This book offers research, case studies and examples of best practice that address cutting-edge higher education issues. It explores transformative learning practices in hospitality and tourism education and the focus…

Using the Caribbean as a rich site of observance and concentrating on the island nation-state of The Bahamas, Get Involved! uncovers the hidden and under-documented practices of "philanthropy from below."…

The extraordinary range of cultural interests of renowned physicist David Speiser-including the sciences, art, architecture, music, and history of science-has inspired generations of later scientists to look beyond the boundaries…

Life on the Streets tells the stories of the homeless or those working on the streets. Learn why people end up homeless or have turned to prostitution.

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This text penetrates a distinctive culture of the Civil War period of the glorified masculine ideal, the legacy of which has reverberated in eduction, politics, and society throughout the 20th…

The mathematical nature of the architecture of Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Palladio and Frank Lloyd Wright is examined, and the philosophical background behind Renaissance architecture is explored.

With incredible insight and love, Kim Stafford offers a view into the remarkable life of his father, the poet William Stafford

The unspoken deep affection he lived by was like…

The importance of fashion and design in an events context remains under-researched, despite their ubiquity and significance from a societal and economic perspective. Fashion-themed events, for example, appeal to broad…