Featuring over 1,000 hikes from across Florida, this comprehensive guide to experiencing the state's outdoor landscapes is fully updated in a new edition Hiker's Guide to the Sunshine State is the definitive guide to experiencing the Florida outdoors through hiking. Featuring trails in environments as varied as jungle-like forests with ......
Exploring the importance of Ernest Hemingway's time in Italy to his writing and legacyFrom his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway's Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. Hemingway and Italy offers essays from top scholars, exciting ......
Illustrating the diversity of disciplines that intersect within global health studies, Healthcare in Latin America is the first volume to gather research by many of the foremost scholars working on the topic and region in fields such as history, sociology, women's studies, political science, and cultural studies. Through this unique eclectic ......
Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League
Relive the tumultuous preseason before Robinson broke the color barrier In February 1947, the most memorable season in the history of the Cuban League finished with a dramatic series win by Almendares against its rival, Habana. As the celebration spread through the streets of Havana and across Cuba, the Brooklyn Dodgers were beginning spring ......
Exploring the important themes of guilt and morality in James Joyce's final work James Joyce's last novel, Finnegans Wake, is notorious for its complex structure and considered by many to be unreadable. Approaching this complicated book with attention to the theme of guilt, an important concept that has been underexplored in studies of the ......
Perspectives and Discoveries in Collecting the Arts of Japan
Illuminating the history of collecting Japanese art This richly illustrated volume addresses the history of collecting Japanese art and the factors that contributed to the growth of collections in North America following the Meiji Restoration in 1868. With wide-ranging essays that fill in gaps in the scholarly investigation of the subject, art ......
Interviews with novelist Harry Crews about his life, work, and writing craft In these 26 interviews conducted between 1972 and 1997, novelist Harry Crews tells the truth-about why and how he writes, about the literary influences on his own work, about the writers he admires (or does not), about which of his own books he likes (or does not), ......
An introduction to the fascinating world of Joyce's manuscripts This book shows how the creative process of modernist writer James Joyce can be reconstructed from his manuscripts. Daniel Ferrer offers a practical demonstration of the theory of genetic criticism, the study of the manuscript and textual development of a literary text. Using a ......
