By the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said's work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and noted cultural critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. This volume explores the problems and opportunities afforded by Said's work: its productive and generative capacities as well as its in-built limitations. After Said captures the essence of Said's intellectual and political contribution and his extensive impact on postcolonial studies. It examines his legacy by critically elaborating his core concepts and arguments. Among the issues it tackles are humanism, Orientalism, culture and imperialism, exile and the contrapuntal, realism and postcolonial modernism, world literature, Islamophobia, and capitalism and the political economy of empire. It is an excellent resource for students, graduates and instructors studying postcolonial
It's one of life's most bitter and unavoidable lessons: bad things happen to good peopleBut it's those choices we make after such catastrophes that really matter. When all else fails, survivors learn
It's one of life's most bitter and unavoidable lessons: bad things happen to good people. But it's those choices we make after such catastrophes that really matter. When all else fails, survivors lear
The Gentleman’s Directory is a reproduction of New York City’s rare 1870 guidebook to more than 150 brothels then operating—presenting “insight into the character and doings of people whose deeds are
Sam Melvin, an underachieving e-reporter from a small town, changes forever when he meets turkeys that won't stay dead. You can shoot 'em, chop 'em, burn 'em—they come back stronger. The undead plague
Mia Harper was not prepared for a solar flare to knock out the world's electricity. No one was, although Mia and her fifteen-month-old sister had a slight advantage: their father, a hardcore doomsday
Mia Harper's life now is radically different than the one she has known. She lives in a world with no power, no phones, and practically no human contact. She and her best friend, Andrew Greene, are ra
Love may win yet in this delightful romantic comedy that follows two widowed neighbors who agree to join their antic-filled families for the sake of convenience.Jessie Vaughn has fallen in love with h
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Seventeen-year-old Krista has already proven she can survive the zombie hordes. After moving to North Platte with her distant cousin General Liet to help build a wall that will keep the zombies in the
Seventeen-year-old Krista must quickly figure out how she's going to survive in the zombie-destroyed world. The one advantage humans have is that the zombies hate humid environments, so they're migrat
A faded matron and a blinded musician... but which is the Beauty and which is the Beast? Twice-widowed Arabella Mayor has made a place for herself and her son in Everland, selling and lending her belo
Tell me a secret.... CJ Carmichael hasn't been able to get the vivacious blonde he spent four delirious days with off his mind. The blonde who was completely off-limits, but he couldn't deny. Tell me
Bored of academia? Sick of publish-or-perish and the grant-chasing treadmill? You’ve probably thought about building a career in the pharmaceutical industry, only to find a confusing world of unfamili
In the second volume of The Day After Never trilogy, Lucas must make an impossible choice and risk everything in order to save those closest to him. As he crosses a wasteland in search of a phantom, L
