Velvet & White PawsRecommended Age: For ages 5-9 - Grades K-3White Paws & Velvet is a heartwarming rhyming story about a hungry wolf and a clever raven who learn thatsurvival is stronger through sharing. What begins as a clash turns into a beautiful friendship, one that bringstwo very different worlds together.Follow White Paws as he runs like the river to warn his pack, and soar with Velvet as he calls his flock tounite. In a time of hunger,...

This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and sodomites, roaring girls and schoolboys, precocious princes and raucous tomboys, boy actors and female apprentices, while discussing a broad array of topics, from animal studies to performance theory, from queer time to que...

I Want to Be Her! is part memoir and part illustrated fashion guide, written by one of fashion’s most accessible, trusted, and inspiring writers. Andrea Linett, the cofounder of Lucky magazine, shares her personal story of growing up and finding her way to fashion, and the figures who guided her along the way. Through short descriptions and memories, we meet 50 women across five eras of her life—some passing strangers, some casual friends, some close confidantes—who each ...

Focusing on representations of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple registers. Providing detailed discussions of not only bearded men but also beardless boys, bearded women, and half-bearded hermaphrodites, author Mark Albert Johnston argues that attending closely to early modern English culture's treatment of the beard as a fetish object ultimately exposes the contin...

Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe -- loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water and soil; exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, and other hazardous wastes. Topics considered in-depth include:human rights and environmental degradationnation-s...

"American Eloquence, Volume 4" is a compelling anthology that showcases the art of oratory in American history. Edited by Alexander Johnston and James Albert Woodburn, this volume features a diverse collection of speeches that reflect the political, social, and cultural landscape of the United States. The editors have meticulously curated speeches from various figures, highlighting their rhetorical skills and the impact of their words on American society. This collection serves as a valuab...

"American Eloquence, Volume 3" is a compelling anthology that showcases the art of oratory in American history. Edited by Alexander Johnston and James Albert Woodburn, this volume features a diverse collection of speeches that reflect the political, social, and cultural landscape of the United States. The editors have meticulously curated speeches from prominent figures, providing readers with insights into the rhetorical strategies employed by these speakers. This collection serves as a v...

"American Eloquence, Volume 1" is a compelling anthology that showcases the rich tradition of American oratory. Edited by Alexander Johnston and James Albert Woodburn, this volume brings together a diverse collection of speeches that reflect the political, social, and cultural landscape of the United States. The editors meticulously selected speeches from prominent figures, capturing the essence of American rhetoric and its evolution over time. This collection serves as an invaluable resou...

What is sex exactly? Does everyone agree on a definition? And does that definition hold when considering literary production in other times and places? Sex before Sex makes clear that we cannot simply transfer our contemporary notions of what constitutes a sex act into the past and expect them to be true for the people who were then reading literature and watching plays. The contributors confront how our current critical assumptions about definitions of sex restrict our understand...

Emphasizing the significance of early modern prose fiction as a hybrid genre that absorbed cultural, ideological and historical strands of the age, this fascinating study brings together an outstanding cast of critics including: Sheila T. Cavanaugh, Stephen Guy-Bray, Mary Ellen Lamb, Joan Pong Linton, Steve Mentz, Constance C. Relihan, Goran V. Stanivukovic with an afterword from Arthur Kinney.Each of the essays in this collection considers the reciprocal relation of early modern p...

James Bromley argues that Renaissance texts circulate knowledge about a variety of non-standard sexual practices and intimate life narratives, including non-monogamy, anal eroticism, masochism and cross-racial female homoeroticism. Rethinking current assumptions about intimacy in Renaissance drama, poetry and prose, the book blends historicized and queer approaches to embodiment, narrative and temporality. An important contribution to Renaissance literary studies, queer theory and the hist...

This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in Shakespeare.