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The Crescent Obscured
The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
From the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, encounters with the Muslim world have helped Americans define national identity and purpose. Focusing on America's encounter with the Barbary states of North Africa from 1776 to 1815, Robert Allison traces the perceptions...
Large Carnivore Conservation
Integrating Science and Policy in the North American West
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Drawing on six case studies of wolf, grizzly bear, and mountain lion conservation in habitats stretching from the Yukon to Arizona, Large Carnivore Conservation argues that conserving and coexisting with large carnivores is as much a problem of people and governance—of reconciling diverse and sometimes...
The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community
Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. It was the base of an educational, charitable, and scientific community and consisted of an elite school...
Headless Males Make Great Lovers
And Other Unusual Natural Histories
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
The natural world is filled with diverse—not to mention quirky and odd—animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the male hip-pocket frog that carries his own tadpoles;...
The Refracted Muse
Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique García Santo-Tomás unfolds in The Refracted Muse, the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence—not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry but among creative writers as well.
While...
Courts
A Comparative and Political Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In this provocative work, Martin Shapiro proposes an original model for the study of courts, one that emphasizes the different modes of decision making and the multiple political roles that characterize the functioning of courts in different political systems.
Democracy against Development
Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy...
The Republic Afloat
Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
In the years before the Civil War, many Americans saw the sea as a world apart, an often violent and insular culture governed by its own definitions of honor and ruled by its own authorities. The truth, however, is that legal cases that originated at sea had a tendency to come ashore and force the...
by Heinz Kohut
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
The Austro-American psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut was one of the foremost leaders in his field and developed the school of self-psychology, which sets aside the Freudian explanations for behavior and looks instead at self/object relationships and empathy in order to shed light on human behavior. In How...
Face/On
Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Are our identities attached to our faces? If so, what happens when the face connected to the self is gone forever—or replaced? In Face/On, Sharrona Pearl investigates the stakes for changing the face–and the changing stakes for the face—in both contemporary society and the sciences.
The first...
Life on Ice
A History of New Uses for Cold Blood
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples from indigenous communities around the world. These samples were believed to embody potentially invaluable biological...
War Stories
Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
The American Civil War is often seen as the first modern war, not least because of its immense suffering. Yet unlike later conflicts, it did not produce an outpouring of disillusionment or cynicism, as most people continued to portray the war in highly sentimental and patriotic terms. While scholars...
Disease, War, and the Imperial State
The Welfare of the British Armed Forces during the Seven Years' War
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The Seven Years’ War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, and yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching the resources of European states.
In Disease, War, and...
From a View to a Death
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud—such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society...