Product Description: A wide-ranging study of the post-1990 fiction of one of America's most respected writers and cultural critics, this volume focuses on three of Don DeLillo's most recent novelsGÇö Mao II, Underworld, and Falling Man GÇöthat span pivotal moments in recent history: the end of the Cold War, the millennium, and 9/11...read more

The author of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice offers a detailed account of her struggle with depression, a battle that took her on a quest to understand its origins and her discovery, in her family's past, of the pressures and possibilities of American culture and how one generation of her family shaped another.

Traces the life of the lesbian author, recounts how she adopted a masculine identity as a child, and discusses her major works

Product Description: My Ántonia is the Cather novel that is most often taught in high school and college courses, and the one that most readers try first when they approach Cather. It is at once her most autobiographical novel and her most aesthetically complex; it can be enjoyed both for its simple, pure prose and for its literary depth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the life of the American novelist, examines the development of her writing, and discusses the influence of her personal life on her work (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book describes the struggle of Indian tribes and their governments to achieve freedom and self-determination despite repeated attempts by foreign governments to dominate, exterminate, or assimilate them. Drawing on the disciplines of political science, history, law, and anthropology and written in a direct, readable style, American Indian Tribal Governments is a comprehensive introduction to traditional tribal governments, to the history of Indian-white relations, to the structure and legal rights of modern tribal governments, and to the changing roles of federal and state governments in relation to modem tribal governments...read more

A comprehensive collection of stories, poems, novellas, and comments by Cather on her own writing include such celebrated works as 'On the Divide,' 'Paul's Case,' 'The Sculptor's Funeral,' 'Coming, Aphrodite!' 'A Death in the Desert,' and many others.