Accident of Fate is a first-hand account of persecution, rescue, and resistance in the Axis-occupied
former Yugoslavia. At the age of thirteen, Imre Rochlitz fled to Yugoslavia from his childhood home in Vienna following the Nazi Anschluss, leaving his family ...
Are victims good guys and criminals bad guys? Sometimesbut, often, the public's stereotypes and perceptions
of offenders, victims, and groups are quite complex. In spite of widespread concern about crime, there is great resistance on the part of the public ...
This unique collection of Charles Dickens - The Man Behind the Classics: Autobiographical Novels, Stories,
Memoirs, Letters & Biographies has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: David Copperfield Sketches by Boz The Beadle. The Parish Engine. ...
Stories of transgression–Gilgamesh, Prometheus, Oedipus, Eve—may be integral to every culture's narrative imaginings of its
own origins, but such stories assumed different meanings with the burgeoning interest in modern histories of crime and punishment in the later decades of the ...
On the night of February 25, 1969, an inexperienced, 25-year-old lieutenant, Bob Kerrey, led a
commando raid on an isolated hamlet called Thanh Phong in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. While witnesses and official records give varying accounts, one thing is certain: ...
The influential rock musician Elvis Costello is recognized for the impressive breadth and scope of
his music. His collaborations with such musicians as Tony Bennett and the Count Basie orchestra, however, attest to the many contradictions that define Elvis Costello, ...
The English novel written between 1700 and 1740 remains a comparatively neglected area. In addition
to Daniel Defoe, whose Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders are landmarks in the history of English fiction, many other authors were at work. These included ...
This book is concerned with food autobiographies written by men from the 1980s to the
present. It concentrates on how food has transformed autobiographical narratives and how these define the ways men eat and cook nowadays. After presenting a historical ...