Curiosity and critique foreground this novel history of porcelain that unravels the cultural myths of Chinoiserie, Europe's fantasy of the East

Inspires and challenges us to live life fully-not carefully or cautiously, but wholly engaged with the world and with the messiness of humanity-and dares us to claim our freedom to…

The career of Spain’s celebrated author Carmen Martin Gaite spanned the Spanish Civil War, Franco’s dictatorship, and the nation’s transition to democracy. She wrote fiction, poetry, drama, screenplays for television…

Research on muscarinic receptors is advancing at an extraordinary rate. The discovery that pirenzepine recognized apparent heterogeneity in muscarinic binding sites infused new life into the problem of subclassifying muscarinic…

Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown’s personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of…

On Madison Street, a Chicago street that owns her children, a boy hides from the police. Once Junior is placed in a foster home, he doesn’t have to steal to…

This bilingual anthology brings together the work of twelve contemporary Indonesian poets. The poems represent a range of different styles, and are presented with annotations and a brief biography of…

Most of the lumber camps that harvested 8.5 million acres of West Virginia’s virgin forest had faded into history when John Raine built Rainelle in the Meadow River basin in…