An American trading ship embarks upon a daunting mission: to infiltrate the Hermit Kingdom of Corea, the last of the great Asian empires to open to the west, and set up trade relations with the Choson Dynasty. Corea's Grand Archduke, Prince Gung, has set his face against foreign intrusion and declared that any invading foreigners shall be put to death. What will Reverend Jabez Fuller, his friends O'Reilly and Fields, the brave Captain Pierce, and the eager merchant Morton find as they stea...

An action-packed science fiction novella full of surprises and poignant charm. Readers will follow the adventures of the sole crewmember of an interplanetary freighter left awake and on watch (the "jump watch") as the ship traverses the void between worlds. Our hero manages the ship's systems, repairs damage, recaptures escaped cargo, and pines for one of his cryogenically frozen crewmates. Will he be able to avoid breaking the interstellar freight regulations in the name of love, or will ...

The Greatest Detectives of Literature: 200 Murder Mysteries to Decipher surveys the formative terrain of detective fiction, assembling tales of murder, deduction, disguise, and forensic inference from the nineteenth century through the popular fiction traditions of the early twentieth. Its range encompasses rational puzzles, sensational crimes, occult-inflected mysteries, urban investigations, international adventures, and domestic enigmas. Alongside celebrated deductive set pieces, the vo...

30 Masterminds of Mystery surveys the formative decades of detective and sensation fiction, assembling tales that move from rational deduction and police procedure to gothic unease, criminal ingenuity, and comic reversal. Its range reflects the genre's international development: locked-room puzzles, stolen-identity plots, urban investigations, scientific clues, and encounters with the uncanny sit beside narratives of professional detectives and audacious amateurs. The volume's standout ach...

Music cultures today in rural and urban Mongolia and Inner Mongolia emerge from centuries-old pastoralist practices that were reshaped by political movements in the twentieth century. Mongolian Sound Worlds investigates the unique sonic elements, fluid genres, social and spatial performativity, and sounding objects behind new forms of Mongolian music--forms that reflect the nation’s past while looking towards its globalized future. Drawing on fieldwork in locations across the Inne...