Nobody likes bad news.The old adage about killing the messenger because you don't like the message is as true today as it ever was.And so, to begin a book by stating on the cover that you must prepare for an inevitable economic disaster seems both sensationalistic and irrational. Yet, in the 35+ years that Dr. Ray Young has been researching this matter, he has become more and more convinced that absolutely nothing can prevent what is about to happen to America, the Church, ...

The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice. It requires a revision of the critical lexicon to be able to probe the relationship between Shakespeare studies and the intractable forms of social injustice that infuse cultural, political and economic life. This volume helps us to imagine what radical and transformative pedagogy, theatre-making and scholarsh...

This pioneering collection highlights the historic, groundbreaking, and fascinating work done by doctors, researchers, and healthcare providers to improve the life of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. The relevance of their work impacts all of us regardless of ethnicity because the discoveries made in the search for solutions to health problems, cures to diseases, and improvements to healthcare benefit all who call Hawaiʻi, as well as the broader Pacific, home.The majority of...