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Subversion
Andreas Krieg
May 2023
- Georgetown University Press
A penetrating analysis of weaponized information—one of the most pressing dangers to open societies Now more than ever, communities across the world are integrated into a complex, global information ecosystem that shapes the nature of social, political, and economic life. The ripple effects of actors trying to manipulate or disrupt this information ecosystem are far more severe than the primary effects that are merely being felt in the information space. In fact, the weaponization...
Making Wonderful
Martin Tweedale
Mar 2023
- University of Alberta Press
In Making Wonderful, Martin M. Tweedale tells how an ideology in the West energized an economic expansion that has led to ecological disaster. He takes us back to the rise of cities and autocratic rulers, analyzing how respect for custom and tradition gave way to the dominance of top-down rational planning and organization. Then in response came a highly attractive myth of an eventual future rid of all of humankind's ills, one in which life would be "made wonderful."...
Slavery and the Catholic Church in the United States
edited by David J. Endres, foreword by Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre
Apr 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
The intertwining of U.S. Catholicism and race-based slavery is a painful aspect of the Church's history. Many scholars have shied away from this uncomfortable topic, but in recent years a cadre of historians have studied Catholics' varied roles: as enslaved persons, slaveholders, defenders of slavery, and, in a few cases, advocates of abolition and emancipation. This collection of nine essays is...
Get the Damn Story
Thomas W. Lippman
Apr 2023
- Georgetown University Press
The captivating story of an influential journalist demonstrates the value of a free press to democratic society In the decades between the Great Depression and the advent of cable television, when daily newspapers set the conversational agenda in the United States, the best reporter in the business was a rumpled, hard-drinking figure named Homer Bigart. Despite two Pulitzers and a host of other prizes, he quickly faded from public view after retirement.
Indigenous DC
Elizabeth Rule
Apr 2023
- Georgetown University Press
The first and fullest account of the suppressed history and continuing presence of Native Americans in Washington, DC Washington, DC, is Indian land, but Indigenous peoples are often left out of the national narrative of the United States and erased in the capital city. To redress this myth of invisibility, Indigenous DC shines a light upon the oft-overlooked contributions of tribal leaders and politicians, artists and activists to the rich history of the District of Columbia,...
Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach
Kristie Macrakis
Apr 2023
- Georgetown University Press
An eye-opening account of the perils of America's techno-spy empire Ever since the earliest days of the Cold War, American intelligence agencies have launched spies in the sky, implanted spies in the ether, burrowed spies underground, sunk spies in the ocean, and even tried to control spies' minds by chemical means. But these weren't human spies. Instead, the United States expanded its reach around the globe through techno-spies. Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach investigates...
Hillsville Remembered
Travis A. Rountree
Apr 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
On March 14, 1912, Hillsville, Virginia, native Floyd Allen (1856–1913) was convicted of three criminal charges: assault, maiming, and the rescue of prisoners in custody. What had begun as a scuffle between Allen's nephews over a young woman ended with him being charged as the guilty party after he allegedly hit a deputy in the head with a pistol. When the jury returned with the verdict, Allen stood up and announced,...
Living Well with a Serious Illness
Robin Bennett Kanarek
Apr 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
A practical guide for understanding how palliative care can improve quality of life for patients and their caregivers. Robin Bennett Kanarek was a registered nurse working with patients suffering from chronic medical conditions when her ten-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia. As her son endured grueling treatments, Robin realized how often medical professionals overlook critical psychological, emotional, and spiritual...
Personality Disorders
Allan V. Horwitz
Mar 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
The fascinating and controversial history of personality disorders. The concept of personality disorders rose to prominence in the early twentieth century and has consistently caused controversy among psychiatrists, psychologists, and social scientists. In Personality Disorders, Allan V. Horwitz traces the evolution of defining these disorders and the historical dilemmas of attempting to mold them into traditional medical...
Dementia Prevention
Emily Clionsky, MD, and Mitchell Clionsky, PhD
Apr 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
Worried about memory loss and dementia risk? This new book will show you easy-to-follow steps to keep your brain healthy. Emily Clionsky, MD, and Mitchell Clionsky, PhD, are a physician and neuropsychologist couple who have cared for their own parents with dementia, created a test used by doctors to measure cognitive function, and treated more than 25,000 patients with cognitive impairment. In Dementia Prevention, they combine the most current...
Who Speaks for You?
Leo Wise
Apr 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
The true story of how federal law enforcement flipped the playbook and convicted a corrupt unit of Baltimore police. In 2015 and 2016, Baltimore was reeling after the death of Freddie Gray and the protests that followed. In the midst of this unrest, a violent, highly trained, and heavily armed criminal gang roamed the city. They robbed people, sold drugs and guns, and divided the loot and profit among themselves. They had been doing it...
Underground Streams
edited by János M. Rainer
Jun 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...
Open Society Unresolved
edited by Liviu Matei, Christof Royer
Mar 2023
- Central European University Press
Is the concept of open society still relevant in the 21st century? Do the current social, moral, and political realities call for a drastic revision of this concept? Here fifteen essays address real-world contemporary challenges to open society from a variety of perspectives. What unites the individual authors and chapters is an interest in open society's continuing usefulness and relevance to address current problems. And what...
Traditions of Natural Law in Medieval Philosophy
edited by Dominic Farrell
Mar 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
Reflection on natural law reaches a highpoint during the Middle Ages. Not only do Christian thinkers work out the first systematic accounts of natural law and articulate the framework for subsequent reflection, the Jewish and Islamic traditions also develop their own canonical statements on the moral authority of reason vis-à-vis divine law. In the view of some, they thereby articulate their own theories of natural law. These various traditions of medieval...
A Companion to Margaret More Roper Studies
Elizabeth McCutcheon, William Gentrup
Apr 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
This volume is an important contribution to the field of Margaret More Roper studies, early modern women's writing, as well as Erasmian piety, Renaissance humanism, and historical and cultural studies more generally. Margaret More Roper is the learned daughter of St. Thomas More, the Catholic martyr; their lives are closely linked to each other and to early sixteenth-century changes in politics and religion...
Brilliance in Exile
István Hargittai, Balazs Hargittai, foreword by Ivan T. Berend
Mar 2023
- Central European University Press
By addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in Exile combines scholarly analysis with fascinating portrayals of uncommon personalities. István and Balazs Hargittai discuss the conditions that led to five different waves of emigration of scientists from the early twentieth century to the present.
Lin's Uncommon Life
Scott Shackelford, Emily Castle, illustrated by Hannah Dickens
Apr 2023
- Indiana University Press
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom's life was an incredible journey. Being the first woman ever to win a Nobel Prize in Economics was an achievement of a lifetime. But it was just the culmination of a life spent struggling against the odds. Even while overcoming childhood hardships and a stutter and being denied opportunities because she was a woman, Lin never lost sight of the wonders around her and was always curious to learn more. Lin would teach generations of students the...
Winning with Diabetes
Mark D. Corriere, MD, Rita R. Kalyani, MD, MHS, and Patrick J. Smith
illustrated by Jennifer E. Fairman, CMI, FAMI
illustrated by Jennifer E. Fairman, CMI, FAMI
Apr 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
Don't let diabetes send you to the bench. These motivational stories of top athletes with diabetes will inspire you to live your best life. An ultra-marathoner, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, a major league pitcher, and an NFL star. What do these elite athletes have in common? They reached the top of their field—all while living with diabetes. ...
The Killer Whale Journals
Hanne Strager
foreword and photographs by Paul Nicklen
foreword and photographs by Paul Nicklen
Apr 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
Experience the hauntingly beautiful world of orcas, and discover the stories that unfold when humans enter oceans alongside them. When intrepid biology student Hanne Strager volunteered to be the cook on a small research vessel in Norway's Lofoten Islands, the trip inspired a decades-long journey into the lives of killer whales—and an exploration of people's complex relationships with the biggest predators on earth. The Killer Whale Journals...
Consent Culture and Teen Films
Michele Meek
Apr 2023
- Indiana University Press
Teen films of the 1980s were notorious for treating consent as irrelevant, with scenes of boys spying in girls' locker rooms and tricking girls into sex. While contemporary movies now routinely prioritize consent, ensure date rape is no longer a joke, and celebrate girls' desires, sexual consent remains a problematic and often elusive ideal in teen films. In Consent Culture and Teen Films, Michele Meek traces the history of adolescent sexuality in US cinema and...
Open Government, Open Diplomacy
István Hargittai
May 2023
- Central European University Press
André Goodfriend was Deputy Chief of Mission from 2013 to 2015 at the US Embassy in Budapest. In the absence of an ambassador, most of the time he was Chargé d'Affaires. Goodfriend represented his country, and for that matter, liberal democracy, in the early period of the increasingly autocratic Orbán regime. This tenure was distinguished by an unusually high public visibility and broad-based popularity. This book contains the...
The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation
Mária M. Kovács
Mar 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...
there's more
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Mar 2023
- University of Alberta Press
In there's more, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike takes on the rich concepts of home and belonging: home lost and regained, home created with others and with the land, home as "anywhere we find something to love." Giving voice to the experiences of migrant and other marginalized citizens whose lives society tends to overlook, this collection challenges the oppressive systems that alienate us from one another and the land. Carefully built lyric meditations combine beauty and ugliness, engaging with violence, and...
España Pontifcia
Peter Linehan
Apr 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
Peter Linehan (+2020) followed his survey of original papal letters in Portugal, Portugalia pontifica 1198-1417 (2013) with the present volume, España Pontifica, that covers papal letters to Spanish recipients from Pope Innocent II (1198-1216) to Pope Boniface VIII (+1303). This volume will provide students of the medieval papacy and the Spanish church with an invaluable research tool to explore the relationship between Rome and Spain during the crucial period of the Spanish...
The Spirit of the Oxford Movement
Christopher Dawson, edited by Kenneth L. Parker
Apr 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
"This is the book we have been waiting for a permanent enrichment of our understanding of the Oxford Movement" proclaimed The Downside Review upon the publication of Christopher Dawson's masterwork in 1933, exactly 100 years after John Keble's sermon "National Apostasy" stirred a nation. Dawson himself regarded the book as one of his two greatest intellectual accomplishments. Dawson and John Henry Newman were Oxonians and both were converts to Catholicism; both stood...
Look Out Below!
Francis L. Samspon, introduction by Sean Brennan, foreword by Philip Hannan
May 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
A veteran of the Second World War and the Korean War, Francis L. Sampson was a real-life hero whose exploits inspired one of the most famous war films of all time, Saving Private Ryan. From rural beginnings in northwestern Iowa, Sampson's life would take him from the University of Notre Dame to the battlefields of Normandy on D-Day, the ambitious failure of Operation Market Garden, the harshness of a winter as...
The Thomistic Response to the Nouvelle Théologie
Raymond-Léopold Bruckberger, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, edited by Jon Kirwan, translated by Matthew K. Minerd
Apr 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
The Thomistic Response to the Nouvelle Théologie: Concerning the Truth of Dogma and the Nature of Theology retrieves the most important and largely forgotten exchanges in the mid-20th-century debate surrounding ressourcement thinkers. It makes available new translations of works by the leading Thomists in the exchange:...
American Kairos
Richard Benjamin Crosby
Apr 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
A history of Washington National Cathedral and the theory of an American civil religion. In 1792, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the first city planner of Washington, DC, introduced the idea of a "great church for national purposes." Unlike L'Enfant's plans for the White House, the US Capitol, and the National Mall, this grand temple to the republic never materialized. But in 1890, the Episcopal Church began planning what is known today as Washington...
Mercantile Mobility
Helen Kwan Yee Cheung
Mar 2023
- University of Alberta Press
This exhibition catalogue traces a group of dynamic Chinese merchants and their business activities in big cities and small towns in Western Canada after they arrived from China, covering the mid-nineteenth century into the millennium. Their movements are illustrated on various maps and chronicled in many written accounts. By managing the flow of people, products, and money at the municipal, provincial, and global levels, these individuals added to the growth of the...
The Foxes of Belair
Jennifer S. Kelly
May 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
Calumet, Claiborne, King Ranch—these iconic names are among the owners and breeders revered by Thoroughbred industry professionals and racing fans around the world. As campaigners of many of the 20th century's top racehorses, their prestige has been confirmed by decades of competition in the Triple Crown, the most esteemed series in American Thoroughbred racing. Even with these substantial legacies, their success is measured against the benchmark set by one...
Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey
Michael R. Veach
May 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
On May 4, 1964, Congress designated bourbon as a distinctive product of the United States, and it remains the only spirit produced in this country to enjoy such protection. Its history stretches back almost to the founding of the nation and includes many colorful characters, both well known and obscure, from the hatchet-wielding prohibitionist Carry Nation to George Garvin Brown, who in 1872 created Old Forester, the first bourbon to be sold only by the bottle. Although obscured by...
A Sourcebook for English Lyric Poetry
John Tomarchio
Apr 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
This Sourcebook is not a survey of English lyric poems but rather a florilegium. It singles out great poems of the last five centuries worthy of study in liberal education—in Great Books programs, Core curricula, and the Humanities generally. The poems were selected not as representative of the author's time or oeuvre, but rather as addressed to the reader and the reader's time by virtue of representing the nature of things. That is what makes a poem a great poem and worthy of study. The...
Citizen Welles
Frank Brady
Apr 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
George Orson Welles (1915–1985) is considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. At just twenty-five years old, he cowrote, produced, directed, and starred in his Academy Award–winning debut film Citizen Kane (1941). His innovative and distinctive directorial style—nonlinear narratives, unusual camera angles, deep focus shots, and long takes—continues to be emulated by directors and cinematographers to this day. The brilliant yet provocative Welles won...
Shortchanged
Annie Abrams
Apr 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
How the College Board's emphasis on standardized testing has led the AP program astray. Every year, millions of students take Advanced Placement (AP) exams hoping to score enough points to earn college credit and save on their tuition bill. But are they getting a real college education? The College Board says that AP classes and exams make the AP program more accessible and represent a step forward for educational justice. But the program's commitment to standardized testing no longer...
Understanding Michael S. Harper
Michael Antonucci
Apr 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
A fresh examination of Harper's body of work as an archive of Black life, thought, and culture The first book devoted to the groundbreaking poet's work, Understanding Michael S. Harper locates Harper's poetic project within Black expressive tradition. The study examines poems drawn from the eleven volumes of verse that Harper (1938–2016) produced between 1970 and 2010, bringing attention to his poetry's sustained engagement with music, literature, and the visual arts. Author Michael Antonucci...
A Brief Quadrivium
Peter Ulrickson
Apr 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
Mathematics occupies a central place in the traditional liberal arts. The four mathematical disciplines of the quadrivium-arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy-reveal their enduring significance in this work, which offers the first unified, textbook treatment of these four subjects. Drawing on fundamental sources including Euclid, Boethius, and Ptolemy, this presentation respects the proper character of each discipline while revealing the relations among these liberal arts, as well as their connections to later...
Teaching the Quadrivium
Peter Ulrickson
Apr 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
Reviving an educational tradition involves a double task. A new generation of students must be taught, and at the same time the teachers themselves must learn. This book addresses the teachers who seek to hand on the quadrivium-the four mathematical liberal arts of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy-at the same time as they acquire it. Two components run in parallel throughout the book. The first component is practical. Weekly overviews and daily lesson plans explain how to...
Coca-Cola Socialism
Radina Vučetić, translated by John K. Cox
Mar 2023
- Central European University Press
This book is about the Americanization of Yugoslav culture and everyday life during the nineteen-sixties. After falling out with the Eastern bloc, Tito turned to the United States for support and inspiration. In the political sphere the distance between the two countries was carefully maintained, yet in the realms of culture and consumption the Yugoslav regime was definitely much more receptive to the American model. For Titoist...
From Socialism to Capitalism
Janos Kornai
Mar 2023
- Central European University Press
Eight essays connected by various common strands. The most important one is the community of the main subject-matter: socialism, capitalism, democracy, change of system. These four expressions cover four phenomena of great and comprehensive importance. Each piece in the book deals with these and the connections between them. One of the Leitmotifs is the "capitalism/socialism" pair of opposites. Capitalism has a history of several hundred years, while the socialist regime existed only for a...
Art beyond Borders
edited by Jérôme Bazin, Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, Piotr Piotrowski
Mar 2023
- Central European University Press
This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe's avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political borders there existed a constant flow of artists, artworks, artistic ideas and practices. The geographic borders of these...
Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer
Franz Nopcsa, edited by Robert Elsie
Mar 2023
- Central European University Press
The Austro-Hungarian aristocrat of Transylvanian origin, Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877-1933), was one of the most adventuresome travelers and scholars of Southeast Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. He was also a paleontologist of renown and a noted geologist of the Balkan Peninsula : many of his assumptions have been confirmed by science. The Memoirs of...
Higher Education and the American Dream
Marvin Lazerson
Mar 2023
- Central European University Press
Marvin Lazerson (professor at the Central European University and the University of Pennsylvania) considers the successes of higher education in the USA and how this has also bred discontent. He traces the development of higher education from the last half of the twentieth century, and considers why the expansion occurred, how it became an industry, and the increasing role of education in job attainment, as well as problems like rising costs, debates about...
Self-Financing Genocide
Gábor Kádár, Zoltán Vági
Mar 2023
- Central European University Press
Discusses the process of the economic annihilation of the Jews in Hungary, who– from the economic point of view – were more influential than any other Jewish community in Europe. Following the German occupation in March 1944 the collaborating Hungarian government attempted to assert its claim concerning the complete confiscation of Jewish assets at all stages of the road leading to the extermination camps. The cooperation with the...
Along Ukraine's River
Roman Adrian Cybriwsky
Mar 2023
- Central European University Press
The River Dnipro (formerly better known by the Russian name of Dnieper) is intimately linked to the history and identity of Ukraine. Cybriwsky discusses the history of the river, from when it was formed and its many uses and modifications by human agencies from ancient times to the present. From key vantage points along the river's course—its source in western Russia, through Belarus and Ukraine, to the Black Sea—interesting stories shed light on past...
Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956
László Borhi
Mar 2023
- Central European University Press
Based on new archival evidence, examines Soviet Empire building in Hungary and the American response to it. Hungary was not important enough to resist the Soviets, its democratic opposition failed to win American sympathy, the US simply had no leverage over the Soviets, who sacrificed cooperation with the West for a closed sphere in Eastern Europe. The imposition of a Stalinist regime assured Hungary's unconditional loyalty to Soviet imperial...
Beyond Virtue Ethics
Stephen M. Meawad
May 2023
- Georgetown University Press
A contemporary model of spiritual struggle shifts the emphasis from virtue's acquisition to its pursuit Beyond Virtue Ethics offers a distinctive approach to virtue ethics, arguing not simply for the importance of "struggle" to virtue ethics, but that "struggle" itself is a manifestation of virtue. In doing this, Stephen M. Meawad offers a way of thinking about virtue not simply as a perfected state, but as a state that is to a greater or lesser degree a...
Deter, Disrupt, or Deceive
edited by Robert Chesney, Max Smeets, foreword by Amy Zegart, with contributions by Joshua Rovner, Michael Warner, Jon Lindsay, Lennart Maschmeyer, Michael P. Fischerkeller, Richard J. Harknett, Steven Loleski, Lyu Jinghua, Valeriy Akimenko, Keir Giles, Ciaran Martin, J D. Work, Nina A. Kollars, Robert Chesney, Max Smeets
May 2023
- Georgetown University Press
A fresh perspective on statecraft in the cyber domain The idea of "cyber war" has played a dominant role in both academic and popular discourse...
Sir Barton and the Making of the Triple Crown
Jennifer S. Kelly
May 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
He was always destined to be a champion. Royally bred, with English and American classic winners in his pedigree, Sir Barton shone from birth, dubbed the "king of them all." But after a winless two-year-old season and a near-fatal illness, uncertainty clouded the start of Sir Barton's three-year-old season. Then his surprise victory in America's signature race, the Kentucky Derby, started him on the road to history, where he would go on to dominate the Preakness and the Belmont...
The Conversation on Gender Diversity
edited by Jules Gill-Peterson
May 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
From contributors to The Conversation, a look at gender diversity in the twenty-first century and the intricate and intersecting challenges faced by trans and nonbinary people. With media amplifying the voices of anti-trans legislators and critics, it is important to turn to the stories, research, and expertise of trans and nonbinary people in order to understand the reality of their experiences. In The Conversation on Gender Diversity, editor Jules Gill-Peterson assembles essential...
Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition
edited by Deborah H. Holdstein
May 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
Rediscovered texts for teaching composition and rhetoric. A project of recovery and reanimation, Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition foregrounds a broad range of publications that deserve renewed attention. Contributors to this volume reclaim these lost texts to reenvision the rhetorical tradition itself. Authors discussed include not only twentieth-century American compositionists but also a linguist, a poet, a philosopher, a painter, a Renaissance rhetorician, and a...
Schooling the Movement
edited by Derrick P. Alridge, Jon N. Hale, Tondra L. Loder-Jackson
May 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
A fresh examination of teacher activism during the civil rights movement Southern Black educators were central contributors and activists in the civil rights movement. They contributed to the movement through their classrooms, schools, universities, and communities. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival research, Schooling the Movement examines the...
Reading the Song of Songs with St. Thomas Aquinas
Serge-Thomas Bonino, translated by Andrew Levering
Apr 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
St. Thomas Aquinas never wrote a commentary on the Song of Songs. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate, however, that he meditated on it and absorbed it, so that the words of the Song are for him a familiar repertoire and a theological source. His work contains numerous citations of the Song, not counting his borrowings of vocabulary and images from it. In total, there are 312 citations of the Song in Aquinas's corpus, along with...
Catholic Dogmatic Theology: A Synthesis
Jean-Herve Nicolas, translated by Matthew K. Minerd, foreword by Joseph Ratzinger
May 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
Every discipline, including theology, requires a synthetic overview of its acquisitions and open questions, a kind of "topography" to guide the new student and refresh the gaze of specialists. In his Synthèse dogmatique, Fr. Jean-Hervé Nicolas, OP (1910-2001) presents just such a map of Thomistic theology, focusing on the central topics of Dogmatic Theology: The One and Triune...
Metaphysical Disputation II
Francisco Suarez, edited by Shane Duarte
Apr 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) was one of the most important philosophers and theologians of early modern Aristotelian scholasticism. Although Suárez spent most of his academic career as a professor of theology, he is better known today for his Metaphysical Disputations (Salamanca, 1597). The present volume contains a facing-page English translation of Metaphysical Disputation II, which is devoted to the nature of real being, the...
On the Formation of Clergy
translated by Owen M. Phelan
May 2023
- The Catholic University of America Press
Among the intellectuals of the Carolingian Renaissance of the ninth century, few are as prolific and influential as Hrabanus Maurus (c.780-856), a monk and abbot of the monastery of Fulda and then archbishop of Mainz. Most famous among modern authors as the putative author of the hymn "Come, Holy Ghost," Hrabanus was highly esteemed by generations of medieval intellectuals, including Dante, who located the archbishop among St. Bonaventure's cohort in the sphere of the Sun. This volume...
The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes
Richard M. Southall, Mark S. Nagel, Ellen J. Staurowsky, Richard T. Karcher, Joel G. Maxcy
May 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
A well-constructed and reasoned debunking of the mythology of amateurism in for-profit NCAA athletics For the last 60-plus-years, as the revenue-generating capacity of Power Five football and men's basketball has dramatically increased, NCAA Division I Power Five football and men's basketball players (college profit-athletes) have been economically exploited, their...
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
Jun 2023
- 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...
Liturgy of Change
Elizabeth Ellis Miller
May 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
Original archival research invites new ways of understanding the rhetorics of the civil rights movement In Liturgy of Change, Elizabeth Ellis Miller examines civil rights mass meetings as a transformative rhetorical, and religious, experience. Scholars of rhetoric have analyzed components of the civil rights movement, including sit ins, marches, and voter registration campaigns, as well as meeting speeches delivered by well-known figures. The mass meeting itself...
Skilletheads
Ashley L. Jones
May 2023
- Red Lightning Books
Part science and part personal preference, collecting and restoring cast-iron cookware is a complex art. For instance, what makes each company's cast iron unique? Do chemicals used during restoration leach into food? When it comes to surface finish, is textured or smooth better? In Skilletheads, the highly anticipated follow-up to Modern Cast Iron, Ashley L. Jones dives deeper than ever into the world of cast iron. In these pages, which feature over 100...
Light and Legacies
Janaka Bowman Lewis
Apr 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
An engaging examination of Black Girl Magic and its significance in American literature In Light and Legacies, author Janaka Bowman Lewis examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The representation of Black girlhood in contemporary literature has long remained underexplored. Through this literary history of "Black Girl Magic," Lewis offers one of the first studies in this rapidly growing field of study. Light and...
Under Penalty of Death
Kevin E. Meredith, David W. Hendry, Jr.
May 2023
- Red Lightning Books
An FBI cover-up spanning nearly a century. A victim and his family sworn to secrecy. Machine Gun Kelly's first kidnapping, a crime that changed America before it was swept under the rug of history. Under Penalty of Death: The Untold Story of Machine Gun Kelly's First Kidnapping brings to light for the first time the long-forgotten (and twice covered up) tale of the 1930s kidnapping that saved America from itself. In January...
Leaving Other People Alone
Aaron Kreuter
Apr 2023
- University of Alberta Press
Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist, diasporic lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral relationship between Israel and the diaspora, it therefore also has the potential to challenge, trouble, and ultimately rework this relationship. Kreuter suggests that any fictional work...
Little Ohio
Jane Simon Ammeson
May 2023
- Indiana University Press
Where can you travel the Erie Canal on a boat pulled by a horse? What is Wapakoneta, and what does it have to do with Neil Armstrong? Where can you eat ice cream at a stop on the Underground Railroad? Find these answers and more in Little Ohio: Small-Town Destinations. Author and blogger Jane Simon Ammeson traveled across the state to discover where to eat, stay, play, and shop in more than 90 charming small towns. Organized by region, Little Ohio offers fellow road trippers an easy-to-use...
More Nights than Days
Yudit Kiss
Apr 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...
Indigenous America in the Spanish Language Classroom
Anne Fountain
Jun 2023
- Georgetown University Press
A critical resource for inclusive teaching in the Spanish classroom Although Indigenous peoples are active citizens of the Americas, many Spanish language teachers lack the knowledge and understanding of their history, culture, and languages that is needed to present the Spanish language in context. By presenting a more complete picture of the Spanish speaking world, Indigenous America in the Spanish Language Classroom invites teachers to adjust their curricula to create...
Black Creole Chronicles
Mona Lisa Saloy
Apr 2023
- University of New Orleans Press
Who are Black Creoles? Saloy's new poems address ancestral connections to contemporary life, traditions celebrated, New Orleans Black life today, Louisiana Black life today, enduring and surviving hurricanes, romance, #BlackLivesMatter, #wematter, as well as poems of the pandemic lockdown from New Orleans. Saloy's new collection of verse advances and updates narratives of Black life to now, including day-to-day Black speech, the lives of culture keepers, and family tales. These poems detail cultural and...
Old Stacks, New Leaves
edited by Sonal Khullar
May 2023
- University of Washington Press
In the twenty-first century, debates on the future of books and print culture have intensified with the rise of digital technologies, and the contemporary art world has witnessed an explosion of interest in the book form. Amid this artistic and intellectual activity, there has been little scrutiny of book arts in South Asia and their particular ontologies, histories, and genealogies. This volume weaves together scholarly essays, original artistic projects, and...
Seeking a Research-Ethics Covenant in the Social Sciences
Will C. van den Hoonaard
Apr 2023
- University of Alberta Press
In Seeking a Research-Ethics Covenant in the Social Sciences, Will C. van den Hoonaard chronicles the negative influence that medical research-ethics frameworks have had on social science research-ethics policies. He argues that the root causes of the current ethics disorder in the social sciences are the aggressive audit culture in universities and the privilege accorded to medical research ethics, which overrides ethical issues in all other disciplines.
Surviving the Sanctuary City
Tina Shrestha
May 2023
- University of Washington Press
Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating the challenging bureaucratic process of asylum legalization. Surviving the Sanctuary City follows them through the institutional spaces of asylum offices, law firms, and human rights agencies to document the labor of seeking asylum. As an interpreter and a volunteer at a grassroots community center,...
The Freedom Movement's Lost Legacy
Keith P. Griffler
Jun 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
In the century after emancipation, the long shadow of slavery left African Americans well short of the freedom promised to them. While sharecropping and debt peonage entrapped Black people in the South, European colonialism had bred a new slavery that menaced the liberty of even more Africans. A core group of Black freedom movement leaders, including Ida B. Wells and W. E. B. Du Bois, followed their nineteenth-century predecessors in insisting that the...
Prostate Cancer
Neil H. Baum, MD, David F. Mobley, MD, and R. Garrett Key, MD
May 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
An illuminating guide for those newly diagnosed with prostate cancer as well as their partners and caregivers—one filled with extensive details about diagnosis, treatments, and tips for thriving. The second leading cause of cancer death for men, prostate cancer affects more than a quarter of a million individuals in the United States each year. Most men with prostate cancer will go through the journey from diagnosis through...
Wildlife Stewardship on Tribal Lands
edited by Serra J. Hoagland and Steven Albert
May 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
This groundbreaking book brings together Native American and Indigenous scholars, wildlife managers, legal experts, and conservationists from dozens of tribes to share their wildlife stewardship philosophies, histories, principles, and practices. Tribes have jurisdiction over some of the healthiest wild areas in North America, collectively managing over 56 million acres of land. This is no accident: in addition to a deep reverence for...
A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry
edited by Michelle Yeh, Zhangbin Li, Frank Stewart
May 2023
- University of Washington Press
This volume—a completely overhauled and updated version of Michelle Yeh's 1992 classic Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry—brings together modern poetry from the Chinese-speaking world dating from the 1910s to the 2010s. Featuring the work of 85 poets from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, it contains more than 280 poems that span the entire history of modern Chinese poetry. Poets include those regarded as canonical as well...
Inside the World of Climate Change Skeptics
Kristin Haltinner, Dilshani Sarathchandra
May 2023
- University of Washington Press
As wildfires rip across the western United States and sea levels rise along coastal cities from Louisiana to Alaska, some people nevertheless reject the mainstream scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. What leads people to doubt or outright denial? What leads skeptics to change their minds? Drawing from a rich collection of interviews and surveys with self-identified climate change skeptics (and some former ones), sociologists Kristin...
Jessica Lange
Anthony Uzarowski
Jun 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
Brilliant, beautiful, driven, uncompromising, elusive, iconic—Jessica Lange is one of the most gifted and fascinating actors of her generation. From her rise to fame in Dino De Laurentiis's remake of King Kong (1976) and her Oscar-winning performances in Tootsie (1982) and Blue Sky (1994); to her Emmy-winning work in Grey Gardens (2009) and the American Horror Story series; and her Tony Award–winning turn in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (2016), Lange has had a long and...
Dissonant Landscapes
Tore Storvøld
Jun 2023
- Wesleyan University Press
Listening to the dissonances of nature and nationhood in modern Iceland During the past three decades, Iceland has attained a strong presence in the world through its musical culture, with images of the nation being packaged and shipped out in melodies, harmonies, and rhythms. What 'Iceland' means for people, both at home and abroad, is conditioned by music and its ability to animate notions of nature and nationality. In six chapters that range from discussions of...
The Ice Book
Camper English
May 2023
- Red Lightning Books
Crystal clear spheres, cubes you can read through, embossed, branded, and blinged-out chunks, chips, blocks, and 'bergs: it's time to elevate your ice! In The Ice Book, internationally renowned cocktail icepert Camper English details how to use directional freezing to make perfectly pure ice in a home freezer, carve it up into giant diamonds and other shapes, and embed it with garnishes, including edible orchids and olives. You'll learn how to create a frozen bowl...
Gay Poems for Red States
Willie Carver, Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr.
Jun 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
No one will protect you. Months after being named the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. announced his decision to leave the public school system. His career as a high school English teacher had spanned more than a decade but ended abruptly—another casualty of the cruel and dangerous anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination that is creeping back into the halls of government and the homes of Americans. At the beginning of Carver's career, an administrator...
The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific
edited by Catherine L. Grant, Alessio Patalano, James A. Russell, foreword by Anne E. Rondeau, with contributions by Christopher P. Twomey, Peter Dutton, Clive Schofield, Nicola Leveringhaus, Ryan Gingeras, Richard Dunley, Daniel Moran, Kevin Rowlands, Ian Bowers, Julie Marionneau, Sheryn Lee, James Goldrick, James Wirtz, Abhijit Singh, Alessio Patalano, James A. Russell, Catherine L. Grant
Jun 2023
- Georgetown University Press
A new framework contextualizes crucial international security issues...
American Traitor
Howard W. Cox
Jun 2023
- Georgetown University Press
A fresh examination of the life and crimes of the highest-ranking federal official ever tried for treason and espionage American Traitor examines the career of the notorious Gen. James Wilkinson, whose corruption and espionage exposed the United States to grave dangers during the early years of the republic. Wilkinson is largely forgotten today, which is unfortunate because his sordid story is a cautionary tale about unscrupulous actors...
Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda
edited by Marcel Uwineza, Elisee Rutagambwa, Michel Segatagara Kamanzi, with contributions by Shelly Tenenbaum, Bishop Philippe Rukamba, Antoine Cardinal Kambanda, Michel Segatagara Kamanzi, Thomas D. Stegman, Martin Nizigiyimana, Léocadie Lushombo, Shawn Copeland, Laurenti Magesa, George Griener, Marcel Uwineza, Bishop Smaragde Mbonyintege, Eugène Niyonzima, William R. O'Neill, David Hollenbach, Ogonna Hilary Nwainya, Elisee Rutagambwa, Innocent Rugaragu, J.J. Carney, Augustin Karekezi, Leah Ba...
Jun 2023
- Georgetown University Press
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From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism
Yu Liu
May 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
A culturally sensitive and rewarding new understanding of the cross-cultural interaction between China and Europe In this important new work author Yu Liu argues that, confined by a narrow English and European conceptual framework, scholars have so far obscured the radical innovation and revolutionary implication of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's monistic philosophy. Liu's innovative intellectual history traces the organic...
A Thorough Exploration in Historiography / Shitong
Liu Zhiji, translated by Victor Cunrui Xiong
May 2023
- University of Washington Press
In the early eighth century, frustrated with the authorities but still hoping to gain immortality through his future oeuvre, the Tang court historian Liu Zhiji set out to write Shitong, in which he would rigorously explore the tradition of historical writing in China. Liu scrutinized hundreds of texts from antiquity to the early Tang dynasty (618–907) and evaluated their authors according to what he deemed the three essential qualities for...
Settler Cannabis
Kaitlin P. Reed
May 2023
- University of Washington Press
Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands. As of 2021, the California cannabis economy was valued at $3.5 billion. In Settler Cannabis, Kaitlin Reed demonstrates how this "green rush" is only the most recent example of settler colonial resource extraction and wealth accumulation. Situating the cannabis...
The Rhetoric of Outrage
Jeff Rice
May 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
An accessible and important look at what is truly behind our digital outrage On any given day, at any given hour, across the various platforms constituting what we call social media, someone is angry. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. Reddit. 4Chan. In The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media is Making Us Angry Jeff Rice addresses the critical question of why anger has become the dominant digital response on social media. He examines the theoretical and rhetorical explanations for...
Bellwether Histories
edited by Susan Nance, Jennifer Marks
May 2023
- University of Washington Press
A multispecies history of the globalized United States, Bellwether Histories reveals how animals have been ensnared in colonialism, capitalism, and environmental destruction as human decisions created and perpetuated untenable and unequal interspecies relationships. The collection's authors explore how people misunderstood or ignored animal crises precipitated by habitat destruction and population declines, sudden dependence on human aid,...
Inside Comedy
David Steinberg
Jun 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
David Steinberg's name has been synonymous with comedy for decades. The Canadian-born comedian, producer, writer, director, and author has been called "a comic institution himself" by the New York Times. He appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 140 times (second only to Bob Hope), and directed episodes of popular television sitcoms, including Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Friends, Mad About You, The Golden Girls, and Designing...
Replayed
Henry Lowood
edited by Raiford Guins
with a foreword by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum and an interview by T. L. Taylor
edited by Raiford Guins
with a foreword by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum and an interview by T. L. Taylor
Jun 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
A leading voice in technology studies shares a collection of essential essays on the preservation of software and history of games. Since the early 2000s, Henry Lowood has led or had a key role in numerous initiatives devoted to the preservation and documentation of virtual worlds, digital games, and interactive simulations, establishing himself as a major...
Creating Identity
Jayashree Kamble
Jun 2023
- Indiana University Press
While the world often categorizes women in reductive false binaries—careerist versus mother, feminine versus fierce—romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her journey to selfhood. In Creating Identity, Jayashree Kamblé examines the romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an...
The Railroad Photography of Phil Hastings
Tony Reevy
Jun 2023
- Indiana University Press
The Railroad Photography of Phil Hastings explores the life and influential work of Dr. Philip R. "Phil" Hastings (1925–1987). Along with his contemporaries, Hastings changed the way we look at the North American railroad. Influenced by the photojournalistic movement that developed during their childhoods, these visionaries expanded their work from traditional locomotive roster and action shots into a holistic view of the railroad environment. Collated by Tony Reevy, The Railroad Photography...
When Washington Burned
Robert P. Watson
Aug 2023
- Georgetown University Press
An insightful re-examination of one of the most dangerous moments in US history, the British assault on Washington, DC Perhaps no other single day in US history was as threatening to the survival of the nation as August 24, 1814, when British forces captured Washington, DC. This unique moment might have significantly altered the nation's path forward, but the event and the reasons why it happened are little remembered by most...
The Ghost in the City
Michele Matteini
May 2023
- University of Washington Press
In 1771 the artist Luo Ping (1733–99) left his native Yangzhou to relocate to the burgeoning hub of Beijing's Southern City. Over two decades, he became the favored artist of a cosmopolitan community of scholars and officials who were at the forefront of the cultural life of the Qing-dynasty (1644–1911). From his spectacular ghost paintings to his later work exploring the city's complex history, compressed spatial layout, and unique social rituals,...
The Brush of Insight
Yael Rice
May 2023
- University of Washington Press
Over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from illustrators of manuscripts and albums to active mediators of imperial visionary experience, cultivating their patrons' earthly and spiritual authority. Featuring over 80 color illustrations, The Brush of Insight traces this shift, demonstrating how royal artists created a new visual economy that featured highly naturalistic royal portraits and depictions of the emperors' dreams.
Tar Hollow Trans
Stacy Jane Grover
Jun 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
"I've lived a completely ordinary life, so much that I don't know how to write a transgender or queer or Appalachian story, because I don't feel like I've lived one. ... Though, in searching for ways to write myself in my stories, maybe I can find power in this ordinariness." Raised in southeast Ohio, Stacy Jane Grover would not describe her upbringing as "Appalachian." Appalachia existed farther afield—more rural, more country than the landscape of her hometown. Grover returned to the places of her...
An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology
Ali Nabavizadeh and David B. Weishampel
Jun 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
This beautifully illustrated exploration of the diversity, anatomy, and evolution of dinosaur feeding adaptations is the first and only in-depth look at this crucial aspect of paleoecology. In An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology, experts Ali Nabavizadeh and David B. Weishampel bring dinosaurs to life on the page by exploring and illustrating their feeding adaptations. Whether dinosaurs were carnivorous, herbivorous, or omnivorous, their...
How to Clean a Fish
Esmeralda Cabral
May 2023
- University of Alberta Press
"Perhaps it is saudade that pulls me back to visit my other country as often as possible. When the opportunity arose for our family to live in Costa da Caparica for an extended period, it took only minutes to decide. We were going." How to Clean a Fish is an inviting family travel story about an extended stay in Portugal, full of food and cooking adventures, language barriers and bureaucracy, and that irresistible need to connect with the culture of our birth. After immigrating...
Menacing Environments
Benjamin A. Bigelow
Jun 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...
China's Hidden Century
edited by Jessica Harrison-Hall, Julia Lovell
Jun 2023
- University of Washington Press
Cultural creativity in China between 1796 and 1912 demonstrated extraordinary resilience in a time of warfare, land shortages, famine, and uprisings. Innovation can be seen in material culture (including print, painting, calligraphy, textiles, jewelry, ceramics, lacquer, arms and armor, and photography) during a century in which China's art, literature, crafts, and technology faced unprecedented exposure to global influences. Until recently the nineteenth century in...
Insect Histories of East Asia
edited by David A. Bello, Daniel Burton-Rose
Jun 2023
- University of Washington Press
Interactions between people and animals are attracting overdue attention in diverse fields of scholarship, yet insects still creep within the shadows of more charismatic birds, fish, and mammals. Insect Histories of East Asia centers on bugs and creepy crawlies and the taxonomies in which they were embedded in China, Japan, and Korea to present a history of human and animal cocreation of habitats in ways that were both deliberate and unwitting. Using sources spanning from...
Adams and Calhoun
William F. Hartford
Jun 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
Examines the evolving lives of two men who were crucial political figures in the consequential decades prior to the Civil War Although neither of them lived to see the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun did as much any two political figures of the era to shape the intersectional tensions that produced the conflict. William F. Hartford examines the lives of Adams and Calhoun as a prism through which to view the developing sectional conflict. While...
Hyumŏnijŭm, cheguk, minjok, critical edition
edited by Travis Workman
Jun 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
Essays featuring twentieth-century Korean thought on literature and culture. Faced with dramatic social and political changes, Korean writers of the twentieth century—writing in the context of Japanese imperialism, World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War era—explored many pressing questions about modern life: What is the relationship between literature and society? How can intellectual concepts be used politically, for good or ill? What are the...
Humanism, Empire, and Nation, critical edition
edited by Travis Workman, translated by Travis Workman
Jun 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
Essays featuring twentieth-century Korean thought on literature and culture. Faced with dramatic social and political changes, Korean writers of the twentieth century—writing in the context of Japanese imperialism, World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War era—explored many pressing questions about modern life: What is the relationship between literature and society? How can intellectual concepts be used politically,...
Edible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast, expanded edition
Collin Varner
Jun 2023
- University of Washington Press
The coastal Pacific Northwest of North America is home to a multitude of edible and medicinal plant species, edible mushrooms, and marine plants—from Black Gooseberry to Western Tea-Berry, from Golden Chanterelle to Yellow Morel Mushroom, and from Sea Asparagus to Winged Kelp. Now revised and updated with additional species and recipes, this compact, full-color forager's guide offers clear photography, descriptions, safety tips, and...
Frogs of the United States and Canada, second edition
C. Kenneth Dodd Jr.
Jun 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
The most thorough, updated guide to frogs and toads in the United States and Canada available. A stunning diversity of frog species can be found from coastal swamps to lofty mountain peaks, and from the Florida Keys to the Arctic Ocean. They live in subtropical lowlands, grassland prairies, deserts, and alpine-tundra habitats. Some species have restricted habitat requirements, whereas others occur contiguously from the arid plains or humid southeastern forests to the high tundra. In...
New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky
John David Smith, with contributions by James C. Klotter, Luke Harlow, Aaron Astor, Christopher Phillips, Chris Waldrep, Elizabeth D. Leonard, B. Franklin Cooling, Anne Marshall, Peter Wallenstein
Jul 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
As a Unionist but also proslavery state during the American Civil War, Kentucky occupied a contentious space both politically and geographically. In many ways, its pragmatic attitude toward compromise left it in a cultural no-man's-land. The constant negotiation between the state's nationalistic and...
A Guide to Sky Monsters
T.S. Mart, Tammy Ayers, Melissa Ayers, Mel Cabre
Jun 2023
- Indiana University Press
When a dark shadow passes overhead, do you stop? Or do you run? Infamous sky monsters have haunted our imaginations for centuries. The Thunderbird, steeped in Native American folklore, supposedly controls evil by throwing lightning. The Jersey Devil is said to roam the Pine Barrens of South Jersey, terrorizing anyone who crosses its path. And the cryptic warnings of Mothman have worried residents of Point...
Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition
Christian Nikolaus Braun
Jul 2023
- Georgetown University Press
A moral compass for the use of limited force that draws on the just war thought of Thomas Aquinas One of the most contentious developments in contemporary international relations has been the increased use of limited force. On the one hand, insofar as it signals greater constraint, the shift away from the mechanized slaughter of large-scale warfare toward more calibrated applications of force may be hailed as a step in the right direction. On the other,...
Designing Effective Language Learning Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages
Öner Özçelik, Amber Kennedy Kent
Aug 2023
- Georgetown University Press
A step-by-step guide to designing materials for learning world languages, from expert instructional designers Many teachers of less commonly taught languages, or LCTLs, find themselves in the position of needing access to quality language teaching and learning materials where none exist, or where those that do are extremely outdated. Designing Effective Language Learning Materials for Less...
Cold Rivals
edited by Evan S. Medeiros, with contributions by Evan S. Medeiros, Richard K. Betts, Harry Harding, Wang Jisi, Wu Xinbo, Elizabeth Economy, Arthur Kroeber, Phillip C. Saunders, Li Chen, James Mulvenon, Paul Triolo, Helen Toner
Jul 2023
- Georgetown University Press
Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future The US-China relationship is now defined by "strategic competition." In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China examine the...
Yanks in Blue Berets
L. Scott Lingamfelter
Jul 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
In 1948 the United Nations launched the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization following the conflict that erupted between Israel and its Arab neighbors, who profoundly opposed the creation of a Jewish state. UNTSO quickly found itself overseeing the ceasefire lines between combatant parties. In the ensuing decades, as countries along the eastern Mediterranean engaged in a series of escalating military conflicts, UNTSO was continually challenged in its...
Sunset Cluster
H. Roger Grant
Jul 2023
- Indiana University Press
Discover the Sunset Cluster—railroads that were doomed to fail? The first two decades of the 20th century were the twilight of the Railroad Age. Major routes had long been established, and local service became the focus of new construction. Beginning in 1907, a cluster of five shortline railroads were established in otherwise unconnected parts of Iowa. They, however, would short lived. The five Iowa 'sunset cluster' railroads might appear to deserve eternal obscurity, being at best minor...
Remaking the World
Jessica M. Chapman
Jul 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
Between 1945 and 1965, more than fifty nations declared their independence from colonial rule. At the height of the Cold War, the global process of decolonization complicated US-Soviet relations, while Soviet and American interventionism transformed the decolonizing process. Remaking the World examines the connections between the Cold War and decolonization, which helped define the post–World War II global order. Drawing on new scholarship, this comprehensive study provides a...
Ruth Blau
Motti Inbari
Jul 2023
- Indiana University Press
Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose explores the life of a curious, if not mysterious, character in modern Jewish history. Born a French Catholic, Ruth Blau (Ben-David) (1920–2000) lived a constantly twisting life. During World War II, Blau was active in the French Resistance, and under their command, she joined the Gestapo as a double agent. After the war, she studied philosophy as a PhD candidate at the Sorbonne during the 1950s. After converting to Judaism and moving to Israel in 1960,...
The COVID Journals
edited by Shane Neilson, Sarah Fraser, Arundhati Dhara
Jun 2023
- University of Alberta Press
This diverse collection is the first book in which a broad range of Canadian health care workers from across the country recount their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some pieces reflect on the strange pertinence of today's headlines with those of the past; others use humour, art, and the power of narrative to offer a glimpse of how disorienting it is when to help is to put oneself at risk, when care itself is redefined from moment to...
From Barbycu to Barbecue
Joseph R. Haynes
Jul 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
An award-winning barbecue cook boldly asserts that barbecuing is a unique American tradition that was not imported. The origin story of barbecue is a popular topic with a ravenous audience, but commonly held understandings of barbecue are often plagued by half-truths and misconceptions. From Barbycu to Barbecue offers a fresh new look at the story of southern barbecuing. Award winning barbecue cook Joseph R. Haynes sets out to correct one of the most common...
"Our Country First, Then Greenville"
Courtney L. Tollison Hartness
Jul 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
Places Greenville's experience during World War I within the context of the progressive era to better understand the rise of this New South city Greenville, South Carolina has become an attractive destination, frequently included in lists of the "Best Small Cities" in America. While Greenville's twenty-first-century Renaissance has been impressive, in "Our Country First, Then Greenville," Courtney L. Tollison...
Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton
Calvin C. Hernton, edited by David Grundy, Lauri Scheyer, foreword by Ishmael Reed
Aug 2023
- Wesleyan University Press
The definitive guide to a major African American poet This volume promises to be the definitive guide to Calvin C. Hernton's unparalleled poetic career, re-introducing readers to a major voice in American poetry. Hernton was a cofounder of the Umbra Poets Workshop; a participant in the Black Arts Movement, R. D. Laing's Kingsley Hall, and the Antiuniversity of London; and a teacher at Oberlin College who counted amongst his...
Connections Are Everything
Peter Felten, Leo M. Lambert, Isis Artze-Vega, and Oscar R. Miranda Tapia
Jul 2023
- Johns Hopkins University Press
A practical guide to building the connections students need to thrive in and after college from the authors of the best-selling Relationship-Rich Education. Decades of research demonstrate how important relationships with peers and professors are for students academically, personally, and professionally. Yet many students lack the strategies to develop educationally purposeful...
Teaching World Epics
edited by Jo Ann Cavallo
Jul 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
Essays for teaching ancient and recent epic narratives from around the world. Cultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose actions have significant consequences for their lives and their communities. Incorporating narrative elements also found in sacred history, chronicle, saga, legend, romance, myth, folklore, and the novel, epics throughout history have both animated the imagination and encouraged reflection on what it means to be human.
Before the Gilded Age
Mark L. Goldstein
Aug 2023
- Georgetown University Press
The first modern biography of financial pioneer and philanthropist W. W. Corcoran Before the Gilded Age reveals the extraordinary ways in which W. W. Corcoran shaped the emerging cultural elite and changed the capital and the country both for better and for worse. A complex and controversial character, Corcoran influenced banking and finance, art and American culture, philanthropy, and the nation's capital. Based on extensive archival...
Monsters on Maple Street
David J. Brokaw
Aug 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
Post-World War II America has often been mythologized by successive generations as an exceptional period of prosperity and comfort. At a time when the Cold War was understood to be a battle of ideas as much as military prowess, the entertainment business relied heavily on subtle psychological marketing to promote the idea of the American Dream. The media of the 1950s and 1960s promoted an idealized version of American life sustained by the nuclear family...
Harry Dean Stanton
Joseph B. Atkins
Aug 2023
- University Press of Kentucky
Harry Dean Stanton (1926–2017) got his start in Hollywood in TV productions such as Zane Grey Theater and Gunsmoke. After a series of minor parts in forgettable westerns, he gradually began to get film roles that showcased his laid-back acting style, appearing in Cool Hand Luke (1967), Kelly's Heroes (1970), The Godfather: Part II (1974), and Alien (1979). He became a headliner in the eighties—starring in Wim Wenders's moving Paris, Texas (1984) and Alex Cox's Repo Man (1984)—but it was his...
Teaching Comedy
edited by Bev Hogue
Aug 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
Essays on teaching comedy in literature, writing, theater, and cultural studies courses From Shakespeare to The Simpsons, comedy has long provided both entertainment and social commentary. It may critique cultural values, undermine authority, satirize sacred beliefs, and make room for the marginalized to approach the center. Comedy can be challenging to teach, but in the classroom it can help students connect with one another, develop critical thinking skills, and engage with important issues. The essays in this...
Electric Indiana
Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
Aug 2023
- Indiana University Press
In the early twentieth century, an epic battle was waged across America between the interurban railway and the automobile, two technologies that arose at roughly the same time in the late 1890s. Nowhere was this conflict more evident than in the Midwest, and specifically Indiana, where cities of industry such as Indianapolis, Gary, and Terre Haute were growing faster every day. By 1904, Indianapolis had opened the Traction...
A Flame Called Indiana
Doug Paul Case, with contributions by Kaveh Akbar, Dason Anderson, Noah Baldino, Bryce Berkowitz, Joe Betz, Callista Buchen, Steve Castro, Su Cho, C.L. Clark, Tia Clark, Nandi Comer, Paul Cunningham, Mitchell L.H. Douglas, M.A. Dubbs, Laura Dzubay, Kelsey Parker Ervick, Shreya Fadia, Samantha Fain, Scott Fenton, Ashley C. Ford, Megan Giddings, Maggie Graber, Silas Hansen, Rajpreet Heir, Joe Heithaus, B.J. Hollars, Allison Joseph, Yalie Kamara, Christopher Kempf, Patrick Kindig, Karen Kovacik, Ki...
Aug 2023
- Indiana University Press
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Come My Children
Hekmat Al-Taweel, edited by Ghada Ageel, Barbara Bill
Jul 2023
- University of Alberta Press
Hekmat Al-Taweel (1922-2008) was a native Palestinian Christian from Gaza City whose narrative provides an unfamiliar perspective on Muslim–Christian relationships in Gaza, highlighting shared history, culture, customs, and traditions. In relating her life story, continuing education after marriage, volunteer work, activism, and aspirations, she invites readers to understand her experiences in a way that contradicts widespread Western orientalized stereotypes of Arab women. She...
Fierce Elegy
Peter Gizzi
Aug 2023
- Wesleyan University Press
Peter Gizzi's powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also—as it has been for centuries—a work of love Peter Gizzi has said that "the elegy is a mode that can transform a broken heart in a fierce world into a fierce heart in a broken world." For Gizzi, ferocity can be reimagined as vulnerability, bravery and discovery, a braiding of emotional and otherworldly depth, "a holding open." In Gizzi's voice joy and sorrow make a complex ecosystem. In their quest for a lyric reality, these poems remind us...
Charleston Horse Power
Christina Rae Butler
Aug 2023
- University of South Carolina Press
Discover the fascinating history and legact of working equines in Charleston, South Carolina. Featuring thorough research, absorbing storytelling, and captivating photographs, Charleston Horse Power takes readers back to an equine-dominated city of the past, in which horses and mules pervaded all aspects of urban life. Author, scholar, and preservationist Christina Rae Butler describes carriage types and equines roles (both privately owned animals and those in the...
mahogany
erica lewis
Sep 2023
- Wesleyan University Press
mahogany is about the passing of time and unimaginable loss, strength, humor, and love mahogany takes its name from the dark wood prized for its durability, workability, and elegant look, and from the Diana Ross movie, whose theme song asks if what lies ahead is what you really want. This book is the third in a trilogy, and like the first two books it is steeped in pop music. Each poem here takes its title from a line of a Diana Ross and The Supremes song, as well as songs from Diana Ross' solo career. Short lines flow down the...
The Faculty Lounge
Philipp Stelzel
Sep 2023
- Indiana University Press
Offering cocktails for every academic occasion along with spirited, amusing commentary, The Faculty Lounge is the perfect gift for graduate students, tenure-track professors, and disillusioned administrators.
This Is How You Start to Disappear
Astrid Blodgett
Aug 2023
- University of Alberta Press
This Is How You Start to Disappear is a new collection of engaging, tension-filled stories interested in the ways we don't understand each other and how we respond to each other, especially in the midst of change, loss, betrayal, and trauma. Focusing on relationships, especially among family members, between romantic partners or spouses, and between friends, Astrid Blodgett's stories explore the long-term consequences of grief and denial and the single moments that change perceptions, lives,...
Sukun
Kazim Ali
Sep 2023
- Wesleyan University Press
New and selected poems from celebrated poet Kazim Ali Kazim Ali is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work explores themes of identity, migration, and the intersections of cultural and spiritual traditions. His poetry is known for its lyrical and expressive language, as well as its exploration of themes such as love, loss, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. "Sukun" means serenity or calm, and a sukun is also a form of punctuation in Arabic orthography that denotes a pause over a consonant.
Esfinge
Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto, edited by Kim F. Olson, introduction by M. Elizabeth Ginway, afterword by Jess Nevins
Sep 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
A work of supernatural fantasy that questions gender divisions At his boardinghouse in Rio de Janeiro, the Englishman James Marian is seen as handsome but eccentric. Then another boarder learns Marian's secret: a fusion of a female head and a male body, Marian is the creation of a surgeon with occult powers. Despite his wealth and mysterious abilities, Marian is unable to live fully as either a...
Sphinx
Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto, translated by Kim F. Olson, introduction by M. Elizabeth Ginway, afterword by Jess Nevins
Sep 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
A work of supernatural fantasy that questions gender divisions At his boardinghouse in Rio de Janeiro, the Englishman James Marian is seen as handsome but eccentric. Then another boarder learns Marian's secret: a fusion of a female head and a male body, Marian is the creation of a surgeon with occult powers. Despite his wealth and mysterious abilities, Marian is unable to live fully as either...
Connecticut Walk Book, twenty-first edition
Connecticut Forest and Park Association
Oct 2023
- 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...
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...
Dance History(s)
edited by Annie-B Parson, Thomas DeFrantz
Oct 2023
- 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 tree,...
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...
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. Built to contain over-sized leisure and sales activities, these disproportionate shopping malls are cities within cities, wonderlands where visitors come from afar to do everything: walk, eat, sleep, watch, swim, ski, skate, ride, photograph, and, of course, buy. Swiss journalist Rinny...
Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons
edited by Sheila Smith McKoy, 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 to...
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 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 to...
The Life of Music in South India
T. Sankaran, edited by Matthew Harp Allen, Daniel 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 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...
Animal Musicalities
Rachel Mundy
Oct 2023
- Wesleyan University Press
How conflicts between science and the humanities have shaped our understanding of the line between art and animal behavior Over the past century and a half, the voices and bodies of animals have been used by scientists and music experts as a benchmark for measures of natural difference. Animal Musicalities traces music's taxonomies from Darwin to digital bird guides to show how animal song has become the starting point for enduring evaluations of species, races, and...
Be Brave to Things
Jack Spicer, edited by 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...
The Words and Wares of David Drake
edited by Jill Beute Koverman, Jane Przybysz
Oct 2023
- 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, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite laws prohibiting enslaved people from learning to read or write, Drake was literate and signed some of his pots, not only with his name and a date, but with verse—making a powerful statement of...
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...
MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature, second edition
Elizabeth Brookbank, 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...
Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine
edited by Jeremy Wildeman, Mark 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...
The Elephant Has Two Sets of Teeth
Alice Neikirk
Oct 2023
- University of Alberta Press
This ethnography of Bhutanese refugees reveals how the language of compassion in humanitarianism is used to oppress vulnerable communities and erode their rights. Alice Neikirk conducted fieldwork with Bhutanese who fled Bhutan, resided in camps in Nepal, and finally settled in the vastly different culture of Australia. She observes that in accepting the role of humanitarian subjects, refugees must abandon their role as contributors to the nation...
Graduate Education for a Thriving Humanities Ecosystem
edited by Stacy M. Hartman, 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...
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 amber sands of newly founded...
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...
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 activism for LGBTQ+ rights, South Korea has seen a flowering of queer literature, film, and Internet culture. Openly queer or transgender writers such as Kim Bi, Sang Young Park, and Yi Seoyoung are now receiving national and international attention. But the rich variety of queer Korean writing also extends into the past, as the nine stories in this volume show. Beginning with contemporary works of...
A Century of Queer Korean Fiction, critical edition
edited by Samuel Perry, translated by Samuel Perry
Dec 2023
- Modern Language Association of America
Selections from the past hundred years of queer Korean literature Following decades of activism for LGBTQ+ rights, South Korea has seen a flowering of queer literature, film, and Internet culture. Openly queer or transgender writers such as Kim Bi, Sang Young Park, and Yi Seoyoung are now receiving national and international attention. But the rich variety of queer Korean writing also extends into the past, as the nine stories in this volume show. Beginning with...
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...
Numinous Seditions
Tim Lilburn
Nov 2023
- University of Alberta Press
With Numinous Seditions, celebrated poet and essayist Tim Lilburn investigates aspects of an interiority appropriate to a time and world irrevocably altered by climate change. How will we be under these new conditions? What inner dispositions might sustain and help us bear the new sorrows of the climate crisis? The book draws from retrieved elements of the West's almost forgotten contemplative tradition in its Platonic, Islamic, Christian, and Zoharic forms. It also explores ideas from...
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...
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...
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...
