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Post-Nationalist American Studies
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95Post-Nationalist American Studies seeks to revise the cultural nationalism and celebratory American exceptionalism that tended to dominate American Studies in the Cold War era. The goal of the book's contributors is a less insular, more trans-national, comparative approach to American Studies, one that questions dominant American myths rather than... more...
Literary Culture and U.S Imperialism
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 49.99Rowe offers a sweeping re-assessment of American imperialism, arguing that the growing nation was driven primarily by a quest for marketers, rather than for land. more...
A Concise Companion to American Studies
Wiley 2010; US$ 181.95A Companion to American Studies is an essential volume that brings together voices and scholarship from across the spectrum of American experience. A collection of 22 original essays which provides an unprecedented introduction to the "new" American Studies: a comparative, transnational, postcolonial and polylingual discipline Addresses a variety... more...
New Essays on The Education of Henry Adams
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 25.00Critical essays for undergraduates on The Education of Henry Adams. more...
The Islanders
Random House Group Ltd 2011; US$ 10.67The inhabitants of Halcyon Island are ruled by the laws of the Deliverer and follow the same customs and traditions that have prevailed for hundreds of years. The laws state 'No incomers', but when Thomas and Molly find a shipwrecked canoe with a boy and girl, barely alive, inside they are determined not to reject them outright. New blood on the island... more...
Written for Children
Scarecrow Press 1996; US$ 59.99An authoritative history and analysis of the best British and American children's literature through 1994, with a new 2003 postscript on J.K.Rowling and Philip Pullman. more...
The Jungle Book
Random House Children's Books 2008; US$ 3.99Mother and Fatherwolf aren?t looking for trouble, but when a small man-child toddles by their cave, they decide they can?t leave him alone in the jungle. They take the boy into their pack, name him Mowgli, and raise him as one of their own cubs. Mowgli learns the law of the jungle from the big old brown bear Baloo and Bagheera the black panther, but... more...
The Black Stallion Revolts
Random House Children's Books 2011; US$ 6.99After the Black attacks another horse, Alec realizes that the once-wild horse needs more space and freedom, so they head out west to a huge ranch. But a terrible accident separates the two, leaving Alec with amnesia and the Black alone to reclaim the wild life to which he was born. As the Black struggles to survive, and as Alec struggles to remember... more...
The Black Stallion's Filly
Random House Children's Books 2011; US$ 6.99"She?ll never be a racehorse,? murmurs the crowd as Black Minx is led into the sales ring. But Alec Ramsay thinks differently and buys the Black?s first filly to train her for the Kentucky Derby. But Black Minx, like her sire, has a mind of her own. This fast-paced racing story follows a great horse?s journey through training and preliminary races... more...
Boys in school and society
Australian Council for Educational Research 2002; US$ 14.95In the past decade there has been a growing perception in Australia that girls have become more successful pursuing their educational goals than boys ? especially in educational outcomes relating to literacy. In addition there is evidence from a range of studies that boys regard their school experience less favourably than girls and are less strongly... more...









