In Radio Free Albemuth, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the ...

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Now, for the first time, and experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chretien's major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the ...

Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography--a history of their family and work lives, and of their union.

This publication looks at the ideas underlying Diploma Unit 4's approach to urbanism.

To uphold family honor and tradition, Sheetal Prasad is forced to forsake the man she loves and marry playboy millionaire Rakesh Dhanraj while the citizens of Raigun, India, watch in envy.

It addresses not only the commercially successful films but also the effects of globalization and cultural policies on public incentives for filmmaking. --Book Jacket.

This groundbreaking collection of essays examines Argentine cultural production in the years between 1989-2001, which coincided with the implementation of neoliberalism under President Carlos Saul Menem (1989-1999) and his successor, ...