The English Civil War in mid-century and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were the culmination of a protracted struggle between kings who were eager...

The English Civil War in mid-century and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were the culmination of a protracted struggle between kings who were eager...

This is an English translation of Plato account of an important dialogue on the nature of love between Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophan...

What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of the other, to put o...

This book explores contemporary migration to New Zealand through an examination of 200 personal essays written by 37 migrants from 20 different cou...

Across the globe citizens are flexing their muscles, but they are also battling oppression and discrimination. What can history tell us about the s...

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword to the Second Edition. I. THE MAN AND HIS WRITINGS: How Augustine Came to the Episcopacy (Sermon 355, 2); Augustine ...

Woudstra's literary essays, rooted in personal experience and travel, are long and loving looks into the mysterious heart of Africa. Her writings e...

This is a memoir of the writer Beryl Fletcher's life between the year of her birth in 1938 and 1972. It is the story of one woman's life -- but it ...

From the state of our rivers and our justice system to a new way to fight obesity, and how a farmer discovered an unknown warrior in a field in Fra...

The second volume in the annual journal of provocative, passionate and argumentative essays. Featuring: Morgan Godfery on identity; Jess Berentson-...

The Paper Nautilus is about loss – the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginni...

This collection of essays explores the contact zones produced by the migrations of two German-born cultural figures: New York Dada poet and artist ...

Transcanada Letters by Roy Kiyooka was a landmark when it first appeared in 1975. Almost thirty years later, it remains one of the most remarkable ...

"Verge" is Monash University's annual anthology of Creative Writing. The 2010 volume was the sixth in the series. Verge showcases the best creative...

"Verge" is Monash University's annual anthology of creative writing; this tenth edition features the best of Monash University's creative writers a...

Navigating obsessions, commemorating loved ones, cooking a meal, drinking with friends, picking at our bodies, reckoning with our choices, finding ...

The death of a bird haunts the relationship between two siblings. A lonely narrator waits for a bus that never comes. A boy makes soup with his gra...

How are voices like places? They move through us as we move through them. Celebrated poet David Mason explores surprising connections in geography ...

The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.--"The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon", Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of...

Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...

Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...

Wieland; or The Transformation (1798) ties revolutionary-era Gothic themes to struggles over the politics of Enlightenment on both sides of the Atl...

As Thoreau used the pond, Romtvedt uses the windmill as a metaphor to take the reader on a philosophical and spiritual search of fundamental truths...

William Zinsser, author of "On Writing Well" and many other books, wrote a weekly blog for the American Scholar -- about writing, the arts, New Yor...

Histories are important and histories have a way of travelling. West Indies is one example of a society constructed artificially of imported popula...