The diary of the famous scholar and author chronicles his undergraduate career at Oxford, his marriage to a woman twenty-six years his senior, and his eventual conversion to Christianity

Product Description: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history, aesthetics and key themes of Gothic, the main issues and debates surrounding the genre along with the approaches and theories that have been applied to Gothic texts and films...read more

Widow Lady is very happy in her island cottage with her family of cats and dogs until a rooster appears and decides that he is boss of the yard.

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT is highly respected and trusted for its attention to research and issues of diversity as well as its award-winning team of authors. While covering the basic foundations and features of American Government, this text also moves beyond the nuts and bolts, to explain why and how important features of government have evolved, their impact on government and individuals, and why these features are controversial (if they are) and worth learning. More than just narrating facts and current issues, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT attempts to leave the students with an understanding of the "why", so their knowledge can be applied long after the course is completed. AMERICAN GOVERNMENT is a three-time winner of the American Government Textbook Award for the Best Treatment of Women in Politics, by the Women's Caucus for Political Science.

Product Description: First awarded in 1993, the Américas Award is given in recognition of books that authentically and engagingly portray Latino/as in Latin America, the Caribbean or the United States. By combining both and linking the Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international boundaries, focusing instead upon cultural heritages within the hemisphere...read more

Product Description: This new edition includes a preface by the author covering Sendak’s life, work, and cultural impact in the years since 1994.Over the course of more than ninety books, in a career that spanned six decades, Maurice Sendak became the most influential and, at times, the most controversial creator of works for children...read more

Presents new translations of forty fairy tale classics in a volume that includes previously omitted tales and is complemented by hundreds of annotations that explore the historical origins, cultural complexities, and psychological effects of the stories.

Product Description: An Unabridged Full Color Edition To Include All Letters Of The Alphabet With Corresponding Illustrations By Kate Greenaway

Product Description: This book addresses Suzanne Collins's work from a number of literary and cultural perspectives in an effort to better understand both its significance and its appeal. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the Hunger Games trilogy, drawing from literary studies, psychology, gender studies, media studies, philosophy, and cultural studies...read more

Product Description: Arthur Ransome's delightful adventure series of children's books, "Swallows and Amazons", has captured the imagination of children and adults alike ever since they were first published in the 1930s. Even today, eighty years after the very first book was published, the series remains as popular and enduring as ever...read more

Product Description: Warum erschienen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts zahlreiche Bearbeitungen des Artusstoffes für Kinder und Jugendliche auf dem amerikanischen Buchmarkt? Diese Studie setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander und untersucht dabei aus einer primär buchmarkthistorischen Perspektive, unter Berücksichtigung des amerikanischen Verlagswesens in seiner Funktion als Vermittlungsinstanz von Literatur, die Bedingungen, Gestalt und Intention der Tradierung der amerikanischen juvenile Arthuriana...read more

Product Description: Outstanding Book of the Year Award, Children’s Literature AssociationOften called the Golden Age of Children’s Books, the years stretching from the Civil War to World War I were a remarkable epoch in juvenile literature, an era when the best authors on both sides of the Atlantic wrote some of their finest work primarily for children...read more