The Henro Michi is one of the oldest and most famous pilgrimage routes in Japan. It consists of a circuit of eighty-eight temples around the... Læs mere
Exploring the central role that electronic technology plays in the editing process, this book provides a treatment of the craft's fundamental issues. It covers locating... Læs mere
Are the United States and China on a collision course? In this timely new work, renowned professor of international relations Amitai Etzioni explains why this would be disastrous and points to the ways the two nations can avoid war.
Taking its cue from Perry Miller's 1956 classic of American literary criticism, The Raven and the Whale, Caroline... Læs mere
Uncovering the more prurient aspects of nation-building, Erotic Citizens establishes the narrative of sexual ruin as a genre whose... Læs mere
This autobiographical novel of alienation and exile explores the alienation of a girl and her grandmother contending with life between two identities. As a young woman of colour and Caribbean ancestry - even though Paris-born - the girl is not accepted as not French enough.
Opens a window into Spanish-Language writing produced by Spanish American exiles, travellers, and immigrants who settled and... Læs mere
The oral poets of the amaXhosa people have long shaped understandings of history and offered a forum for grappling with change. This book... Læs mere
From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about... Læs mere
The first thoroughly interdisciplinary study to examine how the transatlantic relationship between... Læs mere
Montgomery Jason, an idealistic African American college student, enlists to fight for freedom and democracy. When he falls in love with a French woman, he learns that freedom and democracy do not apply to black soldiers.