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  • Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England

    Drawing together leading scholars of early modern memory studies and death studies, Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England explores and illuminates the interrelationships of these categories of Renaissance knowing and doing, theory and praxis. The collection features an extended Introduction that establishes the rich vein connecting these two fields of study and investigation. Thereafter, the ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Shakespearean Death Arts

    Hamlet Among the Tombs

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first book to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Voice of God

    Put PTSD in the Hands of God

    This fictitious war story follows a troop from boot camp to Geneva. From high school to Washington. From private to general. From learning to walk to fighting PTSD. Using a weekend retreat to bring peace of mind for the whole troop. Lead by the “Voice of God” to victory in Vietnam.If soldiers have post-traumatic stress disorder, a Life in the Spirit Seminar (LITSS) will relieve the haunting of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History

    John Day and the Fabrication of a Protestant Memory Art

    Series series Routledge Studies in Early Modern Authorship
    This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnic cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look, style, and authorized content of some of the most influential books produced in early modern Britain. In his hybrid role as stationer, publisher, entrepreneur, and author, John Day, master printer of England’s Reformation, produced the premier navigation handbook, state-approved ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The 2006 Crisis in East Timor

    Lessons for Contemporary Peacebuilding

    Series series Routledge Research on Asian Development
    This bookargues that the international community must share responsibility for contributing to the conditions that resulted in violent conflict in Timor-Leste, four years after it declared independence from Indonesia. Its failure to tailor interventions to Timor-Leste’s specific political economy and conflict dynamics distanced the state from its citizens and undermined its capacity to forge a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Life Is Good Today: Freshly Brewed Devotions for Your Coffee and Sanity Breaks

    All sorts of bad things can happen in a day, but the hard and tough situations do not have to overshadow our lives. We do not need to linger in our problems, but instead we can live in the good promises of God. In all that Jesus has done by dying and rising for us, we can have a good day every day. God’s glory is too awesome to stay stuck in anything bad. Life is too short for a bad cup of coffee ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Chiastic Designs in English Literature from Sidney to Shakespeare

    Paying special attention to Sidney's Arcadia, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare's romances, this study engages in sustained examination of chiasmus in early modern English literature. The author's approach leads to the recovery of hidden designs which are shown to animate important works of literature; along the way Engel offers fresh and more comprehensive interpretations of seemingly ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe

    Memory, Melancholy, and the Emblematic Tradition

    Bringing to bear his expertise in the early modern emblem tradition, William E. Engel traces a series of self-reflective organizational schemes associated with baroque artifice in the work of Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe. While other scholars have remarked on the influence of seventeenth-century literature on Melville and Poe, this is the first book to explore how their close readings of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

    A Critical Anthology

    This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Caring For Kids

    A Critical Study Of Urban School Leavers

    The official school drop-out figure in the US in recent years has been 25 per cent of the cohort. Estimates from large cities are often double these rates, and in some areas 60 per cent or worse. This text focuses on this problem in US schools, but from an unusual perspective. It is a study gained from in-depth interviews of 100 "stop-outs" - that is, those who dropped out but then decided to ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Scandinavian Object Shift and Optimality Theory

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpectedly to the left and not to the right of a sentential adverbial. With new and original observations, it is an important addition to the fields of phonology, optimality theory and theoretical syntax. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Understanding Girls' Problem Behavior

    How Girls' Delinquency Develops in the Context of Maturity and Health, Co-occurring Problems, and Relationships

    Series Book 7 - Hot Topics in Developmental Research - A Series of Three Edited Volumes
    Understanding Girls' Problem Behavior presents an overview of recent studies by leading researchers into key aspects of the development of problem behavior in girls.Integrates interdisciplinary research into girls’ problem behaviors (e.g. aggression, antisocial behavior, rule breaking)Unique in seeking to understand girls' problem behaviors in their own rightFollows the maturing girl from ... Read more

    $99.00 USD