‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-1790’ explores under-examined relationships between poetry and historiography between 1760 and 1790. These were the decades of Hugh Blair’s ‘Dissertation on the
Historians and literary scholars tend to agree that British intellectual culture underwent a fundamental transformation between 1770 and 1845. Yet they are unusually divided about the nature of that t
When we read a history, we believe ourselves to be reading cold hard facts about the events that took place and how they occurred. Yet, there is no real truthful way to know the approach that the hist
It is estimated that, in the United States, around 20 percent of all Police-reported road crashes involve driver distraction as a contributing factor. This figure increases if other forms of inattenti
Great Waterfalls of North Carolina is an informative guidebook for locating and photographing 65 waterfalls and cascades in the beautiful Blue Ridge and Great Smoky mountains of North Carolina. The bo
The first novel by John McGahern, originally published in 1963. Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. Moving between tra
A Practical Resource for Understanding, Preventing, and Managing Driver Distraction It is estimated that up to 23 percent of crashes and near-crashes are caused by driver distraction, and these figure
An examination of corporate and legal ethics illustrates the conflicts that arise between corporations and powerful law firms through a description of the case of John Gellene, a lawyer who found hims
With contributions from more than 100 renowned authorities in the field, this reference compiles treatment recommendations for a myriad of complications associated with nonoperative and operative mana
Using There and Back Again, Tolkien's Middle Earth series title as a metaphor for the Internet filling the need for adventure as well as a sense of home and community, Consalvo (telecommunications, Oh
Researchers and scholars of history and political science contribute to the ongoing debate on post-revolutionary settlement in independent Ireland. Themes discussed in the volume's ten chapters inclu
This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and God's Locusts.
This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and God's Locusts.
