Christine Wadeová je autorkou, která si zamilovala řeku Hudson během studií na Bard College a od té doby žije na jejích březích v New Yorku a v pohoří Catskill. Její první román, "Seven Locks", se v roce 2009 dočkal ocenění James Jones Fellowship Award pro nepublikovaný román. Wadeová se ve své tvorbě zaměřuje na hluboké propojení člověka s přírodou a na odrazy tohoto vztahu v lidských životech.
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.