This biography of Beatriz Allende (19421977)revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chiles socialist president, Salvador Allendeportrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change.
Extremely useful to newcomers and old china hands alike, this Chinese business guide explains how Chinese history and classical literature play a huge role in negotiating in China.
Adding to the burgeoning study of medicine and science in Latin America, this important book offers a comprehensive historical perspective on the highly contentious issues of sexual and reproductive health in an important Andean nation.
History of American literature presents a structured examination of the development of literary expression in the United States, tracing its progression from early foundations to a more mature national voice.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and his court and of the regency Volume 12 presents a detailed observation of power, ambition, and social hierarchy within a highly structured royal environment.
Extremely useful to newcomers and old china hands alike, this Chinese business guide explains how Chinese history and classical literature play a huge role in negotiating in China.
The interdependence of literature presents an examination of how literary traditions grow through continuous exchange, drawing from selected conceptual elements rather than recounting specific figures or plot details.
Was it my fault, that, whilst the peculiar charms of her sister afforded me an agreeable entertainment, a passion for me was engendered in her feeble heart?
A study of Hawthorne explores the literary identity and creative temperament of Nathaniel Hawthorne through a reflective and interpretive lens rather than a conventional life narrative.
Adding to the burgeoning study of medicine and science in Latin America, this important book offers a comprehensive historical perspective on the highly contentious issues of sexual and reproductive health in an important Andean nation.
Personal recollections is a reflective autobiographical work that traces the formative years of the author through memory, faith, and personal conviction.
Letters of Franz Liszt Volume 1 presents a reflective collection of personal correspondence that reveals the artistic concerns, emotional depth, and developing ambitions of a composer shaping his identity through continuous travel, creative exploration, and shifting professional demands.
Arab American Women, Identity, and Intersectionality extends postcolonial feminist theory to include intersectionally marginalized bodies in the classroom and in social science discourse.
The lives of the twelve Caesars Volume 3: Tiberius presents a detailed biographical examination of imperial authority, personal conduct, and political power within an early empire.
The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the familys work.
In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast.
In February 2014, Aspen socialite Nancy Pfister was murdered in her own homebrutally bludgeoned, wrapped in a sheet, and stuffed inside a locked closet.
Setouchi was eminently qualified to write this historical novel on women's liberation in Japan, which had its roots in sexual politics, socialism, and anarchism, movements in decline following the famous massacre after the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and neighboring prefectures on September 1, 1923.
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits, made Ybor City the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry, and established the foundation of latinidad in the Sunshine State.
The life of Christopher Columbus: From his own letters and journals and other documents of his time follows the journey of an individual driven by relentless curiosity and an unshakable belief that distant worlds could be reached through unknown waters.
Fifty famous people: A Book of short stories presents a series of moral narratives designed to introduce readers to influential individuals through everyday acts rather than grand achievements.
Notes by the way in a sailor's life presents a reflective exploration of maritime existence through a series of interconnected recollections that illuminate the physical, emotional, and psychological dimensions of life at sea.
The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the familys work.
Memoirs of the courts of Louis XV and XVI Volume 7 presents an inside view of royal life shaped by proximity to power and daily intimacy with influence.
This biography of Beatriz Allende (19421977)revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chiles socialist president, Salvador Allendeportrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change.
The romance and tragedy of a widely known business man of New York presents a reflective account of personal ambition shaped by economic uncertainty and emotional struggle.
Setouchi was eminently qualified to write this historical novel on women's liberation in Japan, which had its roots in sexual politics, socialism, and anarchism, movements in decline following the famous massacre after the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and neighboring prefectures on September 1, 1923.
The story of Pocahontas presents a historical reflection on an individual whose life became intertwined with the early encounters between Indigenous communities and foreign settlers.
