Exploring the global connections of Latin America's revolutionary movements in the 1960s and 1970sThis volume showcases new research on the global reach of Latin American revolutionary movements during the height of the Cold War, mapping out the region's little-known connections with Africa, Asia, and Europe. Toward a Global History of Latin ......
During the weekend of July 4, 1999, Benjamin 'August' Smith went on a three-day rampage in Illinois and Indiana, attacking Asians, Orthodox Jews, and African Americans. He left two dead and nine wounded, and then committed suicide. As a former member - conveniently resigning the day before the shootings - of the World Church of the Creator (now ......
Two little-known story collections from H.D. that offer new ways of thinking about the role of the short story genre in the writer's career and the modernist movement The Imagist poet H.D. is widely regarded as one of the most innovative writers of free verse in English. In the last few decades, her poetry and novels have received increasing ......
A collection of literary work that shows the artistic development of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author From her first poems and stories to her finely crafted essays as a newspaper and feature writer to the gathering brilliance that began at the outset of her Florida Period, highlighted by the Pulitzer Prize for The Yearling in 1939, Marjorie ......
An introduction to key concepts in international relations and strategy through the interstellar narratives of Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning trilogy Science fiction has long examined social, political, and moral issues through imagined worlds. This book uses Chinese author Cixin Liu's award-winning trilogy as a teaching tool to illustrate ......
Never before published, The Sword Went Out to Seais the first book in H.D.'s prose trilogy that continues with White Rose and the Red and concludes with The Mystery. This complex, semi-autobiographical novel combines H.D.'s interest in the occult and experiences during the Blitz, and sheds light on the aesthetics and origins of literary modernism.
A loving look at one of the world's most maligned, misunderstood, and fascinating insectsFamous foe of forestry professionals and despised spreader of Dutch elm disease, bark beetles have a bad reputation: the World's Worst Forest Pests. They chew through timber profits and kill healthy trees, turning forests from carbon sinks into carbon sources. ......
An investigation of the widespread popularity of modernist architecture in midcentury Brazil During the mid-twentieth century, Brazil as a country seemed to be fascinated with modernism. Middle-class people would read about it in popular newspapers and journals, then go about designing their own homes in the modernist style, using distinctive ......
A selection of speeches from UF's 11th president Bernie Machen, offering insights on public higher education and its challenges and changes The modern university is a beacon for students, a home for scholars, a hub of culture in the community, an engine of discovery, an economic force-a place of many purposes, all facing change or reinvention. ......
