Reclaiming John Steinbeck

Gavin Jones

• Hardcover | Engels
• John Steinbeck is a towering figure in twentieth-century American literature; yet he remains one of our least understood writers. This major reevaluat... Lees meer

Strange Talk

Gavin Jones

• Paperback | Engels
• Late-nineteenth-century America was crazy about dialect: vernacular varieties of American English entertained mass audiences in "local color" stories,... Lees meer

Failure and the American Writer

Gavin Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 168
• If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by ninete... Lees meer

American Hungers

Gavin Jones

• Paperback | Engels | 20/21 | nr. 9
• Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as ... Lees meer

The Pearl

John Steinbeck, Gavin Jones

• Hardcover | LONGMAN LITERATURE STEINBECK
• "You have defied not the pearl buyers, but the whole structure, the whole way of life, and I am afraid for you." When Kino discovers a magnificent pea... Lees meer

Failure and the American Writer

Gavin Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 168
• If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by ninete... Lees meer

Islam, the State and Population Policy

Gavin Jones

• Paperback
• Under what circumstances do Muslim populations experience sharp fertility declines? Are there elements of Islamic belief that require a different appr... Lees meer

Mega-Urban Regions in Pacific Asia

• Paperback | Engels
• Southeast Asia contains four urban conglomerates of the sort that this study characterizes as Mega-Urban Regions â " Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok and Ho C... Lees meer

Embedded Security

Gavin Jones

• Paperback | Engels
• Buildings protect what is important to us and given that there will always be threats to building security, there is a need to deploy appropriate and ... Lees meer