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Snowbird
Integrative Biology and Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
At birdfeeders and in backyards across North America, the dark-eyed junco, or snowbird, can be found foraging for its next meal. With an estimated population of at least 630 million, juncos inhabit forests, parks, and even suburban habitats, making them one of the continent’s most abundant and easily...
Second Growth
The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L. Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be...
The Global Work of Art
World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists’ engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world’s fairs in the nineteenth century, this book argues...
by Abigail Gillman
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational and cultural goals. Not only did translations give...
The Political Philosophy of Hobbes
Its Basis and Its Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is original and innovative in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He argues that Hobbes's ideas arose not from tradition or science but from his own deep knowledge and experience of human nature. Tracing the development of Hobbes's moral...
Physiologus
A Medieval Book of Nature Lore
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, Physiologus contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, infused by their anonymous author with the spirit of Christian moral and mystical teaching. Accompanied by an introduction that explains the origins,...
Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx
Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, and Marcel Duchamp form an unlikely quartet, but they each played a singular role in shaping a new avant-garde for the 1960s and beyond. Each of them staged brash, even shocking, events and produced works that challenged the way the mainstream art world operated...
Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars
Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Exploring Peru’s lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted...
Walls
Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Stone walls, concrete walls, chain-link walls, border walls: we live in a world of walls. Walls mark sacred space and embody earthly power. They maintain peace and cause war. They enforce separation and create unity. They express identity and build community. Yard to nation, city to self, walls define...
Setting Plato Straight
Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars—most of them Catholic—read, digested, and translated Plato, they found themselves faced...
by Andrea Zanzotto
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Andrea Zanzotto is one of the most important and acclaimed poets of postwar Italy. This collection of ninety-one pseudo-haiku in English and Italian—written over several months during 1984 and then revised slowly over the years—confirms his commitment to experimentation throughout his life. Haiku...
The Newark Frontier
Community Action in the Great Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism’s failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security went up in flames during the 1967 riots. While it’s true that these failings shaped Newark’s postwar landscape and...
Children of the Land
Adversity and Success in Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A century ago, most Americans had ties to the land. Now only one in fifty is engaged in farming and little more than a fourth live in rural communities. Though not new, this exodus from the land represents one of the great social movements of our age and is also symptomatic of an unparalleled transformation...
by Alexander Medvedkin
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (1900–89), a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko, is celebrated today for his unique form of “total” documentary cinema, which aimed to bridge the distance between film and life, as well as for his use of satire during a period when the Soviet...