Persuasion was the last novel completed by Jane Austen and was first published posthumously in December, 1817.

The story represents an interesting configuration of Austen's characteristic narrative patterns. The heroine…

A resort community once known as a playground for the wealthy, City Island rose to fame as a leader in boat manufacturing and gained international recognition for the victorious yachts…

Learn to Teach explores the most up-to-date findings on how children learn in order to help teachers create effective learning environments and plan for teaching. Lively, engaging and thought-provoking, this…

Damn, I feel naked, buddy, she told him, free hand massaging his powerful withers. He nickered in response. Good thing I stuck one of Jordan’s long shirts in my pack…

While there has been a flood of scholarly efforts to extend, adapt, and revise Foucault’s exploration of the emergence and operations of neoliberalism, the study of foreign policy has remained…

Selected papers from a conference organized at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in April 2004.

This volume presents information on the incidence of mother-headed families across historical epochs and culture groups. This includes an exploration of the conditions under which such families have been many…

Collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century. Initially composed…