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The Age of Auden
Postwar Poetry and the American Scene
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey...
The New Arab Man
Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction.
Drawing...
Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon
Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East? All too often, the answer is sectarianism—popularly viewed as a timeless and intractable force that leads religious groups to conflict. In Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon, Joanne Nucho shows how wrong this perspective can be. Through in-depth...
Experimental Nations
Or, the Invention of the Maghreb
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or read no French, or a broader audience beyond Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia? In Experimental...
by William Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories—from myths and fairy tales to jokes
Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate...
Coming of Age in Second Life
An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services,...
Caught
The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated have been remarkably modest. Meanwhile, an ever-widening carceral state has sprouted in the shadows, extending its reach far beyond the prison gate. It sunders families and communities...
Disarmed
The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
More than any other advanced industrial democracy, the United States is besieged by firearms violence. Each year, some 30,000 people die by gunfire. Over the course of its history, the nation has witnessed the murders of beloved public figures; massacres in workplaces and schools; and epidemics of...
Invisible in the Storm
The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Invisible in the Storm is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern times--the use of mathematics in weather prediction. Although humans have tried to forecast weather for millennia, mathematical principles were used in...
The Everlasting Empire
The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for 2,132 years before being replaced by the Republic of China in 1912. During its two millennia, the empire endured internal wars, foreign incursions, alien occupations, and devastating rebellions--yet fundamental institutional, sociopolitical, and...
Strong Borders, Secure Nation
Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
As China emerges as an international economic and military power, the world waits to see how the nation will assert itself globally. Yet, as M. Taylor Fravel shows in Strong Borders, Secure Nation, concerns that China might be prone to violent conflict over territory are overstated. The first comprehensive...
Ireland's Immortals
A History of the Gods of Irish Myth
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Ireland's Immortals tells the story of one of the world’s great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in both the nation’s languages, the book describes how Ireland’s pagan divinities were transformed into literary characters...
The Expanding Circle
Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival,...
by Tim McDaniel
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 1998
Boris Yeltsin's attempts at democratic reform have plunged a long troubled Russia even further into turmoil. This dramatic break with the Soviet past has left Russia politically fragmented and riddled with corruption, its people with little hope for the future. In a fascinating account for anyone...