Books published by Cambria Press

he BRC Journal of Advances in Education publishes research in education by scholarly and practicing academics, faculty practitioners, and staff practitioners in the area of library science.

The BRC Academy Journal of Education publishes excellent research in business by scholarly academics and qualified faculty practitioners. Works considered for publication must demonstrate full documentation according to research objectives including literature review, statement of problem, hypotheses or research questions, data collection, methodology, and presentation of results. Works accepted for publication must pass a rigorous peer review process overseen by the BRC Editorial Board comprised of leading scholars from AACSB-accredited business schools. BRC journals allow for submission from any qualified professor without any requirement for payment, subsidy, conference participation, or membership fee.

The BRC Journal of Advances in Business publishes research in business by scholarly and practicing academics and faculty practitioners.

This volume constitutes papers presented at the 12th Annual Business Research Consortium Conference held at the Conference & Event Center, Niagara Falls, New York in April 2017.

With this first English-language anthology of contemporary Taiwanese women writers in decades, readers are finally provided with a window to the widest possible range of voices, styles, and textures of contemporary Taiwanese women writers.

This book interrogates moments in the long history of East Asian writing at which turning points in the lives of texts become perceptible and assesses the transforming effect of stories, customs, and "outside" ideas on Chinese civilization over a nearly 2000-year period.

This catalogue provides a listing of publications and reviews in the Cambria Australian Literature Series under general editor, Dr. Susan Lever. The Cambria Australian Literature Series publishes critical studies of writing by Australians, with a focus on contemporary Australian fiction. In the past fifty years, the publication of Australian literary fiction has grown immensely with many significant writers emerging to claim attention. The series addresses the need for critical support for this writing in order to explain its complexities and context to a wide readership. While most of the books in the series concentrate on the career of a single writer, others give more attention to significant engagements between literature and Australian culture. Each book seeks to find an appropriate, original and lively approach to the writing in question and places it not only within the context of Australian culture but also in international literary contexts. See www.cambriapress.com for more information.

Cambria Press catalog featuring new and noteworthy publications in Asian studies. Includes books in the Cambria Sinophone World Series (www.cambriapress.com/sinophone-series) headed by Dr. Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania), the Cambria Contemporary Global Performing Arts Series (www.cambriapress.com/performing-arts-series) headed by Dr. John Clum (Duke University), and the Cambria Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) Series headed by Dr. Geoffrey R.H. Burn (www.cambriapress.com/rccs-series).

The BRC Academy Journal of Education publishes excellent research in business by scholarly academics and qualified faculty practitioners. Works accepted for publication must pass a rigorous double-blind peer review process overseen by the BRC Editorial Board.

The BRC Academy Journal of Business publishes excellent research in business by scholarly academics and qualified faculty practitioners. Works accepted for publication must pass a rigorous double-blind peer review process overseen by the BRC Editorial Board.

The BRC Academy Journal of Business publishes excellent research in business by scholarly academics and qualified faculty practitioners. Works accepted for publication must pass a rigorous peer review process overseen by the BRC Editorial Board comprised of leading scholars from AACSB-accredited business schools.

What do the early days of the Trump presidency tell us about the president's style? Foregrounding this study with a background of how the president's unorthodox style led him to win the election, renowned political scientist and presidentials studies scholar Michael A. Genovese looks at the transition period and the usual 100-day standard on which presidents are judged. Genovese presents five tests to see how things have measured up, from Trump's campaign management to putting together Team Trump to the vision presented in his inaugural address and the first hundred days of the Trump presidency. In addition to looking at President Trump's leadership style and comparing it with previous presidents, the book examines the campaign promises made and whether they have been or will be fulfilled and why. Not only encapsulating this critical period, this book also looks down the road to see what potential opportunities and challenges President Trump will face and how he might address these. Written in a highly accessible manner, How Trump Governs will be a valuable read for both scholars and general readers.

This study examines the diversity of narrative strategies utilized by these authors to design their "written life," not only with respect to the future (that is, to history), but rather in terms of their own present, deliberately inserting themselves into their societies.

Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015) is one of Sweden's most important writers and one of the most influential figures in contemporary world literature. In this first book-length study of Tomas Tranströmer's work, in English, Lim Lee Ching takes on the massive task of scrutinizing all of Tranströmer's poems.

This interdisciplinary and comparative study examines the Nigerian political system as a template for a historical and contemporary global comparative review and understanding of democracy-bureaucracy relations.

This volume assembles the research of distinguished scholars from various fields and regions, and looks at how Buddhism passed from India to Central Asia and China and Korea, and from China and Korea to Japan. But crossing is not merely geographical, hence cultural and doctrinal transformations and adaptations are also examined closely.

Cambria Press titles in political science and international studies. Features books in the Politics, Institutions, and Public Policy in America (PIPPA) series headed by Dr. Scott Frisch and Dr. Sean Kelly, as well as books in the Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security (RCCS) series headed by Dr. Geoffrey R. H. Burn.

This volume constitutes papers presented at the 2016 Business Research Consortium held at the Conference & Event Center, Niagara Falls, New York in April 2016.

This unprecedented volume presents important cultural works from the borders, margins, buffer zones, transitional areas, and frontiers from within and around the mega-states of China and India, subsumed within the larger geo-political constructs of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

This book explores how and why perceptions of the British monarchy in visual culture changed during a period of growing social mobility and political modernity. In contrast to some recent scholarship, it works upon the central premise that cultural patronage by Hanoverians played a role in the production of their social identity. It systematically addresses the monarchy's active role in the patronage of British artists, sculptors, and architects which demonstrated their refined tastes and, additionally, their "Britishness". In a parallel case study, the author illustrates how courtly patronage in continental Germany (inspired by models from France or England) became an indicator of elite social status and cosmopolitan sophistication. The book further expands the insights reached in recent studies of Hanoverian patronage by amassing a wide variety of visual evidence including engraved portrait heads, miniatures, ephemeral art forms, and painting in conventional genres. Formulaic state portraiture and the efforts made by British and European-trained portraitists to vary conventions of depiction are discussed in the context of royal commissions and spaces of display. The book delineates, chapter by chapter, specific patrons (George II, Caroline of Ansbach, Frederick Prince of Wales, Anne, Princess Royal and Frederick and Mary of Hesse Cassel) and examines the cultural life of their courts (St James's, Leicester House and Schloss Wilhelmstahl). Based on original evidence from archives in Britain and Germany, this study presents new research on the early eighteenth-century Royal family and offers a close study of the little-explored question of the early Georgian monarchy's connection to protestant dynastic houses in continental Europe. The book immerses the reader in richly detailed descriptions of courtly space, country houses belonging to courtiers and elite supporters of the Hanoverian succession, and the perceptions of both by contemporary eighteenth-century observers. It also includes many rare color images.

Taking into account the threats and opportunities the United States faces, this book identifies strategies and policies for the US that are central to the maintaining of peace and security. This is an essential book for all interested in foreign and national security policy. See http: //www.cambriapress.com/books/9781604979305.cfm for more detail

Alejandro Tapia y Rivera (1826-1882) was a Puerto Rican poet, dramaturg, essayist and writer. Tapia is considered to be the father of Puerto Rican literature and as the person who has contributed the most to the cultural advancement of Puerto Rico's literature. In addition to his writing, he was also a abolitionist and a women's rights advocate. One of his most important works was his play, La Cuarterona, the tragic love story of Carlos, a young Cuban who falls in love with Julia, a childhood friend, but racial, class, and status divisions keep them apart, since he is from a white land-owning family and she is the daughter of a slave. This first translation with a critical introduction and an exhaustive bibliography on Tapia, is a useful contribution to the study of drama, African slavery and its abolition, Hispanic literature and culture, Puerto Rican studies, women's studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, human rights, and the history of the Atlantic World.

"The best books on politics offer us fresh insight into the way things are, and powerful arguments about how things ought to be. Jerome Foss's superb book accomplishes both of these ends, rescuing John Rawls's work from the dusty corners of overly abstract theorizing by emphasizing Rawls's dedication to a very practical reinvention of the American political experiment. This approach has the virtue not only of according with Rawls's mature interpretation of his work, but also of setting up a lively contrast between the constitutional republicanism of the framers and Rawls's constitutional democracy. This book is a trustworthy guide to the American constitutional tradition as well as Rawls's innovative alternative, offering a respectful treatment of the latter while providing an engaging and persuasive defense of the former." -Micah J. Watson, William Spoelhof Teacher-Scholar Chair in Political Science, Calvin College "Foss's careful study of the transformative intention of Rawls's political theory brings extraordinary insights to our academic debates, and to the real causes of our polarized, dysfunctional politics. The analysis of Rawls's pragmatism reveals its breathtaking goal to elevate progressive-liberal judges as epitomes of public reason, seeking to construct a rationalist, egalitarian-minded democracy to replace the framers' complex republicanism. Rawls has partially succeeded; we increasingly are ruled by living judicialism rather than the rule of law, under novel power wielded by federal courts, law professors, and lawyers. Foss gives Rawls a fair hearing, but insists we confront the arbitrary and utopian bases of this radical project, and the costs of elevating equality and constructed theory at the expense of liberty, self-government, and natural rights. Those who care about the fate of constitutional self-government, and whether utopian theories produce sustainable polities or political-social disorder, must confront this book." -Paul Carrese, Professor of Political Science, U.S. Air Force Academy

Cambria Press color catalog featuring noteworthy academic titles and outstanding book reviews.

"This book offers new insights into the representation of madness in British literature between two landmark dates for the social, philosophical and medical history of mental deviance: 1744 and 1845. In 1744, the Vagrancy Act first mentions 'lunatics' as a specific category, which is itself a social 'symptom' of an emerging need for isolation and confinement of the insane. A more sophisticated and attentive care of the 'fool' is testified only by the 1845 Lunatic Asylums Act, which established specific processes safeguarding against the wrongful detention of patients in public and private facilities. In stressing for the first time the momentous change the notion of madness underwent between these years, this book provides a fresh and absolutely unique perspective on some of the major works connected with mental disorder. The chronological boundaries also provide the collection with a definite and unifying frame, which comprises social, cultural, legal and medical aspects of madness as an historical phenomenon. It is within this frame that the eight essays composing the body of the book discuss how madness is recounted, or even experienced, by authors such as Christopher Smart and William Cowper, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Thomas Perceval, Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Lennox, Eliza Haywood, and Alfred Tennyson."--

This is the first detailed study of federalism in Kenya during the 1940s and 1950s that provides important grounding and background for the understanding of the later emergence of majimbo in the independence era (1961-1963) and later.

This first book-length study on the relationship of the plays by Terrence McNally, one of America's celebrated major dramatists and award-winning playwright about gay life in New York City, to the history of gay theatre during McNally's career, which has spanned more than half a century. The book written by theatre expert John Clum examines McNally's work from the political movements of the 1960s and the history of gay men in New York during the early years of gay liberation, the age of AIDS, and the new reality of gay marriage and families. "This is an original contribution to the field. No scholar has contextualized McNally quite this way. The book impresses with its analytical rigorous yet readable style." -Matthew Roudané, Regents Professor of American Drama, Georgia State University "This is a thorough study of Terrence McNally. The context of gay theatre, gay New York, and gay history is masterfully incorporated, making this book valuable at multiple levels-literary to biographical to historical." -William W. Demastes, Alumni Professor of English, Louisiana State University

This book takes original and unique approaches to explore a body of Portuguese-language cultural production from four different continents. It examines important aspect of the different Lusophone communities and situates Portuguese-language cultural production within a globalized and postcolonial context.