The Women of Horror gathers thirty enduring tales that map women's long, inventive engagement with the Gothic, supernatural, and psychologically uncanny. Across ghost stories, haunted houses, ancestral secrets, cursed objects, spectral doubles, and domestic terrors, the volume ranges from Romantic and Victorian Gothic to fin-de-siècle sensation, regional realism, and early twentieth-century psychological horror. Its standout episodes of imprisonment, revenance, and unsettling inheritance r...

Blueprints of Golden-Age Clues - 5 Classic Mystery Novels" is an exquisite anthology that delves into the intricate art of mystery writing, as crafted during the pivotal years of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection showcases an array of captivating tales that explore the depths of human psychology, the thrill of deduction, and the suspense of unraveling enigma. With a diverse range of literary styles from the methodical precision of classic detective narratives to plot-...

Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth together with internationally renowned contributors propose that the merging of the ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas is forging an unprecedented global social policy framework. The book shows how these key ideas together with the environmental imperative of ‘sustainability’ are shaping a new global development agenda.This framework opens the way to a truly global social policy discipline making it essential readin...

How might women in the Bible tell their stories if they were prompted to do so by Eve Ensler's controversial play, The Vagina Monologues? This collection imagines some answers to that question. The monologues herein are written by a variety of authors, including scholars, undergraduates, clergy, and laywomen; the content of the narratives reflects this variety, being at times faithful or irreverent, tragic or even funny. All seek to give twenty-first-century voices to women in canonical te...

Todays seminary and religious-education instructors are expected to design and redesign their courses more nimbly than in the past. We have to adapt our courses to novel learning environments, for more diverse learners, toward more diverse vocations. At the same time, institutional rewards for time invested in course design are fewer than ever. Understanding Bible by Design introduces the reader to Understanding by Design: an approach to course design that is proven time-e...

Shadowed Clues and Silver Secrets – 4 Classic Detective Mystery Novels is an exhilarating anthology that celebrates the golden age of detective fiction, an era that introduced readers to the engaging intricacies of crime-solving narratives. The collection offers a rich tapestry of enigmatic tales that span a variety of literary styles, ranging from the meticulous and logical to the atmospheric and suspenseful. Each narrative serves as a masterclass in unraveling the human psyche through th...

The Reigning Queens of Horror gathers thirty macabre classics that demonstrate women's central, though too often obscured, role in shaping Gothic, supernatural, and psychological terror. Ranging from ruined castles, hauntings, and inherited curses to domestic unease, social confinement, and uncanny intimacies, the volume traverses Romantic Gothic, sensation fiction, ghost story, detective-inflected mystery, and early psychological horror. Its standout materials include both canonical Gothi...

This book provides a review of current research in fake news and presents six new empirical research studies examining its impact.Fake news has garnered immense public attention following the 2016 Brexit referendum, three US elections, the 2019 Indian lynchings, and so on. Fake news undermines public life across the globe, especially in countries where journalistic practices and institutions are weak. Some fake news is created to spread ideological messages or to create mischief, w...

Across the globe today, hundreds of archaeologists are engaged in the study of slavery (now better known as enslavement) and its contemporary legacies. Many work collaboratively at times, either in the field or in the lab, but for the most part, these researchers tend to operate in sub-disciplinary silos whose parameters are defined both temporally and geographically: Ottoman Slavery, North American Slavery, Roman Slavery, and so on. The Oxford Handbook of the Comparative Archaeology o...

While there are many books available on statistical analysis of data from experiments, there is significantly less available on the design, development, and actual conduct of the experiments. Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences summarizes how to design and conduct scientifically sound experiments, be they from surveys, interviews, observations, or experimental methods. The book encompasses how to collect reliable data, the appropriate uses of different methods, and how to avoid o...

Progress in the social sciences entails developing and improving theoretical understanding of social phenomena and improving methods for collecting and analyzing data. Theories organize what we know or expect to learn about phenomena and methods provide the evidential basis for the theories. While we have witnessed great strides in the development of statistical methods, there is less information for developing theories. In Developing Theories in the Social Sciences, Jane Sell and Murray W...

These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and ambiguous new directions. In The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, John Webster explores the role of women and the problems of power, sex and corruption in the Italian court, creating two unforgettable anti-heroines. In The Broken Heart, John Ford questions the value of emotional repression as his characters attempt to subdue their desires and hatreds in anc...