Austin: 1740 books

First published in 1975. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Marco Island projects prominently from Florida's mainland at the peninsula's southwestern fringe, where the waters of the Everglades and the Gulf of Mexico commingle. Its tropical climate, verdant landscape, unique topography, and abundant wildlife sustained prehistoric Native American cultures for...

Prepare to be scared! This fully illustrated, award-winning collection of ghost stories will send shivers down your spine.   If you're fascinated by haunted houses, ghostly graveyards, historic haunts, institutional apparitions, or spirited saloons, this spooky and spine-tingling collection of supernatural...

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, popular works of literature attracted—as they attract today—sequels, prequels, franchises, continuations, and parodies. Sequels of all kinds demonstrate the economic realities of the literary marketplace. This represents something fundamental about...

Just off the coast of South Carolina lies Hilton Head Island, a popular vacation spot for golf enthusiasts and beach lovers. Its allure has spanned generations since Europeans started to develop it nearly 350 years ago. Hilton Head was also a Confederate stronghold during the American Civil War.  ...

In recent years, Boise, Idaho has been voted one of the Best Overall Towns in the Western United States by Outside Magazine, One of the 10 Best Places to Live by U.S. News and World Report, and the Ninth Hottest Midsized City or Boomtown by Inc.com. There’s much more to Boise and it’s 150-year-old history than just potato growing.

The authors identify direct address, a dialogic way of address and response, as the fundamental means of healing in relationships, especially in the family, viewing "residual trust" as the keystone of the dialogic process.

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

Winner, CCCC Outstanding Book Award in the Edited Collection Category, 2018 With the election of our first black president, many Americans began to argue that we had finally ended racism, claiming that we now live in a postracial era. Yet near-daily news reports regularly invoke white as a...

Saul Bellow is one of the twentieth century's most influential, respected, and honored writers. His novels The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler's Planet won the National Book Award, and Humboldt's Gift was awarded the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In addition, his plays garnered...

Hope Isn’t Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contemporary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely theorized together, it is difficult to fully articulate utopia without understanding how affects circulate...

“On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime’s worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages.”—Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles TimesAustin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization to focus on writers’ creative contributions to film and television. Its...

Ever wondered what real life cases of paranormal investigations are like? Six cases have been brought to you from a collection of case files investigated by the West Wales Paranormal Investigations Team. These cases have been hand picked as the strangest cases ever dealt with by the team. From the...