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Backpack Ambassadors
How Youth Travel Integrated Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Even today, in an era of cheap travel and constant connection, the image of young people backpacking across Europe remains seductively romantic. In Backpack Ambassadors, Richard Ivan Jobs tells the story of backpacking in Europe in its heyday, the decades after World War II, revealing that these footloose...
by Amy Corning, Howard Schuman
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
When discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuman, and in Generations and Collective Memory, they...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The recent recession has brought fiscal policy back to the forefront, with economists and policy makers struggling to reach a consensus on highly political issues like tax rates and government spending. At the heart of the debate are fiscal multipliers, whose size and sensitivity determine the power...
Cities in the Urban Age
A Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress will arise. Without cities, we tell ourselves, human...
Neighboring Faiths
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David Nirenberg examines how Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived with and thought...
Paul Klee
The Visible and the Legible
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
The fact that Paul Klee (1879–1940) consistently intertwined the visual and the verbal in his art has long fascinated commentators from Walter Benjamin to Michel Foucault. However, the questions it prompts have never been satisfactorily answered—until now. In Paul Klee, Annie Bourneuf offers...
by Robert Geroch
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
"This beautiful little book is certainly suitable for anyone who has had an introductory course in physics and even for some who have not."—Joshua N. Goldberg, Physics Today
"An imaginative and convincing new presentation of Einstein's theory of general relativity. . . . The...
Land Bridges
Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity. When they form, organisms are introduced into a new patchwork of species and habitats, forever altering the ecosystems into which they flow; and when land bridges disappear or fracture, organisms are separated into reproductively isolated populations...
Power without Victory
Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
For decades, Woodrow Wilson has been remembered as either a paternalistic liberal or reactionary conservative at home and as a naïve idealist or cynical imperialist abroad. Historians’ harsh judgments of Wilson are understandable. He won two elections by promising a deliberative democratic process...
Saving Babies?
The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small blood sample, every baby born in the United States is screened for more than fifty genetic disorders....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012
The field of technical communication is rapidly expanding in both the academic world and the private sector, yet a problematic divide remains between theory and practice. Here Stuart A. Selber and Johndan Johnson-Eilola, both respected scholars and teachers of technical communication, effectively...
Michel Foucault
Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault's work as a whole.
To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault's work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unfold a careful, analytical exposition of his...
The Testing Charade
Pretending to Make Schools Better
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
For decades we’ve been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there’s still little consensus on what works, and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on, however, is that schools need to be held accountable—we need...
Decolonizing the Map
Cartography from Colony to Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Almost universally, newly independent states seek to affirm their independence and identity by making the production of new maps and atlases a top priority. For formerly colonized peoples, however, this process neither begins nor ends with independence, and it is rarely straightforward. Mapping their...