BOOKS

Critical Perspectives on Sam Selvon
Susheila Nasta, editor

This groundbreaking study of prolific Trinidadian writer Sam Selvon includes background essays, interviews with Selvon, and critical assessments of his ten novels and collected short    More >

Critical Perspectives on Léon Gontran Damas
Keith Q. Warner, editor

Poet, storyteller, scholar, teacher, and statesman, Léon Gontran Damas, born in French Guiana, was a founding father of the negritude movement. This collection offers a wide range of    More >

Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World
Todd M. Endelman, editor

This collection of essays explores one of the most sensitive areas of the history of the Jewish-Christian relations—the story of Christian missions to the Jews and the phenomenon of    More >

Like a Tear in the Ocean, Volume 2: The Abyss
Manès Sperber, translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon

Sperber's great fiction trilogy spans the period from 1931 through the rise of Hitler and the struggles of international Communism to the early postwar era. It traces the lives of    More >

Contemporary Strategy II: The Nuclear Powers
John Baylis, Ken Booth, John Garnett, and Phil Williams

In this thoroughly revised and enlarged edition of a widely acclaimed work, four experts consider the planning and implementation of military and nonmilitary strategy. This second volume    More >

Stravinsky:
André Boucourechliev, translated by Martin Cooper

Thoroughly documented and consistently original, Boucourechliev's text is an indispensable source for understanding and appreciating Igor Stravinsky's work.    More >

Big Brother: The Soviet Union and Soviet Europe
Hélène Carrère D'Encausse, translated by George Holoch

Published in 1987, the author of this book synthesizes in this work a vast array of research in an analysis of the background and current dynamics of the relationship at the time between the    More >

The Origins of the Iranian-American Alliance, 1941-1953
Mark Hamilton Lytle

Understanding US initiatives in Iran from 1941 to 1953 provides insight into much broader areas of American foreign policy: the tension between military and political strategists during    More >

Small Nations, Giant Firms
Louis W. Goodman

Transnational corporations, today's giant firms, have assets in virtually all of the world's developing nations, yet these assets account for only a small share o the firms'    More >

The Little Black Fish and Other Modern Persian Stories, 2nd Edition
Samad Behrangi, translated by Mary Hegland and Eric Hooglund

Behrangi offers five children’s stories that are notable for their realism and social significance. In keeping with his desire to combat ignorance and bridge the cultural gap between    More >

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