Christine Wade is een schrijfster die gefascineerd is door de Hudson River, een passie die werd aangewakkerd tijdens haar studie aan Bard College en die ze haar leven lang langs de oevers ervan in New York City en de Catskill Mountains bleef koesteren. Haar debuutroman onderzocht de diepe verbinding tussen de mensheid en de natuurlijke wereld, een weerspiegeling van haar grote bekendheid met het rivierlandschap. Wade's werk duikt dieper in de ingewikkelde relatie tussen mensen en hun omgeving, en biedt herkenbare inzichten in hoe onze omgeving onze levens en ervaringen vormt.
Against the backdrop of the Catskills just before the Revolutionary War, a haunting narrative unfolds as a woman grapples with her husband's mysterious disappearance. Left to fend for herself and her children, she navigates the challenges of survival and the emotional turmoil of abandonment. This beautifully written debut captures the tension of the era while exploring themes of loss, resilience, and the struggles of a family in crisis.
In this important book, well known Comparativist, Howard J. Wiarda, traces the long and controversial history of culture studies, and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science. Under attack from structuralists, institutionalists, Marxists, and dependency writers, Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart, Fukuyama, Putnam, Huntington and many others.