Essa didn’t ask for rumors to follow her like gum stuck to the bottom of her shoe. However, being known as ‘Oblivion Girl: Destroyer of Cities’ was a rumor she could sink her teeth into. With the help of her sidekick, Atticus, the two were doing just fine hunting bounties, fighting pirates, and arguing with Gypsies. And she didn’t even mind when Alita joined the group—even though they constantly fought. This was all, of course, before she knew her brother Eden was still alive.But i...

Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adoptee activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate.Marianne Novy is Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Pittsburgh.

Adoption Memoirs tells inside stories of adoption that popular media miss. Marianne Novy shows how adoption memoirs and films recount not only happy moments, but also the lasting pain of relinquishing a child, the racism and trauma that adoptees such as Jackie Kay and Jane Jeong Trenka experienced, and the unexpected complexities of child-rearing adoptive parents Emily Prager and Jesse Green encountered.Novy considers 45 memoirs, mostly from the twenty-first century, by bi...

Part memoir, part inspirational and part spiritual exploration, “Coming Home: Be the Hero of Your Own Story (regardless of previous chaos, choices and chapters)” is songwriter Karen Novy’s personal story, including the life-changing breast cancer diagnosis that rocked her world and woke her up to pursuing her life’s passion and purpose. “Coming Home” is about the journey we are all on, to return to ourselves, our truth and living the life we love.

In an increasingly complicated and competitive world, technology and manufacturing businesses need any edge they can get. Why, then, do so many of these companies leave their internet presence at a minimum?Marketing to engineers tasked with making a recommendation to the person with the checkbook can be especially difficult. This book is written from the perspective of the challenging task of marketing to those engineers, the very people who can kill a sale before the decision-make...

This book re-evaluates a rich scientific heritage of space- and history-sensitive development theories and produces an integrated methodology for the comparative analysis of urban and regional trajectories within a globalized world. The main argument put forward is that current mainstream analyses of urban and regional development have forgotten this rich heritage and fail to address the connections between different dimensions of development, the role of history and the importance of plac...

Since Theodor Geisel published his first children's book in 1937 under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss, children and adults alike have been captivated by the charming and laconic tales of whimsical characters and imaginative worlds. But Dr. Seuss' stories are more than just catchy poems; they often wrestle with serious philosophical and moral dilemmas, whether it is Horton discovering the very essence of life or the Lorax teaching us about morality. Dr. Seuss and Philosophy explores philosophical ...

Are Shakespeare's plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare's plays. Both feminist theory and the plays deal with issues such as likeness and difference between the sexes, the complexity of relationships between women, the liberating possibilities of de...

Through analysis of newspaper coverage on the debate over the future of Europe in Great Britain and Germany between 2000 and 2005, this book explores the intricate ways in which national identities shape media discourses on European integration. In doing so, it provides some compelling insights into Europe's emerging communicative space(s).

Potatoes are a staple crop around the world. Covering all aspects of botany, production and uses, this book presents a comprehensive discussion of the most important topics for potato researchers and professionals. It assesses the latest research on plant growth such as tuber development, water use and seed production, covers all aspects of pest management and reviews postharvest issues such as storage, global markets, and of course, nutritional value and flavour.

Novy demonstrates how the plays are theatrical transformations of tensions in both ideals and practices in Renaissance society. Analyzing the dramatic images of lover and beloved, of husband and wife, of parent and child, Novy examines the ways in which the conflicts are resolved in the comedies and romances and how they are acted out in the tragedies. Chapters on individual plays provide original interpretations that delineate the tone and texture of gender relations.A UNC Press E...

They say the past is another country but for Australian-born Lily the past is another language: Hungarian, the language of her migrant family, the language of secrets … But Lily’s family secrets hold the key to her father’s death from a mysterious illness she may have inherited. Just when any conversation becomes interesting, it trails off into Hungarian - a language Lily was never taught. If there’s one thing that Lily’s mother and grandmother agree on, it’s that Hungarian is impossible t...