Few books have had more impact on US history than ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Slavery apologists from North and South... Læs mere
Marilyn Papayanis investigates the ""ex-centric"" expatriate - a metropolitan figure led away from the industrial West to... Læs mere
Looks in depth at eight successful peer-run programs for adults with serious mental illnesses. The book grew out of a 1998 meeting that... Læs mere
In this study, Dana Cairns Watson traces Gertrude Stein's growing fascination with the cognitive and political ramifications of conversation and how that interest influenced her writing over the course of her career.
A discussion of how Muslim communities respond to social problems, including the rights of women, charity, education and general social welfare. The essays demonstrate how Islam offers guidance on these and other issues.
This text offers a revisionist analysis of Spanish fiction from 1900 to 1940. Tracing the history of public discourse on gender from the 1890s through to the 1930s, it examines the work of both men and women writers and how they practised differing forms of modernism.
A study of John William Miller's radical revision of the idealistic tradition. Vincent Colapietro situates Miller's... Læs mere
The attempt to improve academic performance by African American students in the US by rearranging the racial mix through... Læs mere
A new approach to the field of inter-American literary studies that provides insight into Faulkner's impact and other commonalities among key writers of the South and Spanish America.
Profiles the voices of those who fight against inequalities of care even while they form alliances with the systems that perpetuate them. Lydia... Læs mere
On July 1, 2003, work-hour reforms were enacted nationally for the roughly 129,000 resident physicians in the United States. Why Surgeons Struggle with... Læs mere