Committed to developing frameworks for defining and evaluating Black poetry, literary scholar Stephen E. Henderson (1925-1997) examined the question: What makes a poem Black? This volume is designed to expand…

The edition presents Richard Bernard’s commentary on the book of Ruth, originally published in 1628, to the modern reader alongside Ruth McAlister’s scholarly commentary.

Regina Rousseau comes home from school abroad, to bury her father, who committed suicide after gambling away his plantation home in South Louisiana’s sugar cane country, and mother, who dies…

Eminent Creativity, Everyday Creativity, and Health brings together key past and present cutting-edge papers in the hot area of creativity and mental health. Other emphases include creativity and unhappy childhoods…

Bringing Micro to the Macro: Adapting Clinical Interventions for Supervision and Management shows social workers and other human service professionals how to adapt their clinical and direct practice skills to…

Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence develops new insights on the experiences of children and adolescents who have lost a parent. Vivid, case-based chapters describe a variety of…

The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of compreh- sive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory - search. The volumes are aimed at all…