In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy takes a job as a maid. Her missus demands Bessy keep a journal of her thoughts in this powerful…

Explores the many ways that bereaved families find to express their loss and offers creative ways to survive the grief.

The fifteen essays in this volume explore the extraordinary range and diversity of the autobiographical mode in twentieth-century Russian literature from various critical perspectives. They will whet the appetite of…

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The invention of the Jacquard loom in eighteenth-century France paved the way for computing and revolutionary change. This title considers how computing has reinvented image, material and structural processes, highlighting…

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

Bayonets in Paradise recounts the extraordinary story of how the army imposed rigid and absolute control on the total population of Hawaii during World War II. Declared immediately after the…

When her father, Robert the Bruce, is crowned King, Princess Marjorie is captured by the English, imprisoned and put on permanent display in a wooden cage in a town square.