"River of Tears" is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil and least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, various forms of rural music burst onto Brazil's national music scene. Commercial musical duos practicing musica sertaneja reached be[...]

"If You're Feeling Sinister" includes interviews with band members, producers, management, and a range of fans, and provides perspective on how Belle & Sebastian transformed themselves, over the space of a decade, from an underground, slightly shambolic cult secret into a polished, highly entertaini[...]

From television documentaries and a steady output of critical works to retrospective art exhibitions and Austin Powers, the sixties fascinate us. This book focuses on the major socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade.[...]

Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author, television writer and novelist, included twice in Granta's list of Best Young British Writers, has over the past twenty-five years produced a body of work which is just as critic[...]

This is a fantastic guide for couples who already are engaged and want to be well prepared for married life. This book is also designed as a resource for pastors and leaders, to serve as a foundation for counseling and follow up with the couples. The author discusses the most important factors that [...]

"The Seventh Century in the West-Syrian Chronicles" makes accessible to a wide public sources vital for the reconstruction of events in the first Islamic century, covering the period which ends with the unsuccessful Arab siege of Constantinople, an event which both modern historians and Syriac chron[...]

He plays the oldest children's game in the world. Only the Eye Collector plays it to death. A pulse-pounding serial killer thriller for fans of Mo Hayder and Jo Nesbo.[...]

It is often forgotten that many people in late antique Syria were bilingual in Syriac and Greek. The 16 articles in this volume explore different aspects of the interaction between these two literary cultures, exemplified in the works of two Christian poets and hymnographers of the period - Ephrem t[...]

"Let us agree," Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian." "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you," Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had just written, "and sometimes I think he is you. Let's[...]

Germany was a latecomer to the colonial world of the late nineteenth century but this history of German colonialism makes clear the wide-reaching consequences of Germany's short-lived colonial project. Sebastian Conrad charts the expansion of the empire from its origins in the acquisition of substan[...]