To reclaim his powers, wizard Felix Harrowgate must restore the magical talisman known as the Virtu-by confronting the dark sorcerer who destroyed it.

In this volume the author looks at the rise of a cultivated audience whose skill involved listening rather than playing or singing, in the early 17th century.

Looks at the history of politics from Hobbes to the twenty-first century.

DIVA comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in Taiwan and the United States, as well as in immigrant Asian American writing./div