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The Essential Peirce, Volume 2
Selected Philosophical Writings (1893-1913)
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 1998
Praise for Volume 1:
... a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces.... all the Peirce most people will ever need." —Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books
Volume 2 of this convenient two-volume chronological reader’s edition provides the first comprehensive...
UNESCO on the Ground
Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has played a crucial role in developing policies and recommendations for dealing with intangible cultural heritage. What has been the effect of such sweeping global policies on those actually affected...
Playing on the Edge
Sadomasochism, Risk, and Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand...
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont
Unlikely Champion of Women's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
A fascinating biography of the New York socialite who played a surprising role in the fight for suffrage.
Born in the middle of the nineteenth century, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. She married two millionaires, and pressured her daughter...
Psychedelic Popular Music
A History through Musical Topic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Recognized for its distinctive musical features and its connection to periods of social innovation and ferment, the genre of psychedelia has exerted long-term influence in many areas of cultural production, including music, visual art, graphic design, film, and literature. William Echard explores...
Amateur Movie Making, Enhanced eBook
Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
A compelling regional and historical study that transforms our understanding of film history, Amateur Movie Making demonstrates how amateur films and home movies stand as testaments to the creative lives of ordinary people, enriching our experience of art and the everyday. Here we encounter the lyrical...
by Wendy Greenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
A highly regarded impressionist-style artist, George Ames Aldrich drew on his years of experience living and studying in Europe to create beautiful landscape paintings. His life and work are explored in this gorgeous book. Many of the artist's finest creations, some representing French subjects and...
Visions of Avant-Garde Film
Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s, Poland’s literary and art scenes were also producing a rich array of criticism and early...
Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2
Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation’s Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern...
American Philanthropic Foundations
Regional Difference and Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in American Philanthropic Foundations: Regional Difference and Change examine the origins, development,...
A History of Britain
1945 to Brexit
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
A journey through the events of the postwar years that “makes the outcome of Britain’s Brexit referendum much easier to comprehend” (Julian Lewis, member of Parliament).
In 2016, Britain stunned itself and the world by voting to pull out of the European Union, leaving financial markets...
The Golden Wave
Culture and Politics after Sri Lanka’s Tsunami Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
In December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents' stories of the disaster and its aftermath: the chaos and loss of the...
The Ohio Frontier
Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1998
The Ohio Frontier
Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830
R. Douglas Hurt
"This exhaustively researched and well-written book provides a comprehensive history of Ohio from 1720 to 1830."
—Journal of the Early Republic
Nowhere on the American frontier was the clash of cultures...
Derailed by Bankruptcy
Life after the Reading Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
What happened when the US government stopped investing in railroads and started investing in highways and air travel? By the late 1970s, six major eastern railroads had declared bankruptcy. Although he didn’t like trains, Howard H. Lewis became the primary lawyer for the Reading Railroad during...