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Professional hockey, unlike other North American professional sports, has multiple international dimensions. This work provides a thorough, needed and up-to-date discussion of the application of criminal, tort, labor, and tax law in matters dealing with hockey by enlisting key legal scholars, academics and practicing attorneys and solicitors who are widely recognized in their specific fields.

A scholarly monograph based on years of field work in Mongolia as well as original research in Asia, Europe and North America. It is an original and detailed ethnography of tea practices, female power and gendered meaning in Mongolia. It is also a welcome addition to the field by an African scholar of distinction who is one of the few Black African researchers in Central Asia.

A book about water in as many of its declensions as the autor has been able to bring together. Its life and its death (chapters 1 and 11), its role in human life and human civilization (chapters 2 and 3), the place of the oceans in the scroll of history and water in warfare (chapters 5, 6 and 7), and the hold of water on the human imagination (chapter 10).

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.

This work provides needed historical, theoretical and practical insight to recent and current trends in conflict reporting and management. It expands the literature on framing theory in relation to conflict perception, interpretation and management from mass media and policy perspectives.

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 implementation.

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. O'Brien (1897-1974) was not only a playwright and a splendid writer of prose but a close student of the Basques at a time when the very survival of their society was at terrible risk.

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 contemporary times.

This collection of original research essays celebrates in a focused scholarly fashion the 250th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe's birthday. "The Great Enchantress" of the Gothic romance, as her contemporaries re-christened her, was then and has been ever since the publication of her fiction, an author endowed with exceptional powers of enchantment over words, sounds and images.

Discusses the personal, social, academic, and career-related impact of service-learning as an instructional method. 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 what works, from the students' perspective.

Provides the first in-depth scholarly analysis of the "Education for Peace" programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina by an independent scholar and researcher. It also provides an important systematic study of the "mainstreaming" process of peace education in post-conflict zones.

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 after the college experience.

Examine the ways in which this secretive men's club both reflected and helped to create some extreme Victorian ideas about race, sex and gender which, although a background theme to the more acceptable moral righteousness of the period, nevertheless has reverberated with powerful emphasis, even down to the present day.

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 to utilize 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 classic issues of criminal justice.

One of medieval Ireland's greatest collections of stories and poems, THE COLLOQUY OF OLD MEN (12 th century by anonymous bards and compilers)is an extraordinary fictive accountant of journeys made by saint Patrick and the pagan Cailte, a survivor from an earlier epoch. The contrast between Druidic paganism and Christianity permeates the collection It is seen in accounts of Patrick's miracles, his success as a missioner, his claims to authority both moral and secular. In Cailte, ancient Ireland gives as good as it gets. His accounts are detail elopements, single heroic combats, and adventures in the Otherworld amongst the ancient gods and goddesses. This wealth of literary, cultural and folkloric material is retold in a fresh modern idiom and is complete with the full armature of scholarly research material.

A monograph that studies the interstices between native Irish folklore and the myth of the American West during the last frontier period (1860-1890). It traces the role of Irish pioneers and their contributions to the westward migration.

This research monograph analyses and describes how multiracial undergraduates have come to think about race and racism. The work begins with an overview of the problem of race and racism in education, then discusses the way in which race is typically construed along a continuum of mono-racial thinking. The text is then split into seven distinct case studies based on individuals with multiracial, multicultural and ambiguous racial identities and their K-12 experience.

The authors of this primer are senior professors, dissertation advisors, and seasoned administrators for a research university. INQUIRY reflects the books aim to help readers with the principles of research scope concerning investigative (examination); nuances (meaning); questions (evoke); in (throughout); research (scientific) yield (return).

Brings an insider's knowledge and an outsider's eye to one of the key issues in Anglo-American poetry: the transformative aspects of change based on science and technology, its relentlessness and its disruptive tendencies. As a poet and a survivor of an ongoing conflict that has seen the death of hundreds of thousands of his fellow Iraqis, Al-Zubeidy is aware of the effrontery of poetry in the face of modern horror.

This scholarly driven, yet practical, book is pointedly and purposefully titled, EMPOWERFUL INFORMATICS, to help students, parents, families, communities, and institutions of higher learning find the balance for personal empowerment, academic enlightenment, and economic efficiency.

A monograph that offers a fresh look at modern experimental poetry in Spanish, Portuguese and French produced in Latin America. It uses a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to examine how these experimental poetic forms can be best interpreted and understood through a performative lens.

This monograph is a pioneering exploration of the theological category of human freedom as the animating centre of the thought of Henri Bouillard, SJ, a leader of the "Ressourcement" movement in French Roman Catholic theology in the middle of the 20th century. The work also serves as a comprehensive analysis of Bouillard's corpus of writings spanning the years 1940 to 1981.Bouillard's contribution to a much studied movement have been in the shadows of better known colleagues such as Henri de Lubac. Dr Scully's research helps to introduce an important theologian to the English-speaking world and to situate within the theological and ecclesial controversies prior to the Second Vatican Council the key issues ,ideas and formulations that were to serve as the basis of Bouillard's theology of Human Freedom. Both de Lubac and Karl Rahner as well as Karl Barth recognized Bouillard's original contribution to the renewal of fundamental theology ans well as his vital reanimating of Thomism in our time."A fine study...an important addition to any academic library or research collection of contemporary Theology."Professor Andrew Woznicki, SC, STD, University of San Francisco

This important work is a three part study that includes a legal and historical review of the unique place of law reviews in American legal education as well as the nature and stature of the reviews and the varying careers the top reviews have had in the 20th century. Thirdly Gutterman has written of his own law review career with a mordant and fascinating eye on the extremes of legal opinion (and behavior) a deadline can bring. The author also discusses the effects of the two major writing competitions specifically devoted to law review writing. The study includes an extensive discussion of plagiarism and other abuses found in L. Rev life."...This is a unique and powerfully written work on the law review as an institution and its relationship to American legal life. Beyond its obvious place in legal libraries, it should be in the personal libraries of aspiring law students and their mentors".John S. Karr, Esq.

Presents an account of the assessment methods of Waldorf elementary school teachers. It also offers a full discussion Waldorf programmes for teacher education, teacher evaluation systems, and requirements for school accreditation-these are what the Waldorf community submits as assurance that Waldorf teachers' classroom assessments are valid, fair, and reliable.

Re-examines the relationship between the beginnings of the modern historical profession and the emergence of the nation-state in the nineteenth century. The monograph analyses the founding father of modern historiography, Leopold von Ranke, and his evolution as an historian, his self-perception and his increasingly dominant perceptions of the historian's craft and role in society and politics.

...I know of no current study that contains such a wide array of research on Carnival, Black Power, dancehall and politics, diaspora politics, the softpower of Anglo-Caribbean music, media and belief systems." - Peer Review, University of California, Berkeley

This work discusses past research, emphasizes present day opportunity and planning and discusses potential academic solutions to the pressing issue of diversity in both classroom and faculty offices.

The central theme of this monograph is James Joyce's employment of the Irish language in Finnegans Wake, the virtuosity with which he makes use of the tongue, the understanding of its grammatical and syntactical subtleties which he reveals in the book and ''the explanatory treasure of heart and mind'', as the the author put it himself, which the Gaelic component of the writer's final word on the world provides.

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 other are also discussed.