This work is configured to encourage members of the academic community to consider initiating a part-time consulting practice in their areas of knowledge. Professor Wright provides a step-by-step program for developing a consulting niche that will be valuable to clients and competitive with other consultants. The information offered ranges from ......
This is a collection of planning empiricists on the contemporary challenges facing Zimbabwe as a nation in the planning and ordinary life domain. Planning as a discipline is concerned about location of activities and how values of order, amenity and health, among other things must be enhanced. It takes on board the people to benefit from that ......
In volume, an emerging generation of African scholars examines specific states in Africa where instability is the order of the day. Considerations of African instability are highly relevant in today's world, where one examines the types of regimes that were put in place after the Cold War and their effects on Africa. Multiparty systems introduced ......
A Critical Analysis of the Prefaces for the Sundays of Lent in the Editions of 'Missale Romanum' 1570 and 2002
This monograph defends the continuity of the liturgical reforms of Vatican 11 with the previous liturgical tradition by examining and comparing the prefaces for the Sundays of Lent in the Roman Missals of 1570 and 2002. That is examining whether or not the editio typica tertia of the Missale Romanum (MR 2002) shows any significant rupture from the ......
Courtly love and feminism are strange bedfellows, the one a controversial literary concept, and the other a continuing crusade. Both can be taken seriously or ridiculed. In this incisive book, Antonia Southern tries to do both with both. Courtly Love focuses a feminist lens on fourteen authors, some well-known and some less so. They aimed ......
In Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society, the first book-length consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic's implications, noted sociologist Jose Martinez lays bare the immense social changes that we should expect from the nouvel coronavirus, which has upended American life since March 2020. A vital theme of his critique is how ......
This study uniquely and systematically makes the argument that the electoral process in America should be considered as a public good. This argument is placed in the context of an examination of campaign funding and historical attempts at reform. It furthermore is more analytic than anything in the field in tracing the connections between our ......
The Creolization of Nations, Cultural Migration, Global Languages and Literatures
The purpose of this work is simply to provide a broad and thorough (as opposed narrow and specific)overview to one of the key issues in comparative language and literatures as well as in social and political science, history, development studies, anthropology and cultural studies. Professor Gallagher is one of the most active researchers and ......
In the 1930s, Freud observed that "when you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is `male or female?' and you are accustomed to make the distinction with unhesitating certainty." As Freud suggests, society is divisible by gender. We are taken to be either "male" or "female." This notion seems to be fixed within our culture and is ......