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Policy, Planning, and People
Promoting Justice in Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The contributors of Policy, Planning, and People argue for the promotion of social equity and quality of life by designing and evaluating urban policies and plans. Edited by Naomi Carmon and Susan S. Fainstein, the volume features original essays by leading authorities in the field of urban planning...
by Ivan Krastev
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union—and its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise across the continent and the United Kingdom planning for Brexit, the European Union is in disarray and...
On Risk and Disaster
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006
Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and should, deal with the inevitable problems of economic risk and social responsibility. This volume...
How Real Estate Developers Think
Design, Profits, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Cities are always changing: streets, infrastructure, public spaces, and buildings are constantly being built, improved, demolished, and replaced. But even when a new project is designed to improve a community, neighborhood residents often find themselves at odds with the real estate developer who...
Making Seafood Sustainable
American Experiences in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
In the spring of 2007, National Geographic warned, "The oceans are in deep blue trouble. From the northernmost reaches of the Greenland Sea to the swirl of the Antarctic Circle, we are gutting our seas of fish." There were legitimate grounds for concern. After increasing more than fourfold...
Food Is Love
Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Modern advertising has changed dramatically since the early twentieth century, but when it comes to food, Katherine Parkin writes, the message has remained consistent. Advertisers have historically promoted food in distinctly gendered terms, returning repeatedly to themes that associated shopping...
by Virgil
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire—a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, he wrote two other collections...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods,...
Body and Emotion
The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Body and Emotion is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces that influence, make sense of, and heal severe pain and malaise. In order to investigate this relationship, Robert R. Desjarlais served as an apprentice healer among the Yolmo Sherpa, a Tibetan Buddhist people who reside in the Helambu region of north-central Nepal.
Astounding Wonder
Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
When physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," the response was electric. Newspaper headlines across the country announced, "Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach Moon," while...
Profound Science and Elegant Literature
Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In 1847, at the first meeting of the American Medical Association, the newly elected president reminded his brethren that the profession, "once venerated," no longer earned homage "spontaneously and universally." The medical marketplace was crowded and competitive; state laws regulating...
American Justice 2016
The Political Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
When the Democrat-appointed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg criticized Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, she triggered concerns about judicial ethics. But the political concerns were even more serious. The Supreme Court is supposed to be what Alexander Hamilton called "the least dangerous"...
Uncommon Tongues
Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
In the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate tongue, vernacular writing took a turn for the eccentric. Authors such as John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe loudly announced their ambitions for the mother tongue—but...
Postmodern Fairy Tales
Gender and Narrative Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focuses on the narrative strategies through which women are portrayed in four classic stories: "Snow White," "Little Red Riding...