Filmatized in 2013 and the official recipient of three Oscars, Solomon Northup's powerful slave narrative 'Twelve Years a Slave' depicts Nortup's life as he is sold into slavery after having spent 32 years of his life living as a free man ...

This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people.

This new kind of dictionary reflects the use of “rhythm rhymes” by rappers, poets, and songwriters of today.

Organized chronologically, these essays trace the development of Pentecostal hermeneutics as an academic discipline. The concerns of modern historical criticism have often stood at odds with Pentecostalism’s use of Scripture.

The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

"In this play, Annie has arranged to spend an illicit weekend with her sister Ruth's husband Norman, and for this reason, suitably disguised, has asked her elder brother Reg and his wife Sarah to look after their widowed mother and the ...

This collection is absolutely crucial for everyone interested in the work of Dermot Healy and for all devotees of Irish literature" --

This book explores the official 50th anniversary commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising in the Irish Republic how the government reinvented the message of 1916 through the jubilee celebrations; the organization of various unofficial ...