This scholarly monograph, Shakespeare s Dramatic Maxims, explores Shakespeare's use of maxims (defined as short, pithy statements of wisdom) in the plays, with special attention to their period social and political implications and how they affect reading and staging of his plays today. While some works (scholarly and popular) have explored ......
The Politics of Adopting and Mainstreaming Peace Education Programs in a Post-Conflict Setting
This research monograph contributes to the fields of peace education, post conflict resolution, peacebuilding and conflict analysis by providing the first in-depth scholarly analysis of the Education for Peace program in Bosnia and Herzegovina by an independent scholar and researcher. It also provides an important systematic study of the ......
Orientalism, the Cannibal Club and Victorian Ideas of Sex, Race and Gender
A research monograph on the mid-Victorian rise of Sir Richard Burton, Orientalism and the phenomenon of the Cannibal Club is overdue as, although it has been dealt with superficially many times, there has never been a book length treatment which focuses clearly on the whole arc of its historical development and its relevance to the undercutting of ......
THEORRY -- The Higher Education of Research Resource Yield --is written for the modern college or university student scholar. THEORRY empowers undergraduate students to be renaissance scholars and apply academic data driven decision making as research leaders and apply practical logical model decision making as resource managers before, during and ......
Applying the Natural Sciences to Criminal Justice and Penology
Using physics and biology to examine social dynamics is not new and is often referred to as socio-physics. This is the first sustained attempt utilizing current research to apply this approach to the fields of criminal justice and penology. The authors intend this new research to promote a more innovative, creative and critical approach to the ......
This reference work discusses the origins and development of arms makers of Connecticut from earliest times until the industrialization of the industry in the late 19th and early 20th century. The arms makers and their arms are linked to changes that occurred with rapidity as Connecticut became a major centre for weaponry from the Civil War to ......
Service Learning: An Agent for Social Change discusses personal, social, academic, and career-related impact of service-learning as an instructional method is well documented. This book contributes to the literature by providing access to examples of the service-learning process; the nuances of its implementation; and qualitative evaluation of ......
This is a singular piece of literary research and criticism by a scholar fluent in English, Spanish, Irish and Basque who has utilized all the sources available to write a thorough study of Kate O'Brien (called by Dr. Declan Kilberd one of the top 20 Irish authors of the 20th century). O'Brien (1897-1974) was not only a playwright and a splendid ......
Building, Leveraging, and Sustaining Capacity in Historically Black College and Universities
This work uses current research data and interviews to present a cogent discussion of strategies and tactics needed to keep the HBCU community a healthy vital component of American educational life. The threats and problems of intuitional life are not glossed over rather they are discussed within the parameters of successful planning and ......
