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Asian Models of Entrepreneurship — From the Indian Union and Nepal to the Japanese Archipelago
Context, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
In this book, Leo-Paul Dana makes it clear that much can be learnt about the nature of entrepreneurial activity when we delve into the unique characteristics of different nations of South Asia, South-east Asia and East Asia. Through in-depth analyses and comprehensive reviews of many Asian countries,...
War along the Border
The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
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Transgressive Imaginations
Crime, Deviance and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers, sex work, serial killers, school shooters, crimes of poverty and understandings of 'madness'.
Josiah Royce for the Twenty-first Century
Historical, Ethical, and Religious Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The sixteen chapters of Josiah Royce for the Twenty-first Century are papers from the Fourth Annual Conference on American and European Values / International Conference on Josiah Royce, held at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Opole, Poland in June 2008. The presentation of diverse perspectives,...
by Jacqueline Edmondson, Robert Rodriguez, Bruce Spizer
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
For the Beatles, 1967 marks a signal crossroads that would both transform the group’s career and place them on a trajectory towards their eventual disbandment. It was a year in which they exploded prevailing rock music demographics through the global onslaught and international success of Sgt. Pepper’s...
by Linda C. Ehrlich, Irene González-López, Dolores P. Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Through provocative essays by specialists in different aspects of Japanese culture, this book provides an historical and analytical survey of the presence of Goddesses in Japanese audiovisual culture from its origins to the present day. It shows how these feminine myths are represented in Japan; not...
by Alberta L. O’Brien
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
According to author Alberta OBrien, alcoholism and addiction are greatly glamorized by media and worn like a badge of honor by the offendersthe celebrities, the glitterati, the role models of todays kids. However, alcoholics and addicts, in general, have very different lives than those portrayed in...
Enfleshing Theology
Embodiment, Discipleship, and Politics in the Work of M. Shawn Copeland
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Enfleshing Theology honors and engages the life work of M. Shawn Copeland, whose theology is groundbreaking and prophetic, traversing the fields of Catholic Theology, Black Theology, Womanist Thought, and Semiotics. The book opens with a brief introduction, and then moves to an interview with Copeland,...
Early Modern Drama in Performance
Essays in Honor of Lois Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Early Modern Drama in Performance is a collection of essays in honor of Lois Potter, the distinguished author of five monographs, including most recently The Life of William Shakespeare (2012), and numerous articles, edited collections, and editions. This collection’s emphasis on Shakespearean and...
by Vivian C. Browning, Sallie L. O’Hara, John T. Pilecki
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Vilano and the North Beaches are perhaps most known as small, eclectic beach communities within sight of St. Augustine, the nation's oldest city. For centuries, people have flocked to this coastal playground by horse-drawn trolley, ferry, and more recently Florida's Coastal Highway, State Road A1A....
Occupational Health Services
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Workers and their families, employers, and society as a whole benefit when providers deliver the best quality of care to injured workers and when they know how to provide effective services for both prevention and fitness for duty and understand why, instead of just following regulations.
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Globalized Poverty and Environment
21st Century Challenges and Innovative Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book reviews the key conceptions and economic theories of poverty, explains poverty-environment nexus, and finally offers innovative socio-economic and scientific geospatial solutions for the 21st Century. The book makes it possible for our readers to understand poverty thorough a concise review...
To Annoy or Destroy the Enemy
The Battle of the White House after the Burning of Washington
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
In the summer of 1814, it would have been difficult to imagine that seven British warships could sail up the Potomac River to the national capital city of Washington. Yet, in August 1814, two years into the War of 1812, two 36-gun frigates, three bomb vessels, a rocket ship, and a brig, all referred...
by John L. Esposito, John O. Voll
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2001
In this timely and important work, John Esposito and John Voll explore the development of contemporary Islamic movements and thought through the biographies of nine major activist intellectuals who represent a wide range of Muslim societies. Many Muslims have combined revivalist activism with intellectual...