Jeffrey: 3395 books
Mall Maker
Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The shopping mall is both the most visible and the most contentious symbol of American prosperity. Despite their convenience, malls are routinely criticized for representing much that is wrong in America—sprawl, conspicuous consumption, the loss of regional character, and the decline of Mom and...
Twentieth Century Limited
Industrial Design In America 1925-1939
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
In the late 1920's "streamlined" became the term businessmen used to describe new models that were easier to produce as well as those that met with less sales resistance than older products. Illustrating this concept with streamlined objects from soup cans to the Chrysler building, Jeffrey...
Remembering the Holocaust
A Debate
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Remembering the Holocaust explains why the Holocaust has come to be considered the central event of the 20th century, and what this means. Presenting Jeffrey Alexander's controversial essay that, in the words of Geoffrey Hartman, has already become a classic in the Holocaust literature, and following...
Plant Theory
Biopower and Vegetable Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way...
by Jeffrey Andrew Barash
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel roles in a modern era otherwise characterized by...
by Richard G Delisle, Fabrizzio McManus, John de Vos
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.
The study of human evolution often seems to rely on scenarios and received wisdom rather than theory and methodology, with each new fossil or molecular analysis...
Leipzig After Bach
Church and Concert Life in a German City
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Leipzig, Germany, is renowned as the city where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church musician until his death in 1750, and where Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy directed the famed Gewandhaus orchestra until his own death in 1847. But the century in between these events was critically important as...
by Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, Jeffrey W. Knopf, Maria Rost Rublee
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This is the first book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime—even as they formally support it. Anchored by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the nuclear nonproliferation regime is the constellation...
Taconite Dreams
The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota’s Iron Range, 1915-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
The Iron Range earned its name honestly: it was once among the world’s richest iron ore mining districts. The Iron Range propelled the U.S. steel industry in the late nineteenth century, and iron mining sustained generations in the region with work and a strong economy. But long before most other parts...
by Jeffrey Lant
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
After an experience of coming near to death and being left hardly able to walk, this became a most sobering period of my life, without question.
As a result of my caution and the possibility of another crippling fall, I retreated from so many of my favorite haunts and focused on the written...
Queer Philologies
Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer Philologies, he studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's time and analyzes the methods we have used to study sex and gender in literary and cultural history....
by Kerry Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
A once childhood journal turned book expresses issues in life, love, and depression.
Fictions of Conversion
Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the papacy with the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII head of the church; nineteen years later the...
Stronger Than Steel
Forging a Rust Belt Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Stronger than Steel is the story of a company town, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that used alternative economic development strategies, including arts, tourism, and a casino to propel its way out of devastation of deindustrialization. Bethlehem’s strategies have been rewarded with dramatic results.
In...