Avery James has trained herself not to yearn for the mother who gave her up. Until a twist of fate leads her to a portrait of a woman who is the mirror image of herself. Searching for Isabel, Avery is drawn into complex relationships with the people who knew her mother, and with an unexpected love.
The sequel to Hendricks' well-received debut novel "Bread Alone" continues the funny and poignant saga of Wynter Morrison--bread maker on the night shift at a bakery.
The long-awaited first, original novel based on the critically acclaimed television show. Part SF and part hard-hitting police drama, Alien Nation introduces the Tenctonese, an alien race of former slaves who land in the California desert and, by the year 1995, comprise the world's newest and strangest group of immigrants: the "Newcomers".
A study of the artistic development of the television series, "Star Trek", from the first design concepts through to the launch of the fourth series, "Voyager".
The crew of the "USS Enterprise 1701" must rescue a scientist from the captors who want to use his skills to conquer the galaxy. In the meantime, 80 years in the future on the "Enterprise 1701-D", Picard must rescue a mysterious person whose safety is vital to the survival of the Federation.
More than 25 years after the first episode of Star Trek aired on television, history was made once again with the arrival of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Here is an exclusive look at this hit series, from its earliest concepts to the rigors of full-scale production. Lavishly illustrated with exclusive behind-the-scenes photos and artwork.
This collection of eleven essays by leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examines the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other. These notable scholars take on a broad range of topics, including the falsified Hitler diaries, the creation of national identity in ...
If the rise of modernism is the story of a struggle between the burden of tradition and a desire to break free of it, then Rilke's poetic development is a key example of this tension at work. Taking a sceptical view of Rilke's own myth of himself as a solitary genius, Judith Ryan reveals how deeply his writing is embedded in the culture of its day ...
The revolutionary spirit that animates the culture of the Germans has been alive for at least twelve centuries, far longer than the dramatically fragmented and reshaped political entity known as Germany. German culture has been central to Europe, and it has contributed the transforming spirit of Lutheran religion, the technology of printing as a ...
Is Thinking personal? Or should we not rather say, ""it thinks"," just as we say, ""it rains""? In the late nineteenth century a number of psychologies emerged that began to divorce consciousness from the notion of a personal self. They asked whether subject and object are truly distinct, whether consciousness is unified or composed of disparate ...
Sea Monsters presents legends and facts about three fascinating sea creatures?the giant squid (known in legends as the kraken), the manatee (mermaid), and the oarfish (sea serpent).
One of the most interesting art movements of modern times began when art teacher Geoffrey Bardon, working in the Papunya settlement 250 miles from Alice Springs in the Western desert of Australia, asked a group of children to paint their school house with the curious design motifs he had noticed. The youngsters asked their elders to do it. From ...
"The literature of adventure is replete with tales of fatal outcomes, but this honest and brave book about a mother and the life and death of her mountain-climbing son expands and enriches our necessary knowledge of the grief and loss that disaster exacts from surviving family members and friends. To say that a book about the rawest grief and ...
Philippians is one of the most interesting and beloved of Pauls undisputed epistles. In Philippians and Philemon, Bonnie Thurston makes a convincing case that canonical Philippians is as Paul wrote it, one letter. A translation conforming as closely as possible to the original Greek is provided, along with a careful analysis of the language of the ...
This guide explores Boston and the entire Massachusetts coast, including Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. There are details on both popular and little-known areas, and sections devoted to beaches, parks, restaurants, cafes and accommodation.
For the Aboriginals of Australia, bark painting has long been part of a communications concept where people gather for ceremonies, revelation and rites of passage. Bark is the surface plane of the deep volume of ancestral knowledge outsiders can glimpse but never fully understand. Yet as art and design and with artists' new visual metaphors, the ...
Filled with stunning full-colour photos, this is a unique celebration of the evolution of batik as an Aboriginal art form. This volume features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted art related media & organisations. This superbly illustrated volume celebrates the early development of Australian Aboriginal women's art through the ...
This beautifully illustrated publication is the outstanding handbook of the Land Marks exhibition, staged to coincide with the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. This publication examines important moments in the history of Indigenous art and acknowledges a succession of legendary figures who continue to inspire Indigenous artists today. Land Marks ...
Beginning in the last third of the twentieth century, Australian literary and cultural studies underwent a profound transformation to become an important testing ground of new ideas and theories. How do Australian cultural products project a sense of the nation today? How do Australian writers, artists, and film directors imagine the Australian ...
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