California Press: 1495 books
by Myung Mi Kim
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2002
Myung Mi Kim's Commons weighs on the most sensitive of scales the minute grains of daily life in both peace and war, registering as very few works of literature have done our common burden of being subject to history. Abstracting colonization, war, immigration, disease, and first-language loss until...
by Sarah Gridley
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Green is the Orator follows on Sarah Gridley’s brilliant first collection, Weather Eye Open, in addressing the challenge of representing nature through language. Gridley’s deftly original syntax arises from direct experience of the natural world and from encounters with other texts, including...
by Robert Creeley
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2006
This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed books of poetry ranging from Hello: A Journal (1978) to Life & Death (1998) and If I were writing...
Islam after Communism
Religion and Politics in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
How do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world by extirpating religion from it affect Central Asia? Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history to answer these...
by Mark Traugott
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
"To the barricades!" The cry conjures images of angry citizens, turmoil in the streets, and skirmishes fought behind hastily improvised cover. This definitive history of the barricade charts the origins, development, and diffusion of a uniquely European revolutionary tradition. Mark Traugott...
Venice Incognito
Masks in the Serene Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
"The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks—nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men—could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison...
by Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s third collection opens with a set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. O’Brien’s poems measure the "vague cadence" of daily life, testing both the value and limits of art in a time of...
My Name Is Jody Williams
A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, "Jody Williams is many things—a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and...
The Other Shore
Essays on Writers and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic...
Civic Rites
Democracy and Religion in Ancient Athens
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Deftly combining history, politics, and religion to weave together stories of democracy’s first leaders and...
Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church
Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central figure of Christianity. Susanna Elm compares these two men not to draw out the obvious contrast between...
The Three Failures of Creationism
Logic, Rhetoric, and Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Walter M. Fitch, a pioneer in the study of molecular evolution, has written this cogent overview of why creationism fails with respect to all the fundamentals of scientific inquiry. He explains the basics of logic and rhetoric at the heart of scientific thinking, shows what a logical syllogism is,...
Berlin Psychoanalytic
Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
One hundred years after the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute was established, this book recovers the cultural and intellectual history connected to this vibrant organization and places it alongside the London Bloomsbury group, the Paris Surrealist circle, and the Viennese fin-de-siècle as a crucial...
The Curious Humanist
Siegfried Kracauer in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film, culture, and modernity, and he is now considered one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. When he arrived in Manhattan aboard a crowded refugee ship in 1941, however, he was virtually unknown...