On April 23, 1929, the second annual Transcontinental Foot Race across America, known as the Buni...

This intriguing book undercuts everything you thought you knew about psychotherapy.'Szasz extends...

Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, eco...

Sociologist Elise Boulding offers a collection of essays that emphasize her study of civil societ...

In this noted anthology, the poet Adonis evokes the wisdom of Whitman s Leaves of Grass (which he...

A Band of Noble Women brings together the histories of the women’s peace movement and the black w...

Eleven short stories that form an irresistible drama of an extended Arabic family in twentieth-ce...

A narrative of a Buddhist nun's training and spiritual awakening. In this book, the author relays...

'At a time when Yemen has been ravaged by a decade of war and subject to myriad political and mil...

'At a time when Yemen has been ravaged by a decade of war and subject to myriad political and mil...

For amateur mycologists and foragers alike, the difference between a beautiful fungal find and a ...

Evelyn Shakir paints tales that are rich in history and background. She sets her stories in diffe...

Straddling the Hudson where the river begins to narrow and twist in its journey, Bear Mountain Br...

An expansive bilingual anthology, Tracing the Ether showcases twenty-six acclaimed Saudi poets wh...

While humanitarian organizations and media outlets often reduce Syrian refugees to statistics or ...

The boundaries between the seven constituent emirates of the United Arab Emirates form one of the...

In Crafting Marriages: Palestinian American Women Transforming Gender Boundaries, Enaya Othman dr...

Fitness for Freedom explores the legacy of intersectional stereotypes of disability, race, gender...

As millions of Jews immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe starting in the 1870s, th...

In this lyrical collection, Omani author Hamoud Saud invites readers into the soul of Muscat, the...

In the fictional Adirondack towns of Silver Lake and Lost River, a colorful cast of residents wea...

In this lyrical memoir, Robin Michel Caudell meditates on memory and identity as she traces her c...

In a remote Egyptian village, a young doctor arrives to open a long-abandoned clinic. Recently re...

Wisdom of the Marsh takes an in-depth look at the Montezuma Wetlands Complex through the overlapp...

Rokhl Feygenberg became one of the youngest authors published in Yiddish when her autobiographica...

In 2010, Carlisle Floyd, one of American opera’s most titanic talents, found himself at an impass...

On the streets of Tehran, Nuri Hushiar knows his blond hair and blue eyes attract attention. Whil...

This wry take on Kafka’s novel The Trial revolves around its narrator’s attempts to petition succ...

Defines the arbitrary generic boundaries that isolate Persian biographies, autobiographies, trave...

Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross sec...

The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten h...

The writings of David Bergelson-virtually unknown to readers in the United States-are now availab...

This text examines the re-emergence of the economic sector in Cairo during the 17th century, and ...

This is the story of marching men and clashing ships, of suffering, and of occasional heroic deed...

Russian Literary Criticism is a survey of the various ways in which representative Russian critic...

The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Strangerrecovers the largely forgotten hi...

This text serves as a general introduction and index to Huron culture. It is a compilation of the...

The essays in this work illustrate the various ways in which women in the Middle East fall short ...

Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945) was born into an affluent German Jewish family. Following the dea...

In 1912, Siao-yu and Mao Tse-tung were students in the same school in the city of Changsha in Hun...

A critical edition and translation of Ferrands' treatise of 1610 on erotic melancholy, preceded b...

Novelist, Poet, critic, and writer of short stories, Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues has won consider...

Written by an experienced antiquarian, this book explores the history of utilitarian pottery prod...

The landmark Oneida Supreme Court decisions of 1974 and 1985 testify to the fact that the Iroquoi...

Ladjevardi follows the rise and ebb of political development in Iran from 1906 to the recent past...

Can moral behavior exist in a world of states?Under what conditions?Where if at all, do norms for...

Here, for the first time, faithfully translated in their entirety, are the principal texts for wh...

This is the study of a decade when the Army under General Mohammad Ayub Khan took control of Paki...