Ever since his first novel, Fight Club, was made into a cult film by David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk has been a consistent presence on the New York Times best-seller list. A target of critics but a fan
Cashin (history, Augusta State U.) provides students and general readers with this historical account of the Chickasaw Nation and notes how these people were instrumental in developing trade economies
Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam analyzes the role of Muslim messianic and apocalyptic beliefs in the development of the Abbasid Caliphate to highlight connections between cha
Witness to the Truth tells the extraordinary life story of a grassroots human rights leader and his courageous campaign to win the right to vote for the African Americans of Lake Providence, Louisiana
Kelly (English and American literature, U. of Reading, Britain) introduces principle works by American fiction writer Moore (b. 1965), focusing on her wry analysis of American culture. Tracing her eme
The Hindu world is permeated by sound: drums, bells, gongs, cymbals, conches, flutes, and an array of vocalizations play a central role in worship. Guy L. Beck contends that the traditional Western fo
Taking the transformation of Saul into Paul, not as one of his examples, but as a familiar model, Anderson (English, Indiana U.) writes about life-altering experiences that are self-defining or redefi
Editors Hassler (Kent State U.) and Wilcox (Georgetown U.) gather essays on the subject of political ideologies in science fiction, showing that most writers in the genre either believe that fate is c
Social and religious historians have conducted much research on Scottish colonial migrations to Ulster; however, there remains historical debate as to whether the Irish Sea in the seventeenth century
Historians mostly in the US but also elsewhere in the Americas cast some welcome light on the little studied practice of freeing individual slaves while the practice and institution of slavery continu
Secrecy and revelation serve as a marker in early Arabo-Islamic discourse, textual productions, and material cultures, contends Khan (Islamic studies, Trinity U., Texas), pointing to the centrality of
