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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, large numbers of Chinese travelled to the USA, Australia, and other parts of the world to prospect for gold or to work as laborers, gardeners, and traders, but there are very few accounts of the lives of these people, who predominantly came from the coastal region of Guangdong province. Stanley Hunt's From Shekki to Sydney: An Autobiography fills part of this gap in Australian and Chinese social histo...

The inaugural volume of Katherine Mansfield Studies illuminates Mansfield's literary and personal relationships with Continental Europe. The essays explore Mansfield's absorption of French literature and thought, highlighting affinities with Henri Bergson's interpretations of consciousness and with the writings of Marcel Proust.

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The History provides an invaluable source of reference of the intellectual, literary and religious heritage of the Arabic-speaking and Islamic world.

Guy Butler was a substantial public figure in South Africa over the second half of the twentieth century: professor, poet, playwright, autobiographer, historian and cultural politician. This book combines biographical insight with criticism of his publications in various genres to offer an explication of his life and work.

The Scottish National Party has played a significant role in the politics of Scotland over the past forty years. In particular, it has contributed to and shaped the impact and dynamics of devolution. This collection brings together academics, writers, commentators, and analysts of Scottish politics to address the SNP's position in Scotland, its influence on devolution, its role as a minority administration, and its relationship with other inst...

Showcases the seven winners and finalists of the first annual J. Ronald Terwilliger Models of Excellence Awards Program. These projects each represent a model of creative and innovative solutions that can be replicated across the country to help solve the workforce housing problem.

Addresses several aspects of the law and economics of intellectual property rights.

The RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1924) established George Gershwin's reputation as a serious composer and has since become one of the most popular of all American concert works. In a richly informative study, David Schiff examines the piece as musical work, historical event, and cultural document, placing it within the context of American popular song and jazz and the development of modernism.

The essays in this volume present the latest beliefs of some leading contemporary moral and political philosophers on the issue of assisting the foreign poor. Topics focus around the themes of political responsibility of governments of affluent countries to relieve poverty abroad and the personal responsibility of individuals to assist the distant needy. This timely volume will interest scholars in ethics, political philosophy, political theor...

Considers the evidence for the existence of unifying rules controlling the formation and maintenance of ecological communities.

Sandra Halperin traces the persistence of traditional class structures in the course of the development of industrial capitalism in Europe and the way the structures influenced state behavior and generated conflict. Halperin focuses on the interrelationship of social forces, industrial expansion, and conflict in Europe between 1789 and 1944 (in part through a critique of Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation (1944)). Her account of the perio...

This book explores the fascinating musical and dramatic elements within Fidelio, Beethoven's only complete opera.

The essential guide to 139 sites where the Earth has had a direct hit from space.

Microsurgical Reconstruction of the Head and Neck is a master work representing a unique collaboration among the world's leading microsurgeons who share their expertise and insights on the latest advances and techniques in head and neck reconstruction. Comprehensive Coverage Inspect this work today, and you will be delighted with its comprehensive coverage, logical organization, appealing layout, and beautiful four-color illustrations detailin...

Examining the emergence, in the inter-war years, of what came to be called 'Keynesian macroeconomics'.

This edition contains both "Loss and Gain" and "The Dream of Gerontius". "Loss and Gain" may well be the easiest and best place for non-specialists to begin with myriad-minded John Henry Newman. It is a novel about Oxford and fleshes out Newman's belief that students form their deepest convictions from their discussions with one another and not from teachers. It is also a novel very much like a Platonic dialog that presents and wrestles with v...

Ranging from the Uruk cities of early Mesopotamia, through the empires of the Romans and the Aztecs, to the colonies of modern European states, Chris Gosden presents a comparative survey of 7, 000 years of colonialism. (Archaeology is the only discipline that permits such a long-term view across all forms of colonialism.) Gosden argues that modern colonialism, by giving rise to settler societies, is historically unusual and represents an impor...

Distinguished scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around the world.

This book reexamines traditional assumptions about early American attitudes toward nature. It also reopens and redefines the relationships of nature and civilization in the previous century, and in so doing, offers today's reader an insight into the basis for some contemporary attitudes toward the environment. The works of major and minor American writers are considered.