Set in San Francisco's Chinatown, a novel of family ties chronicles the Leongs--a Chinese-American family caught between the traditions of their ancestry and the realities of life in America.
Steer Toward Rock tells the story of the only bachelor butcher at the Universal Market in San Francisco. Jack Moon Szeto - that was the name he bought, the name he made his life by - serves the lonel
This book reads representations of Western music in literary texts to reveal the ways in which artifacts of imperial culture function within contemporary world literature. Bushnell argues that Western
Mimbreano cousins help their community during a drought and welcome a new boy to the pueblo, knowing that even though he acts rashly, he will learn to use his talents in a positive way. Includes inst
Inspired by the Charles Darwin bicentennial, The Art of Evolution presents a collection of essays by international scholars renowned for their groundbreaking work on Darwin. The book not only includes
After the horrifying results of the Nazi plans to create a "perfect race" by sterilizing or murdering all those they considered inferior, the science of eugenics fell into deep disfavor. The essays in
This book reveals how art and sex promoted the desire for the genetically perfect body. Its eight chapters demonstrate that before eugenics was stigmatized by the Holocaust and Western histories were
