In the eighteenth century, a type of novel flourished showing naive outsiders who come to Europe and are amazed at what they see. Foreign travelers first setfoot in Europe in the sixteenth century and are memorably present in Montaigne's essay Des Cannibales. The genre was made popularin France by Montesquieu's novel Lettres persanes. Considering ......
The oddity of words, the parables in daily situations, and the metaphors that always seem to fit until one thread is broken bring a simplicity to human existence that stabilizes the most harried executive, educator, engineer, and everyone from A to Z. Daily groundings can offer a new light for the halogen-blinded mind leading to better thinking. ......
Would you participate in a contest in which you do not know the rules? What if the success of your organization or your personal reputation were at stake? Don't answer so quickly. Every day millions of people interact with the news media and yet most of them are completely unaware of the rules of the game. The results are predictable: a few ......
Fojas's book is a study about the aporia between cosmopolitanism as a sign of justice and cosmopolitanism as the consumption and display of international luxury items and cultural production. Turn of the century Pan-American cosmopolitanism described international aesthetic culture and fashion drawn from major world cities, but it was also ......
Basic Investment Principles for Today and Tomorrow
Every family should have financial goals for the future. Being unprepared can lead to monetary chaos. This book deals with strategies for accomplishing financial goals. The book deals with financial strategies for three adult age categories -- (1) Families of ages twenty to forty in the earlier years of active employment, child raising, and the ......
This book discusses such call-center topics as e-commerce, ER in the call center, and managing workplace conflict and technical support staff. The fourth edition is expanded and includes the training imperative, self-service, and first call resolution. It also has updated statistics and expanded references.
Miguel de Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares, a collection of short stories in the tradition of Boccaccio, has a solid foundation in the history of Golden Age Spain. Joseph V Ricapito studies Cervantes's work from the point of view of "novelized history" or "history novelized." In line with current New Historical thought, he argues that literary ......
The papers in this volume of the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies represent recent scholarship about Booker Prize Winner Michael Ondaatje's oeuvre by scholars working in English-Canadian literature and culture. Contributors to the volume are Victoria Cook, Mariene Goldman, and Sandeep Sanghera with papers on ......
Animal abuse has been an acknowledged problem for centuries, but only within the past few decades has scientific research provided evidence that the maltreatment of animals often overlaps with violence toward people. The variants of violence, including bullying or assaults in a schoolyard, child abuse in homes, violence between adult intimate ......
