"In 1942 US Fighting Tigers squadron commander John Chen comes face to face with his enemy, Japanese pilot, Tadao Kato. Ninety years later, in 2033, their great grandchildren are serving on the same side as part of Operation Red Dove, the first joint naval exercises between China and Japan to mark the signing of a new Sino-Japanese mutual defense treaty. China is determined to forge a new empire in the East with Japan by its side. Its determination...

Examines the work of Baldwin with a view toward determining which of his ideas might still contribute to the debate about current racial issues, the persistence of racial disparities, and the popularity of color blindness.

"When Superintendent Tom Harper's wife is threatened during an election campaign, the hunt for the attacker turns personal. Leeds, England. October, 1897. Superintendent Harper is proud of his wife Annabelle. She's one of seven women selected to stand for election as a Poor Law Guardian. But even as the campaign begins, Annabelle and the other female candidates start to receive anonymous letters from someone who believes a woman's place lies firmly...

"Nel nuovo straordinario romanzo di Cinzia Tani, il primo volume della trilogia che ci accompagnerà lungo cento anni di storia, le vicende degli orfani Acevedo si mescolano con le avvincenti evoluzioni di un secolo, il Cinquecento, che vedrà l'affermarsi della dinastia degli Asburgo. In seguito alla scomparsa prematura di tutta la discendenza maschile della dinastia castigliano-aragonese, e in particolare dopo la morte del padre Filippo il Bello...

"In the tales of "Rabbit" Angstrom, John Updike has produced one of the most compelling literary tapestries of our time. Updike's Rabbit, the aging high-school basketball star adrift in the century's confusion, is an archetypal American hero, one strikingly real and individual yet emblematic of his class, his country, and his era. Lawrence R. Broer brings together twelve essays by prominent Updike scholars to illuminate the unique achievement of the...