This book of 11 scholarly essays examines the status of today's Jerusalem from several important perspectives. It is intended as an interdisciplinary collaboration. The city's centrality to the Israel
Jurji Zaidan was a leading thinker, writer, and publisher of the Arab Nahda, the Arab cultural revolution of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when modern Arabic print language was created and r
At age 26, Democrat James K. McGuire was the youngest mayor elected to lead a major city in the US (Syracuse, NY). This book charts his early years and his political career, and also investigates his
Until almost halfway through the 20th century Italians were viewed by many Americans as a distinct ethnicity, which occasionally veered into outright racism. This was furthered by the relative lack of
Auge (English, Lora College) examines a diverse set of poetic styles in the work of Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanaugh, John Montague, Seamus Haney, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Paul Duncan, and Paula Meehan
A specialized book for academics interested in literary theory of Western drama in general, and the work of Irish playwright Brian Friel in particular. This book attempts to establish a comprehensive
In this pair of moving, gracefully poignant novellas, sisters Pokras and Yariv explore the world of the elderly with deft humor and heart-wrenching detail. Pokras’ Feeding Mrs. Moskowitz introduces us
Scholars of English, drama, and communications emphasize links and interfaces between different visual media and between visual and literary media. Among their topics are prison films and the Troubles
Steele (women's studies, Texas Christian U.) examines women's writings in the Irish national tradition, focusing on leading feminine voices in the advanced nationalist press circulating during the two
Women, Press, and Politics explores the literary and historical significance of women writing for the most influential body of nationalist journalism during the Irish revival, the advanced nationalist
This book offers an excellent introduction for those interested in the sociology of punk rock and its subcultures and will be an invaluable resource for sociologists and straightedge adherents.
Alan Bessette (biology, Utica College) and mycologist and botanical photographer Arleen Bessette team up here to provide text and full-color illustrations. They begin with the basics of mushrooms, col
The late Jwaideh (formerly of the department of Near Eastern languages and literatures at Indiana U.) wrote this study of the emergence and development of the Kurdish nationalist movement as his Syrac
The voice of David Shrayer-Petrov's immigrant fiction blends Russian, Jewish, and American traditions. Collecting an autobiographical novel and three short stories, Autumn in Yalta brings together the
U.S. involvement in the 1953 coup that overthrew the elected prime minister of Iran and installed the Shah was not even officially admitted until Madeleine Albright acknowledged it in March of 2000, t
Sudanese author Tayeb Salih is one of the most celebrated writers of modern Arabic literature. In this study, Hassan (comparative literature, Illinois State U.) examines the ways in which Salih's work
A comprehensive identification guide to nearly 150 tree species of New York, the Northeast, and much of eastern North America, Donald J. Leopold's botanical descriptions for each species include a sum
This book undertakes the first sustained interpretation of all of Tayeb Salih's novels and short stories that constitute a single narrative cycle. The book focuses primarily on the ways in which his w
In The Meaning of Mind, Thomas Szasz argues that only as a verb does the word "mind" name something in the real world, namely, attending or heeding. Minding is the ability to pay attention and adapt t
This is a reprint of the 1999 publication in which Szasz (psychiatry, the State U. of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse) seeks to demedicalize and destigmatize voluntary death, to enable reader
Applying a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives to the writings of James Joyce, this book looks at the use of space and place, especially as related to Joyce's representations of the city
Most accounts of Sandino (1895-1934) and his resistance to US domination of Nicaragua in the 1920s and 1930s focus on his politics. Nicaraguan native Navarro-GTnie (political science, St. Mary's Colle
Vahdat (comparative religion, Tufts U.), in this revised version of his dissertation (in sociology at Brandeis U.), applies a carefully defined theory of modernity to his discussion of Iran from the m
Ramazani was born in England in 1932 to English parents, but grew up in Iran and studied ballet in Tehran with a White Russian emigrant who had fled the Russian Revolution during the modernization per
This study of modern Egypt aims to open the debate regarding new terms and methods for understanding the Middle East and Islamic societies. By introducing her own methodologies and applying them to th
Friedman (English, Kent State U.) calls them monstrous because they differ in physical appearance and social practices from whoever was describing them. He finds them lurking in Mandeville's Travels
O'Brien, a senior current affairs reporter with RT+ television, draws on 20 years of experience reporting on Northern Ireland and on extensive contacts within various Republican movements to present a
God, Man, and Devil is an anthology of five Yiddish plays in translation, plus two additional independent scenes, all written by well-known playwrights in the first quarter of the twentieth century. T
Maintaining that the standard western theories of modernization do not fully explain the global resurgence of fundamental religion, offers a new analysis of freedom that integrates western and non-wes
One of the most controversial conflicts of our time is that between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. Ilan Peleg focuses on the status of human rights in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip until the e
Qingyun Wu's work is a unique discovery in literary studies in the West. Chinese utopian literature paired with its English counterparts form an original and valuable contribution to world literature.
One of the world's leading Yeats scholars completes his definitive history, begun with the highly acclaimed Prodigal Father, in Family Secrets, a biography of William Butler Yeats, his younger brother
