Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
July 2013
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2020The Shakespearean comic and tragicomic
by Richard Hillman
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2018French Reflections in the Shakespearean Tragic
by Richard Hillman
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2012French Reflections in the Shakespearean Tragic
by Richard Hillman, Rebecca Mortimer
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Business, Economics & LawJuly 2018Gender Equality and Tourism
Beyond Empowerment
by Stroma Cole, Lucy Ferguson, Daniela Moreno Alarcón, Carlos Costa, Marília Durão, Zélia Breda, Fiona Eva Bakas, Paola Vizcaino Suárez, Belén Martínez Caparrós, Meghan Muldoon, Wendy Hillman, Kylie Radel, Heather Jeffrey, Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión, Hazel Tucker, Inês Carvalho
Does tourism empower women working in and producing tourism? How are women using the transformations tourism brings to their advantage? How do women, despite prejudice and stereotypes, break free, resist and renegotiate gender norms at the personal and societal levels? When does tourism increase women's autonomy, agency and authority? The first of its kind this book delivers: A critical approach to gender and tourism development from different stakeholder perspectives, from INGOs, national governments, and managers as well as workers in a variety of fields producing tourism. Stories of individual women working across the world in many aspects of tourism. A foreword by Margaret Bryne Swain and contributions from academics and practitions from across the globe. A lively and accessible style of writing that links academic debates with lived realities while offering hope and practical suggestions for improving gender equality in tourism. Gender Equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment, a critical gendered analysis that questions the extent to which tourism brings women empowerment, is an engaging and thought-provoking read for students, researchers and practitioners in the areas of tourism, gender studies, development and anthropology. To access a presentation delivered by Stroma Cole as well as an interview with her, please visit http://www.cabi.org/openresources/94422
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September 2011Practical Water
by Brenda Hillman
The latest volume in Hillman’s acclaimed meditations on the elements
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FictionJuly 2021The Bride of Almond Tree
by Robert Hillman
Robert Hillman’s previous novel, The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, captivated readers around the world. His new novel is also a story about unlikely love. World War II is over and Hiroshima lies in a heap of poisoned rubble when young Quaker Wesley Cunningham returns home to the village of Almond Tree. He served as a stretcher-bearer and has seen his fair share of horror. Now he intends to build beautiful houses and to marry, having fallen in love with his neighbour Beth Hardy. Beth has other plans. An ardent Communist, she is convinced that the Party and Stalin’s Soviet Union hold the answers to all the world’s evils. She doesn’t believe in marriage; in any case, her devotion is to the cause. Beth’s ideals will exact a ruinously high price. But Wes will not stop loving her. This is the story of their journey through the catastrophic mid-twentieth century—from summer in Almond Tree to Moscow’s bitter winter and back again—to find a way of being together. The Bride of Almond Tree is a book of great loves and difficult choices.
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Poetry by individual poetsMay 2011Fortress
by Brenda Hillman
Lyrical approaches to the relationships between solitude, beauty and the world.
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May 2016International Trade Law
by Joost Pauwelyn, Andrew Guzman, Jennifer A. Hillman
Written by a team of leading scholar/practitioners including a former Appellate Body member, PhD economist and former WTO Secretariat Lawyer, International Trade Law covers all aspects of WTO law. andnbsp;Appropriate for a two- to three-hour international trade course, the third edition covers trade in goods, services, and intellectual property, in 22 succinct chapters of around 30 pages, carefully excerpting leading cases, providing basic introductions, probing questions and real life problems. This book balances positive and normative perspectives, mixing legal texts and panel/Appellate Body decisions with analysis of economic and policy challenges faced by the international trading system.andnbsp; The Third Edition has been updated to include recent political and economic events, issues and policy debates, and supplements new developments in case law with additional questions and a revised Teacherandrsquo;s Manual. andnbsp; Hallmark features of International Trade Law: andbull; Prepared by three leading WTO scholars andndash; providing a balanced international and methodological perspective andbull; Up-to-date, discriminating case selection presents both classic cases and recent doctrine andbull; Contextualizes international trade issues with insights into key economic factors at work andbull; Key WTO cases are edited and presented to illustrate and teach central concepts and doctrine andbull; Illuminating introductory and explanatory material throughout andbull; Helpful summaries of key teaching points are included in each chapter andbull; Well-crafted questions stimulate class discussion on policy issues andbull; Manageable length for two- and three-credit courses andbull; Adaptable to graduate-level courses in international trade andbull; Comprehensive Teachers Manual with answers to questions as well as teaching suggestions, tips, and supplementary material appropriate for class discussion andbull; Complemented by a thorough and up-to-date documents supplement The Third Edition has been revised to include: andbull; Third author added: Jennifer Hillman, former member of the WTO Appellate Body and the US International Trade Commission, now Professor at Georgetown Law andbull; Major revision of trade remedy chapters (dumping, subsidies, safeguards) with new hands-on practical problems andbull; Completely revised chapter on technical barriers to trade (TBT) taking account of new jurisprudence post-2012 (US andndash; Clove Cigarettes, US - Tuna II, US andndash; COOL, EC andndash; Seal) andbull; New text on post-2008 trade collapse, global value chains andbull; Updated statistics on WTO dispute settlement, free trade agreements, developing countries andbull; Discussion of 2015 US Trade Promotion Authority, mega-regionals including TPP and TTIP, 2014 Trade Facilitation Agreement andbull; Includes summaries of new, major cases such as Canada andndash; Feed-in Tariff, EC andndash; Seal, Peru andndash; Agricultural Products, China andndash; Rare Earthsandnbsp;
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September 2012Garnet Poems
An Anthology of Connecticut Poetry Since 1776
by Edited by Dennis Barone, other Dick Allen
Landmark collection illuminates the state through the work of its most prominent poets
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SagasAugust 2013The Spanish Daughter
by Jillian Taberner
A family saga set in Yorkshire and northern Spain, 1930s to 2006. Through an act of deceit and the subsequent revenge, two families, one English and one Spanish, become entangled, suffering the consequences of the lie.A strong narrative voice is Connie's through her diary and letters to her younger sister Garnet, revealing how she is wrenched from her English family and sent to live in Spain with her father, heir to a vineyard producing Rioja wine. Connie is twelve when her mother declares; 'I have something to tell you...the man you think of as Daddy isn't actually your father.' Connie can hardly take in the facts; her father isn't her father, her name isn't Connie and she is being sent away to a foreign land. Repercussions of Connie's departure have a devastating effect on all members of the family, including Garnet who becomes ill. Distraught, Connie writes in her diary, 'A new family, a new school, a new language. How am I supposed to cope with that?'
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Biography: generalWeeds Don't Perish
Memoirs of a Defiant Old Woman
by Hanna Braun
This is the story of a life lived to the full. Hanna Braun was born in 1927 to a Jewish family living in Germany. The family immigrated to Palestine in 1937, shortly after Hitler came to power in Germany and the onset of Jewish persecution there. During this course of events she was separated from her beloved father, who was forced to flee the country and made for Switzerland to escape the Gestapo. Her grandmother later died in the Terezin ghetto. Once in Palestine, Hanna's uncle became a fierce Zionist, and would convert Hanna's mother to Zionism as well. Hanna - a teenager at the time - also turned to Zionism, although she was initially unaware of what exactly this meant. Over the years, Hanna made many Arab friends in Palestine, and gradually began to question her allegiances. She witnessed the formation of the state of Israel, and was there when the atrocities of Deir Yassin happened; an incident that made her hate Zionism forever. These events, and many others explored in Weeds Don't Perish, helped to shape Hanna's perception, and transformed her into an active human rights activist; unable to witness injustice without speaking out. The book is often controversial and Hanna, not being endowed with the gift of great diplomacy, makes many enemies as well as friends along the way. Throughout, Hanna manages to retain her zest for life and her sense of humour, and delights in describing her years teaching English and Dance to her students in Zimbabwe. Her curiosity and enthusiasm for meeting new people and experiencing new things is infectious, and the reader cannot help but be swept up in the story. Hanna endured many setbacks and painful experiences in her personal life but, like the proverbial weed, she never gave up and refused to be beaten. Instead, she continued to her final days fight passionately for causes close to her heart - human rights and equality for all.
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December 2012Becoming Plural
A Tale of Two Sudans
by Richard Boggs
In July 2011, Sudan officially ‘became plural’, as the country split in two; the unofficial north–south divide between the Arab-dominated north and the more ethnically African south was formalised, after the people of Southern Sudan voted overwhelmingly to separate from the rest of the country. Becoming Plural is a beautifully illustrated travelogue containing over 100 unique photographs of Sudanese people and their lives, accompanied by a first-hand narrative of what life in Sudan was really like during this critical time in its history. Richard Boggs lived and worked among the Sudanese people for many years, first coming to Sudan as a volunteer in 1986. He has lived in both Juba and Khartoum, and shared the reality of life in Sudan with the people around him. This has enabled him to provide an intimate portrait of the characteristics and values of the Sudanese people. He conveys astutely the particular circumstances in which they live, creating a record of their hopes and fears as Sudan formally breaks into two separate states. This book will have enormous appeal to those who appreciate travel writing, photography and ethnography, as well as those interested in the historic circumstances of the split between North and South Sudan.
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September 2012The Almond Tree
by Michelle Cohen Corasanti
Gifted with a mind that continues to impress the elders in his village, Ichmad Hamid is however, powerless to save his friends and family. Living on occupied land, his entire village operates in constant fear of losing their homes, jobs, and belongings. But more importantly, they fear losing each other. On Ichmad’s twelfth birthday, that fear becomes reality. With his father imprisoned and his family’s home and possessions confiscated, Ichmad begins an inspiring journey using his intellect to save his poor and dying family. In doing so he reclaims a love for others that was lost through a childhood rife with violence, and discovers a new hope for the future.
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Travel writingHammaming in the Sham
A Journey Through the Turkish Baths of Damascus, Aleppo and Beyond
by Richard Boggs
Legend has it that Damascus once had 365 hammams or 'Turkish baths': one for each day of the year. Originally part of an ancient Roman tradition, hammams were absorbed by Islam to such an extent that many became almost annexes to nearby mosques. For centuries, hammams were an integral part of community life, with some 50 hammams surviving in Damascus until the 1950s. Since then, however, with the onslaught of modernization programmes and home bathrooms, many have been demolished; fewer than 20 Damascene working hammams survive today. In Hammaming in the Sham, Richard Boggs travels the length and breadth of modern Syria, documenting the traditions of bathing in Damascus, Aleppo and elsewhere, and his encounters with Syrians as they bathe. In his portrayal of life in the hammams he reveals how these ancient institutions cater for both body and soul, and through his conversations with the bathers within, he provides insights into the grass roots of contemporary Syrian society. Approximately 100 colour photographs accompany the text, portraying the traditional neighbourhoods of Damascus and Aleppo, and the almost religious feel of the hammams. The author's intimate portraits of the baths' employees and bathers show a unique side of Syria rarely exposed to the outside world.
