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The Texarkana Moonlight Murders
The Unsolved Case of the 1946 Phantom Killer
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In 1946, years before the phrase “serial murder” was coined, a masked killer terrorized the town of Texarkana on the Texas-Arkansas border. Striking five times within a ten-week period, always at night, the prowler claimed six lives and left three other victims wounded. Survivors told police that...
Hemingway's Cuba
Finding the Places and People That Influenced the Writer
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Ernest Hemingway spent about one-third of his life in Cuba and grew to love the country and its people. This travel narrative follows a journey across the island in search of Hemingway’s Cuba and how it influenced some of his writings. The author seeks out Hemingway’s haunts in Old Havana and...
Ponyville Confidential
The History and Culture of My Little Pony, 1981-2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Beloved by young girls around the world, Hasbro’s My Little Pony franchise has been mired in controversy since its debut in the early 1980s. Critics dismissed the cartoons as toy advertisements, and derided their embrace of femininity. The 2010 debut of the openly feminist My Little Pony: Friendship...
Sixties Shockers
A Critical Filmography of Horror Cinema, 1960-1969
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
This comprehensive filmography provides critical analyses and behind-the-scenes stories for 600 horror, science fiction and fantasy films from the 1960s. During those tumultuous years horror cinema flourished, proving as innovative and unpredictable as the decade itself. Representative titles include...
by Judith Lissauer Cromwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
This is the first, full-length biography of Florence Nightingale told from a post-feminist perspective. Born into Victorian Britain’s elite, a brilliant, magnetic teenager decided to devote her life to the indigent sick by becoming a nurse. Florence’s family, especially her mother, opposed the...
The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
This critical history of Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels covers the series from its inception in the 1970s to the The Hydrogen Sonata (2012), published less than a year before Banks’ death. It considers Banks’ origins as a writer, the development of his politics and ethics, his struggles to become...
The Transgressive Iain Banks
Essays on a Writer Beyond Borders
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
This collection of 12 new essays brings together prominent literary experts to explore the importance of Scottish writer Iain (M.) Banks, both his mainstream and science fiction work. It considers Banks as a habitual border crosser who makes things fresh and new by subversive and transgressive strategies....
by Deke Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
The birth of modern fantasy in 1930s Britain and America saw the development of new literary and film genres. J.R.R. Tolkien created modern fantasy with The Lord of the Rings, set in a fictional world based upon his life in the early 20th century British Empire, and his love of language and medieval...
Devil's Music, Holy Rollers and Hillbillies
How America Gave Birth to Rock and Roll
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016
Rock music today is universal and its popular history is well known. Yet few know how and why it really came about. Taking a fresh look at events long overlooked or misunderstood, this book tells how some of the most disenfranchised people in a free and prosperous nation strove to make themselves...
Paper Dolls
Fragile Figures, Enduring Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Paper dolls might seem the height of simplicity—quaint but simple toys, nothing more. But through the centuries paper figures have reflected religious and political beliefs, notions of womanhood, motherhood and family, the dictates of fashion, approaches to education, individual self-image and...
Gay American Novels, 1870-1970
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Examining the development of gay American fiction and providing an essential reading list, this literary survey covers 257 works—novels, novellas, a graphic story cycle and a narrative poem—in which gay and bisexual male characters play a major role. Iconic works, such as James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s...
Glimpses of Phoenix
The Desert Metropolis in Written and Visual Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anything of importance happened yesterday. Also that Phoenix, the Arizona state capital, is a “clean” city (despite a past of police corruption and social oppression). The “real” Phoenix, easygoing, sun-drenched, a...
The Written Dead
Essays on the Literary Zombie
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
From Victor Halperin’s White Zombie (1932) to George A. Romero’s landmark Night of the Living Dead (1968) and AMC’s hugely successful The Walking Dead (2010–), zombie mythology has become an integral part of popular culture. In a reversal of the typical pattern of adaptation, the zombie developed...
One Korea
A Proposal for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Peaceful Korean reunification would end a growing nuclear threat, ease regional and geopolitical tensions, and bring about significant economic growth and cooperation in resource-rich Northeast Asia. The central assumption of this book is that peace and reunification can be achieved by changing the...