While supernatural events have become fairly commonplace on daytime television in recent decades, Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC between 1966 and 1971, pioneered this format when it blended the vamp
From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to Scotland, a growing intellectual and cultural wave of production is taking cinema beyond the borders of its place of origin—exploring faraway places, interactin
Red Riding Hood for All Ages investigates the modern recasting of one of the world’s most beloved and frequently told tales. Author Sandra L. Beckett examines an international selection of contemporar
In its twenty years of existence, the Heidelberg Project has inspired awe in visitors from around the world, drawn praise from the international art community, and provoked extensive discussions in it
Interdisciplinary in scope, this anthology redresses the undue neglect of Anglophone Caribbeans—almost 25 percent of the Black population in Harlem in 1920—and their pivotal role in the literary, cult
It’s a matter of knowing winter. Snowbird travels south, seeks warmth, and begins waiting. Robert Kroetsch’s new collection, The Snowbird Poems, is a brilliant flight of departure. Beached where he wa
"John Cuthbert Long’s Roy D. Chapin is a thorough and detailed biography of a remarkable, but little-known Detroit automobile industry pioneer. Historians should include Roy Dikeman Chapin (F
A rich, multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry features representative works from the 1930s to the present day and includes poems by Philip Levine, Dudley Randall, John Sinclair, W. D. Snodgrass, N
The Jews from Aleppo, Syria, and their descendants compose a remarkable but little-known community that has spread throughout the world during the past two centuries, adapting to myriad social setting
This compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance brings together for the first time the works of Langston Hughes, George S. Schuyler, Francis Hall Johnson, Shirley Graham, and o
Jewish Musical Traditions is the first English-language volume to consider oral music of Jewish communities in a sociocultural context. Amnon Shiloah, the world's leading authority on the Arab and Jew
Essential reading for "Peakies," fans of director David Lynch's cult TV series "Twin Peaks." Contains critical essays, plus lists of cast members, directors, and writers for each episode, a calendar o
The Holocaust virtually destroyed the Jews of Poland, once a community of more than three million, constituting ten percent of the population, and the oldest continuous Jewish community in a European
This versatile three-volume set is specifically designed to introduce students of Spanish to the literature of Spain and Latin America. Written in clear, expository Spanish, this is a comprehensive pr
The heist—a carefully organized robbery of a financial institution or other lucrative business—has been a persistent and popular mainstay of the crime film. The Best Laid Plans: Interrogating the Heis
Janet Kauffman describes "eco-dementia" as a paradoxical condition of humanity—a love of the living world while simultaneously causing and suffering from its destruction. Like other dem
In The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives, editors Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Gensberg bring together a collection of 53 folktales celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of
Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881–1983), founder of Reconstructionism, is the preeminent American Jewish thinker and rabbi of our times. His life embodies the American Jewish experience of the first half of th
"You should always go moose hunting with a partner."—James ItsiFor over 50,000 years, the Great Hunt shaped human existence, creating a vital spiritual reality where people, animals, and the
"The miracle of the preserved word, in whatever medium—print, audio text, video recording, digital exchange—means that it may transfer into new times and new places."– From the IntroductionI
Bankruptcy law is a major part of the American legal landscape. More than a million individuals and thousands of businesses sought relief in the United States’ ninety-three bankruptcy courts in 2014,
Grant Notley, leader of Alberta’s New Democratic Party from 1968 to 1984, stood out in Alberta politics. His goals, his personal integrity, his obvious dedication to social change, and his "pract
With a mischievous globe-headed mascot that appeared in every issue and even on Quentin Tarantino’s T-shirt inPulp Fiction, Orbit was an instantly recognizable arbiter of 1990s Detroit culture. But it
Although his best-known project was the World Trade Center in New York City, Japanese American architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986) worked to create moments of surprise, serenity, and delight in dist
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many perceived American Jewry to be in a state of crisis as traditions of faith faced modern sensibilities. Published beginning in 1909, Rabbi and Professor
Examining the golem (an inanimate mudfigure imbued with life through mystical means whose purpose is to protect and to avenge) as a construct from early Jewish folktale to modern fiction, Baer (Englis
Between 1915 and 1940 the amazing Edmonton Grads dominated women’s basketball in Canada. Coached by J. Percy Page, they played over 400 official games, losing only 20; they travelled more than 125,000
Hogan’s Heroes originally aired between 1965 and 1971 on CBS, corresponding to the most uncertain years of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. In an era when attitudes about the military, patrio
In introducing their translation of Voyage de Campagne (A Trip to the Country, 1699) by Henriette Julie de Castelnau (1668-1716), Gerthner (French, Oklahoma State U.) and Stedman (French, U. of North
The Greening of American Orthodox Judaism tells a story within a story. Its primary aim is to reconstruct the history of a relatively unknown and short-lived Jewish collegiate organization, Yavneh: Th
Originally published in 1977 and long out of print, Maurice Yacowar’s Hitchcock’s British Films was the first volume devoted solely to the twenty-three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his native
Originally published in 1961, Let's Read is a simple and systematic way to teach basic reading. Developed by noted linguist Leonard Bloomfield, it is based on the alphabetic spelling patterns of Engli
Fiction. Part punk rock concept album, part poetic observation, and part man-in-the-street reporting, WISH LIST, Gerry LaFemina's debut collection of stories, chronicles the lives of people who just m
While Israel is a small country, it has a diverse and continually changing society. As a result, since the 1960s Israeli anthropology has been a fertile ground for researchers. This collection introdu
Literary Nonfiction. A collection of lyrical verse, consoling prose, and personal meditations on American culture. "What if the art forms have so solidified as to be irrelevant to defy our political p
Baimiao, shuanggou, gongbi, xieyi, and mogu. These words define unique Chinese painting techniques or methods, each of which is seized by the artists whose work is shown in the exhibition, Brilliant S
The Golden Underground takes its title from a section of Wallace Stevens’s poem "Sunday Morning." Like "Sunday Morning," The Golden Underground offers a blend of the mythic and the religious as award-
Susan Howell Brubaker has revised the classic Workbook for Aphasia to update the language and situations to better serve twenty-first-century patients. Since its first edition in 1978, this highly rec
Published in 1989 to wide acclaim, Come the Morning was one of the first novels for older children to treat the problem of homelessness realistically. Fifteen years later, with unemployment and povert
Hazard Lepage, the last of the studhorse men, sets out to breed his rare blue stallion, Poseidon. A lusty trickster and a wayward knight, Hazard’s outrageous adventures are narrated by Demeter Proudfo
