From E.B. White's motherly Charlotte to J.R.R. Tolkien's monstrous Shelob, spiders both lovable and loathsome have crept their way into human literature. Here is a collection of tales about these fearsome, yet fascinating creatures. A golden spider learns how to spin webs of dreams and visions…A modern London barrister is chosen to be the vessel for an ancient African god…A scientist discovers some legends are all too true…An outlawed demigod passes judgment on a prince's fitness to rule. ...

This handbook provides a path-breaking overview of the rapidly developing field of critical ocean studies.It is the first cross-disciplinary and in-depth account of critical ocean studies. While the academic application of critical analysis to ocean, coastal, and island studies has been expanding in recent decades, studies are fragmented across disciplines and publishing venues. This handbook brings together perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, arts, and other ways of...

Translating Migration: Multilingual Poems Of Movement brings together the poetic voices of migrants across regions, languages, and circumstances. As a collection of intertwined poetry by migrant workers, asylum seekers, refugees, and recent immigrants, Translating Migration deliberately questions the divisions between diverse human experiences of movement.

Translating Migration: Multilingual Poems Of Movement brings together the poetic voices of migrants across regions, languages, and circumstances. Twenty narrators bring the poems to life, allowing the voices of migrants to be heard by those with locations and life experiences much different from their own. Translating Migration seeks to translate the creative work of migrants between languages and across contexts. As a collection of intertwined poetry by migrant workers, ...