Annie John is growing up on the magical island of Antigua. It should be a sojourn in paradise for her but adolescence takes the brilliant, headstrong girl into open rebellions and secret discoveries, and finally to a crisis of emotions that wrenches her away from her island home.[...]

Published in 1830, this is the story of an officer serving under Wellington in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo.[...]

Missa inte nyutgåvan av Jamaica Kincaids moderna klassiker Annie John. En vacker, smärtsam och känslig skildring av en ung flickas uppväxt, om kampen att hitta och förstå sig själv, och om hur litet steget kan vara mellan stark kärlek och hat.

Annie John har en lycklig och bekymme[...]

It has long been thought that science is our best hope for realizing objective knowledge, but that, to deliver on this promise, it must be value free. Things are not so simple, however, as recent work in science studies makes clear. The contributors to this volume investigate where and how values a[...]