Nucleus for a national collection

This collection presents folklore recorded by the Finnish folklorist Aukusti Robert Niemi in 1911 in Dzūkija, in the parishes of Valkininkai, Perloja, Merkinė, Nedzingė, and Marcin...

General Andrew J. Goodpaster (1915-2005) was a brilliant military leader, a scholar and, most of all, an exceptional presidential adviser who served under seven successive administ...

This new work addresses the challenges of electronic publishing and puts issues of collection development into perspective, providing a broad understanding of the collection develo...

Written by a Zen priest, this book explodes the myth of Zen Buddhism as a peaceful religion. Can Buddhism, widely regarded as a religion of peace, also contribute...

In the 1950s, the steel orchestra in Trinidad and Tobago became an icon of a nationalist discourse promoting African Trinidadian culture as national culture. In subsequent decades,...

Chapter 5 presents the primary societal changes in Israel in recent decades and their ramifications for its national security. The motivation to serve and bear the defense burden, ...