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Until the advent of glasnost began to lift censorship in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, it was impossible for Russians in Russia to truthfully depict their... Læs mere
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Part of the ""Study Smart"" series, this text is designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programmes. Each book in the series teaches skills for... Læs mere
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From essays about the Salem witch trials to literary uses of ghosts by Twain, Wharton, and Bierce to the cinematic blockbuster The Sixth Sense, this book is the first to survey the importance of ghosts and hauntings in American culture across time.
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Between AD 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America, with an... Læs mere
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This study of the writer Stevie Smith, portrays her as a well-connected literary insider who used many genres to resist domestic ideology in Britain. It explores the... Læs mere
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Written for younger readers, this is a look at the life of Lavinia Goodell, Wisconsin's first female lawyer. Telling... Læs mere
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In this firsthand account of inexplicable brutality, day-to-day suffering, and survival, Marie Beatrice Umutesi sheds light on ""the other genocide"" that targeted the Hutu refugees of Rwanda after the victory of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994.
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These essays, written by experts in their fields, demonstrate how necessary it is in the study of the humanities and social sciences to realize the interdependency of the fields and how rich the resulting study can be."
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An anthology of cronicas - short texts that are a cross between literary essays and urban reportage - about life in Mexico City today.
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An architecture equally poetry, fairy tale, autobiography and fiction, ""The Room Where I Was Born"" rebuilds the house of the lyric from fragments salvaged from experience and... Læs mere
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Two million Jewish men, women, and children from Eastern Europe came to the Lower East Side of New York City between 1882 and 1924. Sanford Sternlicht tells of his own childhood in this neighborhood and puts it within the context of early 20th-century East Side writers
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Inspired by actual events that took place in upstate New York and Wisconsin in the mid-nineteenth century, The Travels of Increase Joseph is the first in Jerry Apps's... Læs mere