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Gulag Voices
Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
In this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, rather than written memoirs. It brings together interviews with men and women, members of the working class and intelligentsia, people who live in the major...
Rethinking Productive Development
Sound Policies and Institutions for Economic Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Productive transformation requires seizing the opportunities available and opening new ones in a competitive world. Rethinking Productive Development examines the market failures impeding transformation and the government failures that may make the policy remedies worse than the market illness. To...
A Conservative Walks Into a Bar
The Politics of Political Humor
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Conservative critics argue that modern political satire, in the age of The Daily Show, has a liberal bias. A quick review of the humor landscape shows that there are very few conservative political satirists, and using personal interviews with political humorists this book explains why. The book explores...
by S. Sarson
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
A look at the extensive inequality and individualism in Prince George's County, Maryland, and the wider tobacco south, this book draws on colonial historiography to take a groundbreaking approach and examines the profound impacts of the structure of the international tobacco trade on local life.
by Winifred Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature.
by K. Drake
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the revolutionary potential of the novel, transforming literary conventions concerning art and politics, readers and characters.
Emerson and Neo-Confucianism
Crossing Paths over the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
A comparative investigation of Emerson's Transcendental thought and Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, this book shows how both thinkers traced the human morality to the same source in the ultimately moral nature of the universe and developed theories of the interrelation of universal law and the human mind.
(Re:)Working the Ground
Essays on the Late Writings of Robert Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
This collection of essays focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan. Although praised by reviewers, Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the critical attention they merit. Written by a cast of emerging and established scholars, these essays bring together a diverse set of approaches to reading Duncan's writing.
Hemingway’s Geographies
Intimacy, Materiality, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book draws on the tools of literary analysis and cultural geography to investigate Ernest Hemingway's sophisticated construction of physical environments. In doing so, Laura Gruber Godfrey revises conventional approaches to Hemingway’s literary landscapes and provides insight about his fictional characters and his readers alike.
Exploring the Solar System
The History and Science of Planetary Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, undertook an ambitious effort to study the planets of the solar system. The remarkable fruits of this research revolutionized the public's view of their...
Ubuntu Strategies
Constructing Spaces of Belonging in Contemporary South African Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Hanneke Stuit delves into Ubuntu's relevance both in South Africa and in Western contexts, analyzing the political and ethical ramifications of the term's uses in different media including literature, cartoons, journalistic fiction, commercials, commodities, photography, and political manifestos in contemporary South African culture.
Development Macroeconomics in Latin America and Mexico
Essays on Monetary, Exchange Rate, and Fiscal Policies
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Development Macroeconomics in Latin America and Mexico brings the attention of academics, practitioners, and policy makers to the neglected macroeconomic factors that can account for both the unsatisfactory average growth performance of Latin American and the diversity around this average.
Decision Making in Marketing and Finance
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Solving Complex Organizational Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
As interest in MBA programs and business schools more generally continues to grow, it is essential that teachers and students analyse their established strategy for decision making. The successful use of case studies in business schools shows the superior outcomes of an interdisciplinary approach...
On Effective Leadership
Across Domains, Cultures, and Eras
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Using case studies from a wide range of fields and historical settings, On Effective Leadership seeks to explain why some leaders are effective, why many are not, and why only a very few are exceptional.