Identity Texts, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionThe Idea of a Negro-African Philosophy is a short book originally published in 1979. It is a concise, yet thorough and systematic, explo...

DescriptionMental Illness in Young Adult Literature: Exploring Real Struggles through Fictional Characters highlights American young adult literatu...

Reducere. Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that intervene in a ra...

DescriptionThe Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of truly practical and accessible guides to major philosophical texts in the history of p...

This book examines Eastern European perspectives on European identity. The contributors map narratives of Europe rooted in Eastern Europe, examinin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Daniel MendelsohnHailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves togeth...

The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing. In Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama,...

This book provides masters students, teachers and researchers with a toolkit and theoretical framework for teaching literacy through children's lit...

Reducere. In Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play, Jennifer DeVere Brody places punctuation at center stage. She illuminates the performative aspects of dots...

Contributor(s): Author: Robert DupasquierTranslator: T. J. WinterAuthor: Roger Du PasquierIn these closing years of the 20th century Islam has capt...

An investigation of Jewish identity politics and Jewish contemporary ideology using both popular culture and scholarly texts. Jewish identity is ti...

Reducere. This book reviews types of Iberian Conversos (i.e. primarily forced but also voluntary Jewish converts to Christianity) from the late 14th to the 1...

In the individualistic West, it is commonly assumed the Bible is about me and my relationship with God when, as many now agree, it is addressed pri...

Reducere. This excellent collection is the most complete anthology of Latin American philosophers in English available today. Leading philosophers from sever...

This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 ye...

This new, wide-ranging framework for understanding Victorian settler colonialism reveals the energetic circulation of literary forms between Austra...

Reducere. Following a near fatal carriage collision, the beautiful young Carmilla is taken in by the narrator Laura and her father. The two young women becom...

Much of what we know about life in the medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movemen...

Reducere. In the tradition of her acclaimed mother, Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, bestselling author Leslie Rule delivers a riveting true story...

There is a growing body of literature about the missional church, but the word missional is often defined in competing ways with little attempt to ...

Reducere. This long-awaited text charts clearly and comprehensively the enormously important area of feminist theory -- and brings it into fruitful conversat...

Reducere. The coursebook with Cambridge Elevate edition helps students develop their Spanish language skills as they explore the five themes from the IB Dipl...

Reducere. The coursebook with Cambridge Elevate edition helps students develop their French language skills as they explore the five themes from the IB Diplo...

Reducere. This coursebook with Cambridge Elevate edition helps students develop their German language skills as they explore the five themes from the IB Dipl...

DescriptionThis volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth c...

Reducere. Proof of a divine Creator is not to be found in the Bible but compelling evidence is found in astronomy and in biology. Surprisingly, the real iden...

Reducere. Jonathan Osorio investigates the effects of Western law on the national identity of Native Hawaiians in this impressive political history of the Ki...

Reducere. In 1948 a childhood friend of Billy the Kid claimed Billy was still living and led investigators to a man in Texas known as William H. "Brushy Bill...

Uncertain of their standing in court and fearing for their lives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, only to become...

Reducere. Recovering Armenia offers the first in-depth study of the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Armenians who remained in Turkey. Followi...

Reducere. The Heights of Macchu Picchu is the finest and most famous of Neruda's longer poems and provides the key to his earlier work. It was inspired by hi...

DescriptionWords have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: bardic poems bought immortality for their subject...

"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the pow...

DescriptionA thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthologyThis is a thoroughly updated and substantially expanded...

In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interco...

Reducere. Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora presents a critical appraisal of the range of issues and themes that have been pivotal in t...

DescriptionLove is a many-headed snake in Nisha Ramayya's debut poetry collection, twisting its way through devotion, sacrifice, and bliss. Seeking...

Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration...

Reducere. The field of Margaret Atwood studies, like her own work, is in constant evolution. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwoo...

Reducere. Rooted in examples from their own and others' classrooms, the authors offer discipline-specific practices for implementing antiracist literature in...

In Emancipation's Daughters, Rich Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national...

Reducere. The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to...

Reducere. First published in 1925, "The New Negro" is Alain Locke's compilation of important works by early twentieth-century African American writers. Exhib...

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny...

Reducere. Has modern scholarship debunked the traditional Christ? Has the church suppressed the truth about Jesus to advance its own agenda? What if the real...

Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if...

Contributor(s): Author: Warren CarterFor ten years, the well-received first edition of this introduction offered readers a way to look at scriptura...

Reducere. A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout Covering American trans...

Contributor(s): Author: Sami SchalkIn Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding o...

Contributor(s): Editor: Carolyn KorsmeyerEditor: David HowesTaste is recognized as one of the most evocative senses. The flavors of food play an im...

Reducere. DescriptionA distinctive Christian heresy? A competitor of burgeoning Christianity? A pre-Christian folk religion traceable to "Oriental syncretism...

Reducere. C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the ...

Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrate...

Reducere. Will Eisner Comic Industry AwardWinner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work.Bringing together contributors from a wide-ra...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jacques LacanEditor: Juliet MitchellEditor: Jacqueline RoseThe question of feminine sexuality has divided the psychoanalyti...

Reducere. Women's bodies and the study of anatomy in Italy between the late thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth centuries.Toward the end of the Middle Ages, med...

DescriptionThe "Ethiope, " the "tawny Tartar, " the "woman blackamoore, " and "knotty Africanisms"--allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance te...

Description Many scholars recognize the importance of Harry Potter as a vehicle for discussions about society--from race relations and gender stud...

Reducere. Red Power is a classic documentary history of the American Indian activist movement. This landmark second edition considerably expands and updates ...

Though the terms "queer" and "Mennonite" rarely come into theoretical or cultural contact, over the last several decades writers and scholars in th...

DescriptionRecently, many critics have questioned the idea of universal citizenship by pointing to the racial, class, and gendered exclusions on wh...

Reducere. What is popular culture? Why study popular culture in an academic context? An Introduction to U.S. Popular Culture: People, Politics, and Power int...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1932, at the peak of French colonialism, a group of Martiniquan students at the Sorbonne established a Caribbean Surrealist Group, an...

Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to sus...

Reducere. From national bestselling author Niobia Bryant comes a sexy, unforgettable novel about love, infidelity, and the importance of keeping your friends...

Reducere. A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation. Life histo...

The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles were among the most popular extracanonical writings of the second century. The Acts of John, Peter, Paul, Andre...

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challeng...

Reducere. Activist essays on ending the Anthropocene, from Belgian theorist Lieven De Cauter, author of Entropic Empire and The Dwarf in the Chess MachineIn ...

From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most i...