On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university's ...

Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you’re a visitor or a local looking for something different, New Hampshire Off the Beaten Path ...

This study of the Italian Nobel playwright and master performer, Dario Fo, will be of interest to scholars and students of popular performance and contemporary ...

"We say that a man can be known by the company he keeps. So I say that a nation, a people, can be known and be judged by its heroes, by whom it honors ...

Broken Promises of Globalization: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry contributes to the contemporary debate on the limits and possibilities of ...

In Women In College , Mirra Komarovsky followed her groundbreaking works on gender roles to focus on the essentialist debate. Komarovsky interviewed post-WWII ...

This volume presents one of Mitchell's touchstone texts of neurasthenia-cultural critique as medical diagnosis. Fat and Blood was a best seller in its ...

Film scholar Ronald Schwartz examines the most significant representatives of the "Neo-Noir" style, beginning with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and concluding ...

Jefferson Square is the story of the making of a major urban culture center. It goes behind the scenes into the private lives and private battles of ...

Fashion that was in vogue in the East was highly desirable to pioneers during the frontier period of the American West. It was also extraordinarily difficult ...

No crime is as horrific, as mesmerizingly perplexing, as a child's murder at the hands of a parent. In most cases, the perpetrator is the father. Veteran ...

The first title in Elizabeth Ogilvies’ Lover’s Trilogy, The Dawning of the Day follows widow Philippa Marshall as she makes a life for ...

This book offers a rhetorical examination of how femininity is defined and portrayed across media and popular culture. To do so, Pompper analyzes interviews ...

Completing Elisabeth Ogilvie’s Tide Trilogy, The Ebbing Tide follows Joanna Bennett as she works to keep the home fires of Bennett’s ...

The environmental studies about natural resource issues are often studied as conflicts; this book is carefully designed to expound on how resolutions are ...

Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community: Health, Happiness, and Identity provides an ethnographic account of life in a rural farming village ...

From their ignominious 40-120 debut in 1962, to the 'Miracle Mets' of the shocking 1969 season, to the teams of Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, and Jacob ...

Director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy-Blue (1993), White (1993), and Red (1994)-is one of the great achievements of European film. A meditation ...

This book provides a historically, socially, and culturally-contextualized portrayal of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a complementary and alternative ...

The book reexamines this long held belief, and argues that the historical method is an excellent way to think about and represent the future. At the same ...