The first-ever bilingual anthology by the Afro-Cuban poet Excilia Saldana contains a wide-ranging selection of her work, from lullabies to an erotic letter, from lengthy autobiographical poems to quiet reflections on her Caribbean island as the inspiration for her writing.

Stretching along 156 miles of Florida's East Coast, the Indian River Lagoon contains the St. Lucie estuary, the Mosquito Lagoon, Banana River Lagoon, and the Indian River. This book traces the winding story of the waterway, showing how humans have altered the area to fit their needs and how the lagoon has influenced the cultures along its shores.

The first book to provide a comprehensive Latin American perspective on the role of humour in the Spanish- and Portuguese-language internet, highlighting how the production and circulation of online humour influences the region's relation to democracy and civil society and the production of meaning in everyday life.

This richly illustrated volume highlights the history of Islamic cosmopolitanism as documented through works of art from the eighth century to the present; from the Mediterranean, North Africa, South Asia, and the United States; and including painting, architecture, textiles, calligraphy, photography, and animation.

Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre that has fascinated the English-speaking world for more than two centuries.

Focusing on the daily concerns, activities, and routine events of people in the past, this volume argues for a paradigm shift in the way southeastern archaeologists operate and urges them to think of the archaeological record in new ways.

Examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce. O'Rourke demonstrates that Joyce was a philosophical writer who engaged creatively with questions of diversity and unity, identity, permanence and change, and the reliability of knowledge.