Gavin H Jones

American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945

Islam, the State and Population

Human Resources in Development Along the Asia-Pacific Rim

The Role of Female Migration in Development

Population Growth and Educational Planning in Developing Nations

The Founding of Australian Demography: A Tribute to W.D. Borrie

People, Land and Sea: Development Challenges in Eastern Indonesia

Women in the Urban and Industrial Workforce: Southeast and East Asia

Ground Zero

GROUND ZERO is the definitive poetry project centered on mental health. Co-produced by Retcon Poet and Good Morning Bedtime Story, this collection features over fifty poems from almost a dozen different writers. From the grips of agoraphobia to a bird's eye view inside a broken home; tackling bullyi...

The Pearl (Longman Literature Steinbeck)

This is the story of a Mexican Indian pearl diver who found the greatest pearl in the world, but lost his happiness. "New Longman Literature: Steinbeck" offers a complete study programme for Steinbeck novels. Each text contains a detailed introductory section and notes and activities for each chapte...

Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America

Late-nineteenth-century America was crazy about dialect: vernacular varieties of American English entertained mass audiences in "local color" stories, in realist novels, and in poems and plays. But dialect was also at the heart of anxious debates about the moral degeneration of urban life, the ethni...

American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 (20/21)

Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These ins...

Failure and the American Writer: A Literary History (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose celebrated works more often struck...

A Mental State: A family's Kafkaesque nightmare when dementia struck

‘A Mental State’ is a shocking and compelling human interest story of long-term abuse of a dementia victim by state officials in one EU country and her family’s search for justice. A forceful eye witness account from which the public, health authorities and justice systems in all countries should le...

Muslim-Non-Muslim Marriage: Political and Cultural Contestations in Southeast Asia

"This is an excellent and rare exploration of a sensitive religious issue from many perspectives - legal, cultural and political. The case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand portray the important and exciting, yet very difficult, negotiation of Islamic teachings in the changing...

Education in Indonesia

In Indonesia, as elsewhere in Asia, education will inevitably play a key role in the national development experience as the twenty-first century unfolds. Not much international attention is paid to how the education sector is faring in Indonesia, but that is not because nothing is happening. The pas...