Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s is a study of formal and informal meanings of Haipai ('Sh...

Why are audiences so fascinated with heroes?What makes the idea of heroes so necessary in society...

This volume explores the connections between faith, the presentation of belief and the processes ...

Like Elena Ferrante, this author tells a gripping story of friendship, struggle, love, and social...

This collection of essays seeks answers to the challenges of urban diversity, conflict, and creat...

'Michael Davis' poetry collection Prodigal is a deeply moving odyssey of mourning, searching, str...

An Italian Downton Abbey (1870-1950). This enticing family saga unfolds on the background of Ital...

After decades of neglect, this book brings back to life the artwork of Achille Bologna, one of th...

In his 38-year career as an American diplomat, the author experienced many encounters with Africa...

The Jesuit Saint Aloysius Church was built in 1859 on North Capitol Street in Washington, D.C.The...

This book examines why and how nannies have appeared in Russian literature from 1700 to the late ...

This study takes a new look at the literary system from the perspective of network theory, and di...

This collection of essays by specialists in education presents psychological research and empower...

The 9 11 attacks have had many extraordinary consequences. The horrific violence of that day ushe...

The value of this booklet lies in its concise summary of the fundamentals of French grammar, and ...

This book pays tribute to the sacrifices and achievements of seven individuals who made difficult...

An attempt is made to understand the relationships between social groups and the spaces and place...

This is a book on NATO and the Arabs. The author has been Deputy Secretary General of NATO from 2...

This collection of essays explores how science fiction films and computer games attempt to come t...

This book traces the significant history of the U.S. Consular Service, America's principal repres...

This book incorporates into an organic whole the realities of the 1990s in Russia, focusing on fi...

'Little has been written on the life of African-American scholars working in traditionally black ...

Shortly following the fall of the Soviet Union, The Eurasian Medical Education Program of the Ame...

This book recounts in detail the negotiations, internal and external struggles, and the outcome o...

Two Lifetimes as One is an autobiography of Irving Tragen and his late wife, Eleanor 'Ele' Dodson...

The volume addresses the principal question why, given their common past under communist Soviet-t...

Throughout American history, our civic associations have been promoted as distinctive private-pub...

Although there have been some recent overviews of religious houses and the relationship between t...

This volume investigates the many important artistic and art historical issues associated with th...

This history, twenty years in the research and writing, relates the story of Americans living in ...

A Pathétique Memoir for the Caged Children is an ambitious, highly engaging, dynamic work - full ...

Pan-Africanism in Barbados is a pioneering work. This is the first book exclusively on Pan-Africa...

This is the first biography of Capt. Peter Strickland, a little-known Connecticut Yankee who cros...

Focusing on the undergraduate classroom,this book presents a rational and systematic approach to ...

Lo Ch'ing is one of China's foremost contemporary poet-painters. Despite the differences in their...

A singular mix of Russian and American academia presents this cultural cabaret in Richard Stites'...

More than thirty years after the tragic death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, this volume is intended to ...

'In this book, beloved theologian and teacher, Rev. James P.M. Walsh, S.J., shares with us the ex...

The Curse of the Aztec Mummy traces the adventures of Wolf Romulus, a clinically deranged profess...

Stories define us. They tell us who we are, or at least who we think we are. The American story o...

In this personal, multifaceted memoir, Hala Buck, a professional artist and integrative therapist...

'These memoirs of an unusually wise and perceptive American diplomat provide rare insight into Am...

'Natalie Lobe is a seasoned poet so we welcome and applaud What Gypsies Don't Know. Lobe's poetry...

This collection of essays offers a captivating reading on how East-Central Europe was transformed...

This collection of Stitesiana includes twenty-nine essays on Russian culture, which the author de...

Bill Stott gives this collection of poems the working title of 'A Way of Knowing' because it's an...

Charismatic leaders have a way of flying too close to the fire. This is the chronicle of the secr...

This book is an annotated and illustrated translation from The Mirror of Writing, by Kang Youwei ...