An elegantly illustrated celebration of Jane Austen's life and literature as told through the flowers, plants, and landscapes that inspired her.

Need to learn an accent for an audition? Got the part but can't quite grasp the sounds? Want to expand your repertoire? The Accent Handbook is a novel approach to…

Jessica Lynne Pearson explores the collision between imperial and international visions of health and development in French Africa as postwar decolonization movements gained strength. The consequences of putting politics above…

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This fourth volume contains Charles Plumptre Johnson’s The Early Writings…

The epic poem Beowulf has been explored by many scholars, but personal acquaintance revealed that some important aspects always seem to have been overlooked. This book’s intention was to correct…

This book explores fatherhood programs, funded by the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN), which advance knowledge and practice in the fathering field.

Giving to charity is now headline news and utterly mainstream. Live8, the huge Asian tsunami appeal and the popularity of Oxfam’s Christmas gifts of goats for developing countries are all…