New challengers rise up, while longtime favorites take their martial arts to the next level! The mysterious Menat confronts Shadaloo, Alex faces off with the Mad Gear Gang, Sakura and Karin cross fist
Following the success of the previous titles in the V&A Pattern series, four new books reveal more of the V&A's spectacular and extensive pattern collections.Spitalfields Silks by Moira Thunde
Outcasts and pariahs are known to exist in several Asian countries but have usually not been associated with traditional Chinese society. Chinese Outcasts shows that some Chinese were in fact treated
V.I. Warshawski returns in the spectacular new novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over
In her ethnography of an online text-based virtual world WaterMOO Sunden (media and communication studies, Sodertorn U. College, Sweden) explores the embodiment of sex and gender in online textual pra
Chronicles and theorizes about how women use the Internet as they begin to go online in greater numbers. The 13 contributions examine how gender categories are constructed, how women have been positi
Waite (rhetoric and communication, Hamilton College) examines the essential features of the screen, the ways in which it changes our phenomenological awareness of space, sound, and motion, and the con
Having come to believe, after four decades of work in science education, that habits of mind associated with certain religious beliefs inhibit progress toward a sound science education and more broadl
In these ten chapters, women from the United States, England, and Australia analyze the relationships between gender and information and communication technologies. They address the educational, socia
Bilingual immigrant writers use linguistic maneuvers to resist pressures from the host society to conform and renounce the home culture, suggests the author. She examines a number of examples of this
An important goal of Mieder's (German and folklore, U. of Vermont) study is to demonstrate how the original, history, dissemination, and meaning of a proverb or proverbial expression can be studied. F
Its Valentine’s Day and chocolates are being exchanged, but Minako Aino can’t decide if she wants a crush to give her chocolates to, or just to eat them all herself. If stress of Valentine’s Day wasn'
Edi has fallen in love but is it with her boyfriend or his family?Edi lives a weird double life. At school, it seems like everyone loves her, but at home, her parents barely notice she exists—except w
Sir Norman Hartnell (1901–1979) was the star of London couture during the interwar years, gaining international fame as dressmaker to the British royal family. His autobiography, first published in 19
This volume includes the first complete translation of a thirteenth-century vernacular history of Norway from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. An immediate source for the Heimskringla of Snorri Stu
Anya learns that breaking the rules doesn't always mean getting what she wantsAnya needs some serious cheering up. She's been dumped by a nerd, her parents are splitting up, and her mom's idea of a fi
