1. What is your main interest or what aroused your curiosity about contemporary memoirs, particularly in West Africa? I became interested in delving into the study of this area when I completed a part of my research for one of…
Foundations of Natural Gas Price Formation: Misunderstandings Jeopardizing the Future of the Industry
When Will Natural Gas Prices Normalize, and How Will We Know When They Are Normal? By Sergei Komlev [This analysis of the current natural gas pricing crisis is an extension of the concepts presented by the author in Foundations of…
How Do We Avoid Becoming Numb to the Crisis in Afghanistan? by Christina Lux, Mohabbat Ahmadi, and Ignacio López-Calvo
When we see body counts rise, the human capacity to respond often becomes frozen. “The more who die, the less we care,” as highlighted in a recent article published in Risk Analysis, which follows up on Paul Slovic’s earlier work…
“Whatever happened to the epic?” by Jo Ann Cavallo
Miguel de Cervantes famously claimed to have composed Don Quixote de la Mancha to combat the imaginative hold that books of chivalry had over his contemporaries. Reading the novel for the first time as an undergraduate, however, I had been…
Arts and Sustainability in the Land of Eden Barbara Sellers-Young
John Dewey argued in Art as Experience (1934/2005) that art is central to the sustainability of daily life. In doing so, he is not only talking about being a consumer of arts by attendance at events or exhibitions but the…
Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema
1 . What inspired you to write this book at this point in your research, which has covered a lot of ground from Thomas More and William Shakespeare to Jane Campion and the film adaptations of Māori writers such as…