The volume will be the second in an ongoing project on the legal regulation of athletics. It will consist of a set of essays on a variety of legal issues facing professional basketball. The contributors are a distinguished group of academics and practitioners who have long focused their intellectual efforts on the legal governance of ......
Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Reverend George Dudley Ryder and the Catholic Revival in Nineteenth Century England
In this monograph, contemporary English scholar Penelope Hunting explores the relationship between Cardinal Newman and George Dudley Ryder. The recovery of two sets of family papers relating to Newman, George Ryder (grandson of the Earl of Harrowby), the Wilberforces, the Sargents, and the Mannings provided the stimulus for Hunting's original ......
A Victorian English Novelist and the Worlds of Anglo-Jewry, Zionism andJudaism, 1859-1913
Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question investigates the representation of Jewish characters in 70 of the prolific and wildly popular Mrs Braddon's novels from the mid 19th c to the eve of World War One. This study considers how Braddon changes her descriptions across this timeframe and argues that these changes are reflective of the ......
Two major Dickens studies, each of them breaking fresh ground, vie for attention in this absorbing volume. The first explores the extent to which Charles Dickens inherited the mantle of Charles Lamb. It demonstrates how heavily, as a 'hunter', he drew upon his predecessor's work for inspiration, adopting Elia's themes and mannerisms and virtually ......
Charles Darwin's Theory and Kurt Vonnegut's Portrayal of American Life and Culture
Historically, an investigation into the impact of science and technology on society is nothing new to the area of literature; in fact it has been done for centuries. However, this book is relevant in its attempt to understand, in Vonnegut's novels, how Darwin's theory of evolution functions as a cosmogonic myth that is widely accepted in order to ......
This research collection includes practitioner-researchers accounts from a wide range of global, social, cultural and workplace contexts that discuss educational influences on the practitioners own learning, in the learning of others and in the learning of social formations. Contributors from China, Black Africa, Western and Central Europe, ......
Gender, Class and Culture in American Birdkeeping, 1776-2010
The first serious historical study of birdkeeping in America from colonial times to the present. It documents and discusses the various forms of commercial birdkeeping and the opportunities it offered to women and some minorities. Research into state and national political activities of bird keepers and their sometimes strained relations with each ......
