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The Learning-Centered University
Steven Mintz
Jan 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
An essential guide to transforming the college experience for student success. In The Learning-Centered University, renowned historian Steven Mintz unveils a comprehensive blueprint for addressing the critical issues of stagnating incomes and productivity, persistent wealth inequalities, and political polarization plaguing colleges and universities today. With practical strategies and a deep understanding of the history...
Louise Bourgeois
edited by Justin Paton, with Jamieson Webster, Jane Campion, Chris Kraus, Philip Larratt-Smith
Jan 2024
- Art Gallery New South Wales
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was one of the most influential artists of the past century. Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? explores the powerful emotional and formal tensions that drove Bourgeois's extraordinary art: between night and day, rage and tenderness, need and resistance, geometry and gesture, anxiety and calm,...
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...
Science Fiction Theatre
J. P. Telotte
Jan 2024
- Wayne State University Press
In the wake of the juvenile space operas of the early 1950s, a groundbreaking series debuted and paved the way for one of viewers' favorite genres today: adult-oriented science fiction. Science Fiction Theatre aired with a fresh anthology-style narrative from the vision of veteran producer Ivan Tors and with compelling narration by Truman Bradley. Created by industry-leading syndicator Ziv Television Programs, the show pioneered a scientifically based approach to aliens, telepathy, and the mysteries of the...
Escaping Kakania
Jan Mrázek, edited by Jan Mrázek
Jan 2024
- Central European University Press
Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters—soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters—who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders. The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces of...
True to My God and Country
Françoise S. Ouzan
Feb 2024
- Indiana University Press
True to My God and Country explores the role of the more than half a million Jewish American men and women who served in the military in the Second World War. Patriotic Americans determined to fight, they served in every branch of the military and every theater of the war. Drawing on letters, diaries, interviews, and memoirs, True to My God and Country offers an intimate account of the soul-searching carried out by young Jewish men and women in uniform.
Feeding the Ghosts
Rahul Mehta
Mar 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
Find the beauty. In 2017, writer and educator Rahul Mehta began a writing practice to find solace and beauty—in the natural world, in their family and friends, and in everyday simplicities—during a time of political tensions, environmental disasters, a global pandemic, and personal disappointment. From the vibrant color of a blade of grass, to their dog sleeping quietly in the corner, to delicate petals fallen from a rose, a mindfulness of the beauty in their surroundings helped offset the feelings of fear,...
A Sourcebook for Classical Rhetoric
John Tomarchio
Mar 2024
- 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...
Under the Dome
Alan M. Hantman, foreword by Senator Harry M. Reid, Jr.
Apr 2024
- Georgetown University Press
An inside account of politics, crisis, and architecture on Capitol Hill The domed US Capitol Building is recognized around the world as America's most iconic symbol, the forum for representative democracy, and the physical stage for the transfer of executive power. As the United States grew in size and complexity, the Capitol was built, rebuilt, enlarged, and extended many times under the direction of the few...
Hungry Roots
Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Apr 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
A journey through Southern Appalachia to explore the complex messages food communicates about the region. Depictions of Appalachian food culture and practices often romanticize people in the region as good, simple, and, often, white. These stereotypes are harmful to the actual people they are meant to describe as well as to those they exclude. In Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience, Ashli...
On Rhetoric and Black Music
Earl H. Brooks
Jun 2024
- Wayne State University Press
This groundbreaking analysis examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse. Author, musician, and scholar Earl H. Brooks argues that there would have been no Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement, or Black Arts Movement as we know these phenomena without Black music. Through rhetorical studies, archival research, and musical analysis, Brooks establishes the "sonic lexicon of Black music," defined by a...
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...
Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women's Rights
edited by Zsófia Lóránd, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, Jovana Trbovc, Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz
Apr 2024
- Central European University Press
A compendium of one hundred sources, preceded by a short author's bio and an introduction, this volume offers an English language selection of the most representative texts on feminism and women's rights from East Central Europe between the end of the Second World War and the early 1990s. While...
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...
Viruses and Reproductive Injustice
Ilana Löwy
Jan 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
Brazil's Zika outbreak revealed extreme health disparities and reproductive injustice across racial and socioeconomic lines. Brazil's 2015 Zika outbreak led to severe illnesses for many and the birth of several thousands of children with severe brain damage. Even though mosquito-borne diseases such as the Zika virus affect people across society, these children were born almost exclusively to poor, and usually non-white, women. In Viruses and Reproductive Injustice, Ilana Löwy...
Resisting the Nuclear
edited by Elyssa Faison, Alison Fields, series edited by Laura Kina
Jan 2024
- University of Washington Press
From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed Indigenous lands. Sustained exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons and waste affects many communities from Japan to Oceania to the US West. While antinuclear activism often takes political and legal forms, artistic...
The Political Brain
Matt Qvortrup
Jan 2024
- Central European University Press
We have politics on our mind—or, rather, we have politics in different parts of our brains. In this path-breaking study, Matt Qvortrup takes the reader on a whistle stop tour through the fascinating, and sometimes frightening, world of neuropolitics; the discipline that combines neuroscience and politics, and is even being used to win elections. Putting the 'science' back into political science, The Political Brain shows how fMRI-scans can identify differences between Liberals and...
Through the Eyes of Descartes
Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
Feb 2024
- Indiana University Press
"I shall here present my life," writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of materials: his metaphysical writings and essays in natural philosophy, through to his letters, drawings, and printed images. Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback seek to bring...
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...
Makeshift Altar
Amy M. Alvarez
Mar 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
Amy M. Alvarez explores the cultural, spiritual, and place-based experiences of Afro-Caribbean and African American diasporic peoples in this haunting and emotionally charged collection of poems that meditates on the meaning of home and existence. Born in New York City to Jamaican and Puerto Rican parents, Alvarez draws readers into a journey of self-discovery and identity, connecting the past with the present while highlighting the complexities of navigating life as a multicultural American. The musicality of her...
Peter Comestor's Lectures on the Glossed Gospel of John
Peter Comestor. Translated by David Foley
Feb 2024
- The Catholic University of America Press
This monograph encompasses the first critical edition, translation, and historical study of a series of lectures from the cathedral school of Notre-Dame, Peter Comestor's Glosses on the Glossed Gospel of John. Delivered in Paris in the mid-1150s, Comestor's expansive lecture course on the Glossa ordinaria on the Gospel of John has survived in no fewer than seventeen manuscript witnesses,...
Musician in the Clouds
Ali Bader, translated by Ikram Masmoudi
May 2024
- Georgetown University Press
A translation of an award-winning Iraqi novelist's story exploring global migration in a postcolonial world, extremism, and what it means to belong somewhere The talented classical cellist Nabil always imagined a world where music and art govern everyday life. After being attacked in his hometown in Iraq and not being able to play music, Nabil decides to emigrate to Europe, where he thinks he can fit into society better. He muses about music, the Utopian City as envisioned by...
Another Sojourner Looking for Truth
Millicent E. Brown
Apr 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
Memories and insights of a lifelong social justice advocate as she searches for freedom as an African American woman Millicent E. Brown's family home at 270 Ashley Avenue in Charleston, South Carolina, was a center of civil rights activity. There Brown gained intimate knowledge of the struggle for racial justice, and those experiences set her on a life course dedicated to the civil rights struggle. Best known as the named...
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...
Transit Communities and Impact of Migration
Beatrix Futak-Campbell
Apr 2024
- Central European University Press
The impact of the passage of war refugees on the lives and minds of local residents and officials is the subject of this study. Between 2017 and 2020, Beatrix Futak-Campbell conducted interviews with over fifty people who live and work near the Hungarian-Serbian border. This area was exposed to the unprecedented stream of refugees, most of them seeking safety from the Syrian civil war. The Hungarian government's hostility to migrants has been widely...
Rethinking Cooperation with Evil
Ryan Connors
Jan 2024
- The Catholic University of America Press
Rethinking Cooperation with Evil: A Virtue-Based Approach applies Thomistic virtue theory to today's most challenging questions of cooperation with evil. For centuries, moralists have struggled to determine the conditions necessary to justify moral cooperation with evil. The English Jesuit Henry Davis even observed: "[T]here is no more difficult question than this in the whole range of Moral Theology." This important book addresses this challenge by applying the...
Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793–1845
Erin Forbes
Feb 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
How did creative genius develop in tandem with the criminalization of Blackness in the early United States? In Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793–1845, Erin Forbes uncovers a model of racialized, collective agency in American literature and culture. Identifying creative genius in the figure of the convict, the zombie, the outlaw, the insurgent, and the fugitive, Forbes deepens our understanding of the historical relationship between...
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...
Survival under Dictatorships
László Borhi
Feb 2024
- Central European University Press
A complex array of individual responses to the abuse of power by the state is represented in this book in three horrific episodes in the history of East-Central Europe. The three events followed each other within a span of about ten years: the deportation and murder of Hungarian Jews in Nazi death and labor camps; the Arrow Cross terrorist rule in Budapest; and finally the Stalinist terror in Hungary and East-Central Europe. Through the prism of...
Taiwan Lives
Niki J. P. Alsford, series edited by James Lin, William Lavely, Madeleine Yue Dong
Feb 2024
- University of Washington Press
From a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories. In Taiwan Lives, Niki J. P. Alsford presents a comprehensive examination of the island nation's rich and complex past, told through the life stories of those who have lived it. A merchant, an exile, an activist, a pop star, a doctor, and a president are just some of the...
Vision Accomplished
William H. Galligan
Feb 2024
- Indiana University Press
The remarkable story of the Kansas City Southern tells of a company that from day 1 followed its own path, led by a succession of visionaries who were not afraid to take risks in pursuit of the railroad company's success. Without the resources of the earlier land grant railroads, the Kansas City–based company forged a unique approach to growing its franchise. It compensated for its modest size by developing an outsize, personalized commitment to its customers,...
They Call Me Goose
Jack Givens. With Doug Brunk. Foreword by Ralph Hacker.
Mar 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
When Jack "Goose" Givens first walked onto the basketball court at Lexington's Douglass Park for the legendary Dirt Bowl league, it was the beginning of one of the most illustrious sports careers in Kentucky history. After being named 1974's Mr. Basketball for the state of Kentucky as a high school senior, Givens signed with the University of Kentucky and went on to amass a string of achievements that place him among the all-time...
Relief After Hardship
Ulrich Marzolph
Feb 2024
- Wayne State University Press
The Thousand and One Days, a companion collection to The Thousand and One Nights, was published in 1710–1712 by French Orientalist scholar François Pétis de la Croix who advertised it as the faithful, albeit selective translation of a Persian work. Subsequent research has found that The Thousand and One Days is actually the adapted translation of a fifteenth-century anonymous Ottoman Turkish compilation titled Relief after Hardship. This compilation,...
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...
A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics
Michael Gorman
Mar 2024
- The Catholic University of America Press
A Contemporary Introduction to Metaphysics provides the reader with an introductory presentation of key themes in Thomistic metaphysics. There are many such books, but this one is, to use a phrase Michael Gorman has adopted, "analytic-facing," i.e., it presents things in dialogue with analytic philosophy. Sometimes that means disagreeing with analytic proposals (for example, possible worlds), and sometimes it means agreeing with them (for instance, making ample use of Ryle's...
Sant'Egidio's Dream
Roberto Morozzo della Rocca, translated by Caroline Swinton, foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs, afterword by Paul Elie
May 2024
- Georgetown University Press
The story of an innovative program of treatment for AIDS in Africa that succeeded in the face of international development agencies' "afro pessimism" Until this century, Western governments and foundations framing policies for AIDS relief in Africa maintained that prevention alone was a...
Liberty Street
Jason K. Friedman
Apr 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
Purchasing a historic Savannah home unlocks the sweeping story of a Southern Jewish family As Jason K. Friedman renovated his flat in a grand 1875 town house in his hometown of Savannah, he discovered a portal to the past. Liberty Street takes the reader on Friedman's personal journey to understand the history of the family who built the home. At the center of the story is a sensitive young man pulled between love and duty, a close-knit family straining under...
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...
Higher Education Leadership
Rozana Carducci, Jordan Harper, and Adrianna Kezar
Feb 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
Sharing the new and evolving approaches to higher education leadership that foster liberatory systemic change. Higher Education Leadership offers a groundbreaking exploration of leadership in higher education. Rozana Carducci, Jordan Harper, and Adrianna Kezar challenge traditional paradigms and ideologies that hinder progress—advocating instead for liberatory systemic change. The authors highlight new and evolving...
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...
On Slavery and the Slave Trade
Luis de Molina
Jan 2024
- The Catholic University of America Press
In his monumental On Justice and Rights, the Jesuit Luis de Molina (1535-1600) discussed the legal and ethical aspects of the Portuguese trade in African and Asian enslaved persons. Molina surveys, develops, and problematizes the criteria necessary for the legitimate possession, sale, and purchase of human freedom. He insists that, even under legally valid slavery, persons who have sold or lost their freedom have inalienable rights as...
The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago
Per Högselius, Achim Klüppelberg
Jan 2024
- Central European University Press
The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy of the Soviet nuclear sector of critical importance. The two authors map the Soviet nuclear industry in a shifting historical context, making sense of a complex socio-technical and environmental history. Taking an innovative approach, this book explores the history of atomic power in the former Soviet Union using the...
Determined to Be
edited by Brittany Webb, with Sylvea Hollis, Katelyn D. Crawford, Greg Barnhisel, Rebecca Vandiver, Kelin Baldridge Smallwood, Hannah McCoy
Feb 2024
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art
Determined to Be explores the work of prizewinning American sculptor John Walter Rhoden (1916–2001). When Rhoden was young, his talent caught the attention of several notable mentors: he was advised by Hale Woodruff and Alain Locke as well as sculptors Richmond Barthé and William Zorach. He went on to travel the world and became the first Black visual artist to win...
Black Diamonds from the Treasure State
Robert A. Schalla
Feb 2024
- Indiana University Press
In the late 19th century, railroads played a crucial role in the development of Montana's economy. Robert A. Schalla examines early efforts to bring rail transport to the New World Mining District near the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park and Red Lodge–Bear Creek Coal Field in south-central Montana. The saga began with a chance discovery in 1866 and follows the exploits of...
Endangered and Disappearing Birds of Appalachia and the Southeast
Matt Williams
Mar 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
From the most unforgiving of concrete jungles to the pastoral reaches of the countryside, birds are among the most plentiful and plainly visible animals on the planet. For millions of years, they have survived in every known biome, carving out ecological niches for themselves and their offspring and often thriving. But this remarkable adaptability can only go so far. With the recent acceleration of habitat loss, climate change, spread of invasive species,...
Michigan's Venice
Daniel F. Harrison
Feb 2024
- Wayne State University Press
Few maritime landscapes in the Great Lakes remain so deeply and clearly inscribed by successive cultures as the St. Clair system—a river, delta, and lake found between Lake Huron and the Detroit River. The St. Clair River and its environs are an age-old transportation nexus of land and water routes, a strategic point of access to maritime resources, and, in many ways, a natural impediment to the navigation of the Great Lakes. From Indigenous...
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...
Theodore Metochites
Edited by Frederick Lauritzen
Mar 2024
- Franciscan University Press
Theodore Metochites (1270-1332) is one of the most important writers, thinkers, and statemen of the Byzantine Empire. Metochites and his rival Nikephoros Choumnos (1250-1327) animated the philosophical and cultural debate in Constantinople in the early fourteenth century. Each held the title of mesazon (), a powerful position in the Byzantine government, and both men were active just before the controversy concerning the "divine light" and mystic contemplation...
Spies for the Sultan
Emrah Safa Gürkan, translated by Jonathan M. Ross, İdil Karacadağ
May 2024
- Georgetown University Press
Translated into English for the first time, this is a fascinating history of intelligence practices and their impact on great power rivalries in the early modern era In the sixteenth century, an intense rivalry between the Ottoman Empire and the Spanish Habsburg Empire and its allies spurred the creation of early modern intelligence. Translated into English for the first time, Emrah Safa Gürkan's Spies for...
The Life of a Movement Lawyer
Jason Langberg
May 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
Be inspired by this grassroots civil rights lawyer's quest for equity and justice Born in 1947 and raised in rural South Carolina, Lewis Pitts grew up oblivious to the civil rights revolution underway across his native state and throughout the country. A directionless, white college student, in 1968 Pitts committed to military service and was destined for Vietnam. Five years later—after a formative period in which he underwent an...
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...
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...
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...
Exhibiting Jewish Culinary Culture
András Koerner
Jan 2024
- Central European University Press
András Koerner is the author of a number of critically acclaimed, award-winning CEU Press titles on the cultural history of Hungarian Jews and Jewish cuisine. This volume continues that tradition by discussing the phenomenon of exhibits on Jewish culinary culture in museums and galleries around the world. The first part of the book provides an overview of the cultural history of "foodism" and the proliferation of Jewish museums. In addition, it examines the role of cuisine in Jewish identity. It...
The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus
Troy Tassier
Feb 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
How can we make society more resilient to outbreaks and avoid forcing the poor and working class to bear the brunt of their harm? When an epidemic outbreak occurs, the most physical and financial harm historically falls upon the people who can least afford it: the economically and socially marginalized. Where people live and work, how they commute and socialize, and more have a huge impact on the risks we bear during an outbreak. In The Rich...
Cold War Deceptions
David H. Price
Feb 2024
- University of Washington Press
During the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and research to liberal anticommunist programs. While investigative journalists and congressional inquiries exposed many of these fronts, little is known about their daily internal workings. With a specific focus on the 1950s and 1960s Asia Foundation, Cold War Deceptions provides a rare view into the bureaucratic...
Liturgical Hermeneutics of Sacred Scripture
Marco Benini. Translated by Brian McNeil. Foreword by Michael G. Witczak.
Jan 2024
- The Catholic University of America Press
The purpose of this book is to explore what a liturgical approach to the Bible looks like and what hermeneutical implications this might have: How does the liturgy celebrate, understand, and communicate Scripture? The starting point is Pope Benedict's affirmation that "a faith-filled understanding of sacred Scripture must always refer back to the liturgy" (Verbum Domini 52). The first part of the book (based on SC 24)...
The Road Past Monchy
Terence Loveridge
Mar 2024
- Indiana University Press
Terence Loveridge offers a unique look at the land and air operations around the strategic village of Monchy-le-Preux at the center of the western front during World War I. The story of the Great War is usually one of condemnation or rehabilitation of strategists and consecration of the common soldier, while the story of those who planned, directed, and led operations on the ground has generally been overlooked. Loveridge uses experiences of junior leaders...
Sky Watch
Emma Hudelson
Mar 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
Horse shows used to draw crowds by the thousands to state fairs and venues like Madison Square Garden. And in the 1980s, no performance horse filled more arena seats than the American Saddlebred Sky Watch. He pushed the saddle seat industry to a peak that hasn't been seen since. An athlete through and through, the stallion dominated the sport with the same power and intensity as a Kentucky Derby winner. With unmatched talent, his career was one for the history books, earning four World...
For Times Such as These
Ariana Katz, Jessica Rosenberg
Mar 2024
- Wayne State University Press
This contemporary companion to the Jewish year cycle is not only a bellwether for radical Jews who want their lives and practice to be rooted in their political commitments but also an educational resource in Jewish tradition, holidays, and ritual. With a chapter for each month of the Hebrew calendar, For Times Such as These offers spiritual practices and holiday rituals rooted in movements for racial justice, decolonization, feminism, and queer and trans...
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...
The Art of Teaching Italian
edited by Giulia Guarnieri, foreword by Janice Aski, with contributions by Silvia Carlorosi, Giulia Guarnieri, Julia Cozzarelli, Marella Feltrin-Morris, Domenica Diraviam, Viviana Pezzullo, Patrizia Palumbo, Alessandra Saggin, Paola Bernardini, Tatiana Selepiuc, Barbara Spinelli, Rosalba Biasini, Francesca Raffi, Elisabetta Ferrari, Riccardo Amorati, John Hajek, Pietro Amadini, Shuang Liang, Alessandro Macilenti, Louise Hipwell, Valentina Abbatelli, Luca Malici, Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Luisa Can...
May 2024
- Georgetown University Press
A comprehensive overview...
A Deeper South
Pete Candler. Foreword by Rosanne Cash.
May 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
The author's road trips through the American South lead to a personal confrontation with history In A Deeper South: The Beauty, Mystery, and Sorrow of the Southern Road, Pete Candler offers a travel narrative drawn from twenty-five years of road-tripping through the backroads of the American South. Featuring Candler's own photography, the book taps into the public imagination and the process of both remembering and forgetting that define...
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...
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,...
Septet for the Luminous Ones
fahima ife
Feb 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
A Black poet performs a shamanic soul retrieval of the seven-hundred-year-old diasporic black arts tradition Continuing her search for a neotropical mythos, in this brilliant second collection poet fahima ife articulates various scenes of subduction. Spoken in quiet recognition and grounded in desire, Septet for the Luminous Ones imagines a lush soundscape textured in oblique spiritual fusion of the Taíno and Yoruba. Or, what it sounded like coming together for the first time, and what it sounds like ever...
The Liberty Paradox
David Kinley
Feb 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
How do we balance freedom with the responsibilities we owe each other as members of society? Are we free to do whatever we want? This idea challenges us throughout our daily lives, from how to tackle pandemic restrictions and vaccine mandates to how to respond to technological innovations and climate change warnings. In The Liberty Paradox, David Kinley argues that we must rehabilitate the notion of liberty by rescuing it from the myopic demands of freedom without limit and...
The Complete Short Stories, Volume 1
Enid Dinnis. Introduction by Julia Meszaros and Bonnie Lander Johnson.
Jan 2024
- The Catholic University of America Press
Gathered here for the first time are the stories of Enid Dinnis, who lived and wrote in London throughout the first half of the 20th century. Enid Dinnis moved widely in the London literary world but she was also Mother Superior of a 'hidden' religious order, The Daughters of the Heart of Mary. Few in London's literary scene knew that Dinnis was a nun but she lived most of her life in a small convent in Wimbledon with other well-known figures...
Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
Yong-Chool Ha
Feb 2024
- University of Washington Press
South Korea's rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation's economy. Leader Park Chung Hee's sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely on familial, school, and regional ties to expedite the economic transformation. Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea elucidates how a country can progress economically while relying...
Still Running
Nathaniel Northington. Foreword by Gerald L. Smith. Afterword by La Monte McNeese.
Mar 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
More than fifty years ago, Nathaniel "Nate" Northington changed the face of sports as the first African American to play college football in the Southeastern Conference. When this trailblazing athlete stepped onto the field for the University of Kentucky vs. Ole Miss game on September 30, 1967, he played not only for his team, but for his best friend and roommate, Greg Page, whose tragic death...
Beekeeping in the End Times
Larisa Jašarević
Mar 2024
- Indiana University Press
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the angels are reassured, the world holds together. Still, the tale suggests, the angels live in anxious anticipation of the End. Local beekeepers in Bosnia and Herzegovina retell the old tale with growing unease, as their honeybees weather the ground effects of climate change. Beekeeping in the End Times relates extreme weather events and quieter disasters that...
A Life for Belarus
Stanislau Shushkevich
Feb 2024
- Central European University Press
This memoir of the first president of an independent Belarus (1991-1994) tells about the revival of independent Belarus, the difficulties in establishing a democracy and a market economy, a hardened Soviet mentality, and the political immaturity of the intelligentsia and obduracy of the old nomenklatura. Stanislau Shushkevich, born in 1934, narrates his path from a son of an "enemy of the people" to a doctorate in physics, and then to be the first head of independent...
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 Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory
edited by Natalia Aleksiun, Zofia Wóycicka, Raphael Utz, with contributions by Ido de Haan, Sofie Lene Bak, Mark Roseman, Anna Bikont, Anna Marie Droumpouki, Sarah Gensburger, Liliana Hentosh, Hana Kubátová, Naum Trajanovski, Anika Walke
Dec 2023
- Wayne State University Press
This volume considers the uses and misuses of the memory of assistance given to Jews during the Holocaust, deliberated in local, national, and transnational contexts. History of this aid has drawn the attention of scholars and the general public alike.
Spelling in Spanish Heritage Language Education
Amàlia Llombart-Huesca
Jul 2024
- Georgetown University Press
This comprehensive book offers pathbreaking research and practical strategies for Spanish heritage language learning Spelling acquisition and development is often a challenge for Spanish Heritage Language Learners (SHLLs). Instructors, too, struggle to find the best strategies to help their students internalize orthographic rules. Spelling in Spanish Heritage Language Education argues that spelling is not simply the cherry on top of good writing or a mere editing...
A Short History of Greenville
Judith T. Bainbridge
May 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
A concise and engaging history that traces Greenville's development from frontier settlement to one of America's best small cities Today, Greenville, South Carolina, is regularly included on lists of the best cities and best places to live in the United States. The present-day site of technological innovation nestled in the Piedmont of America's Southeast, Greenville is promoted as a future-oriented city and a weekend getaway for tourists interested in art, culture, nature, and cuisine. In this...
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...
Fonética y fonología descriptivas de la lengua española
edited by Juana Gil, Joaquim Llisterri, with contributions by 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 Martínez Paricio, Mar...
Mar 2024
- Georgetown University Press
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Journey Indiana: From Above
WTIU
Jan 2024
- WTIU, an imprint of Indiana University Press
Travel the skies to see the Hoosier state in a whole new way. Utilizing aerial cinematography exclusively, Journey Indiana: From Above breathes new life into well-known areas of the state and showcases some of Indiana's hidden gems. From busy cityscapes to quiet landscapes, discover the history and grandeur of Indiana. The Journey Indiana team, along with hosts Ashley Chilla and Brandon Wentz, take viewers on adventures across the state. Head to Indianapolis for a bird's eye view of Monument Circle. See the USS...
A Library of Light
Danielle Vogel
Feb 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
Incantation and elegy shine through one another in this extraordinary poetic memoir When poet Danielle Vogel began writing meditations on the syntax of earthen and astral light, she had no idea that her mother's tragic death would eclipse the writing of that book, turning her attention to grief's syntax and quiet fields of cellular light in the form of memory. Written in elegant, crystalline prose poems, A Library of Light is a memoir that begins and ends in an incantatory space, one in which light speaks. At the...
Dying at Home, third edition
Andrea Sankar
with CM Cassady
with CM Cassady
Feb 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
A comprehensive guide for those caring for a loved one nearing the end of life. Many people seek the comfort and dignity of dying at home. Advances in pharmacology and hospice care allow the dying to remain at home relatively free of pain and symptoms, but navigating professional services, insurance coverage, and family dynamics often compounds the complexity of this process. Extensively updated and revised, this third edition of Andrea Sankar's Dying at Home: A Family...
The Body as Anticipatory Sign
Edited by David S. Crawford
Feb 2024
- Humanum Academic Press
At least formally, Paul VI's Humanae Vitae merely reaffirmed the Church's perennial teaching. Yet its publication in late July 1968 unleashed a torrent of criticism, perhaps unprecedented in its violence. This response laid bare the profound estrangement of that teaching from modern, liberal culture; it also provoked a fundamental ecclesial crisis. Misunderstanding and resistance to the teaching as a "discrete" norm...
Art, Activism, and Sexual Violence
edited by Sally L. Kitch, Dawn R. Gilpin
Feb 2024
- University of Washington Press
Since 2017 the #MeToo movement has expanded cultural awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual assault and tacit support for rape culture in the United States and beyond. Despite its ubiquity, sexual assault is one of the most underreported crimes in the world in part because of the mistreatment and misunderstanding survivors often face from their communities and the legal system. Art, Activism, and Sexual Violence brings together creative work, in multiple genres, with...
The Redshirt
Corey Sobel
Mar 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
2020 Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize Finalist Corey Sobel challenges tenacious stereotypes in this compelling debut novel, shedding new light on the hypermasculine world of American football. The Redshirt introduces Miles Furling, a young man who is convinced he was placed on earth to play football. Deep in the closet, he sees the sport as a means of gaining a permanent foothold in a culture that would otherwise reject him. Still, Miles's body lags behind his ambitions, and recruiters tell him he is not big enough...
Big Time
Murry R. Nelson
For some of us, Big Ten basketball will always mean the original ten great teams that comprised the league. But for all fans, the teams during this time period bring back memories of some of the best teams and players that have ever played basketball. In the sweeping history of two decades of Big Ten basketball, Murry Nelson chronicles the conference when it was the most successful of any basketball conference in the nation. Coaches such as Lute Olson, Lou Henson, Johnny Orr,...
Explaining Modern Social Reality
edited by Kire Sharlamanov, Jana Perteska
Feb 2024
- Central European University Press
Few thinkers have contributed more to the understanding of modern civilization than Norbert Elias. Given the significance and relevance of his ideas in explaining social reality, this book seeks to make his complex concepts more accessible. A biographical account of his life (1897-1990) facilitates the comprehension of Elias's concepts. Elias's most famous work, "The Civilizing Process", is the focus of...
Drawing Memory
edited by Victoria Aarons, with contributions by Victoria Aarons, Corinne Blackmer, Elisa Carandina, Jonathan L. Friedmann, Aleksandra Kaminska, Karolina Krasuska, Shiamin Kwa, Phyllis Lassner, Paule Levy, Galina Lochekhina, Heather Lutz, Richard Middleton-Kaplan, Sharon Oster, Ruth Panofsky, Rachel E. Perry, Matt Reingold, Michaela Weiss, Tahneer Oksman
Apr 2024
- Wayne State University Press
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,...
The Santee Canal
Elizabeth Connor, Richard Dwight Porcher Jr., and William Robert Judd
May 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
A history of one of America's earliest canals and its impact on the people of the South Carolina Lowcountry Completed in 1800, the Santee Canal provided the first inland navigation route from the Upcountry of the South Carolina Piedmont to the port of Charleston and the Atlantic Ocean. By connecting the Cooper, Santee, Congaree, and Wateree rivers, the engineered waterway transformed the lives of many in the state and...
Manual MLA
Traducción y adaptación de Conxita Domènech y Andrés Lema-Hincapié
Sep 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...
The Indiana Theatre at 100
WTIU
Jan 2024
- 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...
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...
Leading from the Margins
Mary Dana Hinton
Feb 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
A guide to why people from marginalized backgrounds may be uniquely qualified to become effective higher education leaders—and how they can get there. Students and faculty in higher education increasingly reflect more diverse backgrounds, but this diversity remains rare in many leadership roles. In Leading from the Margins, Mary Dana Hinton celebrates the unique strengths of marginalized individuals, inviting them to embrace their leadership potential and make a...
Ecological Moral Character
Nancy M. Rourke
Mar 2024
- Georgetown University Press
An ecological model through which we can imagine Aquinas' vision of moral character The images we use to think about moral character are powerful. They inform our understanding of the moral virtues and the ways in which moral character develops. However, this aspect of virtue ethics is rarely discussed. In Ecological Moral Character, Nancy M. Rourke creates an ecological model through which we can form images of moral character. She integrates concepts of ecology with Aquinas' vision...
Principles of Catholic Theology, Book 2
Thomas Joseph White, OP
Jan 2024
- The Catholic University of America Press
Can a philosopher defend the rational warrant for belief in Christianity? Is it reasonable to be religious? Is it philosophically responsible to be a Christian who believes in the mystery of the Trinity? Principles of Catholic Theology explores these questions in a systematic way by considering questions of ultimate explanation. Why not hold that modern atheistic naturalism provides the best explanation of reality? Or, if there is a...
A Will to Serve
Jim Ellis, Jennifer Ott, foreword by Sally Jewell, afterword by Gary Locke
May 2024
- History Link
Jim Ellis was one of the most influential and impactful civic leaders of Seattle's and Washington's recent history. Though he never sought elected office, his vision and drive were a key force behind many major projects defining our city, county, and region from the 1950s through today. From cleaning up Lake Washington, establishing King County Metro, and implementing the broad array of...
Simone Forti
Ann Cooper Albright
Mar 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
First critical biography of this visionary artist written by a dance scholar Simone Forti, groundbreaking improvisor, has spent a lifetime weaving together the movement of her mind with the movement of her body to create a unique oeuvre situated at the intersection of dancing and art practices. Her seminal Dance Constructions from the 1960s crafted a new approach to dance composition and helped inspire the investigations of Judson Dance Theater. In the 1970s, Forti's explorations of animal...
Queens of Afrobeat
Dotun Ayobade
Mar 2024
- Indiana University Press
In Queens of Afrobeat, the women of Afrobeat music—a unique blend of jazz, soul, highlife, and West African rhythms—are finally given the recognition they deserve. This extensive study takes a multifaceted view of the storied lives of the women behind Fela Kuti's activist music. Dotun Ayobade's wide-ranging research pulls from interviews with surviving queens, ethnographic narratives, the exploration of newspaper archives, and close readings of album covers,...
State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Race
Eric Fassin
Feb 2024
- Central European University Press
Eric Fassin examines the trend of State anti-intellectualism in France using the nation as a case study to demonstrate that this tendency is not limited to ostensibly illiberal regimes. He argues that today's world requires an examination of this phenomenon beyond Cold War geopolitical divisions and highlights a global shift towards authoritarian neoliberalism. His book is a plea for the political urgency of intellectual work in a global moment of...
Deviant Hollers
Edited by Zane McNeill and Rebecca Scott. Foreword by Stephanie Foote.
Apr 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future uses the lens of queer ecologies to explore environmental destruction in Appalachia while mapping out alternative futures that follow from critical queer perspectives on the United States' exploitation of the land. With essays by Lis Regula, Jessica Cory, Chet Pancake, Tijah Bumgarner, MJ Eckhouse, and other essential thinkers, this...
Queer Jews, Queer Muslims
edited by Adi Saleem, with contributions by Katrina Daly Thompson, Edwige Crucifix, Amr Kamal, Shanon Shah, Robert Phillips, Elizabeth Johnstone, David M. Halperin, Matthew Richardson, Adi Saleem
Mar 2024
- Wayne State University Press
Through a curated selection of scholarship, Adi Saleem demonstrates that representations of Muslim and Jewish sexuality are often racialized and gendered in parallel ways as non-Western, deviant, and dangerous within Euro-American modernity. Contributors reckon with the intertwined past and...
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...
Honorable and Brilliant Labors
edited by John D. Miller
Jun 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
A primary source collection that offers a window into the mind of nineteenth-century author and public intellectual, William Gilmore Simms. William Gilmore Simms was in his lifetime considered the South's preeminent man of letters, and Edgar Allen Poe once claimed that Simms was "immeasurably the greatest writer of fiction in America." Best known as a poet, novelist, and editor, Simms was also a public intellectual who intended that his work shape...
Disparities in Urban Health
Edward V. Wallace
Jan 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
A firsthand look at how policies and legal doctrines affect families living in low-income urban neighborhoods. In Disparities in Urban Health, Edward V. Wallace examines the impacts of political and structural determinants of health on people living in urban settings. This timely book intertwines the personal stories of real families with a comprehensive analysis of the policies and legal doctrines that shape their lives. Through interviews and an...
A History of Britain, New edition
Jeremy Black
Feb 2024
- Indiana University Press
The British vote to leave the European Union stunned everyone 2016, but was it really a surprise? In this revised and updated edition of A History of Britain: 1945 Through Brexit, award-winning historian Jeremy Black expands his reexamination of modern British history to include the Brexit process, the tumultuous administrations of Theresa May and Boris Johnson, the spectacular failure of Liz Truss, and the early days of Rishi Sunak's premiership. This sweeping and engaging book traces Britain's...
Only Wanna Be with You
Tim Sommer
Feb 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
Experience the exclusive, behind-the-scenes story of one of the biggest bands of the nineties In 1985, Mark Bryan heard Darius Rucker singing in a dorm shower at the University of South Carolina and asked him to form a band. For the next eight years, Hootie & the Blowfish—completed by bassist Dean Felber and drummer Soni Sonefeld—played every frat house, roadhouse, and rock club in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast, becoming one of the biggest independent acts in the...
Alternative Universities
David J. Staley
with a new preface
with a new preface
Feb 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
Imagining the universities of the future. How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today—MOOCs especially—focus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J. Staley argues that modern universities suffer from a poverty of imagination about how to reinvent themselves. Anyone seeking innovation in higher education today should concentrate...
Law from Below
Elisabeth Rain Kincaid
Mar 2024
- Georgetown University Press
A constructive model of engagement with unjust laws from the ground up The current political atmosphere would suggest that law is imposed only from above, specifically by the chief executive acting upon some sort of perceived populist mandate. In Law from Below, Elisabeth Rain Kincaid argues that the theology of the early modern legal theorist and theologian, Francisco Suárez, SJ may be successfully retrieved to provide a...
Summa metaphysicae ad mentem Sancti Thomae
edited by Therese Scarpelli Cory and Gregory T. Doolan
Feb 2024
- The Catholic University of America Press
This volume is a tribute to Fr. John F. Wippel. Following the philosophical order that Aquinas might have adopted "had he chosen to write a Summa metaphysicae"—an order that Wippel himself lays out in his Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas—these essays unfold new research on some of the most intriguing topics in Aquinas's metaphysics, from the most recent generation of scholars formed by Wippel's...
Between the Tides in California
Ryan P. Kelly, Terrie Klinger, Patrick J. Krug, John J. Meyer
Feb 2024
- University of Washington Press
The vast and diverse California coast is an awe-inspiring place of exploration and discovery, full of life forms that are shockingly unfamiliar. Intertidal fish that can breathe in air, worms that build entire reefs, and seaweeds that can be mistaken for tar spots—these are as common as the more familiar barnacles that eat with their feet. Unicorn snails lie still on the rocks as they drill into the shells of their...
No Son of Mine
Jonathan Corcoran
Apr 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
Born and raised in rural West Virginia, Jonathan Corcoran was the youngest and only son of three siblings in a family balanced on the precipice of poverty. His mother, a traditional, evangelical, and insular woman who had survived abuse and abandonment, was often his only ally. Together they navigated a strained homelife dominated by his distant, gambling-addicted father and shared a seemingly unbreakable bond. When Corcoran left home to attend Brown University, a chasm between his upbringing and his...
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...
The Salmon Capital of Michigan
Carson Prichard
Apr 2024
- Wayne State University Press
Weaving together the stories and voices of residents, anglers, community leaders, and environmental workers and researchers, this ethnographic account details the lives and livelihoods impacted by a once-unrivaled Michigan salmon fishery. From the introduction of Chinook salmon to the Great Lakes in the late 1960s, a thriving recreational fishery industry arose in Northern Michigan, attracting thousands of anglers to small towns like Rogers City each week at...
Royal Fraud
Robert C. Austin, Robert Austin
Mar 2024
- Central European University Press
Beginning in 1961, when Albanian King Zog I died in a Paris hospital after 22 years in exile, this book tells the story of this Balkan country's first and only monarch. The road to becoming Europe's youngest president in 1925 and king of Albania in 1928 was paved with feuds and assassinations, a political career-path common in the region. Zog retained his power until his "friend" Mussolini ousted him in 1939. Robert Austin holds that Zog left Albania almost as he...
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...
Bodies in the Middle
Maya Hislop
Jun 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
A probing analysis of Black women's attempts to pursue justice for sexual violence victims within often hostile social and legal systems In Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Complex Imaginings of Justice, Maya Hislop examines the lack of place that Black women experience, specifically when they are victims of sexual violence. Hislop uses both historical and literary analysis to explore how women, in the face of indifference...
Fight Heart Disease Like Cancer
Michael V. McConnell, MD, MSEE
Jan 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
A new approach to understanding, preventing, and treating heart disease to empower you and your loved ones to live long and healthy lives. The main cause of heart disease—the world's number one killer of women and men—is a cancer-like "tumor" inside the coronary arteries that keep our hearts beating. Although this similarity to cancer is well-established in medical journals, most people (and their health care providers) don't approach heart disease as seriously as cancer, even though...
Spring 2023 Commencement
WTIU
Jan 2024
- WTIU, an imprint of Indiana University Press
"(Indiana University students) During your time at IU, you have received an education that has not only prepared you to enter the workforce or to go on to advanced studies, but one that has helped you to learn to think critically and creatively, and one that has given you the skills you need to help devise solutions to some of the most pressing challenges we face in the 21st century. You are now ready to make your mark on the world." —Pamela Whitten, Indiana University President
On Teaching and Learning Christian Ethics
D. Stephen Long
Mar 2024
- Georgetown University Press
An expansion of the discipline of ethics demonstrates that Aquinas's "infusing of virtue" makes better sense of the moral life than finding a method to guide action While teaching ethics is universally applauded, how one goes about it is much more difficult and contested than is often recognized. On Teaching and Learning Christian Ethics addresses what it means to teach and learn ethics through a thorough comparison of two ethicists, Henry Sidgwick and F. D. Maurice. Where Sidgwick...
Math in Drag
Kyne Santos
Mar 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
Unleash your inner math diva. Join sensational drag queen Kyne Santos on an extraordinary journey through the glamorous world of... math? This sassy book is your VIP pass, taking you behind the scenes with a TikTok superstar who shatters stereotypes and proves that math can be fascinating and fun, even for people who think they aren't good at it. With her irreverent style and unique perspective, Kyne investigates mathematical mysteries while educating us about the art of drag. She explores surprising connections, such as the...
Southern Strategies
Michael Odom
Mar 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
A study of how literary strategies illuminate the evangelical underpinnings of Southern culture. In Southern Strategies: Narrative Negotiation in an Evangelical Region, Michael Odom argues that through the narrative strategies of resistance, satire, and negotiation, a multigenerational group of twentieth-century white Southern writers provide unique insight into the central role evangelical religion has played in shaping the sociopolitical culture of the American...
A Historian and His World
Christina Scott. Joseph Stuart.
Feb 2024
- The Catholic University of America Press
The English historian of culture Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) was an independent scholar and the author of more than twenty books. He served as assistant lecturer in the History of Culture, University College, Exeter (1925), Forwood Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion, University of Liverpool (1934), Gifford Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (1947-1949), and as Professor of Catholic Studies at Harvard University (1958-1962). He was elected...
Exiled to Motown
Scott Kurashige
Mar 2024
- Jacobs Gal
During World War II, Detroit emerged as a relative space of freedom for Nisei permitted by the War Relocation Authority to leave sites of incarceration but banned from returning to their homes in the exclusion zones. These Nisei connected with an existing Japanese American community that had been formed by immigrant trailblazers who came to Detroit in the early twentieth century to be part of the booming auto industry. While many of the wartime migrants later...
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,...
Foraging Kentucky
George Barnett
Apr 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
With rich soils, thousands of creeks, and twelve major river basins, the state of Kentucky is abundant with wild edibles that not only are delicious but also can be useful for medicinal purposes. Various species of wildflowers such as spring beauty, edible fungi like chanterelles, and tree crops such as hickory nuts may be foraged and pickled, steamed, candied, or stir-fried to create an enticing, healthy, and substantial meal. ...
Living Space
Michael E. Veal
Apr 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
Examines John Coltrane's "late period" and Miles Davis's "Lost Quintet" through the prisms of digital architecture and experimental photography Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, from Analog to Digital fuses biography and style history in order to illuminate the music of two jazz icons, while drawing on the discourses of photography and digital architecture to fashion musical insights that may not be available through the...
Ma Lineal
Faith S. Holsaert
Apr 2024
- Wayne State University Press
Through her childhood spent in 1940s New York being raised by two mothers, her work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the Civil Rights Movement, and raising her own children in the coalfields of West Virginia, Faith S. Holsaert has been defined by the intertwined forces of race, activism, and family. As a young woman on the front line of the Civil Rights Movement, she learned the power of contested narratives and came to understand her whiteness, her...
Beyond the Siege of Leningrad
edited by Oleg Beyda, Pavel Gavrilov
Mar 2024
- Central European University Press
This memoir about the siege of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) was written by Moscow-born Evdokiia Vasilievna Baskakova-Bogacheva (1888–1976), an émigré in Australia, at the age of eighty-one. The text had been forgotten in the Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco since 1970 until the editors of this volume discovered it. In the memoirs, after accounting on her youth spent against the background of the First World War...
Feministing in Political Science
edited by Alana Cattapan, Ethel Tungohan, Nisha Nath, Fiona MacDonald, Stephanie Paterson
Apr 2024
- University of Alberta Press
Focusing on the discipline of political science, this collection examines what is at stake in contesting the boundaries of the contemporary university. As the study of politics and political life, the mainstream of the discipline has examined power in the institutions and processes of government. But if the personal is political, political science is about much more than what happens in those institutions. This collection...
How War Kills
Yara M. Asi, PhD
Jan 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
Armed conflict poses a huge threat to public health but perhaps not in the way you would think. It's time to reconsider our entire approach to human security. Thanks to our increasingly connected world, we can now witness the worst manifestations of war in ways we never could before. This makes it easier than ever to recognize dangerous conflicts as a threat to health and well-being—at least for those populations living in war zones. In How War Kills, Yara M. Asi exposes the...
Shaker Made
Carol Peachee. Foreword by Rebecca Soules.
Feb 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
Although there are currently only a handful of members of the Shaker faith and one active community in the world today, Shakerism at its peak comprised thousands of members living in communal villages across the eastern United States. Kentucky's iconic Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill was one of these communities, and it remains an enduring cultural touchstone. The history of the Shakers is often reduced to the handmade objects they produced and sold, but...
Hosting States and Unsettled Guests
Jennifer Riggan and Amanda Poole
Feb 2024
- Indiana University Press
As wealthy countries build walls to keep migrants out, countries in the Global South are celebrated for their hospitality towards refugees. Hosting States and Unsettled Guests asks the question: did these policies enable refugees to consider their new country home? Beginning in 2016, Ethiopia promoted local integration, economic opportunities, and access to education for refugees in order to encourage them to stay...
The Russian FSB
Kevin P. Riehle
Mar 2024
- Georgetown University Press
An introduction to Putin's formidable intelligence and security organization Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia's Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB. Under Vladimir Putin, who served as FSB director just before becoming president, the agency has grown to be one of the most powerful and favored organizations in Russia. The FSB not only conducts internal security but also has primacy in...
Ignatius of Loyola and Thomas Aquinas
edited by Justin M. Anderson, Matthew Levering, and Aaron Pidel, SJ
Feb 2024
- The Catholic University of America Press
Though the relationship between Jesuits and Dominicans has historically been marked by theological controversy, Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, shows remarkable affinity for the Thomistic tradition, the tradition advanced above all by the Dominican order. When writing the Jesuit Constitutions, in fact, Ignatius made Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae the primary textbook for Jesuit theological...
Fir and Empire
Ian M. Miller, foreword by Paul S. Sutter, series edited by Paul S. Sutter
Mar 2024
- University of Washington Press
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE The disappearance of China's naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country's history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China's early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back...
War Is Not Just for Heroes
Linda M. Canup Keaton-Lima. Foreword by Keith Oliver.
Mar 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
Firsthand accounts of war in the Pacific theater from a premier chronicler of the real world of World War II combat. War Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories of US Marine Corps. Written by one marine, Claude R. "Red" Canup, a combat correspondent in the Pacific during World War II, these dispatches and private letters provide insight...
Strengthening South Korea–Japan Relations
Dennis Patterson and Jangsup Choi
Apr 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
At the conclusion of WWII, no part of the world experienced a more dramatic transformation than East Asia. The region's political stability throughout the postwar period prompted exponential economic growth that ultimately established South Korea, Japan, and China as East Asia's most important powers. While many citizens of these nations now live in a time of unprecedented prosperity, the arrangement that...
Sounds of Other Shores
Andrew J. Eisenberg
Apr 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
A study of transoceanic musical appropriation and Swahili ethnic subjectivity on the Kenyan coast Sounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic stylistic appropriation in the Swahili taarab music of the Kenyan coast. Swahili taarab, a form of sung poetry that emerged as East Africa's first mass-mediated popular music in the 1930s, is a famously cosmopolitan form, rich in audible influences from across the...
Carrying a Big Schtick
Miriam Eve Mora
May 2024
- Wayne State University Press
For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam Eve Mora demonstrates, this performance is consistently challenged by American mainstream society that holds Jewish men outside of the American ideal of masculinity. Depicted as weak, effeminate, cowardly, gentle, bookish, or conflict-averse, Jewish men...
Liberals, Conservatives, and Mavericks
edited by Frank Cibulka, Zachary T. Irwin
Mar 2024
- Central European University Press
No Church is monolithic—this is the preliminary premise of this volume on the public place of religion in a representative number of post-communist countries. The studies confirm that within any religious organization we can expect to find fissures, factions, theological or ideological quarrels, and perhaps even competing interest groups, such as missionary workers,...
Dialectics of the Big Bang and the Absolute Existence of the Multiverse
Gregory Phipps
May 2024
- University of Alberta Press
This interdisciplinary book develops a dialectical narrative about the beginning of the universe by combining Hegel's philosophy with texts about the Big Bang theory. Scientific accounts of the Big Bang indicate that the first second of existence was an eventful period in which the universe progressed through six different epochs. Bringing together cosmological narratives and Hegel's writings (particularly The Science of Logic), Gregory Phipps...
New Narratives on the Peopling of America
edited by T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso
Jan 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
Why an account of "the peopling" of the United States must include the stories of indigenous people, enslaved persons, and those living in territories and foreign nations taken and acquired by the United States. In New Narratives on the Peopling of America, editors T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso present an extraordinary collection of original essays that reshape our understanding...
Calder: In Motion
edited by José Carlos, José Carlos Diaz, with contributions by Alexander S. C. Rower, John Shirley, Elizabeth Hutton Turner
Jan 2024
- Samara Museum of History Regional Stds
In spring 2023 the Seattle Art Museum announced that patrons Jon and Kim Shirley had generously gifted the Shirley Family Collection to the museum. The collection—one of the most important private holdings of Alexander Calder's art—is the result of thirty-five years of thoughtful acquisitions and features many significant examples from his production. It comprises more than...
Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow
Dorian Hairston
Feb 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
Joshua "Josh" Gibson (1911–1947) is a baseball legend—one of the greatest power hitters in the Negro Leagues, and in all of baseball history. At the height of his career, this trailblazing athlete suffered grueling physical ailments, lost his young wife who died giving birth to their twins, and endured years of Jim Crow–era segregation and discrimination—all the while breaking records on the ball field. Dorian Hairston's debut poetry collection explores the Black...
Words and Silences
Laur Vallikivi
Mar 2024
- Indiana University Press
Words and Silences tells the story of an extraordinary group of independent Nenets reindeer herders in the northwest Russian Arctic. Under socialism these nomads managed to avoid the Soviet state and its institutions of collectivization, but soon after the atheist regime collapsed, while some staunchly resisted, many of them became fervent fundamentalist Christians. By exploring differing concepts of how traditional and...
Pellegrino's Clinical Bioethics
Edmund D. Pellegrino. Edited by G. Kevin Donovan, David G. Miller, and Claudia Ruiz Sotomayor.
Mar 2024
- The Catholic University of America Press
Pellegrino's Clinical Bioethics: A Compendium offers, for the first time, a collection of the landmark articles in clinical bioethics authored by the physician and philosopher, Edmund D Pellegrino. As one of the founding figures of modern medical ethics, Dr. Pellegrino gained international renown for his deeply reflective scholarship and for his public service in developing the field. In over 600 scholarly...
Seeds of Control
David Fedman, foreword by Paul S. Sutter, series edited by Paul S. Sutter
Mar 2024
- University of Washington Press
Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905–1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula's extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of "forest love," the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food preparation. Timber industrialists, meanwhile,...
Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture
edited by Christopher D. Johnson
Mar 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
Introducing an annual collection of essays devoted to South Carolina history and culture. From the Piedmont to the Lowcountry, South Carolina is the site of countless engaging stories. Carolina Currents seeks to share those stories, broadening our understanding of the state's unique histories and cultures. A venue for public-facing interdisciplinary scholarship, and the only such series dedicated to South Carolina, each volume...
Blacks and Jews in America
Terrence L. Johnson, Jacques Berlinerblau, with contributions by Yvonne Chireau, Susannah Heschel
Apr 2024
- Georgetown University Press
A Black-Jewish dialogue lifts a veil on these groups' unspoken history, shedding light on the challenges and promises facing American democracy from its inception to the present In this uniquely structured conversational work, two scholars—one of African American politics and religion, and one of contemporary American Jewish culture—explore a mystery: Why aren't Blacks and Jews presently united...
Marshall's Great Captain
Kathy Wilson
Apr 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
On May 3, 1943, dozens of airplanes could be seen flying in and out of Royal Air Force Bovingdon Airfield near London, England. Among the aircraft seen that day was a B-24D bomber named Hot Stuff, which carried the Commanding General of US Forces in Europe, Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews—the officer charged with formulating a plan to invade the European continent. Speculation was that General George C. Marshall had called Andrews...
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...
The Fairy-Tale Cabinet of Angela Carter
Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère
Apr 2024
- Wayne State University Press
Fraught Balance
Shayna M. Silverstein
May 2024
- Wesleyan University Press
A vivid and intricate study of dance music traditions that reveals the many contradictions of being Syrian in the 21st century Dabke, one of Syria's most beloved dance music traditions, is at the center of the country's war and the social tensions that preceded conflict. Drawing on almost two decades of ethnographic, archival, and digital research, Shayna M. Silverstein shows how dabke dance music embodies the fraught dynamics of gender, class, ethnicity,...
Half-Light
Amy Kaler
May 2024
- University of Alberta Press
Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to "go west," Amy Kaler's Half-Light: Westbound on a Hot Planet offers deep reflections on the meaning of life, middle age, and climate catastrophe. Her memoir weaves together three strands: living with the knowledge of one's own aging and mortality; the slow-moving catastrophes of climate change; and the human history of the North American settler west, especially locations that hold traces of vanished pasts. Many of...
The Beast Within
Jessica Serra
translated by Alison Duncan
translated by Alison Duncan
Jan 2024
- Johns Hopkins University Press
How different from animals are we really? Are humans the only creatures who love, laugh, cry, possess morals, and wage war? In The Beast Within, scientific researcher and ethologist Jessica Serra upends the assumptions that underpin our very human hypothesis that we possess a superior place in the hierarchy of organisms on Earth. How did we come to think of our animality as standing in opposition to our humanity—and does this reasoning have a scientific basis? Through the...
Cops on Campus
edited by Yalile Suriel, Grace Watkins, Christa G. Watkins, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, John Joseph Sloan, III, series edited by Michael R. Hames-García, Micol Seigel
Jan 2024
- University of Washington Press
Over the last five years, headlines have thrust campus police departments from relative obscurity into the national spotlight. Campus constituents have called for campus police, as a tangible manifestation of the War on Crime within the sphere of higher education, to be disarmed, defunded, and abolished. Using a...
100 Jewish Brides
Edited by Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz
Feb 2024
- Indiana University Press
100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World features stories of Jewish brides from six continents, highlighting diverse customs and rituals related to weddings now and in the past. The stories, written by brides, their relatives, clergy, and other intimates, cover similarities and differences across the Jewish diaspora, from courtship and betrothal to pre-wedding customs, the wedding ceremony, and beyond. With stories from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe,...
A Front Row Seat
Nancy Olson Livingston
Mar 2024
- University Press of Kentucky
From her idyllic childhood in the American Midwest to her Oscar–nominated performance in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and the social circles of New York and Los Angeles, actress Nancy Olson Livingston has lived abundantly. In her memoir, A Front Row Seat, Livingston treats readers to an intimate, charming chronicle of her life as an actress, wife, and mother, and her memories of many of the most notable figures and moments of her time. Livingston...
Walking With Jesus Christ
Edited by Steven Hoskins and Christian D. Washburn
Feb 2024
- 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,...
Skidegate House Models
Robin K. Wright, foreword by Nika Collison
Mar 2024
- University of Washington Press
In 1892 seventeen Haida artists were commissioned to carve a model of HlGaagilda Llnagaay (the village of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia) for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. The Skidegate model, featuring twenty-nine large houses and forty-two poles, is the only known model village in North America carved by nineteenth-century Indigenous residents of the village it portrayed. Based on over twenty years of...
Cathonomics
Anthony M. Annett, foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Apr 2024
- Georgetown University Press
Inequality is skyrocketing. In this world of vast riches, millions of people live in extreme poverty, barely surviving from day to day. All over the world, the wealthy's increasing political power is biasing policy away from the public interest and toward the financial interests of the rich. At the same time, many countries are facing financial fragility and diminished well-being. On top of it all, the global economy, driven by fossil...
Understanding Barbara Kingsolver
Ian Tan
Apr 2024
- University of South Carolina Press
The most up-to-date and unified study of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver. In Understanding Barbara Kingsolver, Ian Tan situates Kingsolver's oeuvre in an ecocritical and ecofeminist context and argues that her work puts forward an ethics of difference that informs a more egalitarian vision of the world. Following a brief biography, Tan explores ecocriticism as a literary strategy and analyzes Kingsolver's early nonfiction book, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona...
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...
From Borderland to Burgenland
Ferenc Jankó
Apr 2024
- Central European University Press
The area that constitutes the Austrian federal province of Burgenland belonged to the Hungarian part of the Habsburg empire until the end of World War I. This book helps us realize that geographical knowledge does not come ready-made. Instead, it is created by knowledge makers: geographers, historians, statisticians etc. This knowledge-making helped to legitimatize the area transferred between Austria and Hungary, shape the Burgenland...
Of Canoes and Crocodiles
Tony Robinson-Smith
Jun 2024
- University of Alberta Press
Of Canoes and Crocodiles is a story of adventure in the remote and threatened landscapes of Papua New Guinea. In 2018, Tony Robinson-Smith and his wife Nadya Ladouceur bought dugout canoes and paddled down the Sepik, the country's longest river. Traveling with local guides and staying in their villages, they ate smoked piranha and sago pancakes, heard tales of river gods and sorcerers, marvelled at Rainbow bee-eaters and cat-size flying foxes, sank in a tropical...