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Simone
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Eduardo Lalo is one of the most vital and unique voices of Latin American literature, but his work is relatively little known in the English-speaking world. That changes now: this masterful translation of his most celebrated novel, Simone—which won the 2013 Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize—will...
After Freud Left
A Century of Psychoanalysis in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning gallery of leading historians of psychoanalysis and of American culture to consider the broad history of...
Versions of Academic Freedom
From Professionalism to Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Through his columns in the New York Times and his numerous best-selling books, Stanley Fish has established himself as our foremost public analyst of the fraught intersection of academia and politics. Here Fish for the first time turns his full attention to one of the core concepts of the contemporary...
History's Babel
Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880 - 1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
From the late nineteenth century until World War II, competing spheres of professional identity and practice redrew the field of history, establishing fundamental differences between the roles of university historians, archivists, staff at historical societies, history teachers, and others.
In...
Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals
A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place them in sanctuaries. This significant decision comes after a lengthy process of examination and debate about the ethics of animal research. For decades,...
Time Maps
Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
"Time Maps extends beyond all of the old clichés about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history. It is a brilliant and elegant exercise in model building that provides new insights into some of the old questions...
Crime and Justice, Volume 46
Reinventing American Criminal Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Justice Futures: Reinventing American Criminal Justice is the forty-sixth volume in the Crime and Justice series. Contributors include Francis Cullen and Daniel Mears on community corrections; Peter Reuter and Jonathan Caulkins on drug abuse policy; Harold Pollack on drug treatment; David Hemenway...
by Barbara Celarent, Andrew Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent’s essays taken together provide a broad introduction to social thinking. Through...
What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?
The American Revolution in Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Geoffrey Galt Harpham’s book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a community college. In a literature course one...
Talking Art
The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
In Talking Art, acclaimed ethnographer Gary Alan Fine gives us an eye-opening look at the contemporary university-based master’s-level art program. Through an in-depth analysis of the practice of the critique and other aspects of the curriculum, Fine reveals how MFA programs have shifted the goal...
The Lost Black Scholar
Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Allison Davis (1902–83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and the cultural biases of intelligence testing. Davis, one of America’s first black anthropologists and the first tenured...
Toward a Just World
The Critical Years in the Search for International Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
"Toward a Just World is an insightful and thoughtful history. The first half of the twentieth century and the heroic efforts of those who sought international justice during that time will be much better understood and appreciated thanks to this fascinating book."—Robert F. Drinan, Georgetown...
Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling
The Function of Avowal in Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures—which focus on the role of avowal, or confession, in the determination of truth and justice—provide the missing link between...
by Steven Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In The Life of a Leaf, Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate physical environment, a world that both limits what...