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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
Jessica Rawson
Sep 2023
- University of Washington Press
The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilization still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment; formidable infrastructure; a society based on the strict hierarchy of the family; a shared written script of characters; a cuisine founded on rice and millet; a material culture of ceramics, bronze, silk, and jade; and a unique concept of the universe, in which...
Understanding Margaret Atwood
Donna M. Bickford
Aug 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
A timely, accessible introduction to Margaret Atwood's most recent novels and enduring themes In 2017, the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale introduced the acclaimed and bestselling Canadian author to a new generation and reminded Atwood's long-established readers of her uncanny prescience. Understanding Margaret Atwood provides an overview of the author's life, descriptions and analyses of the key themes present in her most recent novels, signposts to the connections and...
Hatched
Gina G. Warren
Aug 2023
- University of Washington Press
"Chickens are a lot more mainstream than veganism and a little bit like kombucha: super weird twenty years ago, now somewhat popular and made even more so by logos, brands, and hashtags." So begins Gina Warren's deep dive into the backyard chicken movement. Digging into its history and food politics, she provides a highly personal account of the movement's social and cultural motivations, the regulations it faces, and the ways that chicken owners build community. Weaving together...
Restoring Ancient Beauty
edited by James Keating
Aug 2022
- American Maritain Association
Until recently it has been commonplace to believe that Vatican II represents a permanent sidelining of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas for theology. The documents of that council, it is said, moved away from the scholastic categories that had informed Catholic theological work since the Reformation, and most particularly since Vatican I. There is some truth to this, of course, since the council fathers preferred biblical formulations in a personalist and...
The O in the Air
Maryann Corbett
Aug 2023
- Franciscan University Press
"What if the world you learned in flame and darkness/is apprehended only through these fancies?/What if the whole of it is heavenly? These urgent questions posed by Maryann Corbett at the start of her new collection The O in the Air set in motion a series of powerful poems that explore that would-be-heavenly world in all of its beauty, pain, squalor, and ordinary glory. Corbett's poems are alternately visionary - eloquent prayers that reach after the numinous - and also earthly - frank utterances that lament and...
The Toxic Ship
Simone M. Müller, foreword by Paul S. Sutter, series edited by Paul S. Sutter
Aug 2023
- University of Washington Press
In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world's oceans in search of a dumping ground. Its initial destination and then country after country refused to accept the waste. The ship ended up dumping part of its load in Haiti under false pretenses, and the remaining waste was illegally dumped in the ocean. Two shipping...
Good Night, Indiana University
Joey Lax Salinas
Sep 2023
- Indiana University Press
Good Night, Indiana University takes a whimsical journey through IU's Bloomington campus as the sun is slowly setting. The perfect bedtime book for IU alums and their little ones, Good Night, Indiana University whispers good night and sweet dreams to beloved campus landmarks such as Sample Gates, Dunn's Woods, and Memorial Stadium. For Hoosiers of all ages, Good Night, Indiana University is sure to become a cherished family favorite. So "Good night cream and crimson, under the light of a crescent...
Metaphysics as Mediating Dialogue
Oliva Blanchette
Aug 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
Metaphysics is not often spoken of as a venue for dialogue about anything, let alone culture or religion, which are more readily associated with phenomenology or hermeneutics in contemporary thinking. This collection of essays, however, by the late Boston College philosopher Oliva Blanchette, maintains the absolute necessity of metaphysics as a prerequisite for examining any particular 'realm of being,' in all areas of human inquiry, from the particular sciences to historical cultures and...
The Splendor of the Church in Mary
Theresa Marie Nguyen, foreword by Paul McPartlan
Sep 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
Henri de Lubac, SJ, (1896-1991) is one of the most renowned theologians of the twentieth century. Numerous studies have been undertaken to examine his many contributions to theology, but little attention has been paid to the specific topic of the relationship of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Church in his writings. This was a topic that gave rise to contentious discussion at the Second Vatican Council, and...
Unwilling to Quit
David L. Prentice
Aug 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
Although US involvement in the Vietnam conflict began long before 1965, Lyndon Johnson's substantial large commitment of combat troops that year marked the official beginning of America's longest twentieth-century war. By 1969, after years of intense fighting and thousands of casualties, an increasing number of Americans wanted the United States out of Vietnam. Richard Nixon looked for a way to pull out while preserving the dignity of the United States at...
Clarence Brown
Gwenda Young
Jul 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
Greta Garbo proclaimed him as her favorite director. Actors, actresses, and even child stars were so at ease under his direction that they were able to deliver inspired and powerful performances. Academy–Award–nominated director Clarence Brown (1890–1987) worked with some of Hollywood's greatest stars, such as Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Mickey Rooney, Katharine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy. Known as the "star maker," he helped guide the acting career of child sensation Elizabeth Taylor (of...
Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid
Willyce Kim, foreword by Eunsong Kim
Sep 2023
- University of Washington Press
Dancer Dawkins is a swift-footed, weed-smoking football stud. Her lover, Jessica, left their place in Los Angeles to join a Napa Valley cult, where she believes she has found salvation. Willie Gutherie, the cigar-smoking, self-proclaimed California Kid, collides with Dancer in San Francisco, and the two join forces to liberate Jessica from the clutches of cult leader Fatin Satin Aspen. Willyce Kim's campy, women-centered Western novel is a celebration of queer joy.
Menacing Environments
Benjamin A. Bigelow
Aug 2023
- University of Washington Press
Known for their progressive environmental policies and nature-loving citizens, Nordic countries also produce what may seem a counterintuitive film genre: ecohorror, where distinctions between humans and nature are blurred in unsettling ways. From slashers to arthouse thrillers, transnational Nordic ecohorror films such as Antichrist (dir. Lars von Trier, 2009) and Midsommar (dir. Ari Aster, 2019) have garnered commercial and critical attention, revealing an...
The Lupus Encyclopedia, second edition
Donald E. Thomas, Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Sep 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
Now completely updated! The best-selling, most comprehensive guide to lupus, its complications, and management. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can attack any body organ. It is three times more common in the United States today than it was in the 1980s, so there is an increased need for accurate, practical information on this potentially devastating disease. Lupus expert and clinician Donald E. Thomas, Jr., MD, provides all...
The Truth about College Admission, second edition
Brennan Barnard and Rick Clark
Sep 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
Updated and completely revised, the ultimate family guide to managing a college search in a positive way. Is your family just starting to think about visiting colleges? Maybe you are in the throes of the college search, feeling stressed out and overwhelmed. Miss a deadline? Should you be looking in-state or out-of-state, big school or small? How do you pay for it, and what is a "FAFSA" anyway? The Truth about College Admission is...
The Indiana Theatre at 100
WTIU
Aug 2023
- WTIU, an imprint of Indiana University Press
Explore the fascinating story of a historic Bloomington theater and the secret to its longevity in The Indiana Theatre at 100. The Indiana Theatre opened to great applause on December 11, 1922. A crowd of 1,300—nearly ten percent of Bloomington's population at the time—turned out on a cold Monday night to celebrate the theater's opening. Built by Harry P. Vonderschmitt and his wife Nova, the theater—now known as the Buskirk-Chumley—started out showing silent movies and...
Catalonia's Human Towers
Mariann Vaczi
Sep 2023
- Indiana University Press
The building of human towers (castells) is a centuries-old traditional sport where hundreds of men, women, and children gather in Catalan squares to create breathtaking edifices through a feat of collective athleticism. The result is a great spectacle of effort and overcoming, tension and release. Catalonia's Human Towers is an ethnographic look at the thriving castells practice—a symbol of Catalan cultural heritage and identity amid...
Independent Africa
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Sep 2023
- Indiana University Press
Independent Africa explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of independence through the joint projects of nation-building, economic development, and international relations. Drawing on the political careers of four heads of states: Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Ahmed Sékou Touré of Guinea, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Julius Kambarage Nyerere of Tanzania, Independent Africa engages four major themes: what does it mean to construct an African...
The Life of Music in South India
T. Sankaran. Edited by Matthew Harp Allen and Daniel M. Neuman.
Oct 2023
- Wesleyan University Press
An insider's eight-decade overview of South India's 20th century classical music culture This book offers an account of Carnatic music culture drawing on the knowledge of T. Sankaran, a musician raised in an illustrious non-Brahmin devadasi family, and his long affiliation with cultural institutions including All India Radio (AIR) and the Tamil Isai Sangam (Tamil Music Academy). Sankaran examines the cultural and social matrix in which Carnatic music was...
The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation
Mária M. Kovács
Oct 2023
- Central European University Press
The Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are generally considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in Europe. Mária Kovács convincingly argues that Act XXV of 1920 concerning university enrollment in Hungary can instead be considered one of the first pieces of twentieth century anti-Jewish legislation – if not the very first. This act, known as the "numerus clausus law," specified that members of a single "nationality" or "people's...
After the Roundup, Graphic Edition
Joseph Weismann, translated by Richard Kutner
Sep 2023
- Indiana University Press
On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up 11-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. They were held for five days at the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium, before being sent by cattle car to the Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp. But where would they be transported to? Separated from his parents, who were deported to Auschwitz and certain death, Joseph remained with 1,000 other separated children, as they waited...
Friendship
Claudia Baracchi, translated by Elena Bartolini, Catherine Fullarton
Jul 2023
- Indiana University Press
In Friendship, Italian philosopher Claudia Baracchi explores the philosophical underpinnings of friendship. Tackling the issue of friendship in the era of Facebook and online social networks requires courage and even a certain impertinence. The friendship relationship involves trust, fidelity, and availability for profound sharing. Sociologists assure us this attitude was never more improbable than in our time of dramatic anthropological...
Dream Derby
Avalyn Hunter
Sep 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
On the morning of May 18, 1924, households across America opened their newspapers to the headline: "Derby Winner Property of Indian Woman." The woman in question was Rosa Magnet Hoots, a member of the Oklahoma Osage Nation. The horse, draped in the iconic red roses signifying his victory in the fiftieth running of the Kentucky Derby, was Black Gold. In a sport defined by its exclusivity, the pair's unlikely appearance in the winner's circle set off a firestorm of speculation that would...
Dreams
Melanie Gillespie Rosen
Nov 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
A short but engaging look at why we dream. In Dreams, researcher Melanie Gillespie Rosen explores the biology and psychology behind dreaming. Introducing historical theories from Aristotle to Descartes, Gillespie Rosen then evaluates current leading theories on the purpose of dreams based on modern research. She reveals how dreams may help consolidate memories our brains deem important while clearing out unnecessary ones, and they may also reflect anxieties in our subconscious. Dreams give us...
Questions
Pia Lauritzen
Nov 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
A short but engaging look at how questions shape our thinking. Why do we ask questions? In Questions, Pia Lauritzen explores the philosophy behind questions and probes how they function as both a development tool and a bridge to understanding. She speculates that the question is the essential characteristic that distinguishes human beings from animals and that it is the key to understanding why we think and act as we do. Basic human phenomena like surprise and doubt, ignorance and curiosity–which...
Regional Identities in Southeast Asia
edited by Jayeel Cornelio, Volker Grabowsky
Jul 2023
- Silkworm Books
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, is a community of multiple identities. Over time, its citizens' loyalties were formed around national and transnational frameworks involving ethnic, religious, and ideological affinities. In the post-independence period, they were affected by decolonization, nation-building, the Cold War, globalization, and China's rise. As a result, the region is emerging as a...
This Is How You Start to Disappear
Astrid Blodgett
Aug 2023
- University of Alberta Press
These twelve new short stories from Astrid Blodgett explore the consequences of grief and denial and single moments that change perceptions, lives, and attachments forever. Crisp prose and unexpected plot twists move relatable characters through vivid outdoor settings and interior depths. A child negotiates adult behaviour when an injured dog is put down. An older sister bribes a younger one to go on her first date. A family canoe trip launches from Disaster Point. A woman wants to hurl her...
Welfare
Carsten Jensen
Nov 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
A short but engaging look at how nations have succeeded and failed at welfare. In Welfare, political scientist Carsten Jensen examines how the Danish welfare model leads to some of the highest levels of happiness, education, and health in the world. He argues that this welfare model is a success story because it has created a remarkable level of equality and forged strong links between people and public institutions. Jensen probes four central questions about this model: Why do Danes support the...
Centers for Teaching and Learning
Mary C. Wright
Sep 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
An in-depth look at Centers for Teaching and Learning and their profound impact on US higher education. Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) are important change agents on campus with strategies that are unique and impactful—but sometimes unarticulated or misaligned. In this wide-ranging book, Mary C. Wright maps the landscape of 1,200+ CTLs in the United States through a unique approach: by conducting complex web searches to identify and categorize...
Engagement, Enlargement, and Confrontation
Graham Timmins
Dec 2023
- Central European University Press
Engagement, Enlargement, and Confrontation provides a holistic view of the European Union's eastern relations explored in an historical context following the end of the Cold War. The author draws out the key achievements and failures of this strategic exercise. The focus is on the institutional adaptation of the European Union as well as on the dynamics of its policies towards the East. Graham...
Harlem World
Jonathan Mael
Sep 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
A thrilling narrative history of how one rap battle in New York transformed American culture forever. July 3, 1981, was a pivotal night for the future of America's newest art form: hip hop. In New York's Harlem World Club, the Fantastic Romantic Five and the Cold Crush Brothers competed, with an unprecedented $1,000—and their reputations—on the line in a highly anticipated rap battle. The show drew hundreds of fans to settle a question that still dominates hip hop...
Imperial Designs, Postimperial Extremes
edited by Andrei Cusco, Victor Taki
Oct 2023
- Central European University Press
Anchored in the Russian Empire, but not limited to it, the eight studies in this volume explore the nineteenth-century imperial responses to the challenge of modernity, the dramatic disruptions of World War I, the radical scenarios of the interwar period and post-communist endgames at the different edges of Eurasia. The book continues and amplifies the historiographic momentum...
Strictly Dynamite
Eve Golden
Sep 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
Before Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez—one of the first Latin-American stars to sweep past the xenophobia of old Hollywood and pave the way for future icons from around the world. Her career began in the silent era, when her beauty was enough to make it onto the silver screen, but with the rise of talkies, Velez could no longer hope to hide her Mexican accent. Yet Velez proved to be a talented dramatic and comedic actress (and singer) and was much...
Underground Streams
edited by János M. Rainer
Sep 2023
- Central European University Press
The authors of this edited volume address the hidden attraction that existed between the extremes of left and right, and of internationalism and nationalism under the decades of communist dictatorship in Eastern Europe. One might suppose that under the suppressive regimes based on leftist ideology and internationalism their right-wing opponents would have been defeated and ultimately removed. These essays, on the...
The Passion of Love in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas
Daniel Joseph Gordon
Sep 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
This book is an introduction to three questions on love according to St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae I–II, qq. 26–28). These three questions reflect on the nature of love (q. 26), the causes of love (q. 27), and the effects of love (q. 28). It is thus an introduction to the entire phenomenon of love, both as a bodily passion and an act of the will. The purpose is to present the Thomistic and broadly scholastic account of human and divine love from a...
Not Native American Art
Janet Catherine Berlo, foreword by Joe Horse Capture
Sep 2023
- University of Washington Press
The faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their commercial value has increased, but even a century ago experts were warning that the faking of objects ranging from catlinite pipes to Chumash sculpture was rampant. Through a series of historical and contemporary case studies, Janet Catherine Berlo engages with troubling and sometimes confusing categories of inauthenticity. Based on decades of research as well...
The Lublin Lectures and Works on Max Scheler
Karol Wojtyla
Oct 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
The Catholic University of America Press is honored to publish the English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. Prepared under the auspices of the John Paul II Institute in Washington DC, the English Critical Edition will comprise more than 20 volumes, covering all of John Paul II's writings in the years before his papacy and a thematic selection of his papal writings. This collection is essential for several reasons. First, gaining access to the saint's writings...
Secularism and Its Ambiguities
Carlo Ginzburg
Sep 2023
- Central European University Press
In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, dissects four moments of European intellectual history. This book relives the experience that participants in the Natalie Zemon Davis Lecture Series at the Budapest campus of Central European University had in 2019 listening to Ginzburg's eloquent and engaging discourses. For the purposes of this volume he has re-edited and completed the leporello of cases...
Civil Movements in an Illiberal Regime
Dániel Mikecz
Aug 2023
- Central European University Press
Dániel Mikecz addresses in this study the tensions between oppositional civil society and party-political actors. As successive elections demonstrate the increasing confidence of the illiberal regime of Viktor Orbán, left and liberal parties of the opposition have faced a prolonged crisis in credibility. At the same time, the civil society has not been immobile, and bottom-up initiatives, social and political movements, and non-governmental organizations have...
From Empire to Anthropocene
Betty Joseph
Sep 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
How contemporary novels use narrative time to counter cultural homogenization and historical flattening. In From Empire to Anthropocene, Betty Joseph celebrates how contemporary fiction contributes to a novel framing of world literature by playing with our understanding of time. Bringing together an unusual constellation of writers—including Jamaica Kincaid, Teju Cole, Hari Kunzru, and Barbara Kingsolver—Joseph traces how the novelistic interplay of concrete and abstract...
The Deadly Rise of Anti-science
Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD
Sep 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an antivaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promoted by elected officials and amplified by news media, causing thousands of American deaths. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, one renowned scientist, in his famous bowtie, appeared daily on major news networks such as MSNBC, NPR, the BBC, and others. Dr. Peter J. Hotez often went without sleep, working around the clock to develop a nonprofit COVID-19 vaccine and to...
The Philosophy of John Henry Newman and Pragmatism
Marial Corona, foreword by Frederick D Aquino
Sep 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
In recent years, interest in John Henry Newman as a philosopher has gained momentum. This work places his philosophical insights in conversation with philosophers from the pragmatic tradition, particularly with C. S. Peirce, the classical pragmatists, and those who have followed their line, and shows several lines of concurrence. It argues that Newman overcame the modern philosophy of his time by reconnecting to the Aristotelian...
A Sourcebook for Classical Rhetoric
John Tomarchio
Oct 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
This Sourcebook is intended for students of liberal arts and great books. It treats such books as primary sources for inquiring into the nature of human speech because they clarify the terms and stakes of perennial questions thinking human beings ask themselves about persuasive speaking. By crystallizing viable claims about the nature of what we confront in politics and society—live claims for us to confront in our own, with the stakes of that confrontation being live as well—they originate a...
Wes Montgomery at 100
WTIU
Sep 2023
- Indiana University Press
Celebrate one of the greatest and most influential jazz guitarists of all time in a new concert film collaboration between WTIU and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Wes Montgomery at 100: A 100th Birthday Tribute Concert honors the centennial of the Hoosier-born artist whose guitar sounds defined a generation of jazz music and left a worldwide musical legacy. Montgomery was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 6, 1923, and began playing in a jazz group with his brothers,...
Anti-fascism in European History
edited by Jože Pirjevec, Egon Pelikan, Sabrina P. Ramet
Sep 2023
- Central European University Press
The increasing radicalization of political life in most countries in Europe lends special relevance to studies of the antifascist legacies on the continent. This insightful collection of essays is an in-depth review of antifascism in Slovenia, setting it in the context of related movements elsewhere in Europe. The period treated by the 19 essays comprises the interwar period, World War Two, and the post-war decades. The comparative...
Belarusian Nation-Building in Times of War and Revolution
Lizaveta Kasmach
Oct 2023
- Central European University Press
The proclamation of Belarusian independence on 25 March 1918, and the rival establishment of the Soviet Belarusian state on 1 January 1919 created two distinct and mutually exclusive national myths, which continue to define contemporary Belarusian society. This book examines the processes that resulted in this dual resolution in the context of the First World War and the subsequent Russian Revolutions. Lizaveta Kasmach scrutinizes a variety of factors that...
Biking Uphill in the Rain
Tom Fucoloro
Sep 2023
- University of Washington Press
Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by Bicycling magazine. How did this notoriously hilly and rainy city become so inviting to bicyclists? And what challenges lie ahead for Puget Sound bike advocates? Tom Fucoloro, a leading voice on bike issues in the region, blends his longtime reporting with new interviews and archival research to tell the story of how a flourishing bike culture emerged despite the obstacles of climate,...
Democracy Fatigue
edited by Carlos García-Rivero
Aug 2023
- Central European University Press
Over the early 21st century, democracy worldwide has deteriorated significantly. At the same time, new populist forces have appeared that challenge democracies through legal reforms. The stark contrast between Eastern and Western Europe in this respect is the focus of this collection of essays. The authors consider the 2008-2012 economic crisis to be at the root of the success of the populist parties and the rise of cultural backlash against liberal values. In turn, European...
More Nights than Days
Yudit Kiss
Aug 2023
- Central European University Press
More Nights Than Days is a unique exploration of the experience of children who survived the Holocaust—including Roma and Sinti victims—and the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. Children are among the principal victims of armed conflicts and slaughters; nonetheless, they perceive events through the prism of their unique perspective and have a range of coping techniques adults don't possess. This overview of writings of ninety-one child survivors bears...
Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880–1914
Catherine Horel
Sep 2023
- Central European University Press
Catherine Horel has undertaken a comparative analysis of the societal, ethnic, and cultural diversity in the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy as represented in twelve cities: Arad, Bratislava, Brno, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Oradea, Rijeka, Sarajevo, Subotica, Timioara, Trieste, and Zagreb. By purposely selecting these cities, the author aims to counter the disproportionate attention that the largest cities in the empire...
Constitutional Inquisitors
Scott Ingram
Sep 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
The evolution of the federal prosecutor's role from a pragmatic necessity to a significant political figure. In the United States, federal prosecutors enjoy a degree of power unmatched elsewhere in the world. They are free to investigate and prosecute—or decline to prosecute—criminal cases without significant oversight. And yet, no statute grants them these powers; their role is not mentioned in the Constitution. How did they obtain this power, and...
Report Cards
Wade H. Morris
Sep 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
The definitive history of the report card. Report cards represent more than just an account of academic standing and attendance. The report card also serves as a tool of control and as a microcosm for the shifting power dynamics among teachers, parents, school administrators, and students. In Report Cards: A Cultural History, Wade H. Morris tells the story of American education by examining the history of this unique element of student life. In the nearly two hundred-year evolution of the report card,...
Missouri
Robert E. Hulsey
Known for its scenic rivers, reowned state parks and beautiful vistas, Missouri offers enjoyment for anyone seeking a variety landscapes, natural wonders, charming small towns, and cosmopolitan urban Known for its scenic rivers, renowned state parks and beautiful vistas, Missouri offers enjoyment for anyone seeking a variety of landscapes, natural wonders, charming small towns, and cosmopolitan urban adventures. In Missouri: Where the Rivers Run, follow photographer Robert E. Hulsey on a visual journey...
The Future of the Catholic Church in the American Political Order
Edited by Kenneth L. Grasso and Thomas F.X. Varacalli
Nov 2023
- Franciscan University Press
While there is a long-standing history of reflection among Catholics about the proper orientation of Catholicism towards American society, today the American Catholic community confronts a fundamentally new situation. Catholics face the dual threat of an ever more centralized and increasingly omnicompetent state and a new cultural ethos fundamentally incompatible with—and hostile to—Catholicism. Today, American Catholics...
Who Cares?
Rosalia Sciortino
Sep 2023
- Silkworm Books
Who Cares? presents findings on the social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic in six Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. After a regional overview, country-specific chapters narrate the pandemic's unfolding, public health measures taken to contain it, and economic impacts on different demographics and assesses the effectiveness of social welfare programs. Collectively, the research...
The Poet & the Baroness
Michael O'Sullivan
Sep 2023
- Central European University Press
For long periods in history, the Austrian capital found itself on the geographical edge of western civilisation. Yet from the 18th century on, Vienna has been a vibrant centre of European culture. This city is the scene of the formidable meeting of the two outstanding intellectuals that are at the core of this book. The warm relationship between W.H. Auden, the celebrated British-American poet (1907-1973), and his fellow expatriate, the Welsh-Austrian...
Connecticut Walk Book, twenty-first edition
Connecticut Forest and Park Association
Sep 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
The ultimate guide to Connecticut's extensive public trails system Lace up your boots and experience some of the best hiking in New England. Whether you are a day-tripper or long-distance hiker, old hand or novice, you'll find trails suited to every ability and interest. The Connecticut Forest and Park Association (CFPA) maintains over 825 miles of Blue-Blazed Trails in Connecticut, trails that wind through state parks and...
Dance History(s)
edited by Annie-B Parson and Thomas DeFrantz
Apr 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
A multivoiced dance history book, authored by twelve diverse choreographers In an effort to deepen our understanding of what dance is and how it has functioned throughout human history, this prismatic book project is dedicated to an artist-centric perception of dance history. Diverse dance artists from the American dance field contribute personal views of how dance has unfolded over time, answering the question: "Who is in your imaginary dance family...
Divide and Pacify
Pieter Vanhuysse, preface by Janos Kornai
Sep 2023
- Central European University Press
Despite dramatic increases in poverty, unemployment, and social inequalities, the Central and Eastern European transitions from communism to market democracy in the 1990s have been remarkably peaceful. This book proposes a new explanation for this unexpected political quiescence. It shows how reforming governments in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have been able to prevent massive waves of strikes...
Globalization and Nationalism
Natalie Sabanadze
Sep 2023
- Central European University Press
This book argues for an original, unorthodox conception about the relationship between globalization and contemporary nationalism. While the prevailing view holds that nationalism and globalization are forces of clashing opposition, Sabanadze establishes that these tend to become allied forces. It acknowledges that nationalism does react against the rising globalization and represents a form of resistance against globalizing influences, but the Basque...
Queer Arrangements
Lisa Barg
Oct 2023
- Wesleyan University Press
Queer Arrangements is a new study of Billy Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer history The legacy of Black queer composer, arranger, and pianist Billy Strayhorn (1915–1967) hovers at the edge of canonical jazz narratives. Queer Arrangements explores the ways in which Strayhorn's identity as an openly gay Black jazz musician shaped his career, including the creative roles he could assume and the dynamics between...
Walking With Jesus Christ
Edited by Steven Hoskins and Christian D. Washburn
Dec 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
Walking with Jesus Christ: Catholic and Evangelical Visions of the Moral Life is the collected essays and consensus statements of the second round of the National Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue. In 2021 the National Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue completed its four-year round of discussion on the moral life, at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Sessions were held each year on the following topics. In 2017,...
Water, Whiskey, and Vodka
Danko Šipka
Nov 2023
- Georgetown University Press
A fascinating cultural and linguistic history of the Slavic languages, exploring the deep connections and distinctions between them Water, whiskey, and vodka are three words that seem to have nothing in common, but each of them comes from the same root. Water, Whiskey, and Vodka takes a deep dive into the origins of the Slavic languages, from a common ancestor language through various cultural and historical shifts to arrive at the current breadth of languages. The book takes...
Women in Romania's First World War
Alin Ciupalã
Mar 2024
- Central European University Press
In August 1916 the Kingdom of Romania (Wallachia and Moldova) entered World War One, which by 1918 led to a union with Transylvania and Bessarabia. This book considers the contribution of women to the achievement of the Romanian national project, includingthe role of bourgeoisie and middle-class women, the position of women in rural areas, and love, sex, and eroticism in wartime. Alin Ciupala also presents portraits of feminine personalities, among them Queen Mary with her participation in the...
Human Dignity and Liberal Politics
Patrick Riordan
Oct 2023
- Georgetown University Press
A deeply considered examination of the "common good" reconciling Catholic Social Thought with secular politics and philosophy The Second Vatican Council invites dialogue about the common good as the set of economic, political, legal, and cultural conditions for human flourishing, whether as individuals or as communities. However, some contemporary Catholic authors jeopardize this dialogue by polarizing liberalism and the common good, interpreting...
Portraits of Empires
Robyn Dora Radway
Oct 2023
- Indiana University Press
In the late 16th century, hundreds of travelers made their way to the Habsburg ambassador's residence, known as the German House, in Constantinople. In this centrally located inn, subjects of the emperor found food, wine, shelter, and good company—and left an incredible collection of albums filled with images, messages, decorated papers, and more. Portraits of Empires offers a complete account of this early form of social media, which had a...
Collecting Shakespeare
Stephen H. Grant
Oct 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world. In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a tight-knit...
Commanding Professionalism
William Stuart Nance. Foreword by Robert M. Citino.
Oct 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
When one thinks of influential World War II military figures, five-star generals such as Dwight D. Eisenhower and Omar Bradley instantly come to mind. As important as these central figures were to the Second World War, the conflict produced equally effective lower-profile leaders whose influence had an undeniable impact. Among these leaders are William Simpson, commander of the US Ninth Army, and James Moore, his chief of...
The Complete Guide to Breast Reconstruction, fifth edition
Kathy Steligo
Oct 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
The definitive guide to breast reconstruction—now completely revised and updated. For more than twenty years, The Complete Guide to Breast Reconstruction (formerly The Breast Reconstruction Guidebook) has been an essential resource for individuals who are undergoing mastectomy and thinking about breast reconstruction. In this revised edition, two-time breast cancer survivor Kathy Steligo covers the critical information patients need, from...
The Rise and Fall of Synanon
Rod Janzen
with a new preface
with a new preface
Oct 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
The definitive account of Synanon. On a fall day in 1978, Los Angeles attorney Paul Morantz reached into his mailbox to collect his mail and was nearly killed. He was bitten by the four-foot-long rattlesnake that had been put there by members of a cultlike group called Synanon. Chuck Dederich—a former Alcoholics Anonymous member who coined the phrase "Today is the first day of the rest of your life"—established Synanon as an innovative drug rehabilitation center near...
Holy Wells of Ireland
edited by Celeste Ray, Finbar McCormick, with contributions by Carol Barron, Gary Branigan, Eugene Broderick, Attracta Brownlee, Ray Cashman, Janet Cassidy, Hannah Chew, Amanda Clarke, Claire Collins, Anne Cormican, Christy Cunniffe, Colm Donnelly, Maura Egan, Ronan Foley, Noel French, Michael Gibbons, Laurence Gill, Annie Griffith, Michael Houlihan, Ryan Lash, Shane Lehane, Shane Lordan, Geraldine Lynch, Niall Mac Coitir, John Makem, Bernadette Masterson, Patrick McAteer, Rita McCarthy, Finbar...
Sep 2023
- Indiana University Press
...
They Made the Movies
James Bawden and Ron Miller
Oct 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
For decades, James Bawden and Ron Miller have established themselves as maestros of provocative interviews, giving fans unmatched insights into the lives of Hollywood A-listers. In their fourth collection, the authors pay tribute to film pioneers who lit up Tinseltown from the 1930s through the 1960s. They Made the Movies features conversations with legendary directors who created many of film's all-time classics, including Frank Capra (It's A Wonderful Life,...
Acts of Faith and Imagination
Brent Little. Foreword by Mark Bosco, SJ.
Sep 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
Acts of Faith and Imagination wagers that fiction written by Catholic authors assists readers to reflect critically on the question: "what is faith?" To speak of a person's "faith-life" is to speak of change and development. As a narrative form, literature can illustrate the dynamics of faith, which remains in flux over the course of one's life. Because human beings must possess faith in something (whether religious or not), it...
Criminal-Inquisitorial Trials in English Church Courts
Henry Ansgar Kelly
Oct 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
After inquisitorial procedure was introduced at the Fourth Lateran Council in Rome in 1215 (the same year as England's first Magna Carta), virtually all court trials initiated by bishops and their subordinates were inquisitions. That meant that accusers were no longer needed. Rather, the judges themselves leveled charges against persons when they were publicly suspected of specific offenses—like fornication, or witchcraft,...
Hidden Alleyways of Washington, DC
Kim Prothro Williams
Nov 2023
- Georgetown University Press
The remarkable architectural and social history of DC's multifaceted alleyways Alleyways in Washington, DC, have always been a fundamental part of the city's life and economy. Deliberately hidden from public view by the capital's early planners, DC's alleys were created to provide access to stables, carriage houses, and other utility buildings. But as the city grew and property values rose, the nature of some alleys and their buildings changed, resulting in a parallel world of...
Divine Money
Emanuel Schaeublin
Oct 2023
- Indiana University Press
Zakat giving or mutual aid is a sacred practice in Islam. Where government and public safety nets fail, zakat serves as a form of social security in Muslim communities. In Divine Money, Emanuel Schaeublin shows how zakat institutions and direct zakat donations function in contemporary Palestine. Based on his ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Nablus, Schaeublin traces zakat flows as they provide critical support to households living under military rule and security...
Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers
edited by Suzanne Crosta, Sada Niang, Alexie Tcheuyap, with contributions by Florence Martin, Sheila Petty, Melissa Thackway, El Hadji Moustapha Diop, Felix Veilleux, Suzanne Gauch, Herve Tchumkam
Oct 2023
- Indiana University Press
Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers is groundbreaking edited collection which explores the contributions of Francophone African women to the field of documentary filmmaking. Rich in its scope and critical vision it constitutes a timely contribution to cutting-edge...
Colors and Textures of Roman North Africa
edited by Elizabeth A. Clark and Zachary B. Smith
Dec 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
This book serves two purposes: first, it celebrates the career of the late Maureen Tilley; second, it provides a "state of the field" look at some of the latest scholarship on Christian North Africa in late antiquity. The chapters, written by both senior scholars and the next generation of North African researchers, fills gaps in some of our understandings of the colorful people, places, and disputes that arose...
Blissful Blindness
Dariusz Tołczyk, translated by Jarek Garliński
Oct 2023
- Indiana University Press
The most heinous Soviet crimes – the Red Terror, brutal collectivization, the Great Famine, the Gulag, Stalin's Great Terror, mass deportations, and other atrocities – were treated in the West as a controversial topic. With the Cold War dichotomy of Western democracy versus Soviet communism deeply imprinted in our minds, we are not always aware that these crimes were very often questioned, dismissed, denied, sometimes rationalized, and even outright...
On Inception
Martin Heidegger, translated by Peter Hanly
Oct 2023
- Indiana University Press
On Inception is a translation of Martin Heidegger's ber den Anfang (GA 70). This work belongs to the crucial period, before and during WWII, when Heidegger was at work on a series of treatises that begins with "Contributions to Philosophy" and includes "The Event" and "The History of Beyng." These works are difficult, even hermetic, but represent a crucial development in Heidegger's thinking. On Inception deepens the investigation underway in the other volumes of the series and provides a...
All the World's a Mall
Rinny Gremaud, translated by Luise von Flotow
Sep 2023
- University of Alberta Press
All the World's a Mall details a whirlwind world tour in five stops: Edmonton, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, and Casablanca, chosen because they are home to some of the biggest malls on the planet. Cities within cities, these malls are wonderlands where visitors come from afar to: walk, eat, sleep, watch, swim, ride, photograph, and, of course, shop. With a curious, critical, and sometimes ironic eye, Swiss journalist Rinny Gremaud recounts her travels to and through these...
Approaches to Teaching the Thousand and One Nights
edited by Paulo Lemos Horta
Oct 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
Teaching strategies for one of the world's most widely read collections of stories The Thousand and One Nights, composed in Arabic from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries, is one of the world's most widely circulated and influential collections of stories. To help instructors introduce the tales to students, this volume provides historical context and discusses the many transformations of the stories in a variety of cultures. Among the topics covered are...
Unity in Christ
Anthony Fisher, OP. Foreword by Cardinal Mario Grech.
Oct 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
What does episcopal fraternity and communio look like? This central question is explored through the erudition and experience of Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Australia. Unity in Christ, based upon a series of addresses given to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) at their Special Assembly in 2022, delves into the themes associated with episcopal unity. By surveying the Christian tradition,...
Abraham Lincoln, Abridged Edition
Michael Burlingame
edited and abridged by Jonathan W. White
edited and abridged by Jonathan W. White
Oct 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised. Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and democracy, Abraham Lincoln is arguably the most studied and admired of all Americans. Michael Burlingame's astonishing Abraham Lincoln: A Life, an updated,...
Kneeling Theology
Anton Strukelj. Foreword by Christoph Schonborn. Foreword by Thaddaus Kondrusiewicz. Foreword by Elden Francis Curtis.
Sep 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
Anton Štrukelj, in this English edition of his book Kneeling Theology, which was published in German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Slovenian, based his theme on the concept first developed by Hans Urs von Balthasar. This Swiss intellectual is considered one of the most important theologians of the 20th century. Štrukelj sees as his task, through a synthetic survey of questions, to seek from his subjects a holistic...
Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons
edited by Sheila Smith McKoy and Patrick Elliot Alexander
Oct 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
New thinking about the role of education in confined environments As the work of Malcolm X, Angela Y. Davis, and others has made clear, education in prison has enabled people to rethink systems of oppression. Courses in reading and writing help incarcerated students feel a sense of community, examine the past and present, and imagine a better future. Yet incarcerated students often lack the resources, materials, information, and opportunity...
Be Brave to Things
Jack Spicer and Daniel Katz
Oct 2023
- Wesleyan University Press
Indispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an American master Be Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form, with his blistering intelligence, painful double-edged wit, and devastating will to truth everywhere on display. Much of the poetry here has never before been published, but the volume also includes much out-of-print or hard to find work, as well as Spicer's three major plays,...
The Land Is Sung
Thomas M. Pooley
Oct 2023
- Wesleyan University Press
Ethnography on the politics of land and belonging in post apartheid Zulu performances What does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist Thomas M. Pooley shows how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry connect Zulu communities to their ancestral homes and genealogies. For those without land tenure in the province of KwaZulu-Nata, performances articulate a sense of place. Migrants express their allegiances through performance and spiritual relationships...
The Ruins of Nostalgia
Donna Stonecipher
Oct 2023
- Wesleyan University Press
New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poem What is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cleave intently to the complex truths of feeling and thought? In a series of 64 gorgeous, ramifying, unsettling prose poems addressing late-twentieth- and twenty-first century experience and its discontents, The Ruins of Nostalgia offers a strikingly original exploration of the misunderstood phenomenon of nostalgia as both feeling-state and historical...
Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales
Elizabeth A. Nesbitt, David B. Williams
Oct 2023
- University of Washington Press
From trilobites near the Idaho border and primitive horses on the Columbia Plateau to giant bird tracks near Bellingham and curious bear-like beasts on the Olympic Peninsula, fossils across Washington State are filled with clues of past life on Earth. With abundant and well-exposed rock layers, the state has fossils dating from Ice Age mammals only 12,000 years old back to marine invertebrates more than 500 million years old. In Spirit Whales and...
Uniting against the Reich
Luke W. Truxal. Foreword by Robert M. Citino.
Oct 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
On August 17, 1942, twelve Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the United States Eighth Air Force carried out the first American raid over occupied Europe, striking the rail yards at Rouen, France. Soon after, hundreds of American B-17s and Consolidated B-24 Liberators filled the skies above Europe. Despite frequent attacks against Germany and its allies by four different air forces, American commanders failed to stage a successful air offensive...
Vietnam
Brook Taylor, Sam Korsmoe
Sep 2023
- Silkworm Books
Is Vietnam the world's next Tiger Economy? Can it grow like Taiwan and South Korea did when they were Tiger Economies in the 1980s and '90s? Brook Taylor and Sam Korsmoe bring together more than five decades of in-country experience, observations, and connections to explore these questions and determine whether Vietnam will be a high-income nation by 2050. For more than twenty-five years, Vietnam has been one of the most dynamic countries in the world in terms of GDP, trade, and investment growth...
Naming God
edited by Lucinda Mosher
Nov 2023
- Georgetown University Press
A fresh look at how Christians and Muslims speak of God Naming God entails labeling the ineffable. And yet the Bible itself oscillates between denying that God can be named and describing how God shows Godself anyway. In Naming God, the result of the 2021 Building Bridges Seminar — an international dialogue of Christian and Muslim scholars — the contributors examine the many ways Christians and Muslims refer to and describe God and the significance of naming God differently.
Dirt Don't Burn
Larry Roeder, Barry Harrelson
Nov 2023
- Georgetown University Press
This inspiring, true story of a Black community sheds new light on the history of segregation and inequity in American education The system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its aftermath has affected every aspect of life for Black Americans. Dirt Don't Burn is the riveting narrative of an extraordinary community that overcame the cultural and legal...
Precarious
Patrick C. Goujon, foreword by Gerard McGlone, translated by Joseph Munitz
Nov 2023
- Georgetown University Press
A Jesuit priest's memoir about recovering his memory of clerical abuse as a child In October 2021, the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church released its report detailing consistent disregard of survivors and the callous and horrifying "lack of outrage" from bishops and other Catholic leaders. What this report does not tell is the story of the priests who themselves are survivors of clerical abuse...
The Empire Looks South
Peter Harris
Oct 2023
- Silkworm Books
The most famous firsthand account of the Kingdom of Angkor was left by the imperial Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan. But Zhou's was not the only portrait of Angkor and the kingdoms that came before it. The Empire Looks South draws on other sources to provide new and engrossing perspectives on early Cambodia up to and including the time of Angkor. These sources include accounts in official Chinese histories, descriptions by Buddhist monks,...
Allegorical Moments
Lyn Hejinian
Nov 2023
- Wesleyan University Press
Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinking Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential turmoil affecting the contemporary world. Traditionally, allegorical interpretation was intended to express an orthodoxy and support an ideology. Hejinian attempts to liberate allegory from its dogmatic usages. Presenting modern and contemporary...
Barbara Earl Thomas
edited by Carolyn Swan Needell, with contributions by Carolyn Swan Needell, Barbara Earl Thomas, Kemi Adeyemi, Emily Zimmerman
Oct 2023
- Chrysler Museum of Art
A talented visual storyteller, Barbara Earl Thomas has drawn from history, literature, folklore, mythology, and biblical stories over her forty-year career to reflect the social fabric of our times. Thomas's figural and narrative imagery has a deeply philosophical and emotional force, and light and dark have been especially potent concepts in her work. This book of new works...
Gatewood
Matthew Strandmark
Nov 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
When Louis Gatewood Galbraith passed away in 2012, the flood of tributes honoring him merely scratched the surface of the life of this colorful and controversial figure. Throughout his political career, regional and national media outlets focused on the policy ideas and public acts that made Galbraith a cultural fixture: public demonstrations, an affinity for recreational drug use, unfiltered language, and recurring political campaigns. Best known as an advocate for the legalization of cannabis,...
Steady and Measured
Travis D. Boyce
Oct 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
Reassesses the career of Benner C. Turner, the polarizing African American president at South Carolina State during the civil rights era Travis D. Boyce considers the full sweep of Benner C. Turner's life and career in the context of the contrary pressures of white and Black authority. Borrowing an expression from Michelle Obama's remarks to the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Boyce casts Turner, long-serving president of South Carolina...
The Coal Miner Who Became Governor
Paul E. Patton. With Jeffrey S. Suchanek.
Nov 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
Born in a tenant house in Fallsburg, Kentucky, Paul Patton had a humble upbringing that held few clues about his future as one of the most prominent politicians in the history of the state. From the coal mines to the governor's office, Patton's life exemplifies hard work, determination, and perseverance, as well as the consequences of personal mistakes. In The Coal Miner Who Became Governor, Patton, with Jeffrey S. Suchanek, details his personal, professional, and...
Full Light and Perfect Shadow
David F. Martin
Oct 2023
- Cascadia Art Museum
This is the first study of the work of Chao-Chen Yang (1909–1969), an important Seattle photographer who gained national prominence in the mid-twentieth century. Born in Hangzhou, China, Yang received his art training at the University of Hsin-Hwa in Shanghai. After graduating, he became art director for the Government Institute of Nanking. In 1933 he moved to Chicago as chancellor of the Chinese Consulate and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. Initially...
Island X
Wendy Cheng
Nov 2023
- University of Washington Press
Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact deeply political, shaped by Taiwan's colonial history and influenced by the global social movements of their times. As activists, they fought to make Taiwanese people visible as subjects of injustice and deserving of self-determination. Under the...
Influential Machines
Miles C. Coleman
Nov 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
A new framework for understanding how algorithms influence Web applications offer us conclusions about science. Twitter bots generate art. Machine-learning systems satirize politicians. We live in an era where a substantial share of our private and public communication is machinic. Modern computing machines cannot yet speak for themselves—although the capacities of AI are rapidly expanding—but they generate rhetorical energies as they give advice, entertain, and...
Anatomy of a Duel
Stuart W. Sanders
Nov 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
When the popular musical Hamilton showcased the celebrated duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, it reminded twenty-first-century Americans that some honor-bound citizens once used negotiated, formal fights as a way to settle differences. During the Civil War, two prominent Kentuckians—one a Union colonel and the other a pro-Confederate civilian—continued this legacy by dueling. At a time when thousands of soldiers were slaughtering one...
MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature, second edition
Elizabeth Brookbank and H. Faye Christenberry
Nov 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
A guide to help students use research sources in literature and film What makes a good research topic in a literature class? What does your professor mean by "peer-reviewed" sources? What should you do if you can't find enough material? This approachable guide walks students through the process of research in literary studies, providing them with tools for responding successfully to course assignments. Written by two experienced librarians,...
The Words and Wares of David Drake
edited by Jill Beute Koverman and Jane Przybysz
Feb 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
A celebration of the remarkable poem vessels of Dave the Potter David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield in the backcountry of South Carolina near the Savannah River. Despite laws prohibiting enslaved people from learning to read or write, David was literate and signed some of his pots. His practice was not only to add his name and a date but also to embellish his...
Daughters of Muscadine
Monic Ductan
Two events tie together the nine stories in Monic Ductan's gorgeous debut: the 1920s lynching of Ida Pearl Crawley and the 1980s drowning of a high school basketball player, Lucy Boudreaux. Both forever shape the people and the place of Muscadine, Georgia, in the foothills of Appalachia. The daughters of Muscadine are Black southern women who are, at times, outcasts due to their race and are also estranged from those they love. A remorseful woman tries to connect with the child she gave up for...
Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers
Linda Elisabeth LaPinta. Foreword by Shelly Zegart. Afterword by Frank Bennett.
Nov 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
Although they are commonplace in American homes, quilts are much more than simple patchwork bed coverings and wall adornments. While many of these beautiful and intricate works of art are rich in history and tradition, others reflect the cutting-edge talent and avant-garde mastery of contemporary quiltmakers. Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity,...
Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine
edited by Jeremy Wildeman, M. Muhannad Ayyash
Oct 2023
- University of Alberta Press
Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens. The authors argue that there are direct parallels between Canada's settler colonial project and its support for the Israeli settler colonial dispossession of Palestinians. Chapters reflect on community politics and activism, migration, orientalism, and critical race theory. Among its unique contributions, the volume...
The Elephant Has Two Sets of Teeth
Alice Neikirk
Oct 2023
- University of Alberta Press
This ethnography follows Bhutanese refugees who fled Bhutan, resided in camps in Nepal, and finally settled in the vastly different culture of Australia. Along the way, they learn the ways that humanitarian compassion is used to oppress, contain, and erode human rights. They also learn, however, that this charitable framework has small cracks that allow for action. The Bhutanese find ways to move between the contradictory expectations of refugee-ness...
Graduate Education for a Thriving Humanities Ecosystem
edited by Stacy M. Hartman and Yevgenya Strakovsky
Nov 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
New possibilities for graduate study and careers in the humanities While the humanities remain as necessary as ever, the shrinking academic job market has led scholars to rethink the nature and purpose of graduate school in these fields. Highlighting examples of innovative approaches, this volume aims to provide resources and inspiration for a sustainable, thriving, and even joyful future for the humanities. The essays in this...
A Gamecock Odyssey
Alan Piercy
Nov 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
Meet the coaches, athletes, and notable characters that laid the foundation for today's Gamecock Nation. The summer of 1971 was especially hot in Columbia and not just because of the weather. It was that year that a long-simmering conflict between the University of South Carolina and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) reached the point of boiling over. Frustrations over the ACC's recruiting and admission standards, and growing pressure from influential...
COVID-19 and Pandemics in Austrian History (Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. 32)
edited by Marc Landry, Dirk Rupnow
Oct 2023
- University of New Orleans Press
In early 2020, the emergence of the COVID-19 shook the globe. Quickly the world began to search history for lessons from past pandemics, and to compare the experience of COVID in different countries. This volume of Contemporary Austrian Studies is a part of these efforts, dedicated to exploring aspects of the history of epidemic disease in Austria, as well as the peculiarities of the Austrian experience of...
Kells
Amy Crider
Oct 2023
- University of New Orleans Press
With the death of his father, Connachtach is finally free: Free to leave the family farm, free to return to the monastery of his youth, and free to scribe—a skill held by few in eighth-century Scotia. But answering what he hopes is God's call to create a new, glorified book of the gospel is not without sacrifice: in leaving all earthly matters behind, Connachtach also leaves his sister Oona and niece Deirdre, who are not so eager to let him disappear from their lives. From the Celtic shores of Iona to the...
Final Words
578 Men and Women Executed on Texas Death Row. Foreword by Randall Horton.
Nov 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
In 1976 the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the legality of capital punishment in their ruling on Gregg v. Georgia. In the forty-six years since the decision was handed down, 1,551 convicted prisoners have been executed. The United States is the only Western nation—and one of four advanced democracies—that regularly applies the death penalty. While the death penalty is legal in twenty-seven states, only twenty-one have the means to carry out death...
"Let Us Go Free"
C.Walker Gollar
Dec 2023
- Georgetown University Press
A vivid and disquieting narrative of Jesuit slaveholding and its historical relationship with Jesuit universities in the United States The Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuits, is renowned for the quality of the order's impact on higher education. Less well known, however, is the relationship between Jesuit higher education and slavery. For more than two hundred years, Jesuit colleges and seminaries in the United States supported themselves on the labor of the...
Al-'Arabiyya
edited by Mohammad T. Alhawary, with contributions by Mohammad Nour Abu Guba, Samer Jarbou, Abdallah Abu Qub'a, Noora Al-Ansari, Vladimir Kulikov, Sami Abdel-Karim Abdullah Haddad, David Wilmsen, Al-Baylasan Essa Al-Taei, Majedah Abdullah Alaiyed, Hamda Hassanein, Amin Almuhanna, Almoataz B. Al-Said, Asmaa Shehata, Rasha Aljararwa, Linda Istanbulli, Roger Allen
Dec 2023
- Georgetown University Press
Al-'Arabiyya is the annual journal of the American Society for Teachers of Arabic. It includes...
Asian Pacific Catholicism and Globalization
edited by José Casanova, Peter C. Phan
Dec 2023
- Georgetown University Press
This history of the Catholic Church in Asia and the Pacific illuminates the processes of globalization Since the sixteenth century, Catholicism has contributed significantly to global connectivity. Except for the Philippines and Timor-Leste, Catholicism in Asia is, and is likely to remain, a minority religion. For this reason, it can serve as a unique prism through which to look at the processes of...
Fonética y fonología descriptivas de la lengua española
edited by Juana Gil, Joaquim Llisterri, with contributions by Joaquim Llisterri, Juana Gil, José María Lahoz Bengoechea, Álex Iribar, Dolors Poch Olivé, Carolina Julià Luna, Fernando Martínez-Gil, Lourdes Aguilar Cuevas, Laura Colantoni, Sonia Colina, Eugenio Martínez Celdrán, Pedro Martín Butragueño, Álvaro Arias Cabal, Alexandre Veiga Rodríguez, Elizabeth Goodin-Mayeda, Celia Casado-Fresnillo, Herrero Antonieta Andión, Carlos Eduardo Piñeros, Victoria Marrero Aguiar, John M. Lipski, Violeta Ma...
Feb 2024
- Georgetown University Press
...
John Ford, revised and expanded edition
Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington
Dec 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
Orson Welles was once asked which directors he most admired. He replied: "The old masters. By which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford." A legend in his own time, John Ford (1894–1973) received a record four Academy Awards for best director, and two of his World War II documentaries won Oscars for the US Navy. He directed 136 films in a career that lasted from the early silent era through the late 1960s. Ford is celebrated throughout the world as the cinema's foremost chronicler of American...
A Century of Queer Korean Fiction, critical edition
edited and translated by Samuel Perry
Dec 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
Selections from the past hundred years of queer Korean literature Following decades of LGBTQ+ activism, South Korea has seen a flowering of queer literature, film, and Internet culture. Many openly gay, lesbian, transgender, and other queer Korean writers find themselves in the national and international spotlight. But the rich variety of queer representation also extends into the Korean past, as this volume illustrates. Beginning with contemporary works of fiction by Kim...
Han'guk ŭi k'wiŏ munhak, critical edition
edited by Samuel Perry
Dec 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
Selections from the past hundred years of queer Korean literature Following decades of LGBTQ+ activism, South Korea has seen a flowering of queer literature, film, and Internet culture. Many openly gay, lesbian, transgender, and other queer Korean writers find themselves in the national and international spotlight. But the rich variety of queer representation also extends into the Korean past, as this volume illustrates. Beginning with contemporary works of fiction by Kim Bi, Sang Young...
Numinous Seditions
Tim Lilburn
Nov 2023
- University of Alberta Press
With Numinous Seditions, celebrated poet and essayist Tim Lilburn investigates inner dispositions that might help us bear the new sorrows of the climate crisis. The book draws from the West's almost forgotten contemplative tradition in its Platonic, Islamic, Christian, and Zoharic forms. It also explores ideas from modern philosophers Jan Zwicky, Gillian Rose, Dorothy Day and Simone Weil, and from contemporary poetry by Don Domanski, Philip Kevin Paul, Anne Szumigalski, and Roberto...
Power and Place
Melinda Bollar Wagner
Dec 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
Rural life and culture hold a practical and symbolic importance in American society. A central tenet of the survival of our cherished values—and of ourselves as a species—is the stewardship of cultural diversity and the places that foster it, like rural America. These may be the places that teach us to use land to make a living and to make a life, to forge and carry on our identities, and to feel history. They may yield a harvest of policies for managing...
The Counting House
Gary Sernovitz
Nov 2023
- University of New Orleans Press
The Chief Investment Officer of a prestigious university sits at the center of modern finance: hundreds of hedge funds, venture capitalists, stock pickers, bond traders, and private equity managers visit him every year, asking for money. He helms the engine room of the modern academy: the six-billion-dollar endowment he presides over allows the school to compete for students, faculty, prestige, moral purpose—and solvency. The CIO is a winner in bourgeois America's highest dream: "doing well by doing good." And then all...
The Cancer Plot
Reginald Wiebe, Dorothy Woodman
Nov 2023
- University of Alberta Press
The Cancer Plot examines the prevalence of cancer in Marvel comics. Reginald Wiebe and Dorothy Woodman engage literature in comics studies, the medical humanities, and graphic medicine to explore representations of this disease in Marvel, focusing on four character case studies: Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Thor, and Deadpool. Cancer, the authors argue, thematically destabilizes moral binaries and symbolizes that which cannot be overcome within a genre...
Port Cities of the Atlantic World
edited by Jacob Steere-Williams and Blake C. Scott
Dec 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
Traces the maritime routes and the historical networks that link port cities around the Atlantic world Port Cities of the Atlantic World brings together a collection of essays that examine the centuries-long transatlantic transportation of people, goods, and ideas with a focus on the impact of that trade on what would become the American South. Employing a wide temporal range and broad geographic scope, the scholars...
Pilgrims of the Upper World
Jamieson Findlay
Nov 2023
- University of New Orleans Press
It's business as usual for Tavish McCaskill, a Canadian bookseller living in Geneva, until a strange customer comes to his shop with an even stranger book: an old Kabbalistic manuscript by a legendary rabbi that's supposedly been kept secret for five hundred years. At first, Tavish thinks it must be a forgery: why else would it include quantum equations that hadn't been developed until the 20th century? But closing this matter isn't as simple as closing a book—and Tavish's customer isn't the only...
Tales from a Teaching Life
Patricia Austin
Sep 2023
- University of New Orleans Press
What's the day-to-day, decade-to-decade life of a teacher like? Documenting Patricia Austin's forty-plus years as an educator, Tales from a Teaching Life: Vignettes in Verse invites readers along on a chronological journey through elementary and university classrooms. Austin captures modes, moods, and moments of teaching, from a stumbling entry into the profession to an unexpected dive into the brave new world of online instruction. In verse at turns reflective, surprising, and...
Peddlers, Merchants, and Manufacturers
Diane Catherine Vecchio
Jan 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
Provides a corrective to a neglected aspect of Jewish history in the South Diane Catherine Vecchio examines the diverse economic experiences of Jews who settled in what we today call Upstate South Carolina. Like other parts of the so-called New South, Upcountry South Carolina was a center of textile manufacturing and new business opportunities that drew entrepreneurial energy to the region.
FairWays to Leadership®
Eric Boyd, Anna Alvarez Boyd
Jan 2024
- Georgetown University Press
A guidebook for developing your leadership and networking skills through golf Access to the game of golf opens doors to business opportunities for professional development and builds leadership skills. Unfortunately, this access has often been limited to those with club memberships or experience with the game — those privy to the rules, both spoken and unspoken. FairWays to Leadership® teaches both advanced and novice golfers how...
Cyber Wargaming
edited by Frank L. Smith, III, Nina A. Kollars, Benjamin H. Schechter, with contributions by Nina A. Kollars, Andrew W. Reddie, Ruby E. Booth, Bethany L. Goldblum, Kiran Lakkaraju, Jason C. Reinhardt, Jacquelyn Schneider, David Banks, Benjamin M. Jensen, Chris Dougherty, Ed McGrady, Paul S. Schmitt, Catherine K. Lea, Jeremy Sepinsky, Justin Peachey, Steven Karppi, Rachael Shaffer, Andreas Haggman, Safa Shahwan Edwards, Frank L. Smith, III, Matthew Duncan, Maxim Kovalsky, Benjamin H. Schechter, L...
Jan 2024
- Georgetown University Press
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The Moral Life
James F. Keenan
Jan 2024
- Georgetown University Press
A profound inquiry into what prompts human beings to act morally Most foundational texts on theological ethics address either the person or society. In The Moral Life, James F. Keenan, SJ, posits that these two are inextricably linked. He presents eight stages of preparing for the moral life, describing vulnerability as the foundation for contemporary ethics. He understands vulnerability to be what establishes the human capacity for recognizing and responding to others rather than a compromised state of...
Carved in Stone
Thomas E. Gilson, William Gilson
Jan 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
Evocative photographs and essay illuminate early American gravestones Gravestones are colonial America's earliest sculpture and they provide a unique physical link to the European people who settled here. Carved in Stone book is an elegant collection of over 80 fine duotone photographs, each a personal meditation on an old stone carving, and on New England's past, where these stones tell stories about death at sea, epidemics such as small pox, the loss...
Her Birth and Later Years
Irena Klepfisz
Jan 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
Winner of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry (2023) Finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, Berru Award for Poetry, in memory of Ruth and Bernie Weinflash (2022) A trailblazing lesbian poet, child Holocaust survivor, and political activist whose work is deeply informed by socialist values, Irena Klepfisz is a vital and individual American voice. This book is the...
The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire. Translated by Clayton Eshleman and A. James Arnold.
Jan 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
The definitive edition of the complete work of a master Caribbean poet The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire gathers all of Cesaire's celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. The French portion is comprised of newly established first editions of Césaire's poetic ouvre made available in French in 2014 under the title Poésie, Théâtre, Essais et Discours, edited by A. J. Arnold and an international team of specialists. To prepare...
The Garretts of Columbia
David Nicholson
Jan 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
A multigenerational story of hope and resilience, The Garretts of Columbia is an American history of Black struggle, sacrifice, and achievement. At the heart of David Nicholson's beautifully written and carefully researched book, The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration, are his great-grandparents, Casper George Garrett and his wife, Anna Maria. Papa, as Garrett was known to his...
Injustice in Focus
Cecil Williams and Claudia Smith Brinson
Jan 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
The powerful life story and photography of an esteemed Black photojournalist Cecil Williams is one of the few Southern Black photojournalists of the civil rights movement. Born and raised in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Williams worked at the center of emerging twentieth-century civil rights activism in the state, and his assignments often exposed him to violence perpetrated by White law officials and ordinary citizens. Williams's story is...
Default
Gregory Makoff, foreword by Lee C. Buchheit
Feb 2024
- Georgetown University Press
The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection from their creditors. When a country defaults on its debt, the international financial system is ill equipped to manage the crisis. Decisions by key individuals — from national leaders to those at the International Monetary...
Enlightened Self-Interest
Thomas J. Bussen, Henry Biggs, Timothy Bono
Feb 2024
- Georgetown University Press
Insights into a compassionate alternative to a ruthlessly self-interested capitalist culture Societally sanctioned competition for money, power, and fame promotes selfishness, personal alienation, and widespread inequality, especially in market-oriented economies. Yet many of those engaging in this competitive individualism — the competition for rewards and limited resources — yearn to act directly to promote a more civil,...
In a Few Minutes Before Later
Brenda Hillman
Feb 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
"[Hillman's] work is fierce but loving, risk-taking, and beautiful." —Harvard Review Finalist for the Four Quartets Prize, given by Poetry Society of America, 2023 An iconoclastic ecopoet who has led the way for many young and emerging artists, Brenda Hillman continues to re-cast innovative poetic forms as instruments for tracking human and non-human experiences. At times the poet deploys short dialogues, meditations or trance techniques as means of rendering inner states; other times she uses...
Notice
Rae Armantrout
Feb 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
A chapbook from Pulitzer Prize winner Rae Armantrout on climate change Notice is the product of a life-long interest in natural sciences by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout. The collection draws poems from her previous books calling our attention to how language frames and shapes our relationships to climate and kin. The title is a call to take heed of the signs coming to us daily. "Notice" can be read as a noun or a verb. As a noun it might be thought of as a public warning. The author has selected poems that respond...
Room Swept Home
Remica Bingham-Risher
Feb 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
Intimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineage Room Swept Home serves as a gloriously rendered magnifying glass into all that is held in the line between the private and public, the investigative and generative, the self and those who came before us. In a strange twist of kismet, two of Bingham-Risher's ancestors intersect in Petersburg, Virginia, forty years before she herself is born: her paternal great-great-great grandmother, Minnie Lee Fowlkes, is interviewed for the Works Progress...
All Sky, Mirror Ocean
Brad Necyk, foreword by Natalie Loveless
Jan 2024
- University of Alberta Press
All Sky, Mirror Ocean weaves and knots autobiography, research-creation, and creative philosophy into an exploration of mental illness, healing, and visionary art. Looking to uncover and tell new stories about trauma and recovery, visual artist Brad Necyk explores his own histories with Bipolar Affective Disorder and childhood medical trauma alongside those of groups dealing with grief and loss: communities in Iqaluit aggrieved by suicide; head and neck cancer...
Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities
Tyler McCreary
Jan 2024
- University of Alberta Press
Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities examines the relationship between the Wet'suwet'en nation and pipeline development, showing how colonial governments and corporations seek to control Indigenous claims, and how the Wet'suwet'en resist. Tyler McCreary offers historical context for the unfolding relationship between Indigenous peoples and colonialism and explores pipeline regulatory review processes, attempts to reconcile...
Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics
Wayde Compton
Feb 2024
- University of Alberta Press
Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores how we might collectively develop a poetic approach that makes space for diversity by doing away with universalism in both lyric and avant-garde verse. Poignant and contemporary examples reveal how white authors often forget that their whiteness is a racial position. In the...
Manual MLA
Traducción y adaptación de Conxita Domènech y Andrés Lema-Hincapié
Mar 2024
- Modern Language Association of America
Normas sencillas para escribir y citar fuentes en español siguiendo las directrices de la MLA Easy-to-follow standards for writing and citing sources in Spanish from the MLA Generación tras generación, los escritores confían en el MLA Handbook. Publicado por la Modern Language Association, este manual es la guía ideal para redactar textos académicos y documentar fuentes y el mejor recurso para toda persona que escribe trabajos de...
Deviant
Patrick Grace
Feb 2024
- University of Alberta Press
Deviant traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood, examining love, fear, grief, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships. Richly engaged with the tangible and experiential, Patrick Grace's confessional poetry captures profound, sharp emotions, tracking a journey impacted equally by beauty and by brutality. Coming-of-age identity struggles are recalled with wry wit, and dreamlike poems embrace adolescent queer love and connections as a way to cope with the fear and...
Northerny
Dawn Macdonald
Feb 2024
- University of Alberta Press
Fresh, funny, and imbued with infectious energy, Northerny tells a much-needed and compelling story of growing up and living in the North. Here are no tidy tales of aurora borealis and adventures in snow. For Dawn Macdonald, the North is not an escape, a pathway to enlightenment, or a lifestyle choice. It's a messy, beautiful, and painful point of origin. People from the North see the North differently and want to tell their own stories in their own way, including about their experiences growing up on the land, getting an...
That Audible Slippage
Margaret Christakos
Feb 2024
- University of Alberta Press
That Audible Slippage invokes a poetics of active listening and environmental sound to investigate the ways in which we interact with the world, balancing perception and embodiment alongside a hypnagogic terrain of grief and mortality. Audibility is a primary theme of this collection—what can be heard, what is obstacled, and what remains unheard. Many of the poems included in the collection try to hold spaces open for the slipperiness of the heard and unheard and the not-yet heard and their associated...
The Disappeared
Adam Braver
Feb 2024
- University of New Orleans Press
The Disappeared traces a pair of casualties who emerge from the ashes of separate acts of political violence: a woman whose husband is missing in a terrorist attack, and a man who believes his sister was an unidentified victim of the '93 World Trade Center bombing. As the survivors face their own private terrors under the demanding watch of the public eye, each moves forward while working to uncover mysteries that may never be solved. Addressing conspiracies, cataclysm, and the fragile yet resilient nature of the human psyche,...
The Riel Problem
Albert Braz
Mar 2024
- University of Alberta Press
Tracing Louis Riel's metamorphosis from traitor to Canadian hero, Braz argues that, through his writing, Riel resists his portrayal as both a Canadian patriot and a pan-Indigenous leader. After being hanged for high treason by the Canadian state in 1885, the Métis politician, poet, and mystic has emerged as a quintessential Canadian champion. The Riel Problem maps this representational shift by examining a series of watershed cultural and scholarly commemorations of Riel since 1967,...
For the Public Good
Loleen Berdahl, Jonathan Malloy, Lisa Young
Mar 2024
- University of Alberta Press
Arts graduate education is uniquely positioned to deliver many of the Public Good needs of contemporary Canada. For the Public Good argues, however, that graduate programs must fundamentally change if they are to achieve this potential. Drawing on deep experience and research, the authors outline how reformed programs that equip graduates with advanced skills can address Canada's most vexing challenges and seek action on...
Teaching the Literature of Climate Change
edited by Debra J. Rosenthal
Apr 2024
- Modern Language Association of America
Essays on teaching the global climate crisis through cli-fi Over the past several decades, writers such as Paolo Bacigalupi, Octavia E. Butler, Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner, and Margaret Atwood have explored climate change through literature, reflecting current anxieties about humans' impact on the planet. Emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinarity, this volume embraces literature as a means to cultivate students' understanding of the ongoing climate crisis, ethics in...
Teaching Film from the People's Republic of China
edited by Zhuoyi Wang, Emily Wilcox, and Hongmei Yu
May 2024
- Modern Language Association of America
Essays for teaching Chinese film, history, and society This volume brings a diverse range of voices—from anthropology, communication studies, ethnomusicology, film, history, literature, linguistics, sociology, theater, and urban geography—into the conversation about film from the People's Republic of China. Essays seek to answer what films can reveal or obscure about Chinese history and society and demonstrate how studying films from the...
Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature
edited by Nalini Iyer and Pallavi Rastogi
May 2024
- Modern Language Association of America
Essays on teaching anglophone literature of the South Asian diaspora from around the world Migration from the Indian subcontinent began on a large scale over 150 years ago, and today there are diasporic communities around the world. The identities of South Asians in the diaspora are informed by roots in the subcontinent and the complex experiences of race, religion, nation, class, caste, gender, sexuality, language, trauma, and geography. The...
Contemporary Vulnerabilities
edited by Claire Carter, Chelsea Temple Jones, Caitlin Janzen
Apr 2024
- University of Alberta Press
Contemporary Vulnerabilities centres on critical reflections about vulnerable moments in research committed to social change. Exploring the many vulnerabilities within social science research, this interdisciplinary collection gathers critical stories, reflections, and analyses about innovative methodologies that engage with unconventional and unexpected spaces of research that scholars inhabit and share. The...
Mi madre, mi maestra, critical edition
Bahia Mahmud Awah. Edited by Dorothy Odartey-Wellington.
May 2024
- Modern Language Association of America
A memoir of traditional and postcolonial life in North Africa Separated from his family in the aftermath of the failed decolonization process in Western Sahara, Bahia Mahmud Awah was sustained by recollections of his mother. In this memoir, he describes her sacrifices, her optimism, and her deep love. His family's experiences exemplify the larger story of loss and displacement in the region even as his story shows how shared memories can...
My Mother, My Teacher, critical edition
Bahia Mahmud Awah. Edited and translated by Dorothy Odartey-Wellington.
May 2024
- Modern Language Association of America
A memoir of traditional and postcolonial life in North Africa Separated from his family in the aftermath of the failed decolonization process in Western Sahara, Bahia Mahmud Awah was sustained by recollections of his mother. In this memoir, he describes her sacrifices, her optimism, and her deep love. His family's experiences exemplify the larger story of loss and displacement in the region even as his story shows how shared...
Le sacrifice des vaches noires, critical edition
Moha Layid. Edited by Paul A. Silverstein.
Jun 2024
- Modern Language Association of America
An acclaimed Moroccan novel about resisting colonialism and environmental destruction An oasis community in Morocco hopes to stop a devastating drought by sacrificing black cows to satisfy the spirits. But the wise elder Bassou secretly plans a different solution: to sabotage the motorized pumps that have lowered the water table and nearly destroyed the subsistence farming and herding that support the local way of life. The young newlywed Yidir...
The Sacrifice of Black Cows, critical edition
Moha Layid. Edited and translated by Paul A. Silverstein.
Jun 2024
- Modern Language Association of America
An acclaimed Moroccan novel about resisting colonialism and environmental destruction An oasis community in Morocco hopes to stop a devastating drought by sacrificing black cows to satisfy the spirits. But the wise elder Bassou secretly plans a different solution: to sabotage the motorized pumps that have lowered the water table and nearly destroyed the subsistence farming and herding that support the local way of life. The young newlywed Yidir...
Supporting Transgender Students, Second Edition, second edition
Alex Myers
Jun 2024
- University of New Orleans Press
Supporting Transgender Students is a roadmap to what gender is and why gender inclusivity matters in education, a resource for teachers, administrators, and families alike. Drawing on the author's nearly three decades of working with schools to create more gender-expansive environments for students, this book considers how to equitably handle gender in the classroom, on the playing field, and more. Now in a fully...