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This volume presents and evaluates key social theories and a global range of empirical studies on internet dating, considering whether internet dating is driven by commercial or consumerist logic or by more technical or reflexive approaches to finding sexual or love partners. It pays particular attention to the possibilities of internet dating for different genders, sexualities, and cultures, seeking to understand internet dating in a way that does not just replicate the logic of heternormative narratives of romance, but considers the divergences from this narrative as non-heterosexual and...

Modernist poetry heralded a radical new aesthetic of experimentation, pioneering new verse forms and subjects, and changing the very notion of what it meant to be a poet. This volume examines T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, three of the most influential figures of the modernist movement, and argues that we cannot dissociate their bold, inventive poetic forms from their profoundly engaged theories of social and political reform.

Tracing the complex theoretical foundations of modernist poetics, Rebecca Beasley examines:

• the aesthetic modes and theories that formed...

Her difficult childhood started her on a path of searching for that person; her adult life was spent journeying through numerous attempts to discover that special someone; her soul mate.

Katherine's journey took her from her roots in Tennessee, north to Michigan during the automotive boom in hopes of saving her first marriage.

Though Katherine appeared to be fragile and unstable, her courage and toughness astounded everyone who knew her. She was absolutely at her best in the worst of...

At twenty-three, Heather Lee Beasley was excited at the prospect of LASIK surgery and looking forward to no longer needing glasses. The surgery went disastrously wrong, leading to the loss of her vision.

Beasley was devastated and thought her life was over. Instead, she found a new beginning. Through her personal tragedy, she discovered a new sense of vision: love vision. With a renewed sense of purpose, she was able to transform her pain into a passion for restoring her life.

More than an inspirational memoir of one woman's emotional transformation, Love Vision: Your...

Today, freedom is so closely associated with the United States that most people still view America as the ultimate symbol of freedom. This is one reason why the desire to immigrate to the United States from almost anywhere in the world has not waned for more than a century. Because of this image, the idea that Americans are constrained by restrictive ordinances and rules seems contrary and therefore difficult for most citizens to accept.

Vladimir Shlapentokh and Eric Beasley argue that the idea of basing American society upon unadulterated freedom in all spheres of life is both...