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National Abjection
National Abjection explores the vexed relationship between "e;Asian Americanness"e; and "e;Americanness"e; through a focus on drama and performance art. Karen …
Lives: Buddha
A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker. 'Karen Armstrong has been one of the most persistent and powerful voices in the eminently …
Time It Was
What was it like to live through the Sixties? The writers of these 27 memoirs offer the essence of life and youth in the period. In first-person narratives that range from …
Frontiers of Femininity
British explorer and professional travel writer Isabella Bird is, to the modern eye, a study in contradictions. One of the premier mountaineers and world explorers of her …
Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future
In Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future, McPherson explores the memory work, alternative historiographies, and feminist aesthetics by which women writers revisit the past and …
Hvis ingen går i fella
Opplev magien fra den kommende julefilmen Hvis ingen går i fella i denne nydelige bildeboka! Filmhistorien er inspirert av Musevisa av Alf Prøysen. Når nettene blir lange og kulda …
Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920
In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-century silent film adaptations to …
The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination
The Moon exerted a powerful influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination. This book explores the history of the Moon in the Greco-Roman …
Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta
When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the Souths largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates of Jim Crow meant that these …
Language, Race and the Global Jamaican
This book examines the racial and socio-linguistic dynamics of Jamaica, a majority black nation where the dominant ideology continues to look to white countries as models, yet …
Elinor Glyn and Her Legacy
This book reviews the cross-disciplinary debate sparked by renewed interest in Elinor Glyn's life and legacy by film scholars and literary and feminist historians and offers a …
Mr Mornington's Favourite Things
My friend Mr Mornington has always lived next door to us. His favourite things are gardening and eating cherry cake and playing his saxophone. He's not the best rememberer, …