Susannah B. Mintz 
Unruly Bodies [PDF ebook] 
Life Writing by Women with Disabilities

Paul David Wellstone Jr., or ?Dave as he is known to his friends, fell into a zombie-like state of shock when he first got word that the eleven-seater plane carrying his parents and sister couldn t b …

Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: ‘biofiction, ’ ‘bioimagination, ’ and ‘biodiscourse’ to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology. The book proposes a new i …

The deliciously funny confessions of a debutante which became an international bestseller Fresh from convent school, Charlotte Bingham finds herself propelled from the private tortures of dancing cla …

In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who is no stranger to casual violence. Leaving behind his chaotic past, Kaldheim hits the road …

We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it »s their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law »s sudde …

The wisdom acquired during C. T. Vivian’s nine decades is generously shared in It’s in the Action, the civil rights legend’s memoir of his life and times in the movement. Born in Missouri in 1924, Vi …

Within Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón continues to be the subject of exaggerated and diametrically opposed views. A dictator, a great leader, the hero of the working classes and Argentina »s “first wo …

First published in 1996. The emergence of Pakistan as an independent nation in 1947 was one of the major historical events of the twentieth century. There are few parallels in history where freedom h …