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This work deals with substance abuse among the incarcerated criminal population as well as the street criminal in a criminogenic neighborhood or setting. It is designed to be used by criminal justice professionals particularly those in corrections and intervention programs. Law enforcement program managers will also be able to develop programs based on the paradigm development outlined by Mr. Pitts. Since the author himself underwent imprisonment and substance abuse, the discussion of inmate drug abuser is particularly compelling and important. The success of various methodologies and treatment programs is discussed.

Addresses the West's current crisis of confidence. Reflecting on how the famed Roman philosopher-statesmen Marcus Tullius Cicero thought and acted in a time of great turbulence in the ancient world, this book offers lessons to 21st century students of politics and statesmen alike.

By drawing on Jung's and Marx's opposing ideas, James Driscoll's Carl versus Karl: Jung and Marx, Two Icons for our Age develops fresh perspectives on urgent contemporary problems. Jung and Marx as thinkers, Driscoll contends, carry the projections of archetypal complexes that go back to the Biblical hostile brothers, Abel and Cain, and whose enduring tensions shape our postmodern era. Marxism, because it elevates the group over the individual, is made to order for bureaucrats and bureaucracy's patron archetype Leviathan. Jungian individuation offers a corrective rooted in the Judeo-Christian ethic's affirmation of the ultimate value of free individuals. Although Marxism's promise of justice gives it demagogic appeal, the party betrays that promise through opportunism and a primitive ethic of retribution. Marxism's supplanting the Judeo-Christian ethic with bureaucracy's "only following orders" Eichmann Code, Driscoll maintains, has created the moral paralysis of our time. As Jung and writers like Hannah Arendt, George Orwell, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Elias Canetti have warned us, the influence of our ever expanding bureaucracies is a grave threat to the survival of civilized humanity.Among the primary issues Driscoll addresses are: the nature of justice and of the soul, individuation and freedom, and mankind's responsibilities within the planetary ecology. Religion, ethics, economics, science, class divisions, immigration, financial fraud, abortion, and affirmative action are all illumined by his analysis of the powerful archetypes moving behind Jung and Marx.

The Revolutionary Art of Love: From Romantic Love to Global Compassion offers a complex description of love as a personal emotion and as an intersubjective, ethical experience of connection. Its purpose is to deconstruct cultural myths about love, proposing instead a framework for understanding love's contribution to the well-being of individuals and social systems. The uniqueness of the book lies in its interdisciplinary scope, articulating love as a form of connection to the self, others, and the world in general. It examines its role in mental health, sexuality, emotional intelligence, and social responsibility. Bianca Briciu's bold new book is an invitation to reclaim the power of the human heart from institutional constraints by redefining love as a complex human capability, similar to intelligence or creativity. The cultivation of love opens us to the ethics of interconnectedness and responsibility of caring for life. Framing love as a revolutionary art articulates the subtleties of different experiences of love as expressions of an insufficiently explored human capability with transformative potential.

Climate change will cause Europe to lose much of its biodiversity as projected by a comprehensive study on future butterfly distribution. The Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies predicts northward shifts in potential distribution area of many European butterfly species. As early warning indicators of environmental change, butterflies are a valuable tool to assess overall climate change impact and to provide some indication on the chances to come nearer to the target of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010 set by the EU Heads of State in 2001.The Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies is based on the work of scores of scientists from across Europe. They applied climate change models to data collected by tens of thousands of volunteers.The authors say that some climate change is now inevitable and that the extent of the losses will depend on the degree of that change and how we respond to the new threat. Butterflies have already suffered huge losses across Europe following decades of habitat loss and changing farming and forestry practices.As temperatures rise, majority of butterfly species will try to head north. This won't always be achievable. The forestry and farming changes mean that areas of suitable habitat are now often small and too far apart for butterflies to travel between them.The worst-case scenario scientists examined sees the average European temperature rise by 4.1ºC by 2080. In that case over 95 per cent of the present land occupied by 70 different butterflies would become too warm for continued survival.The best case-scenario sees a 2.4ºC temperature rise. Even this would mean that 50 per cent of the land occupied by 147 different butterflies would become too warm for them to continue to exist there.Many butterflies will largely disappear from where they are regularly seen now. The Small Tortoiseshell will become absent from a huge swathe of middle and southern Europe and will become restricted to northern Europe. Under the worst-case scenario, rare species like the Spanish Festoon Zerynthia rumina would experience a 97% loss from Spain and Southern France, and the Apollo Parnassius apollo would suffer a 76% loss from mountainous areas.Climate change is already having an impact on butterflies. Over 60 mobile species with widespread food-plants are known to have spread north in Europe over recent decades, including the Comma Polygonia c-album, which is spreading north in the UK at 10km per year. Other species have moved further up mountains.The chief author of Climatic Atlas of European Butterflies is Dr Josef Settele from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Germany. He said: "The Atlas shows for the first time how the majority of European butterflies might respond to climate change. Most species will have to shift their distribution radically to keep pace with the changes. The way butterflies change will indicate the possible response of many other insects, which collectively comprise over two-thirds of all species."Dr Martin Warren, Chairman of Butterfly ConservationEurope and one of the authors, said "Evidence points to an acceleration in climate change after 2050 unless there is a significant decrease in global CO2 emissions. This accelerated change would be the final nail in the coffin for many European species. We need to be ready for this worst-case scenario. We need place more emphasis on maintaining large, diverse populations on existing habitats while re-connecting habitats to allow species to move across the landscape. This means working closely with farmers and planners."Dr Ladislav Miko, Director of Nature Conservation at the EU Environment Directorate in Brussels, said: "We strongly welcome this important study which helps us understand how species might respond to climate change. The evidence points to a radical change in species' distribution, which we must plan for within future European policies. The results show the enormous scientific value of records from thousands of volunteers across Europe."Sebastian Winkler, Head of Countdown 2010, stated "The astounding outcomes of this study should remind world leaders once more that if immediate action is not taken, the 2010 biodiversity target will not be reached and biological diversity will continue to decline."The Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies was written by researchers from across Europe under the EU Sixth Framework programme projects: ALARM (Assessing Large-scale Environmental Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods) www.alarmproject.net and MACIS (Minimisation of and Adaptation to Climate change Impacts on biodiversity) www.macis-project.netContactsJosef Settele, Butterfly Conservation Europe & Helmholtz-Centre of Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Community Ecology, Tel: xx 49 345 558 5320, Josef.Settele@ufz.deMartin Warren, Butterfly Conservation Europe & Butterfly Conservation (UK). Tel: xx 44 7775 590750Dirk Maes, Butterfly Conservation Europe & Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), xx 322 5581837, dirk.maes@inbo.beTilo Arnhold, Helmholtz-Centre of Environmental Research - UFZ, PR Department, Tel: xx 49 341 235 1635, Tilo.Arnhold@ufz.deIn cooperation with Pensoft Publishers

Foreword by Professor Akbar S Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University, Washington,DCWaziristan has been declared the most dangerous place on earth and the next major attack on Europe and America will be planned here. To fight terrorism we need to know the people, the area and why they plan to attack Europeans and Americans.The book takes us inside the hearts and minds of the tribal people, their code of Pushtunwali, their culture and livelihood. The tribal areas have been in war for the last thirty years, this is the only book written by a tribesman, who grew up in Waziristan and who holds an important administrative post in the self governing Tribal areas.Why did such noble people convert into terrorism on a major scale? How much has the area suffered at the hands of terrorism or has it been a boon to local leaders and their followers? How has their way of life, which evolved over thousands of years, come under threat and from whom? Khan argues that British and Pakistani policies that denied or discouraged modernization have come to haunt policymakers and peacemakers alike.There is little firsthand account of tribal society after Sir Olaf Caroe, James Spain and Akbar S Ahmed. Dr Khan discusses and analyses the tribesmen, giving an insight into how they conduct their affairs and survive in such a brutally harsh and hostile environment. By introducing their way of life, he have made the tribesmen more accessible to those interested in the security and development of the region. Khan discusses his native village, once beautiful and peaceful, and how it has changed radically for the worse in the last decade.Why and how did such noble people go bad? What is the solution to terrorism? What is the way forward for the world? Khan belongs to Waziristan, he has no sympathy for foreign terrorists nor for those of his clan who have joined the jihad. Waziris have suffered the most yet are blamed the most. A hill culture which evolved over thousands of years is being replaced by Arab Bedouin culture in the name of a pitiless variety of imported Islam and a furtive consumer culture aligned towards India and China. G.Q. Khan's study speaks from the heart but also from his experience in the higher echelons of government and in the wider world of scholarship and social science.

The Year of the Priest was celebrated from June 2009 to June 2010. It coincided with the jubilee year in honor of the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of St. John Marie Vianney. Curé d'Ars, as he is fondly known, is the patron for priests. This simple and saintly priest had drawn countless numbers of people to God through his ministry in one of the most challenging periods in history, after the French Revolution. The insignificant village, Ars, in the south-western corner of France would not have been known at all but for the spiritual fervor and tireless priestly commitment of its curé who brought sinners close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to experience God's love and forgiveness. In 1929 Pope Pius XI declared him as the patron for the parochial clergy, soon after his canonization. When our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI declared this jubilee year of St. John Marie Vianney as the Year for Priests, it opened multitude of new opportunities to learn more about the saint as well as to engage in profound reflection on the theology of priesthood. It is personally a reawakening process for thousands of priests to pursue a refreshing meditation on their own identity and spirituality. It is all the more important pastorally for Catholics around the world to have deep reflection on their own common priesthood by virtue of their Baptism and the ministerial priesthood as instituted by Christ. The declaration of this Jubilee year serves a fertile pastoral ground to instruct and reflect on the theology and ministry of priesthood. It promotes greater appreciation for the pastors of souls who are tirelessly serving the flock entrusted to their care in different parts of the world, sometimes in most hostile and challenging assignments where their lives are at real risk. It promotes greater coordination of the charisms realized among the laity and ecclesiastical offices in the Church, because "priests and laity together compose one priestly people," as highlighted by Benedict XVI in his letter at the inauguration of this Jubilee year.It is the author's wish to present this writing with three desired goals: 1) a personal spiritual resource, both for priests and laity, to deepen their self understanding of the identity; 2) an academic ,scholarly tool to introduce to some deep biblical, theological and liturgical foundations of priesthood; and finally 3) a pastoral resource to facilitate and coordinate various gifts in the parish context with Christian leadership founded in Scripture, theology, and the Magisterium. Therefore this writing will not only be useful during this year for priests, but also valuable as a follow-up and on-going reflection on the Christian priesthood which is so central in nurturing our life of faith. Joseph recommends reading this book, together with scripture, especially the references cited in each chapter. "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly" (Col 3:16). It could serve as a tool for retreat preachers, homily preparation, talks, seminars, spiritual conferences, liturgical study groups, reflection for parish and diocesan liturgical committees, and personal meditation for priests, religious, missionaries, seminarians, parish staff, and any interested Catholic. It could serve as a pastoral resource for religious education programs, catechists, permanent deacons, Charismatic renewal movements and any organizations in the parish or diocese. It would help Christian families to promote authentic vocations in their homes and offer spiritual and ministerial support to thousands of priests and religious joyfully engaged in pastoral ministries around the world in the midst of demanding self-sacrifice and challenging times especially in mission countries.

This is the first serious attempt to meld the use of technology, action research and workplace learning. The book will focus on practitioner-research accounts from a range of workplace settings e.g. education, nursing, community, industry and training. This is a scholarly monograph informed by mediation on practical applications and theoretical discussion. The authors articulate their values as they creatively engage in the use of technology to improve workplace practice. The contribution to knowledge is in the explanation by practitioners of their own learning as they show how they are influencing the learning of others in a range of workplace contexts, through the use of technology. The work is unique in its expertise in practitioner research, which allows a depth of qualitative approach. Research is drawn from a variety of settings including elementary,secondary,tertiary and adult education." Highly recommended as an important tool in the Action Research movement in Education"Dean Joseph Stevenson, MVSU

This is a major research study of the effect of Reform Theology on European andAmerican visual and material cultures. It offers an analysis of Christianity andculture that builds on the scholarship of Arnold Toynbee and Francis Schaeffer andutilizes the careful analytical tools of the Dutch scholars Vollenhoven, Dooyewardand others. Barber's audacious scholarship aims to put Reform Christianity inthe center of change and interpretation in a way similar to the great Catholic andOrthodox cultural historians. Barber discusses the Biblical centered energies thatclarify, justify and interpret the culture of Western Civilization."Barber has mastered and/or referenced a huge amount of literature. His book is agreat resource...his arguments careful, cogent and revealing. I hope his argumenthas a great deal of influence on the church...it is like a mighty force for reformation,revival and cultural renewal. There has never been anything like it (as a singlevolume) in Reform literature. Recommended."John FrameProfessor of Philosophy and Systematic TheologyReformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL

Walter Dean Burnham is widely regarded as the greatest living student of American voting behavior. He pioneered the collection and publication of historical American election statistics and his many essays and books on them are read around the world. His compilation of voting statistics for the famous 1975 Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 was a landmark in the field. It presented the first reasonably complete data series on voting turnout in presidential elections, as well as the partisan split and other details of other, mostly federal, elections. But it was by no means complete, even for national elections. Returns from many areas, especially in the South and for much of the U.S. before 1824, were not included. Nor was there reliable turnout data for elections below the presidential level. Now, at last, his new work fills the gigantic holes at the heart of American history. Based on his own research into many local archives across the United States as well as state censuses from the 19th century, Burnham presents a complete series of presidential voting returns by state, together with state level data for governors and Congressional representatives. The series includes not only partisan splits, but turnouts, which makes this the first complete record of voting turnout in US federal elections ever published. Burnham also presents his estimates of the voting population for each state, which scholars have long awaited.He also includes a number of other series of great interest, including results for primaries in the South after the Civil War. These were the "real" election, but the data have been unavailable until now."This is a reference essential work in American politics and history. I hope that public libraries as well as research libraries add this title to their collections. My hat is off to everyone involved with publication. The Kearns, Beschlosses ,Schlesingers and Meachams of this world all owe Burnham an immense debt of gratitude."Professor Paul du Quenoy,AUB

"It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; butmischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness."George BorrowFirst, the subtitle of this completely revised and newly augmented study of GeorgeBorrow, "Misfit" implies not subscribing or submitting to normal, mainstreammiddle-class values and habits. Borrow preferred the company of gypsies,vagabonds, foreigners, horse-dealers and outsiders to the conformist, respectableEnglish person, whom he thought was sometimes incapable of understanding therealities of the human condition, or simply preferred to evade them. In 1984, thiswas the intended meaning of the word "eccentric"; someone with valid, personalpriorities, not in the main stream, away from the centre, free to be critical ofaspects of English life he regarded as false or shallow or unworthy. Borrow did notsubscribe to other people's view of how life should be conducted; his publicationsare the expression of this freedom.George Borrow Eccentric (1984) was guarded in its treatment of biographicalquestions. Collie discusses some key unresolved issues in Borrows life: the questionof paternity (did he and his brother have the same father?); the condition for whichmercury treatment was prescribed (if not syphilis, then what?); the person behindthe name "Isobel Berners" (can she be securely identified?); his Bible Societyaccounts (where was he during the periods unaccounted for?); his sexuality (whydid he marry Mrs Clarke?); his religious convictions (do his writings express faithor cynicism on this score?); and his loneliness (the loneliness of a sharp, perceptiveintellect without intended companionship?). Collie's study calmly, carefully andthoroughly discusses the new research tools and information that bring us evencloser to the man, the works and the issues confronted by anyone who writes hisliterary biography.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was born in France in 1940 and spent his youth in Africa, France and England. His family had strong connections to Mauritius and its Anglo-French creole elite. This research study is the first to be released in English since LeClezio won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008 . It discusses the man, his unique history and travels and the extraordinary production of 43 novels not to mention short stories, children's literature and journalism/criticism. Le Clezio has written magnificently of MesoAmerica, Black Africa, North Africa as well as France and urban civilization. An interpretative critical work has been need to develop Le Clezio's themes (crisis, urban decay, classical tribal life in Africa and America, ecology, globalization, the power and liberation of great cinema and others) and their context and importance in contemporary literature and life. The literary topography of Le Clezio ,as cited by the Swedish Academy, is one of "New departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy"; it is also a topography of humility, pilgrimage and vision.As a young writer in the aftermath of existentialism, French colonial defeat, and the noveau roman he was described as "...a conjurer who tried to lift words above the degenerate level of everyday speech and restore to them the power to invoke an essential reality." His first novels [Interrogation, The Flood, Fever}dealt with crisis, trouble and urban fear. His work then became more ecologically engaged culminating in Desert (1980)a masterpiece of depiction and contrast as North Africans leave the desert to become unwanted immigrants in France. The ugliness and brutality of modern city life is contrasted with hopes and dreams of the migrants and their anguish for a lost irrecovable world. Many novels followed including Revolutions (2003) and L'Africain (2004). Le Clezio now divides his time between Alberquerque, Nice and Mauritius."This study should prove of great interest to those involved with contemporary literary exploration...recommended for scholarly investigators and their libraries." Professor Marc Guillen, Sorbonne V1

Dr.Bongyu's research work on African States and the African union is well known. In this monograph he discusses the Balkanization of Africa in the colonial and immediate post colonial period with an emphasis on the weak, fragile and marginalized condition of even the strongest of Sub-Saharan African states. He also describes the rise of African aid funding and the fall of most economic indicators and the atrophy of key societal elements such as farming and traditional village life. The work starts with the present situation in Black Africa and various attempts at regional and continent wide unity by 53 national entities. Next Bongyu approaches the problems of macro-level economics ,governance and attempts at unity in the face of globalization. The study ends with new players coming into the African arena-China, the Gulf States and Brazil. The efforts to salvage the continent undertaken by Africans themselves and aided by friends abroad may indeed be the next new thing to emerge from Africa. ..Ex Africa Semper Nova.

"No book could be more timely then The Decline of Nature. LaFreniere offers an in-depth analysis of the fundamental issues that must be faced if solutions for environmental crisis are to be found. His arguments are a refreshing alternative to the superficial policy proposals of politicians and the glib reporting of the mass media. - The Decline of Nature is a masterful critique of the stories that own us. LaFreniere's analytical effort is a veritable tour de force."From the Foreword by Professor Max Oelschlaeger, Northern Arizona University"The virtue of his book is threefold: it ingeniously connects the latest findings of environmental science to the broad stream of cultural history; exposes the flaws inherent in western attitudes about nature, especially the destructive, providential "idea of nature; and revives the much neglected field of speculative philosophy of history"From an appreciation by Professor Klaus Fischer, author of "Oswald Spengler and the Decline of the West" and "Nazi Germany: A New History""...Sweepingly brilliant!" J.Donald HughesDescription: This work is a radical rethinking of the key currents of intellectual and environmental history. The Decline of Nature is an account of Western attitudes and behavior toward nature, from the deforestation of Western Europe during the High Middle Ages through the Scientific Revolution and the technological exploitation of nature in the 19th and 20th centuries, and on to the Environmental Movement. The destruction of European and colonial ecosystems parallels the rise of modern mechanistic science and a science-based idea of progress which has been perverted by economic ideologies into a belief in unlimited development of nature-as-resources into the amenities of the consumer society. Ecosystems and species diversity have declined to isolated and shrinking remnants subject to further degradation due to global warming resulting from human intervention in global climate cycles. These massive changes will have a catastrophic effect upon evolutionary processes, mankind and the survival of the Earth.The Decline of Nature is an environmental history of ideas embedded in a compact account of Western civilization's ecological impact upon the planet, particularly in Europe and its colonies. The major thesis presented is the idea that two speculative philosophies of history (attempts to understand the meaning of history) and their associated worldviews have been largely responsible for destructive attitudes and behaviors towards nature. They include the idea of providence (i.e. the Christian worldview) and the idea of progress (the science and technology-based vision of unrestrained economic development and material accumulation since the 17thcentury). Some scholars understand the idea of progress as a secularization of the Christianmillennium, the creation of a new Eden through science and technology.A third, alternative philosophy of history, the idea of history as multiple cycles of civilizations rising, flourishing, and declining, was popular in both classical Greco-Roman and ancient Asian civilizations, but was rejected by Western civilization until its revival during the Renaissance and in 19th and 20th century. Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West was the founding work of cyclical philosophy of history in the 20th century. Spengler, Arnold Toynbee, and other 20th century speculative philosophers of history have been criticized by postmodern philosophers for creating logically indefensible "grand narratives". However, Spengler's mysterious cycles of civilization have found at least a partial scientific explanation in the new discipline of environmental history. Environmental degradation played a major role in the decline of ancient Mesopotamian, Greco-Roman, Mayan and Asian civilizations. Spengler was also perceptive in distinguishing the nature-destroying tendencies of humanity in general, and Western (Faustian) civilization in particular. This monograph reflects on the position of global societies facing environmental, social and economic destruction and the historical processes that have resulted in this crisis of both man and nature.

In the tradition of C. Wright Mills and Irving Goffman, this monograph brings current research and insight to a social science research area famed for its fissiparous polemical battles. Sperber surveys the field from Durkheim to the present and discusses both the origins of the Radical and neo-Marxist perspective as well as the mainstream, functionalist school of research. The work's unique theoretical contribution lies in several areas: Sperber proposes that some of the diseases of modern civilization (Spanish flu epidemic of 1918,cancer,systemic lupus, heart disease, chronic depression among others) can be effectively explained,diagnosed and treated only when a systematic sociological perspective is brought to bear on them. Sperber also argues forcefully for a progressive, critical view of the field in language that is clear, forceful and persuasive."Not only thorough but a major addition to the field. Recommended for research libraries and institutions, especially centers of medical research. Does what American sociology has always done best---explain ourselves to ourselves with an almost religious intensity" Professor H.Richardson, Lampeter,Wales

Drawing on the work of Levi-Strauss, Malinowski, Dumezil, Van Gennep, Eliade and many others, Dr. Marsland proposes a dual/triune structure to early religion--a structure which appears to be worldwide.Marslander discusses the ideas of E.B.Tylor's PRIMITIVE CULTURE (1872); James Frazer's GOLDEN BOUGH (1890): the work of the Cambridge Ritualists, such as Jane Harrison's THEMIS (1912) and F.M.Cornford's ORIGINS OF ATTIC COMMEDY (1914); and Jessie Weston's FROM RITUAL TO ROMANCE (1920). Also explored are the epistemological dilemmas of culture-formation and cultural diffusion based on mythic and societal change. Sex and transgressive sexual modalities explored. This synthesis encompasses in a coherent whole gods, goddesses and their functions, festival rituals, the composition of sacred sites, the meaning of animal emblems and symbols in art, along with tribal social patterns. Taking a post-Lacanian view of the religious origin of culture, Dr.Marsland posits the use and structure of symbol in new and intricate ways."The monograph will prove of great interest to archeologists, anthropologists, religious and art historians." Dr.John Frost

The aim of this work is to focus on the non-dramatic works of the early period of modernism in England with an emphasis on the origins and development of key writers and poets. Other such studies date to the mid1980s (Michael Levenson, Sanford Schwartz, Stan Smith, e.g.) and tend to lean heavily toward intellectual history or poetics. This work strives to include a broad mix of thought as to the issue and the purpose of modernism including cultural anthropology, mythology, impressionism and the use of architectural space, with some attention to publishing (the development of the English short story , emergence of literary magazines, and use of literary reviews in creating a "public' for new writing) . Also, as opposed the edited collections such as Shiach or Whitworth research is not confined to a single genre nor strays from the focus of literary as opposed to other modern movements then in creation. Vital currents of modernism such as literary feminism, secular humanism/Darwinism and place and placelessness are also discussed.The writers and poets discussed include Pound, Eliot, Wyndam Lewis, T.E.Hulme, Hardy, F.M.Ford, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf , Walter Pater, "Michael Field", Henry.James, Oscar Wilde and E.M.Forster.Contributors include Tyrus Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz,Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, Fordham University,Jason B. Jones, Central Connecticut State UniversityCharles Sumner, University of Southern MississippiCarme Font Paz, Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaLori M. Campbell, University of PittsburghElizabeth A. Primamore, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNYRobert McParland, Felician CollegeSheng-yen Yu, National Taipei University of TechnologyGregory F. Tague, St. Francis CollegeAlex Moffett, Northeastern UniversityMitchell R. Lewis, Elmira CollegeDivya Saksena, Middle Tennessee State UniversityYevgeniya Traps, Graduate Center, CUNYDaniel Moore, University of Birmingham, UKAllan Johnson, University of Leeds, UKWayne Stables, Trinity College, DublinTimothy Vincent, Duquesne UniversityMonika Gehlawat, University of Southern MississippiTom Henthorne, Pace UniversityKatherine Isobel Baxter, Hong Kong University"This substantial volume organized around thematics of Origins of English Literary Modernism allows essays on the fin de siècle to talk interestingly to those on Edwardians and Georgians and they in turn to studies of early modernist masters. The emphasis on genealogy of modernism holds the volume together but does not keep individual essays from fresh and interesting explorations, little magazines in the fin de siècle, Bennett's early criticism, historiography in Vernon Lee, Baedeker in E. M. Forster: a rich and interesting collection toward study of the long twentieth century."John Maynard, Professor of English, New York University, and Co-Editor of Victorian Literature and Culture.

This research monograph is an analysis of the English girls' school-story, not mainly as an aspect of children's literature, but as a genre which, despite the conservatism of the surface text, deeply challenges and subverts traditional societal constructs and provides images of liberation and self creation for girls and women. The work examines the alternative life-views, role-models and "possibilities of becoming" offered by the texts. It also explains why they have assumed such an importance (as Orwell pointed out in regards the English boys' school literature in the lives of boys and men) in the lives of so many adult women. Dr. Humphrey also discusses the effect of war, shortages, sport/games, imperial decline and evolving notions of love and passion in these texts. This is the one of the few studies that provides a wide ranging discussion on so many aspects of this subject and it speaks to the power and possibility of this often dismissed, predictable and risible literature as no other research work has done.

This discussion of Graham Greene's faith uses Monsignor Quixote, one of Greene's later novels, as a departure point to discuss the author's faith in both secular and divine terms. The scholars involved in this project wanted to explore innocence and experience, peace and war, love and hate in Greene's richly human literary tapestry. Greene's Christianity (or lack of it) is explored, as are his major novels and their often bleak and tatty settings.The novels discusses include Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The End of the Affair, The Honorary Consul, Dr Fischer of Geneva and, of course, Monsignor Quixote. Among the international scholars included in this collection are Mark Bosco, SJ, Debanjan Chakrabarti, Peter Christensen, Thomas Dobozy, Fr.Leopoldo Duran, Berta Cano Echevarra, Cedric Watts, B.L.Thomson and Thomas Hill. Thomas Hill is author of Graham Greene's Wanderers and senior professor at Sophia University's Department of Literature.

Delia Tudor Stewart Parnell(1816 - 1898)rose to fame in Ireland and in the United States as the "mother of the patriot" Charles Stewart Parnell. Christened "the Lady Chieftaness" by an admiring American crowd at one of her many public rallies on behalf of Home Rule, her history has always been partial and ancillary to that of her famous son. Indeed her role in the lives of her daughters Fanny and Anna Parnell-both activists in the National cause-has been little noticed nor studied. This monograph discusses Delia's activities as the President of the Ladies'Land League, her role in the propanganda and journalistic wars of the day, her efforts to free her son from prison, and her achievements as a public person and active poet. Professor Schneller has used original documentation, newspaper archives, family papers to create a study of a strong willed and idealist woman of the Anglo-Irish gentry who devoted her adult life to the service of freeing her country. As a pioneering feminist and political activist Delia T.S.Parnell 's career is worthy of a serious scholarly reappraisal and that is what Professor Schneller has provided.

Dr Lovatt's book is a comprehensive look at the relevance of the teachings and philosophy of Plato and the pedagogical methods open to the teaching of the Platonic canon. The author invites his readers to enter into a collegial discourse and view the modern world through Plato's eyes and question their own beliefs, as he relates Plato's words to various contemporary issues including bioethics, politics, education and the process of scientific discovery. Lovatt is also interested in rehabilitating Plato's methodologies from heterodox misinterpretations and frambold orthodoxies.The work discusses Plato and Platonism as it has been understood in the West with an emphasis on purpose in human life. The next chapters discuss epistemology and ethics and present an objective basis for morality and its teachings. The final four chapters deal with issues in "Education", "Liberty", "Medical Ethics" and "Democratic Politics". These chapters have been called by Professor M.C .Jones (Oxford)as "informative and inspiring...dealing with Plato in the spirit of "creativity and imagination, honesty and moral goodness."

Vachel Lindsay introduced a genuinely new rhythm into American poetry and was America's first real folk poet-superior to Sandburg and articulating a sense of awe, loss and resentment at the passing of the older freedoms and dignities of pre industrial America. His topics (Negro revivals, Salvation Army meetings, Chautauqua gatherings) would seem to be utterly dated---yet Lindsay was a modernist in spite of himself and influenced greatly later poets and writers as dis separate as Hart Crane, Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Frost ,James T Farrell and William Faulkner as well as Jack Kerouac. Professor Rogal argues it was Lindsay's vision of the American Midwest heartland and its people than informed and empowered Lindsay's greatest poetry. And his performance skills enhanced his poetry during his short vagabond lifetime."... This work argues for the continuing importance of Vachel Lindsay...the author certainly puts forth a strong case for the poet's importance to the American poetic tradition and that tradition's inherent bardic energies and geomancy"Professor T. Badin. D/American Literature, Zagreb University

This work examines text as cultural force. It specifically discusses the thematic potency of Evolution as the evolutionary topics of the Darwin and the post Darwin generation increasingly found their way into popular discourse and popular culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. Both Britain and America were (and to an interesting degree, still are)the center of a series of debates about evolutionary development of life. Unlike Appleman's critical edition of Darwin (now in 3/E) this collection emphasizes literary and popular responses using original material and debates. It is particularly strong in examining newspaper accounts of the revolutionary findings of biology and the cultural shifts that occurred as evolutionary thought influenced literature and popular taste.

The religion of the Aztecs boasted a god of espionage -an unusual deity in any other new world religion. The Aztecs were brilliant soldiers and administrators and viewed espionage and intelligence gathering as a key to domination. The successor regimes to the Aztecs also created elaborate and successful entities for political and spiritual control: this monograph discusses the efforts of the Hapsburg and Bourbon administrations to exact information (as well as gold and silver) on a wide scale. Mahoney has done new research on the war of independence (not surprisingly large numbers of informants worked both sides of the conflict), Spanish clergy as spies, and the revolution of 1910 (which began with a celebration of the 1810 revolt and ended by being the bloodiest revolution in the history of the Americas). Involvements of American, British, German and Japanese agents are outlined and the social and political well springs of modern Mexican society's obsession with power and secrecy are detailed.

The authors, who have served in the Intelligence services, have made a close and original study of Sir Francis Walsingham and his associates in the Elizabethan secret services. Walsingham is seen as a darkly effective (the Queen called him "my Moor")master of a comprehensive intelligence gathering network with sophisticated centralized control and all-source processing. The Mahoneys investigate the financial side of Walsingham's operations (many paid for out of his own pocket) and his uncanny ability to present information in a timely and accurate manner despite the slow communications of the era. Also discussed are the Spanish, Scots, Papal and French efforts to gain useful intelligence in England and Ireland together with an account of the principal of the bitter counter espionage wars of the era and their victims. Robust index and bibliography with glossary included. Extensive original research especially economics and personnel requirements of domestic spying in early Protestant England.