Albert Lewis Kanter launched Classic Comics in 1941, a series of comic books that retold classic literature for young audience. Five Shakespeare’s celebrated plays appear the collection. The popularity Classics Illustrated encouraged Seaboard Publishing to issue competitive brand, Stories by Famous Authors (1949-51), which three Shakespearean dramas. Although both these enterprises aimed reinfo...

ABSTRACT It is well established that nonnative species are a key driver of global environmental change, but much less known about the underlying drivers outbreaks themselves. In present article, we explore concept and implications sleeper populations in invasion dynamics. Such persist at low abundance for years or even decades—a period during which they often go undetected have negligible impac...

The vocational and academic routes that make up the English education system have different purposes, for stakeholders, with outcomes; they can be complementary but are not analogous. Consequently, calls parity of esteem belie fundamental intention importance each. While these persisted over 70 years, between two has been achieved. This paper questions whether term is useful or simply political...

Candan Turkkan’s Feeding Istanbul: The Political Economy of Urban Provisioning begins with an intimate anecdote about her grandmother’s experi­ences hunger during the Second World War and centrality bread in family. She reflects on fragility food systems that belie appearances abundance urban areas lasting psychological impacts hunger. This personal story introduces focus book: political econom...

Balancing business strategy and operations between electronic commerce and brick and mortar channels (‘clicks and mortar’) is an ongoing challenge for many businesses. A group of traditional ‘brick and mortar’ firms were examined in order to understand how they balance strategy and operations between electronic commerce and traditional (brick and mortar) business channels. Results of the study ...

Although many studies have identified neural correlates of memory, relatively little is known about the circuit properties connecting single-neuron physiology to behavior. Here we developed a modeling framework to bridge this gap and identify circuit interactions capable of maintaining short-term memory. Unlike typical studies that construct a phenomenological model and test whether it reproduc...

This article examines complement clauses in the Caribbean English spoken Bequia (St Vincent and Grenadines). Despite a small population (about 5,000), physical proximity pervasive kinship ties across villages, is characterised by considerable inter-group differentiation, suggesting existence of (post-)creole continuum. We analyse variation complementisers used to introduce finite (that, zero) n...

In the demographic literature, the semantics of fertility decline have led to some interesting confusion. In particular, confusion has been caused by the tendency to use interchangeably the terms “global fertility decline” and “global convergence in fertility”. But the two are not the same thing at all. While it is true that it now appears that the whole world has embarked on a process of ferti...