K Langston: 5 books

Following the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, Croatian was declared to be a separate language, distinct from Serbian, and linguistic issues became highly politicized. This book examines the changing status and norms of the Croatian language and its relationship to Croatian national identity, focusing on the period after Croatian independence.

When Mexico's authoritarian Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI) was defeated in the 2000 presidential election after seventy-one years of uninterrupted rule, many analysts believed the party would inevitably splinter and collapse. An authoritarian party without control over government resources...

A radically changed Antarctica, made temperate by a warming Earth, is the last refuge of humanity. Scientists based at a research station build the first survival colony--one they envision as a future utopia immune from the mistakes of an industrial world. Because wind and water currents isolate the...

Singer for the Great Serpent combines speculative, historical fiction and para-fantasy--written from the perspective of a Native American teenager coming of age during the War of 1812 who is torn between cultures and surrounded by violence. Long before the wild west of popular legend, the U.S....

Sylvan Nash is an unlikely super hero. His realm is both microscopic and global--and he works in anonymity. When Dr. Karen Wasserman learns just a fraction of his story, she is intrigued but also suspicious. Investigating several epidemics, she believes Sylvan is involved--but is he a meddlesome amateur with a morbid interest or a mass murderer? She must find out which.