"Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's literary authority should eclipse her anthropological authority? If not, what sociocultural and institutional values and processes shape the different ways we read her work? Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall considers the polar receptions to two of Hurston's areas of achievement by examining the critical response...

American University Professor Allan J. Lichtman delivers forty-eight lectures on twelve of America's presidents.

As Wilson demonstrates, Carroll--who published serious, if occasionally eccentric, works in the fields of geometry, logic, and algebra--made significant contributions to subjects as varied as voting patterns and the design of tennis tournaments, in the process creating imaginative recreational puzzles based on mathematical ideas. --from publisher description

"So Potent Art is a study of the esoteric content of Shakespeare's works and the possible practical use of his work for modern magical practitioners. It is of interest to both lovers of theatre and magic alike, with both academic and practical appeal, encouraging a creative approach from which further individual work can grow"--