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The Beguines of Medieval Paris
Gender, Patronage, and Spiritual Authority
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
In the thirteenth century, Paris was the largest city in Western Europe, the royal capital of France, and the seat of one of Europe's most important universities. In this vibrant and cosmopolitan city, the beguines, women who wished to devote their lives to Christian ideals without taking formal vows,...
Divine Art, Infernal Machine
The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however, it...
Groundwork
Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
"A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."—Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the Foreword
Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) left an indelible mark on American...
by Sigal R. Ben-Porath
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
From the University of California, Berkeley, to Middlebury College, institutions of higher learning increasingly find themselves on the front lines of cultural and political battles over free speech. Repeatedly, students, faculty, administrators, and politically polarizing invited guests square off...
Biotech
The Countercultural Origins of an Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The seemingly unlimited reach of powerful biotechnologies and the attendant growth of the multibillion-dollar industry have raised difficult questions about the scientific discoveries, political assumptions, and cultural patterns that gave rise to for-profit biological research. Given such extraordinary...
by Henri Murger
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
"Today, as of old, every man who enters on an artistic career, without any other means of livelihood than his art itself, will be forced to walk in the paths of Bohemia."—from the Preface
Based largely upon Henri Murger's own experiences and those of his fellow artists, The Bohemians...
The People of This Generation
The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
At the heart of the tumult that marked the 1960s was the unprecedented scale of student protest on university campuses around the world. Identifying themselves as the New Left, as distinguished from the Old Left socialists who engineered the historic labor protests of the 1930s, these young idealists...
by Philip Rawson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
"It is rare to find a book on art that presents complex aesthetic principles in clear readable form. Ceramics, by Philip Rawson, is such a book. I discovered it ten years ago, and today my well-worn copy has scarcely a page on which some statement is not underlined and starred."—Wayne Higby, from the Foreword
by Michael Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Michael Kirby presents a penetrating look a theater theory and analysis. His approach is analytically comprehensive and flexible, and nonevaluative. Case studies demonstrate this unique approach and record performances that otherwise would be lost.
Risk and Ruin
Enron and the Culture of American Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
At the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion. During the 1990s economic boom, the Houston, Texas-based energy company had diversified into commodities and derivatives trading and many other ventures—some more legal...
First City
Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents in the history of...
by April Vahle Hamel, Jennifer S. Furlong
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
For more than fifteen years The Graduate School Funding Handbook has been an invaluable resource for students applying to graduate school in the United States or abroad, at the master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral levels. Illuminating the competitive world of graduate education funding in the arts,...
Deadly Encounters
Two Victorian Sensations
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
In July 1861 London newspapers excitedly reported two violent crimes, both the stuff of sensational fiction. One involved a retired army major, his beautiful mistress and her illegitimate child, blackmail and murder. In the other, a French nobleman was accused of trying to kill his son in order to...
by Vera Schwarcz
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
The Singing Crane Garden in northwest Beijing has a history dense with classical artistic vision, educational experimentation, political struggle, and tragic suffering. Built by the Manchu prince Mianyu in the mid-nineteenth century, the garden was intended to serve as a refuge from the clutter of...