Andrea F Reid

This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postc...

Academic Skills for International Students emphasises students’ potential for flexibility and change, and shows them how, through understanding a new educational setting, and adapting their existing learning skills to this, they can acquire the learning habits of successful students.The book takes a...

One out of eighty-eight children is being diagnosed with autism. It's a diagnosis that has the potential to turn one's life upside down. This book shares the life of a mother who lives her daily life holding on to hope for her autistic twin sons. As she cares for her sons, she strives to break down ...

As rich and complex as The Sopranos or The Wire, Mad Men demands a critical look at its narrative and characters as representative of both the period it depicts and of our memories and assumptions of the period. Mad Men, Women, and Children: Essays on Gender and Generation, edited by Heather Marcovi...