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Provides an urgent retrospective consideration of one of the English-speaking world's best-selling and most prolific contemporary authors. Applying new theoretical approaches, this study considers the pioneering and enduring ways Edna O'Brien represents women's experience, family relationships, the natural world, sex, creativity, and death.

Offers an extensive look at nearly one hundred years of baseball-themed movies, documentaries, and TV shows. The Baseball Film charts the variety of ways that Hollywood presents the game as integral to American life, whether showing little league as a site of parent-child bonding or depicting fans' lifelong love affairs with their teams.

This revised and expanded edition of Daniel Wolff's classic study of Asbury Park, New Jersey tells the tale of the city's first 150 years, guiding us through the development of its lavish amusement parks and bandstands, the decay of its working-class neighborhoods, the spread of its racially-segregated ghettos, and the effects of recent gentrification.

An introspective narrative that unfolds in a fluid musical style, Two Women was the first full-fledged feminist novel to appear in the Hispanic lands, promoting visionary ideas on women's freedom of thought and action that are still subjects of debate today, nearly two centuries later. This is the first English translation of the novel.

Explores how the successful aging movement is playing out across five continents. Contributors investigate a variety of people to offer a fresh look at a major cultural and public health movement of our time, questioning what has become for many a taken-for-granted goaluaging in a way that almost denies aging itself.

Ted Osius, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam from 2014-17, offers a vivid first-hand account of the various forms of diplomacy that brought about the reconciliation between two former enemies and helped bring new prosperity to Vietnam. With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry, Nothing is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world.

Leslie Cohen and her partner Beth Suskin served as models for the iconic sculpture “Gay Liberation.” In this evocative memoir, Cohen tells the story of a love that has lasted for over fifty years and recounts her quest to build gay and feminist oases in New York, including the groundbreaking women’s nightclub Sahara.

Uses extensive archival research into the files of studios, networks, advertising agencies, unions and guilds, theatre associations, the FCC, and key legal cases to analyse the tensions and synergies between the film and television industries in the early years of television.