The first full-length work of the distinguished Yemeni writer Mohammad Abdul-Wali to appear in English
When they drove their Thunderbird off a cliff rather than surrender to the law, Thelma and Louise became icons of female rebellion,... Læs mere
Profiling ten pioneer African American space workers, including technicians, mathematicians, engineers, and an astronaut candidate, this book tells an inspiring, largely unknown story of how the space program served as a launching pad for a more integrate
Three leading experts offer a new, standard-setting interpretation of how the Classic Maya experienced and thought about the human body.
Allows an assessment of the Far East proceedings: with a few exceptions, the trials were carefully and fairly conducted, the... Læs mere
With new chapters covering Zero Dark Thirty, Homeland, and Argo, this critically acclaimed book interrogates the nature and extent of the CIA’s influence on film and television.
The essential companion to the 2019 Ken Burns documentary on country music, in which Bill Malone appears as a featured historian, this fiftieth-anniversary edition of Country Music USA traces the music from the early days of radio into the new millennium.
Candomble, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of... Læs mere
Presents six short works from Bakhtin's "Esthetics of Creative Discourse".
The classic work on forms of the folktale.
Features poems collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, and was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars.
Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the 'alchemy of the visual image'. This book demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding... Læs mere