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From the childhood learning of words from her siblings, to her professorship at Duke, she has catalogued her desire to speak a foreign language and thereby to become something foreign and alluring herself.\"--Fred Turner \"Boston Phoenix \" \"French Lessons captures the excitement Kaplan experienced as she fell into the French language: mastering the difficulties of French pronunciation, the forms of the French verb, the forms of French politeness.\"--Thomas McGonigle \"Chicago Tribune \" \"This is the most engaging new bildungsroman I have read in years-and especially because the bildung in question, the learning of French by a young American woman, brings with it such an amazing range of personal drama of modern and contemporary political and cultural history.\"--R. W. B. Lewis","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732911731031,"sku":"9780226564555","price":17.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226564555.jpg?v=1719998920"},{"product_id":"information-now-second-edition-9780226766119","title":"Information Now Second Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eInformation Now\u003c\/i\u003e equips undergraduate students with essential research strategies and tools as they navigate the complex information world. It scaffolds the research process through real-world examples, good humor, and helpful exercises. The authors have packed their many years of information literacy teaching wisdom into this short graphic guide—the comic-book style engages college readers and makes the learning experience enjoyable.” -- Ning Zou, Associate Director for Student Academic Services and Learning Design, Harvard Graduate School of Education\u003cbr\u003e“Upson and Luetkenhaus have energized the second edition with critical issues for today’s global citizen. The addition and breakdown of algorithmic bias, the SIFT method of fact-checking on the web, and the nuances of \u003ci\u003eWikipedia\u003c\/i\u003e are incredibly important for students and lifelong learners alike to engage with and integrate into their daily use of information platforms. 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Having taught college composition classes, I would highly recommend \u003ci\u003eInformation Now\u003c\/i\u003e as a superb companion text. The relatable dialogue, engaging graphics, and creative approach to the subject matter will keep students reading and even enjoying the book.\" * Technical Communication *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Information Overload\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1    The Process: Steps to Finding and Using the Right Information. Anytime. 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Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and ruins images, and the lessons that writers and artists have drawn from their haunting forms.    Stewart takes us on a sweeping journey through founding legends of broken covenants and original sin, the Christian appropriation of the classical past, and images of decay in early modern allegory. Stewart looks in depth at the works of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, each of whom found in ruins a means of reinventing his art. Lively and engaging, The Ruins Lesson ultimately asks what can resist ruinationand finds in the self-transforming, ever-fleeting practices of language and thought a clue to what might truly endure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Why is it, Susan Stewart asks in her deeply researched and gracefully written book \u003ci\u003eThe Ruins Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e, that 'we so often are drawn—in schadenfreude, terror, or what we imagine is transcendence—to the sight of what is broken, damaged, and decayed?'. . . . Stewart is among our most erudite readers of poetry. She is a philologist in the old-fashioned sense: a scholar who combines knowledge of several European and classical languages, a historical awareness of the development and interaction of their literary traditions, and a commitment to philosophical aesthetics that one feels even in her close readings. But she is also a poet, and writes with unfaltering clarity and poise. Finally (a word Stewart might object to), she is a discerning art critic—a skill on full display in her new book.” -- Robyn Creswel * The New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Stewart, a distinguished poet, a former MacArthur fellow and a Princeton professor of the humanities, charts the West’s fascination with decayed remains, from Egyptian relics to contemporary monuments of destruction and trauma. \u003ci\u003eThe Ruins Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping cultural history that draws in Renaissance humanism, 18th-century changes in representing the past and the Romantic reconfiguration of memory. . . . Stewart writes with poetic grace and a nonspecialist’s appreciation of printmaking, painting, literature and architecture. Readers outside the academy will find much to value in this lovely book.” -- Michael S. Roth * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e\"Poet and critic Susan Stewart’s scholarly meditation on ruin and monument, \u003ci\u003eThe Ruins Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e, couldn’t be more topical, in our time of activist iconoclasm.\" -- A.E. Stallings * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e“Susan Stewart’s \u003ci\u003eThe Ruins Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of antiquarians and what they learned from the ruins that obsessed them. Their sensibility, as she shows, was itself ancient. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Ruins Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e makes one point above all: there was no single dominant way of observing ancient ruins and portraying what remained.” -- Anthony Grafton * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ruins weren’t always valued primarily as objects of mood and pleasure. But they’ve long held some form of aesthetic interest in the West. This history, culminating in the Romantic period, is the subject of Stewart’s peripatetic study, an idiosyncratic expedition through the centuries. . . . As motivations, methods, and means vary across geography and history, what remains constant is this: ruins captivate, and ruins provoke a response.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Nathan Goldman * Lapham's Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Stewart’s new book details the long history of Western fascination of contemplating what Shakespeare describes (in Sonnet 55) as ‘unswept stone besmear’d with sluttish time.’ . . . Stewart contends that the immediate emotional impact of looking at a ruin is a reminder of our own deaths, since, unlike a heap of rubble, a ruin bears some traces of what it once was before its fall. . . . . Stewart expects much of her readers, but her writing is also forceful and clear.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Erin L. Thompson * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Susan Stewart’s new book has a finely wrought section on the Romantics, but the special interest of this book is its transhistorical scope and imaginative amplitude. For forty years now, [Stewart] has been one of our most admired poet-critics. . . . This latest title arrives as an elegiac, crowning monument on the perennial entanglement between \u003ci\u003eles mots et les choses \u003c\/i\u003eof European civilization. This is simply the best work on the aesthetics of ruins out there.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Andew Hui * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e“[A] minutely researched and beautifully written study of the enduring allure of ruins and ruination in Western culture. Poised between preservation and obliteration, ruins represent both a presence and an absence that give rise to a range of complex and sometimes contradictory responses. Stewart contemplates Western ruin appreciation in a myriad of forms, teasing out the connections and correspondences among an impressively diverse array of literary and visual sources.” -- Sarah Tiffin * CAA Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"One’s heart leaps at Susan Stewart’s beautifully produced \u003ci\u003eThe Ruins Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e: with eighty high-resolution illustrations and eleven colorful plates set in 7 x10 ̋, the book is a collectable work of art in itself.\" * Modern Philology *\u003cbr\u003e\"The exploration of ruins in the context of 18th-century travel culture is but one of many topics discussed in this beautifully written study, which addresses scholars from a range of fields as well as interested readers. Examining why ruins, as ‘damaged and disappearing vestiges of the built environment, became so significant in Western art and literature’, Stewart’s study centers on exploring the complex intermedial development, changes, and afterlives of semantic fields, cultural ideas, images, and metaphors.\" -- Miriam Volmert * Architectural Histories *\u003cbr\u003e\"Susan Stewart’s \u003ci\u003eThe Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious journey through the visual and literary culture of architectural ruins... This is, in short, a magisterial, informative, and engaging book.\" * Eighteenth-Century Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ruins have long provided a uniquely rich subject for aesthetic meditation and for poetic and visual representation. . . . Stewart has explored this material with a graceful touch that should prove accessible and inviting to educated general readers. The best pages of the book are given over, fittingly, to the brilliant 18th-century engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi, whose specialty was what he called 'parlanti ruine': speaking ruins.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Susan Stewart’s new book \u003ci\u003eThe Ruins Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e offers novel approaches and interpretations that will thrill even those who are as enthusiastic of ruins as she is and who likewise, follow both the classical and recent scholarship on this subject. . . . The book [is] necessary reading for those already well versed in ruins and those wishing to be introduced to the topic.\" -- Zoltán Somhegyi * Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology *\u003cbr\u003e\"The question Stewart seeks to answer in her lucid, erudite, and extensively researched cultural history is the following: why are ruins, which damage the comfort of permanence, such a preoccupation for Western art and literature? . . . \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRuins Lesson \u003c\/i\u003eis the most comprehensive treatment of ruins in European cultural history and displays Stewart’s tremendous expertise in analysis of the visual arts, architecture, and poetry. It is an elegant and immersive read.\" -- Tanvi Solanki * EuropeNow *\u003cbr\u003e\"Lively and engaging, \u003ci\u003eThe Ruins Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately asks what can resist ruination—and finds in the self-transforming, ever-fleeting practices of language and thought a clue to what might truly endure.\" -- Paul Duclos * Cultural Currents *\u003cbr\u003e“At the crossroads of transience and endurance, form and chaos, memory and materiality, ruins have been among the most poignant markers of the vain human struggle to resist the ravages of time. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples from the histories of art and literature, Stewart brings to their interpretation her unique gifts of analytic acumen and poetic evocation. \u003ci\u003eThe Ruins Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e is a master class in cultural criticism, revealing the sweet melancholy that fuels our fascination with the shards, fragments, and torsos of things past.” * Martin E. Jay, University of California, Berkeley *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Ruins Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e explores ruins without end and ruins as an end in themselves in Western culture—autotelic ruins. Wordsworth’s phrase ‘decaying never to be decayed’ signals the Romantic fascination with ruination that Stewart’s erudite book traces from the classical past to its culmination in the work of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth. Through dazzlingly imaginative connections and compelling visual illustrations, Stewart argues that ruins are at once the sign of what remains forever unfinished and sites for discovery. Ruins are the vestiges and traces by which the past inspires the future; whether in printmaking, aesthetics, or poetry, they offer a critique of a materialist approach to art.” * Mary Jacobus, University of Cambridge *\u003cbr\u003e\"Susan Stewart has sculpted a book. If her poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eColumbarium\u003c\/i\u003e, avowed its controlling Empedoclean element to be water, then \u003ci\u003eThe Ruins Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e presents itself as Empedoclean earth . . . Readers are almost set in motion imagining Stewart plying devices and platforms in assembling this book.\" * British Journal of Aesthetics *\u003cbr\u003e“In this expansive, beautifully wrought history of how ruins are imagined, they become sites of wonder, play, and love, places of making as well as places of destruction. In taking up the lessons of ruins, the book explores the varied, volatile forms in which we imagine and remember and care for, or fail to care for, the made and given world. That care shows itself in Stewart’s own quality of attention, the range of her curiosity, the depth of her scholarship, the risk of her thought. This is cultural history as poetic phenomenology.” * Kenneth Gross, University of Rochester *\u003cbr\u003e\"A conscientiously produced work which—via an extensive, exciting string of architectural, pictorial, and literary examples—explores the process by which ruins are interpreted and ideologically appropriated in the West.\" * Arquitectura Viva *\u003cbr\u003e\"Stewart’s gorgeously illustrated book offers readers a prehistory of the enduring appeal of ruins in Western art and literature . . . Drawing on Egyptian and Roman poets, Greek philosophers and Latin etymologies, her love of language permeates the text. Stewart reminds us that poetic and artistic representations of ruins never were and thus never should be segregated, that visual and verbal forms have not only spoken to each other but also for each other.\" * Journal of Modern History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Valuing Ruin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I. Matter: This Ruined Earth\u003cbr\u003e II. Marks: Inscriptions and Spolia\u003cbr\u003e III. Mater: Nymphs, Virgins, and Whores—On the Ruin of Women\u003cbr\u003e IV. Matrix: Humanism and the Rise of the Ruins Print\u003cbr\u003e V. Model: The Architectural Imaginary\u003cbr\u003e VI. Mirrors: The Voyages and Fantasies of the Ruins Craze\u003cbr\u003e VII. The Unfinished: On the Nonfinality of Certain Works of Art\u003cbr\u003e VIII. Resisting Ruin: The Decay of Monuments and the Promises of Language\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Photography Credits\u003cbr\u003e Name Index\u003cbr\u003e Subject Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732921692503,"sku":"9780226792200","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226792200.jpg?v=1719998959"},{"product_id":"culture-and-language-at-crossed-purposes-9780226818467","title":"Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCulture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period.    Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treatiesa stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records. A noted scholar of the textual conditions of literature, McGann investigates canonical works from the colonial period, including the Arbella sermon and key writings of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather's Magnalia, Benjamin Franklin's celebrated treaty folios and Autobiography, and Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia. These are highly practical, purpose-driven worksthe record of Enlightenment dreams put to the severe test of dangerous conditions. McGann suggests that the treaty-makers never doubted the unsettled character of what they were prosecuting, and a similar conflicted eth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bradford, Winthrop, Bradstreet, Mather, Franklin, Jefferson—over one hundred years of North American colonial treaty-making. McGann has spent the last decade studying early American texts, but this book reflects an entire career of fierce reading. \u003ci\u003eCulture and Language at Crossed Purposes\u003c\/i\u003e is an exercise in accuracy, thoroughness, and candor, the values that McGann calls for in scholarship today. His enduring concern with method makes this an important book for readers in the humanities more broadly.” * Anna Brickhouse, author of 'The Unsettlement of America' *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCulture and Language at Crossed Purposes\u003c\/i\u003e is a sophisticated rethinking of both the American literary tradition and the methods that have been used to study it. There is a lesson in this book for those who would study truth and beauty today: study of the human record requires a rigor tempered with a profoundly human sense of the failure immanent to the historiographical enterprise.” * Matt Cohen, author of 'Colonial Mediascapes' *\u003cbr\u003e\"What is ultimately at stake for McGann is not merely the contested and fragmented history of early eras but also the very nature of the humanistic endeavor by which contemporary people struggle to comprehend them. Historically capacious yet precise, analytically fluid, and beautifully written, this book models and inspires humanistic scholarship committed to precision, detail, and to truth itself.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1: Scope and Method\u003cbr\u003e 2: The Exceptional Encounter\u003cbr\u003e 3: On Native Grounds: North American Treaty-Making (ca. 1609–1721)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Puritan Enlightenment: \u003ci\u003eVia Dolorosa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e 4: William Bradford: The Diary (1620–21), the History (\u003ci\u003eOf Plymouth Plantation\u003c\/i\u003e), and the Hebrew Studies\u003cbr\u003e 5: John Winthrop: From Journal to History\u003cbr\u003e 6: Anne Bradstreet: The World Elsewhere\u003cbr\u003e 7: Cotton Mather’s \u003ci\u003eMagnalia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Interchapter 1. Covenant Chain Treaty-Making and Franklin’s Folios\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Secular Enlightenment: The Importance of Failure\u003cbr\u003e 8: Franklin’s \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e: Composition as Explanation\u003cbr\u003e 9: The Education of Thomas Jefferson\u003cbr\u003e Interchapter 2. The End of \u003ci\u003eKaswentha\u003c\/i\u003e: A Brief History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Truth and Method\u003cbr\u003e 10: The \u003ci\u003eArbella\u003c\/i\u003e Sermon: A Case Study\u003cbr\u003e 11: The American Scholar in the Twenty-first Century\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732925559127,"sku":"9780226818467","price":21.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226818467.jpg?v=1719998975"},{"product_id":"american-mediterraneans-a-study-in-geography-history-and-race-9780226819648","title":"American Mediterraneans A Study in Geography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this stunningly original book, Susan Gillman takes the reader on a journey through multiply imagined American Mediterraneans and their contrasting encodings of race, climate and geographical destiny. Opening and ending with vigorous interrogations of the legacies of Humboldt and Braudel, she focuses on the two New World regions where the Mediterranean allusion has had the most fraught political history. In Southern California, Anglo-American entrepreneurs, otherwise ignorant of the authentic Mediterranean character of the environment, invented a romantic Spanish culture to sell real-estate while expunging indigenous and Mexican histories. In the circum-Caribbean, meanwhile, Mediterraneity with a more Roman and imperial inflection helped justify the expansionist project of slaveowners. In each case, Gillman warns us that geohistorical metaphors have often served as quasi-scientific projections of a Western right to conquest.\" * Mike Davis, author of 'Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster' *\u003cbr\u003eDeftly navigating an astonishing range of sources, Gillman unearths a surprisingly rich tradition of comparing various features of American geography and culture to the Mediterranean. Rather than simply the application of a ‘classical’ European model, however, she shows that this comparative impulse was unruly and volatile, a grammar of speculation deployed above all in moments of racial crisis and political upheaval. Her meticulous reconstruction of the disparate networks of American Mediterranean thought are ultimately a template for an innovative approach to comparative analysis, focusing on the productive effects of dissonance and disjunction inherent in any practice of translation.” * Brent Hayes Edwards, author of 'The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism' *\u003cbr\u003e“With Humboldt and Braudel as her main compass points, Gillman charts the ‘strange career’ of her title phrase across the Caribbean and California, disrupting settled ideas about geography, race, and climate. Methodologically innovative and teeming with insights, highly speculative and yet grounded in textual detail, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mediterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling new model for comparative studies. Cultural history doesn’t get any better than this.” * Peter Hulme, author of 'Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492–1797' *\u003cbr\u003e“In a virtuoso performance, Gillman brilliantly applies the idea of a ‘Mediterranean’ to America’s coasts and waters and offers fascinating evidence for the way the concept has been deployed in depictions of the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and California, by geographers, writers, artists, and filmmakers.” * David Abulafia, author of 'The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean' *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Mediterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e is a prescient work of comparative literary geography sparked in part by the transnational turn in American studies. . . . Gillman is an agile cultural historian. Having previously investigated racist pseudoscience in her 2003 book \u003ci\u003eBlood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult\u003c\/i\u003e, she now explores how racial hierarchies shape geography and architecture.\" -- Cherene Sherrard-Johnson * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this highly original study, Gillman traces the discursive invention of so-called American Mediterraneans: various writers compared North American lands and bodies of water to the classical Mediterranean. . . Recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Preface: The Strange Career of the American Mediterraneans\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Beginning with Humboldt\u003cbr\u003e 1 American Mediterraneans: A Space-Timeline\u003cbr\u003e 2 Nineteenth-Century Geographers and Their Mediterraneans\u003cbr\u003e 3 1890s California-Pacific Mediterraneans\u003cbr\u003e 4 1940s Gulf-Caribbean Mediterraneans\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Ending with Braudel\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e A gallery of figures follows page 000\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732926345559,"sku":"9780226819648","price":57.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226819648.jpg?v=1719998978"},{"product_id":"medieval-marvels-and-fictions-in-the-latin-west-and-islamic-world-9780226819754","title":"Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA cross-cultural study of magical phenomena in the Middle Ages.     Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers' stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature but also in the period's philosophical writing. Rather than constructions of belief accepted only by simple-minded people, Michelle Karnes shows that these spectacular wonders were near impossibilities that demanded scrutiny and investigation.     This is the first book to analyze a diverse set of writings on such wonders, comparing texts from the Latin Westincluding those written in English, French, Italian, and Castilian Spanish with those written in Arabic as it works toward a unifying theory of marvels across different disciplines and cultures. Karnes tells a story about the parallels between Arabic and Latin thought, reminding us that experiences of the strange and the unfamiliar travel across a range of genres, spanning geographical and conceptual space and offering an ideal \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An adventurous comparative study of Christian and Islamic culture from the seventh to the fourteenth centuries, with forays into later works such as \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e. [Karnes] looks at natural philosophy and optics, cognitive theories, travel literature and wonder tales, seeing in these varied disciplines a common thread of intellectual curiosity.\" * New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“Few scholars of medieval Europe have sought to put the body of writings on marvels produced in the Latin West in dialogue with currents in Arabic letters. Karnes navigates this terrain with sophistication and erudition. The breadth is stunning, and the comfort and ease that Karnes exhibits throughout a broad swath of intellectual endeavors are truly remarkable. This will be a vital work for students and scholars of intellectual history for years to come. We need more scholarship just like this: willing to take risks, to explore distant terrain, and to open new conversations.” -- Travis Zadeh, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e“This is an excellent and refreshingly new account of the marvelous in medieval cultures. Karnes approaches marvels as a philosophical problem. Whether natural or invented, a marvel arouses wonder because of its liminal status as a rare, implausible, yet not impossible event or object. A particular strength is that Karnes goes beyond treating Arabic philosophy and literature as ‘influences’ on the West and works directly with the Arabic sources.” -- Barbara Newman, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote to the Reader\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Marvels and the Philosophy of Imagination: True Dreams, Prophecy, and Possession\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Marvels and the Philosophy of Imagination: Bewitchment, Telekinesis, and the Moving of Mountains\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Philosophers’ Fables\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Imaginative Geography\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Marvelous Trials\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \u003ci\u003eMutatis Mirabilibus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732926509399,"sku":"9780226819754","price":22.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226819754.jpg?v=1719998979"},{"product_id":"american-mediterraneans-a-study-in-geography-history-and-race-9780226819662","title":"American Mediterraneans A Study in Geography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this stunningly original book, Susan Gillman takes the reader on a journey through multiply imagined American Mediterraneans and their contrasting encodings of race, climate and geographical destiny. Opening and ending with vigorous interrogations of the legacies of Humboldt and Braudel, she focuses on the two New World regions where the Mediterranean allusion has had the most fraught political history. In Southern California, Anglo-American entrepreneurs, otherwise ignorant of the authentic Mediterranean character of the environment, invented a romantic Spanish culture to sell real-estate while expunging indigenous and Mexican histories. In the circum-Caribbean, meanwhile, Mediterraneity with a more Roman and imperial inflection helped justify the expansionist project of slaveowners. In each case, Gillman warns us that geohistorical metaphors have often served as quasi-scientific projections of a Western right to conquest.\" * Mike Davis, author of 'Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster' *\u003cbr\u003eDeftly navigating an astonishing range of sources, Gillman unearths a surprisingly rich tradition of comparing various features of American geography and culture to the Mediterranean. Rather than simply the application of a ‘classical’ European model, however, she shows that this comparative impulse was unruly and volatile, a grammar of speculation deployed above all in moments of racial crisis and political upheaval. Her meticulous reconstruction of the disparate networks of American Mediterranean thought are ultimately a template for an innovative approach to comparative analysis, focusing on the productive effects of dissonance and disjunction inherent in any practice of translation.” * Brent Hayes Edwards, author of 'The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism' *\u003cbr\u003e“With Humboldt and Braudel as her main compass points, Gillman charts the ‘strange career’ of her title phrase across the Caribbean and California, disrupting settled ideas about geography, race, and climate. Methodologically innovative and teeming with insights, highly speculative and yet grounded in textual detail, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mediterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling new model for comparative studies. Cultural history doesn’t get any better than this.” * Peter Hulme, author of 'Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492–1797' *\u003cbr\u003e“In a virtuoso performance, Gillman brilliantly applies the idea of a ‘Mediterranean’ to America’s coasts and waters and offers fascinating evidence for the way the concept has been deployed in depictions of the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and California, by geographers, writers, artists, and filmmakers.” * David Abulafia, author of 'The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean' *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Mediterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e is a prescient work of comparative literary geography sparked in part by the transnational turn in American studies. . . . Gillman is an agile cultural historian. Having previously investigated racist pseudoscience in her 2003 book \u003ci\u003eBlood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult\u003c\/i\u003e, she now explores how racial hierarchies shape geography and architecture.\" -- Cherene Sherrard-Johnson * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this highly original study, Gillman traces the discursive invention of so-called American Mediterraneans: various writers compared North American lands and bodies of water to the classical Mediterranean. . . Recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Preface: The Strange Career of the American Mediterraneans\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Beginning with Humboldt\u003cbr\u003e 1 American Mediterraneans: A Space-Timeline\u003cbr\u003e 2 Nineteenth-Century Geographers and Their Mediterraneans\u003cbr\u003e 3 1890s California-Pacific Mediterraneans\u003cbr\u003e 4 1940s Gulf-Caribbean Mediterraneans\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Ending with Braudel\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e A gallery of figures follows page 000\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732926542167,"sku":"9780226819662","price":16.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226819662.jpg?v=1719998979"},{"product_id":"maladies-of-the-will-9780226822013","title":"Maladies of the Will","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn examination of the nineteenth-century American novel that argues for a new genealogy of the concept of the will.    What if the modern person were defined not by reason or sentiment, as Enlightenment thinkers hoped, but by will? Western modernity rests on the ideal of the autonomous subject, charting a path toward self-determination. Yet novelists have portrayed the will as prone to insufficiency or excessfrom indecision to obsession, wild impulse to melancholic inertia. Jennifer Fleissner's ambitious book shows how the novel's attention to the will's maladies enables an ongoing interrogation of modern premises from within.    Maladies of the Will reveals the nineteenth-century American novel's relation to a wide-ranging philosophical tradition, highly relevant to our own tumultuous present. In works from Moby-Dick and The Scarlet Letter to Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons and Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition, the will's grandeur and its perversity emerge as it altern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this brilliant, utterly singular study of the will, the modern individual, and modernity itself as problems, Fleissner makes a stunning intervention in the history and theory of the novel. It is no exaggeration to say that \u003ci\u003eMaladies of the Will\u003c\/i\u003e is on par with the achievements of Ian Watt and György Lukács. But Fleissner’s ability to combine astonishing erudition with deft diagnoses of critical impasses in our present strikes me as unparalleled. This book marks nothing less than a historical turning point in how we will read literature.” * Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago *\u003cbr\u003e“Full of dazzling philosophical insight, \u003ci\u003eMaladies of the Will\u003c\/i\u003e offers a striking new way to understand the American novel. Fleissner shows us how the novel is uniquely equipped to grapple with the irreducible strangeness of the human will. To evade the problem of the will––as some strands of current thought tend to do––is to miss what novels have uncovered about the dilemmas of agency that continue to define our lives. A tremendous achievement.” * Nancy A. Bentley, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\u003e“This long-awaited monograph is poised to transform literary studies and philosophy with a brilliant reexamination of two of these disciplines’ most cherished objects of study: the novel and the will. . . Combining astonishing foresight and erudition, \u003ci\u003eMaladies of the Will\u003c\/i\u003e will revolutionize why we read that most modern of forms, the novel, and how we think of that most ancient of problems, the will.” * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\"In one of the most comprehensive and erudite Americanist contributions to the field of literature and philosophy in quite some time, Fleissner challenges many of the assumptions underwriting the currently regnant posthumanist paradigm. . . . The book should be required reading, not just for those still willing to defend the (ostensibly) lost cause of the willful human subject, but also (and especially) those for whom the so-called death of the subject cannot come fast enough.\" * Transatlantica *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this ambitious study, [Fleissner] offers a new interpretation of the novel and its evolving form . . . Recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e    The Book’s Organization\u003cbr\u003e    Chapter Descriptions\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Novel and the Will\u003cbr\u003e    Literary-Critical (from Lionel Trilling to Zadie Smith)\u003cbr\u003e    Historical (from Augustine to Romanticism)\u003cbr\u003e    Theoretical (from Locke and Sentimentalism to Pragmatism and Affect—and an Alternative to Both)\u003cbr\u003e 1 Before and After the Novel: Abyssal Modernity and the Interior Life of the Will\u003cbr\u003e    The Strange Problem of Too Much Interiority\u003cbr\u003e    The “Awfully Expanded World”: Seventeenth-Century Selfhood and Its Precursors\u003cbr\u003e    The Eighteenth Century Tames the Self\u003cbr\u003e    The Return of the Wilderness Within, from the Gothic to Kant\u003cbr\u003e    Law and Freedom in \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 Vitalizing the Bildungsroman\u003cbr\u003e    The Bildungsroman as a Body’s Story\u003cbr\u003e    The Birth of Medical Vitalism: The Body as Wayward Will\u003cbr\u003e    Vitalist Legacies, I: Sensibility, Romanticism, and the Birth of Psychology\u003cbr\u003e    \u003ci\u003eThe Morgesons\u003c\/i\u003e as Vitalist Bildungsroman\u003cbr\u003e    The Reflex and the Return to Mechanism\u003cbr\u003e    Vitalist Legacies, II: The Alternative Neovitalisms of Goldstein and Canguilhem\u003cbr\u003e 3 General Willfulness: \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e and Romantic Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e    Modernity’s Two Wills\u003cbr\u003e    Ahab, or Anatomizing the Romantic Will (Hegel, Fichte, Lukács)\u003cbr\u003e    Ishmael and Intensity (Spinoza, Schopenhauer)\u003cbr\u003e    The General Will (Rousseau, Arendt)\u003cbr\u003e    Coda: Pip’s Dissent\u003cbr\u003e 4 The James Brothers at Century’s End: Mysticism, Abstraction, and the Forms of Social Life\u003cbr\u003e    William and the Will\u003cbr\u003e    Four Visions of Sociality: Intermingling, Fusion, Intersubjectivity, Form\u003cbr\u003e    William and the Sick Soul\u003cbr\u003e    The Social Phantasmagoria of \u003ci\u003eThe Ambassadors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 “Begin All Over Again”: Naturalism, Habit, and the Embodiment of the Will\u003cbr\u003e    Evolutionary Economics and the Moral Danger of Doing Nothing\u003cbr\u003e    The Brute’s Two Faces: Frank Norris’s \u003ci\u003eVandover\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Subjects of Interest and Habit in Contemporary Theory: Sedgwick, Berlant, Foucault\u003cbr\u003e    Nietzsche’s Return to Vitalism\u003cbr\u003e    Coda: Humanization Run Wild\u003cbr\u003e 6 Narrative and Its Discontents: Racial Justice, Existential Action, and the Problem of the Past\u003cbr\u003e    The “Racial Politics of Temporality,” Then and Now (Hopkins and Dunbar)\u003cbr\u003e    The Realist Insistence: Chesnutt’s \u003ci\u003eMarrow of Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    A Certain Distance: The Uncanny Everyday (Spillers and Freud)\u003cbr\u003e    Du Bois and the Moment of Hesitation\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732928246103,"sku":"9780226822013","price":84.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226822013.jpg?v=1719998987"},{"product_id":"maladies-of-the-will-9780226822020","title":"Maladies of the Will","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this brilliant, utterly singular study of the will, the modern individual, and modernity itself as problems, Fleissner makes a stunning intervention in the history and theory of the novel. It is no exaggeration to say that \u003ci\u003eMaladies of the Will\u003c\/i\u003e is on par with the achievements of Ian Watt and György Lukács. But Fleissner’s ability to combine astonishing erudition with deft diagnoses of critical impasses in our present strikes me as unparalleled. This book marks nothing less than a historical turning point in how we will read literature.” * Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago *\u003cbr\u003e“Full of dazzling philosophical insight, \u003ci\u003eMaladies of the Will\u003c\/i\u003e offers a striking new way to understand the American novel. Fleissner shows us how the novel is uniquely equipped to grapple with the irreducible strangeness of the human will. To evade the problem of the will––as some strands of current thought tend to do––is to miss what novels have uncovered about the dilemmas of agency that continue to define our lives. A tremendous achievement.” * Nancy A. Bentley, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\u003e“This long-awaited monograph is poised to transform literary studies and philosophy with a brilliant reexamination of two of these disciplines’ most cherished objects of study: the novel and the will. . . Combining astonishing foresight and erudition, \u003ci\u003eMaladies of the Will\u003c\/i\u003e will revolutionize why we read that most modern of forms, the novel, and how we think of that most ancient of problems, the will.” * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\"In one of the most comprehensive and erudite Americanist contributions to the field of literature and philosophy in quite some time, Fleissner challenges many of the assumptions underwriting the currently regnant posthumanist paradigm. . . . The book should be required reading, not just for those still willing to defend the (ostensibly) lost cause of the willful human subject, but also (and especially) those for whom the so-called death of the subject cannot come fast enough.\" * Transatlantica *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this ambitious study, [Fleissner] offers a new interpretation of the novel and its evolving form . . . 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Turning things into images, abolishing the real world, grasping the world as little more than a text or sign-system—this is notoriously the very logic of our own consumer society, the society of the image or the media event . . . [\u003ci\u003eThe Family Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e] may well speak with terrifying immediacy [today].” -- Fredric Jameson, on the unabridged edition * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e“A virtuoso performance. . . . For all that this book does to make one reconsider his life, \u003ci\u003eThe Family Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e is less a case study of Flaubert than it is a final installment of Sartre’s mythology.” * New York Review of Books, on the unabridged edition *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Family Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e, Sartre’s last \u003ci\u003emagnum opus\u003c\/i\u003e, a penetrating and challenging analysis of Gustave Flaubert, has remained less well known than his earlier works, in large measure because of the inordinate length of the original version. 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School reform is almost always born out of big dreams and well-meaning desires to change the status quo. But between lofty reform legislation and the students whose education is at stake, there are numerous additional policies and policymakers who determine how reforms operate. Even in the best cases, school reform initiatives can perpetuate problems created by earlier reforms or existing injustices, all while introducing new complications. In Reforming the Reform, political scientist Susan L. Moffitt, education policy scholar Michaela Krug O'Neill, and the late policy and education scholar David K. Cohen take on a wide-ranging examination of the many intricacies of school reform.    With a particular focus on policymakers in the spaces between legislation and implementation, such as the countless school superintendents and district leaders tasked with developing new policies in the unique context of their district or schools, the authors identify common problems that arise when trying to operationalize ambitious reform ideas. Their research draws on more than 250 interviews with administrators in Tennessee and California (chosen as contrasts for their different political makeup and centralization of the education system) and is presented here alongside survey data from across the United States as well as archival data to demonstrate how public schools shoulder enormous responsibilities for the American social safety net. 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And it gives voice to teachers, principals, district officials, and others who must navigate the fresh problems arising from the collision of new reform efforts with old capacities and policy terrains. An unparalleled, expert analysis of the promise and pitfalls of the American policymaking system in education and well beyond.\"   \u003cbr\u003e   -- Andrea Louise Campbell, author of Trapped in America’s Safety Net\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book meticulously analyzes an enduring tension between change and continuity in education policy. Focusing on policymaking in the middle, between national legislation and frontline practice, the authors cogently theorize how knowledge, organization, and politics interact to enable and constrain policy and practice. By using the words and experiences of policymakers in state agencies, county offices, and school districts, the authors animate mezzo-level policymaking and its entailments for policy implementation.  A must-read for all education policy scholars and for practitioners of policymaking and implementation!\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- James Spillane, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReforming the Reform \u003c\/i\u003eprovides an original conceptual framework for thinking through the processes the reform sparks and the obstacles that challenge making those reforms work and stick. Offering an up-to-date and wide-ranging review of major policy initiatives, it will find a wide audience among education policy scholars and policy makers.” -- Jeffrey Henig, Teachers College, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1 What Happens after Reforms?\u003cbr\u003e 2 Inherited Terrains: The Political, Economic, and Social Foundations of American Public Schools\u003cbr\u003e 3 How Reforms Create Problems: New Policies, Inherited Terrains, and New Problems\u003cbr\u003e 4 Problems of Policy Spillover\u003cbr\u003e 5 Problems of Policy Overload\u003cbr\u003e With Cadence Willse\u003cbr\u003e 6 Problems of Policy Pockets\u003cbr\u003e With Cadence Willse\u003cbr\u003e 7 Problems of Policy Sparks\u003cbr\u003e 8 Learning from Reforms to the Reform\u003cbr\u003e Technical Appendix A: Supplemental Tables\u003cbr\u003e Technical Appendix B: Methodological Approach\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732930277719,"sku":"9780226825854","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226825854.jpg?v=1719998994"},{"product_id":"reforming-the-reform-9780226826943","title":"Reforming the Reform","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn expansive study of the problems encountered by educational leaders in pursuit of reform, and how these issues cyclically translate into future topics of reform.    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Like no other work, it illuminates the policymaking stages \u003ci\u003ebetween \u003c\/i\u003elegislative passage of policy reforms and frontline implementation, centering on mid-level actors whose consequential decisions occur far from the limelight.  As a case study in contemporary education policy, it vividly demonstrates the complications of foisting social policy responsibilities onto K-12 schools, to compensate for the threadbare safety net elsewhere. And it gives voice to teachers, principals, district officials, and others who must navigate the fresh problems arising from the collision of new reform efforts with old capacities and policy terrains. An unparalleled, expert analysis of the promise and pitfalls of the American policymaking system in education and well beyond.\"   \u003cbr\u003e   -- Andrea Louise Campbell, author of Trapped in America’s Safety Net\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book meticulously analyzes an enduring tension between change and continuity in education policy. Focusing on policymaking in the middle, between national legislation and frontline practice, the authors cogently theorize how knowledge, organization, and politics interact to enable and constrain policy and practice. By using the words and experiences of policymakers in state agencies, county offices, and school districts, the authors animate mezzo-level policymaking and its entailments for policy implementation.  A must-read for all education policy scholars and for practitioners of policymaking and implementation!\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- James Spillane, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReforming the Reform \u003c\/i\u003eprovides an original conceptual framework for thinking through the processes the reform sparks and the obstacles that challenge making those reforms work and stick. Offering an up-to-date and wide-ranging review of major policy initiatives, it will find a wide audience among education policy scholars and policy makers.” -- Jeffrey Henig, Teachers College, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1 What Happens after Reforms?\u003cbr\u003e 2 Inherited Terrains: The Political, Economic, and Social Foundations of American Public Schools\u003cbr\u003e 3 How Reforms Create Problems: New Policies, Inherited Terrains, and New Problems\u003cbr\u003e 4 Problems of Policy Spillover\u003cbr\u003e 5 Problems of Policy Overload\u003cbr\u003e With Cadence Willse\u003cbr\u003e 6 Problems of Policy Pockets\u003cbr\u003e With Cadence Willse\u003cbr\u003e 7 Problems of Policy Sparks\u003cbr\u003e 8 Learning from Reforms to the Reform\u003cbr\u003e Technical Appendix A: Supplemental Tables\u003cbr\u003e Technical Appendix B: Methodological Approach\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732931162455,"sku":"9780226826943","price":23.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226826943.jpg?v=1719999000"},{"product_id":"the-enduring-classroom-9780226828831","title":"The Enduring Classroom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking analysis of how teachers actually teach and have taught in the past.     The quality and effectiveness of teaching are a constant subject of discussion within the profession and among the broader public. Most of that conversation focuses on the question of how teachers should teach. In The Enduring Classroom, veteran teacher and scholar of education Larry Cuban explores different questions, ones that just might be more important: How have teachers actually taught? How do they teach now? And what can we learn from both?  Examining both past and present is crucial, Cuban explains. If reformers want teachers to adopt new techniques, they need to understand what teachers are currently doing if they want to have any hope of having their innovations implemented. 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Social climbers have often been the core characters of novels. Their position between traditional tiers in society makes them touchstones for any political and literary moment, including our own. Morgane Cadieu's study looks at a certain kind of social climber in contemporary French literature whom she calls the parvenant. Taken from the French term parvenu, which refers to one who is newly arrived, a parvenant is a character who shuttles between social groups. A parvenant may become part of a new social class but devises literary ways to come back, constantly undoing any fixed idea of social affiliation.    Focusing on recent French novels and autobiographies, On Both Sides of the Tracks speaks powerfully to issues of emancipation and class. 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Kim, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOn Both Sides of the Tracks\u003c\/i\u003e shows the narrative of social mobility—at a time of increased \u003ci\u003eim\u003c\/i\u003emobility—to be an intimate, if ambivalent, structure of literary fiction and nonfiction. The intimacy works both ways: the \u003ci\u003eparvenant \u003c\/i\u003eis also an uncanny figure for the reader-writer, the class-crossing ‘I’\/eye imparting to reality the force of the literary. Cadieu attends exquisitely to how details, language, style, tropes, punctuation, and intertexts encode the unending effort and self-consciousness of socio-symbolic passing. 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