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The Science of Beauty
Culture and Cosmetics in Modern Germany, 1750–1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
What did the cosmetic practices of middle-class women in the nineteenth century have in common with the repair of men's bodies mutilated in war? What did the New Woman of the Weimar years have to do with the field of social medicine that emerged in the same period? They were all part of a conversation...
Holocaust as Fiction
Bernhard Schlink’s “Nazi” Novels and Their Films
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader , the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work.
Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education
Implications for Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
This book challenges traditional conceptions of readiness in early childhood education by sharing concrete examples of practice, policy and histories that rethink readiness. This book seeks to reimagine possible new educational worlds for young children.
Geocritical Explorations
Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocriticism offers a timely new approach, and this book presents an array of concrete examples or readings, which also reveal the broad range of geocritical practices.
Geocriticism
Real and Fictional Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Geocriticism provides a theoretical foundation and a critical exploration of geocriticism, an interdisciplinary approach to understanding literature in relation to space and place. Drawing on diverse thinkers, Westphal argues that a geocritical approach enables novel ways of seeing literary texts and of conducting literary studies.
The Fear of Insignificance
Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
This book shows how, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Gospel of the free market became the only world-religion of universal validity. The belief that all value needs to be quantifiable was extended to human beings, whose value became dependent on their rating on the various ranking-scales in the global infotainment system.
Cold War Social Science
Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on the entanglement of the social sciences with the Cold War.
NASA in the World
Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency's work. This groundbreaking work is the first to trace NASA's history in a truly international context, drawing on unprecedented access to agency archives and personnel.
Literary Half-Lives
Doris Lessing, Clancy Sigal, and Roman à Clef
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
While Doris Lessing was composing The Golden Notebook , she was intimately involved with Clancy Sigal and their relationship influenced the literary methods of both writers. Focusing on literary transformations, Rubenstein offers compelling insights into the ethical implications of disguised autobiography and roman à clef .
by B. Moloney
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Bringing the skills of a literary historian to the subject, Brian Moloney considers the genesis of Saint Francis of Assisi's Canticle of Brother Sun to show how it works as a carefully composed work of art. The study examines the saint's life and times, the structure of the poem, the features of its style, and the range of its possible meanings.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Focusing on global examples of gender equality, this collection explores non-dominant models of masculinity that represent gender equity in pro-feminist ways. Essays explore new alternative models of masculinity by a wide variety of contemporary authors and texts, ranging from Paul Auster to Jonathan Franzen.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Offering a dialogue between anthropology and literature, culture, and media, this book presents fine-grained ethnographic vignettes of monsters dwelling in the contemporary world. These monsters hail from Aboriginal Australia, the Pacific, Asia, and Europe, and their presence is inextricably intertwined with the lives of those they haunt.
A Cross Too Heavy
Pope Pius XII and the Jews of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
The papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958) has been a source of near-constant criticism and debate since his death, particularly because of his alleged silence during the Holocaust. Paul O'Shea examines his little-studied pre-papal life to demonstrate that Pius was neither an anti-Semitic villain nor a 'lamb without stain.'
Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism
Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This innovative volume provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically innovative answer to an enduring question for Pentecostal/charismatic Christianities: how do women lead churches? This study fills this lacuna by examining the leadership and legacy of two architects of the Pentecostal movement - Maria Woodworth-Etter and Aimee Semple McPherson.