In studies of gender and sexuality in popular music, the concept of difference is often a crucial analytic used to detect social agency; however, the alternativ...
Capital punishment is one of the more controversial subjects in the social sciences, especially in criminal justice and criminology. Over the last decade or so,...
byM. Lee
Short synopses and analyses of Wagner's Ring cycle by a knowledgeable and thoughtful opera lover who delivered talks on the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. This ...
byM. Lee
Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger has always called forth superlatives from those who have fallen under its spell. Toscanini wanted to lay his baton down for t...
byM. Lee
How well do you think you know your opera? Match wits with Metropolitan Opera quiz master Father Owen Lee in forty-five opera-related puzzles, including strai...
byM. Lee
How is it possible for a seriously flawed human being to produce art that is good, true, and beautiful. Why is the art of Richard Wagner, a very imperfect man, ...
byNoah Brown,Dominic Bettencourt,Lucy Doherty,Owen Lowe-Rogstad,Ronan McCann
Reading Together is the essential guide for parents interested in starting a book club with their kids and raising their children to become book-loving adults.T...
by General James Maurice Gavin,William Lee
To every member of the 82nd Airborne Division who dropped as part of the American paratroop landings during World War Two, they breathed a little easier knowing...
byLois Harris, Gavin T.L. Brown
Using Self-Assessment to Improve Student Learning synthesizes research on self-assessment and translates it into actionable guidelines and principles for pre-se...
by Gavin T. L. Brown and Lois R. Harris
The Handbook of Human and Social Conditions in Assessment is the first book to explore assessment issues and opportunities occurring due to the real world of hu...
Published in 1997, the work explores the reorientation of security policies and the accompanying restructuring of the armed forces going on in Southern Africa u...
byGavin Poynter,Valerie Viehoff,Yang Li
As London sought to use the Olympics to achieve an ambitious programme of urban renewal in the relatively socially deprived East London it attracted global atte...
byThomas Haven,J. Guasch,Luis Andres,Vivien Foster
Infrastructure plays a key role in fostering growth and productivity and has been linked to improved earnings, health, and education levels for the poor. Yet L...
byAdrienne Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
Concentrating on a period of significant social and political change and exploring both canonical and newly rediscovered texts, this book critically assess the ...
byAdrienne Gavin, Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women’s ficti...