From a thrilling train crash staged in Queenstown for The Whip, a 1917 melodrama, to modern romantic comedies such as Runaway Bride and Wedding Crashers, the beautiful Eastern Shore has long sung its siren call to Hollywood filmmakers.
This book investigates how Zimbabwean literary texts subvert state-sponsored amnesia when it comes to the many forms of past and ongoing political violence in Zimbabwe.
Discover the transformational journey of a conventional-minded runner to a minimalist, mountain-climbing, adventure-seeking ultrarunner determined to conquer the Catskill Mountains challenge known as the "e;Grid.
This book fills a lacuna in the English-language literature dealing with Norway and the Holocaust by focusing on how Norwegian Jews, and those who facilitated their rescue, remembered the experience of their departure and passage across hostile territory to sanctuary in Sweden.
Much has been written about the events of 69AD, the famous 'Year of Four Emperors', but this book offers a new perspective on the Roman Empire as the shift of power between Senate and Emperor turned deadly.
Speculative Architectures after Minoritarian Futurisms is a work of architectural theory which understands architecture as a practice of speculation analogous to science fiction.
Although Che Guevara was murdered almost sixty years ago, the famous red-and-black image of him is still widely seen around the world: at leftist political demonstrations and, ironically - given his strong opposition to capitalism - on many commercial products.
Radical Humanism uses concepts from Marxism, anarchism, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and African, Asian, and Latin American philosophies to critique bourgeois, liberal, and Eurocentric humanism(s) from the perspectives of Indigenous studies, Black studies, and postcolonial/decolonial studies.
The book "e;Ibn al-Muqaffa"e; from the series "e;Imams of Literature"e; takes us deep into the life of one of the greatest pillars of Islamic civilization and the most influential figure in Arabic literature, Abdullah ibn al-Muqaffa.
Donald Windhams Erinnerungen an seine Freundschaften mit Truman Capote und Tenessee Williams sind ein einzigartig intimer und ehrlicher Blick auf die Literaturwelt seiner Zeit und auf zwei der beruhmtesten Schriftsteller der USA.
This is the first academic biography of Subimal Dutt, best known as India's longest serving Foreign Secretary, covering the nearly nine eventful decades of his life.
Although valuable works have been written on the Mughal dynasty throughout the world, Mirza Haidar and his achievements failed to get the attention they rightly deserved perhaps because he was constantly surrounded by a galaxy of luminaries hence the need for this humble corrective endeavour.
In 1975, a group of amazing women rowed their way to international success and glory, battling sexual prejudice, bureaucracy, and male domination in one of the most grueling and competitive sports around.
Sie standen nicht im Rampenlicht, hielten keine beruhmten Reden, und doch veranderten sie die Welt: die unbekannten Heldinnen und Helden der Burgerrechtsbewegung.
Ein historisches Werk, das seinesgleichen sucht: Nikolaus Wachsmanns monumentale Geschichte der Konzentrationslager von den improvisierten Anfangen 1933 bis zu ihrer Auflosung 1945 - jetzt in einer aktualisierten Neuausgabe.
Vida y Obra de Epifanio Mejia, el poeta de la montana, de Alejandro Torres Jaramillo y Juan Pablo Merchan, es mucho mas que una compilacion literaria: es un tributo al alma de Antioquia.
Skilegende, Sanger, Entertainer: Hansi Hinterseers bewegte LebensgeschichteSeine Fellstiefel sind legendar, "e;barig"e;, wie er sagen wurde, und sein Name ist Fans von Sport und Musik gleicherma en ein Begriff.
Con Olga Elena Mattei, Maria Teresa comprendio con rapidez que se hallaba frente a un ser extraordinario; llegar a entenderla le tomaria sus dias y en especial sus noches: Olga Elena es noctambula desde hace mucho y su trabajo comienza muy tarde.
