Document Series #11 Nour Mobarakâ s Dafne Phono is an adaptation of the first opera, Dafne, composed and written by Jacopo Peri and Ottavio Rinucc...

Wretch: i) a despicable person. ii) a person pitied for his misfortune. A powerful attempt by one man to purge himself of his past and destroy his ...

Rosa Mayreder (1858-1938) of Vienna, Austria, was a major European feminist and peace activist as well as an excellent scholar and superb writer. T...

Based on the assumption that gender roles have become increasingly complex and differentiated in recent decades, the volume's articles analyze the ...

Much sought after by oil companies, 'generation kitchens' are sites where geological forces have combined to create conditions for oil production. ...

This is a sexually charged travelogue of love, lust, and loss. Drawing inspiration from such works as Pauline Réage's The Story of O and Marian Eng...

George Washington speaks for himself on behalf of liberty and the emerging American republic in this book, the only one-volume compilation in print...

George Washington speaks for himself on behalf of liberty and the emerging American republic in this book, the only one-volume compilation in print...

Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced...

Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced...

Gerald Murnane is one of Australia's most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times descri...

Coal mines have become rare, but the miners of Germinal are immortal. This new edition of the novel, with a translation by Raymond MacKenzie, is an...

Coal mines have become rare, but the miners of Germinal are immortal. This new edition of the novel, with a translation by Raymond MacKenzie, is an...

"What if you woke up to find your body was slowly shutting down? Unable to walk, talk or blink and nobody knows why … When Guillain Barré Syndrome ...

After establishing a poetic presence on the literary scene in the early 1960s, Dunedin’s Alan Roddick published his first collection, The Eye Corre...

Getting The Third Degree is the story of Laurie Cunningham who came to prominence with football club West Bromwich Albion in the late 1970's. Cunni...

"Poet Siobhan Harvey’s latest collection is about migration, outcasts, the search for home, and the ghosts we live with, including the ones who occ...

Since the death of her charismatic but abusive husband, Helene Alving has been treading water in a sea of empty days. What keeps her going is a dee...

In the arena, she shot cigarettes and coins from her trusting husband's hand. Some women wished she would miss. --from "Little Sure Shot" Kat Camer...

Drawing on his Latvian heritage, Balodis explores the relationships and experiences, over a period of 45 years, of a group of young Latvians who em...

The three Lebanese writers discussed in this volume -- Kahlil Gibran, Ameen Rihani and Mikhail Naimy -- all emigrated to the USA early in life. The...

This stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, t...

This stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, t...

Pascoli stands in the doorway. He is both a last romantic and Italy’s first modern poet. Beloved for his poems of family and the nest, he is also o...