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Imagining Extinction
The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim—the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists are seeking to bring the crisis to the public’s attention through stories and images that use the strategies...
by Steven Johnstone
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy. Yet no one has written a history of trust, one of the most fundamental aspects of social and economic interaction in the ancient world. In this fresh look at antiquity, Steven Johnstone explores the way democracy...
The Constitution in Congress
Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
The Constitution in Congress series has been called nothing less than a biography of the US Constitution for its in-depth examination of the role that the legislative and executive branches have played in the development of constitutional interpretation. This third volume in the series, the early...
Landscapes of the Secular
Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
“What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?” asks Nicolas Howe at the outset of this innovative, ambitious, and wide-ranging book. It’s a surprising question because of what it implies: we usually aren’t seeing American landscapes through a non-religious lens, but rather...
Political Ethnography
What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Scholars of politics have sought in recent years to make the discipline more hospitable to qualitative methods of research. Lauding the results of this effort and highlighting its potential for the future, Political Ethnography makes a compelling case for one such method in particular. Ethnography,...
Unfinished Gestures
Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Unfinished Gestures presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred years of vociferous social reform, including...
Sexual Discretion
Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are attracting increasing interest from both the general media and scholars. Commonly referred to as “down-low” or “DL” men, many continue to have relationships with girlfriends and wives who remain...
by Kerry Ryan Chance
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in South Africa, most discussion centers on ideal forms of movements, disregarding the reality and agency of the activists themselves. In Living Politics, Kerry Ryan Chance radically flips the conversation by focusing on the actual language...
by Howard H. Peckham
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Although the colonial wars consisted of almost continuous raids and skirmishes between the English and French colonists and their Indian allies and enemies, they can be separated into four major conflicts, corresponding to four European wars of which they were, in varying degrees, a part: King William's...
by Richard Dickinson, France Royer
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
“What is a weed,” opined Emerson, “but a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered?” While that may be a worthy notion in theory, these plants of undiscovered virtue cause endless hours of toil for backyard gardeners. Wherever they take root, weeds compete for resources, and most often...
Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition
A Guide to Narrative Craft
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
More than 250,000 copies sold!
A creative writer’s shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway’s best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades it has helped...
Mapping It Out
Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Writers know only too well how long it can take—and how awkward it can be—to describe spatial relationships with words alone. And while a map might not always be worth a thousand words, a good one can help writers communicate an argument or explanation clearly, succinctly, and effectively.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene does just that in this book. Exploring the many different...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
For more than fifty years, The Supreme Court Review has won acclaim for providing a sustained and authoritative survey of the implications of the Court’s most significant decisions. The Supreme Court Review is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, keeping up on the forefront...