The popular media often portrays Asian Americans as highly educatedand successful individuals—the "Model Minority."As the ethnic minority with the largest percentage of college graduates, many Asian Americans do enter the professional workforce. However, many of them seem to stall in their careers a..
In Putin’s Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler’s unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia’s dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter, and an ex-..
The breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of optimism around the world, but Russia today is actively involved in subversive information warfare, manipulating the media to destabilize its enemies. How did a country that embraced freedom and market reform 25 years ago end up as an autocratic police s..
See the world through the eyes of Mary Lennox, a ten-year-old girl whose life is forever changed the day she arrives at Misselthwaite Manor, the home of her secretive uncle, Archibald. As Mary begins to roam the lonely halls and grounds of the manor, she notices that there a number of mysteries to u..
On the edges of a sealed-off city, a chance encounter between two girls in the misty woods is about to change the course of everything. . .Lena is on the run from her home, the Duke's Forest, after being convicted as a mage and sentenced to death. Meanwhile, Constance escaped the Forest years before..
A Literary History of Persia by Edward G. Browne is veritable magnum opus covering the Pre-Islamic to the Firdausi periods, including mysticism.The author has made a splendidly thorough study of the subject, basing his conclusions on source material spread over a vast era of almost two millennia.Thi..
In "Kàmbílí", adults, young people, and children are all affected by the realities of life. The poems, ordered according to emotions, moods, seasons, or stages of grief, are an exploration of social injustices, mental health, crime, desire, belonging, and heritage — asking such existential questions..