9,450円 This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression. Cory Pillen focuses on several issues addressed repeatedly in the roughly 2,200 extant WPA posters created between 193...

1,267円 La Venezuela Musiúa es una compilación de cuentos de una abuela venezolana residente en Estados Unidos, cuya familia creció y empezó a hablar en dos idiomas, entremezclándolos, en el país de adopción. “Musiú” es un término venezolano derivado del francés (monsieur) aplicado a los extranjeros de c...

11,109円 It is remarkable how persistent a "minor" writer may be. He may lack the large vision and universal message of the great writer, but instead possess a clear, true, intense view of particular places, peoples, and situations that renders hi work unique and irreplacable. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) i...

3,242円 Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, given by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies *Winner, 2021 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Academic/Scholarly Work Honorable Mention, 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular ...

200円 This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Novels Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Bront...

300円 In "Pottery of the Ancient Pueblos," William Henry Holmes embarks on a meticulous exploration of the ceramic traditions of the Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest. Using a blend of ethnographic observation and archaeological analysis, Holmes presents a comprehensive survey of pottery styles,...

286円 The conveniences of modern living pose a danger to our fragile human senses. What if our appreciation for the beauty in the world becomes eroded by the unfeeling diversions of technology? “Beauty Beyond the Looking Glass” is a collection of poetic verse created to reintroduce the vibrant life bea...

4,643円 Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be used as evidence in litigation over the allocation of land. These land grant maps, or mapas de mercedes de tierras, recorded the boundaries of cities, pro...

200円 Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the...

12,478円 In his best-selling travel memoir, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain punningly refers to the black man who introduces him to Venetian Renaissance painting as a “contraband guide,” a term coined to describe fugitive slaves who assisted Union armies during the Civil War. By means of this and similar...

4,172円 This project is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art. When Elizabeth Cady Stanton penned the Declaration of Sentiments for the first women’s rights convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, she unleashed a powerful force in American society. In A Sis...

9,948円 Minstrel Traditions: Mediated Blackface in the Jazz Age explores the place and influence of black racial impersonation in US society during a crucial and transitional time period. Minstrelsy was absorbed into mass-culture media that was either invented or reached widespread national prominence du...