A riveting true account of a rescue at sea from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Finest Hours.
Perfect for fans of Tillie Cole and Laura Nowlen, this heartfelt and tearjerking novel starts when a girl embarks on a road trip to find out who her brother, who recently died, really was.
In this figure skating spin on a classic romance, childhood friends dance the edge between love and tragedy.
This joyful picture book by a Korean American author/illustrator shows a little girl sharing the fun customs of Seollal - the Korean Lunar New Year - with her classmates.
This new book asks a key question- what did it mean to have a Victorian feminist write for an established newspaper or periodical? Using the example of Frances... Læs mere
Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining... Læs mere
An exciting and highly original examination of the practices of truth-telling and speaking out freely (parr?sia) in ancient... Læs mere
These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way... Læs mere
In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class struggles in ancient Greece.
Uses recent thought in continental philosophy and postmodern theology to interpret hidden and contradictory 'god-ideas' in texts of modernism such as Henry... Læs mere
Nelson provides a historical overview of the theoretical and ideological evolution of the modern state, from pre-state and pre-modern state... Læs mere
Ever since the revival of Kant's Perpetual Peace thesis, the linkages between democracy and peace has been a central topic in international relations research, with sustained debate over whether it exists and if it does, why it does.