Healthy living in the Alps Medical administration and managementHealthy living in the Alps examines the relationship between the search for relief from respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, in high alpine resorts and the development in the same places of winter sports tourism. The first winter visitors to the Swiss Alps began to arrive in the 1860s and were encouraged to take outdoor exercise as part of their cure regime. They also had healthy visitors and companions who sought recreation while the invalids
Simon Burrows here offers a comprehensive refutation of this interpretation and re-contextualizes ‘Grub Street’ pamphleteers within the political life of the ancien régime
and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset
Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works
‘Neo-Gothic Narratives’ defines and theorises what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times
It answers the need for a book that helps students develop the skill to critically read theory
Includes practice samples and images
Whether we like it or not
bankruptcies and accounting irregularities
Sylvia Plath and Iris Murdoch
documents reflecting key aspects of the Civil Rights Movement: the voices of social activists (and opponents)
The study further connects the advice books to a cultural backlash against ideas of ‘involved fatherhood’ and ‘caring masculinity’
Focusing on his goal of building a school for the local children
