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Anyone strolling through James Madison University�s bucolic Bluestone area, which is grounded by the iconic Wilson Hall, will feel the educational journeys of past students resonating through the air. Founded in 1908 as a women�s college, James Madison University was originally called the State Norm... More

An English Spanish learning text book... More

Mass-migration, conflict and poverty are now persistent features of our globalised world. This reference book for social workers and service providers offers constructive ideas for practice within an inter-disciplinary framework. Each chapter speaks to a skill and knowledge area that is key to this ... More

Essa história foi criada originalmente para a antologia, Fauxpocalypes, histórias sobre o fim do mundo, que não acabaram. A história se dá numa manhã depois que todos no mundo acreditavam que a Terra iria acabar... mas ai, não acabou. Durante o inicio dos anos 90, eu morava em Jerusalém, no bairro ... More

A definitive, career-spanning, best-of tribute to a master of the modern American short story, featuring work from his final unpublished collection. A fitting summation of one of America’s greatest short story masters, this towering tribute features stories from Airships, Captain Maximus, Bats Ou... More

Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin). One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships remains a vital text in the history of the American short stor... More

Nominated for the National Book Award, Barry Hannah’s brilliant debut offers “a fresh angle on the great American subject of growing up” (John Updike). Roiling with love and torment, lunacy and desire, hilarity and tenderness, Geronimo Rex is the bildungsroman of an unlikely hero. Reared in gloom... More

A darkly comic, fiercely tragic, and strikingly original odyssey into contemporary American life by “the Jimi Hendrix of American short fiction” (Interview). The thirteen masterful tales in this collection by the award-winning author of Airships and Bats Out of Hell explore lost moments in time wi... More

Nominated for the American Book Award, Ray is the bizarre, hilarious, and consistently adventurous story of a life on the edge. Dr. Ray—a womanizer, small-town drunk, vigilante, poet, adoring husband—is a man trying to make sense of life in the twentieth century. In flight from the death he dealt fl... More

"Geronimo Rex" is full of the rare verve and flawless turns of phrase that have defined Hannah's status as an American master. Rolling with love and torments, lunacy and desire, hilarity and tenderness, Barry Hannah's brilliant first novel is the bildungsroman of an unlikely wonderful hero. ... More

Spinning the raucous tale of four restless sons of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Hannah introduces the reader to a pretty-boy international tennis star, his devoted manager, his gay coach, and a shell-shocked but sane Vietnam vet. Their adventures include rape by a walrus, murder by crossbow, and a tenni... More

Nominated for the American Book Award, 'Ray' is the bizarre, hilarious, and consistently adventurous story of a life on the edge. Dr. Ray-- a womanizer, small-town drunk, vigilante, poet, adoring husband-- is a man trying to make sense of life in the twentieth century. In flight from the death he d... More

"Yonder Stands Your Orphan" opens with the establishment of an orphans' camp and the discovery of an abandoned car with two skeletons in the trunk. Hannah's novel paints a searing picture of the American South and establishes him as one of the most important voices in America. ... More

Three works from one of the most original and universally praised American writers of this century. Love and torment, lunacy and desire, tenderness and war- these stories provide a brilliant, dazzling odyssey into American life. No one but Barry Hannah could create these vivid worlds with such poe... More

“A wildly colorful, darkly comic, and ultimately sinister tale of madness and murder” from the award-winning master of Southern fiction (Library Journal).“Set in a lake community in the vicinity of Vicksburg, Miss., the story revolves around a fellow named Man Mortimer, a thief, pimp and murderer—an... More

Hannah is known to millions around the world as Rufus the Stunt Bum because of his participation in the infamous Bumfights video series. This text shares his inspirational story from his childhood in rural Georgia, his homelessness, through his recovery and rebirth with the help of Barry Soper, an ... More

Teaching Gender: Feminist Pedagogy and Responsibility in Times of Political Crisisaddresses the neoliberalization of the university, what this means in real terms, and strategic pedagogical responses to teaching within this context across disciplines and region. Inspired by bell hooks' "transgressi... More

This book provides a critical examination of the origins and development of stakeholder theory within sport management research and expands the existing literature by providing insights on stakeholding in sport from various perspectives, such as governance, communication, and marketing. Examining c... More

Migration-driven diversity means European cities are becoming increasingly superdiverse. Some European neighbourhoods have become places where newcomers arrive from across the world, speaking many different languages, from a range of socio-economic backgrounds and with diverse religious beliefs and ... More

Foreword by Michael Ignatieff, Preface by Rudyard Griffiths, The Dominion Institute. Without departure, there is no arrival -- this is the experience of some of Canada's best-known émigré authors and public figures, shared in Passages: Welcome Home to Canada. In first-hand accounts, these celebrated... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems, INTSYS 2020, which was held in December 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. With the globalization of trade and transportation and the consequent multi-modal sol... More

Who has rights to forests and forest resources? In recent years governments in the South have transferred at least 200 million hectares of forests to communities living in and around them . This book assesses the experience of what appears to be a new international trend that has substantially in... More

JavaScript Robotics is on the rise. Rick Waldron, the lead author of this book and creator of the Johnny-Five platform, is at the forefront of this movement. Johnny-Five is an open source JavaScript Arduino programming framework for robotics. This book brings together fifteen innovative programmers,... More

This book addresses one of the most persistent issues confronting governments, educations systems and schools today: the attraction, preparation, and retention of early career teachers. It draws on the stories of sixty graduate teachers from Australia to identify the key barriers, interferences and... More

In Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience the stories of 60 graduate teachers are documented as they grapple with some of the most persistent and protracted personal and professional struggles facing teachers today. Narratives emerge detailing feelings of frustration, disillusionment and even out... More