Subject(s): Literature -- History and criticism Summary: Argues that modern literary history is currently the main site of theoretical and methodological reflection in literary studies. Via 19 key terms, the book takes stock of recent scholarship and demonstrates hos analyses of particular historical phenomena have modified our understanding of

Subject(s): Christianity and other religions -- Islam | Islam -- Relations Christianity | Christian women -- History -- To 1500 | Middle East -- History -- To 1500 Summary: This book tells the compelling story of a Christian noble woman named Tamta in the thirteenth century. Born to an Armenian family at the court of queen Tamar of Georgia, she

Subject(s): Democratization -- Africa, North | Political culture -- Africa, North | Africa, North -- Politics and government -- 21st century Summary: The book offers fresh insight into the recent political development and contrasting experiences of four Maghreb countries: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania. The Arab Spring affected them i

Subject(s): Radio personalities -- Fiction | Single mothers -- Fiction | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction | Teenage girls -- Fiction Summary: Popular radio host Gail Gideon's career was launched years earlier by an on-air rant about her unfaithful husband. Now she's the heroine of millions of single women who tune in for her advice. But

Subject(s): Women -- Social conditions -- Singapore | Women -- Social conditions -- Malaysia | Sex role -- Singapore | Sex role -- Malaysia Summary: "Singapore and Malaysia are rapidly modernising, globalising Asian states which, although being distinct nations since 1965, share common elements in the on-going struggle over the meaning of g

Subject(s): English language -- Business English Study and teaching (Continuing education) -- China | Education | Language and education | Continuing education | Adult education Summary: Workplace English language training programs represent a corporate investment in language skills enhancement and human capital development. This book evaluates

Subject(s): Problem solving -- Study and teaching | Executive functions (Neuropsychology) | Autistic children -- Education | Attention-deficit-disordered children -- Education Summary: Flexible and focused: teaching executive function skills to individuals with autism and attention disorders is a manual written for individuals who work with lea

Subject(s): Information society | Information technology | Internet -- Access control Summary: Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why? The Seventh Sense examines the historic

Subject(s): Regional economics -- China | Provincial governments -- China | Central-local government relations -- China | Economic development -- China | China -- Economic conditions Regional disparities Summary: "China's economy, as a whole, has developed rapidly over the past 35 years, and yet its richest county is over 100 times rich

Subject(s): Mathematics -- History Summary: "This book follows the development of classical mathematics and the relation between work done in the Arab and Islamic worlds and that undertaken by the likes of Descartes and Fermat. 'Early modern,' mathematics is a term widely used to refer to the mathematics which developed in the West