The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries included individuals with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. This title examines the history of these immigrants in the United States & Canada & their encounters with two separate cultures of exclusion. ...

All societies are organized around, & sustained by, a set of dominant myths
- public, large-scale narratives that engage our
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This collection seeks to fill the interdisciplinary space that addresses when, why, & how writers strategically reference the Bible for subversive or re-evaluative purposes. It explores the specific biblical pieces used this subversion, & why they are used, with reference to many contemporary sources. ...

Documents the work of graffiti writers who illegally painted subway cars in New York City. This book reports how the lives of the original subway artists have unfolded, & chronicles the end of the subway graffiti scene in the late 1980s & its unexpected rebirth as a global art movement. ...

British suspense thriller. Van Johnson stars as Major Baxter Grant, an American army doctor in post-war Germany who is falsely accused of illegal drug dealing. Determined to find a way to prove his innocence, he escapes to Berlin where his wife Anna (Katherine Kath) is still living. Unbeknownst to him, however, Anna has sublet their flat to cabaret singer Lilli Hoffman (Hildegarde Knef). As Grant becomes the quarry of both the German police & American army investigator Carson (Cec Linder), he finds himself thrown upon Lilli's mercy. ...