The Romance of Crossing Borders

The Romance of Crossing BordersWhat draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far off communities? Often the answer is romance the romance of landscapes, people, languages, the very sense of border crossing and longing for liberation, attraction to the unknown, yearning to make a difference. This volume explores the complicated and often fraught desires to study and volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by

Six internationally renowned intellectuals are brought together in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that addresses rhetoric

it preserves the text of a formal letter from Marcus Aurelius directed to the Athenians in the year A

medications

and how hybrid modes of cross-cultural engagement offer new foundations for the enterprise of learning from cultural others

The story of an Israeli woman's struggle to forge her personal and professional identity

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Rodolphe Gasché

The first two chapters introduce the major themes and explain the multiple sources of law in Hong Kong

the Anubis temple's construction

and coherent patternings of natural and human milieu

Mike Leigh may well be Britain’s greatest living film director

particularly in regard to new media artworks