Since the 1980s, Ireland has gone through a profound social, demographic, and religious disruption, the impact of which has been seen across recent fiction from Irish writers. Companion to the Contemporary Irish Novel traces this cultural shift and its impact by examining how modern novels have reckoned with a new conception of Irishness.Despite the heady mix of cultural and social destabilization, reform, and economic successes and challenges, this period of relentless di...

Long repressed following the collapse of empire, memories of the French colonial experience have recently gained unprecedented visibility. In popular culture, scholarly research, personal memoirs, public commemorations, and new ethnicities associated with the settlement of postcolonial immigrant minorities, the legacy of colonialism is now more apparent in France than at any time in the past. How is this upsurge of interest in the colonial past to be explained? Does the commemoration of em...

Bringing together in English translation eleven Francophone African plays dating from 1970 to 2021, this essential collection includes satirical portraits of colonizers and their collaborators (Bernard Dadié’s Béatrice du Congo; Sony Labou Tansi’s I, Undersigned, Cardiac Case; Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou’s We’re Just Playing) alongside contemporary works questioning diasporic identity and cultural connections (Koffi Kwahulé’s SAMO: A Tribute to Basquiat and Pe...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Are you ready to break free from the beliefs that have been holding you back, and finally tap into the limitless potential that’s been inside you all along? Manifest Your Dreams is your companion on that journey. It’s a powerful guide designed to help you rise above doubt, build confidence, and step boldly into the life you’ve always wanted.In this audiobook, you’ll discover practical strategies, clear steps, and inspir...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Are you ready to break free from the beliefs that have been holding you back, and finally tap into the limitless potential that’s been inside you all along? Manifest Your Dreams is your companion on that journey. It’s a powerful guide designed to help you rise above doubt, build confidence, and step boldly into the life you’ve always wanted.In this audiobook, you’ll discover practical strategies, clear steps, and inspir...

Studies of election campaigns have shown an increased employment of websites, weblog tools, email, and social media by political campaigners, as well as the use of similar platforms by citizens to find information, communicate about elections or engage more generally in political issues. This comprehensive volume explores the ways in which social media is used on the one hand as a campaigning tool, and on the other, by local citizens. It aims to develop a more holistic and Eurocentric rese...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This is the official OpenStax American Government 3e audiobook, produced by Audileo, a valued OpenStax Technology Partner.American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage a...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Are you ready to break free from the beliefs that have been holding you back, and finally tap into the limitless potential that’s been inside you all along? Manifest Your Dreams is your companion on that journey. It’s a powerful guide designed to help you rise above doubt, build confidence, and step boldly into the life you’ve always wanted.In this audiobook, you’ll discover practical strategies, clear steps, and inspir...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This is the official OpenStax American Government 4e audiobook, produced by Audileo, a valued OpenStax Technology Partner.The OpenStax American Government 4e audio textbook aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. The authors have worked to develop meaningful and memorable explanations, narratives, and examples regarding the actions, workings, and outputs of government....

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This is the official OpenStax American Government 4e audiobook, produced by Audileo, a valued OpenStax Technology Partner.The OpenStax American Government 4e audio textbook aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. The authors have worked to develop meaningful and memorable explanations, narratives, and examples regarding the actions, workings, and outputs of government....

This book provides an insight into the global practices for environmental management of military live-fire training ranges by combining scientific research with practical solutions to ensure continued training capability. The text is divided into four parts: the first provides the background information necessary to understand the scientific principles behind environmental management. The second part comprises methodologies for the environmental risk assessment of explosives and munitions,...

Invasive alien plants and animals are known for their disruption of ecosystems and threat to biodiversity. This book highlights their major impact on human health. This includes not only direct effects through contact with the species via bites, wounds and disease, but also indirect effects caused by changes induced in ecosystems by invasive species, such as more water hyacinth increasing mosquito levels and thereby the potential for malaria. Covering a wide range of case studies from diff...