Through attending to the nonhuman, E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates concerned with the intersection of neomaterialism, environmental humanities, and queer ecology. The book revisits Forster’s liberal humanism from a materialist perspective by focusing on humans’ embodied activities in artificial and natural environments. By examining the everyday embodied experiences of characters, the book thus brings to the fore insignificant and sometimes overlooked aspects in Forster’s fiction. It also places importance on the texts’ treatment of queer intimacy as an embodied experience that can transcend sexual desire. The book acknowledges nonhuman agency as central to our understanding of queerness in Forster’s texts and studies the representation of formless matters such as dust as a way through which Forster’s ecological concerns arise by linking the fate of oppressed humans with oppressed nonhuman others.
Through attending to the nonhuman, E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates concerned with the intersection of neomaterialism, environmental humanities, and queer ecology. The book revisits Forster’s liberal humanism from a materialist perspective by focusing on humans’ embodied activities in artificial and natural environments. By examining the everyday embodied experiences of characters, the book thus brings to the fore insignificant and sometimes overlooked aspects in Forster’s fiction. It also places importance on the texts’ treatment of queer intimacy as an embodied experience that can transcend sexual desire. The book acknowledges nonhuman agency as central to our understanding of queerness in Forster’s texts and studies the representation of formless matters such as dust as a way through which Forster’s ecological concerns arise by linking the fate of oppressed humans with oppressed nonhuman others.
This volume comprises of a substantial selection of E.S. Dallas’s journalism in The Times. Although his reviews were crucial not only in forging the literary reputations of upcoming writers such as different as George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, but also in recalibrating the response to well-established authors such as Tennyson and Dickens, Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1827-79) remains arguably the most unjustly neglected of mid-Victorian critics. Although Dallas wrote for many other periodicals, it was his reviews in The Times that had the greatest impact on both the market for books and literary culture in the mid-Victorian period. This collection brings together an anthology of his contributions, as well as a newly written introduction, a comprehensive listing of the articles he submitted to The Times, critical apparatus to contextualise the materials, and a detailed chronology, reappraising Dallas’ biography. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of literary history.
This book aims to explore the potential of e- Health tools in revolutionizing healthcare services.Through an in-depth analysis, the authors showcase tools already functioning in the market and those expected to be implemented soon. Furthermore, the authors focus on e- Health tools that have yet to be adopted due to organizational and mental barriers on the part of their potential users, medical and pharmaceutical practitioners, patients and consumers. Drawing insights from surveys conducted among medical professionals, pharmaceutical staff and patients, the authors examine the awareness of medical practitioners and patients of the usability, necessity and benefits of these IT tools. It is important to indicate that no country has fully integrated e-Health systems into its healthcare infrastructure. Through their research, the authors present useful tools by analyzing the barriers that have hindered their implementation. This book also presents legal regulations aimed to establish systemic responsibilities for entities within the medical and pharmaceutical sectors and safeguard the sensitive data stored and processed within these systems. This book also explores cutting-edge technologies that ensure the safety of treatment and pharmacotherapy. These technologies empower healthcare providers to deliver interactive, health-promoting materials to patients based on the latest medical and pharmaceutical knowledge. By equipping patients with accurate information about their conditions and medication regimens, these tools mitigate the risks associated with misinformation sourced from unreliable outlets, thus fostering informed decision-making in healthcare. This book outlines a comprehensive model for synchronizing e-Health tools, designed to improve the quality of medical services by engaging all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem – including those involved in medical services, diagnostics, dietetics, physiotherapy and pharmacy. The data analysis includes the advantages and potential risks for healthcare providers and patients. Finally, this book aims to present a digitization model that would bring individual healthcare providers together, and as a result, improve the quality of services, reduce diagnosis times, and leverage artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions for disease diagnosis.
This book aims to explore the potential of e- Health tools in revolutionizing healthcare services.Through an in-depth analysis, the authors showcase tools already functioning in the market and those expected to be implemented soon. Furthermore, the authors focus on e- Health tools that have yet to be adopted due to organizational and mental barriers on the part of their potential users, medical and pharmaceutical practitioners, patients and consumers. Drawing insights from surveys conducted among medical professionals, pharmaceutical staff and patients, the authors examine the awareness of medical practitioners and patients of the usability, necessity and benefits of these IT tools. It is important to indicate that no country has fully integrated e-Health systems into its healthcare infrastructure. Through their research, the authors present useful tools by analyzing the barriers that have hindered their implementation. This book also presents legal regulations aimed to establish systemic responsibilities for entities within the medical and pharmaceutical sectors and safeguard the sensitive data stored and processed within these systems. This book also explores cutting-edge technologies that ensure the safety of treatment and pharmacotherapy. These technologies empower healthcare providers to deliver interactive, health-promoting materials to patients based on the latest medical and pharmaceutical knowledge. By equipping patients with accurate information about their conditions and medication regimens, these tools mitigate the risks associated with misinformation sourced from unreliable outlets, thus fostering informed decision-making in healthcare. This book outlines a comprehensive model for synchronizing e-Health tools, designed to improve the quality of medical services by engaging all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem – including those involved in medical services, diagnostics, dietetics, physiotherapy and pharmacy. The data analysis includes the advantages and potential risks for healthcare providers and patients. Finally, this book aims to present a digitization model that would bring individual healthcare providers together, and as a result, improve the quality of services, reduce diagnosis times, and leverage artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions for disease diagnosis.
This book looks at the drivers in the emergence, development and internal and global expansion of Asian e-commerce businesses. It tackles the problems inherent in the globalization strategy of a Japanese financial services firm operating in the e-commerce sector.The business world has been transformed by information technology and online companies, which benefitted during the Covid-19 pandemic, unlike the traditional retail sector of the economy. The well-known Amazon has seen the emergence of Asian alternatives, Alibaba from China and Coupang from South Korea, both of which have the transnational venture capital firm SoftBank of Japan as a large share owner. This book explores performance and potential in e-commerce and fin-tech, internationalisation strategies, governance problems associated with foreign corporations in South Korea and anti-monopoly drive aimed at China’s tech giants. Diverse topics are covered, including the results, impacts and implications of US stock exchange listings, liability of foreignness, dual-class structure and importance of corporate governance and social responsibility signalling and messaging. The chapters also cover local and global expansion — takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, such as Lazada for the South East Asian market and levels of satisfaction and loyalty. Finally, SoftBank is used as an example of individual and collective entrepreneurial learning in the case of SoftBank Academia.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.
Providing a collection of E.S. Dallas's work, this volume explores the significance of the Scottish writer’s practical and theoretical contributions to both the criticism and journalism of the mid-nineteenth century, as well as offering an edited selection of Dallas’s writings in the Victorian press. This book provides a comprehensive listing of around 250 contributions to other periodicals, and again offer a generous edited selection of around 40 articles that are representative of this body of work as a whole. The source materials were published between the summer of 1850, just after Dallas left Edinburgh University, and early 1881 when a posthumous article appeared two years after his death; they appeared in periodicals issued daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and even annually, in both Edinburgh and London; and generically, they range from book reviews both literary and non-literary, coverage of theatrical and other performances, articles on a cornucopia of social, cultural and philosophical issues, and reports from Paris as special correspondent both during and after the Franco-Prussian War.
This comprehensive volume provides a conceptual and theoretical understanding of e-governance and public administration in India. It examines e-governance as a citizen- enabling mechanism to deliver good governance. Situating it in the ambit of new public management, liberalization and globalization, it delves into the myriad aspects of technology as a bridge between the state and the citizens, as well as other stakeholders such as businesses, NGOs, civil society and international agencies, whose role in facilitating good governance is crucial.This book also explores the innovative governance techniques adopted by states across the country and worldwide in contemporary times. The overarching argument here justifies that electronic governance has been a catalyst in ensuring good governance, through information and communication technologies, coupled with sound managerial practices. While making governance more citizen-oriented, e- governance is being projected as a game changer in terms of achieving the goals of Viksit Bharat, 2047 and substantive democracy based on equity and inclusivity.This book will be useful to the students, academics and researchers of public administration, public policy, rural and urban development, law and governance. It will also be immensely beneficial to policymakers and practitioners, NGOs working with local administration, parastatal bodies, functionaries, those in public service and elected people’s representatives.
E is for Maggie is a memoir about love, adaptation, and the search for happiness. Susan bravely shares her inner thoughts and feelings, mistakes, and the difficult decisions she had to make to ensure her family was as safe and fulfilled as possible.There is no one-size-fits-all approach to raising children, and caring for her daughter with severe autism in the 1980s and 90s presented challenges that often felt isolating and insurmountable. Susan came to learn: "You have to keep knocking till you get the help you need." Today, Maggie is a living testimony of love that never gave up.
E is for Maggie is a memoir about love, adaptation, and the search for happiness. Susan bravely shares her inner thoughts and feelings, mistakes, and the difficult decisions she had to make to ensure her family was as safe and fulfilled as possible.There is no one-size-fits-all approach to raising children, and caring for her daughter with severe autism in the 1980s and 90s presented challenges that often felt isolating and insurmountable. Susan came to learn: "You have to keep knocking till you get the help you need." Today, Maggie is a living testimony of love that never gave up.
This book examines the background and impact of e-government in rural Bangladesh.Focusing on the Union Digital Centers (UDCs), established by the Union Parishad, this book analyzes how such centers influence rural communities. The UDCs were created to afford electronic access to a wide range of public and private services, thereby transforming the delivery of public services. This study examines easy access to services, reduced waiting time, and the elimination of bureaucratic barriers. Data based on interviews, case studies, and focus groups show the UDCs' effect on service delivery, efficiency, governance, and citizen satisfaction and the challenges these sectors face. This book discusses how technology has eased municipal governance by removing middlemen and, in essence, making citizens and officials happier. It concludes with recommendations using a gender and stakeholder perspective approach and shows how governance and service delivery could be improved to enable a full examination of UDCs' social and economic impacts on rural communities.This book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of public administration, public policy, development studies, good governance and leadership, and local government, especially in the context of South Asia.
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Founded in 1849 and in business through the turn of the century, E. L. Parker & Co. of Baltimore, Maryland was a major importer and wholesaler of tin plate, sheet iron and related metals, General Store hard goods and Tinners (Tinsmith) tools and machinery."It's reputation and sales are widespread and it has important connections in England, as well as with the best firms of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee." Baltimore: It's History And It's People. Vol. II Biography, page 335.The E. L. Parker & Co. 1868 trade catalog is reproduced in facsimile from the original held in the collection of Gary Roberts, Publisher, The Toolemera Press.www.toolemerapress.com
