One of the few interdisciplinary volumes on Bahia available, The Making of Brazil’s Black Mecca: Bahia Reconsidered contains contributions covering a wide chronological and topical range by scho
Indigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which some groups were racialized and others w
From the author of Color Me Grey comes the story of two detectives on a desperate search to find a killer who is closer to home than they may think. Detective Brandon Simms has been married twice and
Caldecott award-winning illustrator Simms Taback adds Farm Animals to his best-selling City Animals and Safari Animals series. Just like the other books, Farm Animals is a guessing game. Turn the page
During William Gilmore Simms's life (1806-1870), book reviews and critical essays became vital parts of American literary culture and intellectual discourse. Simms was an assiduous reviewer and essayi
One of the most important volumes of short fiction published before the Civil War. The Wigwam and the Cabin represents William Gilmore Simms at his very best. It is the work that led Poe to say of Sim
Based on a lecture titled "The Necessity of Fiction in Architecture" (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994). Reiter (design, MIT) presents fanciful b&w images of some 20 projects (e.g. invo
In this brief, timely text, Keramet Reiter explores the least visible, but arguably most important, characteristics of mass incarceration in the United States: the systematic constriction of prisoners
A Modernist UtopiaThe Blaue Reiter (“Blue Rider”) group of artists was formed in Munich in 1911 on the initiative of two leading artists of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, the pioneer of purely abstract
Despite the popularity of abstract art, painters don't always know how to connect emotionally with this style. Through inspirational projects and exercises, Laura Reiter explains how to create that ex
Despite the popularity of abstract paintings in the art world, painters don't always know how to connect emotionally with this work. Using a range of projects and exercises, artist Laura Reiter shows
