Read about beloved Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal in the latest installment of Hispanic Stars series of engaging, illustrated biographies for young readers published in English and Spanish. Read about beloved Chilean-Americ...Daugiau...
Village Voice columnist Greg Tate offers essays and tales of American music and culture, from bebop to hip-hop. He examines music, books, newspaper reporting, and more to explore such issues as racism, poverty, sexism, homophobia, and political and...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845630)
A provocative exploration of how Americas democratic crisis is rooted in a dangerous mismatch between our Constitution and todays nationalized, partisan politics. The ground beneath American political institutions has moved, with national...Daugiau...
The contract for this ms. has been canceled at the request of the author, 3/14/2023. A teacher and a lawyer before he was a player and a manager, Branch Rickey is best known for his pivotal role in breaking baseballs color line by signin...Daugiau...
An unfiltered and outrageously funny commentary on the threats to free speech in America from the legendary comedian, actor, and Emmy-nominated SNL writer. Rob Schneiders childhood in the San Francisco Bay area with parents of mixe...Daugiau...
Upon its release, John McTiernans Die Hard (1988) was met with immense commercial and critical success; breaking the 100 million mark at the box office in its first run, and resulting in four Academy Award nominations. Jon Lewiss study o...Daugiau...
From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, cinema, and, ultimately, culture-from the taut, terrifying stories o...Daugiau...
Joan Micklin Silvers groundbreaking debut feature film, Hester Street (1975), vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (Carol Kane), a young, Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives in New York City from Eastern Europe at the end...Daugiau...
Upends narratives about Radical Islam and Islamic fundamentalism for readers who wants to understand the actual human beings behind those characterizations. It introduces Salafi Islam by comparison with American Evangelicalism and shows the impo...Daugiau...
Charles Kindleberger ranks as one of the twentieth centurys best known and most influential international economists. This book traces the evolution of his thinking in the context of a key-currency approach to the rise of the dollar system, here...Daugiau...
Counterfeit Culture explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts. It addresses the relationship between the American epic and postmodernism. This book is for graduates and researchers working on post World War II American...Daugiau...
Entangled Alliances is a reinterpretation of the American Revolution through analysis of diplomacy in the emerging United States during decades of hemispheric transformation. Ronald Angelo Johnson brings to light the fascinati...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501783708)
A diplomatic history of race relations between the United States and Haiti from 1765 to 1825 that brings together the voices of Black leaders in Haiti and multiracial founders in the United States to examine an alternative way that some inhabitants...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Three Hills, ISBN-13: 9781501782657)
Four generations of Millers and Sewards dwelled in Auburn, New York, between 1817 and 1860. William Henry Seward was a state senator and governor, and then a U.S. senator and secretary of state. Until recently, Henry (as he was known) Sewards publi...Daugiau...
Ruth Barraclough, Jae-Yong Kim, Jin-kyung Lee, Sang-Kyung Lee
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Cornell University East Asia Program, ISBN-13: 9781501782220)
Island Ablaze and Other Stories is an anthology of thirteen storieseleven from South Korea and two from North Koreaabout these countries complicated relationships with their most important ally and enemy: the United States....Daugiau...
Ruth Barraclough, Jae-Yong Kim, Jin-kyung Lee, Sang-Kyung Lee
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cornell University East Asia Program, ISBN-13: 9781501782213)
Island Ablaze and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories dealing with the relationship between the Korean peninsula and the United States. Taken together, the stories criticize American political, economic, and military intervention...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781496859563)
Chris Claremont (b. 1950) is best known for his landmark sixteen-year author run on Uncanny X-Men. This is the longest author run in Marvel comics history, one that saw X-Men go from a title on the verge of cancellation to one of the most popular co...Daugiau...
The book systematically discusses how to better regulate and reduce ship-source hazardous substance pollution. It analyzes international, U.S., and Chinese laws and regulations from the perspectives of pollution prevention and control, emergency res...Daugiau...
