s-1940s is well known, as are the legacies of that conflict in the diplomatic disputes, territorial rows, and educational policy battles between Japan and China since the 1980s. Less understood is the nature of Japan-China relations...

Surprisingly little has been written about the complicated relationship between opium and China and its people. Opium, State, and Society goes a long way toward illuminating this relationship in the Republican period, when all levels of Chinese society--from peasants to school teachers, merchants, warlords,...

First Published in 1994. The purpose of an encyclopedia is to gather in one place information that otherwise would be difficult to find. Bring together a collection of articles that are authoritative and reflect a variety of viewpoints. The contributors come from a wide...

The Handbook of Social Justice in Education is a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the field, addressing from multiple perspectives, education theory, research, and practice in historical and ideological context, with an emphasis on social movements for justice.Author: William AyersISBN-10: 0805859276ISBN-13: 9780805859270Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2008Pages:...

The Aesthetics of Hate examines the writings of a motley collection of interwar far-right intellectuals, showing that they defined Frenchness in racial, gendered, and sexual terms. A broad, ambitious cultural and intellectual history, the book offers a provocative reinterpretation of a topic that has...

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which changes in the geopolitical context have altered the nature of the long-stable U.S.-Japan relationship: much of what had once been a bilateral and relatively exclusive relationship has been transformed in the past two...

A Stanford University Press classic.Author: Ronald L. FilippelliISBN-10: 0804715793ISBN-13: 9780804715799Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1989Pages: 308Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

This is the first attempt at synthesis of the varied data--ethnographic, historical, archaeological, and archival--on the impact of the Spanish conquest and Spanish rule on Indian society in Peru. Although the Huarochirí region is a source of most of the case histories and illustrative...

A Stanford University Press classic.Author: Arthur F. WrightISBN-10: 0804708908ISBN-13: 9780804708906Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1964Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Ingenious and original. Young people's vivid first-hand accounts of the daily dramas of business life, economically and intelligently balanced with sympathetic commentary, thought-provoking questions and scholarly reference' - Nigel Nicholson, London Business SchoolAuthor: Stephen Fineman,Yiannis GabrielISBN-10: 0803978715ISBN-13: 9780803978713Publisher: Sage Publications UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2000Pages: 200Format:...

Please update Sage UK and Sage INDIA addresses on imprint page.Author: Shane AlexISBN-10: 0803973675ISBN-13: 9780803973671Publisher: Sage PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 424Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.54w x 0.87dReview Citation(s): Scitech Book News 06/01/2001 pg. 91

He persuasively demonstrates that horror films are not merely a manifestation of the solitary, unconscious ′I′ or cultural abjection. . . . This well-crafted, insightful, and devilishly witty study brings horror out from under the psychoanalytic rock to let it scurry and bleed in...

In this book, Guy Raffa offers a fresh reading of Dante's major literary works - the Divine Comedy and the Vita nuova - that combines central tenets of incarnational theology and dialectical thought to illuminate the poet's renowned ability to 'have it both ways'...

The contemporary Italian writer Gianni Celati has published work in many different genres, including critical and philosophical essays, fiction, and travel books. Well known in Italy, Celati is growing in popularity with readers in North America and England. This is the first book-length study...

Although Italo Calvino (1923-1985) is one of the most widely read and translated Italian novelists of the century, a comprehensive analytical work in English of his writings has been unavailable until now. In this new study Angela Jeannet offers a rich and vibrant critical...

In this ground-breaking work, Ellen Nerenberg offers an analysis of the confinement experience in Italian narrative between 1930 and 1960, the last fifteen years of Fascism and the fifteen that followed. Nerenberg diverges from the notion that a radical break from Fascism coincided with...

In this book, Richard Moon puts forward an account of freedom of expression that emphasizes its social character. Such freedom does not simply protect individual liberty from state interference; it also protects the individual's freedom to communicate with others. It is the right of...