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Book SynopsisDesigned for use as a dissection guide in comparative vertebrate anatomy or in mammalian anatomyTrade Review'The text describes the norm, and for the sake of brevity the numerous variations which may be encountered in the laboratory are not described. I have used a combination of diagrammatic marginal illustrations, which are labeled directly, and larger realistic illustration, which are labeled with numbered keys.' - Stephen G. Gilbert (author)Table of Contents1) The Skeleton 2) The Muscles 3) The Digestive and Respiratory Systems 4) The Urogenital System 5) The Circulatory System 6) The Nervous System 7) The Eye 8) The Ear Bibliography Definitions of Descriptive Terms Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the most intellectually enriching interdisciplinary studies of art that has ever been written. It combines breadth of learning with lucidity of thought and expression, in a way that should engage the interest of anyone with a systematic interest in the arts—be it scientific, or from the viewpoint of the humanities." * Nature *

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Book SynopsisDoris Chase has achieved international stature as a pioneer in the field of video art since she moved from Seattle to New York City in 1972. An artist of remarkable and continuous creativity, Chase now divides her time between her video headquarters in New York and a Seattle studio where she works on new projects in painting and sculpture. Beginning as an innovative painter and sculptor in Seattle in the 1950s, Chase created sculpture that was meant to be touched and manipulated by the viewer. Chase then developed large-scale kinetic sculptures in collaboration with choreographers, and her art was set in motion by dancers. In New York, her majors contribution to the evolution of artists' video has been her work in videodance. On videotape, dancers and sculpture evolve into luminous abstract forms which represent some of the most sophisticated employments of video technology by an artist of the 1970s. In the 1980s, Chase began working in the nascent genre of video theater. In these pr

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the place of art in human evolution and in the futureTrade Review"Dissanayake argues that art was central to human evolutionary adaptation and that the aesthetic faculty is a basic psychological component of every human being. In her view, art is intimately linked to the origins of religious practices and to ceremonies of birth, death, transition, and transcendence. Drawing on her years in Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea, she gives examples of painting, song, dance, and drama as behaviors that enable participants to grasp and reinforce what is important to their cognitive world." * Publishers Weekly *"Ellen Dissanayake’s book is the most forceful rejoinder I’ve read so far to the trivializing pessimism of postmodernist art theory." -- Kenneth Baker * San Francisco Chronicle *"Affirm[s] the idea that art is for life’s sake, for the fulfillment of fundamental human needs, and for human survival. . . . She gives us a coherent rationale for funding broadly based arts programs." * Art Therapy *"Homo Aestheticus offers a wealth of original and critical thinking. It will inform and irritate specialist, student, and lay reader alike." * American Anthropologist *"Homo Aestheticus calls for a counterrevolution in our thinking about art. It is timely, provocative, and immensely valuable." * Philosophy and Literature *Table of ContentsPreface to the 1995 Edition Preface to the Original Edition Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Why Species-Centrism? 2. Biology and Art: The Implications of Feeling Good 3. The Core of Art: Making Special 4. Dromena, or "Things Done": Reconciling Culture and Nature 5. The Arts as Means of Enhancement 6. "Empathy Theory" Reconsidered: The Psychobiology of Aesthetic Responses 7. Does Writing Erase Art? Notes References Index of Names Index of Subjects Credits

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography.Trade Review"A remarkable book that discusses the millennial tension between the age-old Jewish commandment - and tradition - of remembrance and the relatively new Jewish interest in history." * American Historical Review *"Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi is an exemplary Jewish historian of the Jews, and with Zakhor he becomes an exemplary theorist of the troubling and possibly irreconcilable split between Jewish memory and Jewish historiography. . . [Zakhor] may well be a permanent contribution to Jewish speculation upon the dilemmas of Jewishness, and so it may join the canon of Jewish wisdom literature." * New York Review of Books *"Mr. Yerushalmi’s previous writings, on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews . . . established him as one of the Jewish community’s most important historians. His latest book should establish him as one of its most important critics. Zakhor is historical thinking of a very high order —- mature speculation based on massive scholarship." * New York Times Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword by Harold Bloom Preface to the 1996 Edition Preface to the 1989 Edition Prologue to the Original Edition 1. Biblical and Rabbinic Foundations - Meaning in History, Memory, and the Writing of History 2. The Middle Ages - Vessels and Vehicles of Jewish Memory 3. In the Wake of the Spanish Expulsion 4. Modern Dilemas - Historiography and Its Discontents Postscript - Reflections on Forgetting Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis remarkable study explores the use of the visual and performing arts to promote nonviolence and social harmony in sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses on Gelede, a popular community festival of masquerade, dance, and song, held several times a year by the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. Babatunde Lawal, an art historian and African scholar who has taught in Nigeria, Brazil, and the United States, is himself a Yoruba and has taken an active part in Gelede. He writes from the perspective of an informed participant/observer of his own culture.Lawal bases his book on extensive field researchobservations and interviewsconducted over more than two decades as well as on numerous published and unpublished scholarly sources. He casts significant new light on many previously obscure aspects of Gelede, and he demonstrates a useful methodological approach to the study of non-Western art.The book systematically covers the major aspects of the Gelede sp

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface A Note on Hungarian Names Playtime: Adult Language Learning, Edmund Wilson, and Me "What the Moment Told Me": The Photographs of Andre Kertesz The Archives of St. Elizabeth of Hungary Without Words: Hungarians in North American Fiction The Empty Box: Hollywood Ethnicity and Joe Eszterhas A Short Dictionary of Hungarian Stereotypes and Kitsch Visiting Pannonia Toward a Course on Central European Literature in Translation The Poet as Translator: Margaret Avison's "Hungarian Snap" Introducing Peter Esterhazy "What Comes After": Hungarian Voices, Summer 1993 The Third Generation and the "Problem" of Ethnicty Notes Bibliography Credits Index

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Book SynopsisDocuments how Western traditions influenced the formation of Taiwan's legal structure through the conduit of Japanese colonial rule and demonstrates the extent to which legal concepts diverged from the Chinese legal tradition and moved toward Western law. This work is an analysis of the history and evolution of "western" law in Taiwan.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Background of Legal Reform Reception of Western Law in Colonial Legislation Modern Judiciary in the Colony Criminal Justice and Changing Society Westernization of Civil Justice Appraisal and Legacy Conclusion Appendix A: Development of Taiwanese Law Appendix B: The Law Relating to Laws and Ordinances Appendix C: The Civil, Commercial, and Criminal Law Appendix D: The Bandit Punishment Law Glossary Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a new approach to the classics of Asian American literature.Trade Review"This anthology breaks new ground by offering the first sustained theoretical analysis of the centrality of form in Asian American cultural productions."--Susan Koshy, author of Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and MiscegenationTable of ContentsIntroduction: Critical Theories and Methodologies in Asian American Literary Studies / Zhou Xiaojing Winnifred Eaton / Onoto Watanna: Establishing Ethnographic Authority / Dominika Ferens The Seduction of Origins: Sui Sin Far and the Race for Tradition / David Shih Political Resistance, Cultural Appropriation , and the Performance of Manhood in Yung Wing's My Life in China and America / Floyd Cheung Reading Ethnography: The Cold War Social Science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas Abraham Verghese Doctors Autobiography in His Own Country / Rajini Srikanth Cambodian American Autobiography: Testimonial Discourse / Teri Shaffer Yamada Two Hat Softeners "in the Trade Confession": John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Ziaojing Beyond the Length of an Average Penis: Reading Across Traditons in the Poetry of Timonty Liu / Richard Serrano Decolonizing the Bildungsroman: Narratives of War and Womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman / Samina Najmi Short Story Cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman: Writing Self, Place, and Family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers / Rocio G. Davis Recasting the Spy, Rewriting the Story: The Politics of Genre in Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World / Pallavi Rastogi Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExamines interpersonal violence in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia beginning with Native American cultures before colonization and continuing into the mid-twentieth century. This title concludes that we cannot comprehend the causes and moral consequences of a violent act without considering larger social relations of power.Trade Review"The author examines violence in terms of one individual's seeking to assert superiority over another—a power struggle that reflects deep-seated cultural attitudes. This work concentrates on the Pacific Northwest and ranges from Native American cultures and the first European encounters to the early 20th century—considering violence between spouses, family members, and angered friends and across ethnic or class lines. . . . Overall, this is a fascinating examination of a heretofore largely overlooked topic." * Library Journal *"David Peterson del Mar's work on violence against wives is well known to social and legal historians, and in this important, innovative, and provocative new book, he has broadened his approach to examine interpersonal violence more generally." * BC Studies *"A critically important book..This volume highlights a topic that many scholars of the West insist is central to understanding the evolution of frontier communities, the interactions of clashing cultures, and the impact of region on the larger context of American life..It is to be hoped that David Peterson Del Mar's provocative ideas will inspire more historians to examine other national arenas and geographic places for the evidence that private violence shaped social, economic, and political control in a country that should have relied on equality and justice, as its documents from the American Revolution promised." * Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction A White Fist on Their Noses: Colonization and Violence To Take Your Own Part: Violence among the Settlers I Was Not There to Fight: The Decline and Persistence of Violence in the Late Nineteenth Century Plucky Women and Crazed Indians: Representing Violence and Marginality in Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver To Do Just as He Pleased: Violence in the 1920s Big as God Almighty and Undemanding as Dew: Violence and People of African and Japanese Descent Epilogue: Discovering Violence Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index

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Book SynopsisExplores how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, and India. This work provides an insight into the motivations of national governments in managing nature, and deals with the different kinds of regional political conflicts that invoke nationalist sentiment through claims on nature.Trade Review"The editors of this volume have begun a valuable process of understanding which must now be pursued." * Journal of Contemporary Asia *"The cases in Ecological Nationalisms— much too rich to summarize here— all take different positions on the relative importance of the ideas, interests, and identities activated or deployed in the politics of nature. . . . Beautifully produced, rich in content, and important; it is genuinely South Asian in scope and both international and interdisciplinary in execution." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Ecological Nationalisms, an edited volume of essays. . . is an ambitious and successful addition to the steadily growing literature on South Asian environmental history. . . . This work asks many good questions and should inspire subsequent research." * Environmental History *"[Ecological Nationalisms] opens the door to a remarkably wide body of research and enquiry. Most of the studies are not only very detailed but soundly based in an historical and conceptual background. The result is not easy reading but certainly provides an excellent base for understanding the interactive patterns at work in each of the areas studied.. it would be very valuable indeed to post-graduate students focusing on related problems and to senior practitioners." * Electronic Green Journal *"Informative and thought-provoking . . . Ecological Nationalisms is a must-read for serious scholars of South Asia studies." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Ecological Nationalisms: Claiming Nature for Making History / K. Sivaramakrishnan and Gunnel Cederlof Part One | Regional Natures, Nations, and Empire 2. Environmental History, the Spice Trade, and the State in South India / Kathleen D. Morrison 3. The Toda Tiger: Debates on Custom, Utility, and Rights in Nature, South India 1820-1843 / Gunnel Cederlof 4. Contested Forests in North-West Pakistan: The Bureaucracy between the "Ecological," the "National," and the Realities of a Nation's Frontier / Urs Geiser Part Two | Competing Nationalisms 5. Indigenous Forests: Rights, Discourses, and Resistance in Chotanagpur, 1860-2002 / Vinita Damodaran 6. Nature and Politics: The Case of Uttarakhand, North India / Antje Linkenbach 7. Indigenous Natures: Forest and Community Dynamics in Meghalaya, North-East India / Bengt G. Karlsson 8. Sacred Forests of Kodagu: Ecological Value and Social Role / Claude A. Garcia and J.-P. Pascal Part Three | Commodified Nature and National Visions 9. Knowledge Against the State: Local Perceptions of Government Interventions in the Fishery (Kerala, India) / Gotz Hoeppe 10. Shifting Cultivation, Images, and Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh / Wolfgang Mey 11. Forest Managementin a Pukhtun Community: The Construction of Identities / Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn 12. "There Is No Life Without Wildlife": National Parks and National Identity in Bardia National Park, Western Nepal / Nina Bhatt Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores how inquiry about the Holocaust challenges understanding, especially its religious and ethical dimensions. This book investigates differences and disagreements between religious traditions and philosophical perspectives - represents an effort to advance meaningful conversation between Jews and Christians.Table of ContentsPrologue: Flames in the Darkness / David Patterson and John K. Roth Part One: The Burden of Evil 1. Fire and Ashes: The "Tempter-God," Evil, and the Shoah / Margaret Brearley In Response --Britta Frede-Wenger --David Patterson --Margaret Brearley 2. Jean Amery: Memories of Evil and Consequences for the Representation of Jewish Identity in Christian Theology / Hanna Holtschneider In Response --Peter J. Haas --John K. Roth --Hannah Holtschneider 3. Judaism in Protestant Encounters with the Shoah / Peter J. Haas In Response --Henry F. Knight --Rochelle L. Millen --Peter J. Haas 4. Locating God: Placing Ourselves in a Post-Shoah World / Henry F. Knight In Response --Margaret Brearley --Leonard Grob --Henry F. Knight Part Two: Searching Traditions 5. "Like Pebbles on the Seashore": J. B. Soloveitchik on Suffering / Rochelle L. Millen In Response --Hannah Holtschneider --Juergen Manemann --Rochelle L. Millen 6. "Good" Friday after Auschwitz? / Britta Frede-Wenger In Response --Henry F. Knight Rochelle L. Millen --Britta Frede-Wenger 7. If the Good Become the Evil: Antimonotheism in Germany after Reunification and the Problems of the Doctrine of Justification / Juergen Manemann In Response --David Patterson --Didier Pollefeyt --Juergen Manemann 8. Some Fundamental Doubts about Posing the Question of Theodicy in the Post-Holocaust World / Leongard Grob In Response --Margaret Brearley --Didier Pollefeyt --Leonard Grob Part Three: Beyond the Ruins? 9. Horror Vacui: God and Evil in/after Auschwitz / Didier Pollefeyt In Response --Britta Frede-Wenger --Peter J. Haas --Didier Pollefeyt 10. Deliver us from Evil? Kuhn's Prayer and the Masters of Death / John K. Roth In Response --Leonard Grob --Juergen Manemann --John K. Roth 11. Seeking the Fire in the Ashes: A Chasidic Accounting for Evil form the Midst of Evil after the Evil of Auschwitz / David Patterson In Response --Hannah Holtschneider --John K. Roth --David Patterson Postscript: The Disturbance of the Witness / David Patterson and John K. Roth Bibliography About the Editors and Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on contemporary accounts of those involved in the trade - printers, booksellers, publishers, and distributors, this work describes the labours through which literature was produced: both the physical labour of making books and the underlying cultural work performed by a set of ideologies about who counted as a maker of texts.Trade Review"Ms. Maruca's knowledge of the systems, methods, and personnel of the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century London publishing world is admirably broad and detailed." -- James E. Tierney * The Scriblerian, Spring 2011 *"… whether one hails from an English Department or a History Department, Professor Maruca's research and conclusions offer much to anyone interested in the history of texts and their production.… with the right sources in her capable hands, Maruca makes The Work of Print an eye-opening and excellent study." * Sixteenth Century Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Printing Production Values 2. Printers' Manuals and the Bodies of Type 3. Citizen, Hero, or Midwife? Re-presenting the Bookseller 4. From Authorized Print to Authoritative Author: The Regulated Trade 5. The Printer as Author: Samuel Richardson, Intellectual Property, and the Feminine Text 6. The Ghost in the Machine: Invisible Print in a Digital Age Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. This book documents the extent to which economics influenced literature and philosophy and the surprising degree to which literature and philosophy participated in the creation of modern economic paradigms.Trade Review"Gray's book Money Matters is the work of a voracious and yet rigorously disciplined intellect, and points to the way to a sustained engagement of the humanities with three centuries of political economy. Unfortunately, books like Gray's . . . are all too rare. In an age where finance capital continues to make good use of liberal arts graduates . . . the liberal arts must continue to speak directly to the historic of economics, and attest to a cultural memory that can counterbalance the rush of amnesia between the screens of global monetary systems. In short, more people should read and think and write this way—and therefore, more people should read what Richard Gray offers in this volume." * Monatshefte *"Among many other things, this is a timely book. As the global financial crisis has shattered the myth of a self-regulating market economy . . . Gray's study makes a point that threatens to get lost in the prevailing atmosphere of moral indignation: money does matter—even, and perhaps especially . . . in the lofty realms of what Germans like to call the 'breadless' arts, that is, in cultural imagination. . . . [There are] rich and manifold interactions between the literary and the monetary economies that Gray has explored in a fascinating book." * Modern Language Quarterly *"In short, Money Matters is a book that matters. In concert with the likes of Beiser, Lenoir, and Richards, Gray does help to pen a different, but more accurate and far more comprehensive, picture of one of the most crucial phases of the history of German culture and European science and society. Gray does us the indispensable favour of providing not only an insightful and convincing book, but also one that is well-crafted and even fun to read…. I can say that Money Matters is one of those books that will remain on my desk among that small selection of well-worn books that I always keep in reach and use very frequently. I have never given higher praise to a book, and it is not likely that I ever will again." * Canadian Journal of History *"Gray's approach, combining meticulous and penetrating case studies with broader theoretical and historical considerations… is again utilized to great advantage, elegantly melded with Gray's expansive learnedness in philosophy and cultural and literary theories." * German Quarterly *"…in Money Matters Richard T. Gray uncovers significant episodes of a productive interplay between economics and culture that, at least in the case of Germany, constituted a foundational moment in the history of both…. Gray's discovery of such enthusiasm for modern economics on the part of characters who have been consistently vilified as antimodernists is supremely illuminating, worthy of further study-representing intellectual history at its best" * Business History Review *"What makes Gray's writing so interesting is the fact that he reads the two social arenas, economics and literature, together, through each other, and posits as his central thesis that the move from a substantialist economy (i.e., an economy based on substances such as gold) to a functionalist economic system (i.e., one based on the exchange of promissory notes such as paper money) was mirrored in the period's literature. This approach yields interesting insights . . . . [and] informed by the writings of Marx, Freud, Bataille and Althusserl, elicits remarkable results and will no doubt add valuable insights to existing scholarship." * Journal of Contemporary European Studies *"It is relevant and most instructive for us today that Gray demonstrates the close connection between economics and the imagination in the theory of paper money. Gray describes this connection on the examples of thinkers such as Hamann and Herder, Fichte and the Romantics Novalis or Adam Müller, and ultimately in the case of Goethe." * Frankfurter Allgemeine *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Economics and Intellectual Culture Chapter 1 / Buying into Signs: Money and Semiosis in Eighteenth-Century German Language Theory Chapter 2 / Hypersign, Hypermoney, Hypermarket: Adam Muller's Theory of Money and Romantic Semiotics Chapter 3 / Economic Romanticism: Monetary Nationalism in Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Adam Muller Chapter 4 / Economics and the Imagination: Cultural Values and the Debate over Physiocracy in Germany, 1770-1789 Part Two: Literary Economies Chapter 5 / Counting on God: Economic Providentialism in Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling's Lebensgeschichte Chapter 6 / Deep Pockets: The Economics and Poetics of Excess in Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Shlemihl Chapter 7 / Red Herrings and Blue Smocks: Commercialism, Ecological Destruction, and Anti-Semitism in Annette von Droste-Hulshoff's Die Judenbuche Chapter 8 / The (Mis)Fortune of Commerce: Economic Transformation in Adalbert Stifter's Bergkristall Conclusion / Limitless Faith in the Limitless: Money, Modernity, and the Economics/Aesthetics of Mediation of Goethe's Faust II Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines three minority groups in the province of Yunnan, focusing on the ways in which they have adapted to the government's nation-building and minority nationalities policies since the 1980s.Trade Review"Make[s] important contributions to the existing perspectives on China's ethnic minorities not least for their new rich ethnographies and research findings. One . . . major input is the exploration of the 'big' questions on Chinese national identity, citizenship, and modernity from the perspective of ethnic minorities." -- Elena Barabantseva * Asian Ethnicity *"McCarthy's fine study is an important new contribution to evolving understandings of 'multiculturalism with Chinese characteristics,' forcing readers to contemplate how completing forms of ethnic nationalism interacts with shared forms of citizenship practice. This book is a must-read for both scholars and students of ethnic relations in Reform-era-China." * The China Journal *Table of ContentsForeword by Stevan Harrell Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Culture, the Nation, and Chinese Minority Identity 2. The Dai, Bai, and Hui in Historical Perspective 3. Dharma and Development among the Xishuangbanna Dai 4. The Bai and the Tradition of Modernity 5. Authenticity, Identity, and Tradition among the Hui Conclusion Chinese Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. This book tells how and why Mocha's urban shape and architecture took the forms they did.Trade Review"Um demonstrates that Mocha's urban history is much richer than its link to a single commercial product. . . . Scholars like Um are breaking the unfortunate but long-lasting misassumption that pre-modern Arabian history is stagnant and devoid of source material." -- Molly Patterson * MESA *"Um's call for a wider reexamining of secular architecture . . . is all the more resounding for her own contribution that so clearly demonstrates the possibilities and value of such an undertaking." -- Sebastian R. Prange * Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East *"Her treatment of Mocha, often presented in the context of engaging and insightful comparative data, offers a refreshing examination of the city's urban and architectural history, which sheds considerable light on social and commercial history. . . . Um's study is based on a variety of sources—architectural, archival, and literary—that she wields effectively. . . . The Merchant Houses of Mocha is a valuable contribution to the growing number of recent studies on particular localities within the Red Sea . . . all of which are refining and refashioning our understanding of a poorly understood but important region that connected the worlds of the Middle East, South Asia, and East Africa." * International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies *"With her study of Mocha in the period between 1650 and 1750, Nancy Um has broken new ground through an innovative combination of architectural and archival materials, thus combining the approaches of historian and art historian in a unique way. . . . [H]er important contribution to debates on port cities in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean with regard to their functioning and relation to sea and hinterland, as well as to debates on architectural history, will surely have a major impact on how we understand urban history on the Arabian Peninsula and beyond. This unusually well-written work deserves a place on reading lists in art history, the history of the Arabian Peninsula as well as the history of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, and port cities in general." * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *"Rather than offering the reader a linear framework for understanding the development of Mocha's premodern urban history, Um weaves together many different historical narratives and maps them onto the city itself. . . . Scholars like Um are breaking the unfortunate but long-lasting misassumption that pre-modern Arabian history is stagnant and devoid of source material." * Review of Middle Eastern Studies (RoMES) *"This book deserves to be widely read, and praised. Um demonstrates familiarity with a host of secondary work in urban history, and where necessary challenges and modifies them. Her use of architecture as a key source is extremely innovative. In terms of Indian Ocean studies, we now have a few foundational studies . . . which sketch broad themes. We need many more micro-studies which can modify received wisdom. Um's book is an exemplary case study of what we need, and . . . in its use of difficult sources, and its successful analysis." * IIAS *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration, Dates, and Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Mocha Trade Network 2. The Yemeni Coffee Network 3. A Littoral Society in Yemen 4. Merchants and Nakhudhas 5. The Urban Form and Orientation of Mocha 6. Trading Spaces 7. On the Politics of Inside and Out Conclusion: The End of the Mocha Era Appendix A. The Imams of Qasimi Yemen and the Governors of Mocha Appendix B. Archival and Museum Sources Consulted Notes Glossary References Cited Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisCombines examples of studio work with edited transcripts of Murcutt's public lectures and sessions with students, professionals, and Finnish architect Juhanni Pallasamaa.Trade Review"A slim but elegantly designed book of essays." * Seattle Times *Table of ContentsSTUDIOS Glenn Murcutt + Peter Cohan 2004 Environmental Research & Learning Center Shaw Island, Washington Glenn Murcutt + Peter Cohan 2005 Nisqually Environmental Education Center Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, Washington Glenn Murcutt + Rick Mohler 2006 Kenmore Air Terminal Seattle, Washington Glenn Murcutt + Jim Nicholls 2007 Pilchuk Glass School Stanwood, Washington Glenn Murcutt + Peter Cohan 2008 Tula Young Hastings Farm Pullman, Washington Juror's Comment / Carlos Jiminez TRANSCRIPTS Conversation with Students / Glenn Murcutt 12 April 2004 Callison Noon Hour Lecture / Glenn Murcutt 17 May 2007 A Conversation Between Friends / Murcutt + Pallasmaa 11 April 2008 NOTES Observation and Exchange / Jim Nicholls Glenn Time / Peter Cohan How Glenn Murcutt came to teach at UW / Dr. Vikramaditya Prakash The Master Class / David Miller Glenn Murcutt DVP / Callison Architects

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Book SynopsisFirst published compilation by the Squamish Nation of Skwxwu7mesh SnichimTrade Review"This volume is a beautifully formatted, user-friendly, and dependable dictionary. It will undoubtedly serve as an indispensable tool and resource for learners of the Squamish language and for linguists as well." -- Honore Watanabe * Anthropological Linguistics *"Offers a view of modern daily life but also contains the historical record, protocols and laws of Squamish people that are essential for nation building and retaining culture." -- Indian Country Today * December 2011 *"The more elaborate material is in the Squamish to English part, and includes some cultural and historical gems. There are, for example, single words to indicate a variety of ways to walk. . . Summing Up: Recommended." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between the causes of colossal toxic pollution and the manner in which pain caused by pollution insults porous human bodiesTrade Review"Toxic Archipelago would make an excellent addition to any course on environmental issues in Asia. . . . carefully researched, thoughtfully rendered accounts of industrial disease in Japan make clear that . . . modern technology has . . . tightened the binds between us and the world we inhabit." -- Darrin Magee * Journal of Environmental Studies and Science *"Walker's is an unorthodox approach to academic scholarship. It mixes academic rigor with personal anecdotes and experiences. It is historically grounded, soundly documented scholarship. It is fascinating, but at times sickly so." -- Miranda A. Schreurs * Journal of Japanese Studies *"An uncomfortable, but nonetheless compelling, read. Although the author tells it as he sees it, the book is well-written and offers a reasoned and persuasive argument . . . that certainly delivers strong messages. . . . the originality and depth of the research clearly merit a cover-to-cover exploration." -- Catherine Mills * Social History of Medicine *"Toxic Archipelago would make an excellent addition to any course on environmental issues in Asia. Walker's carefully researched, thoughtfully rendered accounts of industrial disease in Japan make clear that, far from liberating us from nature, modern technology has instead tightened the binds between us and the world we inhabit." -- D. Magee * Journal of Environmental Studies *"In Toxic Archipelago, Brett Walker breaks new ground with his environmental history of an industrializing Japan over the last two centuries. Building on the literatures of disease and the body, he examines the co-evolution of the institutions of Japanese culture and the biology of the Japanese environment. The link between culture and environment is not simply the body, but the human body in physical and social pain. Walker forces the reader to engage with large-scale transformations of landscape and toxic pollution over time through the prism of suffering and grief with a number of finely drawn personal stories. This nuanced and beautifully written exploration of the meaning of nature and culture in Japan displays the ramifications of the hybrid environments that have evolved and poses powerful questions for people of all cultures and nations." -- George Perkins Marsh Prize Committee * ASEH *"Historian Walker effectively links, perhaps for the first time anywhere, the historical processes of the economic, social, and land-use policies involved in modernizing and globalizing Japan with the pain and suffering of its environment and people…. Never has a book so clearly illustrated the aphorisms 'all politics are local,' 'the personal is the political,' and 'we are what we eat.' This discussion of the evolution of environmentalism in Japan will reflect new light on the understanding of environmental history. Essential." * Choice *"Walker is a superb historian and analyst, as his body of work, considerable for a relatively young scholar, manifests…. Unlike his editor, William Cronon, Brett Walker has immersed himself in a culture whose epistemology features no conceptual space for wilderness as a place where humans are not. His convincing, compelling 'from the genes up' portrait is of a living environment akin to being in Tokyo rush hour, 24/7." * H-Net *"Walker focuses on the complex causations of environmental crises, documenting how cultural practices, social institutions, and biochemical pathways have intertwined with the toxic byproducts of modern industry to produce devastating pollution incidents. . . . This is a thoroughly compelling and important volume that will have a substantial impact on the study of modern Japan and our understanding of the environmental history of the modern world." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Knowing Nature 1. The Agency of Insects 2. The Agency of Chemicals 3. Copper Mining and Ecological Collapse 4. Engineering Pain in the Jinzu River Basin 6. Hell at the Hojo Colliery Conclusion Works Cited

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Book SynopsisExamining the dynamics of industry, recreation, and environment; Chiang explores the social history of Monterey's development from a seaside resort to a working-class fishing town and, finally, to a tourist attraction againTrade Review"Chiang deftly shows how these two competing economies [fishing and tourism] were deeply entangled, how they developed and how they both perpetuated racial and class hierarchies and rested upon an edifice of immigrant labor. In a book that refreshingly blends the history of tourism and industry over the course of a century, Chiang rejects 'oversimplified dualities' and 'simple dichotomies.'." * American Historical Review *"In Shaping the Shoreline, historian Connie Chiang skillfully illuminates the importance of 'place,' and in this instance, 'contested place,' with her exhaustive analysis of California's Monterey Coastline. While her book focuses primarily on the social and environmental implications of both tourism and fishing on the Monterey Coast, readers are subtly reminded throughout of the contested nature of the place both industries wished to control." * Journal of Social History *"The book is well written, well researched, lively, and interesting throughout, with useful maps, extensive notes, a substantial biography, and an index. From the standpoint of a fisheries economist, all the world's current and past battles over fisheries and fisheries policy appear here in microcosm." * Southern California Quarterly *"Chiang's study is worthy of readers' time. It engages the best of contemporary social and environmental scholarship. Its narrow geographic scope is easily offset by its broad conceptual grasp and long chronological sweep. The volume is a fine addition to the strong line of works edited by William Cronon and should find good purpose in the hands of researchers, students, and even the ecotourism-consuming public." * Montana: The Magazine of Western History *"Connie Chiang's Shaping the Shoreline is an ambitious attempt to connect the social and environmental histories of the Monterey, California, region. . . .Her focus on a discrete region adds to the book's richness and is a good model for future work that explores places defined by economies that have transformed from natural resource exploitation to recreation." * Western Historical Quarterly *"A superb account of how multiple types of interactions between fisheries and tourism shaped the development of the Monterey region . . . . Scholars of many stripes— certainly business, labor, social, and environmental historians——— will benefit from reading Chiang's account. Well written and logically organized." * Business History Review *"In Shaping the Shoreline, Connie Y. Chiang uses [Monterey's] diverse community and its divergent industries to craft an excellent environmental history. Yet this is not merely a history of Monterey, tourism, or the fishing industry. It is a history of the complex and often-hidden relationship between labor and leisure in America. In Monterey—- and many other places—- the boundaries drawn between labor and leisure obscure underlying connections that tie human societies to nature and link us to each other. In highlighting those connections, Shaping the Shoreline gains significance far beyond Monterey." * Journal of American History *"Not only is Shaping the Shoreline very readable, but with luck it will provoke further serious thought and study about the social influences at work in this area." * Salinas Californian *"Represents an important new direction in maritime and marine environmental history. Chiang's study lays out a clear mandate that to understand coastal communities one must explore labour, culture, and environment . . . for each of these fields played fundamentally transformative roles in how coastal communities developed and changed. In short, Shaping the Shoreline is a book that has the potential to shape the field, and anyone interested in maritime topics will enjoy and benefit from its pages. ." * International Journal of Maritime History *Table of ContentsForeword: On the Shore between Work and Play / William Cronon Acknowledgments Introduction: The Voice of the Pacific 1. Contested Shores 2. The Divided Coastline 3. Reduce and Prosper 4. Life, Labor, and Odors on Cannery Row 5. Boom and Bust in Wartime Monterey 6. Remaking Cannery Row 7. The Fish Are Back! Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHighlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world--repeated displacement from their landsTrade Review"Insightful, comprehensive, and authoritative . . . Grandia has made a significant contribution to environmental anthropology and to our understanding of neoliberalism and contemporary land and labor issues in Latin America." -- Molly Doane * Anthropological Quarterly *"This is a passionately written and often angry book, and the conclusion reaches a crescendo of critical outrage. Grandia is personally engaged in working with Q’eqchi’ groups seeking to resist the policies and processes that alienate people from the land and the independent livelihoods of small-farming or peasantry. [This book is a] powerful means to those ends." -- Bonnie J. McCay * PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review *"The book is well crafted and clearly written . . . a significant contribution to environmental anthropology and as an important ethnography about the Q’eqchi’." -- Sean S. Downey * Current Anthropology *"Enclosed would be so useful for undergrad and graduate classes in anthropology, geography, history, and sociology….Grandia and the press should be congratulated for producing this important work that will be of great utility for many years to come." -- Sterling Evans * Environmental History *"A rich anthropological account of continuity, change, and contestation over vital material and social resources…[with] thought-provoking contributions to debates over the roles and applications of anthropology and anthropologists in the processes they study." -- Sophie Haines * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Enclosed provides a timely and invaluable contribution to our understanding of the contemporary land grab…Grandia’s multifaceted and ‘historically and geographically situated’ analysis is a welcome addition to a literature characterized by varying degrees of depth and vigor….Enclosed is a fascinating and inspiring book whose relevance transcends the Guatemalan and Belizean borders." -- Alberto Alonso-Fradejas * Journal of Peasant Studies *"Grandia revela cómo la historia de las luchas de los q’eqchi’s contra el cercamiento de sus tierras puede contribuir a una mayor comprensión de los cercamientos de las tierras comunales a favor de las empresas en todo el mundo." -- Kurt Holder * Mesoamerica *"This is a passionately written and often angry book, and the conclusion reaches a crescendo of critical outrage. . . . She insists, ‘erosion of the commons is never inevitable;’ it can always be defended and it can be rebuilt. This book and its Spanish version are powerful means to those ends." * PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review *"[Grandia] insists, 'erosion of the commons is never inevitable'; it can always be defended and it can be rebuilt. This book and its Spanish version are powerful means to those ends." -- Bonnie McCay * Polar Book reviews *Table of ContentsForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan Preface Acknowledgements Q'eqchi' Language and Orthography Notes on Measurements Maps Introduction: Commons Past 1. Liberal Plunder: A Recurring Q'eqchi' History 2. Maya Gringos: Q'eqchi' Lowland Migration and Territorial Expansion 3. Commons, Customs, and Carrying Capacities: The Property and Population Traps of the Peten Frontier 4. Speculating: The World Bank's Market-Assisted Land Reform 5. From Colonial to Corporate Capitalism: Expanding Cattle Frontiers 6. The Neoliberal Auction: The PPP and the DR-CAFTA Conclusion: Common Features Glossary Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the complicated and fascinating relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and his Cornell colleague Marc SzeftelTrade Review"Pniniad is an utterly absorbing, sad, and touching book." -Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley

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Book SynopsisBilly Frank Jr was an early participant in the fight for tribal fishing rights during the 1960s. Roughed up, belittled, and arrested many times at Frank's Landing on the Nisqually River, he emerged as one of the most influential Northwest Indians in modern history.Trade Review"Heffernan's conversational writing style moves readers fluidly from the distant past through the turbulent times of the 1960s and the 1970s to the calmer waters of the present." -- Andrew H. Fisher * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"The photographs and personal stories alone make it worth an interested reader's time." -- Steven M. Fountain * H-Net *"Trova has done a good job getting the reader into the narrative flow of Frank's admirable life; she's not afraid of quoting people who pull no punches." -- Mike Dillon * City Living *"Heffernan talked to all the right people to write this book, from fellow Indian rights warrior Hank Adams to Franks's son, Willie Frank III . . . Heffernan caught up with Frank six times for face-to-face interviews filled with candor, insight and patchwork quotes only Frank could knit together." -- John Dodge * The Olympian *"Heffernan’s biography of Billy Frank, Jr., is a lively and recommended addition to the growing scholarship on Native American salmon fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest and joins Charles Wilkinson’s Messages from Frank’s Landing (2000) as one of the key books on Frank and his widespread influence….Frank and his allies’ voices shine throughout the book, and their vivid anecdotes and vibrant quotations make for a very compelling history." -- Shawn Bailey * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Prologue Introduction 1. Spirit of the Father 2. “I Live Here!” 3. The Survivor 4. Surveillance 5. Renegades 6. Canoes and Clashes 7. As Long as the Rivers Run 8. Takeovers 9. The Shelf Life of Treaties 10. Storm 11. The Politics of Salmon 12. Bridge Builder 13. Resilience 14. The Negotiator 15. Clear Creek Hatchery 16. Submerged 17. The Tough Guy 18. “You were always there for me” 19. The Catalyst 20. Operation Chainsmoker 21. Hard Truths 22. Dreams and Legacies Acknowledgments Billy Frank Jr. Family Tree Source Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInfluential but often neglected in historical accounts, this spectacular melodrama was an intercultural product of Curtis' encounter and collaboration with the Kwakwaka'wakw of British Columbia. This book offers Kwakwaka'wakw perspectives on the film, and accounts of its production and subsequent circulation.Trade Review"Richly illustrated, multivocal, and altogether remarkable. . . . This book does us all a service by ushering Curtis’s In the Land of the Head Hunters into the 21st century." * American Ethnologist *"Offers a stunning range of perspectives and visual materials drawing from the original production to the present. . . . Ambitious not only in its scope but in its commitment to understanding and presenting the film in its multiple indigenous contexts." * American Literary History *"A detailed and thoughtful book that brings together scholars, artists, and Kwakwaka’wakw community members in a wide-ranging discourse on the film." * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"The essays provide a rare look at both the tremendous amount of planning, negotiation, and artistic work that goes into this kind of production, but also the diversity of reactions it necessarily inspires—from sturdy appreciation to charges of romanticism and exploitation." * Pacific Historical Review *"[An] accomplished critical engagement with the complicated and tumultuous nature of the place of the film in academia and in First Nations communities. . . . The volume is also testimony to the fact that 100 years after the original production, the film can still capture the imaginations and minds of scholars and the broad public." * BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly *"[This] generously illustrated anthology of essays—some decidedly academic, others more personal and anecdotal—address the film from every angle while also placing Curtis (1868–1952) and his First Nations collaborators on the film in their historical context." * Seattle Times *Table of ContentsU'mista Cultural Society Statement of Participation / William T. CranmerForeword / Bill HolmPreface / Brad Evans and Aaron GlassAcknowledgmentsIntroduction PART ONE. Mediating Indians / Complicating Curtis1. Edward Curtis and In the Land of the Head Hunters: Four Contexts / Micky Gidley2. Images of Time: Portraiture in The North American Indian / Shamoon Zamir3. Indian Landscapes: Pauline Johnson and Edward Curtis / Kate Flint4. A Chamber of Echoing Songs: Edward Curtis as a Musical Ethnographer / Ira JacknisPhoto Essay 1. "At the Kitchen Table with Edward Curtis"/ Jeff Thomas PART TWO. Head Hunters Across Two Centuries5. Consuming the Head Hunters: A Century of Film REception / Aaron Glass and Brad Evans6. Unmasking the Documentary: Notes on the Anxiety of Edward Curtis / Colin Browne7. Indian Movies and the Vernacular of Modernism / Brad Evans8. Musical Intertextuality in Indigenous Film: Making and Remaking In the Land of the Head Hunters / Klisala Harrison9. Reflections on Working with Edward Curtis / Barbara Cranmer (Tlakwagila'ogwa)Photo Essay 2. "Old Images / New Views: Indigenous Perspectives on Edward Curtis" / Dr. E. Richard Atleo, Pam Brown, Marie Clements, Karrmen Crey, Mique'l Icesis Dangeli, Andy Everson, Linc Kesler, David Neel, Evelyn Vanderhoop, and William Wasden Jr. PART THREE. Reimaging Curtis Today10. In the Land of the Head Hunters: Reconstruction, not Restoration . Jere Guldin11. In the Land of the Head Hunters and the History of Silent Film Music / David Gilbert12. Performing Braham, Interpreting Curtis: A Conversation on Conducting / Neal Stulberg, Owen Underhill, Timothy Long, and Laura Ortman13. "What the Creator Gave to Us": An Interview with William Wasden Jr. (Waxawidi)14. Cultural Interpretation / Dave Hunsaker15. The Kwakwakka'wakw Business of Showing: Tradition Meets Modernity on the Silver Screen and the World Stage / Aaron Glass Afterword. Twentieth Century Fox / Paul Chaat SmithAppendix 1. Promotional Images for In the Land of the Head HuntersAppendix 2. The Kwakwaka'wakw Cast and Crew of In the Land of the Head HuntersAppendix 3. Curtis Film Props in the Collection of the Burke Musem of Natural History and CultureAppendix 4. Title Cards from the 2008 Reconstruction of In the Land of the Head HuntersReferencesContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisFrom burning draft cards to staging nude protests, much left-wing political activism in 1960s America was distinguished by deliberate outrageousness. This book argues that these over-the-top antics were far more than just the spontaneous actions of a self-indulgent radical impulse.Trade Review"Craig J. Peariso’s work challenges traditional narratives regarding some of North America’s most significant political iconoclasts of the 1960s." -- Max Shulman * TDR: The Drama Review *"Radical Theatrics is a thought-provoking book that should educate and trouble anyone desperate to change the world and confused about what to do when those efforts stall." -- Jeremy Varon * Journal of American History *"This intriguing book presents a revisionist revaluation of the more problematic radical edges of political performance art in the United States of the mid-to-late 1960s. . . . Peariso has successfully shown that awkward decade was up for it in many compelling ways. . . . [Radical Theatrics] launches a sophisticatedly argued call for newly creating politico-aesthetic styles of ‘anti-representational’ performance." -- Baz Kershaw * Studies in Theatre and Performance *"Peariso’s study of ‘failed’ sixties radicalism is an important contribution to our growing understanding of the complexities of radicalism in the postmodern, where performance is everywhere and manifold." -- Alan Filewod * Labour / Le Travail *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction | Stereotypes, Opposition, and “the Sixties” 1. Monkey Theater 2. “Watch Out for Pigs in Queen’s Clothing”: Camp and the Image of Radical Sexuality 3. “Erect . . . Strong . . . Resilient and Firm”: Eldridge Cleaver and the Performance of “Black” Liberation Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisScholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording stories on different aspects of literati life. This book shows how these writings that offer crucial insights into the reconfiguration of the Chinese elite.Trade Review"Scholars of the Tang dynasty and of Chinese narrative should certainly consult this book. Luo’s ambitious range of sources and her creativity as a reader allow her to make some new, insightful arguments about the relationship between narratives and the dominant cultural interests of late medieval literati." -- Anna M. Shields * Journal of Asian Studies *"[An] original and insightful new study of late Tang narratives. . . . Literati Storytelling takes an innovative, hybrid approach to this vast and heterogeneous corpus. . . . Literati Storytelling produces important new interpretations that stress the limits of subversion in Tang romance." -- Gregory Patterson * Journal of the American Oriental Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note to Readers Chronology Introduction 1. Sovereignty: The Case of the Illustrious Emperor 2. Literati Sociality: Remembering Individuals and Community in Historical Miscellanies 3. Sexuality: Women, Literati, and Nonmarital Bonds 4. Cosmic Mobility: The Possibility and Impossibility of Moving Beyond Conclusion: The Power and Legacies of Late Medieval Literati Storytelling Chinese Character Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"As a youth in Britain, Pocock learned the rudiments of boat building from his father, who crafted boats for young Etonians. Forced to emigrate by straitened economic conditions, he journeyed to the Pacific Northwest intending to find work as a lumberjack. Fortunately for the University of Washington in Seattle, he was persuaded to establish shop there and began making shells of outstanding quality. They were so good, in fact, that Washington won its first intercollegiate title in 1923, defeating the Eastern teams that had ruled the sport for decades. One of his greatest triumphs occurred in 1936 when the Washington team won an Olympic gold medal in Germany, but he had numerous other successes as both boatman and coach until his retirement in 1963. There are many fine photos, including some of special interest from the 19th century, and a foreword by the coach of Washington's varsity crew." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsForeword by Dick Erickson Preface 1. Apprentice Watermen on the Thames 2. Making Do on the Pacific Northwest Frontier 3. Building Shells in the Tokyo Tea Room 4. Building Airplanes at the Red Barn 5. “Clumsily Built Western Boats” 6. “Eight Hearts Must Beat As One” 7. “There Are No Fast Boats, Only Fast Crews” 8. Olympic Gold 9. Races ‘round the World 10. Remembered Crews and Coaches 11. The Later Years Appendixes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction | Placing Timelines 1. Biocentric Eutopias in South Asia 2. Ecotopias, Theosophy, and the South Indian City 3. Utopian Settlements and Californian Vedanta 4. Highways, Thresholds, and an Indian New Age Conclusion | Designing and Dwelling in Place Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A casual reading shows this book to be a soundly researched, deftly written collection of anecdotes set in narrative form. A more careful review will show that it is much more than this. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"Di Stefano's research is showcased in the book's second half where she takes up the issue of blame, especially by dissecting killer avalanches that led to court cases intent on determining who was responsible for the tragedies. . . By serving as an excellent case study on the development of liability law, Encounters in Avalanche Country provides new windows into understanding human encounters with violent natures." -- Marcus Hall * H-Net *"This riveting tale is part history, part outdoor narrative, and part legal thriller. Di Stefano, a history professor at University of Alaska, Fairbanks, crafted a tale of how early avalanches affected mining towns and railroads at the turn of the last century. . . .Di Stefano’s treatise is an interesting read." -- Christopher Van Tilburg * Wilderness & Environmental Medicine *"Encounters in Avalanche Country is written in a lively manner that will be enjoyed by the general public while being well documented for the scholar. This book could be used in classes on the American West, environmental history, legal history, and more, or given as a gift to anyone interested in the settling of the Mountain West." -- Jean A Stuntz * Environmental History *"Di Stefano presents an interesting overview of how residents in various western settlements adapted and responded to the threat of avalanches, and provides insight into Gilded Age politics and the manner in which this rugged terrain became integrated into the social and economic fabric of the United States and Canada." -- Christian Harrison * Montana: The Magazine of Western History *"Encounters in Avalanche Country is a well-documented exploration effectively shaped by the originality of its approach. It should be of specific interest to historians investigating litigation anent liability, but it surely would engage anyone wanting to know more about the asperities endured by our western ancestors." -- Michael Johnson * American Historical Review *"Ranging from Alaska to the California Sierra and Colorado Rockies, the book covers a tremendous amount of ground both physically and historiographically." -- Michael Childers * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Encounters in Avalanche Country is a well-written and fascinating peek into a unique part of western life." -- Brad F. Raley * Historian, The *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Map of Avalanche Country Study Areas Introduction: Arrival in Avalanche Country 1. Survival Strategies: 1820– 1860 2. Mountain Miners, Skiing Mailmen, and Itinerant Preachers: 1850–1895 3. Industrial Mining and Risk 4. Railway Workers and Mountain Towns: 1870–1910 5. Who’s to Blame? 6. Disaster in the Cascades 7. Topping v. Great Northern Railway Company 8. Departure from Avalanche Country Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFair Trade promises to raise living standards in developing countries through:- worldwide minimum prices for commodities- support for democratically governed cooperatives- requirement of minimum wages and safety standards for workers- training to help producers improved quality and develop business skills- encouragement of eco-friendly practices- third-party certificationIn contrast to the free trade status quo, Fair Trade relies on informed consumers to choose more direct supply chains that minimize the role of middlemen, offering economic justice and social change as a viable and sustainable alternative to charity. But does it work?Fair Trade from the Ground Up documents achievements at both the producer and the consumer ends of commodity chains and assesses prospects for future growth. From Guatemalan coffee farmers to student activists on U.S. college campuses, the stories of individuals inform April Linton's analysis. Drawing on studies by social scientists and economists, as wellTrade Review". . . an intriguing and informational read for anyone who is involved or interested in the fair trade movement." * Contemporary Sociology *"This volume provides a rich, detailed framework for examining and discussing fair trade and the sustainability it encourages across the developed and developing worlds. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Fair Trade from the Ground Up 2. Fair Trade Coffee in Guatemala 3. How Do Producers Spend the Social Premium? 4. Selling and Buying Fair Trade 5. Fair Trade Activisim in the United States 6. A Fair Trade University 7. Growing Fair Trade Notes References Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[O]ne of the greatest strengths of this book is how Lindqvist maintains a lively conversational style that engages the reader. Further, that so much of her book is based on personal interviews and archival material is both a testament to the depth of the background research and perhaps the book's most impressive quality." * Scandinavian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction | A Troublesome Avant-Gardist Stages a Comeback 1. Aesthetics: Film as Art 2. Production: Film as Industry 3. Intermediality: Film, Poetry, Painting, Music 4. Humanism: Film as Philosophy and Social Critique Epilogue | Songs Carried On Appendix | Roy Andersson’s Eclectic Oeuvre Notes Bibliography Index

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Trade Review"DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism provides an important survey of petrochemical use in the postwar United States. It is both a thought-provoking text for undergraduates and a diverse collection of primary sources for scholars..Dunlap valuably provides a succinct overview of the complicated relationships between industry, environment, and the chemical debate." * Agricultural History *"Thomas R. Dunlap's purpose as editor is one of historian rather than judge; every essay—- no matter which side it argues from—- is precise, intelligent, and revealing of the biases and limits of the decade. Dunlap's introductions to each section adds hints of reflection and even redemption. Books like this remind people to treat today's new miracles with delicate care until they know where every path might lead." * ForeWord *Table of ContentsForeword by William Cronon Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: BACKGROUND Views of Nature 1. Stephen A. Forbes, "The Ecological Foundations of Applied Entomology" 2. Leland O. Howard, "The War against Insects" -Pre-DDT Pesticides and DDT's Use in World War II 3. Paul Neal et al., "A Study of the Effects of Lead Arsenate Exposure on Orchardists and Consumers of Sprayed Fruit" 4. Paul Neal et al., "Toxicity and Potential Dangers of Aerosols, Mists, and Dusting Powders Containing DDT" Part 2: DDT'S BRIGHT PROMISE AND NEGLECTED PROBLEMS (1942-1958) DDT as Miracle Chemical 5. Brigadier General James Stevens Simmons, "How Magic is DDT?" 6. "Aerosol Insecticides" 7. Clay Lyle, "Achievements and Possibilities in Pest Eradication" -Early Warnings 8. Paul B. Dunbar, "The Food and Drug Administration Looks at Insecticides" 9. Clarence Cottam and Elmer Higgins, "DDT and Its Effect on Fish and Wildlife" Part 3: RISING CONCERN ABOUT NEW PROBLEMS DDT, Food Chains, and Wildlife 10. Roy J. Barker, "Notes on Some Ecological Effects of DDT Sprayed on Elms" 11. Editorial from Bird Study 12. Derek A. Ratcliffe, "The Status of the Peregrine in Great Britain" 13. Robert Rudd, Pesticides and the Living Landscape 14. Thomas R. Dunlap, Interview with Joseph J. Hickey 15. Robert S. Strother, "Backfire in the War against Insects" Part 4: THE STORM OVER SILENT SPRING Public Alarm 16. Morton Mintz, "'Heroine' of FDA Keeps Bad Drug Off Market" 17. Rachel Carson, "A Fable for Tomorrow" -Reactions 18. President's Science Advisory Committee, Use of Pesticides 19. Robert H. White-Stevens, "Communications Create Understanding" 20. Edwin Diamond, "The Myth of the 'Pesticide Menace'" 21. Robert Gillette, "DDT: Its Days are Numbered, Except Perhaps in Pepper Fields" Part 5: DDT AND MALARIA 22. Thomas Sowell, "Intended Consequences" 23. Thomas R. Hawkins, "Rereading Silent Spring" 24. May Berenbaum, "If Malaria's the Problem, DDT's Not the Only Answer" Notes on Further Reading Credits Index

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Book SynopsisFinnegan's Wake" is perhaps the most difficult and wilfully obscure piece in all of modern literature, a book written in polyglottal puns that continues to baffle not only lay readers but, in large part, Joyceans as well. Here in 12 chapters, John Bishop aims to unravel Joyce's obscurities and aims to reveal the "Wake" more clearly than anyone has done before.

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Book SynopsisTells the story of voting in elections across the years and investigates electoral trends and patterns over the course of Wisconsin's history. This book explores the ways that ethnic and religious groups in the state have voted historically and looks at the successes and failures of the two major parties over the years.Trade ReviewThis work is certain to be a mainstay... in Wisconsin's political history. - Edward Miller, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point ""A fascinating look at the voting behavior of Wisconsinites, providing unique historical insight into how a relatively small, midwestern state became a presidential campaign target, how Jim Doyle has presided over a Democratic resurgence at the statehouse, how the underestimated Tommy Thompson came to dominate the state political scene, how the Progressives fell from power, and how the slavery issue impacted early voting in a new state. This very readable book manages to bring alive a myriad of statistics, weaving them into a narrative that dares to analyze without hyperbole or bias the impact that key racial and demographic groups, and their geographic bases, have at the ballot box. A must read for anybody interested in Wisconsin politics."" - Jeff Mayers, WisPolitics.com

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Book SynopsisIn the second of his trio of acclaimed memoirs, Rigoberto González looks at his past through a startling lens: hunger. A childhood of neglect, adolescent yearnings, and adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body - all are explored by González in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.Trade ReviewThe author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger. The need for sustenance originating in childhood poverty, the adolescent emotional need for solace and comfort, the adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body- all are explored in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.""An unforgettable portrait of the artist as a young immigrant gay poet. These brief, passionate chapters are filled with rare courage, raw honesty, and the uncommon beauty of a life spent yearning for consolation and hope. Absolutely arresting.""- Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire""A haunting book, whose many senses linger long after reading it.""- Mary Cappello, author of Awkward: A Detour""The compelling story of a life that routinely- necessarily- crosses borders of ethnic, socioeconomic, and sexual identities.""- Pablo Miguel Martínez, author of Brazos, Carry Me""Immigrant and gay readers may experience release in the book's agonizing familiarity; all readers will find it lusciously evocative.""- Publishers WeeklyTable of Contents acknowledgments allegory I. Leaving the Motherland, Mother Leaving Me duty piedrita potato zacapu piedrita jugete trash lift witch piedrita fire x-mas crayon note i crooked piedrita biology wicked dream piedrita glove migra II. Unsettled Independence invisible piedrita tongue insomnia note ii nightshift x\u00f3chitl piedrita voice reprimand martini III. In Search of Paradise station piedrita kill outcast eye kite clown piedrita tether papi godiva piedrita IV. Body Cravings love empty piedrita sketch rain chi piedrita ghosts pseudonym piedrita questions note iii piedrita haughty extraction bleed voracious piedrita forest

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Book SynopsisThis collection of theatre writings by the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky brings his powerful, wildly imaginative vision of theatre to an English-language audience for the first time. The centerpiece is his play That Third Guy (1937), a farce written at the onset of the Stalinist Terror and never performed.Trade Review"Sensitively translated and with insightful essays by Lin, this publication introduces us to Krzhizhanovsky’s densely argued philosophical reflections on the art of the theatre, including analyses of Shakespeare, Pushkin and Shaw [...] Caryl Emerson adds a fine foreword, as well as a consideration of Krzhizhanovsky’s work on a stage production of Eugene Onegin for the Pushkin Jubilee in 1937." - Julie Curtis, TLS, March 2019

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Book SynopsisIn this innovative work, Joanna Allan demonstrates why we should foreground gender as key for understanding both authoritarian power projection and resistance. She brings an ethnographic component to examine how concerns for equality and women's rights can be co-opted for authoritarian projects.Trade ReviewA meticulously researched and thoughtful analysis. Through interviews and archival research, Allan offers a compelling argument for the foundationally gendered dynamics that structure Equatoguinean and Sahrawi political resistance."" - Mahan Ellison, Bridgewater College""Silenced Resistance is a ground-breaking study of the gendered dynamics of resistance to colonial and post-colonial authoritarian regimes in North and West Africa. Drawing on extensive archival and field-based research in Western Sahara and Equitorial Guinea, Allan forcefully analyses the complex relationship between women, feminist resistance to patriarchy, and political resistance to authoritarianism."" - Alice Wilson, University of Sussex

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Book SynopsisExplores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, this book depicts how they make sense of who they are - and how they fit into their communities, countries, and the larger global Senegalese diaspora.Trade ReviewA groundbreaking interdisciplinary book that breathes fresh air into the study of migration, which has been dominated by economic perspectives. It brings together migration studies, the practice of strategic multilingualism, and racialized identity formation."" - Cilas Kemedjio, University of Rochester""The wonderful story told here about the Senegalese diaspora in three cities of different languages is one that will be of interest to all Africanists and postcolonial critics regardless of discipline."" - Jarrod Hayes, author of Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family TreeTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Understanding Global Senegalese Identity Formation through Language and Movement 1 What’s Language Got to Do with It? Language Attitudes and Identity Formation 2 Speaking while Black: The Quest for Legitimacy in Exclusionary Spaces 3 Neither Here nor There: Reflections on National and Transnational Belonging 4 Leveraging Language: Multilingualism and Transnational Identity Formation Epilogue Appendices Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisProvides strategies for incorporating sports into any US history curriculum. Drawing on their own classroom experiences, the authors suggest creative ways to use sports as a lens to examine a broad range of historical subjects, including Puritan culture, the rise of Jim Crow, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the women’s movement.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Using Sports History to Teach American History Brad Austin and Pamela Grundy Part One: Modernization and Globalization Organized, Team, Sport: Teaching a Powerful American Idea Marc Horger Teaching Sports Scandals Chris Elzey “Ambassadors in Short Pants”: Sport and the Cold Warriors Rita Liberti The Shifting Geography of Professional Sports Brad Austin The Globalization of American Sport Lars Dzikus and Adam Love Part Two: Gender and Sexuality Issues of Sexuality in Sport Sarah K. Fields The Shaping of “Women’s Sport” Pamela Grundy Teaching Sports and Women’s History through “The Babe” Susan E. Cayleff Black Women Face Obstacles and Opportunities Pamela Grundy and Rita Liberti Title IX: Contested Terrain Bobbi A. Knapp Part Three: Race and Ethnicity Jim Crow at Play Pamela Grundy Race and Rebellion in the Progressive Era Matthew Andrews Teaching Black College Athletics: Challenges and Opportunities Derrick E. White Sports, Civil Rights, and Black Power Lauren Morimoto Diverse Experiences of Latino/a Athletes and Their Role in U.S. Sport History Jorge Iber What’s in a Name? Teaching the History of American Indian Mascots Andrew Frank Part Four: Case Studies Colonial Sporting Cultures Brad Austin Baseball and American Exceptionalism Leslie Heaphy NASCAR 101: Moonshine, Fast Cars, and Southern Working-Class Agency Daniel Pierce The Political Olympics Derek Charles Catsam Lights, Camera, Action: Teaching American Sport through Film Ron Briley Resources and Suggestions Brad Austin and Pamela Grundy Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBy focusing on one particular type of NGO - those organized to help prevent the spread and transmission of HIV in Kenya - Megan Hershey interrogates the ways NGOs achieve (or fail to achieve) their planned outcomes. Along the way, she examines the slippery slope that is often used to define ""success"".Trade Review“In vivid detail, Hershey provides the rare, truly nuanced view of development interventions. She argues that small, local NGOs can be successful emissaries of HIV/AIDS programming, even while they fail to achieve the true participatory development for which such NGOs are most lauded. A must-read for researchers interested in the on-the-ground politics of development program implementation.”—Jennifer Brass, Indiana University

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Book SynopsisMeke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Evadne Kelly performs close readings of the dance in relation to an evolving landscape, following the postcolonial reclamation that provided dancers with political agency and a strong sense of community.

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