Biography, Literature and Literary studies

The Undertakers Daughter is a wonderfully quirky, gem of a book beautifully written by Kate Mayfield.

This book explores one of the central questions that has haunted husbands and wives and lovers over the millennia of history: What kind of afterlife might they expect for their love once one or both of them have died?

This book troubles the ways young people have been constructed as 'trouble' through critical readings of the effects and impacts, politically and ideologically, globally and locally, of scholarship and practice directed at South African young people's sexualities over the last three decades of addressing HIV, GBV and other sexual and gender justice challenges.

Taking the reader on a journey through queer manifestations in games, this book advocates for video games as a rich, political and cultural medium, which provides us with tools to navigate the future of gaming.

On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism.

A prominent civil servant, scientist, and intellectual, Taghi Erani was a pivotal figure in interwar Iran.

Continuing the work undertaken in Vol.

On The Deal Maker: How William C.

The Parish Church was the primary site of religious practice throughout the early modern period.

In this multidisciplinary study, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written by U.

Meet the First Ladies of the United States-sometimes inspiring, sometimes tragic, always fascinating-women who, though often unsung, helped hold the nation together in its infancy and advance it as a world power.

This volume is dedicated to fictional negotiations of future, or rather futureS.

The late 1960s and early 1970s saw the birth of modern feminism, the sexual revolution, and strong growth in the mass-market publishing industry.

Pro(se)letariets documents through memoir, poetry, and fiction a two year conversation held between working class writers in Syracuse, New York, and the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers, United Kingdom, on how class background affected their education and career goals.

Im Vergleich zu anderen Mittelalterphilologien ist die Altnordistik aufgrund der besonderen Beschaffenheit der Literaturen des Nordens und insbesondere Islands von jeher auf Interdisziplinarität und methodische Vielfalt angelegt und angewiesen.

Mit seinen Ballettkomödien gelingt es Molière, ein Theater der Superlative zu schaffen, das aufgrund seiner künstlerischen Vollkommenheit wie auch seiner machtpolitischen Wirksamkeit die absolutistische Kulturpolitik Ludwigs XIV.

In this text Stacey traces the formative impact of Seneca''s political philosophy upon medieval and Renaissance thinking about princely government.

In the same spirit as his novels, O'Brien's plays are speculative, inventive, wickedly funny, and a delightful addition to his collected works-now available at last: this volume collects Flann O'Brien's dramatic work into a single volume, including Thirst, Faustus Kelly, and The Insect Play: A Rhapsody on Saint Stephen's Green.

Argues the case for the individual as autonomous moral agent in the later Middle Ages.

Includes the plays Get Up and Tie Your Fingers, Devil's Ground and SafeGet Up and Tie Your Fingers, Ann Coburn s first play, was premiered at the 1995 Borders Festival and had a successful run at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival.

A festive cookbook from award-winning food writer Kate Young.

Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr.

An edition of Hume''s profoundly influential work together with some of his other writings.

A jazz writer for three decades, W.

James Joyce's preoccupation with space-be it urban, geographic, stellar, geometrical or optical-is a central and idiosyncratic feature of his work.

This book explores how leading news media responded to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, showing how journalists regularly framed discussions about post-crisis regulatory reform in ways that reinforced the same market liberal policy paradigm that had ushered in the crisis.

The Absorption of Immigrants (1954) examines the assimilation of immigrants in the Yishuv (the Jewish Community in Palestine) and in the State of Israel.

Together with "e;Critical Notes on Virgil"e; (De Gruyter 2016), this volume offers an enlightening complement to the critical text of the Georgics and the Aeneid recently published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana.

Discover how the Oval Office s occupants have made and make history Which one was the tallest?

A provocative look at the evolution of Americas political soul through the lives of six political figures who abandoned the left and joined the rightthoughtfulengagingpolitical history at a very high leveland the pages fly by (The New Republic).

An in-depth biography of a charismatic labor leader, anarchist, and early opponent of Italian fascism.

Published in 1988: The Story of Meriadoc, King of Cambria is about a prince of the kingdom of Cambria (pre-Saxon Wales) who after surviving an attempted assassination by his uncle, fights as a young Knight in the cause of royal justice.

Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the most important tools to help us understand public health and many aspects of our lives.

Gib'sOdyssey is the true story of one extraordinary man, Gib Peters, and his solo odyssey along the Intracoastal Waterway from Key West to New York and back while suffering the ravages of Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS).

Elie Wiesel is a master storyteller with the ability to use storytelling as a form of activism.

This biography of a forgotten film-industry titan with a still-famous name is both "e;a great American success story and a shudder-provoking cautionary tale"e; (The Wall Street Journal).

Kafkas Aphorismen sind Schlüsseltexte zum Verständnis seines Denkens.

The acclaimed true crime author of Lobster Boy chronicles the brutal acts and eventual capture of two cannibalistic killers on Florida’s Gulf Coast.

As head football coach at Florida State, Bobby Bowden has won two national championships and compiled an astounding resume of all-time credentials.

Dem Interesse an der kulturellen Bedeutung des Raumes ( topographical turn') kommt für die gesamten Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften große Bedeutung zu.

English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade.

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis.