The first comprehensive study of the international popular music industry. The book examines how the industry is responding to the need to produce global stars and discusses the effect of…

Taking classic stories from Asia and the West, Pop! Lit for Kids reimagines them into easy-to-read stories that provide the perfect introduction to classic tales. The most well-loved stories from…

Derrick entered the door with a big grin. He was wearing a Mickey Mouse pullover shirt that stopped at his knees. His surfer shorts stopped at about his ankles, and…

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Both probation and youth justice have undergone massive changes in recent years. This text reviews developments in evidence based practice in a number of different areas, bringing together the findings…

This is an edition of the first third of Browning’s 21,000-line masterpiece The Ring and the Book, a poem which Henry James called a “monstrous magnificence’. The editors throw new…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

Robert Wakefield (ca. 1493/5-1537) and his brother Thomas (1500-1575) were pioneers in the study and teaching of Hebrew in early modern England, but the range of their learning and their…