Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-cen...

The world of sport is saturated with the signs and images of transnational corporations. But what...

"The Power In/Of Language" features a collection of essays that analyse the ways in which language...

There are about 34 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS. Half are women. There has been a dramatic global increase in the rates of women living with HIV/AIDS. Among young women, especially in developing countries, infection rates are rapidly increasing. Many of these women are also mothers with young infants. When a woman is labeled as ...

This volume is dedicated to the centennial anniversary of Minkowski's discovery of spacetime. It contains selected papers by physicists and philosophers on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime. The first six papers, comprising Part I of the book, provide examples of the impact of Minkowski's spacetime representation of special relativity on the ...

This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins...

Los autores son algunos de los más reconocidos escritores y escritoras españoles de novela histórica, entre los que se cuentan las más importantes entre quienes han dedicado su atención a la Edad Media. Son, en orden alfabético: Fernando Aínsa, José Calvo Poyato, José Luis Corral, Almudena de Arteaga, José Manuel García Marín, Totí Martínez de L...

Novela histórica ambientada a fines del siglo XIX en Chile. Saga familiar que continúa la historia que comenzó con la aclamada Hija de la fortuna . La historia está contada a través de la voz de una mujer joven en busca de sus raíces. Es una novela sobre la memoria y los secretos de familia.

El matrimonio de la señorita Buncle (1936) está dedicada «a quienes disfrutaron con la señorita Buncle y pidieron más».D. E. Stevenson parece hacer suyas, también en esta novela, las palabras de su heroína: «Supongo que no hay nadie normal en el mundo, en ninguna parte».«Cuando a la señorita Prims de Oscar Wilde le preguntaron por la novela en t...