This book examines president Clinton, a pre-9/11 pioneer, in managing and exploiting terrorism's domestic political risks and opportunities. Clinton's lessons provide invaluable guidance for leaders seeking to navigate today's ever-more lethal, diverse, and ambiguous terrorism landscape.
In looking at the remarkable proliferation of democracies since 1974, this volume offers important insight into the challenges and opportunities that democracy faces in the twenty-first century. Distinguished contributors detail the contemporary threats to democracy emanating from internal sources such as tensions arising over technology and its ......
This book cuts across the class boundaries of traditionally separate fields of social history. It investigates the social origins of servants, their incomes, their marriage and family patterns, their career patterns, their possibilities for social mobility, their political activities, and their criminality. But it also investigates the history ......
Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain
From Daniel Defoe's Family Instructor to William Godwin's political novel Caleb Williams, literature written for and about servants tells a hitherto untold story about the development of sexual and gender ideologies in the early modern period. This original study explores the complicated relationships between domestic servants and their masters ......
Originally published in 1968. In The Dome and the Rock: Structure in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, James Baird traces the process of Wallace Steven's Grand Poem and the total structure that it accomplished in language. In the words of Professor Baird, ""The full art of Stevens is organized with architectural precision. The shape of the ......
Gary is a dementia care advisor for Four Seasons Health Care in the UK. Previously a dementia care nurse, Gary's role now relates to the development, implementation and evaluation of best practices in dementia care throughout a number of care homes in the UK.
There was a time when I thought eating sweets, meant gluttony.
Until 1998, on the first of many journeys to what I wish was my motherland; Italy. Things were done differently there it seemed. Evidently, energy and intent was sifted through mouth-watering treats. And why? To bring people together. To ......
A Handbook for Interpretation at Museums and Historic Sites
This book is a complete guide to interpreting women's history. It connects scholarship with the tangible resources and the sensuality that form museums and historic sites-- the objects, architecture and landscapes-- in ways that encourage visitor fascination and understanding and center interpretation on the women active in them
